#DerbyStateOfMind

Thinking today about how many of my stories end too soon because I, the writer, am ready to move on as opposed to the characters or reader. #amwriting

'Doubts, yes, despairing moments, yes, but what writer or artist doesn’t live in that shifting territory between confidence and self-contempt?'
- Paul Auster, Baumgartner

.WKCR-FM NY's brave reporting last night made me VERY much miss being a journalist. But reality is for most the job does not pay a living wage — esp in NY. These students are talented. Last night shows we need them! So how do we keep future journos from financially having to leave?

WKCR student journalists repeatedly calling out the hypocrisy of campus administration is incredible. nothing but admiration for them

I have to say the jazz choice right now from WKCR is on point.

Upper East Siders: is there a package liquor store with great bourbon selection 75th-90th that anybody recommends? I specifically want Maker's Mark Mint Julep for Derby. Thanks! #UES #UES NYC

Fellow New Yorkers: Are you familiar with the give a book/take a book bench in Central Park? It's at the E 79th St entrance near the Group of Bears statue. I've gotten weird looks the last 2 times I've dropped off, so I'm thinking maybe only UWS/UESers know the drill?

So The StoryGraph did the first AI review of my book and I've got to say, it's not that bad.

The light is on for Terena Elizabeth Bell Terena Elizabeth Bell, author TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE!

'The Best We Can at the Time' is a powerful and complex story about a woman's right to choose and a fracturing married couple at political and moral odds.

You can read it now!

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This interview w Carla Spataro about writing the Philadelphia novel: bloomsite.wordpress.com/2024/04/23/bin…
#NewBooks #BookRecommendations #Philly

The discourse this is causing, good Lord.
(1) I had no idea so many librarians flat out hated children.
(2) Gen X truly is the greatest generation.

I can’t imagine starting out as a writer today and looking for information online. Almost every article being published about the gig is bullshit.

“The biggest mistake is ignoring AI completely. We’re in a period of rapid change; remember that the AI we have now is the worst we will ever see in our lives.”
#AD CMS UK #business #jobs #ArtificialIntelligence #technology
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'I believe Phil has told me that something like 8 of his top 100 sellers in the last year and a half are Asterism titles—and that’s competing with Rupi Kaur on the front counter.'

Read more of Joshua Rothes and Asterism Books below.
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Delighted to be arts calling Lee Upton this week! A conversation about mystery, biographers, and how Lee found ways to play with form in her upcoming novel, 'Tabitha, Get Up' coming soon from Sagging Meniscus!

Hope you enjoy!

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garry rust Oscar Combs Kentucky Men’s Basketball Anthony Davis reed sheppard College ball is dead. I wish to G-d that weren't true. But Reed leaving is proof of this. If we can't get him of all people to stay a 2nd year, then this is truly the era of one and dones.

If we can't even keep him, Kentucky's native son, how can we expect non-Commonwealth kids to be more than one and dones? He was one of us, he bled us, and one year & he's out the door. #BBN #damn

I'm thrilled to share the #publishersmarketplace announcement for my book When Longing Becomes Your Lover due out Sept 2025 with Worthy Publishing #limerence #romanticlonging #celibacy #memoir #hookupculture #intimacy #feminism #dating #psychology #neuroscience #sociology #bookdeal

.HarperCollinsUK is partnering with audio AI company ElevenLabs to create audiobooks for HarperCollins’s foreign language business 👇 thebookseller.com/news/harpercol…