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Rachel Vorona Cote

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Author of Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today. Freelance book critic all over the place. Get in touch: [email protected]. @RVoronaCote on Instagram. She / Her.

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · Apr 10

My latest piece for @washingtonpost.com's Book World is an essay on grief literature, drawing significantly on Lauren Markham's Immemorial (a beautiful book), with some forays into Roland Barthes, and a bit about a tree that I think might remember my late mother.

Here's a gift link: wapo.st/4cqRvrD

Guest column | Words aren’t enough to describe grief, but they can still be a refuge

For all its agonies and loneliness, grief continually asserts itself as a creative force.

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 6h

A bit of comfort:

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 6h

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 6h

oh, this is at least some relief!

Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 6h

Not my favorite way to live!!! Personally!!!!!

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 6h

Anyway, I am taking my kid to his pediatrician's flu clinic two weeks before he is due to come in for his 4 year appointment, which I would generally regard as an unnecessary trip (he can get the shot at his 4 year appt). This year, I'm so freaked that I want that shot in his arm pronto.

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 6h

Any plans, fellas? Cooking up another strongly worded letter?

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 6h

An actual opposition party sure would be useful at a time like this

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 11h

I can hardly remember a time in my life when I didn’t know who she was. God, she was so brilliant.

Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, Diane!! 💔

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 1d

Oh Celeste, I’m sorry. It is a heartbreak of a loss. Sending you so much love.

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 1d

Gross.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 1d

Look at this brilliant literary hottie

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Erin Somers @somers.bsky.social · 1d

Gm I am on the cover of The Bookseller @canongate.co.uk

Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 1d

I have not stopped thinking about The Ten Year Affair since I finished it months ago (humblebrag), and I am so extremely honored to be one of Erin’s conversation partners! Come see us at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social on 10/24!!

Erin Somers @somers.bsky.social · 1d

Going on a book tour and talking to a bunch a very cool, smart people. Come out and see me!!

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 4d

Amber is brilliant, and I cannot wait. 🎉👻

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 4d

ONE WEEK! DC! Come to the launch party in Adams Morgan! @rvoronacote.bsky.social and me at Lost City Books and a few fun surprises, and a very spooky party www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-peop...

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 2d

I’m taking the bait here, but like…

are we talking about the guy who did Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” better than Nine Inch Nails? That guy?

Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 2d

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

wtaf are you talking about

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Apr 13

MARK KNOPFLER: Here comes Guitar George
ME: Why do they call him that
MARK KNOPFLER: He knows all the chords
ME: Ah

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 3d

the apartment keys!!

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 3d

God bless every single one of my editors. Without their interventions, I would make a damn fool of myself.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

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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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 3d

In truth, I couldn’t be prouder. I am, in fact, very dumb.

Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 3d

The almost 4yo has gotten very into “playing pretend,” which rocks. But when he’s in the midst of it, and I ask him about a character or situation, he looks at me like I’m the most pathetic, amoeba-brained dummy alive and says in a gentle, hushed tone, “It’s PRETEND, Mommy. It’s JUST pretend.”

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 4d

❤️❤️❤️

Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 4d

Amber is brilliant, and I cannot wait. 🎉👻

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 4d

ONE WEEK! DC! Come to the launch party in Adams Morgan! @rvoronacote.bsky.social and me at Lost City Books and a few fun surprises, and a very spooky party www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-peop...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 5d

I have no doubt!

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