Martha Cooley

🫏 COVER ANNOUNCEMENT 🫏 We're thrilled to share the cover of Martha Cooley's forthcoming essay collection MY LITTLE DONKEY, designed by @nicolecaputo.bsky.social!

MY LITTLE DONKEY goes on sale on 11/18 and is available to preorder now: buff.ly/tTUBGQt

So pleased and grateful!

Book bench near city library, Zaporozhye, Ukraine

Schumer: the Neville Chamberlain of the Democratic Party

Betar’s lies about poet, educator and activist @mosababutoha.bsky.social are disgusting. We need to keep Mosab safe. @jvp.bsky.social @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @stacyparkerlemelle.bsky.social @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social @peterbeinart.bsky.social @jewishcurrents.bsky.social

Free Mahmoud Khalil and protect students exercising their First Amendment rights! Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the rig...

Sign the petition to demand Mahmoud Khalil be immediately released and threats against his legal status be dropped! And call on members of Congress and university leaders to protect and defend the right for students to organize and protest. sign.moveon.org/petitions/fr...

Posting this again--reading good books together is good for one's mental health! And these are REALLY good books...

centerforfiction.org/group-worksh...

Thanks for this, John!

centerforfiction.org/group-worksh... Do join!--this'll be fun! The novels are terrific...

from Vaclav Havel:

Either we have hope within us or we don’t... Hope is not prognostication. It is an orientation of the spirit…an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Loved Go, Went, Gone

Notebook: How Does Your Novel Grow? Behind the scenes in an industry that struggles to reward and encourage great work

Notebook: How Does Your Novel Grow?
open.substack.com/pub/books/p/...

Testing, too…though not leaving FB if only because I still appreciate the community there and departing won’t knock out Suckerberg. How are you doing? Abbracci…

Send a Card of Gratitude and Support to:
Bishop MARIANN EDGAR BUDDE
Episcopal Church House
Mount St. Alban Washington, D.C. 20016-5094

Having just joined Bluesky, and being full of ambivalence about all social media, yet aware of the need for connection (blurry though that word often seems), am thinking about how humans used to connect via the written word: painstakingly, without keyboards...

Whelp, I'm here on Bluesky. Haven't a clue how it works. Just bumbling into and along...