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Yvonne Conza
@yvonnec.bsky.social
Writer, editor, interviewer & avid reader

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December 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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In our time, it's easy to shut your mind, driven by fear or misinformation. This year, NPR Music's pop critic found the antidote in music that encouraged exploring n.pr/494BlEe
Ann Powers' Top 10 Albums of 2025
In our time, it's easy to shut your mind, driven by fear or misinformation. This year, NPR Music's pop critic found the antidote in music that encouraged exploring.
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December 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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I do occasionally want to say to my fellow Americans who insist that periods ever go outside quotation marks "Cool, show me that in a modern U.S. book or periodical," but I never say that.
This has nothing to do with the UK propensity to write something along the lines of:

I really love the song 'Yesterday'.

vs. the correct American

I really love the song "Yesterday."
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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"Writing always draws on resilience."

JOYRIDE: @yvonnec.bsky.social interviews @susanorlean.bsky.social about her memoir Joyride (@avidreaderpress.bsky.social).

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November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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“You have to be flinchable … That’s being human. We flinch all the time.” READ the stunning, soulful @maureenlangloss.bsky.social on Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews—and well, all of us. www.maureenlangloss.com/you-have-to-... @newyorker.com
You Have to Be Flinchable - Maureen Langloss
This weekend, I attended Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews’s inspiring conversation at The New Yorker Festival. The talk made me laugh—and also cry. There were moments I had to hold back sobs. This was also m...
www.maureenlangloss.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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How can I make jewelry out of my zebra grass?
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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grateful to share my hometown novel (and my orphaned collection) are coming home to @tortoisebooks.bsky.social 🙏💗
January 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Charming critics and audiences with New Threats From The Soul, his funny, loose, reference-packed album, the veteran Louisville musician is having an unlikely breakthrough at 40 years old.
Indie rock fans, it's time to get on the Ryan Davis bandwagon
Charming critics and audiences with New Threats From The Soul, his funny, loose, reference-packed album, the veteran Louisville musician is having an unlikely breakthrough at 40 years old.
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August 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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A bright moon will make it hard to see the Perseid meteor shower in mid-August, but one night this week offers a decent chance of seeing some shooting stars.
Don't wait for the Perseids in August — look for meteors this week
A bright moon will make it hard to see the Perseid meteor shower in mid-August, but one night this week offers a decent chance of seeing some shooting stars.
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July 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
May 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Wild Blue” — about the complexity of relationships, especially estranged ones: open.substack.com/pub/maggiefr... I
Wild Blue
A guest essay from Yvonne Conza
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May 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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April 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.

Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Bluesky says it is now sending referral traffic through its "go" subdomain to make it easier for publishers to track the traffic coming from the social network (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
March 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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He’s not very articulate, is he?
March 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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This Thursday, Kathryn Savage will give a Q&A at 1 p.m. on Thurs, in HUM 201, and later that evening, at 7:30 p.m., she will read from her debut book, Groundglass, in Chemistry 107.
Come out and learn about ecological violence, legacy pollution, body burden, and sacrifice zones.
February 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The fired staffers were tasked with making sure medications given to animals work well and are safe.
FDA staff handling drug safety for pets and livestock lost jobs in Trump firings
The fired staffers were tasked with making sure medications given to animals work well and are safe.
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February 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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