Hello! Would you like to take a craft seminar with me this Saturday, and get a copy of my book? Here's where you can: writersleague.org/calendar/sat...
WLT Saturday Craft Seminar: “A Long Game” with Elizabeth McCracken
A few times a year, the WLT hosts Saturday Craft Seminars featuring a presentation and conversation with an author who has recently released a book on the craft of writing. Everyone who buys a tick…
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This is a factual sentence: Amid an outbreak of explosive diarrhea and with measles cases at a 35-year high, America’s top health official, who has an affinity for roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. My column, tragically: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Move over, cyclosporiasis. RFK Jr. is hosting a cooking show. | Opinion
America's top health official, who has an affinity for picking up roadkill and guzzling raw milk, will soon start hosting a cooking show. Barf.
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to lose one representative may be misfortune, to lose two seems like carelessness, to lose three what the fuck are you doing
Soulebreaker@soulebreaker.bsky.social · 7d agoBeen almost two months now newrepublic.com/post/212682/...
No spoilers, but if you're a woman, trans, or nonbinary comics creator, please reply to this skeet with a link to your online portfolio *with a listed email address*, thanks!
‘It has reached the stage where an effective modern curse might be “May you appear in a Rachel Cusk book”.’ I wrote about writers who put real people in their novels - and get in trouble.
That’s me in your novel! The perils of writers who borrow from real life
Author Rachel Cusk has caused a fuss for her portrayal of an actress uncannily similar to her friend Natalie Portman. She’s part of a long and inglorious literary tradition
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Well, it turns out the Christopher Nolan Odyssey was mostly not for me. Still, it's a hell of a yarn.
We just watch Roger Corman's absolutely bananas The Raven. I recommend it highly. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, & a very baby Jack Nicholson.
I have only just discovered that Hume Cronyn, after Jessica Tandy's death, married Susan Cooper! I like a man with interesting wives.
Here in Bath, my local cinema is hosting a dog-friendly screening of The Odyssey.
I actually think the trillionaire saying his AI tool will remake a movie without the Black and trans actors in it should be a bigger story because it’s a perfect example of why the ruling class wants AI to succeed: so they can remake reality without those they deem undesirable - every nazi’s dream.
If you're wondering how I'm acclimatizing to the UK, last night I yelled THAT LOOKS LIKE A WAITROSE BAG at the winning outfit on the Great British Sewing Bee.
Oh right, we're in Hudson News now! Get an Onion while your flight is delayed because of the things likely outlined in the paper.
Catesby Holmes@catesby.bsky.social · 2w agoSpotted at LGA @bencollins.bsky.social
I saw The Misfits at a theater that was showing The Odyssey on another screen. My review of The Odyssey is that it goes boom boom boom too much.
The University of Texas has asked me to fill out an exit interview but allows me to specify only three reasons for having left.
In honor of Sam Neill, I am watching Jurassic Park for the first time.
every now and then I have to remind myself of how visually looney tunes everything has gotten
It’s @pamelacolloff.bsky.social Day!!! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665293...
Catch the Devil by Pamela Colloff: 9780593230862 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The riveting, true story of an audacious con man who helped send another man to death row for a murder he did not commit “Incendiary, emotionally devastating. [This] is a feat of dogged reporting,...
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Welp, he got destroyed, and by his own admission, he deserved it. 🤷🏻♀️
Today I have been introduced to the Dorset Knob.
Having got rid of 90% of my books recently, I very much endorse this wonderful piece by the wonderful Maris Kreizman
Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 4w agoI learned a lot of things about myself while packing up my books, starting with I can stop trying to impress some imaginary book critic who might one day look at my shelves. lithub.com/how-and-why-...
Nick Hornby has always been incredibly kind to me, and about my work.
The Believer@thebeliever.net · last mo.Now free to read on our Substack: Nick Hornby on new books by Elizabeth McCracken, Patrick Radden Keefe, Elizabeth Strout, and Louise Kennedy.
They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.
Comin’ right at you: The New Zoo Revue celebrates the Bicentennial youtu.be/PzXue5jC_yM?...
Throwback to America's Bicentennial | From the Episode FREEDOM | Happy Birthday, America!
YouTube video by The New Zoo Revue
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