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amanda kallis

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writer, Toronto ☆current: speculative novel ⊙prev: Iowa Writers' Workshop *･｡ﾟwork in: Black Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, Catapult, elsewhere ⁺✧⁺✧⁺✧ amandakallis.com amandakallis.substack.com

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 21d

where are my Ted Chiang stans to back me up on this?

attempted a pangram for the NY Times spelling bee: HEPTAPOD

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 26d

*whispers* actually if I could call up the baldur's gate folks...

amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 26d

missed opportunity for "mariothon"

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · 28d

cosigned! my husband and I actually did read this book aloud in stretches of a road trip

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Aug 28

*mom attempting to gentle parent during the apocalypse*

'I see that you're upset the zombie ate your friend, but that doesn't mean we hit'

'be careful! I mean,' *struggles to be specific* 'we run with the machete's cutting side down!'

amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Aug 20

you should start your day with excerpts from Virginia Woolf’s diary

www.newyorker.com/magazine/195...

SEPTEMBER 25. Yesterday morning I made another start on “The Moths,” but that won’t be its title. . . . Who thinks it? And am I outside the thinker?

DECEMBER 26. I wish I enjoyed it more. I don’t have it in my head all day like “The Lighthouse” and “Orlando.”

1930:

JANUARY 12. I can now hardly stop making up “The Waves.” . . . What is essential is to write fast and not break the mood.

MARCH 17. The test of a book (to a writer) is if it makes a space in which, quite naturally, you can say what you want to say. As this morning I could say what Rhoda said.

APRIL 9. It is bound to be very imperfect. But I think it possible that I have got my statues against the sky.

APRIL 29. The greatest stretch of mind I ever knew. . . . I suspect the structure is wrong. Never mind.

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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is a terrific book! 👇

amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Jul 30

an open marriage gets complicated when two lovers become pregnant at the same time—read the first chapter of Likeness here!

SHR Exclusive: First Chapter LIKENESS by Samsun Knight

SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW

www.southernhumanitiesreview.com

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Jul 30

an open marriage gets complicated when two lovers become pregnant at the same time—read the first chapter of Likeness here!

SHR Exclusive: First Chapter LIKENESS by Samsun Knight

SOUTHERN HUMANITIES REVIEW

www.southernhumanitiesreview.com

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · Jun 8

🧵GAZA

I just donated to Gaza Soup Kitchen ⬇️ Pls join me if you can.

If you're Jewish, please also join me & 20,000+ Jews ⬇️ in calling for an immediate end to Israel's food blockade on Gaza.

Signers include hundreds & hundreds of rabbis & two of my heroes, Mandy Patinkin & Letty Cottin Pogrebrin.

Jews for Food Aid for Gaza

Jewish people support food aid for families in Gaza and an immediate end to the Israeli government’s food aid blockade. #JewsForFoodAidForPeopleInGaza

www.foodaidforgaza.org

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Jul 18

mom-brain is sick bc how did I successfully forget a major spoiler to The Last of Us

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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · Jul 14

Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Illustration of a squirrel carrying a pile of books, walking towards a tree hollow full of books.

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · Jul 12

Girls in your area

Girls in proximity to your location

Girls approaching your coordinates

Girls have breached the perimeter

Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Jul 2

well and they can't all be done at once, right? so the question is which elements the reader is patient for...and on both literary & sff sides it seems reader patience is generally low

amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Jun 27

'inoculating' is quite the word. tech bro mindset is a strange purity culture indeed

amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Jun 22

uh here's a corner of my house. thought the light was nice

dappled light on a teak built-in with a modernist, abstract primary color painting, a stack of speculative fiction books (also in primary colors!), and a noguchi paper lantern.

amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Jun 21

I want to take a spoonful of it like jello?

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Jun 16

The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

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Jeff 💀 @gojeffgo.com · May 13

kind of regretting teaching my parrot the Tears in Rain monologue

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Kári Tulinius @kattullus.bsky.social · Mar 26

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

Screenshot of a single question and answer from interview in the Times Literary Supplement with Ursula K. Le Guin. Here is the quote:

If you could make a change to anything you’ve written over the years, what would it be?

In The Dispossessed, I would mention the communal pickle barrels at street corners in the big towns, restocked by whoever in the community has made or kept more pickles than they need. I knew about the free pickles all along, but never could fit them into the book.

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Apr 16

substack making the argument for *more* barriers to publishing 😑

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · Apr 22

IfNotNow has released a Passover haggadah which you can download here: cdn.sanity.io/files/14yk6f...

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Mar 21

Two detectives came to my door & my first assumption was that it was to arrest me for my crimes? What crimes, Amanda?

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Mar 12

mickey 17: the rare movie to center what I can only describe as 'wholesome horniness'

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · Mar 11

The Anti Defamation League is so right, if there’s one thing that makes me feel safe as a Jew, it’s people with unpopular political opinions getting abducted by the government

A tweet from the ADL:

We firmly believe there should be swift and severe consequences for those who provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations, incite violence in support of terrorist activities, or conceal their identities in order to harass and intimidate Jewish individuals and institutions with impunity.

We appreciate the Trump Administration's broad, bold set of efforts to counter campus antisemitism
— and this action further illustrates that resolve by holding alleged perpetrators responsible for their actions.

Obviously, any deportation action or revocation of a Green Card or visa must be undertaken in alignment with required due process protections.
We also hope that this action serves as a deterrent to others who might consider breaking the law on college campuses or anywhere.

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amanda kallis @amandakallis.bsky.social · Mar 11

yes & criminally few people have seen it yet! I want to talk about it but everybody is waiting for streaming