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Let's do this EVERY TIME

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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.

I’m gonna go on that circle debate show and try to convince 25 ghosts that they’re dead

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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So proud to have a story with @philipbond.bsky.social about Sally Ride in this beautiful vital book

My heart breaks for these people who have worked so hard for so long.

Josef von Sternberg could never.

Hey: If you made it through the week, and you tried to do some things to help other people — large or small — where you could, and you need to hear it, I’m here to tell you thank you. Get some rest. Figure out today, then figure out tomorrow.

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

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"In June my father entered an assisted-living facility in Pasadena... This is my father’s first go-round as a California resident, and he is right to be afraid." In the NYT, PEN America member @davidulin.bsky.social wrote about being away from LA when the fires struck www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/o...

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