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Lisa Levy

@lisalevywrites.bsky.social

Critic. Essayist. Style maven. Chronic Migraineur and Patient Advocate. Lover of reality TV and vintage dresses. WIP FUNERAL IN MY BRAIN: A BIOGRAPHY OF MIGRAINE (St Martin’s). Crime fiction correspondent @washingtonpost

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Thank you! Forgive the lag, I'm not on here often.

16.06.2025 09:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is the first season I’ve gotten beyond episode two. The beginning is like watching Zoom after Zoom. And they are aggressively bland.

23.02.2025 02:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The hound in winter.

19.02.2025 20:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I remember this vividly.

17.02.2025 00:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey, is publishing getting you down? Too many rejections, not enough wins?

Did you hear about my anti-authoritarian mentorship where I spill the secrets of the publicity and help you to move up and on in your career? Link in bio.

22.01.2025 17:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

News! I'm offering two new mentorships through Writing Workshops. Punk Rock Publicity is a service where you hire me to help you navigate your writing career.

Here's an interview about the program:
writingworkshops.com/.../punk-roc....

and a link to sign up!
writingworkshops.com/en-ca/produc...

13.01.2025 20:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And when things get really rough, he quits and makes a comeback. Everyone loves a comeback.

03.01.2025 01:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Best pie: Pecan or Chocolate pecan
Best ice cream: Butter Pecan
Best donut: chocolate sprinkle
Best bar: cream cheese brownie
Best cake: flourless chocolate
Best other: ice cream sandwich (choc chip cookies and vanilla/sweet cream ice cream

28.12.2024 11:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@alisonborealis.bsky.social I'm writing a book about migraine and would love to talk to you about weather tracking (I'm also super sensitive to pressure shifts).

21.12.2024 10:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

RHOBH Fans: I have a burning question. Is Mo messing with Dorit?

13.12.2024 02:36 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My last column on Hitchcock influenced thrillers at the Washington Post got picked up by the Calgary Herald! It's an international sensation. www.pressreader.com/canada/calga...

08.12.2024 01:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today's poem of the day, "A Black Genius," is by my undergraduate mentor, Ishmael Reed, who had one of the liveliest and most creative minds I've ever encountered. poets.org/poem/black-g...

03.12.2024 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Great Brain

27.11.2024 01:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Night reading: Sex, drugs, rock & roll and New Jersey

25.11.2024 02:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The Magnetic Fields: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music The Magnetic Fields: Tiny Desk Concert

This is making me wish hard for the good times in NYC at clubs long gone watching bands just as long gone. But this was a time machine. Suddenly I'm at the Knitting Factory watching these songs make their debut, this epic, crazy album, blowing our tiny, sweaty, minds.
youtu.be/wnFQn7GD1rg?...

24.11.2024 02:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I would gladly go down the rabbit hole if they were on a Canadian streaming service in English. I did watch one in French and it was bizarre.

23.11.2024 00:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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New column at the @washingtonpost.com about the enduring and wide-ranging influence of a maverick auteur you've probably never heard of.

I can't link, but you can Google...

17.11.2024 22:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

An opinionated editor’s work is never done

16.11.2024 21:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I ran out of 90Day shows and Housewives so I slipped into season 24 of SVU like Meredith Marks slips into a bath. How I’ve missed you Olivia Benson.

16.11.2024 21:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If you, like me, are worried about the state of the world here is a great idea. A local restaurant is running a program where you donate money and they convert donations to meals. I can't stop wars or winter but I can feed hungry people in my neighborhood--sorry, neighbourhood, it's Canada.

12.12.2023 02:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You might like this

10.12.2023 19:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hive mind: I’m reading for an essay on finding community and I wondered what happened to the term subculture. Has it been canceled because it implies hierarchy? How do people find their people? Personal examples are good too. TIA!

10.12.2023 16:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Some books are turducken’s and other wisdom from me about true crime fiction. wapo.st/3R5kuIp

21.11.2023 16:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For the Monday crowd

30.10.2023 14:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m going to get meta here: crime writers, name your favorite novel about writing (crime writing is even better). Think Misery not On Writing. Self-promotion fine when appropriate. TIA!

30.10.2023 01:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

I have so many questions about Life After Lockup/Life After Lockup/Love During Lockup.

First, are these different shows? They drift into each other, yet I keep buying new seasons.

Second, it makes 90DF, Love Is Blind, etc. look like third-grade recess.

Third, I might have to write about it.

12.09.2023 01:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I believe it’s a motherfucking criminal conspiracy.

19.08.2023 00:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

F

18.08.2023 14:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If it's yahoo, sadly no. I have retired viviansternwood. You could just DM?

18.08.2023 13:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here in Canada, we prefer messages in bottles or skywriting. Or you can use, whatdoyoucallitagain, email?

18.08.2023 13:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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