Margaret Wappler
@margaretwappler.bsky.social
Writer rollerskating the infinite. NEON GREEN (2016), a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and A GOOD BAD BOY: LUKE PERRY AND HOW A GENERATION GREW UP (2024). Order BAD BOY here: http://bit.ly/3HMOx25 #riptim
TURN THE VOLUME UP
November 5, 2025 at 8:46 PM
TURN THE VOLUME UP
Fascinating. Also, people are insane.
Take this quiz to die instantly www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/
Beyond the Ballot Quiz - The Survey Center on American Life
www.americansurveycenter.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Fascinating. Also, people are insane.
Come see us tomorrow in Huntington Beach!! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...
"Writing a Book With a Writing Group" with Jade Chang, Aja Gabel, and Margaret Wappler!
Join us for an in-store event, "Writing a Book With a Writing Group" with Jade Chang, Aja Gabel, and Margaret Wappler!, on Tuesday, October 28, 2025.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Come see us tomorrow in Huntington Beach!! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...
May Virginia be wrapped in eternal love and light. What she went through is unspeakable.
1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother
In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:22 PM
May Virginia be wrapped in eternal love and light. What she went through is unspeakable.
So good, all of it.
New story by me in Granta today about inept swingers on the Hudson Valley granta.com/pleasantries...
Pleasantries
‘Her body looked good in that sumptuous way. He was not always attracted to her anymore, but he was attracted to her in this moment, and there was something noble about this, generous – he was about t...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
So good, all of it.
Did 50 burpees because Woke. What did you do to fight the scourge today?
September 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Did 50 burpees because Woke. What did you do to fight the scourge today?
A gorgeous gut-punch.
"What I Might Sing," a poem from my new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (pub 10/7), is in the @newyorker.com. Preorder link for a signed copy book is in my pinned post.
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
“What I Might Sing”
“Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, / and, because of you, I was thinking too of America.”
www.newyorker.com
September 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A gorgeous gut-punch.
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"What I Might Sing," a poem from my new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (pub 10/7), is in the @newyorker.com. Preorder link for a signed copy book is in my pinned post.
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
“What I Might Sing”
“Last Friday, I was thinking of Whitney Houston, / and, because of you, I was thinking too of America.”
www.newyorker.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"What I Might Sing," a poem from my new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (pub 10/7), is in the @newyorker.com. Preorder link for a signed copy book is in my pinned post.
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
Call me hysterical but this seems bad, very bad.
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Call me hysterical but this seems bad, very bad.
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If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.
September 8, 2025 at 9:14 PM
So glad ICE is in Chicago. The city is a lawless hell-scape. Blues musicians wrecking hundreds of police cars. High schoolers doing weird scientific sex experiments. Kids home alone during the holidays. Women killing their husbands and lovers and then SINGING about it sassily. This has to stop.
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This review shifted my center of gravity a couple inches to the left. A banger. (Paywalled, but you can register to read for free. I renewed my sub for ten bucks just to finish reading it.)
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
‘How Goes the Battle?’ | Lorrie Moore
For those unfamiliar with the Canadian novelist Miriam Toews, her latest work—a fragmented, artfully strewn memoir titled A Truce That Is Not Peace—may
www.nybooks.com
September 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This review shifted my center of gravity a couple inches to the left. A banger. (Paywalled, but you can register to read for free. I renewed my sub for ten bucks just to finish reading it.)
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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“What kind of world / would let loose / a low orange moon / that shocks you / into being”
— Maggie Nelson
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This poem appeared in Boston Review, 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Maggie Nelson
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This poem appeared in Boston Review, 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.
July 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
“What kind of world / would let loose / a low orange moon / that shocks you / into being”
— Maggie Nelson
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This poem appeared in Boston Review, 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Maggie Nelson
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This poem appeared in Boston Review, 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship.
That's just a true statement about the world!
That's just a true statement about the world!
July 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The governing party of the United States is shutting down the federal government to cover-up evidence the president sexually abused children so he can continue trying to implement dictatorship.
That's just a true statement about the world!
That's just a true statement about the world!
So sad to hear about Malcolm-Jamal Warner. He was a great friend to Luke Perry in a crucial time in Luke's life. He spoke to me for A Good Bad Boy and I was a tad bereft at the end of the interview to leave his wise and grounded company. Sending care to his incredible mother and all who loved him.
July 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
So sad to hear about Malcolm-Jamal Warner. He was a great friend to Luke Perry in a crucial time in Luke's life. He spoke to me for A Good Bad Boy and I was a tad bereft at the end of the interview to leave his wise and grounded company. Sending care to his incredible mother and all who loved him.
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Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures
July 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures
Help a great writer out on her birthday! It’s tough out there (nods in the general direction of publishing, journalism and everythingggg, duh).
What you can do for me on this birthday:
1. Buy my book. www.amazon.com/dp/15......
2. Review my book on Goodreads or Amazon. FREE AND HELPFUL. www.goodreads.com/........
3. Contribute to the Gofundme from old: gofund.me/5ffccd97
4. PayPal or Venmo me for Chico’s med expenses.
1. Buy my book. www.amazon.com/dp/15......
2. Review my book on Goodreads or Amazon. FREE AND HELPFUL. www.goodreads.com/........
3. Contribute to the Gofundme from old: gofund.me/5ffccd97
4. PayPal or Venmo me for Chico’s med expenses.
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July 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Help a great writer out on her birthday! It’s tough out there (nods in the general direction of publishing, journalism and everythingggg, duh).
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I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...
Brad Pitt Is Fooling You
The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
www.vulture.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Every single one of the GOP cowards has blood on their hands.
BREAKING: The Republican-led House gives final passage to Trump's tax bill in a defining moment for his second term.
Live updates: House Republicans push Trump's big bill toward a final vote
House Republicans have muscled President Donald Trump's tax and spending cuts package forward to a final vote. If passed, the bill would bring tax cuts, money for deportations and Medicaid cuts.
bit.ly
July 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Every single one of the GOP cowards has blood on their hands.
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Well, seems like it's over. Trump will get his almost $200 billion more for immigration agents, weapons, surveillance tools, and huge detention expansion. This will entail at minimum another roughly 19,000 immigration agents across ICE and CBP, that will probably be shotgun-hired at lower standards
The Worst Part of Trump’s Big Bill Is Getting Almost No Attention
The Republican budget bill is stuffed with terrible policies, but Democrats have been largely silent on perhaps its most destructive component.
newrepublic.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Well, seems like it's over. Trump will get his almost $200 billion more for immigration agents, weapons, surveillance tools, and huge detention expansion. This will entail at minimum another roughly 19,000 immigration agents across ICE and CBP, that will probably be shotgun-hired at lower standards
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CALL CALL CALL YOUR REPS!
THE VOTE HASN'T HAPPENED YET, PEOPLE
here's the number: (202) 224-3121
THE VOTE HASN'T HAPPENED YET, PEOPLE
here's the number: (202) 224-3121
If @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social keeps going to 1:23 pm ET, he will have set a new record.
In 2021, Kevin McCarthy logged a 8-1/2 hour speech to delay the Build Back Better vote.
In 2021, Kevin McCarthy logged a 8-1/2 hour speech to delay the Build Back Better vote.
July 3, 2025 at 4:48 PM
CALL CALL CALL YOUR REPS!
THE VOTE HASN'T HAPPENED YET, PEOPLE
here's the number: (202) 224-3121
THE VOTE HASN'T HAPPENED YET, PEOPLE
here's the number: (202) 224-3121
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I know there's a ton of bad political news out there, but this kind of experiment makes me genuinely hopeful. I'd love to see a campaign afoot to do this in every state. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Some good news about political polarization: It can change
Nearly 200 residents representing the voting breakdown of a swing state found common ground on hot-button issues.
www.politico.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I know there's a ton of bad political news out there, but this kind of experiment makes me genuinely hopeful. I'd love to see a campaign afoot to do this in every state. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
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July 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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My God. Please make sure everyone you know knows this.
July 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM
My God. Please make sure everyone you know knows this.