Emily St. James

people.comIn ‘Beth March Returns From the Dead’ by Emily St. James, Two Exes Confront Their Complex Past — See the Cover! (Exclusive)PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of Emily St. James’ new novel ‘Beth March Returns From the Dead.’ The book reimagines ‘Little Women’ through a trans lens, centering on two exes who reconnect o...

19 Aug

Big news! My second novel, Beth March Returns from the Dead, has a gobsmackingly great cover by Zevvy Smith-Danford! I am so proud of this book and also of getting a weird Nathaniel Hawthorne joke into the pages of People magazine. people.com/emily-st-jam...

They should make another season of Dash & Lily, a show only I remember.

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It’s not over til it’s over, but as they are the only team so far to get a win off the Brewers in the playoffs, we must conclude the Padres are baseball’s second best team.

helenwebberley.comAre transgender sports bans really about protecting women? | Dr Helen WebberleyThe data says no. Those most hostile to women are most in favour of banning trans athletes.

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I am just learning this right now

Samantha Brennan@samanthabrennan.bsky.social

A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

Child, in the Spirit Halloween: Mama, I see something really scary. *she leads me past child sized Chucky, Jason, and Freddy costumes, stopping at one for Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc.* Oh no, it’s Mike. *whimper*

In, like, 2014, I was the subject of an extremely mild Twitter pile-on, and I groused privately to my wife about how people were going TOO FAR. She (wisely) talked me out of writing anything about it. I transitioned instead, and now I am not sure how much longer I will make rent. Anyway!

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

How are you still writing this shit www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I could have sold my soul and been dead inside, but I would be worth high six figures probably.

It happened to me: I went to Spirit Halloween to buy one $7 thing five days before the big day, and I have never left.

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

Watching this thing suggests all over again that AI-generated art's central failing continues to be that the kinds of people who might use AI tools to make something interesting are the kinds of people who hate the supposed shortcut of using AI tools because they enjoy the work of making art.

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

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I don't know why I would spend a half-hour carefully crafting a prompt to get some approximation of nuanced performance out of a computer when I could just tell some random guy I found on Backstage dot com "Do it a little angrier" and get the same result in a couple minutes.

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Maybe I, a known creative type, am whistling past the graveyard here. Maybe the kids of my daughter's generation, who are going to grow up with tools like this, will figure out how to use them to make cool stuff. Maybe we're all doomed. But the better the tech gets, the less impressed I am by it.

gizmodo.comElon Musk's AI-Generated 'Odyssey' Is Here to Save Western Civilization“Homer didn’t have Grok. We do.”

violet allen@blipstress.bsky.social

It's funny how the Defenders of Western Civilization really want Odysseus to be this heroic patriarchal figure when he is canonically kind of a dirtbag.

Like there are shots in this where I can see what they're going for. It's probably the best AI-generated thing I've yet seen! It's also still dogshit because all of its faults would be most easily corrected by working with even a group of, like, mid-talent actors who can take direction.

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F: Pale Man M: Faun K: Giant Toad

Phillip Iscove@pmiscove.bsky.social

This week on @podcastlikeits The 2000s @emilystjams.bsky.social and I continue our GDT 2000s miniseries by talking Pan’s Labyrinth with @saraiya.bsky.social! We discuss GDT’s love of fairy tales, the phenomenal creature effects and how Emily’s husband aka The Pale Man is just misunderstood.

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I am reliably informed that Woodworking is NYPL’s BOOK OF THE DAY!! Thank you, New York!! Greatest city in the world!!

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We had to do multiple IVF rounds to have our kid and almost gave up several times. I think we would have been fine without her, but my god, there is something beautiful about the ephemerality of KNOWING every moment is one you don’t get back because she will be a different person in an hour.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social

I am 100% in favor of people who don't want kids not having kids, but watching your kids play on the beach on a day where all your responsibilities are asleep is a peak human experience of a type you will struggle to get elsewhere.

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Hell yeah, @paulbae.bsky.social !

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New Monday Digest!

episodes.ghost.ioThe Devils is still shocking. Just not for the reasons you think.Plus: Robert Pattinson in Primetime, Steven Spielberg's Duel, and the dark origins of MLB mascot DJ Kitty.

If I, personally, were Susan Cooper, I would not start The Dark Is Rising sequence with Over Sea, Under Stone, obviously the weakest book.

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"It was originally to be a standalone novel"? "The Dark Is Rising is the _true_ start of the story"? "Cooper retrofitted it into the first book in the series once she realized the two books could share a continuity"? Tell that to 10-year-old me who NEARLY BAILED ON THE SERIES.

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Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

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My mom* says I'm cool *-'s chatbot

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cool, cool

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checking in on the president of the united states

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episodes.ghost.ioNew subscriber special: Force Emily St. James to watch some bullshitPlus: A preview of Emily's latest 26 Episodes piece on the final season of Game of Thrones.

Unemployment has run out, and we have yet to get another TV job (though we've come close!). We have savings, but if my work means anything to you, I would really, really, really appreciate you becoming a subscriber. And now you can make me watch your favorite crap!

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Not an Episodes subscriber yet? No time like the present — especially since new subscribers, from now until November 1, can force our editor-in-chief @emilystjams.bsky.social to watch, quote, "some bullshit." Details here!

I came up with this and don't let anybody else tell you otherwise

We are right on the cusp of AI utopia*. *-agentic AI makes the internet both unsafe and unusable, so I am forced to go outside and write everything longhand by candlelight

episodes.ghost.ioNew subscriber special: Force Emily St. James to watch some bullshitPlus: A preview of Emily's latest 26 Episodes piece on the final season of Game of Thrones.

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btw if you subscribe to too many newsletters already or are just unsure if this is for you, subscribing for a month for $5 will give you access to a decade of archives AND let you enter the "make Emily cover something" lottery. Then cancel if it's not right for you!

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Child yesterday informed us that she knew of Dracula and that he was a “funny little guy of Halloween.”

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FRIENDS: recommend some trans-authored books (including yours!) in the comments! And if you've never read a book by a trans person, browse the comments and you may find your next great read. No time like the present to stick it to the pieces of shit who think we ought neither to be seen or heard

episodes.ghost.ioA French Village, Season 1, Episodes 3 and 4: "Crossing the Line" and "On Earth as It Is in Heaven""We lost the war. We might as well win our peace."

The French? They have a village.

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New French Village recaps, this time from @lilywrites.bsky.social !

Omg 10-year-old me is HYPED

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First look at Dwayne Johnson as the Chicken Man in Benny Safdie's ‘LIZARD MUSIC’. The film follows a young boy who finds a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music that opens a hidden door to the whimsical Chicken Man.

can i say something without everyone getting mad

Emily St. James@emilystjams.bsky.social

glee is coming back so here he is

glee is coming back so here he is

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To any Hulu executives reading these skeets: I don't know what a "transom" is. It's just an old-timey word I've read in boo-- I've seen in TikToks sometimes, and I think it's funny to sound like I am older than my actual age, which is 27.

Me, in conversation: You know who I'm the exact same age as? Sabrina Carpenter. No, it's true. Like, yes, we were both born in the 1900s, but just barely.

glee is coming back so here he is

Should I email my reps and tell them that while Glee surely won't have a room and if it does, it will likely be full of youths, hiring me to write for the show will be a PR win for maybe eight people?

Ryan Murphy, seeing my name come across the transom: At last, the AV Club commenters will praise my name.

letterboxd.comA review of Primetime (2026)Five things: 1) Hate to be that gal, but Predators really kind of made this movie feel superfluous to me. Whatever it's trying to say about the show and/or the culture -slash- man who made it, Predato...

It was finally time to catch up with the Lance Oppenheim movie everybody's talking about, so here's some PRIMETIME thoughts letterboxd.com/emilystjams/...

The YouTube algorithm hasn't yet radicalized me into reactionary right-wing nonsense, but it HAS gotten me watching some good lawn mowing content, which is its own form of radicalization.

Oh my god how did I miss the Sluggo's terrible new hat arc

caroline cash@cashbrowns.bsky.social

Nancy 10/5/26 “Sluggo’s Terrible New Hat” Part 7

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At one of my earliest jobs, the editor-in-chief asked me to do an article with a lawyer who specializes in getting people out of speeding tickets about how speeding tickets are bullshit, and anyway, the eic had just gotten a big speeding ticket.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

As far as I can tell, literally every article on this quotes the same "expert" — a former estranged father who has an entire blog dedicated to absolving parents of any responsibility. He also sells $995 "consultations" where he will blame your kids for cutting you off.

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Per a database of discrimination complaints obtained by @propublica.org , Trump's Department of Education is actively ignoring reports of rape and assault on campuses so they can instead focus on transgender athletes. Their obsession with trans people is actively putting women and girls in danger.

Honestly, most John Boorman movies. Highly flawed, visually spectacular, always idiosyncratic. Exorcist II does SO many of the things I say I want in horror. I SHOULD love it, but then I actually WATCH it...

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