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Complete fiction
I am so sad about Bud Cort. I saw Brewster McCloud at the Austin Film Society on March 11, 2020, before the world shut down. I loved him in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou. & there's probably no work of art that has had more of an influence on my work that Harold & Maude.
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The question is not who is the sexiest Muppet (Rowlf) but how is it that so many of the Muppets are sexy.
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Duchess Goldblatt
4 days ago
Protect your heart from breaking by padding it with soft cheese.
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There are worse problems in the world but Apple's Center Stage software on Zoom turned my meeting today into a horror movie.
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And here is my story: āAbsolute hellā: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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āAbsolute hellā: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/02/09/absolute-hell-irish-man-with-valid-us-work-permit-held-by-ice-since-september/
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Joel S.
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In 1979, the āNew York Timesā asked Isaac Bashevis Singer if he planned to watch the Super Bowl.
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Amber Sparks
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I cannot say this enough: there is NO middle ground when it comes to writing and AI. Anyone who uses AI to write and admits it should be loudly shamed, hideously embarrassed, paraded through the streets of shun until they flee writing forever
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I just subscribed to
@roncharles.bsky.social
Substack because he's the greatest and Jeff Bezos is the worst:
roncharles.substack.com?r=bk77n&utm_...
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Ron Charles | Substack
I write about books for The Washington Post. I talk about books for CBS Sunday Morning. Click to read Ron Charles, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
https://roncharles.substack.com/?r=bk77n&utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web
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Debutiful
10 days ago
Read an excerpt from EVERY HAPPINESS by Reena Shah over on Debutiful!
@elizmccrack.bsky.social
calls it "astonishingly alive, lovable, aggravating, real"
debutiful.net/2026/02/03/r...
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Happy publication to Reena Shah and her astonishing first book, Every Happiness. It is deeply beautiful, funny, unsparing.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/every-hap...
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Every Happiness
"A bold and moving novel . . . marks the arrival of a radiant new voice.ā - Megha Majumdar, author of A Guardian and a ThiefEvery Happiness is a dazzling dā¦
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/every-happiness-9781639733002/
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Dave Weigel
14 days ago
RIP to one of the best who ever did it.
youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...
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SCTV - Lola's Love Spirit
YouTube video by The Second City
https://youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?si=LxO-4ahH_MNOSTgi
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BevoOne
15 days ago
@elizmccrack.bsky.social
And don't call them penguins.
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Re: last repost. Please watch this video on Rodney Taylor, in the US since he was two.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bADc...
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Beloved Atlanta Barber, Father of 7, Taken by ICE: The Story of Rodney Taylor
YouTube video by BreakThrough News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bADc-zGilhk
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Kelly
16 days ago
ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. Heās been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:
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Sign the Petition
Demand the Release of Rodney Taylor from ICE Detention
https://www.change.org/p/demand-the-release-of-rodney-taylor-from-ice-detention
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Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America?
Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minneā¦
https://lithub.com/letter-from-minnesota-can-you-hear-us-america/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPl63VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeRb3-2KxP9D0u7l8moLxBHn28bItTcpbFOiYebX9_nU-PO1gulEzA8WyDKgQ_aem_A_KN3393fBoHXg4Mf2yrIQ
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Simon Rosenberg
17 days ago
It's Tuesday. Bovino may be gone but nothing has changed. ICE is still in Minnesota, still not following the law or court orders. Stephen Miller and the agents who murdered Good and Pretti are still on the job. Trump is giving an econ speech in Iowa. The work continues.
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Scott Horton
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The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judgeās permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's ābecome an albatrossā around her neck and ākeeps the en...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/01/26/marimar-martinez-shot-border-patrol-chicago-asks-judge-release-evidence
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I hope somebody photoshops Greg Bovino crying as he leaves Minnesota.
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Rex Huppke
18 days ago
BREAKING: Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino has been carried away by a small Minnesota owl, reportedly used to patch tiny hole in nest
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
18 days ago
I CANāT
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Matt Ortega
21 days ago
2. years. old. Violation of court orders to detain a 2-year old is beyond the abilities of "reform" here. There should be nothing left of this decrepit agency and everybody involved should stand trial.
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Harry McCracken
21 days ago
I talked with Woz about where great products come from, why he became an inventor, how peopleās personalities are shaped, the link between jokes and creativity, and more.
www.fastcompany.com/91477114/ste...
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Thereās only one Woz, but we can all learn from him - Fast Company
The world has benefited from the Apple cofounderās generosity of spirit for 50 years nowāand itās not just about the PC revolution his genius helped catalyze.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91477114/steve-wozniak-woz-apple-the-tech-interactive-humanitarian-award
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I am reading MFA applications, perhaps for the last time. Every year there's always some oddity that shows up in statements of purpose. In the past, it probably came from bad advice from MFA draft groups. A friend points out that this year it may be ChatGPT.
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Deborah
25 days ago
Any writers who also read Tarot who want to talk with me about a thing? Bonus if you also teach writing or tarot...
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Thinking it over, I would like him to die peacefully, in his sleep, on camera, during a press conference.
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Paul Myers
29 days ago
ICE are paid agitators.
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D. A. Powell
about 1 month ago
Make no mistake, Trump's "Fuck you" was to all of us.
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Daniel Kibblesmith
about 1 month ago
If thereās a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I canāt think of it. No notes. šØš»āš³ š
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Letting murderers get away with murder is what leads to more incidents of murder.
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Benjamin Dreyer
about 1 month ago
This wonderful, invaluable book by
@elizmccrack.bsky.social
went on sale on the other side of the water on the 1st, and I can't imagine a writer (of fiction or otherwise) who won't get a lot out of it.
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A Long Game
[my conversation with Elizabeth McCracken]
https://open.substack.com/pub/benjamindreyer/p/a-long-game?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Does everyone have a book in them? Probably everyone is born with one, like appendixes, but that doesn't mean it needs to come out.
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Tom Cox
about 1 month ago
Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.
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I took this picture for
@bcdreyer.social
(at the Picadilly Waterstones).
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Harry McCracken
about 1 month ago
Today is the 70th anniversary of one of the best movies ever made.
archive.org/details/one.-frog...
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One Froggy Evening (1955) : Chuck Jones : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
One Froggy EveningĀ 1955 American Technicolor animated musical written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones, with musical direction by Milt...
https://archive.org/details/one.-froggy.-evening.-1955.-sd
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Goodbye to 2025. (Dutch tile now on display at the Holbourne Museum.) (Apologies to those squeamish about things scatological.)
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I bring most excellent news, in case you haven't heard. That dapper man in the New York Times photo after the Louvre break-in? He is a dapper 15-year-old. How did I learn this? He's a friend of my nephew (by marriage) who is also 15.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Louvre heist: 'Fedora man' in viral picture revealed as local teenager
The mystery youth in the photo turns out to be Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, a 15-year-old detective fan.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ylx0g6w76o
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I had a wonderful time talking to the splendid
@firstdraftadow.bsky.social
(Mitzi Rapkin). For the fourth time!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
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Elizabeth McCracken (Returns 4th Time)
Podcast Episode Ā· First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Ā· 22/12/2025 Ā· 1h 7m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/elizabeth-mccracken-returns-4th-time/id1056879870?i=1000742294212
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My memory is that Provincetown has had a (very modest) lobster trap Christmas tree for decades.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/t...
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Christmas Trappings: New England Swoons Over Lobster Pot Trees
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/travel/lobster-trap-christmas-trees.html?smid=bsky-nytimes&utm_social_post_id=630681088&smtyp=cur&utm_social_handle_id=did%3Aplc%3Aeclio37ymobqex2ncko63h4r
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Max Phillips
about 2 months ago
This is what they took from us
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Rakesh Satyal
about 2 months ago
Not everything is a classic! Some things are just old!
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I received a targeted ad from
bookshop.org
for my own book. I have no intention of buying my own book from
bookshop.org
(though I bought something else from them yesterday) but I note that at the moment it's discounted, both from the US site and (as a preorder) from the UK site.
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The OC Register is McCracken forward. First this interview, which I really enjoyed doing:
www.ocregister.com/2025/12/19/e...
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Elizabeth McCracken recalls being first to read Ann Patchettās āBel Cantoā
The author talks about her terrific new book, āA Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction.ā
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/12/19/elizabeth-mccracken-recalls-being-first-to-read-ann-patchetts-bel-canto/
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Aaron Bady
about 2 months ago
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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I need to buy a present for a cosmopolitan 16-year-old boy. (Lives in London now, has been all over.) Advice is that he likes things that are "hip and trendy." This is not my area of expertise. (Got kids; they are borderline Victorian.) Anyone got good advice? Looking at maybe $100.
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Thank you, Poets & Writers!
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I was so thrilled to talk to Sugi & Whitney (my second time on their very splendid podcast).
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I have said before that I was going to post about some things I've written/conversations I've had. I've meant to post my typewriter interview with
@austinkleon.bsky.social
for a while, but two things have stopped me, the first being wanting to sing Austin's praises adequately, which is difficult.
about 2 months ago
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
about 2 months ago
the president should be a person we can go a few days in a row without thinking about. our brains simply weren't made to think about a president every waking hour. it's unnatural.
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I talked to Vogue about Austin:
www.vogue.com/article/eliz...
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Elizabeth McCracken Doesnāt Want You to Buy Cowboy Boots in Austin
https://www.vogue.com/article/elizabeth-mccracken-guide-to-austin
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