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And @chrisdaley.bsky.social writes tongue in cheek so well: “Suddenly, here was Liz Phair, not only boldly declaring she was remaking the Stones’ Exile on Main Street but complaining about roommates, getting her heart broken, and talking openly about fucking. Representation matters.”

Don't miss @chrisdaley.bsky.social's essay either, which is sharp & funny—"Representation matters"—& features a great close look at Phair's song. Alongside "Feedback," "Divorce" seems petulant, unguarded, artless, a little embarrassing. It's got my @marchxness.bsky.social vote.

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Fuck ICE every single day. Taking folks who are the best of this city and the best of every city.

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Woofer with little subwoofer…. 🥰 Good boy keeping the little one calm… 🐶

When you strip away humanity

The Tesla diner is unfortunately in my neighborhood so I took a little peek to see boxes of milk and frozen foods out in the heat. Good luck to everyone’s stomachs.

My first Ozzy is still my favorite Ozzy.

They'd rather go home than face the truth. Ruben Gallego

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Stephen Colbert is a profoundly good and deeply talented man with a great staff and an excellent show. They all deserve better.

A reminder that after years of speaking out against Epstein and giving other survivors the courage to come forward, Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre died by suicide in April at the age of 41. Let's not forget that there are real human tragedies behind everything we're discussing.

Medieval scholar Jennifer N. Brown has made a successful leap into hot literary fiction. I feel honored to have worked with Jen on both her query letter and her author website! Preorder her debut THE LOST BOOK OF ELIZABETH BARTON coming out from St. Martin’s Press in April at jennifer-brown.com.

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Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

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I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

The Faces of Gun Violence exhibit at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters showed the portraits of 120 people killed in gun violence in the U.S.

Our latest subject of The Rejection Interview is Sara Campbell of Tiny Revolutions!

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Let's start our week of posting with something positive. A number of major publishers joined together to send a letter to Congress in support of the IMLS global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcement...

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

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In this essay for Foster, I used an idea about aesthetics originally shared by Jorge Luis Borges to inspire a series of questions that can make writing a memoir more approachable. It was nice to put so many lessons I've learned from teaching memoir in one place!

For this week's Submission Sunday post for paid subscribers, I dove into one of my favorite topics: horror fiction.

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