Simone Zelitch

I'm a novelist, history-nerd, and deeply inconsistent Anarcho-Bundist who happens to really like working at a Community College.

[Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar]

if you put "witch-hunt" and "kangaroo court" together you end up with witch-kangaroos which i feel should be the next hot trend in fantasy books

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

Out of the twitterverse for a while, but figured I'd see who's left the nest these days.

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

In Yiddish: "The harvest and the flu".

[shulman @shvlman]

illustration by J. Sokolovski

[Announcement Only | Writing the Other @writingtheother]

This video has a great explanation of tone policing and why it's detrimental, even when someone takes the time to explain an issue in a "calm" way.

Original video: https://t.co/kzVpf6Sxif

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

@phalpern Einstein looks more like Chaplin than Chaplin.

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

@MillinersModel Ah, but who knows who'll read it in a hundred years?

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

Reading James Agee's A Death in the Family, after the first few pages, I blink, and think: where have you been all my life? https://t.co/kri5CqoudW

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

That woman could do anything!

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

Today I did some research for a novel. Tomorrow I'll plant some shrubs and perennials that I hope will live through winter. We can't know what will bloom by spring.

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

Spent seven hours reading college newspapers from 1966-70 without looking up-- all research and all brewing into stories I'll tell. I LOVE this part of writing!

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

@Oreo Boycott Nabisco!

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

What if, instead of forcibly redistributing wealth, building public housing, and/or investing in resilient infrastructure, we shifted our focus elsewhere? What if we accepted our fate? Find out in Bloomberg!
https://t.co/Yiv95M1rMl

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

Excellent advise from @NisiShawl on ways to be honest with yourself as a writer, and openhearted as you consider characters who don't share your range of cultural experiences.

[Announcement Only | Writing the Other @writingtheother]

"Here’s what’s wrong with the way some people ask me about [their concerns regarding writing the Other]: they frame their queries as if the thing that really matters is the damage to themselves."

Read @NisiShawl's fantastic essay @tordotcom:

https://t.co/ltSpazEa10

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

I just read a description of Critical Race Theory in the New Yorker's article about Derrick Bell and see some analogies to Zionism: a conviction that discrimination is permanent. Am I off-base?https://t.co/81Ka5GZeUL

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

@JohnMoot1 @LouisGreenstein Congratulations! Say more.

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

Here's hoping that Keebler isn't an affiliate.

[Paul Halpern @phalpern]

Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.. There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.. upon whose well-being our own happiness depends

-Albert Einstein

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

Does it get better than this @Mir_QueenofMars ? I still have most of the old Harlan Ellison anthologies that I read until their front covers came off!

[PM Press @PMPressOrg]

“Dangerous Visions & New Worlds offers a birds eye view of a period when we were most passionate...and when we let the rockets explore the universe while we turned to explore the multiverse in terms of the human psyche.” —Michael Moorcock https://t.co/kHcdFnpqYl

[Simone Zelitch @simonezelitch]

@MordecaiPMartin I think that's why I lost five pounds in one day. I just feel lighter...