Mac Crane (they/them)

Dorian Gray’s portrait but it’s a book’s star rating slowly going down with each immoral decision the protagonist makes

Fall Craft Intensive: Mac Crane - Tin House In this class, we will discuss the craft of writing personal essays that relate to identity and that speak to both the specific and the universal, engage in a close reading of published pieces on this...

Hey friends! I’m teaching a brand new Tin House craft class on defamiliarization, associative leaps, and injecting surprise into your prose. I’m soooo excited to teach it and talk shop. Come join me!

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if my Spotify daylist (correctly) calls me fragile ONE MORE TIME 👊🏼

I’ve been unemployed for 7 months & am unable to find work—please hire me to edit your work, provide a MS consult, be your book coach/dom 🙏🏼

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Thank you!

Powerful essay by @mcrane12.bsky.social in this collection. Provided me with a perspective that I’ll not ever fully understand. Thank you for sharing your words & experience with us, Mac.

10 Books That Know Grief More Intimately Than Any Condolence Ever Could In the quiet between heartbreak and hope lies a shelf of stories that understand sorrow better than any spoken condolence ever could., Books, Times Now

nice to see my first book, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, on this list about the grief

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I’m afraid it’s me

Lmaooooo

And I was incredibly lucky to get to work with @tlpavlich.gay AGAIN, editor extraordinaire & women’s sports enthusiast who happened to be craving an essay about ACL tears :)

Sidelined, or No Pain, No Gain - The Offing Essay - The Offing Magazine

I have a new essay out in The Offing today! It’s about playing college basketball on a torn ACL, the fucked coach-player power dynamics, inherent worth & value, our cultural attitudes towards sacrifice in order to WIN THE BIG GAME, & more. give it a read ❤️🏀

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Sidelined, or No Pain, No Gain - The Offing Essay - The Offing Magazine

I got to edit another essay by @mcrane12.bsky.social and now you all get to read it in @theoffingmag.bsky.social. If you've followed the impact of ACLs on WoSo in recent years, it's a must read.

Love this, I know people do it on their own but I want to see the shift happen in the industry and culturally like normalize them as a way to consume books. Like I’d love to start a print journal that serializes novels and people receive in the mail cuz mail is fun and so is holding books

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Thanks for letting me know

I mean I know. But I want to do it with novels in a print format even or in a lit journal. I’m not discounting those other things

bring back the serialized novel, we could spend all week discussing each chapter online like we do tv shows

14 Dystopian Books For Those Of Us Yearning To See A Corrupt Government Crumble If you just want to watch a horrible government crumble, then here are some excellent dystopian books for you to choose from.

nice to see my novel I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF on this list of dystopian books on Scary Mommy (though wish the list were not necessary sigh)

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reframing all the pics of boys on my wall growing up as my very first Pinterest board of gender inspo

A Sharp Endless Need by Marisa Crane: 9780593733646 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A vibrant and intimate novel about growing up, first love, and all the joy and heartbreak of competitive high school basketball, from the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of I Keep My Exoskeletons...

hiiii the ebook version of A Sharp Endless Need is discounted to just $1.99 from now until 10/5!!!! get it while it’s hot 🏀🔥

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what it gonna take for my novel I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself—a very clear abolitionist text—to show up when I google literary fiction or speculative fiction about incarceration, prisons, critiquing the prison industrial complex, etc

my kid woke me up at 3:30 am to tell me he had a bad dream (he was on a mountaintop with his books & one fell down & he screamed)

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hi! I have been unemployed since March despite my best efforts to find a job. so I am freelancing in the meantime & am open for novel manuscript consults & book coaching. email me marisacrane12(at)gmail(dot)com

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I would pay YOU to let me read some of your gay sex scenes

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Aww thanks so much! So glad to hear you are teaching that :)

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You are a fucking saint

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