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SACosby

@blacktopkid.bsky.social

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Writer, whiskey drinker and cat dad

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 13h

Whoever is the PR rep for cauliflower and avocado is diabolical cuz cauliflower taste like the sadness and Styrofoam and avocados taste like greasy Elmers glue 🤣

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 6d

At a bookstore in France that is featuring my books
If you're seeing this post and you are an aspiring artist know this..I grew up in a trailer in rural Virginia. My mom was disabled. We had very little money
But today my books are all around the world, nothing is impossible if u really want it💙

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 7d

The Writer in Paris enjoying a mid day beer

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 7d

In Paris to support KING OF ASHES ...
The French cover is FIRE
(Pun intended)

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 9d

'Morning Show' Star Nicole Beharie Joins 'All the Sinners Bleed' share.google/QEHJTX0ooRIR...

‘Morning Show’ Star Nicole Beharie Joins ‘All the Sinners Bleed’ Series at Netflix

Nicole Beharie is the latest addition to the cast of Netflix's upcoming series adaptation of "All the Sinners Bleed," Variety has learned.

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 10d

Darkness On the Edge of Town. So many of my characters are desperate to escape that town ..a place where freedom is just a steering wheel away...

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 11d

-beside me.
What does it mean to be Southerner?
It means this is my home
And ill be Damned if I let anyone else speak on its behalf without adding my voice to the conversation

Im a Southerner
I belong here
And you cant make me ashamed of that

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 11d

- rose a phoenix that perches on the shoulders of every Southerner whether they want to believe it or not
Its name is Change
What does it mean to me to be a Southerner?
It means these country roads that take me home are populated not by ghosts that cry out in agony
But spirits that walk-

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 11d

-will say that this place doesn't belong to ppl who look like me who think like me and to that i say you couldn't be more wrong
My bonafides have been paid in blood and bullets by those that came before me
The South is the place of America's great sin but from the ashes of this abomination-

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 11d

-childhood comes from the history and the legacy of my family, my grandparents my ancestors, who survived unimaginable torture and tragedy to create a life for the ppl they will never know
Giving their all for a sunset they will never see like Moses and the promised land,
There are those that-

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 11d

- that made me, the magnolia trees, the rivers and the lakes the fields and pastures, these places that I cant find anywhere else
The literature and the stories , the legends and the mythology that run thru my veins like blood
Everything that I remember that was good and bright from my -

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 11d

What does it mean to you to be a Southerner?
Someone asked me that today in an interview

To me being a Southerner is the center of my identity as a black man, as a human , as a writer.
This place of blood and toil, of pain and passion, of joy and agony. Of hatred and hope
This place that -

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 12d

Hey Donald

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"An escalator can never break..." 🎤: Mitch Hedberg #shorts

YouTube video by Comedy Central Stand-Up

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 13d

Last week i was on a panel at the Brooklyn Book Fest with Dwyer Murphy and Joyce Carol Oates. Me and Stephen Graham Jones got to pal around the city got to see Todd Robinson who gave me my career
There are so many terrible things going on
But there is still beauty if we are brave enough to find it

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 13d

Mary Shelley created Sci-fic

Charlie Brigden @filmsonwax.bsky.social · 13d

"The film, written and directed by del Toro, adapts Mary Shelley’s classic 1818 novel into a gothic sci-fi horror story"

Shelley's novel was a gothic sci-fi horror story, genius

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 13d

"Ugh i should not have eaten that 93 Hi-Test premium gas...I know im petrol intolerant "

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 13d

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 13d

Id like t o wear loose fitting linen shirts and qoute Proust like an insufferable "life coach " but sadly im too much of a smart ass to pull it off for long lmao

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 14d

Happy Birthday to that boy from Asbury Park who became The Man ....

"I still believe in a Promised Land"

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 14d

Happy Birthday to our American troubador, the storyteller of the American dream and the soothsayer of the American nightmare. The Bard of broken men , The Boss Bruce Springsteen....his songs have been a huge influence on my writing..his 1st 8 albums might the greatest run in Rock history

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Silas Lapham @silaslapham.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks @blacktopkid.bsky.social for talking with students on ATSB and about the ways place impacts us. I can’t stop thinking about place and how reading transports elsewhere, even before we arrive at a place. This was when I went to St Paul de Vence

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Communing With James Baldwin in France

Over the past two posts, I’ve been sharing my journal entries from the study travel trip I led to France a couple of weeks ago. Today, I…

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 15d

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 15d

Lmao

SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 15d

If y'all do go up in The Rapture can I get that 50 dollars you owe me before u go JEREMY