Anna Sproul-Latimer
@annasplat.bsky.social
Founding Partner, Neon Literary. Get in, loser, we're making it art. www.neonliterary.com
Oh hey, my agency’s next “let’s make publishing less mysterious” event is live, and is centered on memoir! American Grammar! 8/21! An AMA with @annasplat.bsky.social @ashleylopez.bsky.social @farahnazrishi.bsky.social! And as always, it’s free. www.neighborhoodliterary.com/neighborhood...
hmm feels like there was a good book about this problem last year? BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream bookshop.org/p/books/bad-...
Ronan Farrow@ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 4w agoPrivate equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity
The REAL winners are all of us in our 40s looking at Vozinha and being like "I too can be not a corpse"
Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?
I wrote this about Threads drama but it feels applicable to the slightly more upscale and neurotic drama on here too substack.com/home/post/p-...
So I guess you're the villain
If you interact with any people--ever--you’re going to end up on someone's shit list. Here's a people-pleaser's guide to processing that pain without professional self-sabotage.
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How many more times do you think you’ll see a full moon on a cloudless sky in your life, if you counted? 20, 30? A hundred if you’re lucky? Get out there and look. It’s perfect
What a time to live directly under the flight path for just about every DC fighter jet flyover for everything. What a time to be alive. Love 2 have my eyeballs vibrating here for 2 weeks straight
anyone familiar with the already-boneheaded behavior of motorists at this traffic circle knows exactly what will happen if you throw in an additional gigantic arch blocking everyone’s sightlines. between that and the planes it’s just going to be 24/7 splintered metal and people beef. A MESS
Tammy Duckworth@duckworth.senate.gov · 2mo agoNEWS: I’m calling on the FAA to reject any pressure to rubberstamp Trump’s “Triumphal Arch.” The safety of the flying public should not be jeopardized for a vanity project designed to stroke the President’s ego.
“If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating, to work in the margins, outside a central perception." —Don DeLillo, The Names
Publishing's serious nonfiction problem is a weird Freudian thing we're dealing with internally and I won't hear otherwise!!1! substack.com/home/post/p-...
A note on our daddy issues
In which I discuss projection, anxiety, and the future of serious nonfiction.
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Let she who has never made a factual error in a piece cast the first stone etc etc, but kind of ironic that this piece bemoaning the state of fact checking [as of now] gets a big fact wrong in graf 3: nymag.com/intelligence... (Rosenbaum is a Matt Holt/BenBella author; S and S is just distributor)
Nonfiction Book Publishers Aren’t Remotely Ready for AI
They don’t check facts. How will they check hallucinations?
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Love, death, publishing gossip, children’s books, David Foster Wallace, have I mentioned death is inevitable open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...
On Mac Barnett and the crud between us all
Or: goodnight, nobody.
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The Age of Innocence, lolsob. My teens and twenties: THIS IS THE MOST TRAGIC ROMANCE OF ALL TIME My thirties: THEY WOULD HAVE BROKEN UP IN 5 MINUTES ANYWAY My forties: Porque no los dos 😪
Kelly@ohhellkell.bsky.social · 5mo agoThere's a strange feeling watching a movie or reading a book for the 2nd time, a decade or more after the first time, and interpreting the story differently now, and realizing that the movie or book hasn't changed, but you did. Probably have a word for it in German.
WELL WELL WELL www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...
Don DeLillo’s Ribald Hockey Romp Will Return to Stores
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Anna Sproul-Latimer@annasplat.bsky.social · 7mo agoI cannot believe we are this many weeks into our hockey erotica era, and not ONE of you cowards has written for Vulture or the like about the time Don DeLillo wrote discomfiting hockey erotica under the pseudonym Cleo Birdwell alongside his former coworker Sue Buck.
the vibes at London Book Fair really were something. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Meat! Meat! Meat! Or: what you should know about the current international publishing market and your place in it
Here's what I learned at this year's London Book Fair.
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Psst: the metadata is a metaphor for love (agape kind) substack.com/home/post/p-...
On finding and loving the metadata
Or: why you should care about the boring stuff (and the BISG).
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Why can’t I just live full time in the kingdom of Hyrule? ::bangs steering wheel:: lizalfos, I can HANDLE lizalfos
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
Kyle Cassidy@kylecassidy.bsky.social · 6mo agoI’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
I forgot to check the peace monks’ route this morning, and it’s my precise morning commute, and my kids and I are trapped half a mile or so behind them and will be for at least an hour, and God this is kind of a holy experience?
watching lindsay vonn and internalizing the important lesson of never trying to do anything past the age of 40
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
I’ve been using the CIA World Factbook online since I was a little kid. What a stupid, pointless desecration.
Arieh Kovler@ariehkovler.com · 6mo agoThey closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.
If you're a Post journalist who got laid off today: 1. [pats bench] come sit by us, is it time to go get that book deal?; and 2. even if not, I'd be happy to comp you a free year's subscription to "How to Glow in the Dark" if you reach out this week. neonliterary.substack.com?utm_campaign...
How to Glow in the Dark | Anna Sproul-Latimer | Substack
Book publishing advice and community for authors of fiction and nonfiction, written by the agents at Neon Literary. Click to read How to Glow in the Dark, a Substack publication with tens of thousands...
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Think of the world we could have if we just got our money back from like 100 people and enacted a little antitrust legislation. It's closer than you think. Let your rage and sorrow in. Let it make you delulu for this.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
