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Emily "Babe" St. James

@emilystjams.bsky.social

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Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · Mar 4

Today is Woodworking's PUB DAY. I'm so proud of this book, and I'm so glad to hear how many of you have bought and enjoyed it already!

You can buy it here if you're so inclined: bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

And now, the hardest sell I can think of, this book's biggest advocate has thoughts:

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ceej @ceej.online · 1h

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 26m

Depends on if you're from the eastern half or western half of the state. Minneapolis teams in the east; Denver teams in the west. I was never into those teams, though, because I was cool.

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1h

I worked in Milwaukee for a year after college! I'm also loosely a Bucks fan.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 2h

I will be honest: I have family who love the Tigers, but if they bounce the Mariners, I may have to go all in on the Dodgers again. Think about the consequences of your actions, Detroit!!!!!!

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 2h

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 16d

If the World Series is Mariners v. Brewers, I will be so very happy, and I will also be fucking insufferable about the one-season existence of the Seattle Pilots (who moved to Milwaukee and became the Brewers). In every conversation about ANYthing, I will be, like, "But did you know....."

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 2h

I still have a greater rooting interest in the Mariners and Brewers (who are my third- and second-favorite teams respectively), but if they're both bounced, prepare for me to be awful.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 2h

I was fully prepared to be gracious this season and be glad when a team other than the Dodgers won, since they just won last year, and I love variety and THE GREAT SPORT OF BASEBALL, but every step closer to a repeat title that they get, a dark and terrible beast within me awakens slightly more.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 7h

It takes an hour-plus for the titular yearling to show up. Deer needed a better agent.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10h

For a movie named The Yearling, The Yearling has less yearling-related content than you'd expect.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

Modern Hollywood needs better haters.

Wikipedia screenshot: When Olivia de Havilland won the Best Actress Oscar, her sister, Joan Fontaine, attempted to shake her hand, but she refused the handshake, saying, "I don't know why she does that when she knows how I feel."

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

I don't even remember what the aforementioned paper was about. Possibly the Grail Quest and death? I think I cited Sierra Online's Conquests of Camelot?

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

I am finally getting old enough that I can't just pull an all-nighter and push some project over the finish line because now my body WHINES if it doesn't get enough SLEEP, and it's awful. I used to work 16-hour days at The A.V. Club! I should not have done that, but I COULD. Is the point.

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

A professor let me write one double-length paper across two classes I took from him. It counted for basically all of my grade. I wrote 20 pages in three hours a few days before Christmas and got an A.

This had a deleterious effect on my belief that I shouldn't just wing it in important situations.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so glad it could have that effect on you! Thank you for reading.

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

booo, Amazon

I haven't watched nearly enough Gilligan, but I do think the very first Columbo (the Spielberg-directed, Bochco-scripted one) is pretty much perfect.

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

The Gleaners & I!

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

Jose Chung's "From Outer Space"!

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

Can there be an answer other than A League of Their Own??

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

Pierre, South Dakota, is pronounced like “peer,” not like the French name.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

At risk of opening myself up to never doing anything else tonight, sure.

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

What better time to purchase Woodworking, the critically acclaimed novel by Emily St. James, than RIGHT NOW??!

Show me your receipt, and I will tell you my favorite episode of the TV show of your choice, favorite film by the director of your choice, etc.

bookshop.org/p/books/wood...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

Oh lordy. I heard these stories from various people involved. If you want to work in TV, or just are curious about how thoroughly things can go wrong, definitely check this out.

Cole Haddon @colehaddon.bsky.social · 2d

How could a straight-to-series greenlight go so wrong for the first TV series I ever created?! Today, the 5AM StoryTalk Podcast brings you Part 1 of a four-part Hollywood horror story I describe as a cautionary tale for screenwriters about what can happen when all your dreams come true.

The Horror of 'Dracula': The Unbelievable True Story of the 2013 TV Series - Part 1

Podcast Episode · 5AM StoryTalk · 10/07/2025 · 15m

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Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

They're all just so boring.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

Close-up photos have revealed the prepared list of put-downs that Pam Bondi brought to use against senators during her Epstein hearing.

Bondi Accidentally Reveals Her Burn Book for Fiery Epstein Hearing

The attorney general chose to lash out rather than answer questions from lawmakers about the late pedophile.

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