Matthew Salesses
@salesses.bsky.social
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Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
Why must it always be so hard to write a book?
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When everyone else disappoints you thereâs always dogs
2 months ago
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DeepDive
3 months ago
In this clip from 'How to Write a Novel,' the debut course from DeepDive,
@salesses.bsky.social
â acclaimed author of the novel 'The Sense of Wonder' â talks about the necessity of specificity in characterization. đ˛ Stream it online or via DeepDive app for iOS + Android. âĄď¸
www.deepdive.audio
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Noticed the kids bathroom didnât have toilet paper today and it turns out my 8yo has been wiping his butt with his clean clothes đŁ
2 months ago
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Whew just sent my memoir to my editor
4 months ago
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The growing trend of âmaybe life is just a video gameâ narratives is fascinating
5 months ago
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Writing is always such an act of faith, to think what you start will actually go somewhere and that youâll be able to make some sense of yourself.
5 months ago
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Academics is how we try to catch up intellectually to our own self-hatred
5 months ago
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Um I could be on your awp panel maybe
5 months ago
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Mel, you owe Mia the correct number
5 months ago
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It happened to me: I just tried to swipe a physical book to turn the page.
6 months ago
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If someone who asks what America is like just tell them about the msg scare of the 90s, when this country was so afraid of Asians people didnât want their food to taste better.
6 months ago
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Are you angry with your kid for doing something bad or are you angry with your kid because you can't stand the blow to your own authority?
6 months ago
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What are your favorite novels about âbadâ people?
7 months ago
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It actually makes me feel sick to type out the number of Korean adoptees
7 months ago
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Victor Von Doomscroll
7 months ago
I am looking for work in writing , events coordination , program work and operations. If you have admin tasks chances are I can do em and improve em. More info here
rui-zhong.mailchimpsites.com
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Home
https://rui-zhong.mailchimpsites.com/
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Going through my office bookshelf and thinking, why didnât I read this, then finding marginalia in my handwriting
7 months ago
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Advertising is what you call gaslighting that makes money
8 months ago
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4 people should be the maximum for any reading
8 months ago
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Wait Luka for AD?
9 months ago
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Shannon Gibney
10 months ago
Thrilled that WHEN WE BECOME OURS, the book that I wanted and needed as a young transracial adoptee, is a MN Book Award finalist in the new anthology category! đđ˝đđ˝ Co-edited with the marvelous
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and featuring so many đĽđĽđĽadoptee authors. Congratulations to all the finalists.
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When an author you love turns out to be scum, instead of despairing you could take it as an opportunity to discover new authors.
10 months ago
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Mike Sakasegawa
11 months ago
For the final
#ChannelOpenPod
of 2024, I reached out to a bunch of past guests to check in with them about where they are, who theyâre thinking of, and how theyâre thinking about their work right now.
www.keepthechannelopen.com/episodes/202...
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Episode 157: Checking In â Keep the Channel Open
In the wake of this yearâs election, I found myself feeling a lot of things, but most of all that what sustains us through difficult times is always relationships and community. So I reached out to so...
https://www.keepthechannelopen.com/episodes/2024/12/25/episode-157-checking-in
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Mike Sakasegawa
11 months ago
This is really difficult because I read a lot of good books this year, and I suspect my answer would change from day to day or even minute to minute depending on my state of mind. But right now Iâm going to go with
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âs The Sense of Wonder.
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Show me your pet and what theyâre named after
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about 1 year ago
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Is it not enough that math tortured me as a kid that now it has to torture me because I have a kid?
about 1 year ago
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My thanks to whatever genius thought to put a slice of Kraft cheese in Shin ramyun
about 1 year ago
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Melissa Hung
about 1 year ago
Koda Farms, known for Kokuho Rose rice (which I love) will close after almost a century. Keisaburo Koda, the Rice King of California, started the farm in 1927 but the family lost almost everything during WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans.
nyti.ms/3AnEd05
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Californiaâs Rice Royalty Is Stepping Down
Koda Farms, a family-run rice business revered by chefs, ends a century-long tradition.
https://nyti.ms/3AnEd05
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Itâs my birthday and one-year wedding anniversary and Iâd love it if you got my book for someone in your life who watches either basketball or kdrama, even if they donât usually read much
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/matth...
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The Sense of Wonder
From the author of PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear and Craft in the Real World comes a "a smart, very meta take"&#...
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/matthew-salesses/the-sense-of-wonder/9780316425810/
over 1 year ago
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Finished
@kellylink.bsky.social
âs Book of Love and I just want more
over 1 year ago
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Willy De Backer BE
over 1 year ago
'climate fiction set in the future presents us with possibilities we might use to know and contest the present reality' - excellent essay
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lithub.com/matthew-sale...
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Once more for the weekday crowd: I wrote a craft essay about the role of climate fiction when it is too late for warnings
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Matthew Salesses on the Possibilities of Climate Fiction
A version of this first appeared in Lit Hubâs Craft of Writing newsletterâsign up here. 1. The metaverse is hot right now. Not only for Marvel (or Everything, Everywhere, All at Once), but in booksâŚ
https://t.co/yranf54zGD
over 1 year ago
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What is the point of climate fiction-as-warning when climate change is already here and unavoidable? I wrote about clifi and what kind of stories might help us as we face the end of what we know how to story. âCraft at the End of the Worldâ
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Matthew Salesses on the Possibilities of Climate Fiction
A version of this first appeared in Lit Hubâs Craft of Writing newsletterâsign up here. 1. The metaverse is hot right now. Not only for Marvel (or Everything, Everywhere, All at Once), but in booksâŚ
https://t.co/yranf54zGD
over 1 year ago
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What is the point of climate fiction-as-warning when climate change is already here and unavoidable? I wrote about clifi and what kind of stories might help us as we face the end of what we know how to story. âCraft at the End of the Worldâ
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Matthew Salesses on the Possibilities of Climate Fiction
A version of this first appeared in Lit Hubâs Craft of Writing newsletterâsign up here. 1. The metaverse is hot right now. Not only for Marvel (or Everything, Everywhere, All at Once), but in booksâŚ
https://t.co/yranf54zGD
over 1 year ago
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Heyo!
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over 1 year ago
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I just found a white hair IN MY NOSE
over 1 year ago
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Matt Bell
over 1 year ago
I'll be in conversation with Ted Chiang this Thursday at the Humanities Institute as part of a free public lecture and discussion. Join us in person in Tempe or watch from home via ASU livestream!
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Exhalation and Other Worlds with Ted Chiang - Humanities Institute Distinguished Lecture | ASU Events
Leading science fiction writer Ted Chiang visits Humanities Institute as the 2024 Distinguished Lecturer, in conversation with Matt Bell, Director of The ASU Worldbuilding Initiative. How do we unders...
https://asuevents.asu.edu/event/exhalation-and-other-worlds-ted-chiang-humanities-institute-distinguished-lecture
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Why do we have to waiiiiiit
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almost 2 years ago
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This convention center is like an ikea
almost 2 years ago
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Tobias Carroll
almost 2 years ago
Hello
#AWP24
! I'll be signing books today at the Astrophil Press table (845) at 1:15 and at the 7.13 Books table (1109) at 2:00.
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Awp, like most everything else, gets weirder as you get older
almost 2 years ago
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Martha Crawford
almost 2 years ago
I am very tired of very many things.
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Maybe the point of life is to get so tired you embrace death
almost 2 years ago
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I donât know what Iâm tired of but I know Iâm tired of it.
almost 2 years ago
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A good ability to have is to know what youâre getting when youâre getting it. Surprisingly rare.
almost 2 years ago
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Adam Phillips looks kind of like Neil Gaiman and Iâm somehow comforted by this
almost 2 years ago
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âIt is conceivable that we might learn to enjoy pleasures other than the pleasures of being terrified.â âAdam Phillips, Unforbidden Pleasures
almost 2 years ago
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