Katherine Fusco
@fuscowrites.bsky.social
English Professor and Writer. Struggling department chair and mom. New book: Hollywood's Other's: Love and Limitation in the Star System (Columbia UP). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/hollywoods-others/9780231220927/ Future book: Anita Loos bio.
Want to support Nevada Humanities? Come to this year’s lit crawl on 9/13! 🎈
Lydia Huerta, Renata Keller, Prisca Gayles, and I will be talking about our books at 3:30 at the downtown library. 📚
Get the program: nevadahumanities.org/literarycrawl
📖 over 120 panelists at over 40 Reno locations! 😁
Lydia Huerta, Renata Keller, Prisca Gayles, and I will be talking about our books at 3:30 at the downtown library. 📚
Get the program: nevadahumanities.org/literarycrawl
📖 over 120 panelists at over 40 Reno locations! 😁
August 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Want to support Nevada Humanities? Come to this year’s lit crawl on 9/13! 🎈
Lydia Huerta, Renata Keller, Prisca Gayles, and I will be talking about our books at 3:30 at the downtown library. 📚
Get the program: nevadahumanities.org/literarycrawl
📖 over 120 panelists at over 40 Reno locations! 😁
Lydia Huerta, Renata Keller, Prisca Gayles, and I will be talking about our books at 3:30 at the downtown library. 📚
Get the program: nevadahumanities.org/literarycrawl
📖 over 120 panelists at over 40 Reno locations! 😁
Attempted and largely failed to make Nanaimo bars for Canada Day. 🍁 a rustic Nanaimo, I think. (It looked better once I cut it into bars)
July 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Attempted and largely failed to make Nanaimo bars for Canada Day. 🍁 a rustic Nanaimo, I think. (It looked better once I cut it into bars)
Late in the day....Running "mommy camp" for the kiddos means that the #1000wordsofsummer were about 1,000 words of fast and shallow revision in the backyard. One kid's at a play date. The other at practice. Dog is chewing a stick. I'll take it.
June 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Late in the day....Running "mommy camp" for the kiddos means that the #1000wordsofsummer were about 1,000 words of fast and shallow revision in the backyard. One kid's at a play date. The other at practice. Dog is chewing a stick. I'll take it.
I took yesterday off from #1,000wordsofsummer because it was Clementine's kindergarten graduation.
Today, I was back at it. I hired @carolinemalloyphd.bsky.social for a retreat/accountability day and revised 5,500 words of the book's first chapter. Moved from sh*tty first draft to first draft!
Today, I was back at it. I hired @carolinemalloyphd.bsky.social for a retreat/accountability day and revised 5,500 words of the book's first chapter. Moved from sh*tty first draft to first draft!
June 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I took yesterday off from #1,000wordsofsummer because it was Clementine's kindergarten graduation.
Today, I was back at it. I hired @carolinemalloyphd.bsky.social for a retreat/accountability day and revised 5,500 words of the book's first chapter. Moved from sh*tty first draft to first draft!
Today, I was back at it. I hired @carolinemalloyphd.bsky.social for a retreat/accountability day and revised 5,500 words of the book's first chapter. Moved from sh*tty first draft to first draft!
#1000wordsofsummer I was sooo tired on my early morning flight, but I did 1,120 before allowing myself to binge Vanderpump trash. Wrote today about the flirty letters between Loos and Mencken.
Here's an example of the kind of moustache comb she once sent Menck as a gag gift.
Here's an example of the kind of moustache comb she once sent Menck as a gag gift.
June 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#1000wordsofsummer I was sooo tired on my early morning flight, but I did 1,120 before allowing myself to binge Vanderpump trash. Wrote today about the flirty letters between Loos and Mencken.
Here's an example of the kind of moustache comb she once sent Menck as a gag gift.
Here's an example of the kind of moustache comb she once sent Menck as a gag gift.
today’s #1000wordsofsummer: about 700 words of drafting in chpt 3 of Loos book.
2,000 words of transcribing and I discovered my favorite of Loos’s penpals! Howard Sturges, part of Cole Porter’s set and a fellow gossip who liked to send a flower-themed dirty jokes to his friend Anita.
2,000 words of transcribing and I discovered my favorite of Loos’s penpals! Howard Sturges, part of Cole Porter’s set and a fellow gossip who liked to send a flower-themed dirty jokes to his friend Anita.
June 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
today’s #1000wordsofsummer: about 700 words of drafting in chpt 3 of Loos book.
2,000 words of transcribing and I discovered my favorite of Loos’s penpals! Howard Sturges, part of Cole Porter’s set and a fellow gossip who liked to send a flower-themed dirty jokes to his friend Anita.
2,000 words of transcribing and I discovered my favorite of Loos’s penpals! Howard Sturges, part of Cole Porter’s set and a fellow gossip who liked to send a flower-themed dirty jokes to his friend Anita.
Completed my #1000wordsofsummer earlier today. Writing about "The Whole Town's Talking"--the first stage play Anita and John wrote together. It's light fare, but I can see her trying to adapt her skills from silent film scenario writing to theatrical dialogue. The New York Times was not impressed.
June 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Completed my #1000wordsofsummer earlier today. Writing about "The Whole Town's Talking"--the first stage play Anita and John wrote together. It's light fare, but I can see her trying to adapt her skills from silent film scenario writing to theatrical dialogue. The New York Times was not impressed.
Happy Memorial Day from Anita!
May 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Happy Memorial Day from Anita!
Everything is terrible. I did, however, have a brief chuckle today about the image proof sheets I received for my book that's forthcoming from @columbiaup.bsky.social. I love seeing these two (who live in separate chapters) juxtaposed!
April 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Everything is terrible. I did, however, have a brief chuckle today about the image proof sheets I received for my book that's forthcoming from @columbiaup.bsky.social. I love seeing these two (who live in separate chapters) juxtaposed!
Inspired by discussion at a recent MLA roundtable panel I participated in with Maryemma Graham, Sunny Stalter-Pace, Susana Morris, and Sarah Gleeson-White, the writing tips for January are all about using “I” in and around academic writing.
January 14, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Inspired by discussion at a recent MLA roundtable panel I participated in with Maryemma Graham, Sunny Stalter-Pace, Susana Morris, and Sarah Gleeson-White, the writing tips for January are all about using “I” in and around academic writing.
Okay, so the Globes are notoriously weird about categories. (And notorious for other reasons!) However, how is Saltburn not a comedy?
#goldenglobes #saltburn
#goldenglobes #saltburn
January 7, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Okay, so the Globes are notoriously weird about categories. (And notorious for other reasons!) However, how is Saltburn not a comedy?
#goldenglobes #saltburn
#goldenglobes #saltburn
Getting ready to talk to a journalist about Betty Boop and watching a few classics. God, Minnie the Moocher is wonderfully bizarre.
December 12, 2023 at 1:04 AM
Getting ready to talk to a journalist about Betty Boop and watching a few classics. God, Minnie the Moocher is wonderfully bizarre.
Sundays in December, I’m posting some of the planning prompts I’m using for my own writing as I look ahead to the 2024 and think about how I want my writing life to look.
This week’s prompts focus on identifying what gets in the way of writing.
December 10, 2023 at 5:23 PM
Sundays in December, I’m posting some of the planning prompts I’m using for my own writing as I look ahead to the 2024 and think about how I want my writing life to look.
This week’s prompts focus on identifying what gets in the way of writing.
Sunday Writing Tip: Centering Writing Next Year
In December, I’m going to be posting some of the planning prompts I’m using as I look ahead to the 2024 and consider how I want my writing life to look.
This week’s is my favorite.
What would it look like to put your writing at the center for 2024?
In December, I’m going to be posting some of the planning prompts I’m using as I look ahead to the 2024 and consider how I want my writing life to look.
This week’s is my favorite.
What would it look like to put your writing at the center for 2024?
December 3, 2023 at 2:35 PM
Sunday Writing Tip: Centering Writing Next Year
In December, I’m going to be posting some of the planning prompts I’m using as I look ahead to the 2024 and consider how I want my writing life to look.
This week’s is my favorite.
What would it look like to put your writing at the center for 2024?
In December, I’m going to be posting some of the planning prompts I’m using as I look ahead to the 2024 and consider how I want my writing life to look.
This week’s is my favorite.
What would it look like to put your writing at the center for 2024?
Just finished up the workshop on using the Dissertation-to-Book Workbook with editing clients.
I appreciated the way @katelynknox.bsky.social and @allisonvandev.bsky.social offer strategies for sneaking up on the argument in a way that’s true to the book’s evidence.
I appreciated the way @katelynknox.bsky.social and @allisonvandev.bsky.social offer strategies for sneaking up on the argument in a way that’s true to the book’s evidence.
November 28, 2023 at 6:35 PM
Just finished up the workshop on using the Dissertation-to-Book Workbook with editing clients.
I appreciated the way @katelynknox.bsky.social and @allisonvandev.bsky.social offer strategies for sneaking up on the argument in a way that’s true to the book’s evidence.
I appreciated the way @katelynknox.bsky.social and @allisonvandev.bsky.social offer strategies for sneaking up on the argument in a way that’s true to the book’s evidence.
Excited to dig into this workbook and accompanying workshop from @allisonvandev.bsky.social and @katelynknox.bsky.social tomorrow. I think it will be very helpful for my developmental editing clients, my grad students, and me. Will report back! #academicwriting #editing
November 27, 2023 at 3:44 PM
Excited to dig into this workbook and accompanying workshop from @allisonvandev.bsky.social and @katelynknox.bsky.social tomorrow. I think it will be very helpful for my developmental editing clients, my grad students, and me. Will report back! #academicwriting #editing
Sunday Writing Prompt: Hold something in tension
As writers, we sometimes find ourselves bonking around because the thing we are writing about is complicated.
As writers, we sometimes find ourselves bonking around because the thing we are writing about is complicated.
November 26, 2023 at 2:41 PM
Sunday Writing Prompt: Hold something in tension
As writers, we sometimes find ourselves bonking around because the thing we are writing about is complicated.
As writers, we sometimes find ourselves bonking around because the thing we are writing about is complicated.
Love starting a very busy and intensely social day with a personal and solo tradition
November 23, 2023 at 5:50 PM
Love starting a very busy and intensely social day with a personal and solo tradition
ATTN Writers: The Friday Cowriting Room will be CLOSED this Friday.
Spending some quality time with my little turkeys.
Look forward to writing with you on 12/1.
Spending some quality time with my little turkeys.
Look forward to writing with you on 12/1.
November 22, 2023 at 5:21 PM
ATTN Writers: The Friday Cowriting Room will be CLOSED this Friday.
Spending some quality time with my little turkeys.
Look forward to writing with you on 12/1.
Spending some quality time with my little turkeys.
Look forward to writing with you on 12/1.