Emily "Babe" St. James
@emilystjams.bsky.social
Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
Pinned
Today is Woodworking's PUB DAY. I'm so proud of this book, and I'm so glad to hear how many of you have bought and enjoyed it already!
You can buy it here if you're so inclined: bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
And now, the hardest sell I can think of, this book's biggest advocate has thoughts:
You can buy it here if you're so inclined: bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
And now, the hardest sell I can think of, this book's biggest advocate has thoughts:
Largely the premise of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, one of the most beloved movies ever made.
i think a lot of us if plucked off the street and sworn in as a senator would do a modestly better job than a lot of our incumbents
all of these people live in a comfortable room-temperature fog of steakhouse dinners, galas held in their honor, and important decisions prechewed for them and fed to them by adoring but interchangable young people selected to be as inoffensive to them as possible by their chiefs of staff.
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Largely the premise of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, one of the most beloved movies ever made.
My new old person hack is that sitting down for concerts is preferable, and you should just get a seat where you can do that. They’re usually cheaper too!
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
My new old person hack is that sitting down for concerts is preferable, and you should just get a seat where you can do that. They’re usually cheaper too!
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“Are those…”
“Hearn’s lamps? Yeah they are.”
“Hearn’s lamps? Yeah they are.”
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
“Are those…”
“Hearn’s lamps? Yeah they are.”
“Hearn’s lamps? Yeah they are.”
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kinda blows my mind that every single sports fan doesn’t own a digital antenna. i get that lots of stuff is on cable but the one time purchase of an antenna has solved so many of my problems
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
kinda blows my mind that every single sports fan doesn’t own a digital antenna. i get that lots of stuff is on cable but the one time purchase of an antenna has solved so many of my problems
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we didn't immediately get a single all-time folk rock ballad out of the big boat getting stuck, huge L for millennials and zoomers
Ok I had no idea the Edmund Fitzgerald was a contemporary thing for the song, this is like his Toby Keith 9/11 song but about transporting taconite pellets
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
we didn't immediately get a single all-time folk rock ballad out of the big boat getting stuck, huge L for millennials and zoomers
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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50 years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald sank
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
50 years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald sank
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Woodworking is such a beautiful book. I felt an actual sense of grief after I finished because I couldn’t continue living in the characters’ heads, they were that compelling and I came to love them all that much. I highly recommend it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If you have a book lover in your life, Woodworking by Emily St. James would make a wonderful holiday gift. The hardcover edition is quite handsome. There are desks on the cover!
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
Woodworking
Check out Woodworking - <b>LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2025<br><br>“Writing a funny book is hard. Writing a convincing takedown of one of America’s most popular...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Woodworking is such a beautiful book. I felt an actual sense of grief after I finished because I couldn’t continue living in the characters’ heads, they were that compelling and I came to love them all that much. I highly recommend it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A staggering number of romance authors when Taylor Swift started dating Travis Kelce: Yes. This is it. Time to write my pop star/athlete romance.
Hero Alexandria Bellefleur: I will write a romance novel about gay Tree Paine.
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Hero Alexandria Bellefleur: I will write a romance novel about gay Tree Paine.
www.harpercollins.com/products/pla...
Playing for Keeps
Lambda Literary Award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy Sapphic rom-com about two rival publicists who are ...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A staggering number of romance authors when Taylor Swift started dating Travis Kelce: Yes. This is it. Time to write my pop star/athlete romance.
Hero Alexandria Bellefleur: I will write a romance novel about gay Tree Paine.
www.harpercollins.com/products/pla...
Hero Alexandria Bellefleur: I will write a romance novel about gay Tree Paine.
www.harpercollins.com/products/pla...
If you have a book lover in your life, Woodworking by Emily St. James would make a wonderful holiday gift. The hardcover edition is quite handsome. There are desks on the cover!
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
Woodworking
Check out Woodworking - <b>LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE 2025<br><br>“Writing a funny book is hard. Writing a convincing takedown of one of America’s most popular...
bookshop.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
If you have a book lover in your life, Woodworking by Emily St. James would make a wonderful holiday gift. The hardcover edition is quite handsome. There are desks on the cover!
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
bookshop.org/p/books/wood...
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
Going to publish a daily devotional for trans women and the people who love them called Forced Feminized by the Risen Christ: A Daily Journey.
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Going to publish a daily devotional for trans women and the people who love them called Forced Feminized by the Risen Christ: A Daily Journey.
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These people are going to send their life savings to a Macedonian server farm the second they don't have aides reading all their emails
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
These people are going to send their life savings to a Macedonian server farm the second they don't have aides reading all their emails
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November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I only leave my house for concerts now, it would seem.
In this week's Monday Rundown: a great concert, a new obsession, and a mildly frustrating romance read
Episodes Monday Rundown November 3–9 2025
This week: a great concert, a new obsession, and a mildly frustrating romance read.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I only leave my house for concerts now, it would seem.
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just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
BREAKING
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
Love this glimpse into a time when the Washington Post had to verify what Cosell said on the broadcast because they happened to have been taping the game, presumably on VHS or Betamax tape!
The only reason you get Trump in the booth is the non-zero chance he'd repeat the Howard Cosell/Alvin Garrett incident which led to his leaving Monday Night Football in 1983. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/spor...
Trump is in the booth on Fox's NFL broadcast attacking Biden. Woof for all involved.
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Love this glimpse into a time when the Washington Post had to verify what Cosell said on the broadcast because they happened to have been taping the game, presumably on VHS or Betamax tape!
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The rich guys of the Gilded Age were all assholes, but they all felt the need to at least pretend to be cultured and philanthropic (the existence of Carnegie Hall, for instance). These guys are all boobs who think it's funny when 14-year-old boys say slurs.
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The rich guys of the Gilded Age were all assholes, but they all felt the need to at least pretend to be cultured and philanthropic (the existence of Carnegie Hall, for instance). These guys are all boobs who think it's funny when 14-year-old boys say slurs.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
Have never been more aware of how brittle and paper-thin fascist belief systems are than I have the past year. These guys tremble at a couple drops of rain.
Between the Islamophobia, the anti-Semitism, the racism, and the homophobia -- it must be so bizarre to be afraid of basically everyone, all the time
Pure loser shit
Pure loser shit
Tuberville: “We just saw what happened in NY. We lost NY. It will be completely Muslim in 3-4 years. That’s what they want. And it’s going to spread throughout the country.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Have never been more aware of how brittle and paper-thin fascist belief systems are than I have the past year. These guys tremble at a couple drops of rain.
The only way to stream the unabridged version of It's a Wonderful Life, without paying a rental or purchase fee, is to watch the colorized version on Prime Video. At long last, Jeff Bezos has gone too far.
Black and white is also available there, but is a TV cut that is 12 minutes shorter!
Black and white is also available there, but is a TV cut that is 12 minutes shorter!
November 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The only way to stream the unabridged version of It's a Wonderful Life, without paying a rental or purchase fee, is to watch the colorized version on Prime Video. At long last, Jeff Bezos has gone too far.
Black and white is also available there, but is a TV cut that is 12 minutes shorter!
Black and white is also available there, but is a TV cut that is 12 minutes shorter!
I'd love some recommendations for film scores that have a wintery/Christmas-y vibe without being, like, straight-up Christmas carols.
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I'd love some recommendations for film scores that have a wintery/Christmas-y vibe without being, like, straight-up Christmas carols.