Ryan T. Pozzi

Did you assemble these into a single "graphic" yourself? I assume they were from different outlets/different editions, etc.

I'm preordering the book today (or tomorrow depending on when I get back to my office) so I can see what they let you keep in its proper context.

On This Day in History: March 4, 1877
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake has its world premiere in Moscow, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet. It wasn’t an instant triumph, but it would become one of the most enduring works in the ballet canon.

Was this in your forthcoming Fall release?

I'm thinking of showing documents (or sections of them) rather than just describing them. This would be trade nonfiction. I'm sure I'll get pushback and we'll have to settle somewhere in the middle. Nonetheless, I'd love to see what folks have tried.

Friends: Can you point me to particularly good examples of the inline use of documents in nonfiction? (Not in a plate section or appendix)

I want to experiment with using some primary sources inline in my next manuscript and I'd like to take in some of the more interesting ways that has been done.

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I think I've mentioned that I'm alternating between my actual TBR and rereading all of the books referred to in my debut. This was a reread.

I know we all love Wilde in total, but I liked this Wilde even less the second time. Too many pages of plodding character development before real conflict.

Perhaps that's mitigated by rotating panels of nine. It seems to me, from a novice perspective, that panel members would have to rotate as well as the panels themselves.

What I want are the objectively best minds to find the solution most (since none can be entirely) immune from partisan influence.

I'd like term limits, but anything that requires a Constitutional amendment (as that would) is probably off the table.

The issue with increased size being the solution is that all of the research to-date tells us that as any working group grows larger than 9, its decision-making efficacy declines.

SCOTUS reform now.
(Or, more probably, after this war and before the next one.)

That said, I AM in favor of transparency. We work in a business that uses information control to discourage labor organization and suppress wages.

I failed already: High sales transparency posts prove it’s possible for some people under certain conditions. They don't prove it’s broadly replicable or statistically likely. Hope matters, take some if you're running low, but hope is not a strategy.

Ope! I almost explained suvivorship bias to the 'transparency posts prove it's possible for all of us' crowd. Time to get off social media until my mood improves so I don't start needless any fights.

Let the sunny optimists do their thing, lad. It's not hurting you.

Am I to understand that it's cinematic, then? 🙂

Good choice. Their open and unapologetic decision to continue to monetize white supremacists was the last straw for me. Glad we're both outta there however it came to pass.

Saddest post of the year.

Flash, the speed reader

Me reading as fast as I can before the Tournament of Books starts in 4 days. #booksky

I'm "from" Houston, but have spent most of my life now in Nebraska and Iowa. I'm 46.

Rereading Dorian Gray. I forgot he was such an a-hole. #ClassicLiterature #GoWilde

Poster for the film "The Fool" (1925)

Me in 2024: Working for nonprofits offered no consistency and no stability. I think I'll write books instead.

Me in 2026: 🤦‍♂️

Robert Haas in 2015

On This Day in History: March 1, 1941
Former US Poet Laureate, National Book Award and Pulitzer winner + one of my favorites, Robert Haas, was born. I met him at an event in D.C. in 2012 and he autographed a tour poster for me that bore a quote from The Privilege of Being.

Working on the manuscript for the next book this afternoon. It's missing some of the magic that made my debut really feel alive.

I wonder if that's part of the usual sophomore slump, a difference in connection to the material, or just my imagination getting the better of me. #writingcommunity

J. B. Lippincott edition of A Study in Scarlet (March 1890‎)

On This Day in History: March 1, 1890
The first U.S. edition of A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle is published, introducing American readers to Sherlock Holmes. The world's first consulting detective crosses the pond and crime fiction in America levels up. #booksky

Is this your FOURTH shortlist? Now you're just showing off. 🙂

It was well worth straying outside my own usual suspects.

Cover of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

My first Stephen Graham Jones. I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't this. These aren't "my" genres, but it was so lauded last year and it's a Tournament of Books selection so 🤷‍♂️.

Engaging and emotionally complex while achieving some v. fun twists. Possibly my best read of '25 or '26 so far.

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Theatrical release poster for the 1945 film A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

On This Day in History: February 28, 1945
The film adaptation of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith premieres, directed by Elia Kazan in his feature debut and starring Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and Peggy Ann Garner.