Your assignment this week is to read a book that some “Mom for Liberty” would bring to a school board meeting and cry about.

Coming to SF this week for a very gay time with @greenapplebooks.bsky.social and K-MING CHANG for some very casual talk about queer horror, dystopias (literary ones and current hellscape), and more. Come through!

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Whatcha doing on Thursday March 27th? Come hang out with our joyful two sets of poets and writers. Get your tix now to catch the dinner and drink specials. #losangeles #literary bit.ly/holdingcourt27

it does feel nice to write a new newsletter for The Reading! yanyiii.com/the-reading/...

Chicago! I'm coming to you right in the middle of your subzero weather week. If you're looking to get warm, come to the Chicago launch of HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social at Women and Children First where I'll be chatting with my fave Helene Achanzar!

Roses are red, violets are blue, it's raining acid at the end of the world, and I'd love to share my umbrella with you. ☔️

Be my creepy Valentine tomorrow with Jean Chen Ho at
@barnesandnoble.com Americana? ♥️

After two postponements due to natural disasters, Jean Chen Ho and I are back this weekend at @barnesandnoble.com Americana in Glendale, CA to soothe your post-Valentine's Day blues. Catch us for a reading & conversation on Saturday, 2/15 at 2 PM!

Some exciting news... HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social is a Gotham Book Prize finalist.

Here I am with @murmurshewrote.bsky.social and our peppermint teas from Friday at Third Place Books Ravenna! It was a pleasure to talk about ghosts, hauntings emotional and actual, and the after-afterlife in her new novel, How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster.

Today's the first HOW TO FALL IN LOVE reading event of 2025! Seattle, you're my first stop, and I'm so lucky to be in conversation with the ever so brilliant Yanyi. Please come through!

www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/muriel...

* HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER in 2025 * @wwnorton.bsky.social

Hard to believe this book is less than 3 months old. First event of this season -- a reading and conversation w/ the brilliant Yanyi at Third Place Books Ravenna. Please come through!

FYI: If you love a writer, get them my "Finish Your Book" workshop with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social tomorrow SUNDAY, 12/15, so they have some extra writing motivation for next year.

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/fin...

Join me and my brilliant CalArts mentee Zoey Greenwald as we (virtually) talk all things novel writing, subversive girlhood narratives, and answer your Qs about the CalArts MFA in Creative Writing program. Join us!

RSVP here:
calarts.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"What if a perpetual life with ghosts can radically alter the life of the living?"

Mandatory ghost-related reading by @murmurshewrote.bsky.social

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“I believe that ghosts are not merely here to haunt, but to shift the ways in which we see the parameters of a life.” @murmurshewrote.bsky.social offers advice to those writing about the inhabitants of the afterlife.

On Dec. 15, @murmurshewrote.bsky.social will lead a workshop called “Finish Your Book,” to help people turn their individual poems into a book manuscript. Sign up here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/fin...

Delighted to see our @uscdornsife.bsky.social English/Creative Writing PhD alum @murmurshewrote.bsky.social’s book in the “hot fiction” display at the original Politics & Prose here in DC, with a blurb by @aimee-bender.bsky.social

☔ It's a book tour ☔

HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A TIME OF UNNAMEABLE DISASTER @wwnortonlibrary.bsky.social is a queer Asian American love and ghost story set in a time of acid rainstorms in NYC. If dystopia is feeling near and dear to you right now, come spend time in good company ~