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The Shipman Agency offers complete literary services to writers at all stages of their careers: event booking, independent publicity, mss consultations, The Work Room. she/her https://www.theshipmanagency.com/

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · Nov 22

We made a starter pack of our great Shipman Agency clients! Follow writers! Read books! Say hello! go.bsky.app/BXUDe1d

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Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 12h

Another day: another recap of amazing reviews for The Freaks Came Out To Write in honor of its forthcoming November paperback release.

I didn't exactly have being compared to Gay Talese on my bingo card, but I really enjoy having this on bingo card!

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 14h

It's SO GOOD and now easier to carry around!!

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 1d

The books are here! Unboxing video of the paperback of the Freaks Came Out To Write, out Nov. 4th!!!

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 1d

Bookshop.org (the best Amazon alternative) is having an anti-prime sale today. Free shipping on books including mine :P bookshop.org/a/88357/9781...

The Anti-Prime Sale at bookshop.org. 17 more hours.

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. I will only end my moratorium on prayer for Dolly. I will literally get on my knees and pray for Dolly.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 2d

Ireland! Please take me back! Allow those with Irish great grandparents to come back! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 2d

Upcoming CLE event 👇👇
Spread le word

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Maurice Ruffin @mauricenow.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you to Dr. Greene for this brilliant review of The American Daughters!

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Sowing the Seeds of Resistance

What you need to know for now is that it was just like this. I wasn’t running away. I was running toward myself.”From The American Daughtersby Maurice Carlos Ruffin We know that spies have always been...

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 2d

May his memory be a blessing because the quality of their smoked fish is! And the best countermen in the appetizing business!

In all seriousness, RIP to a great NYer.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 2d

YOWZA! Congralations to @rabihalameddine.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social and @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social, all finalist for the National Book Award!!⚡

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/b...

Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 3d

Perfect poem for right now by one of the greatest ever.

Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 3d

Another one of those "my favorite poem ever"!
Empires by Charles Simić
www.divasofverse.com/2013/12/empi...

Empires by Charles Simić

Empires My grandmother prophesied the end Of your empires, O fools! She was ironing. The radio was on. The earth trembled...

www.divasofverse.com

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 3d

one of my favs!

The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing poem from the great Justin Phillip Reed ⚡

soft, black underbelly @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social · 3d

justin phillip reed
OPEN SEASON
from his collection, The Malevolent Volume

OPEN SEASON
for Jayson

What they wont do is enumerate
the ever-fresher types of way I've learned
to live beneath the gun. Amid this country's
latest crazed nostalgias, my body
has been quickest to choreograph a future.
This body didn't teach them all they know
about gore, but damn if it didn't try.
I fashion from my panic a corona
of divergence, and they want my head
as trophy for its danger heirlooms.
What they fear in my father is already
breath in my chest. Other than my mother
who else can braid a wealth from rain and smoke?
What they don't know is this work.
Remember I was dinner theater, mug-shot
and mounted and made to serve face.
I haven't been hunted to anybody's brink.
I am the brink. Fuck what they heard.
My whole herd has chewed the cud of toed
lines and had it with their hoarding borders,
heaping triggers but can't even get a grip.
What they can catch are my cloven hooves:
I'll be all kinds of demon. Put that on
a list of shit for which I am now here.

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations @clairedederer.bsky.social!!!

David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social · 3d

We are delighted to announce that @clairedederer.bsky.social will receive the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature and will accept the prize during an onstage event at USC on November 12, 2025.

Please come and celebrate Claire and her incisive, brilliant work.

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Announcing the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature

The $15,000 prize is awarded annually to authors with a body of work behind them, but also with significant potential. Previous recipients include Christos Ikonomou, Victoria Chang, and Hari Kunzru.

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 3d

Your chance to learn how to create a compelling oral history with one of the greats!

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 3d

Oh hey, a couple of weeks left to sign up for my oral history class with the @shipmanagency.bsky.social
www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

Craft Seminar: The Art of Narrative Oral History with Tricia Romano — The Shipman Agency

2 Sessions: Saturday + Sunday, October 18 + 19 1:00-3:00pm ET Tricia Romano Tricia Romano is the author of the acclaimed oral history, The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of t...

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 4d

YESSSSSS!!!

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 4d

Honey, look, it's a gorgeous final copy of TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉 Book launch on Saturday, October 25, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum, and you can preorder signed copies from Elliott Bay Book Company, or preorder from your favorite indie, get ready 💎⚡✨

Bright magenta cover with black border. Floating open mouths in magenta, with tongues out and teeth visible, TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL in one of the mouths. Floating iridescent sparkling glitter pills in spot gloss like jewels. Title at top of black border, author name at bottom, on the side a blurb from Sarah Schulman, "The historical novel on acid"

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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 4d

The Wall Street Journal has some reservations, but ultimately succumbs to mine charms~~

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

‘One of Us’ Review: This Group Is No Sideshow

In Dan Chaon’s novel, a pair of psychically gifted twins find a home, of sorts, among a crew of circus freaks.

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 4d

COMING UP: I'm teaching this one-session online class on Sunday, October 12, and I'd love for you to join!

"This craft seminar will explore what is possible when we take the light as seriously as the dark."

Craft Seminar: How to Write About Goodness and Happiness with Anna Clark — The Shipman Agency

1 Session: Sunday, October 12 2:00-4:00pm ET Anna Clark Goodness and happiness are difficult to write about in more than a glancing way, as if writers believe they are not real or multidimensional...

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Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 5d

When Israeli forces captured Jaffa in 1948, the municipal archives vanished, erasing Palestinians' legal proof of land ownership.

@philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE shows how Arab poets have sought to preserve this disappeared history.

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Book cover for ‘Dispatches from the Land of Erasure: Essays and Conversations’ by Philip Metres. The cover features an abstract geometric composition of overlapping rectangular blocks in various colors including blues, reds, greens, yellows, purples, and browns against a light gray background. The blocks appear layered and fragmented, creating a mosaic-like pattern that suggests themes of fragmentation and reconstruction. The title and author name are displayed in clean, dark typography at the top of the cover.

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 5d

What would also be awesome is permanent fixed locations where folks can dispose of electronics - one in every neighborhood - and DSNY picks them up regularly and disposes of them safely. Possible?

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 6d

I finally found a way to cry. Fairyland is a powerful evocation of the early days of the AIDS Pandemic, and I loved it. As Alysia’s writing teacher at the New School in 2000, and as someone who knew her father, I know the story well. The film let me see it all over again.

Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 6d

Fairyland, a movie based on the book by the wonderful Alysia Abbott, opens in theaters on 10/10. Had a satisfying cathartic cry (as did many in the theatre) as @alexanderchee.bsky.social moderated the discussion for the screening. Go see this film. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/m...

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 6d

@knguyen.bsky.social, author of the novel MY DOCUMENTS, on @thedailyshow.com ✨
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dsp...

Kevin Nguyen - “Mỹ Documents: A Novel” | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 6d

Yes, the exact question JESUS would ask!!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

www.splitthisrock.org/poetry-datab...

Meditations in an Emergency
By Cameron Awkward-Rich
I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 8d

‘Lorde offered a politics that dealt in the realities of survival as well as the necessity of defiance: she refused to give ground to white feminists or to a Black nationalism that assumed women’s subservience.’

@keeanga.bsky.social on Audre Lorde: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy

Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

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