Elizabeth Spiers

The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing.

Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.

Fall opinion writing workshop schedule. (Info in the link above.)

I've posted Fall dates for my online opinion writing workshop and you can find info and registration here: www.elizabethspiers.com/workshops/

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.

But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.

See you soon, NYC.

Ah, great. Thank you!

i can see this one is going to get a lot of use

Fewer barriers to entry re publishing, I mean!

And boy, is he missing out. There’s so much great stuff out there.

So my theory is that Brooks never reads young writers and he overlooks novels by women unless they’re already very well established

Kaitlyn Greenidge’s We Love You Charlie Freeman is something I recommend regularly. It is audacious, the villains are as villainous as they get, and good lord, she’s an astonishing writer.

Secondly it seems like he doesn’t read much contemporary literary fiction, especially by younger writers, if he thinks the villains aren’t bad enough and the writing not transgressive enough. May I recommend Ottessa Moshfegh? Tony Tulathimutte? (Rejection would blow his mind.)

It is difficult to get a book published but it was much much harder when Norman Mailer was on the best seller list than it is now—especially if you weren’t a white guy with connections or credentials

This is great and among other things, Brooks’ argument hinges on the fact that the Times bestseller list is dominated by genre and popular mass market stuff. All that means is that reading has become more accessible and there are fewer barriers to entry

No worries!

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Nice to see Cuomo finally being a team player and campaigning for Zohran

Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused

I didn’t, but it’d be a lot cooler if I did!

Notification that says “elizabeth spiers, did you write “Enabling Progress Toward Life Detection on NASA Missions”?

lol

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.

https://trib.al/W6lqYEu

There must be some kind of misunderstanding, comrade, I wanted to do paperwork

Lawyers can be very very smart and also the dumbest people on earth sometimes

Sorry I made a hasty reply without reading carefully and deleted. But yes

I think gaming might actually reverse some of the dumb gender perforce stuff they’re taught. My kid likes playing as female characters too when they have powers and specialities he wants

Yes. I don’t think women are obligated to help

Will do

Checking out to read a novel and have a glass of wine

Sorry, I’m in a mood today

And of course there will be some doofy right winger who will be like but can a woman lift x amount in a combat situation? And I think the reply should be can a man fit through a tiny space with a (scientifically proven) higher pain tolerance?

There is no way to stop men from being misogynistic that doesn’t involve them viewing women as equals and that means viewing them as peers. In every setting.

Well you went to a good school then

It’s not formal. It’s pushing boys toward trucks and boy things and girls toward dolls. Or conditioning them to think pink = girl or blue = boy