René Kooiker
@rjkooiker.bsky.social
Writer, freelance book-to-screen scout
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René Kooiker
@rjkooiker.bsky.social
· Mar 5
Thrilled to debut in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social with a piece on the most slept-on show of 2024. You have Jamaica’s star novelist Marlon James write a detective about queer lives in Jamaica. It’s one of the first U.S. productions set authentically in Kingston. Why wasn't there more buzz?
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Funny thing, seeing posts all over LinkedIn about how great it is to automate the entry-level jobs (most recently HR jobs), destroying their own development pipelines with no thought to how they'll replace any mid-career people who quit.
May 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Funny thing, seeing posts all over LinkedIn about how great it is to automate the entry-level jobs (most recently HR jobs), destroying their own development pipelines with no thought to how they'll replace any mid-career people who quit.
pitched this to n+1 and they’re taking it (on spec) so let me try again! hive mind, any examples of novels or short stories that use *going viral* in the plot? I have 13 so far going back to 2015!
noticing a lot of novels / stories using virality as a plot device. My preliminary take as to why is that it offers a writer and easy way to raise the stakes and do plot reversals without explaining or motivating actual causes. Virality stands in for classical devices of tragedy, fate and chance
May 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
pitched this to n+1 and they’re taking it (on spec) so let me try again! hive mind, any examples of novels or short stories that use *going viral* in the plot? I have 13 so far going back to 2015!
50 is rookie numbers lowkey 💀
May 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
50 is rookie numbers lowkey 💀
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MRS. DALLOWAY was published 100 years ago today. The following year, E.M. Forster reviewed it in The Yale Review.
Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolf’s novels to date—including what he called her “exquisite and superbly constructed” masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/fors...
Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolf’s novels to date—including what he called her “exquisite and superbly constructed” masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/fors...
E. M. Forster: “The Novels of Virginia Woolf”
E. M. Forster on “Jacob’s Room” and “Mrs. Dalloway”
yalereview.org
May 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
MRS. DALLOWAY was published 100 years ago today. The following year, E.M. Forster reviewed it in The Yale Review.
Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolf’s novels to date—including what he called her “exquisite and superbly constructed” masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/fors...
Now online for the first time: his essay on Woolf’s novels to date—including what he called her “exquisite and superbly constructed” masterpiece. yalereview.org/article/fors...
100+ applications in three hours is crazy 🤡
May 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
100+ applications in three hours is crazy 🤡
what am I supposed to do as a simultaneously under- and overqualified humanities PhD when every entry level job in remotely relevant fields has hundreds of senior level applicants
May 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
what am I supposed to do as a simultaneously under- and overqualified humanities PhD when every entry level job in remotely relevant fields has hundreds of senior level applicants
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“Archives are not confined to buildings. They are places, streets, hillsides as much as card indexes.”
Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...
Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...
Edmund de Waal: “The Ragpicker's Way”
The writer and potter on archives as places of memory, instability, and trespass—from porcelain shards to a derelict house in London.
yalereview.org
May 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“Archives are not confined to buildings. They are places, streets, hillsides as much as card indexes.”
Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...
Edmund de Waal, the writer and potter, gathers what’s scattered across time and terrain, new today in TYR. yalereview.org/article/edmu...
hate to be another white dude with a podcast idea but would anyone tune in to “The Adaptation Games”
where I’d talk to writers, directors, agents, producers, and other entertainment pros about the process of finding and adapting literature
or you can just show me that this has already been done
where I’d talk to writers, directors, agents, producers, and other entertainment pros about the process of finding and adapting literature
or you can just show me that this has already been done
May 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
hate to be another white dude with a podcast idea but would anyone tune in to “The Adaptation Games”
where I’d talk to writers, directors, agents, producers, and other entertainment pros about the process of finding and adapting literature
or you can just show me that this has already been done
where I’d talk to writers, directors, agents, producers, and other entertainment pros about the process of finding and adapting literature
or you can just show me that this has already been done
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New online: a message from the NEA’s Literary Arts staff. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
A Message from the NEA’s Literary Arts Staff | The Editors
Thank you to the poets, the story writers, the novelists, the essayists, the memoirists for your words that have lifted us toward the light. You remind us to slow down and be awed, to feel that unique...
www.nplusonemag.com
May 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
New online: a message from the NEA’s Literary Arts staff. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
currently starting to apply to editorial and writing jobs back home in 🇳🇱 and I’m realizing I’ve never actually written a cover letter in Dutch 😭🙂↔️
May 6, 2025 at 11:00 PM
currently starting to apply to editorial and writing jobs back home in 🇳🇱 and I’m realizing I’ve never actually written a cover letter in Dutch 😭🙂↔️
Bong Joon Ho casually chatting with my friends at Yale 😭
May 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Bong Joon Ho casually chatting with my friends at Yale 😭
noticing a lot of novels / stories using virality as a plot device. My preliminary take as to why is that it offers a writer and easy way to raise the stakes and do plot reversals without explaining or motivating actual causes. Virality stands in for classical devices of tragedy, fate and chance
May 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
noticing a lot of novels / stories using virality as a plot device. My preliminary take as to why is that it offers a writer and easy way to raise the stakes and do plot reversals without explaining or motivating actual causes. Virality stands in for classical devices of tragedy, fate and chance
apple intelligence summaries 💀💀💀
May 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
apple intelligence summaries 💀💀💀
caught my friend’s bengal going sphinx mode
April 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
caught my friend’s bengal going sphinx mode
an abomination
what did Van Gogh do to deserve this y2k ass video game font
what did Van Gogh do to deserve this y2k ass video game font
April 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
an abomination
what did Van Gogh do to deserve this y2k ass video game font
what did Van Gogh do to deserve this y2k ass video game font
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i, however, do not miss being a part of a such spineless undemocratic institution.
April 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
i, however, do not miss being a part of a such spineless undemocratic institution.
a month after finishing my diss I have had so many creative ideas but still no energy to begin writing any 😑
April 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
a month after finishing my diss I have had so many creative ideas but still no energy to begin writing any 😑
April 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Very excited to get to see this early
April 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Very excited to get to see this early
I may not like Marvel superhero slop, but I will defend to the death your right to see it in the cinema
April 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I may not like Marvel superhero slop, but I will defend to the death your right to see it in the cinema
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Coming soon: our summer fiction issue! New work by seven writers reshaping what the story can do.
Subscribe before May 5 to receive your copy in print—and choose your free, beach-ready merch.
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Subscribe before May 5 to receive your copy in print—and choose your free, beach-ready merch.
yalereviewstore.org/products/the...
April 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Coming soon: our summer fiction issue! New work by seven writers reshaping what the story can do.
Subscribe before May 5 to receive your copy in print—and choose your free, beach-ready merch.
yalereviewstore.org/products/the...
Subscribe before May 5 to receive your copy in print—and choose your free, beach-ready merch.
yalereviewstore.org/products/the...