Lori Barrett

I was hired by a national newspaper going online in the mid 90s after a few library jobs, because we’d been using what existed of the www for research

love when Leo‘s character queues up the movie Battle of Algiers

Washing machines can spred up the process

Can’t believe people are out here posting One Battle After Another spoilers

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Death of the Author? had it coming, to be honest, after what happened to all those darlings

Bonus quote: ‘The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful.’

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Is Wordle threatening the right today?

We need to check with Jesus

I was in Put in Bay in August and can confirm anyone near that lake is having a good time

The White House is more alarmed about this than they’ve ever been about a school shooting

A lot of small literary journals take reviews (sometimes they have to be newly released) but you run into the problem of spending time reading and writing without knowing your review will be published. Local indie papers often take reviews too

Same. office break room with Spin and Spy magazines

Love to read about morals from the guy who left his wife for his assistant

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this made me laugh out loud

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Have a new micro in Failbetter. I owe thanks to the participants in the workshops with Meg Pokrass and Matt Kendrick, where I started and polished this story of rock music, bunions, and spreadsheets
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This is a fun story

“Patricia often felt like she was one of George’s old books. He’d had her so long that most of the time he didn’t even notice her … From time to time he picked her up and gave her a read, but most often she just sat gathering dust.”

It’s been back

This might make you swoon

“a past that was exciting to him, that he still knew nothing about, and that he couldn’t wait to learn like it would be on the most important test he’d ever studied for in his life”

Come for the humor and stay for the martini recipe

I’m sorry the book launch is sold out in Chicago but glad I found this essay today

In March I was looking for a birthday cake and theirs wasn’t the most expensive but it was the cutest

Can we feed the horse more cowbell

Thank you. He was at so many of our writing group meetings even though he didn’t contribute

thank you