"Some personal news?"
Updates, events, paperbacks, etc
I have long been confused by the widely used phrase some personal news that people use on social media usually when, it seems to me, they’re sharing professional news. Or is the word “personal” here meant to distinguish it from actual News-News…? Or has the distinction between the personal and the professional completely collapsed? I have never understood this. Please feel free to enlighten me. I suppose this post vaguely falls into such a category.
The paperback of Biography of X is available now!
If you want a signed copy, I signed some at Greenlight Books in Brooklyn and Exile in Bookville in Chicago has signed bookplates in theirs. If you’re a bookseller and want me to sign books or bookplates, I would love to if space and time permit. 1
Also— I am absolutely a sucker for the feature on the iPhone and Instagram and whatever else that shows you “this day a year ago.”
Various technologies tell me that today marks one year since the launch of Biography of X…