there comes a time in every man's life where he gets very deeply into paula abdul's discography
Ruben Reyes Jr.
@rubenwrites.bsky.social
writer in Queens I wrote the books THERE IS A RIO GRANDE IN HEAVEN (2024) and ARCHIVE OF UNKNOWN UNIVERSES (2025)
oh, I’m fine. no, no I’m listening to fiona apple’s “The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do“ because I’m fine!
alaska airlines bribing people to gate check their bags…in exchange for a better boarding group… this is not how a thriving society should be run
if I were a celebrity, I would absolutely crush Heidi Klum’s Halloween party
of course im starting a new story instead of revising the 5+ sitting on my desk. duh!
10 pm at planet fitness is secret American ninja warrior training hour
trying to do a pull up while Beyoncé belts 1+1 in my ear buds
how is it possible that wburg has gotten even less cool since 2021
just started watching girls, and it is good and v funny, but the real question is when will they let me write a show about a young writer in NYC ... i got some material !
me: let me try to write a fun, messy story the story: international vacations are predicated on the labor exploitation of the global south's most vulnerable people
beyonce should have won the AOTY grammy for Lemonade
wish I was a European novelist so I could write a chapter where the protagonist leaves London/Berlin for the French/Italian countryside
went to a cobbler today. is that very chic and adult of me or just medieval?
I think u have to be hot to have the capacity to have a gym crush
yes, try to make your writing good, but it's more important to make it INTERESTING
On Monday, we published Beacon, an @elfaroenglish.bsky.social magazine. That's right: despite a wave of repression in El Salvador since last year that pushed our newsroom into exile, @elfaro.net continues to produce deep reporting that translates Central America. beta.elfaro.net/en/monthly/i...
Land of Bones — Issue No. 9 — June 15, 2025
Who Will Find El Salvador’s Dead?
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I'm proud to share this issue, which reflects the work of over a dozen people. This is the best place to start: beta.elfaro.net/en/front-pag...
In This Issue
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For the first time, we included a fictional short story by @rubenwrites.bsky.social, which takes us to a detention center on Mars. We translated exiled Nicaraguan poet @giocondabelli.bsky.social, who calls us in with an urgent question: Has Pain Citizenship? beta.elfaro.net/en/by-invita...
Has Pain Citizenship?
What’s the citizenship of pain? Does each human heart display a map that bears only its own geography?
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Target Scales Back Pride Section To Single T-Shirt Saying They’d Do A Threesome With A Girl For Their Boyfriend’s Birthday https://theonion.com/target-scales-back-pride-section-to-single-t-shirt-sayi-1850501108/
silliest thing about this article is maybe that it doesn’t mention how many ppl who go to this school then transfer into the Ivy League lmfao
“It was your idea, and if you didn’t want to get your feet wet, love, you shouldn’t have embarked.” Read from Vincent Delecroix’s novel Small Boat, translated by Helen Stevenson.
Small Boat
I didn’t ask you to leave, I said. It was your idea, and if you didn’t want to get your feet wet, love, you shouldn’t have embarked. I didn’t push you into the water, I didn’t fetch you from your v…
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CA governor race is so uninspiring, democrats need to get it together
Lots of imprints don’t have a very strong brand identity but when I saw MCD I’d always know I was getting something good and kind of weird. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
FSG Closes its MCD Imprint, McDonald to Depart
The imprint was formed in 2016 by then FSG publisher and president Jonathan Galassi to publish experimental works. Under the direction of Sean McDonald, MCD published a range of bestselling and award-winning fiction and nonfiction titles.
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rlly jarring to grow up believing the promise of this nation, only to have it prove itself, in the most evil and tactless way possible, as fundamentally rotten. happy 250th bday !!