Jac Jemc

If you missed the @nprweekend broadcast the interview is up on their website, too! ❤️

I regret to inform you, the left’s memes are getting good.

Reading The Grip of It by @jacjemc because I spotted it on this picture I shared online. I’ve read most of these, but that one missed me. And now I’m outraged it took this long to find me. That’s that bone-deep-fear kinda writing. Love it.

This is such a huge honor!!

@Rebb003 @the_jennitaur Thank you for reading!!

@the_jennitaur Book 4 of 2024: EMPTY THEATRE by @jacjemc. Historical fiction about two of Europe's most famous enigmatic and eccentric royals? Sign me up. A genuinely beautiful book, giving both of them inner lives as rich and elaborate as the designs for any of Ludwig's misguided castles.

Book 1 of 2024: RIVER OF TEETH by @_SarahGailey, narrated by Peter Berkrot. Recommended to me by an acquaintance on NYE when we we realized we both knew about the US’s near-foray into hippo breeding. A fun, queer cowboy romp—with hippos!

@Aaron__Burch Man, I still assign this in a humor essay class and every year I think about cutting it and every year it’s their favorite.

@JeremyDauber @SadieHartmann Thank you!!! ❤️

Today's horror read - and again, thanks to @SadieHartmann for the rec! - is @jacjemc's THE GRIP OF IT, which I thought was one of the best novelistic versions of "is it the house? is it the relationship? is it both?" that I've read in a long time. I particularly admired...

That’s what I call mine, too.

@eamcneill @rebeccamakkai @haszombiesinit @Jaztronomia Thank you! I agree very much with the Link and the Makkai and I look forward to Cross Stitch!!

@PatrickMalka @ambernoelle Thank you!!

@melissafebos I love hearing that and I can’t wait to read!!

Received some good news today that after Clarion wraps in early August I’ll be on leave until late March. I feel so lucky. My ambitions might be too big, but I feel like I can finish one project and get a solid draft done on two others. 🤞I am going to make the most of this time.

This week at Clarion!! I’ve been assigning Tochi Onyebuchi’s story “How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary” for a few years now and love this book so hard, so I’m so excited to work with him and learn from him in workshop! 💜

It’s such a pleasure to meet someone you admire so deeply and see her in action being her brilliant, compassionate, funny self for a whole week. Clarion is such a special place to make these sorts of things possible. 💜

Week 2 of the Clarion Workshop has been with Alaya Dawn Johnson, someone who’s career I’ve been following since we hosted her for her first book event at Women & Children First in 2008.

On this date, the American colonies declared their independence. Also on this date, my new monster joke book illustrated by Marc Brown was released.

"He was not an octogenarian. He also wasn't dead. The woman had hired him to attend the party in a professional capacity, as a Regis Philbin impersonator." Read "Final Answer" by @jacjemc: thediagram.com/23_2/jemc.html

Week 1 of Clarion is underway with Andy Duncan!

It’s such a privilege to review for @nytbooks. Honestly my whole career has been having low expectations, but going for it anyway, and this is one of those things I never thought I’d be invited to do. This book is a really troubling summer read. You’ll tear through it.

book recs: "yellow face" by @kuangrf, "the mythmakers" by @keziahweir, "all the sinners bleed" by @blacklionking73, "glassworks" by @OWolfgangSmith, "empty theatre" by @jacjemc, "house woman" by @AdorahNworah, "the late americans" by @blgtylr, & "losing music" by @smalllights

T.J. Newman’s thriller “Drowning” is one of four debut books on the latest hardcover fiction best-seller list. nyti.ms/3J1qfTg