Dolly’s final gift. At a time of extreme ugliness and hate, she has inspired an outpouring of love. It’s still out there, folks. Nowadays, that can be easy to forget.
Lauren D. Woods
@ladiwoods.bsky.social
Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe (Autumn House Press Book Prize). Winner of Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the TX Institute of Letters. Longlisted for PEN/Bingham Prize. DC based. laurendwoods.com
These days the text chain I’ve had with my best friends from middle school for 20+ years has evolved into a complex medical diagnoses text chain & I don’t know what to say except keep your loved ones close, the silly jokes you traded in your 20s and 30s pay off in earnest love and hope in your 40s
Three Questions for Lauren D. Woods, #Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe; my new blog post #books #writing brucerosenstein.com/three-questi... @ladiwoods.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @autumnhouse.org @cabockwrites.bsky.social
Three Questions for Lauren D. Woods, Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe – Bruce Rosenstein
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‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last mo.Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...
“If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned." —Joy Harjo "I usually solve problems by letting them devour me." —Franz Kafka
Hereafter by @sfreligh.bsky.social is a novella-in-flash that feels like a guiding light for the genre. a tiny book I read slowly because I didn’t want it to end, even if I cried at every other flash. head to @adhocfiction.bsky.social and get your tissues ready #smokelong #blurbchallenge
Apocalyptic climate change nightmare? Or just the sky and sun on my drive home today?
Woke up to the smog in the air, but worse than that is the total silence. The normal bird sounds are gone.
Sent out the email for my first course. Class 1 is classical; 2 is contemporary; 3 is experimental. In class 1, we’re covering 1910s-1960s (Munro, Hemingway, O’Connor, Sembene). Should be a good time!
Lauren D. Woods@ladiwoods.bsky.social · 2mo agoCalling all foreign policy and fiction fans: I’m thrilled to be teaching a class for @consequencef.bsky.social on Saturday mornings in July. Sign up if you’re so inclined! share.google/m7KtmT5EYYNC...
Three Questions for #Author, Poet, and Educator Sandra Beasley; my new blog post #poetry #writing brucerosenstein.com/three-questi... @sandrabeasley.bsky.social @housleydave.bsky.social @ladiwoods.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @writesloud.bsky.social @peabody.bsky.social
Three Questions for Author, Poet, and Educator Sandra Beasley – Bruce Rosenstein
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Frightening now the number of toiletries I feel the need to pack when I travel, while in my 20s I prided myself in taking some sunscreen, deodorant, toothbrush and toothpaste!
Here is how I would celebrate 250 years of America if I were president: By reducing executive power, by reforming campaign finance to get $ out of politics, by feeding unhoused people on the national mall, by refusing flyovers because weapons of war are not toys, & war is always tragic
Calling all foreign policy and fiction fans: I’m thrilled to be teaching a class for @consequencef.bsky.social on Saturday mornings in July. Sign up if you’re so inclined! share.google/m7KtmT5EYYNC...
Now this is a back of book blurb! Sorry but you have to read the whole book to find out.
It’s the one-year anniversary of launching LitBox, my book vending machine. Read on for an important announcement about a second location + fundraising request. (If you’re on mobile, scroll down till you see the text.) thank you! www.litboxbooks.com/about-4
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Had the creepiest experience when I had to pull over in very rural northwest PA today and was confronted by a man and his son… very Flannery O’Connor type rural folks threatening me in a none too subtle way behind an aww shucks demeanor…on the other hand, my next short story is going to write itself
Currently in Akron. It’s cool in that Midwestern way that property and land that doesn’t cost millions can actually be artistically remade by those other than corporate conglomerates. Or else that’s how it seems to me.
Looks like a great event at our local independent bookstore @peoplesbooktakoma.com on Thursday, May 28. Congrats @carabensonwriter.bsky.social on your book! You can see her in conversation with @marthaannetoll.bsky.social peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/armsfu...
Cara Benson for An Armsfull of Birds
A story of recovery, love, and loss—a memoir of healing ourselves and the natural world. Cara Benson did not come to love easy. As a low bottom addict, she crawled through subway tunnels and partne…
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I’ve proposed AWP panels many times over the years and have never been selected, so this year in Chicago, I’ll be giving my TED talk in a bar at a table over drinks. It’s going to go something like this. Fit your damn art into your own damn life any way that makes you feel something big, and
So excited to finally get to this!!!Lauren’s such a fantastic short story writer and this is just what my Sunday needs. @ladiwoods.bsky.social
Have been at work for several months on a Frankenstein-inspired story that is now quite the Frankenstein story, which I should have seen coming! Have deconstructed and rebuilt more times than I can count. Hoping to get it right soon, feeling like poor Victor.