Laura Lippman
@lauralippman.bsky.social
Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, (cheerfully) uncoupled since February 2020. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
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Laura Lippman
@lauralippman.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Why are people telling me what I would do when I just said what I would do?
Good morning, Bluesky.
On the Upper West Side and basically had to cut myself out of (old not new) (combat not riding) boot and that’s as close as I’ll ever get to being Marjorie Morningstar.
At least I’ve been spared the whole Noel Airman/Wally Wronken of it all.
Photo from Nov. 27, 2024.
On the Upper West Side and basically had to cut myself out of (old not new) (combat not riding) boot and that’s as close as I’ll ever get to being Marjorie Morningstar.
At least I’ve been spared the whole Noel Airman/Wally Wronken of it all.
Photo from Nov. 27, 2024.
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
On the Upper West Side and basically had to cut myself out of (old not new) (combat not riding) boot and that’s as close as I’ll ever get to being Marjorie Morningstar.
At least I’ve been spared the whole Noel Airman/Wally Wronken of it all.
Photo from Nov. 27, 2024.
On the Upper West Side and basically had to cut myself out of (old not new) (combat not riding) boot and that’s as close as I’ll ever get to being Marjorie Morningstar.
At least I’ve been spared the whole Noel Airman/Wally Wronken of it all.
Photo from Nov. 27, 2024.
I have slightly complicated feelings about the “how writers do it” thread because I’m an oddball who did it on my own, but everyone thought I was riding a richer person’s coattails. But also I was a super healthy person who was entitled to COBRA and then got health insurance with no underwriting.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I have slightly complicated feelings about the “how writers do it” thread because I’m an oddball who did it on my own, but everyone thought I was riding a richer person’s coattails. But also I was a super healthy person who was entitled to COBRA and then got health insurance with no underwriting.
Y’all I swear I quit all the apps five years ago.
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Y’all I swear I quit all the apps five years ago.
Good morning, Bluesky.
To whom it may concern:
Please excuse [name redacted]’s tardiness today. Her obsessive mother could not tear herself away from the sunrise.
Yours,
The Obsessive Mother
To whom it may concern:
Please excuse [name redacted]’s tardiness today. Her obsessive mother could not tear herself away from the sunrise.
Yours,
The Obsessive Mother
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Good morning, Bluesky.
To whom it may concern:
Please excuse [name redacted]’s tardiness today. Her obsessive mother could not tear herself away from the sunrise.
Yours,
The Obsessive Mother
To whom it may concern:
Please excuse [name redacted]’s tardiness today. Her obsessive mother could not tear herself away from the sunrise.
Yours,
The Obsessive Mother
Good morning, Bluesky.
Trust me on this: There is a singular pleasure in making a (perfect) martini for someone you used to make hot cocoa for, then having a nice little cocktail chat.
I have almost no family, so I’m extremely grateful to have had my stepson in my life for almost 25 years now.
Trust me on this: There is a singular pleasure in making a (perfect) martini for someone you used to make hot cocoa for, then having a nice little cocktail chat.
I have almost no family, so I’m extremely grateful to have had my stepson in my life for almost 25 years now.
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning, Bluesky.
Trust me on this: There is a singular pleasure in making a (perfect) martini for someone you used to make hot cocoa for, then having a nice little cocktail chat.
I have almost no family, so I’m extremely grateful to have had my stepson in my life for almost 25 years now.
Trust me on this: There is a singular pleasure in making a (perfect) martini for someone you used to make hot cocoa for, then having a nice little cocktail chat.
I have almost no family, so I’m extremely grateful to have had my stepson in my life for almost 25 years now.
Good morning, Bluesky.
Kid worked costumes, makeup and set design on the school musical and everyone in the family made at least one performance and we showered her with tributes, as we should have. No small parts, just one small teen who’s darn good at what she does.
Kid worked costumes, makeup and set design on the school musical and everyone in the family made at least one performance and we showered her with tributes, as we should have. No small parts, just one small teen who’s darn good at what she does.
November 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
Kid worked costumes, makeup and set design on the school musical and everyone in the family made at least one performance and we showered her with tributes, as we should have. No small parts, just one small teen who’s darn good at what she does.
Kid worked costumes, makeup and set design on the school musical and everyone in the family made at least one performance and we showered her with tributes, as we should have. No small parts, just one small teen who’s darn good at what she does.
A Baltimore Sun editor told me I wasn’t a very good writer. I thought: “He’s my boss, I can’t win with him, but if I start writing novels, then a lot more people can decide if I’m a good writer.”
In all sincerity, RIP G.W. because at least you inserted the daggers to one’s face, unlike S.P.
In all sincerity, RIP G.W. because at least you inserted the daggers to one’s face, unlike S.P.
November 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
A Baltimore Sun editor told me I wasn’t a very good writer. I thought: “He’s my boss, I can’t win with him, but if I start writing novels, then a lot more people can decide if I’m a good writer.”
In all sincerity, RIP G.W. because at least you inserted the daggers to one’s face, unlike S.P.
In all sincerity, RIP G.W. because at least you inserted the daggers to one’s face, unlike S.P.
Reposted by Laura Lippman
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i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Good morning, Bluesky.
If I could have it this way I know I’d
I’d wanna live where it’s like today
I’d wanna live where it’s always this way
I’d wanna live where it’s always Saturday.
(Photo from 53 weeks ago — a Saturday — because rain and because I “slept in” after a really tough week.)
If I could have it this way I know I’d
I’d wanna live where it’s like today
I’d wanna live where it’s always this way
I’d wanna live where it’s always Saturday.
(Photo from 53 weeks ago — a Saturday — because rain and because I “slept in” after a really tough week.)
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
If I could have it this way I know I’d
I’d wanna live where it’s like today
I’d wanna live where it’s always this way
I’d wanna live where it’s always Saturday.
(Photo from 53 weeks ago — a Saturday — because rain and because I “slept in” after a really tough week.)
If I could have it this way I know I’d
I’d wanna live where it’s like today
I’d wanna live where it’s always this way
I’d wanna live where it’s always Saturday.
(Photo from 53 weeks ago — a Saturday — because rain and because I “slept in” after a really tough week.)
Good morning, Bluesky.
When I was the age my daughter is now, a love song came on the car radio and my dad said he liked it and I remember at least once a week how I wanted to hurl my body onto Frederick Road into the path of an oncoming truck.
When I was the age my daughter is now, a love song came on the car radio and my dad said he liked it and I remember at least once a week how I wanted to hurl my body onto Frederick Road into the path of an oncoming truck.
November 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Good morning, Bluesky.
When I was the age my daughter is now, a love song came on the car radio and my dad said he liked it and I remember at least once a week how I wanted to hurl my body onto Frederick Road into the path of an oncoming truck.
When I was the age my daughter is now, a love song came on the car radio and my dad said he liked it and I remember at least once a week how I wanted to hurl my body onto Frederick Road into the path of an oncoming truck.
Hey, everyone in Baltimore we need to be ready for our “I am Spartacus” (I am Buzz) moment.
Let's go baltimore
I’m howling.
November 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Hey, everyone in Baltimore we need to be ready for our “I am Spartacus” (I am Buzz) moment.
Reposted by Laura Lippman
Very glad to have been able to write about this essential book on the criminalization of spousal rape in America by @sarahweinman.com for @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social. This topic has not been written about nearly enough and this book is a necessary corrective.
Sarah Weinman's excellent new book, Without Consent, chronicles the relationship at the center of the sensationalized 1970s trial and its impact on the long—and alarmingly recent—fight to criminalize spousal rape.
www.jezebel.com/the-complica...
www.jezebel.com/the-complica...
The Complicated, Frustrating History of the First Spousal Rape Trial
Sarah Weinman's excellent new book, Without Consent, chronicles the relationship at the center of the sensationalized 1970s trial and its impact on the long—and alarmingly recent—fight to criminalize ...
www.jezebel.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Very glad to have been able to write about this essential book on the criminalization of spousal rape in America by @sarahweinman.com for @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social. This topic has not been written about nearly enough and this book is a necessary corrective.
Good morning, Bluesky.
O GREAT STARRY SKY
Where our thoughts go
Like door-to-door Bible salesmen,
Only to have the doors
Slammed into their faces.
—Charles Simic—
O GREAT STARRY SKY
Where our thoughts go
Like door-to-door Bible salesmen,
Only to have the doors
Slammed into their faces.
—Charles Simic—
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
O GREAT STARRY SKY
Where our thoughts go
Like door-to-door Bible salesmen,
Only to have the doors
Slammed into their faces.
—Charles Simic—
O GREAT STARRY SKY
Where our thoughts go
Like door-to-door Bible salesmen,
Only to have the doors
Slammed into their faces.
—Charles Simic—
Good morning, Bluesky.
“Wise guests wake early at the Royal Karnak Palace Hotel.”
Havoc, Christopher Bollen, recommended by several friends, and oh-so-good so far.
(Photo from yesterday because today is meh, although I’ve already clocked 3.2 miles at an average speed of 3.8 mph.)
“Wise guests wake early at the Royal Karnak Palace Hotel.”
Havoc, Christopher Bollen, recommended by several friends, and oh-so-good so far.
(Photo from yesterday because today is meh, although I’ve already clocked 3.2 miles at an average speed of 3.8 mph.)
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
“Wise guests wake early at the Royal Karnak Palace Hotel.”
Havoc, Christopher Bollen, recommended by several friends, and oh-so-good so far.
(Photo from yesterday because today is meh, although I’ve already clocked 3.2 miles at an average speed of 3.8 mph.)
“Wise guests wake early at the Royal Karnak Palace Hotel.”
Havoc, Christopher Bollen, recommended by several friends, and oh-so-good so far.
(Photo from yesterday because today is meh, although I’ve already clocked 3.2 miles at an average speed of 3.8 mph.)
@emmastraub.bsky.social A Very Jonas Christmas Movie is only the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life, I am going to watch this every holiday season for the rest of my life, it is the only thing that could keep me up during worst jet lag of my life.
November 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
@emmastraub.bsky.social A Very Jonas Christmas Movie is only the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my life, I am going to watch this every holiday season for the rest of my life, it is the only thing that could keep me up during worst jet lag of my life.
Creeping on my kid’s Pinterest board for holiday gift ideas, turns out she has really esoteric taste.
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Creeping on my kid’s Pinterest board for holiday gift ideas, turns out she has really esoteric taste.
Good morning, Bluesky.
Wildfires, bamboo, just going to sit here and await the capital-M metaphor of the day.
Wildfires, bamboo, just going to sit here and await the capital-M metaphor of the day.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Good morning, Bluesky.
Wildfires, bamboo, just going to sit here and await the capital-M metaphor of the day.
Wildfires, bamboo, just going to sit here and await the capital-M metaphor of the day.
Once upon a time I wrote my future now ex spouse that: “Writers should be forbidden from dating, if not by law, then at least by social custom,” and early aughts me was onto something.
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Once upon a time I wrote my future now ex spouse that: “Writers should be forbidden from dating, if not by law, then at least by social custom,” and early aughts me was onto something.
This is paywalled for me (again, I dropped my subscription after @karenattiah.bsky.social was fired), but it’s always nice to be on a best-of list. Thank you, Scott!
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is paywalled for me (again, I dropped my subscription after @karenattiah.bsky.social was fired), but it’s always nice to be on a best-of list. Thank you, Scott!
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
(OK, I’m fudging my age, but can you blame me?)
(OK, I’m fudging my age, but can you blame me?)
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
(OK, I’m fudging my age, but can you blame me?)
(OK, I’m fudging my age, but can you blame me?)
Good morning, Bluesky.
Back on my bullshit.
Back on my bullshit.
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Good morning, Bluesky.
Back on my bullshit.
Back on my bullshit.
I’m in a lounge at Heathrow and as a SUPERB eavesdropper I just need people to be having far more interesting conversations.
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’m in a lounge at Heathrow and as a SUPERB eavesdropper I just need people to be having far more interesting conversations.
Good morning, Bluesky. And goodbye to London, which takes Christmas quite seriously.
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Good morning, Bluesky. And goodbye to London, which takes Christmas quite seriously.
Good morning, Bluesky.
Last full day in Tuscany. Veni, vedi, vici. (My students might tell it differently, but I did my best and I’m very proud of how open they were to critique, the possibility of big changes in their work.)
Last full day in Tuscany. Veni, vedi, vici. (My students might tell it differently, but I did my best and I’m very proud of how open they were to critique, the possibility of big changes in their work.)
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Good morning, Bluesky.
Last full day in Tuscany. Veni, vedi, vici. (My students might tell it differently, but I did my best and I’m very proud of how open they were to critique, the possibility of big changes in their work.)
Last full day in Tuscany. Veni, vedi, vici. (My students might tell it differently, but I did my best and I’m very proud of how open they were to critique, the possibility of big changes in their work.)
Good morning, Bluesky.
A checklist:
A comfortable bed, doesn’t hurt my back
Food to fill me up
Warm clothes
Full house, rock and roll band
Pens that won’t run out of ink
Cool quiet/time to think
Six out of eight, not bad!
A checklist:
A comfortable bed, doesn’t hurt my back
Food to fill me up
Warm clothes
Full house, rock and roll band
Pens that won’t run out of ink
Cool quiet/time to think
Six out of eight, not bad!
November 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Good morning, Bluesky.
A checklist:
A comfortable bed, doesn’t hurt my back
Food to fill me up
Warm clothes
Full house, rock and roll band
Pens that won’t run out of ink
Cool quiet/time to think
Six out of eight, not bad!
A checklist:
A comfortable bed, doesn’t hurt my back
Food to fill me up
Warm clothes
Full house, rock and roll band
Pens that won’t run out of ink
Cool quiet/time to think
Six out of eight, not bad!