Anna Sproul-Latimer
@annasplat.bsky.social
Founding Partner, Neon Literary. Get in, loser, we're making it art. www.neonliterary.com
Aaaand yadda yadda yadda, the universe and DCPD have literally forced me to give up on trying to drive and spend my morning waiting to see the monks. Here’s to loving kindness shutting everything down.
February 10, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Aaaand yadda yadda yadda, the universe and DCPD have literally forced me to give up on trying to drive and spend my morning waiting to see the monks. Here’s to loving kindness shutting everything down.
JAM THE GEARS OF THE WORLD TO A HALT, MY DUDES.
February 10, 2026 at 1:42 PM
JAM THE GEARS OF THE WORLD TO A HALT, MY DUDES.
I forgot to check the peace monks’ route this morning, and it’s my precise morning commute, and my kids and I are trapped half a mile or so behind them and will be for at least an hour, and God this is kind of a holy experience?
February 10, 2026 at 1:41 PM
I forgot to check the peace monks’ route this morning, and it’s my precise morning commute, and my kids and I are trapped half a mile or so behind them and will be for at least an hour, and God this is kind of a holy experience?
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watching lindsay vonn and internalizing the important lesson of never trying to do anything past the age of 40
February 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
watching lindsay vonn and internalizing the important lesson of never trying to do anything past the age of 40
And I could not be more proud.
Inbox: The New Yorker is hiring Washington Post book critic Becca Rothfeld.
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
And I could not be more proud.
well that's going to cause a lot of flooding isn't it
February 8, 2026 at 10:42 PM
well that's going to cause a lot of flooding isn't it
All you need to know going in is that Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980 after their beloved bowler-hat wearing drummer John Bonham died suddenly at 32, and the three surviving members had no idea his son was going to be onstage.
February 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
All you need to know going in is that Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980 after their beloved bowler-hat wearing drummer John Bonham died suddenly at 32, and the three surviving members had no idea his son was going to be onstage.
On a related note — if you want spiritual medicine this Sunday morning, watch this — IMO the greatest performance ever on the Opera House stage:
youtu.be/2cZ_EFAmj08?...
I promise it’s worth it, even if you don’t think you’re a Led Zeppelin fan.
youtu.be/2cZ_EFAmj08?...
I promise it’s worth it, even if you don’t think you’re a Led Zeppelin fan.
Heart - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors HD
YouTube video by Mark Pakula
youtu.be
February 8, 2026 at 3:58 PM
On a related note — if you want spiritual medicine this Sunday morning, watch this — IMO the greatest performance ever on the Opera House stage:
youtu.be/2cZ_EFAmj08?...
I promise it’s worth it, even if you don’t think you’re a Led Zeppelin fan.
youtu.be/2cZ_EFAmj08?...
I promise it’s worth it, even if you don’t think you’re a Led Zeppelin fan.
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A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
It’s 40-60! These people are violating the social contract!!!
February 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
It’s 40-60! These people are violating the social contract!!!
Come sit with me in the empty theater
A note on ambition as the old world breaks.
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Excited to be a paying subscriber to this. The staff CVs are 🔥
Help us be the newsroom D.C. deserves: 51st.news/dc-bezos-was...
DC local news deserves better than Jeff Bezos
Help us build our local newsroom, by D.C. for D.C.
51st.news
February 5, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Excited to be a paying subscriber to this. The staff CVs are 🔥
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I’ve been using the CIA World Factbook online since I was a little kid. What a stupid, pointless desecration.
They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.
February 4, 2026 at 10:27 PM
I’ve been using the CIA World Factbook online since I was a little kid. What a stupid, pointless desecration.
(The archives include extensive book proposal tutorials.)
February 4, 2026 at 7:34 PM
(The archives include extensive book proposal tutorials.)
If you're a Post journalist who got laid off today: 1. [pats bench] come sit by us, is it time to go get that book deal?; and 2. even if not, I'd be happy to comp you a free year's subscription to "How to Glow in the Dark" if you reach out this week. neonliterary.substack.com?utm_campaign...
How to Glow in the Dark | Anna Sproul-Latimer | Substack
Book publishing advice and community for authors of fiction and nonfiction, written by the agents at Neon Literary. Click to read How to Glow in the Dark, a Substack publication with tens of thousands...
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February 4, 2026 at 7:33 PM
If you're a Post journalist who got laid off today: 1. [pats bench] come sit by us, is it time to go get that book deal?; and 2. even if not, I'd be happy to comp you a free year's subscription to "How to Glow in the Dark" if you reach out this week. neonliterary.substack.com?utm_campaign...
Think of the world we could have if we just got our money back from like 100 people and enacted a little antitrust legislation. It's closer than you think.
Let your rage and sorrow in. Let it make you delulu for this.
Let your rage and sorrow in. Let it make you delulu for this.
February 4, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Think of the world we could have if we just got our money back from like 100 people and enacted a little antitrust legislation. It's closer than you think.
Let your rage and sorrow in. Let it make you delulu for this.
Let your rage and sorrow in. Let it make you delulu for this.
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INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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Tapping the @greenwell.bsky.social sign www.megangreenwell.com/the-adults-i...
The Adults in the Room
Megan Greenwell's 2019 article about G/O Media and Jim Spanfeller's mismanagement of Deadspin
www.megangreenwell.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Tapping the @greenwell.bsky.social sign www.megangreenwell.com/the-adults-i...
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MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
February 4, 2026 at 2:47 PM
MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.
(after which i will get out and build the world anew with you, just give me a minute)
February 4, 2026 at 2:46 PM
(after which i will get out and build the world anew with you, just give me a minute)
watching wildly incompetent men come in and destroy every single thing that is tender and sacred in the city where my family has lived for 160 years is really, truly going to send me to the nuthouse
February 4, 2026 at 2:45 PM
watching wildly incompetent men come in and destroy every single thing that is tender and sacred in the city where my family has lived for 160 years is really, truly going to send me to the nuthouse
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Last year Will Lewis told WaPo staff that "people aren't reading your stuff." As though it was their fault that he and Bezos had corrupted the opinion section, demolished local coverage, and alienated thousands of subscribers. Now a great newsroom is being destroyed to hide their gross incompetence.
February 4, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Last year Will Lewis told WaPo staff that "people aren't reading your stuff." As though it was their fault that he and Bezos had corrupted the opinion section, demolished local coverage, and alienated thousands of subscribers. Now a great newsroom is being destroyed to hide their gross incompetence.
I don’t even know what to say.
February 4, 2026 at 2:27 PM
I don’t even know what to say.