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laurenarrington.bsky.social
NEH Public Scholar (2023). I write books. Bylines @ LitHub, LARB, TLS, Irish Times, Public Books; rep’d Peter Straus @ RCW; Chair of English at the University of South Florida
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It's possible we are headed off that cliff! We are not immune to the forces that cause societies to collapse. But IMO it's irresponsible to treat that collapse as inevitable, much less preferable, while there is still time left to turn the car around.
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Season 1 of True Detective 🔥
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Tbh, three kids in, there’s no fix for the 4 month sleep regression. Enjoy the snuggles.
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I saw it in Gainesville! What about you?
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Randy Travis’s Heroes and Friends tour was so good
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“Redolent” …. gives me so much hope for this country 🥹
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Thanks for sharing!
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Saw a gingerbread man in a similar pose today. Completely baked.
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Just had the opposite experience: when a friend took my home I realised the last stoplight before our house is a no right on red. (Why is she just waiting here…? Oh.) Oops.
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Yep! I’m in. I have chapters to redraft and a spring deadline to meet!
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Totally!
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Have you read Eden Undone? Utopian-minded health seekers settle on an island in the Galapagos, become minor celebrities and attract a motley crew of people set on self re-invention. Nonfiction!
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Did Jeopardy change networks?
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See the recent headline on “babies caught speeding,” a comic take on the ethnic profiling and criminalisation of infants and children
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I mentally build a box, put them in it, and nail the lid of that sucker down. 📦
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lol We didn’t have cable though, so I watched as much Clarissa as possible when visiting my grandma’s house 💖
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Just cited your book yesterday!
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Reader, I had one 📞🪩
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Beat me to this comment!