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// staff writer @literaryhub.bsky.social // // managing editor @pointsincase.com // // hangin' tuff @nyc // // jamesfolta.com //
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I’m winning

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The Stepford Wives (2004), welcome to the Caro Hive

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I can't stop thinking about the punitive, petty cruelty in the executive order on the death penalty

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Extremely ominous Points In Case submission

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm going to be reading next Wednedsay at KGB Bar! Come on out if you want to hear some writing and meet 'n' mingle with some cool writers!

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Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social and @jamesfolta.com for letting me yap about my book!

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The Stepford Wives (2004), welcome to the Caro Hive

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I'm going to be reading next Wednedsay at KGB Bar! Come on out if you want to hear some writing and meet 'n' mingle with some cool writers!

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Cooking up a Dark Indie Sleaze to take down this administration

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Just saw the Sobe lizard on the F train,, he didn’t look good… sad to see

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I can't stop thinking about the punitive, petty cruelty in the executive order on the death penalty

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

In a couple important ways, I'm the Michael Jordan of listening to audiobooks at the Park Slope Y and having my headphones disconnect and then blasting the audiobook from my phone speakers in the weight machines room at the Park Slope Y

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I was on the CBC's Bizdigest show to talk about the blurbs article I wrote for @literaryhub.bsky.social -- just trying to do my part to repair US-Canada relations

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Happy Presidents Day

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Meal prep for the week involves freezing sandwiches in larger and larger blocks of ice so that one defrosts on my kitchen floor every 8 hours

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Seems like everything these days is enlarged to show texture

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Because of a class action lawsuit, I am one of the few Apple users who has access to erotic memojis

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

A beautiful valentines spam

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What the hell?!

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Happy Valentine's Day from me and my sweetie and @mcsweeneys.net

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Not really sure I see the relevance here?

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The only thing I want for Valentines Day is for me and my sweetie to cook and eat Chicago’s large bean

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Described as fretting in a Vox article -- I've arrived

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If you’re looking for some very last-minute Valentine’s Day date ideas, I wrote up some romantic ideas inspired by literature for @literaryhub.bsky.social

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Israeli police raided two locations of the Palestinian-owned Educational Bookshop and arrested Mahmoud Muna and Ahmed Muna, two of the owners.

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The New Yorker is celebrating its 100 year anniversary, and what a time to check out The Neu Jorker, still one of the things I'm proudest to have worked on

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The moment I realize I’ve had one too many cups of coffee:

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*smugly* intellectuals can actually get CTE too…

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Playing the role of the frightening old townie from a Stephen King novel at the Super Bowl party

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Silence is golden, polite chit chat is silvery, screaming is bronzey, lecturing is tinny, mansplaining is rusty, and so on

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I always forget how annoying advertising’s biggest day is

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Lots to digest in this first issue

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Lighting a boating emergency signal flare to let my boys know I’m ready to head to the next bar

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Hiring Nolan’s Inception boys to go into my dreams and implant information about the new kids movies so I can chat with my neice

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

me emailing as a writer: What a pleasure to hear from you! I’m glad you enjoyed the piece and I’m eager to hear your feedback. me emailing as an editor: rad as hell, thanks for the eidts .

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

If you crave a little crack in the hellscape, my colleague @jamesfolta.com "went long on groundhogs" over at Lit Hub and it is...perfectly unhinged

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

If you're looking for a fun Valentine's Day gift, might I recommend this zine that Lucas Adams and I made? It's a beautiful, newsprint broadsheet atlas of Valentine's Day Island, and a guide to all of its rich kingdoms, peoples & creatures Order a copy or two here: forms.gle/STbS9sev43S2...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Looked into the surprisingly expansive world of animals that can see the future and found murder, Confederate generals, and a marriage between corpses

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Teens on the subway talking about the opening shot of The Player this early in the morning???

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

“If you… read… one article on blurbs this discourse cycle, make it… this one” “Engrossing as blogs go!” “Will read when I get on my ipad 3> mom”

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By day I am mild-mannered, normal even, but around bedtime I become something else, I become The Floss Boss

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