Tim Manley
@timmanley.com
Writer and person
MY OWN KIND OF PERSON (Rocky Pond Books, 2026)
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MY OWN KIND OF PERSON (Rocky Pond Books, 2026)
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There’s always been dating fads, as @timmanley.com reminds us with this sad singles mixer story. And now, there’s a new dating phenomenon called THE FEELS. We get into that and more on #FakeTheNation with me, Tim, and @christianfinnegan.bsky.social. #Dating #singles #onlinedating
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
There’s always been dating fads, as @timmanley.com reminds us with this sad singles mixer story. And now, there’s a new dating phenomenon called THE FEELS. We get into that and more on #FakeTheNation with me, Tim, and @christianfinnegan.bsky.social. #Dating #singles #onlinedating
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
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Has voting for Mamdani reached meme status? Does everyone just want to be in on it? We’ll know soon enough! We discuss the last days of the NYC election on this week’s #FakeTheNation w/ @christianfinnegan.bsky.social & @timmanley.com #mamdani #NYC #NYCMayoral #elections #NYCelection
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Has voting for Mamdani reached meme status? Does everyone just want to be in on it? We’ll know soon enough! We discuss the last days of the NYC election on this week’s #FakeTheNation w/ @christianfinnegan.bsky.social & @timmanley.com #mamdani #NYC #NYCMayoral #elections #NYCelection
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Unbeknownst to me, the industry or ‘livestream shopping’ has grown in popularity - Its like QVC but for TikTok. @timmanley.com ‘s mom was into QVC. We try to understand the phenomenon on #FakeTheNation w/ me and
@christianfinnegan.bsky.social offering up our… disbelief. #shoppin #livestreamshopping
@christianfinnegan.bsky.social offering up our… disbelief. #shoppin #livestreamshopping
November 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Unbeknownst to me, the industry or ‘livestream shopping’ has grown in popularity - Its like QVC but for TikTok. @timmanley.com ‘s mom was into QVC. We try to understand the phenomenon on #FakeTheNation w/ me and
@christianfinnegan.bsky.social offering up our… disbelief. #shoppin #livestreamshopping
@christianfinnegan.bsky.social offering up our… disbelief. #shoppin #livestreamshopping
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What do you think about the demolition of the East Wing of the White House? Do you, like @christianfinnegan.bsky.social think it will serve as a “giant graffiti tag” on the symbolic seat of America? This + a Mamdani check in on #FakeTheNation with @timmanley.com #WhiteHouse #demolition #trump
November 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
What do you think about the demolition of the East Wing of the White House? Do you, like @christianfinnegan.bsky.social think it will serve as a “giant graffiti tag” on the symbolic seat of America? This + a Mamdani check in on #FakeTheNation with @timmanley.com #WhiteHouse #demolition #trump
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I wrote a book! I’m very excited for you to read it! I’m speechless!
August 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I wrote a book! I’m very excited for you to read it! I’m speechless!
BRB in a few months. Going to revise a project I’m excited to share soon
April 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
BRB in a few months. Going to revise a project I’m excited to share soon
I frequently find myself looking forward to the next Kacen Callendar book. Whatever and whenever it will be, I will read it.
April 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I frequently find myself looking forward to the next Kacen Callendar book. Whatever and whenever it will be, I will read it.
Today I will lead a storytelling workshop with some teens. I’ve done this a hundred times before. I am, of course, terrified.
April 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Today I will lead a storytelling workshop with some teens. I’ve done this a hundred times before. I am, of course, terrified.
I read Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School before bed this past week. I found it at the library, wandering the rows looking at spines, collecting a stack I’d always considered reading. I brought them all back to my desk and read the first pages of each.
April 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I read Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School before bed this past week. I found it at the library, wandering the rows looking at spines, collecting a stack I’d always considered reading. I brought them all back to my desk and read the first pages of each.
Soon all the green things I don’t know the names of will return for spring and summer, and it will be harder to walk to the big tree I’m trying to befriend. I already barely visit the tree. Next time I do, though, I bet I’ll enjoy seeing all the green things returning or returned.
April 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Soon all the green things I don’t know the names of will return for spring and summer, and it will be harder to walk to the big tree I’m trying to befriend. I already barely visit the tree. Next time I do, though, I bet I’ll enjoy seeing all the green things returning or returned.
On a misty morning I drink coffee and look out the window. Maybe I’m wondering if I’m supposed to be thinking or feeling something. I have an empty mind, but I don’t know if that’s a sign of wisdom or stupidity.
March 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
On a misty morning I drink coffee and look out the window. Maybe I’m wondering if I’m supposed to be thinking or feeling something. I have an empty mind, but I don’t know if that’s a sign of wisdom or stupidity.
On Saturday I’m taking @1demerith.bsky.social’s class on movement for writers. I’m always trying to discern how much of my work should come from deep in my body, and how much from my regular dopey brain. On Saturday, at least, we’ll try the body.
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Writing & Dance: A Movement Studio Workshop
Overcome self-doubt and perfectionism with our unique workshop combining movement and writing. Explore exercises to unlock uninhibited creativity and write freely. No movement background needed, just ...
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March 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
On Saturday I’m taking @1demerith.bsky.social’s class on movement for writers. I’m always trying to discern how much of my work should come from deep in my body, and how much from my regular dopey brain. On Saturday, at least, we’ll try the body.
learn.slc.edu/courses/writ...
learn.slc.edu/courses/writ...
This morning I was trying to quickly prepare everyone’s oatmeal and I accidentally knocked our French press into the sink. It shattered, and the coffee went down the drain. An inauspicious start to the day. Dark energy. I’m approaching the afternoon cautiously.
March 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This morning I was trying to quickly prepare everyone’s oatmeal and I accidentally knocked our French press into the sink. It shattered, and the coffee went down the drain. An inauspicious start to the day. Dark energy. I’m approaching the afternoon cautiously.
One night around this time last year, I was driving home and saw a frog in the road. Then another. Then another. Hundreds of spring peepers were emerging from their hibernation and crossing the road to get to the creek downhill. I had to drive very slowly.
March 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
One night around this time last year, I was driving home and saw a frog in the road. Then another. Then another. Hundreds of spring peepers were emerging from their hibernation and crossing the road to get to the creek downhill. I had to drive very slowly.
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The NEA's new compliance guidelines are anti-trans, so we aren't applying. Today, we're asking our readers to stand with us. Please donate to help us raise $15K to replace our annual grant by April 15.
Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/PJ0P801
Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/PJ0P801
Why Electric Literature Isn't Applying to the NEA - Electric Literature
The NEA’s new compliance requirements are anti-trans, so we aren’t applying
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March 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The NEA's new compliance guidelines are anti-trans, so we aren't applying. Today, we're asking our readers to stand with us. Please donate to help us raise $15K to replace our annual grant by April 15.
Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/PJ0P801
Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/PJ0P801
I am attempting a new routine. I must write two journal pages, drink a full glass of water, and stretch for fifteen minutes, before doing any work. I’d really rather get right to work, but the routine consistently improves my focus and decreases my anxiety. It’s very frustrating.
March 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I am attempting a new routine. I must write two journal pages, drink a full glass of water, and stretch for fifteen minutes, before doing any work. I’d really rather get right to work, but the routine consistently improves my focus and decreases my anxiety. It’s very frustrating.
On the drive home from and back to my kid’s school, I’ve been listening to Micaela Blei’s Audible Original memoir You Will Not Recognize Your Life. It keeps us in scene, with just enough detail to experience what’s happening, and just enough backstory and reflection to feel the weight. I like it.
March 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
On the drive home from and back to my kid’s school, I’ve been listening to Micaela Blei’s Audible Original memoir You Will Not Recognize Your Life. It keeps us in scene, with just enough detail to experience what’s happening, and just enough backstory and reflection to feel the weight. I like it.
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Two years ago I dreamed up a very strange magazine. Now it's real. I can't put into words what it's meant to me to conjure this thing, pack it with the fifty writers and artists I most admire, and put it into the world. I hope you'll get one, read it, love it.
Elastic, the print magazine of psychedelic art and literature, is here. Our first issue, on the theme of dying, is available for order now—and it’s stacked, to put it mildly. Fifty contributors. 176 lush pages filled with work that bends time and space and perspective. Nab a copy at elasticmag.com.
March 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Two years ago I dreamed up a very strange magazine. Now it's real. I can't put into words what it's meant to me to conjure this thing, pack it with the fifty writers and artists I most admire, and put it into the world. I hope you'll get one, read it, love it.
One night, after my five-year-old went to sleep, I wrote a letter to a friend. I found an envelope and even found stamps, and her address, and I walked the letter to the mailbox. She received it a few days later, and she wrote me back. What an incredible life.
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
One night, after my five-year-old went to sleep, I wrote a letter to a friend. I found an envelope and even found stamps, and her address, and I walked the letter to the mailbox. She received it a few days later, and she wrote me back. What an incredible life.
It feels serendipitous to come across an answer I needed in this conversation between two artists I admire.
@esmewang.com talking with Andrew Garfield in @thebeliever.net:
@esmewang.com talking with Andrew Garfield in @thebeliever.net:
March 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It feels serendipitous to come across an answer I needed in this conversation between two artists I admire.
@esmewang.com talking with Andrew Garfield in @thebeliever.net:
@esmewang.com talking with Andrew Garfield in @thebeliever.net:
My brother hangs out with my kid two afternoons a week, and stays over the night in between. This means he and I get to regularly go out for the first time since we lived together in Queens. We were in our twenties then, and I remind myself we are once again living inside what will become memories.
March 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My brother hangs out with my kid two afternoons a week, and stays over the night in between. This means he and I get to regularly go out for the first time since we lived together in Queens. We were in our twenties then, and I remind myself we are once again living inside what will become memories.