All editors, consider yourselves pitched Signed, The guy Tom Colicchio said wrote "the only book about the restaurant industry that doesn't make me cringe"
Patrick Monahan@pattymo.com · 5mo agoAbsolutely 👍 youtu.be/k1MVnzd2aVc
Samuel Ashworth
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Author of THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY. NYT-bestselling ghostwriter and screenwriter. WaPo, Atlantic, Eater. professor of Creative Writing at GWU. Swamp Dad. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-death-and-life-of-august-sweeney-samuel-ashworth/216
Patrick Monahan@pattymo.com · 5mo ago
Jeff Bezos could’ve done what several other wealthy newspaper owners have done — turn the Post into a nonprofit and provide it a sizable endowment. Instead he did shit like this ⤵️
Greg Jaffe@gregjaffe.bsky.social · 5mo agoAnd a third amazing piece from another journalist Bezos couldn’t afford to pay. wapo.st/4cNY7Cm
The Washington Writers Conference is underway with the "Debut Authors: How They Did It" panel! @dcwriterscon.bsky.social @samuelashworth.bsky.social #booksky
There are some GREAT substacks. That doesn’t excuse the fact that the platform has plunged literary media into the same winner-take-all landscape you see across all social media
Samuel Ashworth@samuelashworth.bsky.social · 5mo agoCould not agree more
I need a email autoresponder that says “I am on deadline and and have the executive function of a six year-old please do not send me any emails right now”
If you're a writer in the DC area and you're looking for a community, free editorial support, and a quiet place to write, Flor Coffee + Books in Georgetown is launching WRITERS HOURS on Monday mornings. I'll be there as author-in-residence doing free 10-15 minute consultations. Come out!
I think often of the ending of SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY where the longevity guru/billionaire just kind of slough-melts, and @shteyngart.bsky.social was right about everything else in that book, so, like, your lips to God’s ear, Gary
Hey we're opening for subs for all genres for the next print issue June 1. Put it in your calendar. Fiction is capped at 500 subs and tends to fill fast. More details soon
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There is a very specific voltage of delight that comes over you when someone finds your book in the wild, reads it, and loves it. Thank you!
Brita Dagmar Strandberg@walaral.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis week on WALARAL: The Death and Life of August Sweeney, Samuel Ashworth open.substack.com/pub/walaral/... @samuelashworth.bsky.social @sfwp.bsky.social
Turned on the basketball game and I literally cannot tell what’s happening because of these deranged video game ass rectangles over everyone’s head
When someone posts something that looks like this. With airspace between every sentence to emphasize profundity. Even in sentence fragments. Because of concision. Which is the most powerful weapon we have. The likelier it is that you are reading some terrible overshared AI-generated crap.
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It gives me absolutely no pleasure to say it but the factual answer here is Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and it’s not close
Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat actor or actress was the most perfectly cast role in film or television?
This has bugged me for YEARS and I'm glad someone finally took it on!!
Brandy Jensen@brandyjensen.bsky.social · 5mo agoI love when an essay points out something true—and, in retrospect, totally obvious—that I had never noticed before. All the dads in Bridgerton are dead.
This is exactly why I don't pitch NY mag: they dangle their writers in front on the internet like pinatas. Editors have a duty of care, and sometimes that means you gently tell a writer, "hey, you're 22, maybe you don't need the entire internet to know this about you."
Loather@loather.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe cut simply cannot keep getting away with this
I hope distant human civilizations treat this like the tablets of Ea-Nasir
Gaius (from Tribunate)@gaius.bsky.social · 5mo ago420 blaze it
Got to celebrate a wonderful book from wonderful @zachpowers.bsky.social last night! Read this book, friends! And give my bud all his 🌸🌺🌼!
For about a year now I've been fantasizing about an entirely new kind of literary event: exciting, theatrical, and a little bit combative. Yesterday at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference, @writesloud.bsky.social, @poeticmoni.bsky.social, and @zachpowers.bsky.social and I pulled it off.
Snagged books by @housleydave.bsky.social , @ericarstern.bsky.social @aaronburch.bsky.social & more from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. S/o to great craft sessions from @aurorabonner.bsky.social and a Primetime Writers Wrestling Match between @samuelashworth.bsky.social & @writesloud.bsky.social