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Which spot exactly?

This story has not happened before. Notice they do not dance again. Let the future begin.

"Fritz Lang said, No-we can’t jeopardize the cloud scam, MGM has a lot invested in this war at Troy, even beside the movie deals there’s spinoffs, casinos, reality shows.” From Anne Carson's "Norma Jean Baker of Troy." #SundaySentence (also supporting #SAGAFTRA and #WGA)

I still prefer Euripides’ cloud version of Helen.

Strange, gorgeous story in Guernica Magazine: "To see a wolf was to be a wolf, for a minute. To be gone."

If you want to know more about how I came to write A Real Doll and The Safety of Objects Electric Literature Barbie Greta Gerwig noah baumbach read M.G. Lord and I talking about #Barbie @vikingbooks then and now electricliterature.com/we-still-cant-…

Excited for this. And I’ll be in reading it in Rome when it comes out!

Tonight at the Historical Society in Washington, Illinois, I’ll be discussing research and reading my own work about German POWs in the area, 1944-1945.

The Best of Brooklyn (BoBi) award is presented each year to an author whose work best exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn. Our 2023 BoBi honoree is Hilton Als, a celebrated critic and author of several books. Help us celebrate him on October 1st!

Next week in Brooklyn Heights!

Powerful and carefully wrought piece about story ownership. And forgiveness: “I Stole My Neighbors’ Tragedy To Write a Short Story” electricliterature.com/i-stole-my-nei… via @electriclit

Jennifer Sears collects all the SmokeLong Barbies in the last of our 20th-anniversary series, reviewing stories from the SmokeLong archives. smokelong.com/a-visceral-scr…

SmokeLong Barbies live! Such great stories highlighted in this “catalog.”

Fun rereading this. This line on VN’s process and emphasis on form/pattern jumps out: “The pattern of the thing precedes the thing. I fill in the gaps of the crossword at any spot I happen to choose.” #SundaySentence

Evening light in Brooklyn.

This makes me love both these writers all the more!

RIP Robert Coover.

My memory stammers, but my soul is a witness. —James Baldwin

Amid all of the other tensions in the world, this looks worth watching

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