Ruth Bonapace

PW review is in!! And I couldn’t be more delighted. publishersweekly.com/9781960988102

@Mollyploofkins 🤣🤣🤣

When did Trump and his team know he had congestive heart failure? Before the election?

@StevenFulop It was an excellent campaign, and the momentum you built will continue to grow.

Obviously, last night didn’t turn out the way we hoped but I just wanted to take a moment to express my deep appreciation and gratitude. The hardest part for me is that there’s not much I’d go back and change. I felt our campaign was substantive, thoughtful, and true to the kind of change we wanted to bring to New Jersey. That’s what a campaign should be. I’m proud of the work we did and the way we did it. For now, I’m going to step back from social media and politics for a bit to recalibrate and refocus on some things I’ve put on the back burner. But before I do, I want to say - thank you.

When I wrote my novel The Bulgarian Training Manual I imagined the “holy grail” of their quest as “a cerebral place” (one of the characters actually says this) but didn’t expect THIS !

@highbg How interesting! My novel The Bulgarian Training Manual (a parody of self-improvement and other cultural trends) came out last summer and when I was writing I was imagining or reimagining Bulgaria as a literary, cerebral place. And here it is. Thanks for posting.

Where #Books #Breathe and #Cities #Think: How #Sofia, #Bulgaria Is #Quietly #Becoming a #Literary #Tourism #Haven in 2025 travelandtourworld.com/news/article/w…

Thank you America, thank you for your support, thank you for this visit. Thank you @POTUS, Congress, and the American people. Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly for that.

@johncusack If you are a government contractor you shouldn’t be privy to the bidding and inside information on your competitors stored on government computers. Or does that not apply to SpaceX?

@hdemauleon @Mercadologo Daniel - some of us from Stony Brook have been looking to get in touch with you.

Una redonda maravilla. 👇

@ANNELAMOTT A true Christian

This was the first public act of the Resistance.

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

@RonFilipkowski Did Mozart’s mother have a C section?

JFC

@RonFilipkowski Wait what? No one wants to see the flag at half staff — NOT half mast BTW which is for ships — in honor of Carter because it happens to coincide w the inauguration ? That’s insanely narcissistic

The most petty, classless, narcissistic ass to ever occupy the Oval Office.

@AuthorMGH @Perez_Writes Yay another Jersey book!! Mine is NJ centric but mostly Jersey City and Hoboken. There ought to be a NJ shake-it-up anti-bland lit weekend.

@Perez_Writes Here's a humble entry, courtesy of the Jersey Shore. :) amazon.com/dp/1958531405?…

The literati should read more books by Americans in 2025. You don't have to hype up every translated book by some rando from Norway. More focus on small press American writers from Ohio, New Mexico, etc. Let's discover America again.

@Susanshapironet @usnews @HilaryKrieger Bravo. Great piece

Here's my new provocative oped about #cannabis in @usnews thanks to great editor @HilaryKrieger usnews.com/opinion/articl…

I entered the The Dead, 1904 on @TodayTix! Tap here to enter: todaytix.com/nyc/shows/4289…

@adriennemwest @chuckpalahniuk @JackieWoodson @daniel_m_lavery @MegWolitzer So sorry to hear of this. You’ve done amazing work there, from what I’ve seen. Sending good karma wherever you end up.

My final act at Esquire is a fitting one: I hand-modeled my way into the role of "woman with knife" in a @chuckpalahniuk story. So proud to launch my fifth Napkin Project, featuring Chuck, @JackieWoodson, @daniel_m_lavery, @MegWolitzer, and Weike Wang. esquire.com/entertainment/…

@johncusack 🤣🤣🤣

@johncusack The Berrigan brothers and Dorothy Day would be appalled.

A lot of Catholics voted for Trump. Why bother saying you adhere to any version of Christianity -

THANK YOU @FIRSTmag for choosing my LOL novel The Bulgarian Training Manual for your book club. Oct 21 issue on sale at supermarket checkouts everywhere. First for Women magazine. #ChickLit #WomensFiction #gymlife #BookTwitter

I’m a proud Jersey Girl whose LOL novel The Bulgarian Training Manual will be at @BookendsNJ Ridgewood’s fab bookfest Sunday. Come browse on a a gorgeous fall day to meet 30 authors (including me) and stock up on books for winter reads and holiday gifts.

Love the wild ride of @RuthBonapace debut novel The Bulgarian Training Manuel. estelleserasmus.com/106-forays-int… In This Episode The concept of The Bulgarian Training Manual, and how it morphed from a short story to a full length book Putting local angle, sites, personalities and pop culture into a novel Imbuing research into a fictional story Advice from a popular novelist that gave Ruth the freedom to write without worry Incorporating magic, fairy tales, myth and archetypes into story Ambiguity and shape shifting as a throughline and plot device Focusing on characters’ organic transformations Working speculative elements and whimsy into a story The historical genesis of the fad diet from the book The power of going down rabbit holes while writing How Ruth found her publisher, Clash Books