Seth Sawyers

Who doesn't want to live with the brisk motor of his heart singing. Writer, fiction, nonfiction, Baltimore.

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“Was it possible that the best bit of him was shining forth, was surfacing? Some part of him, whatever it could be called—was there any name for it?—was going wild, he knew.” Lovely knockout of a little novel by Claire Keegan.

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@markplasma Wow. Fantastic.

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@carablueadams @AlannaSchubach Can attest that Jennifer Egan mentioned it on the NYT books podcast and it's now risen up my list. Hi, Alanna! Hi, Cara!

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Teenagers fleeing, soaring. Excellent, @Bud_Smith.

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@AdamOPrice Ol’ Academic Cautionary Tale Casaubon.

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@jilltalbot @egabbert @FSGOriginals Loved the rereading essay in The Millions. Adding the collection to my list for sure.

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"What does this kind of music make you think of?"
"Two robots having a deep conversation about space."
https://t.co/xr3WV41BON

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@JaneDelury @pshares @rebeccamakkai What a start!

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@Aaron__Burch Don’t know this one but basically the same beginning as Cheever’s story about the magic radio?

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@riverteeth "A blessing of blood, beak, and beautiful havoc." Lovely essay about unlikely connection in a disconnected time.

[David Simon @AoDespair]

To anyone who gives a tax-deductible contribution of $500 or more to this online, unaligned, non-profit news organization in my city, I will mail you a personal apology for any character I ever killed or harmed in a TV drama. Or, what the hell, an apology for anything ever.

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Big relief when you realize the person giving you the terror/scared/shocked face at the restaurant/bar/anywhere doesn't hate you but instead is just very, very high.

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@plorkUB @sdleyva It got me.

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@AlannaSchubach @compactmag_ Really well done, Alanna!

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@Aaron__Burch Reading this one right now, too. So good.

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@pwoodreporter I know a place by the hospital in Glen Burnie that makes chicken ceasar salads.

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Toaster oven convention keynote speaker: Thanks for attending. I see we have a question.

Attendee: All those settings, bake, toast, reheat, they're all just the same thing, right?

Keynote speaker: That's correct. Also toaster ovens are now four hundred dollars.

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A very good one.

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Nothing loves a bike lane quite like a contractor's truck.

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@MikeBurkeMDT Sweet, sweet melancholy. Really great.