Hey, Tuesday (March 10) is the deadline to apply for this year’s summer workshops at the Community of Writers, where I’ll be on staff. If you’re ready for a week in the mountains, immersed in craft, come join us in the Olympic Valley, near Lake Tahoe. communityofwriters.org/works…

This. Has. To. Stop.

Today is the tipping point.

Alex Pretti was murdered.

BRANDO: “It finally came to me from Jimmy [Baldwin], who was so good at setting me straight. Happiness, he told me, is a very typical pursuit of the spoiled, who have, for the most part, had things brought to their tables, their attention, their inspection. I needed to pursue not happiness, he told me, but discernment. “You understand, he said to me, the ability and the art of editing a film. You can transform a performance by what you clip or elide or move. A stunningly bad actor or performance can be transformed by how and where you place it. It has been edited, and so it is not an honest—or realistic—presentation of what took place. “Well, we don’t understand reality too well. We think that what is placed before us is real, because we are either lazy or stupid—we don’t look around for what else is out there or within us or within each other, so we say, This is real. But if we remove the negative friend, the toxic thought, the temptations that topple us, then a new ‘reality’ appears. We get the reality we build, edit, post, print, distribute. “Don’t accept the evil thought, the prejudiced view, the pessimistic view of the world. Accept a role in making the world better, and go out and edit it. That is what Jimmy always sought to do: Edit the world; edit his friends; edit himself." -Marlon Brando Interview with James Grissom, 1990

“Please get the truth out about our son.”

“Let every child inside me find her shoes.”

This will forever be the greatest email.

So, the dominant paradigm used to be stupidity. Now it’s evil. Literally evil.

Thank you!

I have somehow won the Pulitzer Prize. pulitzer.org/node/22866

Some people wrote a lot of checks. They plumped up other people’s (bank) balances.

Yay, @AmyTan! This book is a gift to ALL readers.

That’s the point of the appointment.

For the next four years, America is going to marinate in cruelty.

Charles Dickens, writing in 1842 about the United States: “I do fear that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty will be dealt by this country in the failure of its example to the earth.”

Thank you for writing such an interesting and beautiful book!

"In order to save life on this planet, we need to stop pretending we can understand it." Brilliant and refreshing talk by @itsJason last night @MrsDsBooks

WOO HOO!!