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Ah, @primantibros , I tried to include you in All

Ah, @primantibros , I tried to include you in All Kinds of Other, but this Pittsburgh reference got cut by the last draft. So did a reference to “redding up” that everyone thought was a typo. Yinzers know otherwise. Pittsburgh, heading your way soon—save me a Pitts-burger. See you in Millvale!

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When Doug’s away, the boy and I can have fish wi

When Doug’s away, the boy and I can have fish with heads on them. Turmeric fish bowls, adapted from #vietnamesefoodeveryday by @andreanguyen88

I took a trip to Pittsburgh in 2017, searching for

I took a trip to Pittsburgh in 2017, searching for signs of my character Jack: where he would live, where he would go to school, what movie theater he might like, what neighborhood his friend Evie would live in. It was wonderful to see his life in three dimensions. I was also welcomed by the GLCC (now @pghequalitycenter ) and my conversations there were incredibly helpful in defining the trajectory of my book.

I’ll be heading there for the tail end of Pride Month. If any of you hail from out there, hope to see you in @pridemillvale !

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He’s a good dad, and a good son. Doug is spendin

He’s a good dad, and a good son. Doug is spending Father’s Day bringing his mother back from her sister in Oregon to Whitten, where they’ll meet her new great grandchild. Sorry you’ll miss all the AMAZING Father’s Day rituals that Ben and I prepared (sarcasm!), but you are following a higher calling right now.

You might be putting this one off. You might be th

You might be putting this one off. You might be thinking it’ll be too difficult, or that you’ve seen a movie just like it recently. Don’t make that mistake, because you’ve never seen anything like this limited series, nothing so extraordinary and fierce and heartbreaking and VITAL. This limited series (and the Colson Whitehead book it’s based on) infuses the story with just enough magical realism to deepen a story we thought we already knew, make it strange and newly-vivid. They took the entirety of Black experience throughout American history and somehow accordioned it into one woman’s flight for freedom. The acting is crazy good, the filmmaking ( Barry Jenkins directed) is just on another level—so gorgeous and layered, down to the lighting and haunting sound design. There is brutality depicted here, yes, but also connection, joy, resilience and humanity. Don’t miss this cinematic masterpiece.

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“…There are all these crows Hundreds of them j

“…There are all these crows
Hundreds of them just perched on the playground waiting
And all of the sudden flap flap flap flap
They rise up in one big cloud and attack
There are so many pecking at you you can’t even see
That’s what it was like but the birds were inside me
The panic birds rising up.”
—Jack, All Kinds of Other

The panic birds, plus my bird.

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Parents figure prominently, lovingly and messily i

Parents figure prominently, lovingly and messily in my book, so it’s wonderful that @laparentmag is highlighting All Kinds of Other in their June Book Corner. Navigating the world of gender and sexuality in our children requires sensitivity and education, and I hope my book can add to that pool of knowledge. Link in bio.

Happy Pride Month!

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Book Sighting in the Wild: just signed a new batch

Book Sighting in the Wild: just signed a new batch of All Kinds of Other at @skylightbooks …I love to see my kid playing well with the other books 📚 🌈

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To be honest, celebrating Pride out in the public

To be honest, celebrating Pride out in the public arena was never my thing. Parades, crowded bars, packed in the streets? Not me. I always said I’d rather cater a party than attend one—too much social anxiety. But I’ve learned over the years that everybody commemorates this month in their own way. Some of us bake our Pride. Others… eat it. It’s all good! This is my first Pride Cake (note the pink and blue flowers), and the experience making it was very much like Pride itself— colorful, messy, longer than expected, and very, very sweet. (Recipe by the inimitable @emcdowell @nytcooking )

Happy Pride Month!

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My last event for Pride! Millvale is near Pittsbur

My last event for Pride! Millvale is near Pittsburgh, where I did literary reconnaissance for ALL KINDS OF OTHER. I’ll be signing books for @pghequalitycenter between 12-2, and doing a reading/conversation at 3 between @tupelohoneyteas and @millvalecommunitylibrary So excited to be back in Pittsburgh and (safely) among people!
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Today I gave myself a day off from an book work an

Today I gave myself a day off from an book work and did nothing but bake and cook and it was FANTASTIC. Thanks @csaffitz @nytcooking for the #raspberryroulade recipe.

We just watched Ordinary People for the first time

We just watched Ordinary People for the first time in a long time. It wrecked me. WRECKED ME. I started welling up on the first notes of Pachelbel’s Canon in D, and the movie never let me go from there. And after watching it, I realized just how much of that movie was a touchstone for me—the heartbreak of a dysfunctional family; overcoming trauma as an adolescent; the challenge, and necessity, of connection—these are themes that I’m attracted to in movies and books, and themes that run throughout my writing. Judith Guest’s novel was great, but the movie adaptation has imprinted itself in my DNA.

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