Reina Hardy
@reina.bsky.social
Playwright, mostly. Current projects: Simon & Schuster (nonfiction), Hallmark (movie). My first movie as a screenwriter aired on 2/3/2024! https://www.hallmarkchannel.com/paging-mr-darcy Are my reps on Bluesky yet? More at www.reinahardy.com
Andrew Scott is a straight ally: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKO8...
Poetry: "They flee from me" by Sir Thomas Wyatt ‖ Andrew Scott
"They flee from me" by Sir Thomas Wyatt They flee from me, that sometime did me seek, With naked foot stalking within my chamber : Once have I seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild,…
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TAG YOURSELF I’m young clerks in the dusk I’m starlight to casual moths I’m if Detroit is his idea of a small town... I’m an elegant young roughneck I’m a universe of ineffable gaudiness I’m his graceful, conservative foxtrot www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6...
The Great Gatsby
Title: The Great Gatsby
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Listening to F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters while I edit this Gatsby chapter. He's fussing over exclamation point placement, and single words and two paragraphs about "The Jazz History of the World" that thinks are still kind of rocky. (He's like me fr.)
I scrolled all the way down and lost my shit when I read what Malfoid actually is.
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · 6d agoI can’t stop laughing
reading my worst ex's memoir because I have to edit a chapter of my memoir. I can think of a lot of things I've done to deserve this, but it still seems harsh
I need a good toddler book about the periodic table of the elements STAT. My two year old just learned all the symbols in the Moon and Serpent Magical alphabet for some reason and is even using them in rudimentary spells. I need to distract him.
Chicago! One of my favorite ever sci-fi short plays is getting a reading at the Goblin Market bookstore on Lincoln near Diversey. Please come and say hi!
This kind of soaring rhetoric is so infuriatingly misplaced from a company like Meta. Maybe Apple, which has some credibility for making frictionless products, could get away with it, but Meta? You should introduce a product like this by apologizing; no one trusts you.
Has the game Blue Prince caused a Maze resurgence? When I was writing my essay on the cult '80s puzzle book by Christopher Manson, my editor @electricliterature bought me a copy for less than $10. But now you can't get it used for less than $100. @henryholtbooks don't miss your chance for a reprint.
Absolutely stunning find at the UU rummage sale near my house. I didn’t buy it because obviously I still have my childhood copy, but fyi.
Just learned that Christopher Manson's Maze helped inspired the popular game "Blue Prince," which makes it a good time to link to my all-time great essay on the cult 80s puzzle book in Electric Literature: electricliterature.com/a-labyrinth-...
A Labyrinth in the Shape of a Book - Electric Literature
“This is not really a book. This is a building in the shape of a book… a maze.” —From the directions to Maze, by Christopher Manson I first read Maze as a child, on a bus. I don’t remember where the…
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Love being on a season with Steve Yockey. My favorite place to be. Happy to have new musical friend Alex Higgin-Houser with me too. theatre.msu.edu/2026-2027-se...
2026 - 2027 Season
BUY TICKETS Discovery tells the story of the NASA astronaut corps after the 1986 Challenger tragedy and the lead-up to the 1988 launch of Space Shuttle Discovery. Following Dr. Sally Ride on her…
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gearing up to get another book ready to send into the world right now and i just wanted to take a second to say that you should get your hands on a copy of SIMPLICITY if you like anything i've ever made. i'm still so immensely proud of it.
Helena Fitzgerald@hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 3w agoand while I'm on the subject of books that deserved to be a massive sensation, I still think @mattielubchansky.com's Simplicity is the great book of the regrettably ongoing moment we're living through and besides that it's beautiful and funny and somehow genuinely hopeful
We need laws against this. Failing that, can someone sue them? Who? futurism.com/artificial-i...
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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"evil motherfuckers talking your damn ear off" is one of my favorite genres of plays and novels, but I do not like encountering it IRL
Love this energy. “Don’t have an opinion on the thing I’ve made until you’ve made it exactly the way I made it.” They should go a step further and not let anyone watch it either.
I'm surprised at how hard this article is triggering the trads. It's a searching meditation on pregnancy and miscarriage but they're reacting like it's a culture war broadside. Are they literally all bots?https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-unsettling-ambiguity-of-early-pregnancy
The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy
Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out all other possibilities.
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I live in a neighborhood where I can walk to coffee shops, three grocery stores and a library, and kids bike around everywhere! So I guess I mog you all.
This is the problem with brain worms. When strangers don’t coo over my toddler, I’m shocked, sure but I just talk about it with my husband and we laugh at ourselves. I don’t post it on the internet as evidence of societal decline.
My toddler’s feet aren’t cute anymore. Every other part of him is little and adorable but his feet are these disconcerting clodhoppers. The shoe situation is unreal.
My toddler’s feet aren’t cute anymore. Every other part of him is little and adorable but his feet are these disconcerting clodhoppers. The shoe situation is unreal.
I think Patricia Lockwood should have a gossip column. Everyone would have oblique poetic allusions instead of names, but it would be funny and the tea would SCALD.
Jung not only came up with the whole extrovert/ introvert thing, he described them precisely as Mr. Bingley / Mr. Darcy.
I couldn't fit this paragraph into my "Much Ado About Nothing" chapter, but I stand by it.
A lot of resentment comes from the fact that people think about agents backward. I am writing a Substack about this, but I also managed to put Sherlock Holmes into it.
