Chris Bohjalian

Drop everything and read this. You’ll thank me. It is a wonder — and why we read novels. @tayari.bsky.social @aaknopf.bsky.social

Jesse’s face when I told her Kristi Noem was fired.

Jesse and I are LOVING these longer days!

So, how long until the fired and “disgraced” (and disgraceful) Kristi Noem is hired by the Goebbels-like propagandists at Fox News ?

Great day at the bookstore! I know what I’m reading this weekend — the new novel from the brilliant Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney! @barnesandnoble.com

Look for this gem this summer!

I am about to wake her to bring her to bed. Good-night.

My next novel, THE AMATEUR, was written in an alchemic frenzy And for the only time in my life, no one knew what I was writing

I thought about Hamnet and how art springs from the subterranean parts of our soul and is given form by conscious planning. It reminded me of my experience writing THE AMATEUR. My essay about that part of my life is now live on Substack: tinyurl.com/3j854r8d

I can’t wait for you to meet Mira…the amateur. Learn more here: chrisbohjalian.com .

Happiest of pub days to the brilliant Gin Phillips on a banger of a book. Get your copy of RUBY FALLS this week!

Program to Honor the Legacy of the Armenian Genocide — St. Mary Armenian Church Livingston NJ Dear Parishioners and Friends, Join us for an evening of remembrance, culture, and community as we honor the legacy of the Holy Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide. Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2026 ...

Voila! No registration needed. www.stmarynj.net/event-detail...

To all my friends who read and readers who are friends in and around New Jersey: Please join me next month.

The word of the day is "empathy." It means actually giving two fucks about people's pain and trying not to make the world more of a dumpster fire than it has to be. Look, we all know the planet spins toward chaos and entropy. . .but if you are a person with power, consider "empathy."

She was.

Good-night.

Thanks!

Christina Applegate Planned to Burn Her Journals. She Made a Memoir From Them Instead.

Read this interview with Christina Applegate by Elisabeth Egan of @nytimes.com and file it under a real profile in courage.

Magic hour.

Oreos with chocolate filling and, I suppose, SO MANY CHEMICALS.

I sure did.

Not brave. Just lacking in common sense. . .

Either Trump lied last year when he said it would be decades before Iran could reconstitute its nuclear program because we had successfully obliterated it or he is lying now.

Temperature topped 32! First bike ride of the season!

Lunch dessert.

Seeing WUTHERING HEIGHTS at the Middlebury Marquis tonight -- my fave cinema.

"You said I killed you—haunt me, then. . .Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!"

The damage predatory men inflict on young women. The exploration of the class divide in America in EVEN a very tony suburb.

The damage predatory men inflict on young women. The exploration of the class divide in America in EVEN a very tony suburb.

Awwwwwww, thank you.

Trump On Tape: I Grab Women "By The Pu**y” YouTube video by TDC

Throwback to one of the earliest red flags that Trump should never have been president. Never. Yes, the man in the Oval Office really did say these things about women and what "powerful" men are "allowed" to do to them. #TrumpEpsteinFiles www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhsS...

What is THE AMATEUR about? Secret affairs, predatory men, the class divide in America — and, suddenly, a teenager on trial. What sets it in motion? One golf ball. THE AMATEUR arrives this summer. Preorder wherever you buy books or learn more here: chrisbohjalian.com/the-amateur/