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I wrote a food diary for Grub Street and I’m obsessed with my digestive cookie earrings in the artwork grubstreet.com/article/isle-m…

The Substance is about how beautiful women can also do home renovations

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Switching my phone from dark to light mode cured my depression

Just in time for Halloween, Isle McElroy on what happens when a town becomes a museum. dirt.fyi/article/2024/1…

After nearly nine years at Esquire, I’ve been laid off from my role as Books and Fiction Editor. I’m looking for a new full-time role where I can use my storytelling skills, in the book world or beyond it. If you know of anything, I’m at [email protected]. (🧵1/10)

Nosferatu is about a woman who settles down but can’t stop thinking about the most epic dick of her life

Lady at the Verizon store was getting a new number and instead of accepting any old number she asked the employee what numbers they had and he proceeded to read out one entire phone number after another. She declined every one.

Every couple in mccarren park is breaking up even if they don’t know it yet

In our new online column, CHARACTER STUDIES, Isle McElroy writes about the most compelling performances of the 2025 Oscar nominees—from a novelist's perspective. The first installment, on Cardinal Lawrence in Conclave, is online now: thebeliever.net/character-stud…

"Lawrence is quickly established as the moral center of the film, a man at once diplomatic and humble and honest, driven by the kind of 'one last job' mentality normally reserved for retiring bank robbers and beat cops." —Isle McElroy on Conclave thebeliever.net/character-stud…

The new installment of Isle McElroy's column Character Studies is live! Under discussion in this edition: Elisabeth Sparkle from The Substance. Read it here: thebeliever.net/character-stud…

In the final installment of their column Character Studies, Isle McElroy examines Toros from the Oscar-winning film Anora. thebeliever.net/character-stud…

Catch up on Isle McElroy's break down of secondary characters from the Oscar-winning film Anora in their final installment of Character Studies. thebeliever.net/character-stud…

For Sale. Pope shoes. Never worn.

*Radiohead voice* Klarna Police

I cream. You cream. We all cream for eye cream.

.Isle McElroy shares memories of weekends spent tagging along as their father fixed up the homes of their wealthier neighbors. What My Father and I Don't Talk About, available now: bit.ly/4gUS2CJ

Excited to be named a 2025-26 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. I’ll be living in Vegas for 9 months, working on my 3rd novel and helping program events in the community. unlv.edu/news/release/b…

Radio Bakery was invented so that boyfriends could pick up breakfast