Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Iconoclast conformist, name on a few book covers. Passions: motorcycles, GQPers behind bars. Proud Akronite and Vassarion. Mistakes will be made

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

Normally I keep this stuff inside. Today, seeing this for the hundredth time, I reached the point of wanting to scream. This is a canal aqueduct designed by J.A. Roebling, years before the Bklyn Bridge. Right out in the open. Few people know or understand what it is.
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[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

@SecretaryBurgum @POTUS Sleazy, tacky desecration of OUR capital continues. Every tasteless remnant of this administration needs to be torn out 1/21/29 if not sooner.

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

@BryanforHD2 Wondering how "God," who doesn't have a body, have a gender?🧐

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

New Play “The Perfect Vehicle” Powers into The New Theatre, 24–28 March 2026 https://t.co/a9G3Yh2p7Q

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

@RepFine @BrendanCarrFCC Congress really needs minimum education standards.

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

@RefilweSeboko My first and only child born when I was 41. Healthy & normal pregnancy, healthy & normal baby.

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

@joannaofottawa Thank you SO much for your vote of confidence—a voice in a wilderness of silence. I’m steeling myself to write the book anyway, the first time with neither agent nor publisher. 🤞

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

Normally I keep this stuff inside. Today, seeing this for the hundredth time, I reached the point of wanting to scream. This is a canal aqueduct designed by J.A. Roebling, years before the Bklyn Bridge. Right out in the open. Few people know or understand what it is.
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[Ron Slate @ronslate.bsky.social @ronslate]

"In all guises — mother, biologist, poet, Japanologist — Larson looks for commonality, itself a form of repair. 'We are the world’s body. There is no separation'": @PerfectVehicle on Katherine Larson's WEDDING OF THE FOXES @Milkweed_Books @On_The_Seawall https://t.co/bu9VfuMQSY

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

I was so happy to get the chance to write about Joanna Pocock's profound examination of America's ailing heartland. One more in my list of proofs that it is publishers like @softskull putting out the most daring and accomplished writing today.
https://t.co/l37TcJwhKX

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

@sayanniething Lisa Halliday's "Asymmetry" might fit the bill?

[La Mala Suerte Ediciones @Lamalasuerte_Ed]

@real_evasee @yanosvale7 La frase es de Melissa Holbrook Pierson, @PerfectVehicle en su prólogo a la edición española que publicamos de su libro "El Vehículo Perfecto".
Su frase completa es: "Las motos salvan vidas"

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

This is where I will henceforth be doing my usual frequent lurking/rarely posting; the venue changes but my social anxiety does not.

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

@TonyMcTonyo It’s the Carcano-designed Moto Guzzi V8 racer for the 1955-7 Grand Prix

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

I'm halfway out the door here, so let my farewell be this admiration of the deliciously complex "An Image of My Name Enters America" by Lucy Ives, incomparable writer and mind. @GraywolfPress Thanks to @RonSlate for the opportunity. https://t.co/b9kGAs2SST

[Cheri Jacobus @CheriJacobus]

That half the country wants to give the presidency to a convicted felon awaiting sentencing who wants to shoot migrants in the leg, shoot BLM protesters, use our military against our us (those Trump doesn't like), and is clearly dragging his leg due to a stroke, is insane.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

White Media: We make endorsements all the time
Democracy: Endorse the Black lady.
White Media: If we endorse the Black lady people won’t trust us so we’re no longer making endorsements

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

@TimOBrien A thing of beauty.

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

@atrupar They all run backward.

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

@BulbCultCo @TheWeeklings Thanks a million for the opportunity!

[Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle]

@BulbCultCo is doing god's work: literally, because who else can raise the dead? In this case, a piece I'm fond of that first appeared in the sadly deceased @TheWeeklings. Welcome back, little CNF.

[Bulb Culture Collective (SUBS OPEN!) @BulbCultCo]

The light is on for Melissa Holbrook Pierson! @PerfectVehicle!

"Around the Bend" is a brilliant piece of nonfiction that's well-written, compelling, and very much worth your time.

Read it now!

https://t.co/i4gEkEyi1P