Grace Plowden

Writer and researcher, working on a book-length essay about navel-gazing | she/her

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Is there an age after which it's weird to buy Babybels?

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“A pride of family photographs.”

Gillian Rose, genius!

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@piercepenniless Is it really art though? Suspect that wall more WeWork than gallery…

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Writers with TMJ

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Reviewed Sarah Crowner’s “The Sea, the Sky, a Window” (Hill Art Foundation) for @whitehotmag

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@flooooo0oo Thanks for the support my queen !

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Why don’t we call coffee caffee?

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(Or over-coffeinated)

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(Over-caffeinated)

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Why are waterproof socks not a thing?

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“But like many an inarticulate young lover, I thought for a time that seduction was a matter of giving the right book to the right woman.”

@briangdillon

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My Naff essay is now past the paywall! Thank you so much @Missouri_Review @evelynsomers13

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Best of luck to this year's @Missouri_Review @PushcartPrize nominees!

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Naff: A Rumination on Taste and Tastelessness by Grace Plowden (@grace_plowden).

"Embracing the naff allows me to say what I want to say without biting the hand that feeds me. It allows me to have my Viennetta and eat it, too."
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It’s raining and the people of Clinton Hill are brunching in Hunter wellies

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Asistí a la última clase antes de su retirada de Columbia de Philip Lopate, leyenda de la escritura autobiográfica y del ensayo estadounidense. Pocos me han influido tanto como él.

"Como aspirante a escritor, renuncia a la idea de que eres buena persona"
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Shout out to @newpages for their synopsis of our latest issue, which is absolutely jam-packed with excellence and awaits your kind attention, feat. @AaronC_Poetry, @CynthiaMHoffman, @b_mandelbaum, @niusteph, @grace_plowden, @kathleenspivack, @emilyemitchell, and many more!

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“Growing girls need anger models. Muses. Coaches and exemplars. What works best? Tempestuous fury; amused disdain; quiet (but not temperate) resistance?”

Margo Jefferson

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Just asked someone who might actually have a movie made about their life, “who would play you in the movie about your life?” Gave me so much joy