Je Banach (@jebanach) — bluesky.baby

Epigraph from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny

29.01.2026 04:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Time keeps rolling but I am still, and always, thinking of this question.

(For anyone interested: Quotes are from The New Yorker’s q&a with novelist Hisham Matar. I wrote the publisher’s guide to his debut novel.)

19.01.2026 01:35 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

January daydream come to life

18.01.2026 19:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thanks, Julia!

17.01.2026 02:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We have the greatest news to share: Shawn asked me to marry him, and it will come as no surprise to everyone who has witnessed all along how happy he makes me that I said yes!
Shawn, I love you with all my heart and I can’t wait to be your wife. ❤️

13.01.2026 02:38 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It is wild falling in love and preparing for a wedding during…this.

16.01.2026 05:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

1/11 ❤️

14.01.2026 02:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We have the greatest news to share: Shawn asked me to marry him, and it will come as no surprise to everyone who has witnessed all along how happy he makes me that I said yes!
Shawn, I love you with all my heart and I can’t wait to be your wife. ❤️

13.01.2026 02:38 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

One of the lovely Christmas gifts I received from Shawn was this embosser, which lets me stamp things with the message “From the library of Je Banach.” It has a book with a garden growing from it. It’s nice when someone knows your heart.

28.12.2025 21:03 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Merry Christmas, everyone! Wishing you love and joy today and always.

25.12.2025 16:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My family’s Feast of the Seven Fishes had to be postponed this year, so Shawn and I improvised with a Feast of the…Four Fishes. Wishing you all a very happy Christmas Eve Eve! 🎄

24.12.2025 03:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We kicked off the festivities with some baking: lemon macaroons and cinnamon crumb cake 🎄

24.12.2025 03:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christmas nails activated 💅 🎄

23.12.2025 16:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#HappyWinterSolstice! I’ve never minded the darker evenings, probably because I enjoy so many of the things we can do indoors (reading, writing, cooking etc.) but how good to remember the triumph of light over darkness. The light will be here again—a little more each day—for those who need it.

21.12.2025 17:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christmasing ctd. We all need a little joy.

21.12.2025 01:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Christmas lights ctd.

21.12.2025 00:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Went on a date to see Christmas lights. 🌟

21.12.2025 00:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well, Christmas came early because I landed a pitch! I must have been on the nice list this year. I can’t wait to tell you about this one. Time to get writing…

18.12.2025 01:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy Hanukkah to you and your family!

14.12.2025 21:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Salon day—Ernaux hair refresh

13.12.2025 17:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ernaux at the salon 💇🏼‍♀️

13.12.2025 15:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All I want for Christmas is to hear back about my pitches and submissions. 🎅

10.12.2025 04:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Our family Thanksgiving is postponed as my father is back in the hospital. Would appreciate your prayers and good thoughts for him and my mom. I’ll be spending the day with this guy. ❤️We’ll be making our first T-Day dinner since we got off easy as guests last year. Hope everyone is enjoying the day.

27.11.2025 19:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy Thanksgiving Eve! The holidays are a wonderful time, but they can also be difficult for a lot of people. Be kind to yourselves and to others. Make the holidays what you want them to be or what you need them to be this year. And share lots of love—tell the people you love that you love them.

26.11.2025 15:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This doesn’t just feel like a different time. It feels like an entirely different life, doesn’t it?

23.11.2025 05:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0