Greg Mania

this panel is going to be sick (i’m so sorry) and i hope you’ll join us! 💊 register (for free!) here: www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-il...

saw the Elizabeth Holmes doc and floated out of the theater like headless Toni Collette at the end of Hereditary

it’s finally fall in LA so i’m coating the rim of my margarita with Burt’s Bees

the checkout instructions for my last Airbnb included putting a crest whitestrip on the teeth of the giant antique nutcracker in the yard

can’t wait for the found footage horror movie about an abandoned data center

my note for street fighter is the same note i have for every movie (they should kiss)

👉👌 @thelittlegayshop.bsky.social

is Kelly Clarkson the reason TGI Fridays doesn’t have bric-a-brac on their walls anymore

In Nature Poem, Tommy Pico writes the story of having a body and wanting to be loved. buff.ly/1ovRfzb

if these walls could talk they’d say jesus bitch how many times are you gonna rewrite the first paragraph of your novel instead of finishing the draft

preparing my grounding kit for You Can See Everything

it’s always Indigenous Peoples’ Day in this house

We were heartbroken to cancel the #BKBF2026 Marketplaces this year due to the Nor'easter. If you are able, we encourage all you book lovers to visit brooklynbookfestival.org/vendor/ to find the vendors who would have been participating and show them some love and support! Fill your tote bags ❤️📖

locking in at cheesecake factory

had the breakthrough i needed to finally get unstuck in my novel but now i have to go back and rewrite it

my bf promised to top me when it finally happens

me the second it dips below 70 in LA

my latest conspiracy just dropped!! read the whole thing in the @newyorker.com 🥬

This morning, the agency urged me to immediately discard my store-bought rotisserie chicken and instead braise a lamb shank in a classic mirepoix. www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

you’re only allowed to threaten los angeles if you’re trying to find parking in los feliz after 6pm fuckface

ushering in spooky season by shooting a high-pressure stream of blood from under my tongue instead of saliva

i asked the questions, douglas stuart brought the gospel, and we were honored to take you to church 💒 @bkbookfest.bsky.social

we're bummed that @tayari.bsky.social can't make it tomorrow due to the weather, BUT douglas stuart and i will still take you to church—literally! hope to see you tomorrow at st. ann & the holy trinity church at 3:30pm 💒

my drag name is Miss Chunky Highlights

this picture of lady gaga in drag, cloris leachman, and the cast of jersey shore mutated my retinas and now i can see in the dark

i wish i had a more useful type of autism like memorizing case law but instead here i am like hey brenda would u like to know the difference between a king alfred and dutch master daffodil

me when I'm on top of grading AND on top of my work and then it hits me that we've only just finished the first month of the semester

new meme from my cat just dropped

working on my novel again after taking a break and so far, so good (repeatedly banged my head against my keyboard like toni collette in Hereditary only once)

Check out our autumn-quarter books: Nature Poem, The Color of Law, and The Man Who Could Move Clouds. buff.ly/1WyX4jx

my man, more commonly known as Tommy Pico, wrote this essay for @altajournal.bsky.social to coincide with Nature Poem being selected as their october book club pick 💕

rip annie dillard

applying for jobs these days shouldn’t be done alone so who wants to come over and take turns trying to break the world record for most cigarettes smoked at once

today’s high in LA is 78 and i feel like i could bench press god

my bottom boyfriend stands to pee while i, the top, sit down, generating a localized gravity well so intense that our floating shelves are literally now floating

i will never forget where i was when i heard lady gaga had a baby on 9/11

my ooo is just a picture of this stack

my five-year financial goal is to go from in debt to just broke

Calling all readers! The #BKBF2026 schedule has been officially announced 📚✨ We cannot wait for you to join us in Downtown Brooklyn, online, and across all 5 boroughs for these wonderful literary events. Which program are you most excited for? Visit BrooklynBookFestival.org for the full schedule 🔗

i’m not saying i welcome being possessed but i could use the break

we’re only a few weeks away from @bkbookfest.bsky.social! i have the distinguished honor of moderating a conversation between literary legends @tayari.bsky.social and douglas stuart on festival day, sun, sept 27 @ 3:30pm at st. ann & the holy trinity church—and it’s free as hell!!! 📚💌

it’s a gorgeous day in LA for it to take 42 minutes to drive 6 miles

what if there’s an afterlife and in that afterlife everyone sounds like mrs. doubtfire

when you reach the end of a dating app you should have to fight a horse

me now that a breeze has returned to LA

i haven't written in a cafe for over a year—writing routines and practices change; it's fine!—but i decided to give it another shot today, and the absolute sea of laptops open to chatgpt has forced me to adopt a new routine (in a firing kiln)

“time is like clockwork” - tommy pico

there are a few spots left in my fall book proposal generator, which kicks off this saturday! sign up below! 👇 @shipmanagency.bsky.social

@gregmania.bsky.social's book proposal generator starts this Saturday! Register here: www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/fall...