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pinned post!
grateful to share my hometown novel (and my orphaned collection) are coming home to
@tortoisebooks.bsky.social
🙏💗
over 1 year ago
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Ignatius Valentine Aloysius
3 days ago
SUNDAY SALON CHICAGO happens on July 26, 2026 at 7 pm
@roscoebooks.bsky.social
w/ Rachel Swearingen,
@saralippmann.bsky.social
, Sahar Mustafah, Richard Vargas, & Daniel Kraus, 2026 Pulitzer winner in fiction, WOW! Hope to see you! 🥰🎉🌺 Bios at: sundaysalon-chicago.com |
@kayepublicity.bsky.social
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Tortoise Books
6 days ago
"I do lots of heinously bad writing early in the morning but anyone who’s ever been cornered at a party by that guy with 'an amazing idea for a book' knows: You ain’t got shit until it exists." Awesome stuff (as always) from
@saralippmann.bsky.social
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Caleb Michael Sarvis
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"I am not second guessing. Hell, I’m still half asleep, tangled in the thick of dreams, swept up in the muzzy logic of the dreamscape, with nothing but the mystery of intuition to guide me." Love this,
@saralippmann.bsky.social
lithub.com/stealing-tim...
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Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can
At 5 AM and it’s me and the birds. This is how I like it: when the house is asleep. Outside, the slow rumble of a sanitation truck. A lone scooter screams down the block. Sometimes a helicopt…
https://lithub.com/stealing-time-in-praise-of-writing-at-dawn-at-midnight-or-whenever-we-can/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTCMTpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFFUVRLaktyZ0xTa1oxZ1Qyc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvnIqVgl_Cu4zmZQlTsA5SFrPlhZZ9iR7bfXoKypq-3YInFm5-jpAV0q15s__aem_YMU1IVHn3qGmbsAvPbwGJA
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wrote about my writing practice
lithub.com/stealing-tim...
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Stealing Time: In Praise of Writing at Dawn, at Midnight or Whenever We Can
At 5 AM and it’s me and the birds. This is how I like it: when the house is asleep. Outside, the slow rumble of a sanitation truck. A lone scooter screams down the block. Sometimes a helicopt…
https://lithub.com/stealing-time-in-praise-of-writing-at-dawn-at-midnight-or-whenever-we-can/
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grateful to
@cmsarvis.bsky.social
for including me in this killer roundup — and for reading with such spot-on acuity.
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Lesley Wheeler
22 days ago
Omg
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💗🖤💗🖤
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24 days ago
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Get it It’s soooo goood
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about 1 month ago
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all we want is for our words to find its readers. grateful my new novel found one in
@sarahholloway.bsky.social
. many thanks for engaging with HIDDEN RIVER
necessaryfiction.com/reviews/hidd...
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Hidden River – Necessary Fiction
https://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/hidden-river/
about 1 month ago
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Chicago Review of Books
about 1 month ago
"No matter what demons the mothers in this story are facing they are at fault because we expect motherhood to be enough for them."
@saralippmann.bsky.social
's interview with Shasta Grant on "When We Were Feral" (
@regalhouse.bsky.social
) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2026/06/11/t...
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There Was This Feeling That Anything Was Possible: A Conversation with Shasta Grant about “When We Were Feral” - Chicago Review of Books
I first came across the work of Shasta Grant more than a decade ago, albeit anonymously, when I judged the Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest from Split Lip Press in 2015. Grant’s razor sharp flash stood out...
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2026/06/11/there-was-this-feeling-that-anything-was-possible-a-conversation-with-shasta-grant-about-when-we-were-feral/
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Will Musgrove
about 1 month ago
COVER REVEAL: I'm super excited to share the cover of my story collection After Last Call, coming out next April from
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
. And thanks to
@mrwojorising.bsky.social
for the amazing work he did designing the cover 💙 Pre-order link:
malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
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Had a great time talking with Paul about all of it, from 80s/90s Philly to why the Gilmore Girls is an ideal running recovery drug
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about 2 months ago
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Benjamin Woodard
about 2 months ago
Chatted with my friend, Melanie Pappadis Faranello, about her debut story collection, Everybody Needs Something, for Cleaver Magazine.
www.cleavermagazine.com/a-conversati...
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Melanie Pappadis Faranello • Interviews
Melanie Pappadis Faranello has authored numerous stories and essays that have appeared in Swamp Pink, Electric Literature, and more.
https://www.cleavermagazine.com/a-conversation-with-melanie-pappadis-faranello-author-of-everybody-needs-something-by-benjamin-woodard/
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👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
@epiphanylit.bsky.social
(open till June 15th!)
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2 months ago
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Many thanks to
@100wordstory.bsky.social
and Michelle Ross for this alumni spotlight
100wordstory.org/sara-lippman...
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Sara Lippmann: Hidden River - 100Words
Sara LippmannIt was a way of tricking myself into another novel.
https://100wordstory.org/sara-lippmann-hidden-river/
2 months ago
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Tomorrow night!
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2 months ago
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also, this happened:
www.haaretz.com/life/2026-05...
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Jewish identity, trauma and 'lascivious Jewish men' collide in new novel
Jewish American Author Sara Lippmann's 'Hidden River' Is Her Boldest Novel Yet
https://www.haaretz.com/life/2026-05-08/ty-article-magazine/.premium/jewish-identity-trauma-and-lascivious-jewish-men-collide-in-new-novel/0000019d-f7be-df01-a3dd-f7bfee990000?fromLogin=success
2 months ago
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morning, friends. we’re doing it again. the holy ungodly. your time to get it done before the day begins. weekday mornings. it’s free. no frills. let’s hold each other to it:
www.writingco-lab.com/classes/ungo...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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Grateful to the brilliant Yvonne Conza for sitting down with me and to Zona motel for featuring our VERY honest chat — and for shining a much deserved spotlight on
@tortoisebooks.bsky.social
outstanding editor and publisher, Jerry Brennan:
open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...
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CONVERSATION: Sara Lippmann on HIDDEN RIVER — Plus Jerry Brennan on Tortoise Books
A Deliberate Story. A Steady Press: Yvonne Conza talks to Sara Lippmann about her new book, HIDDEN RIVER, out from Tortoise Books, and Jerry Brennan, Tortoise's editor.
https://open.substack.com/pub/zonamotel/p/conversation-sara-lippmann-on-hidden?r=cgm&utm_medium=ios
2 months ago
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The way that
@splitlipthemag.bsky.social
shows up for its contributors and staffers, past and present, always—is so beautiful and special:
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2 months ago
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Maureen Langloss
2 months ago
What a night at Powerhouse Arena for
@saralippmann.bsky.social
’s NYC book launch! Packed house! Fantastic energy & love in this room! Sara is a genius & I cannot wait to read HIDDEN RIVER! (Also: check out her adorable and delicious book merch! Perfect for this Philly novel!)
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Chicago Review of Books
3 months ago
"It was important to maintain both generational integrity and cultural complicity while not erasing desire or complex feelings around agency." Read
@rachellayown.bsky.social
's interview w/
@saralippmann.bsky.social
on "Hidden River" (
@tortoisebooks.bsky.social
).
chireviewofbooks.com/2026/05/05/d...
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“Danger often lies under the cloak of safety”: A Conversation with Sara Lippmann - Chicago Review of Books
Sara Lippmann is an author I’m guaranteed to read; not just her books, but anything she publishes online: stories, essays, social media posts. If Sara Lippmann writes it, I want to read it. Her work i...
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2026/05/05/danger-often-lies-under-the-cloak-of-safety-a-conversation-with-sara-lippmann/
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Opening day! Fast balls, slurves, sliders we want it all —through June 15:
epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
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3 months ago
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Happy to be here in very good company:
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3 months ago
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The face of a very good guy (and editor. and publisher. and writer. and human.)
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At the Brooklyn Rail, I talked with wonderful Jacqui Devaney about gen x grooming, cultural complicity, flash as structure, toxic friendship + the Philly ‘burbs
brooklynrail.org/2026/05/book...
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SARA LIPPMANN with Jacqui Devaney | The Brooklyn Rail
Hidden River is told through a series of fragments that shape-shift, growing shorter and longer, alongside the turbulence of Cass’s inner world. “I track the passage of time in entrance dings” goes th...
https://brooklynrail.org/2026/05/books/sara-lippmann-with-jacqui-devaney/
3 months ago
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Giving away some copies of the pink puss
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Book giveaway for Hidden River by Sara Lippmann Apr 14-Apr 26, 2026
Enter to win one of 5 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Apr 14-Apr 26, 2026. Thirty-five year old Cassandra (aka Cass, Cassie, Cassidy, and Cass...
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/437972-hidden-river
3 months ago
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Erika Dreifus
3 months ago
This week's
#SundaySentence
comes from one of the superb stories in *3 by Sara Lippmann* (
@saralippmann.bsky.social
).
www.erikadreifus.com/2026/04/sund...
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“Art is the business of making up stuff — go make up some stuff.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/art-artificial-intelligence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Kari Nguyen
3 months ago
Could not be more excited to read Sara Lippmann's Hidden River, pubbing May 5th from
@tortoisebooks.bsky.social
. Gift yourself a presale?
@saralippmann.bsky.social
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The critically acclaimed novel from Sara Lippmann. — Tortoise Books
Sara Lippmann’s Hidden River is an unforgettable masterwork by a writer at the top of her game. With a timeline that toggles between the summer of 2008 and the late 80s/early 90s, this lean but bold novel—a fascinating blend of tragedy and dark comedy—casts an intimate look at grooming in the era be
https://tortoisebooks.com/store/hiddenriver
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this chap came out yesterday. three stories to fit in the back pocket. dig the concept? check out 3 (if you’re curious but don’t have the cash, DM and I’ll gladly mail you a copy)
www.ristrettobooks.org/shop/p/3-by-...
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3 by Sara Lippmann — Ristretto Books
“The law prohibited bathing the animal in the mother’s milk or something, which sounded like some version of ‘don’t shit where you eat.’ But it was totally worth it for the fleeting pleasure.” Three ...
https://www.ristrettobooks.org/shop/p/3-by-sara-lippmann
4 months ago
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Split/Lip Press
4 months ago
We're open for MULTIGENRE FULL-LENGTH MANUSCRIPTS!!! April 1 - June 1, send your multigenre books to our SUPER EXCITED brand new multigenre reading team, headed by our SUPER EXCITED multigenre editor,
@erinvachon.bsky.social
! Link for full details + to submit:
splitlippress.submittable.com/submit
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Poets & Writers
4 months ago
”Embrace the space around the work, whatever that looks like: running, glass blowing, cloud watching. Let it fill you with wonder. Allow yourself fallow periods. That’s life, too....Live yours with integrity and generosity.” More from Sara Lippmann, editor in chief of Epiphany:
pw.org/AERLippmann
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it is a truth universally acknowledged that if you take your summer campers to a kosher chicken plant, they will write it into a story 40 years later
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/
4 months ago
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To be a part of the
@tortoisebooks.bsky.social
. family is a gift. The quiet unassuming genius of
@jerrybrennan.bsky.social
makes him the very best of the best. So glad he’s getting attention he deeply deserves
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4 months ago
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Epiphany
4 months ago
Epiphany's annual breakout prize is open for submissions, we're thrilled to announce this year's judges: Cynthia Cruz in poetry and Alexandra Kleeman in prose! If you want our judges to read the work you’re most proud of, go to the link in our bio to submit to the Breakout Prize!
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Epiphany
4 months ago
10 readers. 4 literary magazines. One night for the books—both published and forthcoming. We’re very grateful to all the writers and friends who came out to our offsite reading last Friday with
@creamcityreview.bsky.social
,
@baltimorereview.bsky.social
, and Lampblack Lit!
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hey early birds, our last rise and write sesh @writingco-lab.bksky.social was so powerful I’m doing it again. Set your clocks. Join us! Fun start Mon. And if you’ve never tried it, now’s your time. It’s freeeeeee
www.writingco-lab.com/classes/ungo...
4 months ago
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Epiphany
5 months ago
Epiphany’s Breakout Prize is open, and it’s not just for students—all writers who haven’t published a full-length book can apply. Winners in each category (poetry and prose) will receive a $1,000 cash prize and publication in our next issue. Apply through the link in our bio!
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true I hit the jackpot with
@jerrybrennan.bsky.social
for an editor
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5 months ago
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bruh I’m so over you even as I’m under you
5 months ago
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rob mclennan
5 months ago
12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sara Lippmann /
@saralippmann.bsky.social
@tortoisebooks.bsky.social
@bookshop.org
;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/12-o...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sara Lippmann
Sara Lippmann is the author of the novel Lech and the story collections Doll Palace and Jerks . Her fiction has won the Lilith Fiction Pri...
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/12-or-20-second-series-questions-with_0937161048.html
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Molly Jong-Fast
5 months ago
I wrote about one of the worst aspects of the Epstein files
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
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Opinion | Jeffrey Epstein, the Devil’s Concierge
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/opinion/epstein-files-gifts-rich.html?unlocked_article_code=1.KVA.kld4.2tmiDs5J9AHH&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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“None of this was supposed to be easy. Not writing, not life, not love.”
lithub.com/against-gene...
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Against Generative AI: Is Art the Last Refuge of Our Humanity?
None of this is supposed to be easy. Not writing, not life, not love. Louise Glück’s debut, Firstborn, was published in 1968. One poem that didn’t make the cut was “The House on Marshland.” Glück s…
https://lithub.com/against-generative-ai-is-art-the-last-refuge-of-our-humanity/
6 months ago
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new website! thanks to the amazing and talented
@bybethhahn.bsky.social
💗🙏💗🙏💗🙏💗
www.saralippmann.com
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Sara Lippmann
Sara Lippmann: novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, mentor, and workshop leader. Read Sara’s forthcoming HIDDEN RIVER (Tortoise Books, 2026) and a rerelease of JERKS (Tortoise Books, 2025)...
https://www.saralippmann.com
6 months ago
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Final hours to support the return of the Creative Resistance Series
@writingco-lab.bsky.social
Because we need this stream of kindness compassion and defiance now more than ever
www.kickstarter.com/projects/130...
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Bring Back Writing Co-Lab’s Creative Resistance Essay Series
Help relaunch our essay series in a more sustainable fashion, and support us as we take the endeavor in new directions!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/130472370/bring-back-writing-co-labs-creative-resistance-essay-series
6 months ago
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