Erin Dorney

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Really loved the structure of this one!

I recently moved back to my rural hometown. It's A Lot. 💗

Also loving all the librarians in this tourney!

3/9, 1st Round: (8) Nirvana vs (9) Sinead O’Connor — March Sadness 90s Edition

"What must it be like to never get old, to never have to see the teenagers who raged with you turn puffy and saggy and sick at heart to have done nothing?"

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"There is only so much you can retrieve from the past." 🖤

Yes to Jennifer Gravley's liner notes on Nirvana:
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I LOVE YOUR ESSAY

"You can cancel all the shows. You don’t have to perform at all. You can want things. You can choose yourself."

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"I was terrified of what would come to me if I did lose my shit—rejection, obviously, but something else, too. Confirmation that I wasn’t worth a thing."

Oh my god this essay.

3/9, 1st Round: (2) Cranberries vs (15) Cat Power — March Sadness 90s Edition

Snorted at this:

"...the eight-year long mistake that was my career in libraries and archives.

and again:

"I mostly wonder what my life would be like if my mother hadn’t believed bad things about me."

Mo Daviau on Cat Power is gonna be a doozy!

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Absolutely - and it echoes the situation, right? You think all is well and then you find out, suddenly, that a boundary has been crossed.

3/9, 1st Round: (2) Cranberries vs (15) Cat Power — March Sadness 90s Edition

This essay about friendship is both lovely and powerful.

Silas Hansen on “Linger” by The Cranberries for @marchxness.bsky.social

Also loved this:

"Because when the door slams shut on the version of yourself, and you have to face what comes next, home is where you go to cry."

Whew this killed me in a bunch of different ways:

"They seem to believe that you can either stay at home or you can find your true self; you can't do both."

Christopher L. Keller on Wilco: marchxness.com/1stround-amo...

My parents also read my diary and it was almost insurmountable.

"It’s only within the last few years that I’ve started to write honestly and to correct the record, to let go of the shame that has burdened me since I was in my late teens."

💗 Nanette Donohue/Tori Amos: marchxness.com/1stround-amo...

The music video for Tori Amos's "Winter" is a mashup of a dELiA*s catalog & an Anne Geddes calendar.

Thanks for the share! That's definitely where this project came from - 2 writers in 1 house = lots of gift notebooks!

Notebooked — FEAR NO LIT

We've supplied classrooms, arts centers, and hundreds of passersby with these essential tools for keeping our collected thoughts off the internet and away from advertisers.

www.fearnolit.com/notebooked

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Send us that stash of unused notebooks, journals, and diaries, and we’ll connect them with youth and writers-to-be at pop-ups, book fairs, and other community gatherings. With each notebook, we include a writing utensil and a copy of the bestselling "How to Use Your Notebook" mini-zine.

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Fear No Lit is baaaaack 🫣

Writers! Are you often gifted notebooks that you NEVER use? Does buying a new notebook feel really good, even though letting it collect dust sucks? (Don’t lie—like a notebook, this is a safe space.)

Fear No Lit is here to help you unburden.

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3/5, 1st Round: (4) Lisa Loeb vs (13) Lee Ann Womack — March Sadness 90s Edition

"I’m past the geography of those boys..."

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"However, there are peripheral gifts in the photo album."

🙏🙏🙏 Seeing all of these iterations of Amy Barnes pleases me to no end.

Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh - ACRLog With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar. If you are able to contribute, there is a GoFundMe established for Fob...

My colleagues at ACRLog wrote short tributes to the life and work of Fobazi Ettarh @fobettarh.bsky.social. I wrote about her work on disability, which I think deserves more recognition. acrlog.org/2026/03/04/t...

Thanks @ezerrenner.bsky.social for coordinating. #CripLib #VocationalAwe

3/5, 1st Round: (5) Lauryn Hill vs (12) Belle and Sebastian — March Sadness 90s Edition

"I suspect that much of this has to do with how B&S as a group, and Murdoch as a lyricist, understood just how delicious melancholy was, and how the place of sadness was always better as a place you built in your mind."

- Andrew Schumacher Bethke on Belle & Sebastian (w/ a timely bio)

3/5, 1st Round: (5) Lauryn Hill vs (12) Belle and Sebastian — March Sadness 90s Edition

"Joining the queer community in midlife, I discovered that the heteropessimism of Miseducation's love songs has more than one possible solution."

So much love for Jendi Reiter on Lauryn Hill ❤️‍🔥

3/5, 1st Round: (3) Goo Goo Dolls vs (14) Des’ree — March Sadness 90s Edition

"All I know is that during her hiatus, Des’ree enrolled in art and pottery classes in London. I wish I could tell you more but let us honor the mystery of Des’ree."

Love this resistance to seeking out more info about a celebrity, this resistance to the creep of parasocial from Emily Podwoiski.

Maybe a 🍪🍪🍪 thing?

I restarted my laptop and they're back!

A bunch of my @marchxness.bsky.social posts seem to be... gone?

3/5, 1st Round: (3) Goo Goo Dolls vs (14) Des’ree — March Sadness 90s Edition

I've been eagerly awaiting Moira McAvoy's GGD essay, and it does not disappoint!

"All I knew was that I was Different, and thereby I was Wrong, hyper-visible yet totally unseen, and thereby I could not want, let alone be wanted." 💔

Just such a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but I am sad because the Swedish candy I bought online to help me make it through royalties week has still not arrived 😩😑🍬

ZINE MOTEL #2: Anonymous was a zine. 6 zines Erin Dorney found crumpled on the seat cushion in the hotel lobby.

My second batch of zine reviews is up at Zona Motel! Lots of freebies are linked in case you want to trade zines at #AWP26. Your hotel probably has a printer, just saying...