Darby Price

It’s spooky season so perhaps you’d enjoy my piece about the Rapture and organ donations 😀🫀

FREDDIE FREEMAN YOU’RE GETTING A SECOND STATUE

All you have to do is look at the first post of all of these accounts to see THEY ARE HERE TO TROLL. Don’t take the bait.

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All the Lands We Inherit Check out All the Lands We Inherit - <p><em>All the Lands We Inherit</em> is a searing, heartbreaking, and formally inventive debut memoir about family, legacy, and identity. The story centers around ...

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Love seeing our contributors IRL! @darbyprice.bsky.social read from her new collection—including [Terrible is the punishment of the Lord] from Issue 3 of In Short!—at the 804 Lit Salon in DC last weekend.

Read it here: t.co/qKZMNdJPpH

Oh yes. Picking up the landline to hear an unearthly screeching is mine

I’m so happy I got a copy! You also perfectly captured the millennial experience of getting your first (family) computer. I felt so seen.

OK but please don’t sleep on @kristinaten.bsky.social ‘s debut, Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine. I read two stories on the plane ride back to LA and had to set it down to do some absorbing. Fun, fierce, a little scary—I’m loving it!!

What an amazing space & community that @andrewbertaina.bsky.social & @ladiwoods.bsky.social have built. Thanks so much for having me, thanks to my ridiculously talented co-readers, & thanks to all who came out! ❤️

I always end up there in August somehow. Eating through Coolinary makes up for it just a little bit, but it’s awful

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

Rent the Runway is a good option if you know you won’t need those clothes for longer than the conference. Depends on your budget but they make it really easy to cancel or pause a membership, if you’re not sure about the one-time rentals.

Definitely trending in the right direction!

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

At the very least, may there be some tea or chocolate or a snuggly cat in it for you 💛

Aries: The only thing holding you back from your dreams is you, and the threat of imprisonment.

Cheers to Uncle Jack! He sounds like he lived & loved well. No wonder he’s missed 💛

Darby wears black sweater and jeans and black rimmed eyeglasses. She smiles broadly and holds her hands up to frame a sign that reads, “Wanda Coleman Theater”.

Darby stands at a podium and reads from her book.

Jose Hernandez Diaz sits in a chair and reads from The Parachutist.

Amazing to read at the iconic @bblitarts.bsky.social last night! What a joy, especially listening to the work of @josehernandezdz.bsky.social. Go buy Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man & The Parachutist! And support Beyond Baroque, who makes community happen, w/ or w/o the NEA 💙📚

L.A. Bluesky, if you’re free tonight, cmon out to @bblitarts.bsky.social & help me celebrate not one but TWO new books from @josehernandezdz.bsky.social ! I’ll be reading but mostly just enjoying these brilliant writers & their words. 7pm, tickets here—

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Post: being recommended to stop using em dashes because ChatGPT uses them a lot. Image of two guys, one saying: no way. Should I change? He’s the one who sucks.

exactly

Exactly. And I don’t want to help pay for their overheating data centers either. Feels like I should be able to opt out of this!

Screenshot from an email that reads: Google recently added its best AI features to all of its Google Workspace plans. This means that you’ll now have access to an AI assistant that can help you get ideas and writing help for your marketing assets, help drive results with SEO keyword research, and save time on repetitive tasks. This also means that the price of your Google Workspace Starter plan for your business email subscription for @darbyprice.com, for the site Darby Price dot com, will increase from 72.00USD to 84.00 USD (tax included) per year in total for 1 users starting on Aug 7, 2025.

Hey that’s so cool, more money for a terrible set of features I have absolutely no intention of ever using! Thanks, Wix & Google 😒

do NOT apply for the scab jobs at columbia

They’re the same thing lol. I just don’t blame them for not recognizing it—the world has changed a LOT since we were kids, & they were raised on social media in a way we can’t really imagine. Probably better to just help them unionize & let them call it whatever they want 😅

While retirement typically occurs, after completing a career and saving and investing for it, a new trend is emerging among Gen Z career professionals called "micro-retirement." Micro-retirements involve taking a one to two-week break from work every 12 to 18 months. Gen Z is using micro-retirement to avoid burnout, find greater fulfillment in their work, and enhance their overall well-being. However, it's not just Gen-Z: according to a survey from Side Hustles, 10% of workers are considering taking a micro-retirement and 75% thought employers should offer micro-retirement policies such as unpaid sabbaticals. The sentence “Micro-retirements involve taking a one to two-week break from work every 12 to 18 months.” is highlighted for emphasis.

Some are dunking on this but Gen Z grew up firehosed by hustle culture content on social media. Wages are stagnant while costs rise so they work multiple jobs. I submit that it’s good they’re realizing that constant labor is no way to live

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A headline from the New Yorker: Has AI made learning to write pointless?

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Darby wears black pants, black top, pink sweater and floral sneakers. She stands on a stage and reads from her book, All the Lands We Inherit.

Today is awful but yesterday I launched a book & I’m donating over $100 to an immigrants rights organization thanks to the support of the people who came out & bought copies. It was an amazing, love-filled evening. So there’s *some* light I’m holding on to.

THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH SITUATION FOR POSSIBLY MILLIONS

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My book launch is tomorrow! If you’re free & want to join virtually, follow me on IG at @ darbykilleen—I’ll be (awkwardly) livestreaming it there! 6pm PST. 20% of all proceeds will go to support @oralelb.bsky.social — if you buy the book online, email a receipt to allthelandsweinherit at gmail 💙📚