Duchess Goldblatt
@duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
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BECOMING DUCHESS GOLDBLATT (HMH, 2020).
I've been very focused on my new series of scrimshaw on clouds. All signed, mostly abstracts, but I threw in a few whaling ships for you purists.
about 5 hours ago
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Dr. Sarah Parcak
2 days ago
Go do something nice for a friend or neighbor today. Nothing you tweet or do will have any impact on the mess, but that will make you feel better. Build community.
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Happy new year, lovely creatures. To better days ahead.
4 days ago
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What are we looking forward to? Tell me something good and true and real.
10 days ago
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I've been secretly hoarding sweet nothings all year and tonight I will whip them at you one by one, dodgeball style.
12 days ago
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Maybe this will be the year I move full-time into a gingerbread house.
13 days ago
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Putting a hat on that baby is not within your control; it is life's longing for itself. Go forth and hat a baby, for god's sakes.
17 days ago
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As you age, a day comes when the ancestors start to whisper from deep inside your bones: someone needs to put a hat on that baby.
18 days ago
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First have your coffee time, then do your stretching, fight evil until lunch, then you can have a little nap; then you'll bring joy to the world, then cocktails.
22 days ago
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I feel like the universe is telling me today to get back into my comfort zone.
23 days ago
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Elizabeth McCracken
23 days ago
I try not to know the sales numbers of my own books or others, but it appears that my book on writing has this week outsold Olivia Nuzzi's book on activities that she enjoys (including, I presume, writing). Not vastly outsold, so I have included a link.
www.harpercollins.com/products/a-l...
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A Long Game
From bestselling and award-winning author and professor Elizabeth McCracken comes an irresistible look at the art of writing. Writing can feel like an endle...
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/a-long-game-elizabeth-mccracken?variant=44607244337186
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Disappointing first week book sales, job loss, and public shaming are not enough. Are there no workhouses?
25 days ago
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Feeling nostalgic for the time when the moon was full every night of the week. We used to ship all our excess moonlight to Canada.
26 days ago
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Seems to be quite a lot of shouting going on today. I've muted the world for a bit. It's all retreating into the mists now.
27 days ago
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I have the answers if anyone's still searching.
27 days ago
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The invisible thread binding us all holds fast to the spirit. Last time I had it wound around ankles instead and we saw a worrisome number of broken hips.
about 1 month ago
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Elizabeth McCracken
about 1 month ago
I spoke to Miwa Messer about my new book:
www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/poured-...
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Poured Over: Elizabeth McCracken on A Long Game - B&N Reads
A Long Game by Elizabeth McCracken is a thoughtful and engaging guide to the craft of writing filled with tips, tricks and personal anecdotes from an acclaimed author. Elizabeth joins us to talk about...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/poured-over-podcast-elizabeth-mccracken-on-a-long-game/
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Just setting this here as a reminder.
about 1 month ago
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It's not quite the end of the term, so you have a few more opportunities to bring your grades up. Where are my power sycophants?
about 1 month ago
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Wild North American sugarplums are boneless, but European sugarplums have tiny, razorlike skeletons. Inbreeding, I think.
about 1 month ago
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Thank you to everyone who sent me their extra shares of sleep. I'm using them tonight.
about 1 month ago
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I can see that none of you children will be at peace until you see someone compliment me. Here you are then.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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Get some rest tonight, everybody. I'll expect to see your offerings tomorrow. The devil hasn't yet made the villain who can spoil Secular Pie Thursday.
about 1 month ago
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I renew my request that you all stop showing me the worst people in the world morning, noon, and night.
about 1 month ago
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The least you could do is tell me I look nice today.
about 1 month ago
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Pamela
about 2 months ago
Make sure you scroll down so that you can find
@duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
and vote for her at the link listed above.
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Apparently I'm in a contest pitted against "Men Don't Read"? Heads, as we say, will roll.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 months ago
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Allison Lynn
about 2 months ago
Props to my phone for reminding me that the kid went through this particular fashion moment in 2021. Note
@duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
looking on approvingly from the lower left corner…
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I'm going to have a nice peaceful day with no bad news if it kills us all.
about 2 months ago
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I think I'll come back in my next life as the quick breath before every surprise belly laugh. Look for me.
about 2 months ago
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Some of you seem to have failed to cultivate a thirst for vengeance. It's not how I raised you.
about 2 months ago
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Remember I get 10% of all friendships developed through a shared love for me. No checks.
about 2 months ago
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Save a little Thursday in a glass dish. A day will come when you'll be glad to have it warmed up on toast points.
about 2 months ago
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On any clear October evening, you can get a pretty good buzz just from licking the edges of the night sky.
2 months ago
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In the 19th century, prologues served a useful purpose in literature because the past tense hadn't yet been invented.
2 months ago
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So many distractions for you children these days! I almost think they might be pulling focus from my ongoing campaign against prologues.
2 months ago
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God has promised me my enemies will receive the word in the form of a rage stroke in a Florida golf course toilet. I remain steadfast in hope.
2 months ago
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Elizabeth McCracken
3 months ago
I am chuffed to the point of unpleasantness to have a story in this year's Best American Short Stories, chosen by the wonderful
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
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Jewel thieves are out there hustling, cracking open the Louvre in broad daylight, and yet not one of you can be arsed to steal my portrait. Why do I even bother running a cult?
3 months ago
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Blessings upon those who told me how to kill off "Discover" and to append "-ai" to all searches. Yours is the kingdom of heaven.
3 months ago
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I'm very proud of you all today. Well done. No notes.
3 months ago
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Out now: 37 new episodes of my podcast, all featuring me and the monks of Crooked Path as we sit in contemplative silence for hours. Bliss.
3 months ago
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We're coming up on a waning crescent moon, which means right now it isn't all puffed up with sodium, retaining seawater. It's healthier for it.
3 months ago
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@rebeccamakkai.bsky.social
Rebecca, my friend! Hello there, wondrous one.
3 months ago
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Creative expression is the essence of the human experience. Try making a new dish, or stabbing an ai slopper with a wooden stake.
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Wow! What a night. Thank you to
@lylelovett.bsky.social
for a magical experience. And, thank you to
@duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
for the inspiration.
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For me: friends and fun, and a book, and life itself.
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In New Orleans with my book club to see Lyle. We ran into him at the airport in Austin and told him we were flying out just to see him after reading (and loving) your book. He suggested that we let you know! Can’t wait until tonight’s show (after a carb-filled dinner.)
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Lyle Lovett
3 months ago
These nice ladies introduced themselves to me this morning at Austin Bergstrom as book-club-member fans of our beloved
@duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social
. They told me they’d bought tickets to our show tonight in Metairie, Louisiana, because they’d read Duchess’s book. Thank you, Your Grace.
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Remember me as one who encouraged you to keep up your daily carbs, even when I had pressing engagements elsewhere.
3 months ago
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