the day is HERE! finally sharing the secret project i've been working on since jan...
BACKLIST LIT 📖 A blog dedicated to backlist independent literature.
the first post (about Edith Wharton and ghost stories!) is up now, and I have a bonus post coming tomorrow!
EEEEK!
backlistlit.wordpress.com
Have you ever pulled a student quietly aside and said, “Hey. What you did was really, really good”? You can watch someone’s life changing in real time.
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These Brazilian Cheese Breads are giving “I may be small, but I run the whole snack table” energy.
Serve them warm. Tear them dramatically. Let the cheese pull do all the talking.
www.loulougirls.com/easy-brazili...
#PaoDeQueijo #BrazilianCheeseBread #CheesyBites
After posting a different Hood mockingbird image as today’s photo of the day, I found this shot, which I like even more. These mockingbirds are found only on Española Island (previously called Hood Island). They live in social groups where . . .
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#birds #photography
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Write what you don’t know, tell don’t show, using a multiplicity of ever-shifting voices.
Some small presses are working on this! Are you familiar with the Ike Project out of Portland? Publishing VERY short works--like a single short story. Some fantastic author represented too such as @joybaglio.bsky.social and Maria Lioutaia.
www.ikeproject.com/shop
I'm very jealous of all the non-American authors who get to publish little novellas and tiny essay collections that top out 100 pages. We gotta bring that publishing culture to the states.
Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?
Disquiet International is pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Luso-American Fellowship Competition, along with the inaugural winner of the Katherine Vaz Fellowship! share.google/HNWYHGyKBx1S...
there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it
this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive
Authoritarianism has arrived in the US. So what does it look like, what do authoritarians do, and how does it compare to other authoritarian regimes that we know of, like Putin's Russia?
The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
“She held all the possibilities at once, suspended in uncertainty.” Stories from America’s caregiving crisis.
Meet The Female Journalist Risking Her Life To Report On Women In Afghanistan
My seventh-grade teacher threw a Bible across the classroom, just missing our heads.
Brooklyn has been graced with the appearance of a swan so rare that experts say there have been no recorded sightings of the bird in New York City—until now.
There are a couple kestrels near my house and I love them so much, all that hunting fury in a gorgeous bird the size of a pop can. And that tail!
You know the economy is bad when scammers are trying to get emerging writers and authors. Baby, you got off at the wrong exit.
Listen to my cousin. Deadloch is on Amazon prime in the US. I would also add, in terms of giving you context, it’s kinda Parks and Recreation meets Broadchurch, with just a ton of messy queers. NB: season two is coming soon and they added to a Hemsworth & crocs 🙌🏻🇦🇺🔥🐊
To be left dead by attacks is the natural state of the Middle Easterner, while in the Western culture (also Israel somehow) being killed is a major taboo.
Happy International Women's Day!
Remember, when in doubt, do as Stagecoach Mary Fields did, and either headbutt, shoot it, set it on fire, or let your horses trample it.
"She broke more noses than any other person in central Montana."
Remembering the great Maria Teresa Horta (1937–2025) and the Three Marias of Portugal (subject of my #AWP26 panel talk) for International Women's Day.
Happy International Women's Day to all the women who have survived men and their bullshit and carry on.
Pronouncing wifi like weefee just to make the helpdesk technician lose his shit
Reliance on "A.i." makes people sloppier, shittier writers, which encourages sloppier, shittier reading, all of which makes people sloppier, shittier thinkers.
None of these "A.i." words matter, so no one gives a shit.
This is INCREDIBLY bad for people individually and for society as a whole.
