Becca Worby

and when you do have the go-ahead, turn on track changes before you implement edits 🙏

we need a boat to get stuck NOW

The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record On a summer afternoon early in the pandemic, the songwriter Will Stratton was riding his bike near where he lives in the Hudson Valley when he had an experience that felt strange at the time but ha…

“We are the arsonists and the fire department.” An absolutely beautiful essay by my friend @beccaworby.bsky.social

Thank you Erin 💕

Come for the discussion of @willstratton.bsky.social's gorgeous record, stay for the wild tangent about an arsonist who was also a fire investigator!!

Deeply grateful to Becca for this long read, a mixture of personal climate essay based on her own time in California, and overview of the scope of my album based on a conversation we had last month. Thanks again Becca 🙏

The Best Story Collection About California Wildfires Isn’t a Book—It’s a Brand-New Record On a summer afternoon early in the pandemic, the songwriter Will Stratton was riding his bike near where he lives in the Hudson Valley when he had an experience that felt strange at the time but ha…

For @literaryhub.bsky.social, I wrote about "Points of Origin," songwriter @willstratton.bsky.social's beautiful new short story collection about California wildfires — which happens to be a record lithub.com/the-best-sto...

We can't be having news like this right now. I'm going to need somebody to check on that "remarkably plump" beaver in Chicago immediately

Jaime Green | author and editor Jaime Green is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of The Possibility of Life, and she offers online writing classes and editing services.

extremely stupid timing what with the coup and all, but

My spring teaching fell through and I'm looking for work. I do developmental editing for nonfiction books, copyediting & proofreading, and I've worked as an editor for essays and science journalism, too. Freelance or part-time. jaimegreen.net

still some space!

The Philadelphia Wife would be the best of all the wife books

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Happy New Year! Welcome to our annual look back at the boldest, most surprising ways the world has changed for the better. This epic list is a treasure trove of hopeful facts, each linked to one of our stories from 2024. We hope it brings you joy and inspiration for the year ahead. ow.ly/fhuE50UyMbs

For a while I tried to send a new application out after each rejection, but that got expensive 🫠

So exciting! Somebody tell the Longform boys that this is how you do it!!

If you're a writer who has had an essay collection or literary memoir published by an independent press, I would love to connect with you and hear more about your experience. Happy to share more about my own journey in a DM. Thank you!

Congrats to you both on a great series!

I currently have 1 book ready for pickup and 5 in transit .... and I already have 8 books checked out. I live 2 blocks from my local branch and my holds are my joy 😬

Leg mannequins stick out of a cart on a rainy NYC street.

Happy rainy day, NYC

Hey look, @rtbcheerful.bsky.social has arrived! Don't let the name fool you: RTBC publishes rigorous solutions journalism. Give us a follow for a daily dose of hopeful news.

Recently I've had multiple (nonviolent) dreams about cats and raptors. Like imagine there's a cat sitting tall with its back to you and when you look again, it's a hawk. I'm here to tell you this happened to me FOR REAL on a run this morning. Saw a sitting creature, assumed cat, and then it flew.

The Essay as Realm - The Georgia Review When I was nine or ten years old, my grandmother gave me a book full of so many random, interesting facts and tidbits of science and history I sometimes think it’s the secret source of all my adult ob...

"I think this is important: memories and ideas happen in a place. An essay is a place for ideas; it has to feel like a place. It has to give one the feeling of entering a room." I have been thinking about this Elisa Gabbert essay every day since I read it. www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/the-es...

"I also saw it at the Public" had me cackling, thank you for that

You Gotta Eat: Real-Life Strategies for Feeding Yourself When Cooking Feels Impossible a book by Margaret Eby A trained chef teaches you how to keep yourself fed--and maybe even enjoy it!--in the face of stress, burnout, and exhaustion. Delivery is expensive. Eating a spoonful of peanut butter is depressing. ...

YOU GOTTA EAT is finally out in the world! It’s a Cheetos and caviar for breakfast kind of day!!!! bookshop.org/p/books/you-...

Or editors of any kind, for that matter. Even a generally good editor is probably not a good editor of their own work!

Texas Libraries Are Engines of Optimism At the frontline of their communities, libraries connect people to information, resources, and each other

Long ago, I used social media to share things I read and loved. It's a nice thing to do, so maybe I'll do it again on this here platform — starting with this total joy by Elizabeth McCracken on libraries as "engines of optimism": texashighways.com/culture/texa...

Unsurprisingly I loved this. I wrote an eerily similar essay about Dirt Cat, the cat I fell in love with while lonely in Santa Barbara. It has been rejected by numerous prestigious lit mags but maybe will see the light of day eventually 🙃

Just here to scream into the void about the LA Times layoffs!!!

'Take It Down and They'll Return': The Stunning Revival of the Penobscot River A historic project in Maine shows that when dams are removed, a river and its fish can recover with surprising speed.

A few years back, magic happened in Maine when two dams on the Penobscot were removed and *millions* of sea-run fish returned. I wrote about the effort and joy for Reasons to Be Cheerful with edits from the brilliant @beccaworby.bsky.social:

Meet Japan’s Iriomote and Tsushima cats: Ambassadors for island conservation Japan is home to two rare subspecies of leopard cat, one found only on Iriomote Island and the other on Tsushima Island. Neither larger than a housecat, each subspecies has an estimated population of ...

Always astonished and delighted to find out how many wild cats out there are no bigger than house cats news.mongabay.com/2023/10/meet...