Susan Lerner
@susanlitelerner.bsky.social
Assistant memoir editor at Split Lip Magazine, assistant editor at Brevity. Reader for River Teeth, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly
Loved my conversation with Rebecca Makkai. booth.butler.edu/2025/06/06/a...
June 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Loved my conversation with Rebecca Makkai. booth.butler.edu/2025/06/06/a...
Grateful for this new practice—and Maureen
May 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Grateful for this new practice—and Maureen
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Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne
April 30, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne
Thanks to @memoirland.bsky.social for boosting this great memoir!
May 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Thanks to @memoirland.bsky.social for boosting this great memoir!
I feel like if you have any interest at all in reading/writing, Matt Bell’s newsletter should be a must-read. I have learned so much from each one!
This month's craft essay at No Failure, Only Practice is about the tactics I use when I'm reading as a book reviewer, and how those practices feed me as a fiction writer. Hopefully they're useful to you too!
#50: Write Better Fiction by Reading like a Book Reviewer
Hello friends!
mattbell.substack.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I feel like if you have any interest at all in reading/writing, Matt Bell’s newsletter should be a must-read. I have learned so much from each one!
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I will never understand people who come in swinging to defend the indefensible actions of large corporations. They don’t care about you.
Anyway, Happy Independent Bookstore day!
Show your local indie some love—or find one to love on @bookshop.org or @libro.fm
Mine is @thelynxbooks.bsky.social
Anyway, Happy Independent Bookstore day!
Show your local indie some love—or find one to love on @bookshop.org or @libro.fm
Mine is @thelynxbooks.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I will never understand people who come in swinging to defend the indefensible actions of large corporations. They don’t care about you.
Anyway, Happy Independent Bookstore day!
Show your local indie some love—or find one to love on @bookshop.org or @libro.fm
Mine is @thelynxbooks.bsky.social
Anyway, Happy Independent Bookstore day!
Show your local indie some love—or find one to love on @bookshop.org or @libro.fm
Mine is @thelynxbooks.bsky.social
Love this “book by the cover” piece in Lit Mag News—especially since one of the mags it highlights is my beloved @boothajournal.bsky.social litmagnews.substack.com/p/q-can-you-...
Q: Can you judge a lit mag by its cover?
"How much can a writer know about a lit mag, based on its cover?"
litmagnews.substack.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Love this “book by the cover” piece in Lit Mag News—especially since one of the mags it highlights is my beloved @boothajournal.bsky.social litmagnews.substack.com/p/q-can-you-...
Great to see this stunner by @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social, (1st featured in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social), now brought to you by @short-reads.org www.short-reads.org/still/?ref=s...
Still
by Casey Mulligan Walsh | Knowing yet not knowing.
www.short-reads.org
April 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Great to see this stunner by @caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social, (1st featured in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social), now brought to you by @short-reads.org www.short-reads.org/still/?ref=s...
We’ve Got War To Cover, the new memoir up at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social & featured at @memoirland.bsky.social is such a stunning piece of writing splitlipthemag.com/memoir/0325/...
We’ve got war to cover — Split Lip Magazine
2002— The Anna Nicole Show premieres. 7.6 million people watch. A record. Two million keep watching. Anna Nicole Smith is E!’s biggest hit.
splitlipthemag.com
March 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We’ve Got War To Cover, the new memoir up at @splitlipthemag.bsky.social & featured at @memoirland.bsky.social is such a stunning piece of writing splitlipthemag.com/memoir/0325/...
New obsession. Love this take on repairing worn clothing which is also a kind of middle finger to consumer culture
@therealhoarse.bsky.social I found an inspiring book on Creative Mending by Hikaru Noguchi. Am adding fancy mending to my post-retirement project list.
March 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
New obsession. Love this take on repairing worn clothing which is also a kind of middle finger to consumer culture
Really enjoyed the new interview of @marthasjones.bsky.social by Let’s Talk Memoir host @ronitplank.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Really enjoyed the new interview of @marthasjones.bsky.social by Let’s Talk Memoir host @ronitplank.bsky.social
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Happy Annual "OMG I Don't Think I Watched Any New Movies This Year" Day!... to all who celebrate.
March 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Happy Annual "OMG I Don't Think I Watched Any New Movies This Year" Day!... to all who celebrate.
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REGARDING MY DELAY
I’ve been trying
on coffins
and can’t
find one
with a big
enough dance floor.
—Andrea Cohen
@fourwaybooks.bsky.social
I’ve been trying
on coffins
and can’t
find one
with a big
enough dance floor.
—Andrea Cohen
@fourwaybooks.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
REGARDING MY DELAY
I’ve been trying
on coffins
and can’t
find one
with a big
enough dance floor.
—Andrea Cohen
@fourwaybooks.bsky.social
I’ve been trying
on coffins
and can’t
find one
with a big
enough dance floor.
—Andrea Cohen
@fourwaybooks.bsky.social
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Gorgeous love story “This is the secret of patriarchy. The boys are supposed to save us. The boys are supposed to be our great loves. Be we knew better.” substack.com/inbox/post/1... #BrookeHartman
Inbox | Substack
substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Gorgeous love story “This is the secret of patriarchy. The boys are supposed to save us. The boys are supposed to be our great loves. Be we knew better.” substack.com/inbox/post/1... #BrookeHartman
Can I just say how much I enjoy @beckyltuch.bsky.social ‘s Lit Mag News. Love this take on Narrative… litmagnews.substack.com/p/q-can-we-t...
Q: Can we talk about Narrative Magazine?
"I know this magazine has taken a lot of heat over the years."
litmagnews.substack.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Can I just say how much I enjoy @beckyltuch.bsky.social ‘s Lit Mag News. Love this take on Narrative… litmagnews.substack.com/p/q-can-we-t...
Big Bear Bald Eagle Live Nest - Cam 1
YouTube video by FOBBV CAM
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February 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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It was bad enough when Elon made Twitter unusable, but now he’s doing the same thing to America.
February 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
It was bad enough when Elon made Twitter unusable, but now he’s doing the same thing to America.
When rl is indistinguishable from an Onion headline
Rep Earl Carter (R-GA) introduces legislation “authorizing President Trump to acquire Greenland and renaming it Red, White, and Blueland”
February 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
When rl is indistinguishable from an Onion headline
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I need some volunteer readers for @fracturedlit.bsky.social ! We prefer that readers have had some experience publishing flash, so keep that in mind!
January 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I need some volunteer readers for @fracturedlit.bsky.social ! We prefer that readers have had some experience publishing flash, so keep that in mind!
It’s all so much worse than I feared. And my fears were big.
February 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
It’s all so much worse than I feared. And my fears were big.
Love this post on how to render a life
Ouija boards, erasure poems, and game shows. How experimentation helped me find the form of my memoir.
~ @martyrossdolen.bsky.social
brevity.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/e...
~ @martyrossdolen.bsky.social
brevity.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/e...
Ouija Boards, Erasure, and Speculation: Experimentation in Memoir
By Marty Ross-Dolen In December 1960, when my mother was fourteen years old, her parents were killed in an airline disaster involving the collision of two commercial jets in the blustering skies ov…
brevity.wordpress.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Love this post on how to render a life
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We sent a flash acceptance this week! The world is chaotic, but we are still here doing our literary work. We are reading your submissions with great care and love. We thank you for your writing. ✨ The words you send us are beautiful and important. 🌟
February 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
We sent a flash acceptance this week! The world is chaotic, but we are still here doing our literary work. We are reading your submissions with great care and love. We thank you for your writing. ✨ The words you send us are beautiful and important. 🌟
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In 2023 at least 960 #birds died in one day due to window collisions at McCormick Place in #Chicago. After applying bird-friendly window treatments, there were just 18 deaths all last fall. Further proof these simple changes work, and work well! It's time communities start making this a requirement.
Bird deaths plummet at McCormick Place Lakeside Center after safety film installed
Crash fatalities down more than 90% this fall with 18 deaths compared to 1,280 deaths in the fall of 2023, Field Museum expert says.
www.chicagotribune.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:18 AM
In 2023 at least 960 #birds died in one day due to window collisions at McCormick Place in #Chicago. After applying bird-friendly window treatments, there were just 18 deaths all last fall. Further proof these simple changes work, and work well! It's time communities start making this a requirement.