Claudia McCarron

I write a lot. Words in @LunchTicket1, @LAReviewofBooks, & more. 2022 regular contributor at @pshares blog. Coauthor @heykidwriting. Kidlit is my favorite.

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Market by candlelight, by Dutch painter Petrus van Schendel (1865). In private collection.

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Journeys end in lovers meeting

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Merry Christmas

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30 years ago today, The Muppet Christmas Carol released in theaters. 🎄✨ Thank you to our fans who have made the film part of their annual holiday traditions. You're the gift that keeps on giving!

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and whatever walked there, walked alone.

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AITA because I wouldn't promise to stake my wife through the heart and cut her head off? (I know how this sounds, but let me explain)

[Claudia McCarron @claudiaamcc]

. . . And to my reading list it goes.

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Happy publication day to the stunning 'LGBT Victorians' by Simon Joyce. Take a dive into the queer archive @OUPHistory 📚

[Claudia McCarron @claudiaamcc]

@ViletteChloe When am I not in need of a dash of whimsy?

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You're the one
You're all I ever wanted
I think I'll regret this

[Claudia McCarron @claudiaamcc]

It's a good day when I get to write about one of the Mitfords.

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THE PURSUIT OF LOVE by Nancy Mitford and the Rejection of Romance https://t.co/pACzXy0q5q

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“Christie’s more streamlined Art Deco style of the 1920s and ’30s yields to the expansive nonchalance of a late-career writer whose sale figures were on track to rival those of Shakespeare and God.”

New at PB: @briallenhopper on AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL (1965).
https://t.co/bOmW0hCquO

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UNTITLED, FORT SCOTT, KANSAS, Gordon Parks, 1963

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Back to stitching my literature embroideries and I’ve just this minute finished my latest piece that was inspired by reading Charlotte Brontë’s book Villette. Off to rest my weary hands now…😊🧵📚🌿*All completely hand stitched onto upcycled denim #embroidery #thesewingsongbird

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Well, my plan to throw paper airplanes out the window until someone noticed them and rescued me has backfired spectacularly

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Want to read about L.M. Montgomery and Bette Davis? Of course you do! My newest piece for @pshares blog 👇

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The Possibilities Born of Spinsterhood in THE BLUE CASTLE and NOW, VOYAGER https://t.co/gEynebQL96 @claudiaamcc

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Words can't express how excited I am for these.

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Not many people know that Noel Streatfeild wrote torrid romances as Susan Scarlett. They're very hard to get hold of, but @FurrowedMiddle at @DeanStPress are reissuing all THIRTEEN of them this summer, with gorgeous covers. What larks! https://t.co/yj43YaGmuJ

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— Answers magazine (1892)

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Thank you @claudiaamcc and @pshares for one of the most intimately intuitive responses to ALFA I’ve yet read, re the nature of intergenerational trauma and how it carries/diffuses. Gratifying and frankly thrilling to encounter a reading that aligns so closely with intent