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Writing & editing with delight. I help writers affordably. Literary editor "emerita" @ Missouri Review. Fiction writer with 40 years' experience editing #books & short prose. Feminist, cat lover, shelter volunteer. Find me at stylitebooks.com
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Thoughtful, smart, fully engaged critiques of your writing. Experience in many genres, both long form and short form. 40 years as a literary journal editor. Even more years as a cat lover. Visit me at StyliteBooks.com.
Hope to win a free e-book? Marcia Farrar and Mr. Whiskey Time Travel to 1997, the deadly serious comedy about an empty-nester and her time-traveling cat, is now available as an e-book via my Goodreads giveaway. Open now through November 15. You can find it here: stylitebooks.com/love-cats-an...
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Hope to win a free e-book? Marcia Farrar and Mr. Whiskey Time Travel to 1997, the deadly serious comedy about an empty-nester and her time-traveling cat, is now available as an e-book via my Goodreads giveaway. Open now through November 15. You can find it here: stylitebooks.com/love-cats-an...
Launch day for Marcia Farrar and Mr. Whiskey Time-Travel to 1997! If you've ever wanted a do-over of your life, ever been bossed around by a cat--or if you just want to laugh at an absurd (but deadly serious) adventure, this book just might be for you! Available here: www.amazon.com/Marcia-Farra...
October 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Launch day for Marcia Farrar and Mr. Whiskey Time-Travel to 1997! If you've ever wanted a do-over of your life, ever been bossed around by a cat--or if you just want to laugh at an absurd (but deadly serious) adventure, this book just might be for you! Available here: www.amazon.com/Marcia-Farra...
How intriguing! And a timely read this morning, for someone whose cat novel debuts today: publicdomainreview.org/essay/gottfr...
Gottfried Mind, The Raphael of Cats
Labelled a “cretin” and “imbecile” in his lifetime, the Swiss artist Gottfried Mind had profound talents when it came to drafting the feline form. Kirsten Tambling reconstructs the biography of this e...
publicdomainreview.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
How intriguing! And a timely read this morning, for someone whose cat novel debuts today: publicdomainreview.org/essay/gottfr...
More troubling news about women in the workforce (or not) and a wage gap that's going backward. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Opinion | American Women Are Leaving the Work Force. Why?
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
More troubling news about women in the workforce (or not) and a wage gap that's going backward. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Paperback now available for preorder! If you love cats, comedy, stories about do-overs, or have ever been stuck where you didn't want to be, this book is for you. www.amazon.com/Marcia-Farra...
September 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Paperback now available for preorder! If you love cats, comedy, stories about do-overs, or have ever been stuck where you didn't want to be, this book is for you. www.amazon.com/Marcia-Farra...
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The United States is refusing to participate in the #UPR, a review of each country’s human rights record at the UN. No government is above this process. We join 40+ organizations in calling on the U.S. to engage and all countries to defend the UPR. www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/News/A/Index...
U.S. Human Rights Organizations Demand Leadership in Face of U.S. Attempts to Destabilize World Human Rights Framework - The Advocates for Human Rights
www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The United States is refusing to participate in the #UPR, a review of each country’s human rights record at the UN. No government is above this process. We join 40+ organizations in calling on the U.S. to engage and all countries to defend the UPR. www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/News/A/Index...
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Wow Another monumental digital restoration project by @rougeux.bsky.social — a treasure trove for typography lovers! www.c82.net/printing-typ...
Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use
Digital edition of Daniel Updike’s history on printing and typography
www.c82.net
September 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Wow Another monumental digital restoration project by @rougeux.bsky.social — a treasure trove for typography lovers! www.c82.net/printing-typ...
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More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d...
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library
View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.
www.bl.uk
September 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d...
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!
New poem of the week at Missouri Review is this "confession" by Malaysian poet Lyn Li Che: missourireview.com/lyn-li-che/
September 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New poem of the week at Missouri Review is this "confession" by Malaysian poet Lyn Li Che: missourireview.com/lyn-li-che/
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Literature is “a way that we rehearse life,” Lois Lowry said, in 2021.
What Lois Lowry Remembers
Lowry, who has lost a sister and a son, has spent decades writing about the pains of memory. For her, literature is “a way that we rehearse life.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/what-lois-lowry-remembers?utm_medium=so[…]e=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
September 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Literature is “a way that we rehearse life,” Lois Lowry said, in 2021.
Wonderful article from LRB on the Pearl manuscript and its history. Not for Medievalists only.
‘No amount of knowledge about medieval literary culture can make the Pearl Manuscript tell us what it means. Everyone has to speculate at some point.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on the manuscript that contains the only copy of ‘Gawain and the Green Knight’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript
Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wonderful article from LRB on the Pearl manuscript and its history. Not for Medievalists only.
My little mortal comedy will launch on October 13. Kindle edition available now for preorder on Amazon. Print available on and after the pub date. Here's the review from Kirkus--unfortunately with at least one spoiler. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
MARCIA FARRAR AND MR. WHISKEY TIME-TRAVEL TO… | Kirkus Reviews
A middle-aged woman frustrated with her life learns that change isn’t always good in Somers’ whimsical time-travel tale.
www.kirkusreviews.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My little mortal comedy will launch on October 13. Kindle edition available now for preorder on Amazon. Print available on and after the pub date. Here's the review from Kirkus--unfortunately with at least one spoiler. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...
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The IRS continues to roll out drafts of some 2026 tax forms, including a draft of Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification. Here’s a look at what’s new—and why it matters.
A First Look At Form W-9, Updated To Include Info For Reporting Digital Assets
The IRS continues to roll out drafts of some 2026 tax forms, including a draft of Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification. Here’s a look at what’s new—and why it matters.
www.forbes.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The IRS continues to roll out drafts of some 2026 tax forms, including a draft of Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification. Here’s a look at what’s new—and why it matters.
Open for business again after a caregiving hiatus. Novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, selected academic editing, and more, all at reasonable Midwest rates. Free estimates. I'd love to talk to you about your current writing project!
September 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Open for business again after a caregiving hiatus. Novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, selected academic editing, and more, all at reasonable Midwest rates. Free estimates. I'd love to talk to you about your current writing project!
I love that this unites the conversation about AI with some of the finer points of editing and proofreading.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...
With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I love that this unites the conversation about AI with some of the finer points of editing and proofreading.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...
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Did your NEH proposal or project funding get killed off?
Please share it at this week's @ach.bsky.social virtual conference!
Testify to the impact!
Share what you had started!
Share what you hoped & dreamed!
Open to all 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Help us spread the word?
Please share it at this week's @ach.bsky.social virtual conference!
Testify to the impact!
Share what you had started!
Share what you hoped & dreamed!
Open to all 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Help us spread the word?
June 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Did your NEH proposal or project funding get killed off?
Please share it at this week's @ach.bsky.social virtual conference!
Testify to the impact!
Share what you had started!
Share what you hoped & dreamed!
Open to all 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Help us spread the word?
Please share it at this week's @ach.bsky.social virtual conference!
Testify to the impact!
Share what you had started!
Share what you hoped & dreamed!
Open to all 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Help us spread the word?
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The infinite scroll has ruined our ability to focus. Is wasting more time the key to getting it back?
How I’m Fixing My Broken Attention Span
The infinite scroll has ruined our ability to focus. Is wasting more time the key to getting it back?
www.vulture.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The infinite scroll has ruined our ability to focus. Is wasting more time the key to getting it back?
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Announcing the Shortlist for the Magpie Award! 💐 - mailchi.mp/cd989ee04da6...
Stay tuned for the winners as judged by Renée Sarojini Saklikar, this coming Monday.
#poetry #magpie #poetrycontest #poetryaward #contest #writingcontest
Stay tuned for the winners as judged by Renée Sarojini Saklikar, this coming Monday.
#poetry #magpie #poetrycontest #poetryaward #contest #writingcontest
Congratulation to the Magpie Shortlisters!
Stay tuned for the winners of the Magpie Award for Poetry, judged by Renée Sarojini Saklikar, this coming Monday.
#poetry #magpie #poetrycontest #poetryaward #contest #writingcontest
mailchi.mp
May 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Announcing the Shortlist for the Magpie Award! 💐 - mailchi.mp/cd989ee04da6...
Stay tuned for the winners as judged by Renée Sarojini Saklikar, this coming Monday.
#poetry #magpie #poetrycontest #poetryaward #contest #writingcontest
Stay tuned for the winners as judged by Renée Sarojini Saklikar, this coming Monday.
#poetry #magpie #poetrycontest #poetryaward #contest #writingcontest
Met a semi-friendly lizard today, hanging out on our porch--highlight of the day!
May 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Met a semi-friendly lizard today, hanging out on our porch--highlight of the day!
No one better to articulate this absurdity than George Saunders If you haven't read his opinion piece today on the firing of Dr. Hayden, please do.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Opinion | George Saunders: Shame on the White House
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
No one better to articulate this absurdity than George Saunders If you haven't read his opinion piece today on the firing of Dr. Hayden, please do.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
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Today's Featured Poet:
Toby Altman is the author of Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025), Discipline Park (Wendy's Subway, 2023), and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017).
Toby Altman is the author of Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025), Discipline Park (Wendy's Subway, 2023), and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017).
May 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Today's Featured Poet:
Toby Altman is the author of Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025), Discipline Park (Wendy's Subway, 2023), and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017).
Toby Altman is the author of Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025), Discipline Park (Wendy's Subway, 2023), and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017).
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On 13 May, Lily Dunn joins us in the Salon for her workshop 'The Memoirisation of Time', 5-7pm.
In this workshop Lily will help you to identify how other writers have dealt with time jumps in their memoirs, to better control your own.
Visit the Salon to register: mslexia.co.uk/salon/ #AmWriting
In this workshop Lily will help you to identify how other writers have dealt with time jumps in their memoirs, to better control your own.
Visit the Salon to register: mslexia.co.uk/salon/ #AmWriting
May 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
On 13 May, Lily Dunn joins us in the Salon for her workshop 'The Memoirisation of Time', 5-7pm.
In this workshop Lily will help you to identify how other writers have dealt with time jumps in their memoirs, to better control your own.
Visit the Salon to register: mslexia.co.uk/salon/ #AmWriting
In this workshop Lily will help you to identify how other writers have dealt with time jumps in their memoirs, to better control your own.
Visit the Salon to register: mslexia.co.uk/salon/ #AmWriting
Count me among one of the few who are concerned. Really concerned. Not just concerned, in fact--TERRIFIED.
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
Most Americans use federal science information on a weekly basis, a new poll finds
Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
www.npr.org
May 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Count me among one of the few who are concerned. Really concerned. Not just concerned, in fact--TERRIFIED.
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“Shechet enshrines the continuum of inside with outside by means of interdependent Möbius-like curved ribbons of aluminum that sometimes bulge out from the corpus like a misplaced exoskeleton [or] pierce the primary forms like cartoon death rays.”
‘Why Not All These Things at Once?’ | David Salle
The sculptor Arlene Shechet’s work is held together by a combination of stand-up shtick, fairy tales, strong nerves, and high modernist sobriety.
buff.ly
May 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
“Shechet enshrines the continuum of inside with outside by means of interdependent Möbius-like curved ribbons of aluminum that sometimes bulge out from the corpus like a misplaced exoskeleton [or] pierce the primary forms like cartoon death rays.”
For those who want some clarity about literary submissions, this should be worth listening. Good luck!
Literary submissions are sometimes mysterious to folks, so in this episode, we're giving some of our favorite advice to people submitting to literary journals and book publishers (mostly poetry).
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you plant your eggplants. 🍆
Listen online at breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com, or wherever you plant your eggplants. 🍆
May 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
For those who want some clarity about literary submissions, this should be worth listening. Good luck!