James Charlesworth
@jamcharlesworth.bsky.social
Author of The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill. Hiker of reasonable mountains.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
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November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"when I, with my supposed iron stomach for sadness, try to think of the saddest song I've ever heard, my mind goes to that CD that Sam gave Jennifer, and the one song I couldn’t believe was on it."
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Chris Ritter on Journey's "Separate Ways":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
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oh yeahhhhh kool aid man break into itttt
Reminder that the @marchxness.bsky.social anthology is available for preorder...right now...
www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
oh yeahhhhh kool aid man break into itttt
It's @marchxness.bsky.social extracurricular season! Big fan of this essay by @shuadc.bsky.social re Concrete Blonde & remembering the days of figuring things out before the internet was around to figure everything out for us.
"Death may be the only true certain thing in life, but for most people even death reserves a surprise in its time and place of arrival. Not for Wendy."
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
Joshua Turner On the Important of Not Knowing (and Concrete Blonde's "Tomorrow Wendy":
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
November 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It's @marchxness.bsky.social extracurricular season! Big fan of this essay by @shuadc.bsky.social re Concrete Blonde & remembering the days of figuring things out before the internet was around to figure everything out for us.
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IT'S THE @marchxness.bsky.social ANTHOLOGY! In print at last!!!
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
September 29, 2025 at 1:13 PM
IT'S THE @marchxness.bsky.social ANTHOLOGY! In print at last!!!
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Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
September 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
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Do you like mysteries? Do you like fun? Then you should come join me with my incredible, funny, talented sister-in-law, Karen Dukess reading from her new book, "Welcome to Murder Week."
Saturday, September 13th at Riverstone in Squirrel Hill.
Saturday, September 13th at Riverstone in Squirrel Hill.
August 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Do you like mysteries? Do you like fun? Then you should come join me with my incredible, funny, talented sister-in-law, Karen Dukess reading from her new book, "Welcome to Murder Week."
Saturday, September 13th at Riverstone in Squirrel Hill.
Saturday, September 13th at Riverstone in Squirrel Hill.
Uh oh...!
Three more from the lottery for 90s Sadness:
57. Ryan Carter
58. Danielle Deulen
59. @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social
57. Ryan Carter
58. Danielle Deulen
59. @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Uh oh...!
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Fans and players of @marchxness.bsky.social , check out the March Xness feed — just search for it in your feeds and add it to your list. To post to the feed, include a mention of March Xness OR a marchxness.com link.
July 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Fans and players of @marchxness.bsky.social , check out the March Xness feed — just search for it in your feeds and add it to your list. To post to the feed, include a mention of March Xness OR a marchxness.com link.
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✨Cover reveal!✨ Super excited to share the creepy cover of my dreams for my debut novel, HEMLOCK, coming 1/20/26 from @littlebrown.bsky.social & now available for preorder! You can find it at all major retailers and, better yet, your local indie bookstore or @bookshop.org. See you in the woods! 🦌🌲👻
July 11, 2025 at 3:44 PM
✨Cover reveal!✨ Super excited to share the creepy cover of my dreams for my debut novel, HEMLOCK, coming 1/20/26 from @littlebrown.bsky.social & now available for preorder! You can find it at all major retailers and, better yet, your local indie bookstore or @bookshop.org. See you in the woods! 🦌🌲👻
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if you're interested in a signed pre-order of THE COVER GIRL (my debut novel about a model reclaiming the sense of self a powerful man took from her when she was a girl) and want to support an indie, my lovely local bookstore Quail Ridge Books has you covered! www.quailridgebooks.com/book/9780778...
www.quailridgebooks.com
July 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
if you're interested in a signed pre-order of THE COVER GIRL (my debut novel about a model reclaiming the sense of self a powerful man took from her when she was a girl) and want to support an indie, my lovely local bookstore Quail Ridge Books has you covered! www.quailridgebooks.com/book/9780778...
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With the first overall pick @brianzitzelman.bsky.social selects Third Eye Blind's "Background"
July 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
With the first overall pick @brianzitzelman.bsky.social selects Third Eye Blind's "Background"
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Alright let's DO THE MARCH SADNESS LOTTERY
July 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Alright let's DO THE MARCH SADNESS LOTTERY
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If you'd like to look at the 2026 March Sadness 90s Edition longlist as we assemble it (and make suggestions) here is the working doc (list at top; unvetted suggestions at bottom): docs.google.com/document/d/1...
90s sadness
March Sadness 90s Edition Longlist Selection metrics: Must be a sad song however that’s defined Must be commercially released 1990-1999 Previous tournament winners ineligible Songs included in previo...
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July 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
If you'd like to look at the 2026 March Sadness 90s Edition longlist as we assemble it (and make suggestions) here is the working doc (list at top; unvetted suggestions at bottom): docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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it's the last day of the Indie Bookstore Preorder Party! support independent bookstores, save 15%, and get a present for your future self with code PARTY2025! here's an easy link for THE COVER GIRL, my debut novel set in the problematic world of 1970s rock
www.spokeandwordbooks.com/item/b_uk_a4...
www.spokeandwordbooks.com/item/b_uk_a4...
The Cover Girl by Amy Rossi | Spoke & Word Books
A Novel
www.spokeandwordbooks.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
it's the last day of the Indie Bookstore Preorder Party! support independent bookstores, save 15%, and get a present for your future self with code PARTY2025! here's an easy link for THE COVER GIRL, my debut novel set in the problematic world of 1970s rock
www.spokeandwordbooks.com/item/b_uk_a4...
www.spokeandwordbooks.com/item/b_uk_a4...
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So peeps, we're looking for nominations of 90s sad songs for our longlist. Particularly interested in pop/R&B/hip hop/country, but anything's welcome.
June 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
So peeps, we're looking for nominations of 90s sad songs for our longlist. Particularly interested in pop/R&B/hip hop/country, but anything's welcome.
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Hey cool cats, as we are working on the longlist for 2026's March Sadness, here's a link to our 2025 Summer Mixtape if you want some new good jams: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
* 2025 Summer from A&M: How Many Miles Ago by Ander Monson on Apple Music
Playlist · 17 Songs
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June 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Hey cool cats, as we are working on the longlist for 2026's March Sadness, here's a link to our 2025 Summer Mixtape if you want some new good jams: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
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"In order to prove to you that the greatest achievement of the grunge era was a parody of the grunge era, I must first explain that there were no grunge bands, and there was no grunge."
For 3/31, we bring back @jrobertlennon.com on Weird Al Yankovic: marchxness.com/2xness-yanko...
For 3/31, we bring back @jrobertlennon.com on Weird Al Yankovic: marchxness.com/2xness-yanko...
3/31: J. Robert Lennon on Weird Al Yankovic — March Second Chanceness
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March 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"In order to prove to you that the greatest achievement of the grunge era was a parody of the grunge era, I must first explain that there were no grunge bands, and there was no grunge."
For 3/31, we bring back @jrobertlennon.com on Weird Al Yankovic: marchxness.com/2xness-yanko...
For 3/31, we bring back @jrobertlennon.com on Weird Al Yankovic: marchxness.com/2xness-yanko...
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Finally putting my long-standing terror of the ocean to good use.
February 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Finally putting my long-standing terror of the ocean to good use.
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Exactly
Ossoff: This is what happens when you have Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.
March 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Exactly
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"By the time I got to actually write the Spacehog essay, I fucking hated Spacehog.…I like this essay because it’s about that weariness."
In the Meantime, 3/20, Ryan Grandick on Spacehog: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
In the Meantime, 3/20, Ryan Grandick on Spacehog: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"By the time I got to actually write the Spacehog essay, I fucking hated Spacehog.…I like this essay because it’s about that weariness."
In the Meantime, 3/20, Ryan Grandick on Spacehog: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
In the Meantime, 3/20, Ryan Grandick on Spacehog: marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
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"This essay is about love. Or, perhaps, it’s about the search for love (or not): about chasing love (or not); finding love (or not); settling for love (don’t settle)"
3/18 flashback to Megan Culhane Galbraith on Katy Perry's "Not N Cold" from March Danceness 00s:
marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
3/18 flashback to Megan Culhane Galbraith on Katy Perry's "Not N Cold" from March Danceness 00s:
marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
March 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"This essay is about love. Or, perhaps, it’s about the search for love (or not): about chasing love (or not); finding love (or not); settling for love (don’t settle)"
3/18 flashback to Megan Culhane Galbraith on Katy Perry's "Not N Cold" from March Danceness 00s:
marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
3/18 flashback to Megan Culhane Galbraith on Katy Perry's "Not N Cold" from March Danceness 00s:
marchxness.com/thegames#/2x...
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"I don’t think I speak only for myself when I say that many of us could do with getting some joy back these days."
3/13 we flashback to Chelsea Biondolillo's essay on @bettyelavette.bsky.social: marchxness.com/2xness-lavet...
3/13 we flashback to Chelsea Biondolillo's essay on @bettyelavette.bsky.social: marchxness.com/2xness-lavet...
March 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"I don’t think I speak only for myself when I say that many of us could do with getting some joy back these days."
3/13 we flashback to Chelsea Biondolillo's essay on @bettyelavette.bsky.social: marchxness.com/2xness-lavet...
3/13 we flashback to Chelsea Biondolillo's essay on @bettyelavette.bsky.social: marchxness.com/2xness-lavet...