emanquotah.bsky.social
Novelist, essayist, comms professional -- author of BRIDE OF THE SEA (Tin House)
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I took Nat's women's poetry class at Swarthmore! She's going to be in person?
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Thank you, my dear!
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Not my second book (or ms), but for the thing I'm working on now I tried ditching my laptop for a bit and getting a bunch of colorful pens and journaling.
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This is so good, and explains things that have been making me scratch my head and primal scream simultaneously. "One gets the sense that politics has gone off, like a cell phone, in the darkened theater of Pamela Paul’s mind. It is worse than wrong: It is rude."
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This relates to organizational grants, not fellowships. But it’s making me nostalgic for Piss Christ.
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❤️❤️❤️
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Good lord. They want to pretend the rest of the world does not exist.
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It’s kind of amazing the way Mitch sticks with people despite having been gone for so long.
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He really leans on the underlying assumption that people with disabilities are not qualified for anything. You make a good point, and I think reporters need to stop using D.E.I. as shorthand and start being specific and clear about what he’s talking about.
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Her poems are the balm and the saltwater in the back of the throat at the same time, how does she do it?
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Excited to be the one to tell you “Marhaba!”
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I love this one (I’m paraphrasing and extrapolating): “What if AI could tell you to play World of Warcraft instead of going outside?”
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Great to meet you too! ❤️ What a great audience we had last night
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Jill! We have to meet sometime!
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So exciting!
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This is on my night table -- my editor recommended I read it!
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“How the fuck am I not done” comes right after “look at me, I’m writing a novel!”
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Also zero
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Jessica, hanging out with Majda as a girl was as cool as you imagined it to be ❤️
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Can’t wait to hold it in my grubby Saudi American hands 🧿❤️🧿
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Welcome ❤️
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Exactly! Usually you're writing for an audience of peers, rather than for editors/publishers.