Latria Graham

@latriagraham.bsky.social

✍🏽: Afar Magazine's Unpacked column, Garden+Gun's This Land column. Words in OutsideMagazine, Smithsonian &others

I’ve spent six years working on it, and next week, my book on grief, American culture, who is allowed to mourn and how, and whether we can take up grief as a collective project will be unleashed on the world! Do yourself (and me) a favor and preorder now.

All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

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Hey Bay Area folks, just a reminder that I curate the @coyotemedia.org calendar and am always looking for interesting stuff. What are you all up to this week? Do you know of cool things going on? Send them my way! calendar@coyotemedia.org <3

My long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.

Colette Shade on Y2K and the Limits of a Millennial Writing Career: The Scratch Interview

“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”

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Every time I find myself on the cusp of despair I find that community helps pull me back, because we can pick out the glimmers of truth together. Yesterday I offered poems to the group chat because that felt right. Today I am sharing this because honesty about our circumstances feels right.

Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Everyone with a culture newsletter that went out yesterday should get to reshare it today here. At Scratch, we had a long chat about writers’ dwindling employment opportunities and whether we could even land retail gigs at this point. www.talkscratch.com/should-we-al...

People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to be—a phenomenal work of longform journalism.

How It’s Made: A 7,000-Word Story on Coal in Oakland

“This is the only time in my entire life, I think, where I wrote long and someone was like, ‘Well, could you make it longer?’”

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WE MADE IT OUT OF THE GROUP CHAT! Happy that get to talk with my whip-smart friends about how we're all surviving as working writers. 💜

Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Writers of Bsky: Scratch is back! This time as a weekly newsletter/blog about how writers are surviving ~these times~, run by me, @manjula.bsky.social, @maggiemertens.bsky.social, and @latriagraham.bsky.social. You can read more about why/what that means in our announcement post below.