Jess Zimmerman

Bluesky it has come to my attention that you like becoming horrifying to men and also rethinking classical stories about feminine monstrosity (harpies, sirens, gorgons, etc.) and wow GREAT news

Does anyone have book recs that will not have a wait time on Libby? Please only answer if you’re also an inveterate Libby user and have a sense of what’s available, normally when I ask this people suggest wildly popular books with like ten week waits

Beautiful headline

This is the exact move my employer did last year, down to completing the sale while the vote was ongoing (they actually delayed the official vote until they knew the sale would go through). Very disappointing, and unnerving to know nothing about the fate of the backlist or indeed the frontlist

BIG NEWS: WE'RE DOING A PODCAST!! Hosted by ME. Which means I get to talk to people about books even more than I already do! The first episode is about SWORD LESBIANS & LADY KNIGHTS and it's with Alix E Harrow, CL Clark, and Tasha Suri and it's SO GOOD!! I can't wait for you all to hear it!

I absolutely love the weird shit that bodies do, if we’re friends and you have extra bones or missing nerves or whatever please tell me. The idea of the normative body is both fake and boring

If I ever host a Halloween party again I’m definitely doing the dress code on a scale from Adults Drinking Wine to Babadook

Do you think Tommy still got his $200

The one time I worked clothing retail I lasted like a week and it was solely because the single album allowed by corporate was playing in my head every second of every day even when I wasn’t at work and I thought I was going to lose my mind

I have, as I do almost every semester, once again sent a student @jesszimmerman.com's Steven Hotdog essay magazine.catapult.co/dont-write-a...

I didn’t even have time to buy a lettuce

There’s been a lot of discourse recently about how book editors don’t have time to work on books, want books to arrive to them fully edited, and are pressured to use AI on them once they do. But you know who can polish your MS/proposal and never uses AI? This guy

If you are just now getting a crush on James Acaster because of Celebrity Traitors, welcome but where have you been

Did you know you’re allowed to make new movies. You actually don’t have to remake an old movie but opposite for some reason

Do we think it stopped being possible for good things to happen BECAUSE Sleep No More closed or was that just a coincidence

8 years of All You Can Ever Know 💙🌿 I treasure the conversations I’ve had (& still get to have) because of this book, and continue to be grateful to everyone who’s read it or shared it with others.

I think it’s arguably irresponsible of Brandon to just keep making Cassie cooler. Where will it end

Girls don’t want boys girls want books that scratch precisely the same itch as the Westing Game

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

The children are scared and it’s your fault hope that helps

YEAH IT DID BEST BOOK IN COLORADO

We are so back

Bring my whole self to work? Buddy, I don’t bring my whole self ANYWHERE. Have you seen that guy?

When JD was fucking the couch, that was genuinely fun for a minute

You guys ever like a book so much that 10% of the way through you’re already mad you’ll eventually finish it? Because I’m having that experience with Exit Party

I think we all know that iced coffee will be a total outrage for anyone they want to say “doesn’t fit the culture” and not a big deal for anyone else

I just read Daniel Mendelsohn’s “An Odyssey” and I thought it was a pretty remarkable memoir but it’s a lot harder and more confusing to recommend to people after the publication of Daniel Mendelsohn’s “THE Odyssey”

they are going to come for your contraception, it is literally only a matter of time. I just replaced my IUD and if you think any of the long-term methods of contraception would be a good fit for you and/or your partner, now is the time to do it

We got a baby camera so we can check on the dog in her crate (she sleeps in the other room and sometimes has Night Digestion) and I’ve started calling it the Pupnapticon

Bake Off had an older guy who was one of several making lemon cake and they described him as “bringing something extra to the lemon party,” we’ve blown right past “soggy bottoms” lads

Great now people can get progressively worse at self-regulation just like they get worse at all the other cognitive tasks they outsource to robots

This doesn’t count as my zeitgeist prediction for this year because it’s only for litfic but I’m calling it: non-human/non-alive narrators

God this means it’s ten years since the first September video

That’s today

It’d be so great to have functional government guidance on whether I can go to the gym tomorrow

If you want to judge people for moving to your city wrong you should have been born in DC

I came across this when I was at the Kennedy Center protest on Friday, and however ugly you think it looks online, it's even uglier in person

Live footage of me having covid but still doing my little tasks

I see we’re doing my MA thesis again

I was so confused by this until I remembered I only watch panel shows (where “Christmas special” just means “everyone has a sweater”)

My biggest lost cause in copy editing is trying to get people to stop saying “global pandemic.” They’re global by definition! That’s what the “pan” means!