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For my latest publishing deep dive in Esquire, I spent six months looking into the major celebrity book clubs: how they work, why they matter, and where they're heading in the age of BookTok. esquire.com/entertainment/…

Do you know, I can't help thinking that if Charles released a weekly recitation of such uplifting poetry, he'd be doing the world a massive bit of good in an unexpected and beautiful way. Beauty will save the world.

This mega-geeky data on fanfic immediately brought James F. Thomas (of IDLEWILD) Idlewild to mind. pudding.cool/2024/10/fanfic/

Instead of nightclubs I want a 24hr library with hot chocolate stations, a dessert bar, coffee machine, big comfy chairs and beanbags, blankets, dogs welcome, just people who want to spend the evening reading alone, together, peaceful, a cosy fire, plants, an indoor waterfall.

I was drawn in by Betsy Lerner conversation with Brad Listi on ppl She made me rethink my position on tiktok!

Just listened to launch of Tony Woodlief We Shall Not All Sleep from Slant Books - excited to read. Loved Gregory Wolfe discussion of Pope Leo XIV letter on Literature. What a surprise boost of inspiration + hope during the early morning walk on this crazy day.

When you transcribe something yourself, you get the greatest lesson in human speech patterns that you could ever have.

Been teaching a tech-free class for three weeks now—students turn off their phones, dump them in the “phone chalice” (random flower vase) and we just talk about Marcus Aurelius and Stoicism for three hours. I expected they’d complain. But they LOVE it. Genuinely, couldn’t even

AI in education is child abuse.

Two weeks ago I asked myself why I still had the ice scraper in the back of the car when I live in coastal Georgia now. Using it today to chisel 3 inches of ice off two cars was not on my 2025 bingo card.

All children, except one, grow up.

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Shakespeare in the Park is back with Twelfth Night starring Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Daphne Rubin-Vega, amongst others. What a lineup!!!

I'm so honored to be published by Europa Editions

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Living for September. 💞 H.S. Cross Europa Editions Jennifer Weltz JVNLA #booktwt #Bookstagram #BooksWorthReading #books