Melissa Yancy

@jay_brittenham @emilynussbaum “Shhh,” she shushed him.

@emilynussbaum "Twilight" "I'm sick of this book", I said to myself as I tossed it across the room. "This writer is supposed to be writing for 13-year-olds but she's doing so at an 8-year-old reading level."

Have you ever thrown a book across the room?

@jjarichardson @emilynussbaum Also mine. It was a talking poop scene I think. I was so far along and I had to phone a friend to tell me if I should persist.

@emilynussbaum Almost threw Franzen's THE CORRECTIONS across the room as I was so angry I'd bothered to finish it

@ibeccanne @Aaron__Burch There was an era in late 90s/early aughts where O Henry was much stronger than BASS (IMO).

@Aaron__Burch Also if you ever read O Henry 2001, it’s amazing & the text I use for Intermediate Fiction classes 🔥🙌🏻

@row_ie_argument @Aaron__Burch I would definitely have interest!

@Aaron__Burch How can you join? This sounds fun.

I stand in awe.

we have to nationalize adobe acrobat.

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with one purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

@PhilKlay @WriterLDavis Peak life

My six-year-old and I share a birthday so my wife got us a half-dogs half-books cake

I cannot believe Bob Barker lived as close to 100 as possible without going over.

@rebeccamakkai Our book club did high school/junk food as the theme for the book and I’m still getting through the Clearly Canadian, Häagen-Dazs, & Junior Mints left at my house.

Me trying to find a way to fit the darling that I killed back into my manuscript.

if you're a young person, ask a middle-aged man what music they listened to in the 90s. let them talk for 30 mins. act interested and say "oh wow no way that's so cool." after that you can ask them for any favor

@SarahViren I think you were behind one of my relatives

“Even a musician with the most modest career in some local bar is to me more glamorous than the most glamorous writer.” —Mary Gaitskill theparisreview.org/interviews/796…

@karpi @PKhakpour The latest film by Ari Aster

I've asked an AI to generate a trailer for a HEIDI movie and now I can never sleep again

This one, combined with the rise of AI and the emergence of E*lon as the main character eroded my whole worldview. I think I may be a convert.

Hell yeah!

Logan’s Run meets Never Let Me Go meets The Matrix—#TheFerryman delivers on its premise and then some. Each commercial “twist” deepens the philosophical themes. Bravo @jccronin

@HimymCraig @IowaReview Thanks—I’ll check it out!

@melyancy I liked your story a lot in @IowaReview (mine is in there too!).