Emogene Cataldo
@emogene.bsky.social
PhD, art history. Writing a novel. Works in messaging and content design. Tin House ‘25. She/her
www.emogenecataldo.com
www.emogenecataldo.com
Been excited about Olivia Laing’s new book about Fellini, Pasolini, and Italian cinema for a while. Preorder arrived this week and I’m simply obsessed with the book design.
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Been excited about Olivia Laing’s new book about Fellini, Pasolini, and Italian cinema for a while. Preorder arrived this week and I’m simply obsessed with the book design.
Who doesn’t love a dinkus-ridden manuscript
While proofreading for something just now, I learned that a symbol denoting a scene or section break in a manuscript is called a “dinkus.” I think that’s lovely.
November 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Who doesn’t love a dinkus-ridden manuscript
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
I didn’t see the Northern Lights on 11/11, but I did see the neon signs inside Lioni’s Italian Heros shop in South Brooklyn and I think that’s a pretty close second. Similar color palette.
November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I didn’t see the Northern Lights on 11/11, but I did see the neon signs inside Lioni’s Italian Heros shop in South Brooklyn and I think that’s a pretty close second. Similar color palette.
“This Just In: Water From Tap is Wet”
November 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“This Just In: Water From Tap is Wet”
So proud of my Tin House baddie @sumaiya.bsky.social for fighting for this story and doing a public reading for Brooklyn and the world last August.
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
Sunday Stories: “You Say Roti; I Say Ruti”
You Say Roti; I Say Rutiby Sumaiya Aftab Ahmed for Abdul Latif Joarder Jessore, East Pakistan, 1971 The Pakistani soldiers joke among themselves, and Iftekar cannot trace the indefinite shapes of t…
www.vol1brooklyn.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:32 PM
So proud of my Tin House baddie @sumaiya.bsky.social for fighting for this story and doing a public reading for Brooklyn and the world last August.
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...
The last push happened as my infant son became a toddler, I held down a full time tech job, and worked towards a draft of an unrelated book project. It sounds impressive until you consider I may have not done any of these things well at all. Anyways, to eventual publication!
Just got proofs for an academic article that’s somehow been 8 years in the making. Slow and steady work, full of second-guessing and double-checking and anxiety. Many research trips, conference presentations, revisions—all boiled down into 23 pages. How do I feel about it? At this moment, tired. 😅
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
The last push happened as my infant son became a toddler, I held down a full time tech job, and worked towards a draft of an unrelated book project. It sounds impressive until you consider I may have not done any of these things well at all. Anyways, to eventual publication!
Just got proofs for an academic article that’s somehow been 8 years in the making. Slow and steady work, full of second-guessing and double-checking and anxiety. Many research trips, conference presentations, revisions—all boiled down into 23 pages. How do I feel about it? At this moment, tired. 😅
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Just got proofs for an academic article that’s somehow been 8 years in the making. Slow and steady work, full of second-guessing and double-checking and anxiety. Many research trips, conference presentations, revisions—all boiled down into 23 pages. How do I feel about it? At this moment, tired. 😅
How I love to read Chee. And Chee on the city I love and our new mayor is just what I needed to remember what happened here a week ago, and remember all the reasons to be grateful to experience this era in NYC.
open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
He Loves New York So Much
On Missing New York, Mamdani, And Recent Events
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
How I love to read Chee. And Chee on the city I love and our new mayor is just what I needed to remember what happened here a week ago, and remember all the reasons to be grateful to experience this era in NYC.
open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
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Did women ruin the workplace?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Did women ruin the workplace?
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Children are the largest recipients of SNAP benefits. Also: Seniors, the disabled and the folks who care for them. Because that's what civilized countries do: Support their citizens when they need support and ensure they can live with dignity
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Children are the largest recipients of SNAP benefits. Also: Seniors, the disabled and the folks who care for them. Because that's what civilized countries do: Support their citizens when they need support and ensure they can live with dignity
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
New York City sunset had a whole narrative arc this evening
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
New York City sunset had a whole narrative arc this evening
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quoting mario cuomo is cold as fuck man
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
quoting mario cuomo is cold as fuck man
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Zohran Mamdani quoting Mario Cuomo in his acceptance speech is nasty work and I love it. The Sicilian in me bows to his killer instinct.
November 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Zohran Mamdani quoting Mario Cuomo in his acceptance speech is nasty work and I love it. The Sicilian in me bows to his killer instinct.
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More than anything, Mamdani has killed the “corporate democrat political avatar” as a force in elections . If you can’t be authentic, don’t run
@jamellebouie.net
@jamellebouie.net
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
More than anything, Mamdani has killed the “corporate democrat political avatar” as a force in elections . If you can’t be authentic, don’t run
@jamellebouie.net
@jamellebouie.net
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I have actually not seen Mamdani give a formal speech and what I’ll say is that unlike so many of his peers he is not trying to mimic anyone in his delivery. He is simply being himself and it is very effective.
I’ve been interested in political speeches for as long as I can remember. I’ve listened to nearly every inaugural and major address, and I’ve given tons of public speeches myself.
Zohran’s talent in this arena ranks among the best. He’s damn good. Hella good. Remarkably good.
Crazy to watch.
Zohran’s talent in this arena ranks among the best. He’s damn good. Hella good. Remarkably good.
Crazy to watch.
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I have actually not seen Mamdani give a formal speech and what I’ll say is that unlike so many of his peers he is not trying to mimic anyone in his delivery. He is simply being himself and it is very effective.
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“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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reminder to all my trans friends that a man who campaigned with this much support and love for us just destroyed the most machine politician to ever exist in spite of all odds. turns out vocally caring about us is a winning strategy!!
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
reminder to all my trans friends that a man who campaigned with this much support and love for us just destroyed the most machine politician to ever exist in spite of all odds. turns out vocally caring about us is a winning strategy!!
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Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.
The person in front of me at the poll today had never voted before
November 5, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The person in front of me at the poll today had never voted before
*highest since 1969
NYC with the highest voter turnout for a mayor race in more than three decades … and the polls haven’t even closed yet
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 AM
*highest since 1969
2 million ballots 💗
2 MILLION VOTES: NYC! All before 9 p.m.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
2 million ballots 💗