have been thinking about this l*bs*ft*kt*k horrorshow (my mentions are pretty nauseating—threats, slurs, antisemitism, etc.) and i have a few thoughts and then hope to never talk about this again the bottom line is, teenagers talk about sex and make dumb jokes and swear. i wanted to write a book about teenage life that felt authentic. so i put those things in. it’s as simple as that.

so i spent the last three years in a little italian town called portorosso to work on #pixarluca. beautiful place. let me tell you about it i rented a room right above the piazza. pretty lively, could be kind of loud sometimes. there were days when i did not get a ton of writing done

munmun. it's out in paperback today. one year after publication, i wanted to talk about its writing style. if you haven't read it, it's written in the first person from the perspective of a kid named warner, who is very poor and therefore about six inches tall. in this world, your size corresponds to how much money (munmun) you have.