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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina.bsky.social

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The body is a temporary gathering place (2024 Autofocus) . One Person Away From You (2021 Moon City Press)3x notable at Best American Essays. Work in The Best American Poetry, The ThreePenny Review, Prairie Schooner etc.

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 11h

October River

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you :)

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 15h

She’s so damn good. What a sentence writer.

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 15h

Post it!!

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 17h

October Yeats

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 20h

Morning read

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

This page included a surprise little section on Oroville Dam, which is only 30 minutes from where I grew up, a dam I pass every time I return to what used to be home.

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d

We are down here in time, where beauty grows. Even if things are as bad as they could possibly be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and wing

Annie Dillard

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d

Last four reads

Panzer Herz by Kyle Dargan

Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth

Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard

The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by @ladiwoods.bsky.social @autumnhousepress.bsky.social

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that we’ll be featuring some amazing authors this weekend at the 804 lit salon in DC :).

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Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

This event is on Sun at @peoplesbooktakoma.com. My daughter @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social will be my conversation partner. She lived the story of our harrowing disappearance, as well, and I suspect the questions will be fire. Come join us!

peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/shes-u...

Karen Palmer for She’s Under Here

“Once upon a time, I disappeared.” So begins Karen Palmer’s harrowing and redemptive memoir, She’s Under Here. In 1989, shortly after her second marriage, Palmer and her new husband quit their jobs…

peoplesbooktakoma.com

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween house vibes

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely passage! Your essays are wonderful

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic story :). Love to see it

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d

One of my favorite writers with a new story :)

Whitney Collins @whitneycollins.bsky.social · 3d

I am beyond excited to have my story “Truth or Consequences” published with @hexliterary.bsky.social!

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 3d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d

Remembering a line from In Search of Lost Time, the top half of their trunks flooded with light.

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d

No :/

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d

James Wright—May Morning

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d

Morning walk

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 4d

Long weekend of car repair and parenting. It brightens my day to see kind words about the memoir from a fellow writer :).

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 4d

Me gingerly approaching my writing after months away

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely!

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 4d

Vladimir Nabokov—Speak, Memory

“Houses have crumbled in my memory as soundlessly as they did in the mute films of yore, and the portrait of my French governess…is fading fast, now that it is engulfed in the description of a childhood entirely unrelated to my own.

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d

Annie Dillard

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d

She’s a treasure :)