I love this book so much! It is smart and funny and wise about art and people and parenting. Reading it is like having a conversation with Kathryn about stuff that really matters to her, and everyone should be lucky enough to get to do that (so buy the book!!!)

Kathryn VanArendonk@kvanaren.bsky.social · 7d ago

I am really, really, really, REALLY excited to be able to share the cover of my book, as well a link so you can preorder it for when it comes out in April. Look at the ears!!!! wwnorton.com/books/978132...

oh hey look! www.vulture.com/article/litt...

Little House on the Stolen Prairie

A new adaptation of the Laura Ingalls Wilder series punctures the fantasy.

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Kathryn VanArendonk@kvanaren.bsky.social · last mo.

the embargo is now up so i can tell you that the little house on the prairie essay i wrote for nymag will go up probably next week, and in the mean time i look forward to watching the right-wing media lose its shit over Woke Little House

I know all the people involved in this story and being friends with them is even more fun than it sounds

Kathryn VanArendonk@kvanaren.bsky.social · 2mo ago

my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp

Banger of a closing line to this student essay: “The 19th century was not for the weak”

every day do something/ that won’t compute wendell berry “manifesto: the mad farmer liberation front”

Yep! And some of them value it more than ever. (And: we also need to acknowledge that 10-20 years ago it wasn't like there was this massive wave of voracious readers! There has been a shift, yes, but false nostalgia doesn't help.)

spent the last month profiling jimmy kimmel, and it's a weird time for that guy! trump and kimmel both want the same thing, which is for kimmel to not be doing this show anymore. how does he make that happen without it feeling like a concession? unclear www.vulture.com/article/jimm...

Jimmy Kimmel Would Stop If He Could

Trump wants him out, late night is dying, and he’s tired. What does the end look like?

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not a lot of guides out there about how to talk to your kids about French sex workers but we do our best

Told a story in class this morning about using my opera glasses to bird watch because teacher brand consistency is important

It is my toxic trait as a teacher that I find this terribly charming

Have found that AI in education has renewed my appreciation for parts of my work that used to drive me kind of insane: grading that takes forever; Sundays trying to scrape together time to plan and read for my classes; slowly working through kids’ repeated mistakes

I do NOT understand how everyone involved with making the Heated Rivalry TV show, most of them brand new to romance, put their entire whole pussies into it and gave it everything they had, and the professional romance publisher is standing around with its thumb up its ass TO THIS DAY

Okay, today’s student-led poetry selection was just trolling me

Thinking about how my high school students are all in on using LLMs to brainstorm and edit and make PowerPoints and (sometimes, some of them) even write their work for them but they also rib each other mercilessly when they catch someone using it and hate when they can tell that their teachers have

thoughts on outlander, the most popular un-influential important minor tv show www.vulture.com/article/outl...

Outlander Was the Bridge Between TV Worlds

The series will end the way it began: caught between warring genres. The tension fed its greatest successes but also its most frustrating flaws.

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The most shocking thing to me about the heated rivalry phenomenon is that, almost 4 months into this, there are still so many people who say words on tv for a living and can’t pronounce “rivalry”

from the people who brought you "Destroying Public Education in Favor of Test-Based Accountability," we present "School 2: What We Previously Dismantled Was Actually Good It Turns Out"

I profiled Cat Sebastian aka your favorite romance author’s favorite romance author for @nytimes.com ❤️‍🔥🎬

How Isaac Asimov Inspired a Star Romance Writer’s Swoony New Novel

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as we approach the Oscars I need to state right up top that every time someone says “this is Timmy’s year” this is the Timmy I picture

I want to shake people and be like, teachers WANT to assign whole books. you don't need to make it a legislative mandate! just give us appropriate autonomy and an incentive/evaluation structure which won't punish use of complex, long readings and full works - most teachers will jump in w both feet.

Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?

Change your clocks tonight! Change them into doves. Release them into the cold March sky. A single feather drifts down, but your clocks are gone. Hold onto the feather, keep it safe. One day the clocks will return, if they love you.

It’s time to get REALLY SERIOUS about paperwork flow in my classroom. That’ll show ‘em (‘em is me)

That clip of Timothee Chalamet being like “no one watches the opera or ballet” is wild and I am dying over every ballet and opera acct (correctly) being like “we’ve been here for hundreds of years before you and we’ll be here for hundreds of years after you” lmao

I believe the romance genre deserves the respect of robust, knowledgeable critical engagement, and you'll see me RTing amazing romance critics who do that! ....AND, I do not want my work to be used to bolster any "yeah! romance sucks!" arguments. romance doesn't suck. it's great.

anyone in education who supports this needs to leave right now and not look back

Jessica Washington@jesswash.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Tennessee wants to ban undocumented children from access to a free public education, and turn school administrators into immigration informants. The Heritage Foundation wants to take that plan national. Read my latest for @theintercept.com:

I wrote the most romantic scene of my entire romance career today: a man clearing everyone out of a woman’s room so she can sleep off a hangover undisturbed

This question brought to you by the slow-rolling mental breakdown John and Michaela’s lack of Scottish accents have induced in me (okay so if the Scottish aristocracy is culturally and by education English, as their accents suggest, then… )

Kathryn VanArendonk@kvanaren.bsky.social · 6mo ago

a very reasonable question i have about bridgerton is, what about ireland? did the england of bridgerton decline to do an imperialism in india or the caribbean but then still try to conquer ireland? and if it's a non-imperial england then ... how is there a united states

spent an afternoon with bridgerton's yerin ha www.vulture.com/article/brid...

Bridgerton Needed Her

Yerin Ha brought the hit Regency romance series the perspective it’s been missing.

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Drop whatever you’re doing and read the opener to this right now and then CRY that you can’t write this good (And then go back to making Hamlet Act III slides)

Kathryn VanArendonk@kvanaren.bsky.social · 6mo ago

i profiled comedian chris fleming whose new special is out tomorrow and who is a real delight to attempt to describe www.vulture.com/article/chri...