What critics are getting wrong about Molly Jong-Fast's "How To Lose Your Mother"
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Keep on #writingmemoir
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Keep on #writingmemoir
What critics are getting wrong about Molly Jong-Fast's "How To Lose Your Mother"
What you're missing if you think this is a revenge memoir or if you believe Molly sold her mother out
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August 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What critics are getting wrong about Molly Jong-Fast's "How To Lose Your Mother"
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Keep on #writingmemoir
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Keep on #writingmemoir
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/a... this list will keep us busy. Can’t put down Susan Choi’s Flashlight. @susanchoi.bsky.social
Booker Prize Nominees Include Novels by Kiran Desai, Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi
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July 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/a... this list will keep us busy. Can’t put down Susan Choi’s Flashlight. @susanchoi.bsky.social
Booker Prize Nominees Include Novels by Kiran Desai, Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/a...
So much reading ahead and I can’t wait! Loving Susan Choi’s Flashlight.
So much reading ahead and I can’t wait! Loving Susan Choi’s Flashlight.
Booker Prize Nominees Include Novels by Kiran Desai, Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi
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July 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Booker Prize Nominees Include Novels by Kiran Desai, Katie Kitamura and Susan Choi www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/a...
So much reading ahead and I can’t wait! Loving Susan Choi’s Flashlight.
So much reading ahead and I can’t wait! Loving Susan Choi’s Flashlight.
RIP “In any moment on any given day I can measure my wellness by this question: Is my attention on loving or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?” —Andrea Gibson
July 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
RIP “In any moment on any given day I can measure my wellness by this question: Is my attention on loving or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?” —Andrea Gibson
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“Once a new system of detention facilities and ICE agents is established and the idea that a Republican president can legitimately attack his political opponents is accepted, a police state will be in place.”
“Once a new system of detention facilities and ICE agents is established and the idea that a Republican president can legitimately attack his political opponents is accepted, a police state will be in place.”
July 1, 2025
Just after noon today, the Senate passed its version of the budget reconciliation bill.
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July 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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“Once a new system of detention facilities and ICE agents is established and the idea that a Republican president can legitimately attack his political opponents is accepted, a police state will be in place.”
“Once a new system of detention facilities and ICE agents is established and the idea that a Republican president can legitimately attack his political opponents is accepted, a police state will be in place.”
mailchi.mp/006a8c72735a... summer reading. congratulations to the talented writers
2025 GAYA Winners & Finalists Announcement!
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June 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
mailchi.mp/006a8c72735a... summer reading. congratulations to the talented writers
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto.... In a nutshell.
The Big Beautiful Disaster
While Trump and Musk hurl insults, democracy dies in the background; this is your wake-up call to stop watching the circus and start fighting for your country.
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June 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
open.substack.com/pub/meidasto.... In a nutshell.
@ccwalum.bsky.social I’m following! Greetings from Brattleboro Vt. I’m on my 8th draft and looking, theoretically, for publishers. Query letter jitters.
June 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
@ccwalum.bsky.social I’m following! Greetings from Brattleboro Vt. I’m on my 8th draft and looking, theoretically, for publishers. Query letter jitters.
I just discovered Carys Davies’ Clear and then I read West. Deceptively simple with a punch. Riveting. #readmore #readbooks #amreading
May 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I just discovered Carys Davies’ Clear and then I read West. Deceptively simple with a punch. Riveting. #readmore #readbooks #amreading
I love book lists. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...
30 books to read this summer
The busy season’s new releases include novels by S.A. Cosby, Taylor Jenkins Reid and Gary Shteyngart, and nonfiction about AI, sex and war.
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May 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I LOVE this book and envy anyone who hasn't discovered Leif Enger's books.
I Cheerfully Refuse
This 2024 Goodreads Choice Award nominee from a “formidably gifted” New York Times bestselling author (Chicago Tribune) “feels like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reconceived by Cormac McCarthy” (...
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May 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I LOVE this book and envy anyone who hasn't discovered Leif Enger's books.
The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country, And Will Most Likely Hurt Women in the Process. open.substack.com/pub/thewomen...
I feel I'm living in an alternate universe.
I feel I'm living in an alternate universe.
The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country, And Will Most Likely Hurt Women in the Process.
Republicans say they’re cutting spending to save the economy. In reality, they’re handing trillions to the rich—while stripping Medicaid, health care, and economic lifelines from women and families.
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May 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The GOP’s Budget Hawks Will Bankrupt the Country, And Will Most Likely Hurt Women in the Process. open.substack.com/pub/thewomen...
I feel I'm living in an alternate universe.
I feel I'm living in an alternate universe.
Trump’s Biggest “Fuck You” Yet to Higher Education and the Rest of the World
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Trump’s Biggest “Fuck You” Yet to Higher Education and the Rest of the World
He and his regime are mounting an assault on the American mind. Why? Because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
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May 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Trump’s Biggest “Fuck You” Yet to Higher Education and the Rest of the World
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Thoughtful advice for us. Be here now.
Thoughtful advice for us. Be here now.
Sunday thought
Moral clarity in a time of monsters
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May 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Thoughtful advice for us. Be here now.
Thoughtful advice for us. Be here now.
Astounding lovely advice. This could even heal the world.
40 postpartum tips for my bros open.substack.com/pub/littleco...
40 postpartum tips for my bros open.substack.com/pub/littleco...
40 postpartum tips for my bros
Field notes from our first 40 days.
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April 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Astounding lovely advice. This could even heal the world.
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40 postpartum tips for my bros open.substack.com/pub/littleco...
Very cool!
An Open Letter to Canadians: Your Anti-Trump Boycott Is Crushing MAGA And It's Inspiring The World open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
An Open Letter to Canadians: Your Anti-Trump Boycott Is Crushing MAGA And It's Inspiring The World open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
An Open Letter to Canadians: Your Anti-Trump Boycott Is Crushing MAGA And It's Inspiring The World
From Soaring Loonies to Global Solidarity—Your Impact Is Unstoppable
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April 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Very cool!
An Open Letter to Canadians: Your Anti-Trump Boycott Is Crushing MAGA And It's Inspiring The World open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
An Open Letter to Canadians: Your Anti-Trump Boycott Is Crushing MAGA And It's Inspiring The World open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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Lovely. And needed.
Lovely. And needed.
The Trump daymare
Friends,
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April 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Lovely. And needed.
Lovely. And needed.
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Have a laugh, folks!
Have a laugh, folks!
Top 15 Signs at Hands Off Protests
Protests in over 1,300 cities and towns all across America.
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April 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Have a laugh, folks!
Have a laugh, folks!
An Open Letter to Leonard Leo, Concerning the Trump/Musk Lawlessness
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An Open Letter to Leonard Leo, Concerning the Trump/Musk Lawlessness
Are you okay with this?
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March 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
An Open Letter to Leonard Leo, Concerning the Trump/Musk Lawlessness
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Reflection on a working life abroad by my friend Liz Shick. I was 12 when my dad worked for USAID in Nepal. Liz captures the experience.
Reflection on a working life abroad by my friend Liz Shick. I was 12 when my dad worked for USAID in Nepal. Liz captures the experience.
USAID and the nature of aid work
S3: E2
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March 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Reflection on a working life abroad by my friend Liz Shick. I was 12 when my dad worked for USAID in Nepal. Liz captures the experience.
Reflection on a working life abroad by my friend Liz Shick. I was 12 when my dad worked for USAID in Nepal. Liz captures the experience.
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'No Amazon, no Walmart, no fast food': What's behind the 'Feb. 28 economic blackout'
The People's Union USA, a self-described “grassroots movement” founded by John Schwarz, is encouraging Americans to refrain from making non-essential purchases on Friday.
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February 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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