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Isle McElroy
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Isle McElroy
@isle_mcelroy
Author of The Atmospherians & People Collide, named a best book of 2023 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, and the NYT Critics. they/them. A child of divorce.
Joined October 2012
- In every relationship one person sends the memes and the other person has a day job
- yes nyc is too expensive and the streets are icky with rats but sometimes when you’re leaving the subway your beanie falls out of your bag and everyone shouts YOUR HAT YOUR HAT and one man crouches down to scoop it up to your hands and it occurs to you, Ah, yes, I get it now
- Being an adult is buying the same 7 groceries every week until you die
- the only surefire way to get over a crush is spend 4-7 years writing a 200 page novel about them
- Mom: When am I gonna get a grandchild? Me: Here’s an ARC of my novel. It fictionalizes our family’s deepest secrets and shames.
- can anyone recommend a good slim novel? Looking for something very good--impossible to put down--and unthinkably slim, like zero to zero pages or so.
- Solidarity with trans employees at Netflix, who are walking out today. Here is their list of demands.
- The central premise of the publishing industry seems to be, What if we take the softest people we can find and make them compete against each other for the smallest prize in the world?
- Bob Dole, who uses he/him pronouns, died at the age of 98 on Sunday.
- Pistachios are vegetarian mussels
