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Carolyn Parkhurst

@carolynparkhurst.bsky.social

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I'm the NYT bestselling author of the novels The Dogs of Babel, Lost and Found, The Nobodies Album and Harmony. Humor in the New Yorker and the Rumpus, essays in Washingtonian and WSJ. She/her, bisexual, married, mom.

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Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Nov 20

Okay, what does it mean that I keep putting break-up songs in the playlist I'm making for the novel I'm writing, which I didn't think was going to contain any break-ups? What do I know that I don't know?

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you! I appreciate your nerdiness.

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Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · 6d

Hang on. Are there Capuchin monks AND Capuchin monkeys?

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Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · 14d

The book I ordered was not, in fact, called "Fiction Novel" (which is redundant anyway). But thanks, Amazon, for helping me reduce everything to it's mosr basic function! "Brain bored! Need fiction novel!"

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Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · 18d

Me, about to die underwater in my "not Penny's boat" era: "Scissors! When you cook a frozen pizza, cut it with SCISSORS!"

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · 18d

I feel like this garbage can is insulting me. And is maybe also an alien life form.

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Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you, random girl at the airport who said you liked my dress! I don't think I've ever forgotten a compliment I've gotten from a stranger. Good reminder that tiny gestures count.

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · 27d

Feculence isn't an approved Spelling Bee word? What a slap in the face to newly minted Emmy winner Tramell Tillman!

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · 29d

Great article!

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Sep 9

When you have a child who's away at college, it's important not to overwhelm them with texts. Wait until you have something really important or interesting to say.

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Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Aug 24

Me at the Renaissance Festival: “Well, I *am* running low on corsets and flower crowns…”

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Jun 27

My favorite is Saliva. 😍

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Jun 16

I wish this was real. It would be so cute.

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Jun 14

Me at any airport or train station: “Wow, I can’t believe that hard-sided luggage has made such a comeback!”

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Jun 11

Continuing my occasional series of hot takes on songs that are 30 years old or more, I believe that Billy Joel's "Downeaster Alexa" is narrated by a ghost. Discuss.

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Jun 2

Oh, not a word? Wake up, Spelling Bee

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · May 30

The fact that "codeine" is spelled with an EI instead of an IE really spices up all those mnemonics about your foreign neighbor, the weird overcaffeinated sheik

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · May 28

Spelling Bee clutching its pearls when I type TURD. You know it's a real word, you cowards.

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Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Apr 30

All my life, I've thought there was a flower called a gladiola. My grandmother used to talk about her gladiolas. Now I find out it's gladiolus? Either this is the Mandela effect, or my grandmother was wrong about something, and neither of these options is okay with me!

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Apr 24

If I'm good at rhyming, but don't think a career in rap is for me, how can I enjoy and maximize this skill? I've also ruled out novels in verse. Probably.

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Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Apr 24

I just told my husband that New Zealand has a very serious annual pie award, and this may be the thing that convinces him we need to go there someday.

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Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Apr 24

Spring Thursdays are deceptive, because they always feel like Fridays, and they always aren't.

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Apr 21

We're going to need to know if you use an umlaut over the second O in cooperate. *hand hovering over the unfollow button*

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Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Apr 16

I think maybe I'm getting tired of podcasts.

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Apr 11

My mom and uncles, who grew up in southeastern Massachusetts, spell drawer “draw.” That’s how they pronounce it, so that must be how it’s spelled!

Carolyn Parkhurst @carolynparkhurst.bsky.social · Apr 10

"Middle-aged" has got to be the biggest linguistic lie we tell ourselves. I'm out here every day, pretending like I think I'm going to live to be 108.