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Andrew Bertaina

@andrewbertaina.bsky.social

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The body is a temporary gathering place (2024 Autofocus) . One Person Away From You (2021 Moon City Press)3x notable at Best American Essays. Work in The Best American Poetry, The ThreePenny Review, Prairie Schooner etc.

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 11h

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Reminder that we’ll be featuring some amazing authors this weekend at the 804 lit salon in DC :).

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Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

This event is on Sun at @peoplesbooktakoma.com. My daughter @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social will be my conversation partner. She lived the story of our harrowing disappearance, as well, and I suspect the questions will be fire. Come join us!

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Karen Palmer for She’s Under Here

“Once upon a time, I disappeared.” So begins Karen Palmer’s harrowing and redemptive memoir, She’s Under Here. In 1989, shortly after her second marriage, Palmer and her new husband quit their jobs…

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 20h

Halloween house vibes

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely passage! Your essays are wonderful

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic story :). Love to see it

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite writers with a new story :)

Whitney Collins @whitneycollins.bsky.social · 1d

I am beyond excited to have my story “Truth or Consequences” published with @hexliterary.bsky.social!

hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 1d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d

Remembering a line from In Search of Lost Time, the top half of their trunks flooded with light.

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d

No :/

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d

James Wright—May Morning

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d

Morning walk

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d

Long weekend of car repair and parenting. It brightens my day to see kind words about the memoir from a fellow writer :).

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d

Me gingerly approaching my writing after months away

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely!

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d

Vladimir Nabokov—Speak, Memory

“Houses have crumbled in my memory as soundlessly as they did in the mute films of yore, and the portrait of my French governess…is fading fast, now that it is engulfed in the description of a childhood entirely unrelated to my own.

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d

Annie Dillard

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d

She’s a treasure :)

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d

Annie Dillard

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 4d

Morning walk

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 4d

Morning read

Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d

Six months is a good amount. It’s admirable. I rarely look at them and that feels like an adult loss

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d

Jealous of this evening and the cloud journal. You’re on a heater

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d

Garden time

Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d

We will be hosting another 804 lit salon in DC on October 11 at 7p, which will feature a lot of talented and kind folks.

www.eventbrite.com/e/804-lit-sa...

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much, Liz :)

Liz Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social · 5d

This story by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in @rejectionlit.bsky.social got at the runaway brain that lives in all of us.
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Academic Conference (Andrew Bertaina)

He’d been thinking of the conference in England for a long time. Not because of the subject matter, Victorian Literature, which he’d been teaching for too long and now found boring, but because the…

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