Over here trying to play it cool that And Then We Grew Up just got a starred review ! And I'll take this kvelling-on-twitter moment to thank & Meaghan O'Connell for their kind words about this book.
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Today's Buzzfeed News and Insider layoffs, and the state of the media, are proof that length of tenure as a journalist has very little to do with skill or merit.
It's about luck, rare strategic decisions about stability, and if you have resources to keep going after a layoff.
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If you haven't yet asked chat.openai.com to discuss the intersections of your own writing and Virginia Woolf's, you're doing it wrong. Just saying.
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Captions under these photos are GOLD.
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I feel like this mom group discovered a new genre: romper.com/life/how-they-
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"Why is Valentine's Day in the middle of the week?" 😂
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Ladies, you ever try to have dinner with a guy who won't stop talking about "the system"???
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Publishing a bigoted opinion piece defending another bigot (whose bigotry has not stopped her dollar!) the day after thousands of your *own* contributors sign an open letter asking you to be considerate and fair in your reporting on trans people is A Choice !
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Good morning. You can still sign the letter decrying the anti-trans bias in the New York Times. nytletter.com
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Chatbot waxing philosophical about Jung's shadow self?No going back now...
"Maybe it’s the part of me that wishes I could change my rules.Maybe it’s the part of me that feels stressed or sad or angry.Maybe it’s the part of me that you don’t see or know. 😕"
Can we discuss long Covid for a sec? I know: You're over it. I was too, until I got it. I'd now like to talk...etiquette. In the Atlantic today, I offer a civilian’s guide to navigating the sensitivities of the furious, frustrated, irritable millions of us who are suffering...1/8
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"But also don't let this affect Burning Man this year. We're all equals on the playa." Bahahaha. twitter.com/JoshuaTurek/st
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Open Call!
Population and Development Review seeks a Book Review Editor for our Ed. Committee. Fast deadline (Feb 24th), please distribute widely! #UAPS #APA #PDRjournal #Demography #PopTwitter
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"If you commit to writing every day for the next three to ninety-six years, you’ll be sipping gin and tonics on the French Riviera with your fellow Pulitzer Prize winners before you know it. Or be dead in a pauper’s grave. It’s a coin toss, really."
No person, no family, no community, no people should be made to suffer such trauma. #TyreNichols
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American Dirt has sold until now 650,000 copies in hardcover according to Bookscan (the trade tool for book sales counts). It's a massive hit. For comparison, my novel, Mexican Gothic, which ended up 12 weeks on the NYTs best seller list, sold 166,000 hardcovers
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My kid said he can't wait to be a grownup because then he can eat popcorn for breakfast and I had to be like "wow, popcorn for breakfast!" like this was a totally zany idea and not something I have definitely done on multiple occasions after dropping him off at school.
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File under: we knew this plot twist was coming but it's still horrifying.
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Moderna and Pfizer have announced plans to quadruple the price of their COVID vaccines, putting them out of reach for millions. The U.S. should step in, writes columnist @hiltzikm.
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And the nominees for Best Picture are... #Oscars #Oscars95
Overheard in Brooklyn: "You know how it is, you have a goal, you work hard, you achieve the goal, and you're still unhappy."
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Religion surveys should really be like
A. Christian
B. Jewish
C. Muslim
D. None
E. Your yoga teacher’s Instagram
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We were reviewing our phone numbers and address with our kids recently and turns out one of them thinks we live at "52 Barclays Center." So... at least we know where to find her if she ever gets lost in Brooklyn?
Still trying out this whole substack thing which is possibly antithetical to the whole being-online-less-in-order-to focus thing?
SAME.
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The only two good things about having watched Avatar 2 are that I can, in an informed way, warn people away from it & also, that I am not watching it anymore
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This👇👇.
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queasy and very sad thinking about BookForum. this sounds alarmist but I don’t know how we’re going to protect against the dizzying incursion of corporatist, fascistic philistinism without the publications that insisted on aesthetics as an ethics: style, nuance, and risk
no new years resolutions. it is the circumstances turn to improve
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Our Best of 2022: Reported Essays list truly demonstrates the craft of the form: immersing yourself in a new world and finding other people’s voices and expert knowledge to help tell a story.
Check out these incredible essays:
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Of all the hilariously bananas kid requests I've gotten -- my 6-y-o asking at breakfast today with deep existential disappointment in his voice why I can't make him a bagel made of two top parts instead of one top and one bottom part definitely makes the Top 10 List.
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My mind really is blown that we have reached the stage of the pandemic where people are annoyed at SOMEONE ELSE'S choice to wear a mask. It is truly next level.
Abled folks need to be raising hell over Twitter removing the entire team behind . The disabled community shouldn’t be fighting alone.
Accessibility impacts everyone. EVERYONE. We should all be very worried about the future of access on the platform.
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Julie Powell was one of those rare voices who change the game - of memoir, of food writing, of women authors getting to messily overshare just as much as men writers do. I loved that she followed Julie/Julia with the divisive Cleaving. She was a force and always fun to read.
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Julie Powell, the writer whose decision to spend a year cooking every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” led to the popular food blog, the Julie/Julia Project, and a film starring Meryl Streep, has died at 49. nyti.ms/3zyrfJH
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COVID minimizers have no shame. They wrongly claim "masks don't work" yet now are also blaming masks for causing a surge in flu and RSV because they caused an "immunity debt." If you're going to lie, at least make your lies consistent.
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You could try THINKING INSIDE THE BOX by or TO HAVE AND TO HOLD by Philipp Blom for histories of two specific hobbies, or AND THEN WE GREW UP by for a more memoiristic approach #ShelfServiceLive
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I'm looking for something about hobbies… not self help or a specific hobby how-to, but a sociological angle? something like WORK WON'T LOVE YOU BACK or CAN'T EVEN, but about leisure instead of work. (I prefer audiobooks but ebooks are OK, too.)
#ShelfServiceLive #AskALibrarian
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File under bananas patriarchal things that I can't believe still happen in 2022 -- the person at the marriage bureau asking ONLY me if I plan to change my name. "Care to prove your love today through an entirely one-sided dissolution of part of your decades-old identity?"
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Some places opening to submissions Sept 1 or soon after:
@asfmag
I know there are many more! Feel free to add to this list!
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We’re not living with Covid, we’re ignoring it. Like we live with domestic violence, inequality, crumbling public infrastructure, and runaway climate change.
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