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Elissa Altman
@elissaaltman.bsky.social
Author of Permission (3/25), Motherland, Poor Man’s Feast, Treyf, many essays. Author, teacher, editor, musician. Ever hopeful. 🕊️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺

Poormansfeast.substack.com
Christians, my ass.
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
She is 90 years old today.
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
From the website of the in-facility doctor where my mother was in skilled nursing care until yesterday. I would have scratched out his name but then I thought: why bother?
I’m looking at you @bcdreyer.social
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
My home. 🙏🏻
September 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Bay Area friends:
Join me tonight at Book Passage in Corte Madera at 6 pm for a conversation about Permission, and the stories we are and aren’t “allowed” to tell—now more then ever.
Rumor is that there will be a Lamott sighting….
September 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I am physically ill.
August 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Fergus is helping me write my next book.
July 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Dinner last night: Hetty McKinnon’s pad Thai salad—so good.
July 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I tried to cook healthy the other night but manicotti showed up.
July 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Day 2 out of 3 racing to NY from CT to try and reverse Village Care Max’s negligent and abusive decision to cut my 89 year old mother’s aide service despite the fact that she is 100% housebound, can’t walk unassisted, can’t transfer, etc. This is legalized elder abuse.
@elderlawadvocate.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I have a profound need to sit on a beach in Truro and stare out at the water. For maybe a month or so.
May 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Current situation.

Also, we have two Subarus.
May 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Officially not-quite-summer.
May 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The world may be falling apart, but it’s still beautiful.
Tonight, from my front porch.
April 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Pinch me please. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
March 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A gorgeous morning at the home and garden of Ellen Ogden, in Manchester VT.
March 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Your evening Fergus.
He likes to be in the room with the stove.
March 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Fergus loves everyone but he hates Nazis.
And he says “Good morning, everyone.”
March 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
He’s trying to figure out why people can be so cruel, and all I keep saying is “Fergus, we’re not all like that.”
#whorescuedwho
March 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Join me and @joannarakoff.bsky.social in conversation on 3/11 at @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social , on PERMISSION pub day! 👇🏻
March 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
And then the power went out in a large portion of New England. (I’m around 25, in CT)
March 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Fergus found the prosciutto
March 7, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I hate taking selfies because 1) I hate selfies and 2) I hate having my picture taken by anyone including myself. Maybe with the exception of Andrea Gentl.
But tonight’s my launch for Permission at Hickory Stick Bookshop, and so I figured, meh, why not.
March 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My mother, who can barely walk after a catastrophic accident in 2016, receives 25 hrs/week of in-home aide care provided by NY State, which is 50% funded by Medicaid. She lives on a monthly allowance of $850; we provide her food, etc.
She will likely lose her care and be unable to stay in her apt.
February 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
February 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM