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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · 29d

When your third wife leaves you and the going gets forbidden.

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · 29d

If you haven't listened to my appearance on UnTaking, there's still time.

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jul 5

I showed up on a podcast promoting The Hotel Egypt. Thanks to Danny and the UnTaking!

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · 29d

I have a new piece in TNR on Melanie Anagnos’ *Nightswimming* which you should check out after reading my piece.

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The Good Cop Problem: On Melanie Anagnos' Nightswimming - The Metropolitan Review

“Two of the big knocks against crime fiction,” according to writer Sam Wiebe, “[are] that it glamorizes the police and fetishizes female victims.” These are fair knocks, but also the very pitfalls tha...

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · 29d

Happy one year anniversary to The Hotel Egypt! Buy it here or anywhere, or DM for a copy.

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The Hotel Egypt

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jul 6

Keith Gessen says the same in “Money (2014)” from MFA vs: NYC: “In fact what I most wanted was to be told, by a writer, that I was myself a writer, that I had it.”

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 13

“The only time a writer receives his due reward is when someone comes to him burning with this flame which he fanned in a moment of solitude. Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”

— Henry Miller

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jul 5

I showed up on a podcast promoting The Hotel Egypt. Thanks to Danny and the UnTaking!

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jul 5

When you're such a bad-ass writer Anna K. and Sabbath server as "soothing reminders"

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jul 4

New writing:

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Baseball, Autofiction, and the American Psyche

A Cubs game, a podcast, and a Fourth of July riff on art, satire, Exodus, and the rituals that make (and unmake) American life.

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jul 4

New writing in da stacks

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jul 4

"We should not be worrying about biting the hand that feeds us. We should eat the hand, for it is much, much tastier than the boot."

— Tai Shani

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jul 4

Hope all the unknown white male writers out there are staying safe this July 4th. Maybe hug your friends instead of playing with your pyrotechnical prose.

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 13

“The only time a writer receives his due reward is when someone comes to him burning with this flame which he fanned in a moment of solitude. Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.”

— Henry Miller

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 12

Mountainhead proves Succession wasn't that good.

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 11

The most terrifying part of scrolling is getting to the untranslatable Japanese word we need in English.

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 11

Wrote about reading Edmund White.

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Warmth in other shades

On reading Edmund White

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Trump administration makes no sense unless we're in the streets.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Jun 6

if i could snap my fingers and force all journalists everywhere to implement one linguistic tic i think i'd mandate "cars (which kill more than 3,000 people every day)"

Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · Jun 6

Cars, which kill hundreds of New Yorkers every year, are allowed to go 10 mph above the speed limit before they get ticketed by speed cams.

Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · Jun 6

Lyft initially declined to comply with Mayor Adams's proposed e-bike speed limit, pledging instead to slap speedometers and let riders self-regulate.

But that's before Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro stepped in and called the bikes "an emergency threat to life and property." buff.ly/ZOq4T0g

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 6

He died of lung cancer at 33

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 5

So weird to me ppl pretend it takes two years for a book to come out when you could just post the PDF to a dropbox and be like, here's my book.

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 5

The Lucy Dacus to Cranberries cafe background noise transition. Makes me want to listen to their child, Julie Doiron.

Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 5

Robert Graettinger composed in poverty and seclusion and was soon forgotten after he died in 1957. Aspects of his works’ internal struggles would preoccupy Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.

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Incident In Jazz

Robert F. Graettinger, Ebony Band Amsterdam, Gunther Schuller · City Of Glass · Song · 2006

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 5

You’ve been in the house too long she said, so I naturally placed a Starbucks mobile order for an Impossible sandwich without cheese.

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 4

People would be more interesting if they weren’t always trying to get so much “quality sleep.” I wish I had more hair on my calves. I take the arrival of a cat on my lap as a sign of humility. I wish Juan Soto were still on the Bombers.

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Race Book (125p-108k)

People would be more interesting...

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Stuart Ross @myskypager.bsky.social · Jun 3

New fiction, "Ambivalence, Indiana (French Lick)" on something I've always wonder about: when movie stars fly to Indiana for playoff games, what happens to them in Indiana?

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Ambivalence, Indiana (French Lick)

She was at a gas station, filling up a jug for the tractor.

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