kira homsher
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writer & PhD student in cincinnati / asst. editor @ xray / rep: UTA kirahomsher.com
Iāve never seen a squirrel poop
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Forgot to reactivate my twitter after 30 days so now I'm really stuck here huh
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Lit Hub
12 days ago
Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, El-Hakawati, in occupied East Jerusalem, shutting down a childrenās musical show titled āDreams Under the Olive Trees.ā
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Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, shutting down a childrenās show.
On Sunday night, Israeli forces stormed the Palestinian National Theater, El-Hakawati, in occupied East Jerusalem, shutting down a childrenās musical show titled āDreams Under the Oliveā¦
https://buff.ly/J7bsU38
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We seem to be in some kind of cultural moment where everyone feels the need to write about wrestling or boxing or deadlifting or whatever
13 days ago
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Reuters
16 days ago
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
reut.rs/48tKTYY
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Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don't use it for your homework, Pope Leo told about 15,000 U.S. youth during a question-and-answer session on Friday.
https://reut.rs/48tKTYY
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Pls recommend short stories that particularly lend themselves to a lesson on syntax? :~)
18 days ago
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The Baffler
19 days ago
The decline in literacy is the result of a top-down class war.
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We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes usāand it is currently changing us for the worse.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack
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Yay!!!
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New Yorkās gotta be the only place in the country you can just walk around in a beret and expect to be taken seriously
27 days ago
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Max Berger
28 days ago
The reason people think the Democratic Party doesn't actually stand for anything is because it doesn't.
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The Believer
about 1 month ago
Weāre revisiting this 2007 interview with the filmmaker Mira Nair, Zohran Mamdaniās mother, who talks about her work and recounts the puckish antics of her then-fifteen-year-old son.
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
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An Interview with Mira Nair - Believer Magazine
The Indian-born filmmaker Mira Nair has been directing since 1979, when she made the first of her five documentaries, but her breakthrough film was a featureāthe gritty, lush, and painfully sad Salaam...
https://www.thebeliever.net/an-interview-with-mira-nair/
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zach silberberg
about 1 month ago
this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028
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finally scanned my story in The End Magazine, you can read here if you're so inclined:
drive.google.com/file/d/1Rc6p...
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Rubber Ball_The End.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rc6pFV1j_lmCW7l4Ex6XeVUL9vyncSfP/view
about 1 month ago
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Bookshop.org
about 1 month ago
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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tell me a word to ctrl-F in my novel
about 1 month ago
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prose and cons. get it? hahaahahahahhaha
about 1 month ago
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go birds fuck ice free palestine :)
about 2 months ago
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Forgot that Iām supposed to be writing for the Fat Lady
about 2 months ago
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all my favorite authors sound a little bit like junie b jones
about 2 months ago
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prescribing myself a franny and zooey reread
2 months ago
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Don't make me look at your labradoodle
2 months ago
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somehow despite having two parents with chronic pain / disabilities I still didn't believe that getting older would involve this much ambient pain and discomfort
2 months ago
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Loaf
2 months ago
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wint
8 months ago
my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content
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I wrote a poem! :)
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8 months ago
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I spiritually/physically/intellectually/emotionally cannot continue to teach college composition anymore
9 months ago
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The Believer
9 months ago
Applications are open for our summer editorial internship!
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keely
9 months ago
got my first piece published with xray, and i could not be happier šŖ¶šš½ļø
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Read this NOW.
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9 months ago
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New short story in The End Magazine! I love writing and being alive!
10 months ago
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Story by Yannis Ritsos
10 months ago
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does anything good want to happen to me? :āā)
10 months ago
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John Chrostek
10 months ago
Here's that big news I was freaking out over: Amanda and I have been officially approved for a retail space!
@eveninghouse.bsky.social
has been a dream of ours since being laid off from P***ll's back in the early days of the pandemic and now, as the world burns, we're gunning to make it a reality
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Itās my birthday, Bryce and I painted the dog :)
10 months ago
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close to the knives, david wojnarowicz
11 months ago
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I love teaching in this room so much š„¹
11 months ago
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The Believer
11 months ago
Too many quality posts are lost to the scroll. Why not say it in print? Classified ads in The Believer are only $1/word. Now accepting shoutouts, announcements, secret opinions, and missed connections.
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got a story and a poem coming out this month š
11 months ago
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Two seconds in Philly and Iāve purchased an overpriced vape and a bottle of sake
12 months ago
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Itās time
12 months ago
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Christmas is supposed to feel sad and eerie actually. So Iām doing it right.
12 months ago
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I have two short stories that I think are good and hope to put out in 2025. Then I will write another story or two. Thank you.
12 months ago
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We finished My Brilliant Friend
12 months ago
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Really bad posts on X lately. Hello
12 months ago
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The Believer
12 months ago
The Believerās 2024 Art Issue is out today! Hereās a thread of what youāll find inside:
www.thebeliever.net/product/wint...
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Winter 2024 - Believer Magazine
https://www.thebeliever.net/product/winter-2024/
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recommend story collections please
12 months ago
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reading up on the lost city of pompeii for my new short story about the internet
12 months ago
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You canāt even be a snob in a PhD anymore they have us reading Mary had a little lamb ass books over here
12 months ago
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:)
12 months ago
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Looking through the scrap document for my novel and sighing lol
about 1 year ago
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