Katherine
@katherinecrosby.bsky.social
“There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me." —Franz Wright
American fiction writer, although Briony Tallis’s opening pages are my love language. Riding ebikes across foreign cities is pretty cool too, and gender equality.
American fiction writer, although Briony Tallis’s opening pages are my love language. Riding ebikes across foreign cities is pretty cool too, and gender equality.
Pinned
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Proud to be repped by the same agency as one of my favorite cheeses @peter23.bsky.social www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Hollywood’s Cheesiest New Star? Parmigiano Reggiano Reportedly Signed By UTA for Film and TV Placement
The agency will reportedly work with the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium to get "the king of cheeses" product placement in Hollywood projects.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Proud to be repped by the same agency as one of my favorite cheeses @peter23.bsky.social www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.
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THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
“If I swallowed every drop of water from the tower above your house,” Olivia had written, “I would still thirst for you.”
Reader, this is shit prose.
Reader, this is shit prose.
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“If I swallowed every drop of water from the tower above your house,” Olivia had written, “I would still thirst for you.”
Reader, this is shit prose.
Reader, this is shit prose.
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We are phasing out the terms “extant” and “extinct” from our exhibits and will now refer to species as either “Darwinners" or “Darlosers.”
November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We are phasing out the terms “extant” and “extinct” from our exhibits and will now refer to species as either “Darwinners" or “Darlosers.”
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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so the two things I am posting about just now are (1) a rich, scholarly account of the art treasures that were looted from Benin in 1897, and (2) this exasperated, and accurate, screed against the horny magazine profile, they are both at flaminghydra.com and that's why you should subscribe
November 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
so the two things I am posting about just now are (1) a rich, scholarly account of the art treasures that were looted from Benin in 1897, and (2) this exasperated, and accurate, screed against the horny magazine profile, they are both at flaminghydra.com and that's why you should subscribe
My Novembo writing hack: the Vellum draft
Doing a full retype of 370p—great way to cull shit words and ponder the narrative turns on my way to a complete MS.
It’s a boost to see my story in book form, oooh the white spaces. It also forces the “one task” mindset.
@printrunpodcast.bsky.social
Doing a full retype of 370p—great way to cull shit words and ponder the narrative turns on my way to a complete MS.
It’s a boost to see my story in book form, oooh the white spaces. It also forces the “one task” mindset.
@printrunpodcast.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
My Novembo writing hack: the Vellum draft
Doing a full retype of 370p—great way to cull shit words and ponder the narrative turns on my way to a complete MS.
It’s a boost to see my story in book form, oooh the white spaces. It also forces the “one task” mindset.
@printrunpodcast.bsky.social
Doing a full retype of 370p—great way to cull shit words and ponder the narrative turns on my way to a complete MS.
It’s a boost to see my story in book form, oooh the white spaces. It also forces the “one task” mindset.
@printrunpodcast.bsky.social
Epstein’s advice, the way he diagnosed women’s responses, as if they were newly broken in horses. A generation of our leaders were okay with this.
Expose them all.
Expose them all.
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Epstein’s advice, the way he diagnosed women’s responses, as if they were newly broken in horses. A generation of our leaders were okay with this.
Expose them all.
Expose them all.
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes! I’d told my brother don’t worry about all the complexity hype, the storyline is linear, and to this day he’s still annoyed that I “spoiled” it for him.
does anyone else remember the way inception was sold as this super confusing movie? and that newspapers were printing visual guides on what the plot was? and then you saw the movie and it was actually really straight forward?
what was that about
what was that about
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Yes! I’d told my brother don’t worry about all the complexity hype, the storyline is linear, and to this day he’s still annoyed that I “spoiled” it for him.
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the democratic party establishment hasnt learned a damn thing since they voted to allow george w bush to invade iraq. not one thing.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
the democratic party establishment hasnt learned a damn thing since they voted to allow george w bush to invade iraq. not one thing.
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This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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This review! “Happy people really don’t live here. Sorrow floats above them like the cemetery ghosts, unmoored and occasionally angry, everything framed within a madcap murder mystery…Sparks is a clever writer who has, by melding conventions from several genres, created a perfect hybrid”
The bighearted ghost story you didn’t know you needed. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/h... @liveright.bsky.social @ambersparks.bsky.social @keithdonohue.bsky.social #booksky
Happy People Don’t Live Here: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This review! “Happy people really don’t live here. Sorrow floats above them like the cemetery ghosts, unmoored and occasionally angry, everything framed within a madcap murder mystery…Sparks is a clever writer who has, by melding conventions from several genres, created a perfect hybrid”
MAGA owned this shutdown. Why now? Sorry to vent. I've spent years organizing, lying I guess, about the existential stakes. Turns out, only took forty days and a secret caucus. Undermined last Tuesday too. What-ever.
a man in a striped jacket is standing in a hallway .
Alt: a man in a striped robe is standing in a hallway and saying go home
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
MAGA owned this shutdown. Why now? Sorry to vent. I've spent years organizing, lying I guess, about the existential stakes. Turns out, only took forty days and a secret caucus. Undermined last Tuesday too. What-ever.
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Listening to these pathetic rationalizations from King, Hassan, Shaheen, whoever else they have queued up.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Listening to these pathetic rationalizations from King, Hassan, Shaheen, whoever else they have queued up.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.
Disappointed that they're not having windup speech by Sen. Neville Chamberlain.
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the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
This seems significant
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
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"Silence, for me, is now intolerable."
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Silence, for me, is now intolerable."
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If you are appreciating the new Peter Coviello essay about not talking to the NYT about Mamdani? I offer you this absolute banger he wrote after the election in 2016. It’s even closer to the bone now. avidly.org/2016/12/09/m...
My Thoughts are Murder
Who can be serene in a country where both the rulers and the ruled are without principle? The remembrance of my country spoils my walk– Henry David Thoreau As with much e…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If you are appreciating the new Peter Coviello essay about not talking to the NYT about Mamdani? I offer you this absolute banger he wrote after the election in 2016. It’s even closer to the bone now. avidly.org/2016/12/09/m...
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If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Brilliant. Must read, as David outlines here.
This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Brilliant. Must read, as David outlines here.
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Thirty years ago today, Doug Ross saved a boy trapped in a storm drain, and George Clooney became the biggest star in the world: youtu.be/bMxr5oM9GFI?...
Doug's Rescue | ER
YouTube video by ER - Emergency Room
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November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Thirty years ago today, Doug Ross saved a boy trapped in a storm drain, and George Clooney became the biggest star in the world: youtu.be/bMxr5oM9GFI?...
If you see this post an album cover with motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If you see this post an album cover with motor vehicle on it.