KIMBERLY (🚫KIM) HARRINGTON

@kimberlyharrington.bsky.social

Writer: HONEY STAY SUPER on Substack, work in MOTHER TONGUE, NYT, McSweeney's, New Yorker. Author: AMATEUR HOUR (motherhood), BUT YOU SEEMED SO HAPPY (divorce). Also: Creative Director. Lover. Malcontent.

A new COLD TAKE, digging into something I think about all the time. And when I say “all the time” I mean this has been in my head for YEARS. Also: If you worked at Cookie or were a subscriber, I’d love to hear from you. Thoughts? Dream? Visions? open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...

COLD TAKE: Was Cookie motherhood media's transitional object?

Part 1: The right place at the right time for this mother, the wrong place at the wrong time for that magazine

open.substack.com

A new COLD TAKE, digging into something I think about all the time. And when I say “all the time” I mean this has been in my head for YEARS. Also: If you worked at Cookie or were a subscriber, I’d love to hear from you. Thoughts? Dream? Visions? open.substack.com/pub/kimberly...

COLD TAKE: Was Cookie motherhood media's transitional object?

Part 1: The right place at the right time for this mother, the wrong place at the wrong time for that magazine

open.substack.com

"when’s the last time you wrote while sitting at your rickety little desk while wearing two sweaters and mused, this is undoubtedly setting me on a path toward a bright and lucrative future?" old (but still relevant!) piece by @kimberlyharrington.bsky.social www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-...

If You Love to Write Just Wait Until You Try Not Writing

Do you love to write? Is writing what makes you feel alive? Are you sure? Let me ask you something: When’s the last time you wrote and thought, Tha...

mcsweeneys.net

‘Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.’ Happy 85th to Annie Ernaux. Born Sept 1, 1940 in Lillebonne, France.

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Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon

I would love to hear the editorial rationale for the term "declined to rule out seeking" language that I've seen at least three major news orgs use with respect to this story. How do you not cast this as "Trump threatens to illegally retain power?" bsky.app/profile/wash...

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

President Donald Trump on Sunday declined to rule out seeking a third presidential term — an unconstitutional act explicitly barred under the 22nd Amendment — saying that “there are methods which you could do it.”