Steph
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Steph
@msphilp.bsky.social
Probably wanting to talk on the phone
Eric Puchner in The Sewanee Review ➡️ thesewaneereview.com/articles/ast...
September 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“I yearn for the blueprint, but there is no blueprint. If there were a blueprint, an MFA would be a law degree.”
Loved Sidik Fofana’s craft essay “Stumbling Along” in The Sewanee Review ➡️ thesewaneereview.com/articles/stu...
July 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“But what comes after finality? Is anything capable of following it?”
— Yiyun Li in the
@newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Any Human Heart,” by Yiyun Li
And here sat Maureen, who had no one else to send flowers to as sweet revenge. And here sat Lilian, who had thought that little in life could surprise her anymore.
www.newyorker.com
July 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“If you want to lift a heavy barbell, you can either bench press it or use a forklift. But if you want to build physical strength, you must lift the barbell yourself. Your brain is no different.” Loved this in @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...
Teaching students how to use AI responsibly
Effectively teaching students how to employ AI in their writing assignments requires clear guidelines—and detailed, case-specific examples.
www.thetransmitter.org
July 3, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Shaming myself by posting old essays on substack
Guitar Tooth
The thought of her disapproval frightens me because it will confirm a newly acquired fear that maybe I have bad taste, that maybe I have nothing interesting to say at all.
batcave.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
“Sometimes it feels as though I pay my therapist so that I can ask her What does that even mean? over and over again.”

Reading excerpted @zoewhittall.bsky.social in Brick.

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March 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Kathleen Keenan’s Solstice in @thenewquarterly.bsky.social is exactly what I needed on this rainy day.

“You think that’s just how it works, life providing you with abundance, but it isn’t. Oh, it isn’t at all.”

tnq.ca/story/solsti...
March 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“How much, if at all, can an image be manipulated and still be considered documentation?”
February 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“Her devoted readers seemed to blithely accept that her stories, with their grisly leitmotifs, were the product of a saintly lady who was making it all up, out of empathy.”
Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
www.newyorker.com
December 29, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Reposted by Steph
Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
www.irishtimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:37 PM