Manu
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Training to be a forensic accountant | Interested in Politics, Public Policy & Creative Nonfiction | 🇬🇧🇮🇳
"I realize saying 'fuck the Army' isn’t appropriate in a family-friendly restaurant but really when are we ever family-friendly?"
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A Normal Couple | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
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January 15, 2026 at 9:12 PM
"I realize saying 'fuck the Army' isn’t appropriate in a family-friendly restaurant but really when are we ever family-friendly?"
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“I’ve divorced the notion of failure from the writing process and the writing life.
Because the only real failure for a writer—for me—is not writing at all.”
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“I’ve divorced the notion of failure from the writing process and the writing life.
Because the only real failure for a writer—for me—is not writing at all.”
via @dintywmoore.bsky.social
What My Writing Needed Was Failure
By Diana Friedman In 1971, my mother published her first book—a Dell Pocketbook guide to employment for female liberal arts graduates. I spent my childhood watching her hunch over her typewriter, p…
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July 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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“I’ve divorced the notion of failure from the writing process and the writing life.
Because the only real failure for a writer—for me—is not writing at all.”
via @dintywmoore.bsky.social
“I’ve divorced the notion of failure from the writing process and the writing life.
Because the only real failure for a writer—for me—is not writing at all.”
via @dintywmoore.bsky.social
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“The revolution will not be authorized by the party — at least not in its current form.” @kenklippenstein.bsky.social
“The revolution will not be authorized by the party — at least not in its current form.” @kenklippenstein.bsky.social
Party Control Is Dead
From Mamdani to Trump’s Epstein fiasco, Americans are turning on their leaders
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July 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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“The revolution will not be authorized by the party — at least not in its current form.” @kenklippenstein.bsky.social
“The revolution will not be authorized by the party — at least not in its current form.” @kenklippenstein.bsky.social
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lol. I thought it was baby birds waiting to be fed
July 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
lol. I thought it was baby birds waiting to be fed
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reading a memoir is so crazy to me. you remember stuff you did?
July 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
reading a memoir is so crazy to me. you remember stuff you did?
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“Limiting access is just one way the Trump administration has tried to shield itself from accountability while pursuing its mass deportations.“ via @motherjones.com
“Limiting access is just one way the Trump administration has tried to shield itself from accountability while pursuing its mass deportations.“ via @motherjones.com
ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
"They want to be doing this with no witnesses."
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July 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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“Limiting access is just one way the Trump administration has tried to shield itself from accountability while pursuing its mass deportations.“ via @motherjones.com
“Limiting access is just one way the Trump administration has tried to shield itself from accountability while pursuing its mass deportations.“ via @motherjones.com
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“Israel has found it easier to evade criticism since it discovered a growing number of admirers in the West, Latin America and India of its model of ethnonationalism, racial discrimination and reliance on brute force.“ Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk
“Israel has found it easier to evade criticism since it discovered a growing number of admirers in the West, Latin America and India of its model of ethnonationalism, racial discrimination and reliance on brute force.“ Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk
Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October
The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...
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July 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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“Israel has found it easier to evade criticism since it discovered a growing number of admirers in the West, Latin America and India of its model of ethnonationalism, racial discrimination and reliance on brute force.“ Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk
“Israel has found it easier to evade criticism since it discovered a growing number of admirers in the West, Latin America and India of its model of ethnonationalism, racial discrimination and reliance on brute force.“ Adam Shatz in @lrb.co.uk
“The general billionaire enthusiasm for Trump suggests that we may be looking, not at craven fealty, but at a kind of calculated, enthusiastic oligarchic solidarity.”
New in PN: CBS cancels Colbert as media continues to turn Trumpward
"For billionaires, palliating Trump is really just palliating themselves, since Trump stands for the inalienable truth that rich white guys should be allowed to do whatever they want without any accountability whatsoever."
"For billionaires, palliating Trump is really just palliating themselves, since Trump stands for the inalienable truth that rich white guys should be allowed to do whatever they want without any accountability whatsoever."
CBS cancels Colbert as media continues to turn Trumpward
It's not just bending the knee. It's also oligarchic solidarity.
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July 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
“The general billionaire enthusiasm for Trump suggests that we may be looking, not at craven fealty, but at a kind of calculated, enthusiastic oligarchic solidarity.”
“The thing about happy memories, though, is that they disappear like a good meal; in the moment, the sensory pleasure is consummate, but the specificity of goodness soon evaporates.”
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Bread and Honey - Longreads
Sometimes, marriage is about learning how to braid the bitter with the sweet.
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July 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“The thing about happy memories, though, is that they disappear like a good meal; in the moment, the sensory pleasure is consummate, but the specificity of goodness soon evaporates.”
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“The best novels are produced when authors creatively disrupt the form of the novel ... The contemporary world is so complex and protean that it is no longer possible to describe it with linear prose and squeeze it into a traditional novel’s structure.”
“Reading you over the years at the inevitable delay of translation, I’ve always thought to myself, This is brilliant, but beware!”
A conversation between Joshua Cohen and Vladimir Sorokin. buff.ly/rm6LBf7
A conversation between Joshua Cohen and Vladimir Sorokin. buff.ly/rm6LBf7
July 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“The best novels are produced when authors creatively disrupt the form of the novel ... The contemporary world is so complex and protean that it is no longer possible to describe it with linear prose and squeeze it into a traditional novel’s structure.”
“You should keep ‘just’ in your piece because I am part of one of the most iconic marketing phrases of all time ... Also, Carrie Bradshaw just loves me. Can you imagine her column without me? What if she just wrote, ‘And like that’?” @dintywmoore.bsky.social
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I’m the Word “Just” in a Piece of Writing, and I Just Want You to Give Me a Chance
By Kerry Elson Hey. It’s just me, the nemesis of creative writing teachers everywhere. You know … “just.” Teachers tell you to just delete me, cross me out, excise me from your short story, e…
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July 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“You should keep ‘just’ in your piece because I am part of one of the most iconic marketing phrases of all time ... Also, Carrie Bradshaw just loves me. Can you imagine her column without me? What if she just wrote, ‘And like that’?” @dintywmoore.bsky.social
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“The weather should be a universal language, direct and elusive, forthright and yet metaphorical, but I never know how to reply. We need rain, we don’t need rain. I agree it’s cold. Colder than the ice storm of 1973? I’m not certain.” via @dintywmoore.bsky.social
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So Many Tiny Stories | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
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May 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
“The weather should be a universal language, direct and elusive, forthright and yet metaphorical, but I never know how to reply. We need rain, we don’t need rain. I agree it’s cold. Colder than the ice storm of 1973? I’m not certain.” via @dintywmoore.bsky.social
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’ Once he had a chap who was interested in him: ‘I gave him a smile,’ and the man followed Butcher right across town and in at the back door of the West End Central Police Station. ‘I there arrested him, and he said, “I thought we were going to your place,” and that was true!’
‘Long-dead and forgotten bigots and nutcases air their theories and hatreds once more, and offer their confident prescriptions for dealing with the gays, from impossible cures to savage punishments.’
Alan Hollinghurst on an anthology of gay life in mid-century London: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alan Hollinghurst on an anthology of gay life in mid-century London: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alan Hollinghurst · West End Vice: Queer London
The queer topography of London emerges in these books like a heat map, flaring in patches round the edges at Shepherd’...
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May 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
’ Once he had a chap who was interested in him: ‘I gave him a smile,’ and the man followed Butcher right across town and in at the back door of the West End Central Police Station. ‘I there arrested him, and he said, “I thought we were going to your place,” and that was true!’
“What our incarcerated readers demonstrate is that true literary autonomy isn’t about reading ‘better’ books—it’s about the fundamental right to read freely to pursue pleasure rather than prestige, to seek what speaks to our individual humanity rather than what serves institutional expectations.”
"Letter after letter showed me a refreshing disregard for that invisible tyranny of taste determining what we 'should'—even 'must'—read."
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Reading Behind Bars, and Beyond Barriers | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jackie Snow reflects on what working for a books-to-prisons nonprofit has taught her about reading.
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May 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“What our incarcerated readers demonstrate is that true literary autonomy isn’t about reading ‘better’ books—it’s about the fundamental right to read freely to pursue pleasure rather than prestige, to seek what speaks to our individual humanity rather than what serves institutional expectations.”
“Our readers want to be caught off guard. They expect the unexpected. The jolt. The pause. It is in this creative space where the readers and audience become creative collaborators. This is where art electrifies.” via @dintywmoore.bsky.social
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The Rhythm of Writing: How Breaking One Universal Rule Changes Everything
By Patti Jo Amerein A brilliant editor once told me that another brilliant editor once told her she was falling into the habit of grouping her descriptors into sets of three. Allison K Williams had…
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April 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“Our readers want to be caught off guard. They expect the unexpected. The jolt. The pause. It is in this creative space where the readers and audience become creative collaborators. This is where art electrifies.” via @dintywmoore.bsky.social
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“In the dying light of the marriage the couple manage a sweet kind of quiet, now and then, like boxers between rounds ... The explosion is not far off, however, and electrifying when it comes.”
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Anne Enright · I stab and stab: Helen Garner’s Diaries
Like the protagonists of her novels, the writer of these diaries is a resourceful, socially skilled woman who takes...
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April 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
“In the dying light of the marriage the couple manage a sweet kind of quiet, now and then, like boxers between rounds ... The explosion is not far off, however, and electrifying when it comes.”
Via @lrb.co.uk
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Via @lrb.co.uk
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I can’t stop laughing at this image
lmao Hannity's Trump accomplishments ticker got even more pathetic
April 29, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I can’t stop laughing at this image
“The Surrealists regarded art as evidence. And scholars have fallen in line, working overtime to decode symbols and examine the extent to which the images and narratives in a particular artist’s work can be aligned with the artist’s biography.” @nybooks.com
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A Century of Surrealism | Jed Perl
One hundred years after André Breton launched the Surrealist movement, we’re still trying making sense of its aims and effects.
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April 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
“The Surrealists regarded art as evidence. And scholars have fallen in line, working overtime to decode symbols and examine the extent to which the images and narratives in a particular artist’s work can be aligned with the artist’s biography.” @nybooks.com
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“Philip Roth brought male enjoyment to the center of literature—he was completely shameless. These days, the politics of something like that … you’d be out, mate. Straight through the trapdoor of cancellation.”
“Lots of people said to me, ‘My dad went fucking nuts when he saw I was watching a movie about a skinhead kissing a Pakistani boy.’”
This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with Hanif Kureishi from the archive. buff.ly/IqKhBzy
This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with Hanif Kureishi from the archive. buff.ly/IqKhBzy
April 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“Philip Roth brought male enjoyment to the center of literature—he was completely shameless. These days, the politics of something like that … you’d be out, mate. Straight through the trapdoor of cancellation.”
“The cause of Palestine is not solely a Palestinian, Arab or Islamic issue; it is a human, existential issue. It is a universal matter, a struggle between tyranny and the quest for freedom from it.
History will document everything that has transpired, capturing both its light and shadow.”
History will document everything that has transpired, capturing both its light and shadow.”
"I write, therefore I still live." —Talat Qudaih for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
A Diary of Gaza's Destruction - Longreads
"A Palestinian poet chronicles the war raging around him."
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March 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“The cause of Palestine is not solely a Palestinian, Arab or Islamic issue; it is a human, existential issue. It is a universal matter, a struggle between tyranny and the quest for freedom from it.
History will document everything that has transpired, capturing both its light and shadow.”
History will document everything that has transpired, capturing both its light and shadow.”
“Gilbreath observes—awkwardly, even sacrilegiously—that YouTube walking is, in some ways, superior to real walking; a bit like watching sport on TV.“
"Who among us hasn’t felt how the moment, manner, place, or company in which we walk dramatically affects our emotions and engagement with the world?"
Our new walking reading list includes stories from @noemamag.com, @yalereview, @versobooks.bsky.social, and more.
Our new walking reading list includes stories from @noemamag.com, @yalereview, @versobooks.bsky.social, and more.
Suspended Falling: A Reading List on Walking - Longreads
After seven million years of evolution, walking feels as natural as breathing. But as our environments evolve, so do our ways of walking through them.
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March 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“Gilbreath observes—awkwardly, even sacrilegiously—that YouTube walking is, in some ways, superior to real walking; a bit like watching sport on TV.“
“We can train our writerly efforts to pause. To not skip over— but to linger, loiter, dawdle, stay put, wait.”
"The mistake we sometimes make in our writing is to assume our reader knows the details of our external or internal existence as well as we do. Don’t rush through summary descriptions... Slow the pace down." ~ Ethan Gilsdorf
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Stay a Little Bit Longer: The Art of Zooming In and Lingering
By Ethan Gilsdorf “I’m not quite seeing this,” a student might say in one of my workshops, trying to grasp a vague or murky moment in a memoir. “That’s not entirely clear,” another might comm…
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March 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“We can train our writerly efforts to pause. To not skip over— but to linger, loiter, dawdle, stay put, wait.”