Greg Mania

I’m Pepsi, and I’m Actually Okay Before you ask, yes—I’m actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask t...

"I’ve unpacked my rivalry with Coke. I’ve looked at where it started, how it was reinforced, and why I kept measuring myself against a version of myself I was never meant to be."

This is one of the best things I've read in a long long time.

"I’ve finally arrived at a place of radical acceptance. I accept that I will be passed over, that I will sit untouched for hours, that someone will choose a lemon-lime option over me without a second thought."

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

This is hilarious and also, as a Southerner: PEPSI IS NEVER OK.

I’m Pepsi, and I’m Actually Okay Before you ask, yes—I’m actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask t...

"I’ve unpacked my rivalry with Coke. I’ve looked at where it started, how it was reinforced, and why I kept measuring myself against a version of myself I was never meant to be. Coke, for the most part, represents nostalgia, but I am not responsible for your nostalgia."

This is brilliant! I need to be more like Pepsi. 🙏🏽

A masterpiece

perfection. damn.

BOMB Magazine | Melissa Faliveno by Greg Mania On writing a novel about queer bodies, haunted places, and the thing that won't let you go.

@mlfaliveno.bsky.social and i could talk forever—here are 2,000 of those words from our conversation in @bombmag.bsky.social 🪵

is there anyone more drunk with power than the second a in marshmallow

When Life Gave Her Ageism, She Created Oldster

Had the good fortune to talk a bit about Oldster Magazine with Kasia Pilat at The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...

took a (necessary!) break from working on my novel and am now getting back into it. time to get into glassblowing

I’m Pepsi, and I’m Actually Okay Before you ask, yes—I’m actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask t...

meet ms. self-actualized pepsi! my latest, for @mcsweeneys.net 🥤

I’m Pepsi, and I’m Actually Okay Before you ask, yes—I’m actually okay. I can feel you hesitating, the way people do when they lower their expectations out of politeness. You ask t...

"I’ve been in therapy for a while now, and one of the things I’ve learned is that I’m not responsible for managing other people’s expectations—especially when those expectations were built around a different soda entirely."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

wouldn’t blame the cicadas for emerging and being like not this and going back underground for 17 yrs

my nervous system has prolapsed

Workshop: Book Proposal Generator with Greg Mania — The Shipman Agency 8 Sessions: Saturdays, April 4-May 23 12:00-2:00pm ET Greg Mania This generator is taught by Greg Mania, author of the memoir Born to Be Public , which has been named a best book of 2020 ...

enrollment for the spring book proposal generator is now open! 🌷 8 weeks in my class crock pot and you’ll have a proposal that’s ready to send out! sign up below ✍️ scholarships available!

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if there’s one thing i’ll do it’s cry about it

i won’t be at AWP this year so if you’re going pls smoke a cig outside the local dive in my honor

Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You? What about the time it parked perfectly between two lines on the first try, despite you having spent your entire life contorting to fit in—socially, emotionally, and physically?

In New Yorker Humor, why this Waymo might be a better person than you. www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You? What about the time it parked perfectly between two lines on the first try, despite you having spent your entire life contorting to fit in—socially, emotionally, and physically?

my latest for @newyorker.com: a mild to moderate existential spiral 🤖

butthead and butthead

LA’s getting its first combination sephora-library-plant nursery! (tommy and i are moving in together)

i need to get rid of books bc i'm downsizing so i think i'll start by rewatching buffy

started a new work-in-progress (stress hives)

we’re still swooning from last night’s reading 💘 love to all our readers, the semi-tropic, and @skylightbooks.bsky.social 💘 see you in spring!

tonight!! 🪩🪩🪩

to every writer who is happy to be left behind by AI: party at my place! we’re gonna spend four hours agonizing over whether or not to use a semicolon or a period before deleting the two sentences altogether and giving each other bangs

ego death! at the disco