Summer Brennan
@summerbrennan.bsky.social
Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
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Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
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One Last Thing: $12/€10 Annual Student Discount, Plus Australian Exchange Rate Discount, Etc.
Because, you know, the economy!
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November 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
HELLO, since reactivating my Substack, I'm offering student/senior/writer/whatever discounts to all who feel they qualify, no questions asked. Please sign up if this is of interest. www.awritersnotebook.org/p/one-last-t...
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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November 9, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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On a museum trip with his mom. Perfection.
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
On a museum trip with his mom. Perfection.
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My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
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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 3:17 AM
My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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HELLO, since reactivating my Substack, I'm offering student/senior/writer/whatever discounts to all who feel they qualify, no questions asked. Please sign up if this is of interest. www.awritersnotebook.org/p/one-last-t...
One Last Thing: $12/€10 Annual Student Discount, Plus Australian Exchange Rate Discount, Etc.
Because, you know, the economy!
www.awritersnotebook.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
HELLO, since reactivating my Substack, I'm offering student/senior/writer/whatever discounts to all who feel they qualify, no questions asked. Please sign up if this is of interest. www.awritersnotebook.org/p/one-last-t...
Mira Nair must be so proud <3
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Mira Nair must be so proud <3
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Every beloved novel ever written was once somebody's half-articulated dream.
Dear novelists: thank you. Keep writing.
That is all.
That is all.
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Every beloved novel ever written was once somebody's half-articulated dream.
Dear novelists: thank you. Keep writing.
That is all.
That is all.
October 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Dear novelists: thank you. Keep writing.
That is all.
That is all.
Hello, I am still alive, hope you are too 💙
September 29, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Hello, I am still alive, hope you are too 💙
Anna Olga Albertina Brown (1858-1945), a Prussian woman of Black and Jewish heritage, who became a famed aerialist at the Cirque Fernando in Paris known as "Miss Lala," among other stage names.
August 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Anna Olga Albertina Brown (1858-1945), a Prussian woman of Black and Jewish heritage, who became a famed aerialist at the Cirque Fernando in Paris known as "Miss Lala," among other stage names.
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Today I learned that astronauts have described space as smelling like "burnt steak and gunpowder."
August 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Today I learned that astronauts have described space as smelling like "burnt steak and gunpowder."
Our most recent common ancestor is a lot more recent than we might think: "your genealogical connections to the entire globe mean that not too long ago your ancestors were involved in every event in world history" www.scientificamerican.com/article/huma...
Humans Are All More Closely Related Than We Commonly Think
Humanity’s most recent common ancestor and so-called genetic isopoint illustrate the surprising connections among our family trees
www.scientificamerican.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Our most recent common ancestor is a lot more recent than we might think: "your genealogical connections to the entire globe mean that not too long ago your ancestors were involved in every event in world history" www.scientificamerican.com/article/huma...
Interesting to remember that humans in fact show very little genetic diversity. You (and I) are more closely related to every single other human being on the planet than two chimpanzees living just a few valleys away from each other in the same region of Africa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnYS...
Are We All Related?
YouTube video by Be Smart
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August 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Interesting to remember that humans in fact show very little genetic diversity. You (and I) are more closely related to every single other human being on the planet than two chimpanzees living just a few valleys away from each other in the same region of Africa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnYS...
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We NEED this ethos to permeate our society.
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something." — T.H. White, The Once and Future King
August 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We NEED this ethos to permeate our society.
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something." — T.H. White, The Once and Future King
August 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something." — T.H. White, The Once and Future King
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OpenAI basically says they want college classrooms to be the test site. We’d be paying to be their subjects. No thanks. Pay faculty, hire more faculty.
August 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
OpenAI basically says they want college classrooms to be the test site. We’d be paying to be their subjects. No thanks. Pay faculty, hire more faculty.
I do accept that language evolves with time, but one thing I do think we should resist is the use of the word "novel" for any form of nonfiction book.
August 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I do accept that language evolves with time, but one thing I do think we should resist is the use of the word "novel" for any form of nonfiction book.