"I get so tired of living up to some imagined expectation of what makes sense for me to write. I just want to write. Iโm getting there."
Eric Boyd in our newest interview:
open.substack.com/pub/themassa...
on some rickety amtrak wifi in the middle of nowhere on the way to awp but still managed to get off a @havehashad.com submission ๐ค๐
So excited to be in this issue, which is absolutely stacked with amazing work
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We may have to live with even smaller boutique studios like Musicbox, Utopia, and Factory 25 and just accept that no company stays ethical given the opportunity to turn heel.
A24 won Best Picture and got greedy. Mubi is selling out before they even have a chance to reach A24's heights. Neon is still viable but I see disaster on the horizon just from a quality standpoint (they're acquiring good films for the festival circuit but not actually producing much). 1/2
What's the point of teaching remotely if none of your students mention your labubus smh
How did I get a vasectomy and still end up with so many children
That's so awesome! I really need to wake up earlier so I can actually join some mornings!
Can't get upset your NEA application was pulled if you never applied
Next they should do "Freakiest Friday" where Jamie Lee Curtis, long since passed, possesses Lindsay Lohan on her deathbed.
Sly Stone and Brian Wilson were both 82 and these things usually happen in threes
I now have over 400 titles on my Tubi watchlist and until I saw "La Casa Lobo" on there I was just as surprised as anyone else it had that many interesting films worth seeing
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So cool to have been part of this ๐ค
Tim Blake Nelson was okay in the new Captain America
Okay why is that new John Malkovich song so good though
Can't believe I got into @havehashad.com again AND was selected by a guest editor from @tacobellquarterly.org. Queso cream dream team ๐๐ฎ๐๐
Big rejection week out there in lit mag world. Editors across the country, bored and stuck in overcrowded airport terminals, clearing the queue before going home and trying again to explain to their aunt that actually $50 for a 4000 word story is *pretty good*
Hey just checking, no reason, how long does it take to do an existential crisis?
lol I didn't think I submitted any AWP events this year, let alone any that got accepted. That was a weird email
READ PEOPLE'S BACKLISTS
THE MOST RECENT BOOK ISN'T THE ONLY BOOK
THIS HAS BEEN A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM A GIANT BUG
I don't post as much as I used to but I'm still in the tumblr trenches
No shade to all the recent twitter expats but I've been here and not using it for over a year ๐
In this week's Short Reads, Dinty W. Moore (@dintywmoore.bsky.social) remembers the sounds of his childhood in just 183 words.
www.short-reads.org/there-was-a-...
#flashnonfiction #shortreads #minimemoir
killer 99 word puzzlebox of a story today from Eric Boyd!
Sebastian left us a box, shut with a 5-letter combo lock. The letter wheels were replaced with custom ones. That was a clue.
โItโs a specific word,โ I said.
https://www.havehashad.com/fbspg
Fuckin wild Francis Ford Coppola shared my thoughts on Megalopolis
because I was "describing exactly what they meant to say but didn't know to actually say." It's crazy to have no idea how helpful you might actually be to other people
Imposter syndrome is wild. Just had a phone meeting with a student about their wip and the entire time I was offering notes I thought, "shut up, you have no idea what you're talking about just be quiet" and then at the end the student said they wanted to rewrite their entire first chapter... 1/2
Your honor, my client said "lol" so that means the "crime" was just a joke
