Madelyn Rosenberg

“Please take all of the time you need and when you are ready, say your goodbyes.” Jesse Palmer, host of Golden Bachelor, would have made an amazing funeral director.

I can't believe you remembered that!

The #tonyawards is my absolute favorite of the award shows because I always leave with these messages: Be you. Be brave. Go create something.

It's April 25, the anniversary of the mass dragoning in @kellybarnhill.bsky.social's exquisite When Women Were Dragons, and the right day to suggest that this is the perfect book for these times.

If you want to understand how we'll survive this mess, check out Next Comes What by Andrea Pitzer. I help produce this weekly podcast about how now fits into the history of authoritarianism and what we can do to fight back. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/next-comes-what/id1779885475

Unbreaking things How to do what seems impossible but is necessary.

I wrote about what else you can do right now other than protest, and new ways to think about cautionary words you've heard a thousand times. What if we read them not as a warning but as *strategy*?

Protesting the VA cuts, mending, and other progressive spring cleaning tips Hey everybody, welcome to my first newsletter over at Substack!

My latest newsletter on protesting VA cuts, the hollowing out of local media, and progressive spring cleaning (de-Muskifying) substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Carolina D every time San Diego throws up another junk shot::
#MarchMadness #FirstFour #UNC #UNCBasketball

Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.

Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.

Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.

Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.

The Kidlit for Los Angeles auction is NOW OPEN!

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Auction runs Jan 20th - Jan 26th.

#kidlit

Creativity. Connecting with friends. Caring for others. Those are my plans for today. You?

Me like records. Me buy lots of records in Scotland. FYI, the Heavy Equipment, Chiu, Sun's Signature, Jesus and Mary Chain and Aphex Twin records were from Thorne; Astatke and Okumu from Underground Solutions; DJ Taye and Aggrovators from VoxBox.

More awesome records from Scotland. JLIN, Osu, Məmmədli, Teenage Fanclub and Speakers Corner were from Thorne; Tony Scott and Sault from Underground Solutions; Bevis Frond from Good Vibes; Primal Scream from Monorail.

Primal Scream and Unknown T from Assai; Nucleus from Underground Solution; and the Collective from VoxBox.

Scott Walker and Whitefield Brothers from Missing; Mike Berry and Jethro Tull from Love Music; Motocaster (UK Beggar's Banquet version!!!!) and Dagar brothers from...Underground Solution maybe?

Thread: I went to Scotland over the holidays and all I got was 10lbs of records! Lots of great record stores in Scotland, as you might imagine. Here are my favorites:

YouTube video by Graham Lazorchak The French Laundry | Snare Drum Solo

If you are seeking #snaredrum music (or even if you are not) please give this a look/listen! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDZx...

Also paean is such a lovely word.

Even though my personal faves didn't get a shoutout (Mmm Clams, I'm Keen on Kugel, Nancy's in the Neighborhood and Gnarly Gnomes, for those of you keeping track) I am over-the-moon happy to see Cece's masterpiece covered in such an incredible way in the NYT!

New age! animalalbums.com/album/n/

A little klezmer! animalalbums.com/album/k/

Also: Music, y'all! animalalbums.com/album/c/

Cover of Animal Albums by Cece Bell shows many illustrated animals rocking out.

Happy #bookbirthday to Cece Bell and ANIMAL ALBUMS FROM A to Z. This book is for music lovers. This book is for animal lovers. This book is for art lovers. This book is for YOU.

The School of World Building is open... www.instagram.com/p/C3iguD9vpQq/

I love #WorldReadAloudDay! So grateful to the teachers who worked around my day-job schedule. Great questions, great students. Have fun, everybody! #wrad

Here's an easy #TuBeShevat #TuBiShvat activity sheet I made a few years ago. For use in your classroom or as a centerpiece for your #TuBeShevatseder:

Controlling the things I can...

Opinion | Rebuilding Myself After Brain Injury, Sentence by Sentence Am I still a writer if I’ve lost my words?

I wrote an essay about my experience thus far with traumatic brain injury. It took a very long time to write, and required a lot of naps, but I'm pretty proud of it. I hope it might help someone else who is experiencing something similar. Here's a gift link:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This weekend we honored the memory of Mary Crockett Hill, #ya writer, #poet, mom and a million other things. Enclosing both her obituary and a gofundme as we try to make things easier for her family. www.johnmoakey.com/memorials/ma..., www.gofundme.com/f/assistance...

Watched Stop Making Sense for the first time and need to know who burns more calories during a show, Byrne or Springsteen?

Covers of THIS IS JUST A TEST and NOT YOUR ALL-AMERICAN GIRL, in pin and orange.

Thanks, Debbie, and hi, all. I write MG and PB and can be found here and also at www.madelynrosenberg.com. I do school visits, but I have a day job, so mostly I connect by zoom. I also respond to students via email and messages.

I think maybe the central problem with the current (baffling) discourse about copyright is that most people don't understand how authors are actually paid, or that this is how we feed our families. The hostility towards this feels kinda nuts, frankly. Art is labor and labor should be compensated.

I read every word of this story from the NYT on Dungeons & Dragons on Death Row. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/31/m...