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Writer. OG Yale Writers' Workshop Faculty/Vogue, Paris Review, Granta, The Atlantic, Electric Lit/100+ guides to world lit for PRH, S&S, HMH, and HC 📚
"Doesn't look sick"
Oh, we're doing prompts? Ok. If you were invited on the New Yorker #fiction podcast, which story would you want to read and discuss?
I'm very sorry to hear the news of Paul La Farge's passing. I did the transcription of his interview with E. Gary Gygax for his piece "Destroy All Monsters" published in The Believer. Sending so much love to all of his family and friends.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120205185820/http://www.believermag.com/issues/200609/?read=article_lafarge
Have come to accept that it is physically impossible for me to hear I Dreamed A Dream without weeping.
Something good is going to happen tomorrow.
"#Love and #writing are the only two things in the world that I can bear, the rest is darkness." -Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost, translated by Alison Strayer
#bookstodon
I'm still thinking about what I would like 2023 to look like. My hopes and dreams for the year. What is one word that represents what you hope your 2023 will be?
This is the news we need. My #bookshelves consist of a large cherry shelf that I bought at Kmart almost twenty years ago, a small dark mahogany shelf made by my father, and (my favorite) this low pine shelf on wheels with rough bark trim and wavy edges, also made by my father. 📚 https://nymag.com/strategist/article/steal-my-bookshelf.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=strategist #Bookstodon
I'm deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Kara Jane Spencer from #mecfs. What a beautiful soul. The people who continue to deny the existence of these illnesses should be ashamed of themselves. We will keep fighting. #pwME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLm6lT3wBd4&feature=emb_logo&fbclid=IwAR3Muv5rn9VnhnW-Jha8TDBZuRI_4vAbQ7HeHCkoOoqAx6lwKBHqqY7cqTk
Kara Jane - Baby Breathe

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This year crushed me from beginning to end, but it was a good #writing year. Here is my #yearend #publication thread:

>https://www.storymagazine.org/big-bird/

>https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a39075611/sheila-heti-pure-colour-review/

>https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/09/introduction-classic-books/671365/

>https://lithub.com/the-rich-and-secret-life-of-a-writer-of-reading-guides/

>Also had the great pleasure of writing the publisher's reading guides to Ed Yong's #AnImmenseWorld and Thomas Fisher's #TheEmergency. (Please go read these if you haven't already.)

#HappyNewYear, #bookstodon!

Big Bird – Story

Big Bird

Ok, what should my #newyear's #resolution be? Suggestions?