Elizabeth McCracken
@elizmccrack.bsky.social
Complete fiction
The matchup we've been waiting for.
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The matchup we've been waiting for.
I am chuffed to the point of unpleasantness to have a story in this year's Best American Short Stories, chosen by the wonderful @pronounced-ing.bsky.social!
October 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I am chuffed to the point of unpleasantness to have a story in this year's Best American Short Stories, chosen by the wonderful @pronounced-ing.bsky.social!
It is also available in brown leather (which is cheaper, for some reason, and is meant to be worn with dyed ostrich feathers).
August 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It is also available in brown leather (which is cheaper, for some reason, and is meant to be worn with dyed ostrich feathers).
Instagram suggested that I might like to purchase this Prada straw visor, the most expensive, depressing piece of headgear of all time. To be worn, apparently, with sequins and a yellow raincoat.
August 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Instagram suggested that I might like to purchase this Prada straw visor, the most expensive, depressing piece of headgear of all time. To be worn, apparently, with sequins and a yellow raincoat.
Left Texas. Currently in Madrid.
July 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Left Texas. Currently in Madrid.
As promised: when I picked up my copy of Loving Day from BookPeople, they had stuck a sticker with my last name on the spine, over @matjohnson.bsky.social's. I have left it there ever since. It makes me laugh, as though I am lazily insisting I wrote this brilliant book.
July 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
As promised: when I picked up my copy of Loving Day from BookPeople, they had stuck a sticker with my last name on the spine, over @matjohnson.bsky.social's. I have left it there ever since. It makes me laugh, as though I am lazily insisting I wrote this brilliant book.
Gonna take this to the airport to see where it will take me.
(Haven't lived at that address for 25 years.)
(Haven't lived at that address for 25 years.)
June 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Gonna take this to the airport to see where it will take me.
(Haven't lived at that address for 25 years.)
(Haven't lived at that address for 25 years.)
I stand with salamanders, & against authoritoads.
June 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I stand with salamanders, & against authoritoads.
Would you like to spend (and save) money now on a book you won't be able to read until December? Why not preorder mine:
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April 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Would you like to spend (and save) money now on a book you won't be able to read until December? Why not preorder mine:
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-long-gam...
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-long-gam...
The White House made its Covid page look like a bad movie called Lab Leak, with Donald Trump as the titular leak. Full of vindictive lies & misinformation, but the graphic cracks me up. I look for laughs where I can.
As a rule, I prefer "eponymous" to "titular," but the latter seems right here.
As a rule, I prefer "eponymous" to "titular," but the latter seems right here.
April 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The White House made its Covid page look like a bad movie called Lab Leak, with Donald Trump as the titular leak. Full of vindictive lies & misinformation, but the graphic cracks me up. I look for laughs where I can.
As a rule, I prefer "eponymous" to "titular," but the latter seems right here.
As a rule, I prefer "eponymous" to "titular," but the latter seems right here.
No, but the kid can, and did, do this.
April 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
No, but the kid can, and did, do this.
I don't normally kvell online, but it was "come as a character day" at the high school, & my younger kid came as this:
April 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I don't normally kvell online, but it was "come as a character day" at the high school, & my younger kid came as this:
Thought maybe I'd distract myself with reading.
March 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Thought maybe I'd distract myself with reading.
I am not attuned to the World of Sports. Hand to God, I saw this photo & thought, huh? An Art-Spiegelman-related basketball team? I don't want to tell you how long it took me to understand.
February 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I am not attuned to the World of Sports. Hand to God, I saw this photo & thought, huh? An Art-Spiegelman-related basketball team? I don't want to tell you how long it took me to understand.
Guys, I think my watch has decided that in order to make it in America, you have to be a fraud
January 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Guys, I think my watch has decided that in order to make it in America, you have to be a fraud
At the Marquis Cornwallis Pub, you can tell that the English are the good guys by the color of their lightsabers.
December 30, 2024 at 11:43 AM
At the Marquis Cornwallis Pub, you can tell that the English are the good guys by the color of their lightsabers.
I am dealing with a lengthy customer service issue with BestBuy (a minor nightmare considering the world's nightmares) & I am tired of staring at this guy, who is clearly not listening to me.
December 4, 2024 at 5:24 PM
I am dealing with a lengthy customer service issue with BestBuy (a minor nightmare considering the world's nightmares) & I am tired of staring at this guy, who is clearly not listening to me.
Look for this in a more attractive form in December 2025.
October 18, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Look for this in a more attractive form in December 2025.
Part 2 in weird Wordle response: even I know the below isn't true. Wordle doesn't like plurals! I just am childish and like to make myself laugh.
October 12, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Part 2 in weird Wordle response: even I know the below isn't true. Wordle doesn't like plurals! I just am childish and like to make myself laugh.
I have nearly never posted anything Wordle-related, but: I'm proud:
October 11, 2024 at 3:05 PM
I have nearly never posted anything Wordle-related, but: I'm proud:
Happy July 4th, everyone!
July 4, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Happy July 4th, everyone!
As the grandchild of people with a store that catered to railroad workers, I'm disgusted & furious. It is not an overall if it comes to your waist.
April 22, 2024 at 12:27 PM
As the grandchild of people with a store that catered to railroad workers, I'm disgusted & furious. It is not an overall if it comes to your waist.
No, I shall not be staying here.
April 11, 2024 at 4:53 PM
No, I shall not be staying here.
If you wonder why I write: here is a picture of me & my parents, circa 1970. (Not sure where my older brother is!)
March 21, 2024 at 12:31 PM
If you wonder why I write: here is a picture of me & my parents, circa 1970. (Not sure where my older brother is!)