Elizabeth Rynecki

Things I've Recently Enjoyed (and You Might Too!) On the Art of Letter Writing

Letters, letters, letters….read all about it. I’ve been super into letters lately…. Wish you could get a letter and if prompted you might even send a letter…. Check out my latest Substack!

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The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Fakes, Forgeries, and Replicas Moshe Rynecki replicas in the marketplace

Discovering Moshe Rynecki paintings continues to excite me, and I hope to find other authentic Moshe Rynecki paintings in the coming years. But lately I’ve come to realize that finding replicas might be far easier.
More on Substack:
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Happy New Year!

Typewriter Q & A Postcard Project. #5 3 mini interviews. Volume Five.

I’m delighted to be included in the latest collection! So many interesting questions and answers. Thank you, @erynecki.bsky.social! elizabethrynecki.substack.com/p/typewriter...

Thanks for being part of the project!

It was fun to speak with @ronitplank.bsky.social about all the different ways I’ve tackled memoir…. in a book, in a film, in a podcast…. each medium has its own challenges, advantages, and learning curves. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Authors Answer: K. Valentin Authors Answer Q&A #564

Learn about some of @kvalentinwrites.bsky.social's favorite works of art and more in this Q&A with Authors Answer (@erynecki.bsky.social)! Her book 🔮AN AMATEUR WITCH'S GUIDE TO MURDER💀 is on sale now.

https://loom.ly/z5Yk0e4

Elizabeth Rynecki (@elizabethrynecki) The rains have arrived in the Bay Area! Is there an Adopt-a-Drain program in your community? I wrote about my micro-volunteerism efforts and the adopt a drain program in both Oakland and San Francisco...

The rains have arrived in the Bay Area! Is there an Adopt-a-Drain program in your community? I wrote about my micro-volunteerism efforts and the adopt a drain program in both Oakland and San Francisco.

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Milton Esterow, Journalist Who Transformed ARTnews and the Art World, Dies at 97 Milton Esterow, a former publisher of ARTnews who investigatory journalism altered the art world, has died at 97.

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Hwy 24 shooting suspect taken into custody in Walnut Creek after shots fired near Caldecott Tunnel A suspect is in custody after a freeway shooting on eastbound Highway 24 near the Caldecott Tunnel on Thursday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.

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Hey @oaklandside.org it’s created a mess on Upper Rockridge streets…

You can read all the Typewriter Q&A Postcard Project posts here: elizabethrynecki.substack.com/t/typewriter...

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Yup. 2.8

Another EQ! But smallish?

It’s Volume 3 of the Typewriter Q and A Postcard project!

I’m currently collecting responses for Volume 4, so if you want to participate, send me your snail mail address…. substack.com/home/post/p-...

New earthquake reported: M 3.0 - 3 km SE of Berkeley, CA - 2025-09-23T01:26:05.210Z

4.6 earthquake centered in Berkeley jolts Bay Area An earthquake has struck the S.F. Bay Area, centered near Berkeley. A sharp jolt was widely felt.

JUST IN: An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 jolted the San Francisco area awake shortly before 3 a.m. on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

since that clearly woke a lot of you up too, please tell the USGS about it here earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

4.6 so close to our house

That eq felt enormous

Mare Island and the Laugh-In I'm Getting a Sinking Feeling...

Ever been to Mare Island? Did you know a submarine sunk at the dock? My dad helped salvage it. The Laugh-In made fun of it. There’s a beer named after it. And I made a podcast episode about all that AND the metaphors it revealed about my son’s ADHD. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Mare Island and the Laugh-In I'm Getting a Sinking Feeling...

Check out the behind the scenes trailer that we made for Field Trips and Sunken Ships, the bonus episode for That Sinking Feeling: Adventures in ADHD and Ship Salvage.
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Gold Bars: Who the F*ck Is Uncle Ludwig Review - Bricks of Accusations - POV Magazine Gold Bars: Who the F*ck Is Uncle Ludwig review: Billie Mintz's documentary follows the story of a family secret and suspected Nazi gold.

Well, this looks intriguing … povmagazine.com/gold-bars-wh...

Montreal man spends 50 years tracking down his ancestor's lost paintings | CBC News William Raphael's paintings of Quebec in the 1800s are in the collections of major museums across Canada, but his work has largely faded from public memory. Now, one of his descendants is trying to br...

I’m always happy to read stories about lost art and families searching for the pieces. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

The post rejection query cookie eaten at 3:50am was pretty delicious.

Sometimes I can't decide which is worse: the rejection from the person who doesn't like your writing. Or the ghosting from the place where you submitted your writing.
Honestly, they're both pretty awful.

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

Plus don’t forget whatever the land of querying agents might be called…the land of ghosts? The land of No Reply?