Ryan Sartor
@ryansartor.bsky.social
writer // writers’ assistant on duncanville
// host of the difficult to name reading series // new york knicks fan // ryansartor.com
// host of the difficult to name reading series // new york knicks fan // ryansartor.com
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Ryan Sartor
@ryansartor.bsky.social
· Nov 30
All I want from this app: photos of dogs, bad jokes and every conceivable grievance
Denver Airport really seems designed by someone who said, “How many super tense arguments can I generate at one time?”
August 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Denver Airport really seems designed by someone who said, “How many super tense arguments can I generate at one time?”
36 hours in Connecticut and my main takeaway is this place has become extremely, casually racist
July 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
36 hours in Connecticut and my main takeaway is this place has become extremely, casually racist
Love Island USA performing a minor miracle in that I hate every single one of these motherfuckers
July 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Love Island USA performing a minor miracle in that I hate every single one of these motherfuckers
Shared a piece of wedding news with my mom that my fiancée didn’t want me to tell anyone yet. Now I’m running around like Kate Winslet in Contagion. “Who did you tell? Aunt Barb.” *runs to phone*
June 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Shared a piece of wedding news with my mom that my fiancée didn’t want me to tell anyone yet. Now I’m running around like Kate Winslet in Contagion. “Who did you tell? Aunt Barb.” *runs to phone*
Overheard at the coffee shop: “That’s why I love A.I. so much.” I’m not being funny, I really thought the only person who loved A.I. was Sam Altman
June 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Overheard at the coffee shop: “That’s why I love A.I. so much.” I’m not being funny, I really thought the only person who loved A.I. was Sam Altman
Did they offer him his quote?
June 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Did they offer him his quote?
Genuinely thrilled every time I see someone on Twitter call up Grok. Grok shows up like, "Uhhhhhhhhhhhh maybe this???????" It's always good
May 29, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Genuinely thrilled every time I see someone on Twitter call up Grok. Grok shows up like, "Uhhhhhhhhhhhh maybe this???????" It's always good
Just saw a road rage dude throw trash from his moving car into the open window of another car. L.A. is fuckin’ back
May 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Just saw a road rage dude throw trash from his moving car into the open window of another car. L.A. is fuckin’ back
Did Anthony Edwards legally change his name to “Knee Injury”?
May 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Did Anthony Edwards legally change his name to “Knee Injury”?
Got Wuthering Heights “spoiled” for me today. Can feel myself inventing new things to get annoyed at in real time
April 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Got Wuthering Heights “spoiled” for me today. Can feel myself inventing new things to get annoyed at in real time
Alright, I think that’s a wrap on “lists”
March 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Alright, I think that’s a wrap on “lists”
He’s like, “Next I’m gonna have to learn their names…”
March 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
He’s like, “Next I’m gonna have to learn their names…”
Very excited for THIS LINE-UP at the next edition of Difficult to Name! Writers! Comedians! Even a musician! A conversation with the author of the greatest film industry book of all time! Come through!
February 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Very excited for THIS LINE-UP at the next edition of Difficult to Name! Writers! Comedians! Even a musician! A conversation with the author of the greatest film industry book of all time! Come through!
Really rude to us NBA / indie film enthusiasts for the Mavs to move Luka during Sundance weekend
February 2, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Really rude to us NBA / indie film enthusiasts for the Mavs to move Luka during Sundance weekend
Best part about getting older is I can rewatch Breaking Bad every two years, having forgotten everything that happens, and just sit there saying, “How the hell is Walt gonna get himself out of this situation?!”
January 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Best part about getting older is I can rewatch Breaking Bad every two years, having forgotten everything that happens, and just sit there saying, “How the hell is Walt gonna get himself out of this situation?!”
Every third vehicle I see on the road in L.A. is a waymo driverless car. No punchline just someone please help
January 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Every third vehicle I see on the road in L.A. is a waymo driverless car. No punchline just someone please help
I have to find a new corner of the internet
January 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I have to find a new corner of the internet
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Reading a short story at Difficult to Name this Friday! Free + collecting donations for incarcerated firefighters. Hosted by @ryansartor.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reading a short story at Difficult to Name this Friday! Free + collecting donations for incarcerated firefighters. Hosted by @ryansartor.bsky.social
When it’s a Friday night at 5:30pm and I remember that I made plans and I have to go somewhere — I’ve never murdered someone but I imagine it’s that level of regret
January 18, 2025 at 1:37 AM
When it’s a Friday night at 5:30pm and I remember that I made plans and I have to go somewhere — I’ve never murdered someone but I imagine it’s that level of regret
My top ten (sorry, eleven) novelists in no particular order:
Donald Antrim
Rachel Cusk
Don DeLillo
Paula Fox
Denis Johnson
Katie Kitamura
Ben Lerner
Carson McCullers
Ottessa Moshfegh
Aysegül Savas
Richard Yates
Donald Antrim
Rachel Cusk
Don DeLillo
Paula Fox
Denis Johnson
Katie Kitamura
Ben Lerner
Carson McCullers
Ottessa Moshfegh
Aysegül Savas
Richard Yates
December 28, 2024 at 9:03 PM
My top ten (sorry, eleven) novelists in no particular order:
Donald Antrim
Rachel Cusk
Don DeLillo
Paula Fox
Denis Johnson
Katie Kitamura
Ben Lerner
Carson McCullers
Ottessa Moshfegh
Aysegül Savas
Richard Yates
Donald Antrim
Rachel Cusk
Don DeLillo
Paula Fox
Denis Johnson
Katie Kitamura
Ben Lerner
Carson McCullers
Ottessa Moshfegh
Aysegül Savas
Richard Yates
There’s a kind of post-truth universe that exists on Letterboxd where good friends will tell me “Mixed Nuts and Ron Howard’s The Grinch are movies that anyone who watches will love and think is five stars.” And I’m here to fact check them to hell
December 24, 2024 at 6:36 PM
There’s a kind of post-truth universe that exists on Letterboxd where good friends will tell me “Mixed Nuts and Ron Howard’s The Grinch are movies that anyone who watches will love and think is five stars.” And I’m here to fact check them to hell
I no longer fear death because I’ve spent 12 hours sleeping on the floor of LAX — a floor that is so hard, I fear someone will now mistake my back for a concrete slab and build me into a wall
December 21, 2024 at 3:32 PM
I no longer fear death because I’ve spent 12 hours sleeping on the floor of LAX — a floor that is so hard, I fear someone will now mistake my back for a concrete slab and build me into a wall
Flight at LAX has been delayed for 8 hours. Airlines, you win this and all rounds
December 21, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Flight at LAX has been delayed for 8 hours. Airlines, you win this and all rounds
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New story up at Florida Review! Thanks to the entire team and special thanks to fiction editor
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Tiniest Champagne
Nick Mandernach For no reason I was cruelest to Mom. I groaned when her hearing got bad, forgot birthdays, stole thirty-four thousand dollars. I knew I’d make it right, but didn’t know how. When she...
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December 15, 2024 at 9:23 PM
New story up at Florida Review! Thanks to the entire team and special thanks to fiction editor
@djpoissant.bsky.social
cah.ucf.edu/floridarevie...
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This is America. If you can’t complain to coworkers about your managers, what are we even doing?
December 16, 2024 at 5:41 PM
This is America. If you can’t complain to coworkers about your managers, what are we even doing?