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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how else to tell you this: generative AI, the dismantling of Dept of Ed, defunding science, MAHA, banned books. They're of a piece. They're trying to disenfranchise you of your brain. Keep thinking.

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 2d

Crucial writing from @bethmacy.bsky.social :

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 2d

@bethmacy.bsky.social recalls how the collapse of local journalism can decimate a community’s sense of trust.

How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust

My family had once been proud of me. In March 2011, my sister Terry went to the trouble of stuffing Post‑it notes into every issue of O, the Oprah Magazine in the checkout line of her grocery store…

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 17d

Sweet old hound in the very last of the summer light. Working very hard to attend to beauty, not in denial of the horror of this moment, but as a reminder to stay resolute in fighting for everything good in the world.

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Disability Rights Watch (US) @disrightswatch.bsky.social · Sep 7

Are we just an RFK hate site now?
www.disability-rights-watch.com/2025/09/07/w...

Week 33 Updates - Disability Rights Watch

Chaos hits pharmacies as CDC's delayed approval of covid vax causes confusion, barriers to access. Covid surged to the highest levels in the US since the 2021 Delta variant--in response, CDC stopped t...

www.disability-rights-watch.com

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · Sep 4

@zibrak.bsky.social @feltman.bsky.social oh man, you two would love each other!

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · Sep 4

Loved writing this little piece about how to conceptualize the value of a creative writing degree for @pw.org :

Poets & Writers @pw.org · Sep 4

In our latest issue, poet and essayist Molly McCully Brown unpacks the value of a creative writing degree, “Think of it in early readers accumulated: The one you’ll e-mail for the next thirty years with your earliest drafts and subject headings like ‘This may be very bad.’” at.pw.org/ValueOfADegree

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · Sep 4

YES! We’re all so lucky we’re about to get this brilliant, urgent, expansive book from @zibrak.bsky.social :

Arielle Zibrak @zibrak.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here's what I'm up to these days. SO EXCITED to write this book and talk about how the history of positive thinking in wellness impacts us all. Grateful for my agent @babedylan.bsky.social and my new editor Maria, who rocks.

Announcement of a deal report from Publisher's Marketplace that reads:
American Studies scholar and host of The Great Courses’ Literary Tour of the United States Arielle Zibrak’s WISHING OURSELVES WELL, a compelling look at the origins of the women's wellness guru archetype and "manifestation" movements through the complicated history of the 19th-century American women who pioneered the big business of alternative healing, from Mary Baker Eddy (the founder of Christian Science) to Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham (a sexual pleasure activist and eugenicist), to Maria Goldverg at Liveright, by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency (USCOM).

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 30

The devastating flu epidemic of 1918 was particularly dangerous for young adults, for people in their prime, who died by the millions. But RFK Jr. is too stupid to know that. Link below.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Aug 29

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics.

RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · Jul 18

Honestly I’ve spent a lot of my adult life watching Stephen in all his brilliant iterations. My heart breaks. But @stephencolbert.bsky.social go back to @thedailyshow.com!!

Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · Jul 17

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · Jul 15

“When an ethnic group has nowhere to go and is constantly displaced from one so-called safe zone to another, relentlessly bombed and starved, ethnic cleansing can morph into genocide.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

www.nytimes.com

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · Jul 10

There's so much beauty to discover here:

Image journal issue 125

Loss & Solace: During Molly McCully Brown’s tenure as editor in chief, we’re developing loosely themed issues that highlight connections across pieces and genres. In her editorial, she writes: “Togeth...

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · Jul 10

The summer issue of Image Journal is live today & full of so many gems, including a last poem from the late, extraordinary @marthasilano.bsky.social. My editorial essay, on taxonomies of grief is shot through with gratitude for the solace this work provides. I'm honored to share it all:

Taxonomies of Grief - Image Journal

The world warms up, the prairifire crabapple trees begin to drop their blossoms in almost technicolor puddles on the sidewalks in my neighborhood and, as if in concert, the base of my neck gets heavy ...

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Amy Woolard @a-woo.bsky.social · Jul 4

"We need the storm, the whirlwind, & the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; & its crimes against God & man must be proclaimed & denounced."

What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

The speech shows the moral outrage that powered the abolition movement and made it so threatening to Southern slave holders, but also to anyone willing to tolerate or ignore slavery.

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · Jul 2

This incredible, generous, accessible resource from @zibrak.bsky.social is officially live today! A primer on exactly the kind of artistic and cultural history those in power are most intent on silencing and erasing right now, this series is smart, approachable, and full of wonder. Check it out!

Arielle Zibrak @zibrak.bsky.social · Jul 2

The free trailer of A LITERARY TOUR OF THE US is up on the Great Courses Plus. For those who need a re-up on their US history knowledge, booklovers with little time, roadtrippers, culture hounds, kids and boomers. I put so much of what I know in here for everyone -- and the tea is HOT.

A Literary Tour of the United States

Journey from sea to shining sea to discover the richness and diversity of American writing in this deeply researched literary road trip.

www.thegreatcoursesplus.com

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Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · Jun 4

You guys should support our statewide LGBTQ advocacy org and get this sick ass hat

www.wyomingequality.org/store/p/new-...

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · May 18

“Anyone who writes is a seeker. You look at a blank page and you’re seeking. The role is assigned to us and never removed. I think this is an unbelievable blessing. I mean, to be seventy-eight years old and still looking—this amazes me.” —Louise Glück buff.ly/lgqE3GU

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · May 16

“I am part of a support group made up of people who’ve gone through periods of wanting to die and who, like me, are constantly working through how to actively engage with a world that can feel relentlessly untenable.” Hanif Abdurraqib on the uses of despair. nyer.cm/RWqO9fW

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · May 16

I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time.—W. S. Merwin

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · May 15

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How to call Congress—when the phone isn't an option

Proxy calling gives some disabled people a better way to flood Capitol Hill phone lines.

www.motherjones.com

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · May 3

Whatever else is true, this place was wildly beautiful. Always at home back south.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Apr 29

Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is [email protected].

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Longreads @longreads.com · Apr 28

"A trick of climate change, or the trick of the effects of climate change, is that some of the biggest devastation is unseen by most of us." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social in conversation with @jennitaur.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

lareviewofbooks.org/article/buil...

Building a Nest | Los Angeles Review of Books

Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · Apr 23

Amid mounting attacks on higher education, @meghanor.bsky.social argues for a magazine—and a university—that keep the pilot flame of independent thought alive. New today on TYR.

yalereview.org/article/megh...

Meghan O’Rourke: The Work of a Little Magazine as Higher Education…

Amid Trump’s attacks on higher education, making a space for literature and the arts is more important than ever.

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · Apr 22

Happy Birthday, LG. Still learning from you; still watching the world the way you taught me

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · Apr 22

Bright spot for the day!

Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · Apr 21

On Between the Covers, @davidnaimon.bsky.social talks w/ Keetje Kuipers about her poetry collection Lonely Women Make Good Lovers.💖

They explore everything from queerness and wilderness to fantasy as a portal to truth on the page.

Listen: shorturl.at/XAqTw

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