Jenny Yacovissi
@jbywrites.bsky.social
Author, reader, critic, president of Washington Independent Review of Books (which you should read and follow). I’m all about the freedom to read & learn. Moms Demand Action volunteer. Coming to grips that my “golden years” will be spent in The Opposition.
So HAPPY for @keithdonohue.bsky.social's take on @ambersparks.bsky.social's new HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE. "a run-down apartment in a converted sanitorium. A handful of zany tenants...the adjacent graveyard." Yes! @wirobooks.bsky.social
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Happy People Don’t Live Here: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books
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November 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
So HAPPY for @keithdonohue.bsky.social's take on @ambersparks.bsky.social's new HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE. "a run-down apartment in a converted sanitorium. A handful of zany tenants...the adjacent graveyard." Yes! @wirobooks.bsky.social
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Love this take from @timmiller.bsky.social in which Truth Social’s own AI, trained on conservative media, debunks 47’s Fave Lies (Q: was the 2020 election stolen? A: NO!)
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Trump’s Own AI Knows He’s Wrong!
Podcast Episode · Bulwark Takes · 11/11/2025 · 9m
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November 13, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Love this take from @timmiller.bsky.social in which Truth Social’s own AI, trained on conservative media, debunks 47’s Fave Lies (Q: was the 2020 election stolen? A: NO!)
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Registration's open! Be the 1st on your block to sign up for the @wirobooks.bsky.social 2026 @dcwriterscon.bsky.social, the premier publishing-focused conference in the DMV. Super Early Bird gets you the best deal thru 12/31. Do it for you!
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The 2026 Washington Writers Conference | Washington Independent Review of Books
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November 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Registration's open! Be the 1st on your block to sign up for the @wirobooks.bsky.social 2026 @dcwriterscon.bsky.social, the premier publishing-focused conference in the DMV. Super Early Bird gets you the best deal thru 12/31. Do it for you!
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I always thought that part of what allows autocrats to keep autocrating is the whole bread and circuses thing. Am I missing something or did they just skip over that in the rush to trample everything and everyone?
At the behest of corporate lobbyists, Trump's CFPB will block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports.
This comes as the GOP allows ACA subsidies to expire – which could cause millions to go uninsured and medical debt to skyrocket.
A perfect storm of cruelty.
This comes as the GOP allows ACA subsidies to expire – which could cause millions to go uninsured and medical debt to skyrocket.
A perfect storm of cruelty.
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I always thought that part of what allows autocrats to keep autocrating is the whole bread and circuses thing. Am I missing something or did they just skip over that in the rush to trample everything and everyone?
It's almost here! Super Early Bird registration for the @wirobooks.bsky.social 2026 Washington Writers Conference opens Nov 1st. Get the best price PLUS pitch to **four** agents (it's usually 3). Find your tribe & learn from publishing pros!
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The 2026 Washington Writers Conference | Washington Independent Review of Books
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October 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
It's almost here! Super Early Bird registration for the @wirobooks.bsky.social 2026 Washington Writers Conference opens Nov 1st. Get the best price PLUS pitch to **four** agents (it's usually 3). Find your tribe & learn from publishing pros!
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It's GO TIME, folks--let's do this thing!
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No Kings short video
YouTube video by No Kings
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October 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It's GO TIME, folks--let's do this thing!
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Hey, and since this Administration is so dead-set against Antifa, I guess that makes them Profa? Yup, Republicans=Pro Fascist.
October 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hey, and since this Administration is so dead-set against Antifa, I guess that makes them Profa? Yup, Republicans=Pro Fascist.
Are you working on your signs? See you out there!
October 12, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Are you working on your signs? See you out there!
Q from @wirobooks.bsky.social: Feeling subversive this banned books week? A: You bet, & not just this week, either!
Then make it a DIY personal protest: choose your faves from the oft-banned books, read in public, & watch 'em squirm!
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Then make it a DIY personal protest: choose your faves from the oft-banned books, read in public, & watch 'em squirm!
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Feeling Subversive? | Washington Independent Review of Books
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October 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Q from @wirobooks.bsky.social: Feeling subversive this banned books week? A: You bet, & not just this week, either!
Then make it a DIY personal protest: choose your faves from the oft-banned books, read in public, & watch 'em squirm!
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/fee...
Then make it a DIY personal protest: choose your faves from the oft-banned books, read in public, & watch 'em squirm!
www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/fee...
It's an extra-special treat when @wirobooks.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief @hsmithwrites.bsky.social gives herself permission to write a review, & she let fly with her latest, on Ken Follett's CIRCLE OF DAYS--700 pages "on a Post-It Note."
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Circle of Days: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books
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September 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It's an extra-special treat when @wirobooks.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief @hsmithwrites.bsky.social gives herself permission to write a review, & she let fly with her latest, on Ken Follett's CIRCLE OF DAYS--700 pages "on a Post-It Note."
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Current situation. We chatted with the gentleman holding the flag, not so much the National Guardsmen (who are still here—thought that time limit was up?) Here on a legislative visit.
September 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Current situation. We chatted with the gentleman holding the flag, not so much the National Guardsmen (who are still here—thought that time limit was up?) Here on a legislative visit.
Boy howdy, do we all need something to look forward to. And the answer--of course-- is BOOKS! Once again, your peeps at @wirobooks.bsky.social have you covered. Take a look at our round-up of titles coming out this fall & find your new fave.
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Sneak Preview: Fall 2025 | Washington Independent Review of Books
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September 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Boy howdy, do we all need something to look forward to. And the answer--of course-- is BOOKS! Once again, your peeps at @wirobooks.bsky.social have you covered. Take a look at our round-up of titles coming out this fall & find your new fave.
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I know @zachpowers.bsky.social already did the big reveal of his mention in this week’s @newyorker.com (Alexandra Schwartz’s article on Patricia Lockwood), but it was still cool to come home from vacation and stumble upon it in the wild! I felt the glow.
September 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I know @zachpowers.bsky.social already did the big reveal of his mention in this week’s @newyorker.com (Alexandra Schwartz’s article on Patricia Lockwood), but it was still cool to come home from vacation and stumble upon it in the wild! I felt the glow.
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this is the guy that the modern right wing considers one of their finest intellectuals
September 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
this is the guy that the modern right wing considers one of their finest intellectuals
Anytime these yahoos question the value of vaccines, tell them to go into any older cemetery and do a quick survey of the percentage of graves of children age five and under. Then tell them to kindly piss off.
August 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Anytime these yahoos question the value of vaccines, tell them to go into any older cemetery and do a quick survey of the percentage of graves of children age five and under. Then tell them to kindly piss off.
Mainstream media might be giving up on delivering solid book reviews, but we never will! (For as long as the lights stay on.) @wirobooks.bsky.social has got you covered. Bookmark us and visit every morning to start the day off right--because happiness is finding a good book (& a good book review)!
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August 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Mainstream media might be giving up on delivering solid book reviews, but we never will! (For as long as the lights stay on.) @wirobooks.bsky.social has got you covered. Bookmark us and visit every morning to start the day off right--because happiness is finding a good book (& a good book review)!
"For those of us who believe that attention to and investment in public health is a crucial element of a thriving community," the dismantling of so much of what Anthony Fauci achieved in his 50 years of government service is criminal malfeasance.
ICYMI: A useful reminder that it’s critical to have the right person on the job. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/o... @jbywrites.bsky.social @vikingbooks.bsky.social #booksky #fauci
August 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
"For those of us who believe that attention to and investment in public health is a crucial element of a thriving community," the dismantling of so much of what Anthony Fauci achieved in his 50 years of government service is criminal malfeasance.
I love listening to @ashdashlee.bsky.social preach her love and righteous rage on the #onemillionrising #nokings trainings in strategic non-cooperation. It’s mainlining optimistic action. #indivisible
August 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I love listening to @ashdashlee.bsky.social preach her love and righteous rage on the #onemillionrising #nokings trainings in strategic non-cooperation. It’s mainlining optimistic action. #indivisible
Tennis pavilion went in the last time. Now the no-roses Rose Garden Patio--complete with community-pool-quality umbrellas on the four-tops--and ground breaking soon on the vast ballroom ('cause no one's gonna stop him). Bets on when he opens the White House Club, and what the buy-in's gonna be?
August 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Tennis pavilion went in the last time. Now the no-roses Rose Garden Patio--complete with community-pool-quality umbrellas on the four-tops--and ground breaking soon on the vast ballroom ('cause no one's gonna stop him). Bets on when he opens the White House Club, and what the buy-in's gonna be?
Learning all about the tactics of noncooperation in small and large ways on the second #OneMillionRising call. It’s one way to beat back the darkness. @ashdashlee.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Learning all about the tactics of noncooperation in small and large ways on the second #OneMillionRising call. It’s one way to beat back the darkness. @ashdashlee.bsky.social
Hey, folks! Join the cool kids and get your pre-order in for @writesloud.bsky.social’s debut collection, FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT, from @stanchion.bsky.social. (The pennant is the extra-cool touch—you know you want one.)
July 30, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Hey, folks! Join the cool kids and get your pre-order in for @writesloud.bsky.social’s debut collection, FIRST KICKING, THEN NOT, from @stanchion.bsky.social. (The pennant is the extra-cool touch—you know you want one.)
After letting the inaugural winner of the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize sit in my TBR for far too long, I just consumed @mshatter.bsky.social’s MALAWI’S SISTERS. It’s a powerful, affecting story of the fallout from the shooting death of a young Black woman; Malawi & her family will stay with you.
July 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
After letting the inaugural winner of the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize sit in my TBR for far too long, I just consumed @mshatter.bsky.social’s MALAWI’S SISTERS. It’s a powerful, affecting story of the fallout from the shooting death of a young Black woman; Malawi & her family will stay with you.
Just listened to @mollyjongfast.bsky.social's HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER. I kept wanting to tell Jong-Fast, "It's dementia! That means she won't remember! Stop being frustrated! (I mean, about about the memory stuff.)" @wirobooks.bsky.social
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How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter’s Memoir | Washington Independent Review of Books
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July 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Just listened to @mollyjongfast.bsky.social's HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER. I kept wanting to tell Jong-Fast, "It's dementia! That means she won't remember! Stop being frustrated! (I mean, about about the memory stuff.)" @wirobooks.bsky.social
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Why did I love this? "Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of memoir as academic dissertation with memoir as blunt 'can we talk?' observations...Perhaps it’s just that she really knows how to frame and tell a story." My review of @melissafebos.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON in @wirobooks.bsky.social.
There’s nothing dry about the author’s latest offering, and fans are in for a treat. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @aaknopf.bsky.social @jbywrites.bsky.social @melissafebos.bsky.social #Booksky
July 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Why did I love this? "Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of memoir as academic dissertation with memoir as blunt 'can we talk?' observations...Perhaps it’s just that she really knows how to frame and tell a story." My review of @melissafebos.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON in @wirobooks.bsky.social.