Rob Spillman

Mastodon: @[email protected] Tin House editor 1999-2019, coach w/ @TheOpEdProject, manuscript consults via @theshipmanagency,

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

Finally some good news on the magazine front (though Twitter is still a cesspool). Bookforum Is Returning, Months After Its Closure Was Mourned in the Literary World https://t.co/pYApKMKLpM

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

I miss Book Twitter. Jumping on briefly to say RIP Cormac McCarthy. When The Road came out, BookForum (alas, also RIP) asked me to review the novel in context of his previous work, so I read or reread everything he wrote in two weeks over Christmas. https://t.co/CaWvHB9pCF

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

Have been staying off Twitter due to Musk's enabling
of Nazis, unchecked hate speech, etc... Just came on to share in the joy at the joint humiliation of Musk and DeSantis. See you all on Mastodon and Insta

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

Back on here briefly to say I'll be running a memoir workshop in April, via the @shipman_agency, 4 sessions, limited space. https://t.co/qbAyz9a3Mm

[The Onion @TheOnion]

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://t.co/e8aZ5CSrhi

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

Have been staying off Twitter (Nazis, etc...), but back to share in the grief over this sad loss for the lit community.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Sorry Philly that was BS…stay safe out there tonight

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

Next Tuesday I'll be leading a seminar on Establishing Authority, with close readings of the first 300 words of texts and how editors read the first page of submissions. Scholarships available. https://t.co/V5xxBJ3vUX

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

Ah, no. What a loss--a great poet and person.

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

Thrilled to see @TheOpEdProject fellow Jodie Kirshner's excellent writing in @TheAtlantic today. https://t.co/M0UcKEepkq

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

I'll be leading a seminar on Establishing Authority, for fiction and nonfiction writers, with close readings of opening pages, on January 31, 7-9 p.m. EST, via the @shipman_agency
https://t.co/V5xxBJ3vUX

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

Packed train station at Hudson, water main break at Penn Station halting all trains, @amtrak providing zero info to hundreds of stranded passengers. Quality job.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

The word “Mastodon” appears nowhere in the constitution, so Elon Musk is right to ban links to it.

-Jonathan Turley

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

France really deserves to lose this

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

Mr Free Speech is so threatened by... everything that he blocked Mastodon. You can find me on the very civil and lively site at: @[email protected]

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

Leaving this here.

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

Ah, yes, Elon Musk, champion of free speech https://t.co/GfEc1Y31NX

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

C’mon #Morocco!!! #MoroccoVsFrance

[Rob Spillman @robspillman]

A total bummer. Great magazine, was an honor to write for them.

[Parul Sehgal @parul_sehgal]

Devastating. Bookforum was a perfect magazine + my first intellectual home. Michael Miller taught me how to write. Terrible news for all of us who care about books + criticism.

[Amanda Hess @amandahess]

We’re asking readers to not engage in any @nytimes platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.