Really fun talking with @taybrown about his amazing new novel Wingwalkers on the latest episode of #LiteraryProspects! Listen now wherever you get your podcasts…or use this link. #WritingCommunity#BookTwitter https://t.co/P1KeVSWDYh
Great conversation with Christopher Bunton, executive producer of #TheDuke on the latest episode of #LiteraryProspects. Learn how he got his family’s incredible true story (of involvement in a famous art heist!) developed into a critically-acclaimed movie. https://t.co/kPsWNsqhuZ
“What’s the point of reading fiction? What job does it prepare you for?”
It prepares you for any job, because it teaches you empathy for other people and also, hopefully, to see education as MUCH more than acquiring skills to enter the labour market.
This was a really fun interview. I got to talk about everything from the importance of story, to the cool girl in high school who inspired me to start carrying a notebook, to teaching my son about consent. Thank you @KelleyVick for having me on!
We're currently curating which short stories will be in NYC's very first Short Story Dispenser, opening in our bookstore on October 2nd! @ShortEdition_EN
They were living the New York City high life, until greed caused a family member to do the unthinkable. Don't miss a special all-new #Snapped: Young, Wealthy & Deadly this Sunday, August 9 at 6/5c, only on @Oxygen.
I've never understood why we celebrate people for writing before they have lived (or thought or experienced) very much. Writing is one field in which being older ought to give you an advantage. And yet...
Beautiful essay by @jfsteil7, an amazing author I’m proud to also call my teacher, on how #writing can save your life - https://t.co/TaLG0TItmP #amwriting
There are people fighting to walk around a supermarket without a mask because they think it’s their “right”.
Then there are people screaming at someone who’s sitting alone in an empty park, for not wearing their mask.
Why is common sense so uncommon?
I don’t know if you remember those Dutch teens who had to sail all the way home from Cuba because of the coronavirus, but I talked to them for The Friendship Files, and the trip was just as delightful and full of teen shenanigans as you would hope! https://t.co/2ff1vQ3c6q
Sergine Lucien and Dave Marecheau received an outpouring after The Washington Post told their story of living in car with their kids. - The Washington Post https://t.co/GhhasbQvNG
you trying to open an email lately: “I hope you’re well or as well as can be expected in these crazy times etc”
Emily Dickinson: “I hope that you have Power and as much of Peace as in our deep existence may be possible. To multiply the Harbors does not reduce the Sea.”