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Anne Trubek

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founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com

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John Lurie @johnlurie.bsky.social · 6h

Scissors were invented in Egypt in 1500 BC

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 10h

no such thing

Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 11h

We used to have like 3 good pieces a day. Now we get 1 per year.

Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 11h

Ty!!

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 11h

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 11h

There is only 1 (one) good piece of writing left on the internet and it is this by @alexshephard.bsky.social and @markkrotov.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 12h

Also 1933 was 8 million times worse than 2025 it kinda infuriates me to see you all compare the two

Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 12h

Since this cover has broken containment I need to announce (even tho it is eminently googleable) it is A NOVEL and is not about FASCISM

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 13h

Same—but we have different issues—authors bailing or needing tons more time, so many more queries but most don’t fit, etc

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 14h

I think you can only do that once you are no longer a publisher....there's a lot I couldn't/wouldn't make public now

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 14h

wow this looks fascinating

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 14h

yeah looking forward to reading that..but yet another editor grrr (though this convo on the paucity of women publisher memoirs does create a nice hook for me lol)