Taylor Clarke

Spotify Wrapped is no fun when you’ve been writing the same novel since 2020

Abundantly apparent there’s a drought because every woman in New York seems to own a leather trench coat all of a sudden

Every single news alert about a forthcoming Trump appointment reads like: “The mean sheep from Zootopia will soon be the Ambassador to the UN.”

No Running by Taylor Clarke No one could tell him what to do, not anymore, so he went to the pool. The end of the world had happened overnight, and so everyone else remained tucked in their beds. The front desk staff slumped …

Splish splash! 💦 okaydonkeymag.com/2021/07/30/n...

My dear friend published this! It's wonderful, and the opening is, shall we say, arresting.

My short story, “Bobbin Doffing,” is in the latest issue of the Adroit Journal!

Many thanks to everyone at Adroit — I’m thrilled this weirdo queer Dear America love story found such a wonderful home.

Read it here: theadroitjournal.org/issue-forty-ei…

Wow I relate to this guy deeply

Considering seeing Mean Girls and the Zone of Interest both this weekend, the real Barbenheimer

This morning at 8:53am my mother asked if I wanted my First Communion dress. I am 32 years old.

Real torn between giving Olga Ravn’s MY WORK to every parent and soon-to-be parent I know and keeping it from them at all costs

Shout-out to the girl in the dairy aisle right now screaming along to Complicated by Avril Lavigne at full volume, we’ve all been there

For my upcoming birthday, Matt took me to the Center for Fiction and bought me what I could pick up in 7 minutes. I am proud of both my choices and my restraint

Why don’t you just spit on me, Goodreads

Some older gentleman in the gym just now walked by and said “well, Bruce Springsteen’s ass is still kicking” and it’s unclear if he’s on the phone or if this is a pump-up mantra?

Honorary mention as well for the Neopolitan novels, 2-4 of which I read this year and I just simply couldn’t choose on

Ready to evangelize I WHO HAVE NEVER KNOWN MEN for the rest of my life, many thanks to Community Bookstore for including it on their spooky Halloween reads table!

Two non-fiction cracking my top books of 2023 for the first time, but each of these is an author at the very top of her game

Saying a real ‘fuck you’ to my Goodreads Challenge by starting THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB on December 10th

Writing is great because if someone tells you they hate your work, you know they hate it, if they don’t say anything, you assume they hate it, and if they tell you they liked it, you also assume they hate it.

All year I’ve been wondering why people aren’t talking about BOTTOMS UP AND THE DEVIL LAUGHS, thrilled to have this wrong righted

You’d think Anthony Bourdain’s cookbook would be a chill guy approach to Thanksgiving but you’d be wrong

All this for a homemade stuffing when Stovetop is god’s gift to mankind

The Christmas Song is great and all but peeling chestnuts is not a task I would wish on my greatest enemy

The exclamation point is my favorite part

Congratulations! This is how I found out I was too - thank you for the screenshot!

My husband has committed a heinous crime

About to embark on PURE COLOUR and A LIFE OF ONE’S OWN at the same time, my husband doesn’t know what’s about to hit him

I place one eBay order for every writing-related rejection

Single worst part is when they kill the dogs

The posture of a cat who convinced his parents, his cat sitter, and an emergency vet triage service that he was extremely ill in order to get attention over a holiday weekend