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"Relax" by Ellen Bass Perspective for tough times

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eat the strawberry

30.01.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What critics are getting wrong about Molly Jong-Fast's "How To Lose Your Mother" What you're missing if you think this is a revenge memoir or if you believe Molly sold her mother out

What critics are getting wrong about Molly Jong-Fast's "How To Lose Your Mother"
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Keep on #writingmemoir

04.08.2025 17:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Booker Prize Nominees Include Novels by Kiran Desai, Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/a... this list will keep us busy. Can’t put down Susan Choi’s Flashlight. @susanchoi.bsky.social

29.07.2025 21:28 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Booker Prize Nominees Include Novels by Kiran Desai, Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi

Booker Prize Nominees Include Novels by Kiran Desai, Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/a...
So much reading ahead and I can’t wait! Loving Susan Choi’s Flashlight.

29.07.2025 21:25 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

RIP β€œIn any moment on any given day I can measure my wellness by this question: Is my attention on loving or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?” β€”Andrea Gibson​

19.07.2025 11:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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July 1, 2025 Just after noon today, the Senate passed its version of the budget reconciliation bill.

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β€œOnce a new system of detention facilities and ICE agents is established and the idea that a Republican president can legitimately attack his political opponents is accepted, a police state will be in place.”

02.07.2025 12:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
2025 GAYA Winners & Finalists Announcement!

mailchi.mp/006a8c72735a... summer reading. congratulations to the talented writers

30.06.2025 16:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Coward Goes to War Against America Trump wants Americans to turn violent. We will be steadfast.

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10.06.2025 11:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Big Beautiful Disaster While Trump and Musk hurl insults, democracy dies in the background; this is your wake-up call to stop watching the circus and start fighting for your country.

open.substack.com/pub/meidasto.... In a nutshell.

08.06.2025 14:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Redirecting...

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08.06.2025 13:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@ccwalum.bsky.social I’m following! Greetings from Brattleboro Vt. I’m on my 8th draft and looking, theoretically, for publishers. Query letter jitters.

03.06.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunday Pages: "Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same" A sonnet by Robert Frost

open.substack.com/pub/gregolea... #love #poem #happyanniversary

01.06.2025 12:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just discovered Carys Davies’ Clear and then I read West. Deceptively simple with a punch. Riveting. #readmore #readbooks #amreading

26.05.2025 13:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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30 books to read this summer The busy season’s new releases include novels by S.A. Cosby, Taylor Jenkins Reid and Gary Shteyngart, and nonfiction about AI, sex and war.

I love book lists. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

23.05.2025 20:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I Cheerfully Refuse This 2024 Goodreads Choice Award nominee from a β€œformidably gifted” New York Times bestselling author (Chicago Tribune) β€œfeels like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reconceived by Cormac McCarthy” (...

I LOVE this book and envy anyone who hasn't discovered Leif Enger's books.

23.05.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country, And Will Most Likely Hurt Women in the Process. Republicans say they’re cutting spending to save the economy. In reality, they’re handing trillions to the richβ€”while stripping Medicaid, health care, and economic lifelines from women and families.

The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country, And Will Most Likely Hurt Women in the Process. open.substack.com/pub/thewomen...
I feel I'm living in an alternate universe.

23.05.2025 13:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s Biggest β€œFuck You” Yet to Higher Education and the Rest of the World He and his regime are mounting an assault on the American mind. Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

Trump’s Biggest β€œFuck You” Yet to Higher Education and the Rest of the World
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23.05.2025 12:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sunday thought Moral clarity in a time of monsters

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Thoughtful advice for us. Be here now.

11.05.2025 18:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I saw your name!!!!!

06.05.2025 13:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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40 postpartum tips for my bros Field notes from our first 40 days.

Astounding lovely advice. This could even heal the world.
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16.04.2025 13:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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An Open Letter to Canadians: Your Anti-Trump Boycott Is Crushing MAGA And It's Inspiring The World From Soaring Loonies to Global Solidarityβ€”Your Impact Is Unstoppable

Very cool!
An Open Letter to Canadians: Your Anti-Trump Boycott Is Crushing MAGA And It's Inspiring The World open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

15.04.2025 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Trump daymare Friends,

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Lovely. And needed.

11.04.2025 11:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Top 15 Signs at Hands Off Protests Protests in over 1,300 cities and towns all across America.

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Have a laugh, folks!

06.04.2025 17:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Redirecting...

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25.03.2025 21:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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An Open Letter to Leonard Leo, Concerning the Trump/Musk Lawlessness Are you okay with this?

An Open Letter to Leonard Leo, Concerning the Trump/Musk Lawlessness
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USAID and the nature of aid work S3: E2

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Reflection on a working life abroad by my friend Liz Shick. I was 12 when my dad worked for USAID in Nepal. Liz captures the experience.

07.03.2025 12:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

26.02.2025 14:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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'No Amazon, no Walmart, no fast food': What's behind the 'Feb. 28 economic blackout' The People's Union USA, a self-described β€œgrassroots movement” founded by John Schwarz, is encouraging Americans to refrain from making non-essential purchases on Friday.

Let’s go www.yahoo.com/news/no-amaz...

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"Of Tides, Stars, and Other Motherly Forces: A Conversation with Stephanie Niu by Ashley-Devon Williamston"  written in white at the bottom of Niu's author photo. To the right of these words is the book cover for I Would Define the Sun beneath the full red Rumpus logo.

"Of Tides, Stars, and Other Motherly Forces: A Conversation with Stephanie Niu by Ashley-Devon Williamston" written in white at the bottom of Niu's author photo. To the right of these words is the book cover for I Would Define the Sun beneath the full red Rumpus logo.

"Poetry is the most long-lived practice of my life."

Ashley-Devon Williamston interviews Stephanie Niu about her poetry collection I Would Define the Sun ((Vanderbilt University Press).

➑️ https://buff.ly/4hPuHnn

26.02.2025 14:01 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Misleading and satirical headline.

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