Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 14hWe are watching Lugosi & Karloff in The Black Cat to celebrate October. I recommend it highly. 6242
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I know I am in America because I pressed a button in a public space and then heard HELP NEEDED IN THE DEODORANT AREA over the intercom. (I did need help in my deodorant area, but I didn't want everyone to know.) 3410
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I *am* a human, but God help me I can't tell the difference between beds and clocks. 180
Reposted by Elizabeth McCrackenComics in the Spooky Age 🧛♂️🧟♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950. 11941303
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Lee! It was so wonderful to see you. You are wonderful. (Also I can't stop thinking about that weird bar!) 110
Reposted by Elizabeth McCrackenPeterS @paradiddletriplets.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Hancock. 50 years old today. 0328
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026John Denver & Cass Elliott want you to register to vote. (& then sing beautifully.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRe6...youtube.comJohn Denver & Cass Elliot Leaving On A Jet PlaneYouTube video by John Denver 0121
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026To mark the occasion of the first piece of AI scammy spam about "Seven Stories About Tammy." www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction...biblioasis.comSeven Stories About Tammy - BiblioasisThe first in a new short stories series from Biblioasis. Morris Harkin brings his new girlfriend Tammy to meet his family. She is not who they expected and they do not like her. 0115
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is so awful, sad, and anti-education. 0154
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Thank you very much! It is not so bad to turn 60. 120
Reposted by Elizabeth McCrackenSteve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I don't care how many people try to convince me otherwise. This sneaker company logo is a person smoking as they stare into the sky, deep in the midst of an existential crisis and quite possibly French. 0133
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I think I would be able to out-regency these young people, Wendy! 160
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My kid & I thought about going to the Jane Austen market at the Guild Hall, but the line was around the block. 0110
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I love seeing the wide variety of people in their empire waist dresses and bonnets, with their walking sticks and ruffles, walking around with their cell phones, sometimes in period shoes and sometimes Doc Martens. 1120
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Years ago my mother-in-law, upon seeing a man in full Henry VIII drag at a renaissance festival in Long Melford, said, "He must feel like such a twat." She couldn't be convinced that he was living his best life. 1121
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It's the Jane Austen Festival in Bath. There are fops and parsons and any number of young Miss Bennetts cluttering the sidewalks. 2637
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I burst out laughing. I hope she heard a little of it! 140
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I am waiting for a phone call, & so answered a number I didn't recognize. Me: What is this about? Lady on the line: Working with you on a book that has come highly recommended to us. Me: Oh! You're a scam! I didn't realize. Her: Your book wasn't that good. [hangs up] 151127
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Perhaps a character named Officer Thrum who rides a motorcycle. 010
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Is this erotica about cicadas for cicadas, or about cicadas for cicada enthusiasts? Either way, I believe you're right. 120
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Thank you! I am very delighted. & I loved squinting out my window to see all those little balloons! 010
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Thrum people think they're clever. (I laughed out loud at your post.) 010
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I still miss some. I kept some I shouldn't. 130
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I tried not to keep any that had no specific sentimental meaning and which I knew I would never read again. 110
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The easiest way for me was to find good places to donate/sell them. I gave many to graduate students, some to prison education programs, gave a lot to two independent bookstore (my own books to a new bookstore, others to a used one). 120
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I am clamber free! But perhaps I will lose a thrum (there are two). Haven't yet looked for my worst vices. 220
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It's the point in a novel draft when I wonder how many times I can use the word "thrum." (Please don't tell me. This is a decision every novelist must make on their own.) 191153
Reposted by Elizabeth McCrackenLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Here are the winners of American Short Fiction’s 2026 Insider Prize, as selected by Elizabeth McCracken. buff.ly/HFlL7E4lithub.comRead the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2026 Insider PrizeWriting is a challenge, at every level. There are constant pressures acting upon a writer: juggling between responsibilities and work; prioritizing health; making and somehow slowing down time; eve… 0101
Reposted by Elizabeth McCrackenChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.” 12561091620
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Here is the link to the post: elizabethmccracken.substack.com/p/a-floating...elizabethmccracken.substack.comA Floating VirginThe View From My Window, September 9, 2026 1100
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I just posted something on my very sleepy substack. It includes this picture of the worst artistic failure of my life. 1250
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Or like the Tasmanian Devil, or Tweety Bird, or something. 100
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I enjoyed the new Anthony Bourdain biopic but was distracted by a prominent and anachronistic velcro wallet appearing in 1975. (The tattoos on the bad guy's bicep are also not of their time.) 2191
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I love it so much. I'm especially fond of Carol Burnett suggestively snapping Tim Curry's suspenders. 020
Reposted by Elizabeth McCrackenHarry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 03/09/2026RIP, Gloria Steinem. Her early job working for Mad’s Harvey Kurtzman at Help magazine is a fascinating career highlight. When she left, her replacement was Terry Gilliam! booksteveslibrary.blogspot.com/2009…booksteveslibrary.blogspot.comHarvey Kurtzman's InfluenceThis is a subject that deserves a bit more depth and perhaps I'll get around to that some day. Perhaps I'm overstating my point, also. I don... 0121
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Yes, please! I have nothing on my schedule but you. (And teaching a class.) 000
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I didn't see you! I'm so sorry! (I don't know if you know I'm fairly faceblind.) 100
Reposted by Elizabeth McCrackenMichael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Thank you, Tim Curry, for showing us a way. 218217
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 26/08/2026One of the best three-person dance numbers of all time. Rest in peace, Tim Curry. Shine on Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T_R...youtube.comAnnie (1982) | Easy Street | Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, Bernadette PetersYouTube video by The Film Scene 3403
