Holiday Gift Guide for Nerds
It should come as a surprise to no one that I am the annoying relative who gives you books for the holidays. Which reminds me, ‘tis the season for one of my...
Holiday Gift Guide for Nerds
It should come as a surprise to no one that I am the annoying relative who gives you books for the holidays. Which reminds me, ‘tis the season for one of my...
What if I not?
Recently, I’ve been having what my little sister likes to call “nostalgia attacks,” periods of acute remembering, and feeling, for the past. I recently had...
The One That Got Away
Hi everybody. September really got away from me! I was in DC, at Gallaudet! I was in Boston, at BU and the Horace Mann School for the Deaf and the Watertown...
5 Questions with Author Rachel Kolb
Hi friends. Times are bad, books remain good. I'm really excited to share this mini-interview with friend and deaf writer and scholar Rachel Kolb regarding...
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure
I'm writing a new book, my fifth. My fourth, a memoir-history hybrid, is in the publication tunnel, on its way to copyeditors and cover designers. It's...
American Sunset
If you're like me, it can be hard to read and write in times of chaos. I haven't been doing much of either the past couple weeks, midst these heat wave, end...
5 Questions With Deaf Author Raymond Antrobus
Hi everyone. Times are bad, but books remain good. Summer books, in particular, are looking stellar, and in time of basically nonexistent reviews and media...
Summer Reading Recommendations That Are Real Books
In case you missed literary drama among the many other far graver, existential dramas and traumas of yesterday the TLDR is that The Chicago Sun Times and at...
Review: Deaf President Now! Documentary
Heads up: The following is a review of the new documentary Deaf President Now! available to stream today on Apple+. Given that the events of this film took...
#DeafShelf, 2025 Edition
Often when I'm doing a book event, one of the questions I get is about what books by deaf authors people should read next. This is one of my favorite...
BRB, Disassociating (Books Recs for Slump-busting)
If lately you have found yourself unable to enjoy your regular fiction-reading due to the omnipresent terror of encroaching fascism--you're not alone! For...
Signs+Wonders: Special Crossover Episode
It's a bit of a strange task to write a newsletter when there is already so much news, and it is almost exclusively terrible. So rather than reinvent the...
TLDR: Masha Gessen's Surviving Autocracy
This isn't a, "I read Surviving Autocracy so you don't have to" post. You should absolutely read this book. But things are shaky right now, and even if you...
Sunshine at the Funeral
When I was in college, my aunt was dying of cancer, and I used to go home every weekend I could to see here. I'd get on a bus in Boston Chinatown at...
4 Mantras for 2025
Hi all. Things are strange. The fires continue. I have significantly fewer enforceable rights than I did the last time I wrote one of these, as expected, as...
Command + R
Lately I've been doing some apocalypse reading. It's out of character for me, honestly. I'm not a speculative fic buff, and most of the time, if I'm not...
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Red Alert: Kill Bill S. 5384
A bill to abolish the Department of Education was introduced in the House on Thursday. Time to ride.