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Cara Blue Adams

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YOU NEVER GET IT BACK, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Work in the New Yorker and Granta. Associate professor at Temple University. Brooklyn & Beacon via Vermont.

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Well well well, if it isn’t the several debilitating weaknesses of my own creation

24.12.2024 16:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’ve discovered it, the greatest pan of all time

24.12.2024 16:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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If I can’t do it here, it’s never going to happen

24.12.2024 04:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Made it to Vermont and am ready to ditch my big city ways and discover the true meaning of Christmas

24.12.2024 04:19 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A bucket hat? The mountain lion from Open Throat? The guest?

23.11.2023 15:53 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

FSG-sponsored Macy’s balloon WHEN

23.11.2023 15:52 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Providence’s beloved Riffraff bookstore and bar have new owners that plan on keeping it just the s... Just three months after it hit the market for $250,000, the ever-popular RiffRaff Bookstore and Bar in Providence’s West End neighborhood has been purchased by Ottavia De Luca and Lucas Mann.

I am so happy & excited for Lucas & Ottavia! www.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/02/m...

02.10.2023 17:08 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Met this guy at the climate march today

17.09.2023 23:20 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The “Hi Barbie!” of the guy world

08.09.2023 23:39 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Best-case scenario!

08.09.2023 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just say what you mean! Too long? Fake feeling? Features characters with unappealingly clever names? Involves an orphan?

08.09.2023 21:23 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Any time a book is described as Dickensian, I get nervous

08.09.2023 21:17 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Good Art should kill you instantly

30.08.2023 21:32 — 👍 1891    🔁 550    💬 48    📌 37

Thank you, Tommy!

31.07.2023 15:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks so much, Alex!!

31.07.2023 15:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you!

31.07.2023 13:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’ve already littered the internet with this news, but I’ve accepted a new associate professorship at Temple! Saw my new office on Friday

31.07.2023 13:43 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 6    📌 0

“Handsome, walkin” would be an excellent bio for him

30.07.2023 13:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Took Blaze to Philadelphia & he’s into it

30.07.2023 11:57 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Melinda Moustakis’s two books are set there, and perhaps some of Leigh Newman’s work, too? They’re both great writers

26.07.2023 20:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Or the afterlife, a distinct possibility

26.07.2023 20:54 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s fun to watch people filter in, like we’re all at a good house party

26.07.2023 20:50 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Georgia O’Keeffe as a Kathryn Scanlan character

26.07.2023 13:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A quiet moment at the Rose O’Neill Literary House (just finished teaching a weeklong generative workshop)

14.07.2023 20:00 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Corresponding with someone named Bettina Sturm . . . Bettina Sturm . . . a name for the ages

08.07.2023 14:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've twice been to Cats against my will and only now is it paying off

06.07.2023 02:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He has, however, already come close to eating half an abandoned hamburger he discovered in the grass, so he's on track to develop an ambivalent attachment to the Fourth

04.07.2023 18:22 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My dog is soft launching being afraid of loud noises . . . impeccable timing

04.07.2023 16:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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