Diana Adair

Writer, tech PR boss | Wrote a novel | Rep'd by agent Rachel Estep, D4EO

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Thank you for a great event last night. Karen Nelson discussing her new book and how she always starts with "landscape" as part of her creative process. Great to see Pam Houston, one of my favorite writing teachers!

@Keplers @sibylline_press @writingxwriters

[D. A. Powell @Powell_DA]

May 9th poet birthdays include Charles Simic, Joy Harjo, Mona Van Duyn, Henri Cole, Maw Shein Win, Dan Chaisson and Jorie Graham.

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

"To seek out novel experiences at any age is to slow time by chiseling it into shapes ever more beautiful, and to mark it more deeply."

From this month's issue focused on new beginnings
@KajaPerina
@PsychToday

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

I love learning a new word! I found this one in the wild. Had no clue. @MerriamWebster to the rescue

https://t.co/h3oLUEozwu

Use it in a sentence: "The critic heaped CONTUMELY on the author's latest collection blah blah . . ."

Harsh!

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Thank you for a great discussion focused on pain. @DrZoffness @Keplers

In her book, Dr. Rachel Zoffness talks about biological, psychological, and social aspects to pain. We can find new ways to heal, and our "pain alarm can be less high."

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Loving this book. Bringing Daphne DuMaurier back into the present time. The stories travel to Venice, London, Crete, and more. She takes "unreliable narrator" to another level. @SimonBooks @StephenKing

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

"And yet to have claimed that a warm spring morning walking over earth carpeted with apple blossoms was somehow the same, substantively, spiritually, as a cold winter noon spent pruning, or a harvest evening heavy with the smell of juice and hay..." (Daniel Mason's North Woods)

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

I don't usually post about movies, but Sentimental Value combines a stunning visual and literary aesthetic. Here's the opening about the family house.

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

A moment we love from Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’ (2025).

In the opening sequence, a diary-like voice-over from young Nora presents a century-old Oslo home as another character, a living archive of joy, conflict, silence, and memory.

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Thank you @AuthorsGuild @__eshani @rgay @trellislit for a great discussion about the path to publication for the novel Ravishing. Loved your take on genre and multi-genre! Can't wait to read this book!

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Thank you @cityartssf for the amazing discussion with Salman Rushdie who said "The combination of imagination and history is where literature happens" @SalmanRushdie

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Thank you @JudithOrloffMD "When you've done all you can, you must let go and surrender to what is meant to be. Otherwise, you just end up torturing yourself and getting nowhere."

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Amazing performance about the real women from history and the intense fight for suffrage in the 1900s! Enjoyed Suffs @broadwaysf bringing this story to life

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Thank you @Keplers for another literary evening with Elaine Castillo and John Freeman, discussing California literature. We covered Tommy Pico, Natalie Diaz, Jaime Cortez and more for John's new book California Rewritten
https://t.co/KWou50SyTY

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Historical fiction about a real woman from the 16th century, I'm hooked. @penguinrandom https://t.co/4wHTzNyJoP

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

There are many writers who also work in tech like me. We can still be shocked. Anthropic used pirated digital versions of millions of books and fed them into their LLMs. Look up your favorite authors by name, I just did. https://t.co/fB8XKIGoxf

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Yes! @StephenKing @GuardianBooks Stephen King on Daphne Du Maurier's talent and new collection https://t.co/uUraJwRGJW

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Loving this book about a woman war correspondent, a fictional character dropped into real history. I got to hear Isabel Allende speak about the book, thank you @JCCSF @mf3lix

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Thanks to @Keplers for the great night discussing new books about Trans elders and Trans youth. Caro said: "Writing begins as a form of deep listening." And Nico's done 110 book events this year!
@caroderobertis @Nico_Lang

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Two writers that I admire had corporate careers before becoming novelists.

Mohsin Hamid was a lawyer who worked in corporate law to pay off his loans, then at McKinsey.

Amor Towles worked in finance as a Wall Street banker in NYC for more than 20 years. @amortowles

[Diana Adair @AdairWriter]

Still thinking about this poem "How to See Deer" from our workshop on nature poems. Excerpt: "You’ve learned by now / to wait without waiting" Thank you Professor Didi! @didijacksonpoet https://t.co/sA8ZTUpEtQ