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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 1h

Hey there, so I'm doing a project called What Happened On Oct 9th today, an outgrowth of the @essaydaily.bsky.social What Happened projects, in which we just write down/about what happens today. Join me if you want privately or on the public collaborative doc? docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What Happens on Oct 9 2025 Public Edition

What Happened on Oct 9 2025 Public Edition Hey there: short notice on this writing prompt but I thought it might be fun to share with you all. A few years ago, one of the projects I work on, Essay Da...

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 4d

but will Angel Heart appear on this list; find out at Tucson Essay Movie Club 10/26 at Casa Video (or possibly before)

Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 5d

More October horror recs! I have a pretty firm list of my 15 favorite horror movies & I've decided that I get to add another movie each year from here on out. But let's start with the OGs:

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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 5d

More October horror recs! I have a pretty firm list of my 15 favorite horror movies & I've decided that I get to add another movie each year from here on out. But let's start with the OGs:

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 4d

still kinda pissed they cancelled the Tucson show we had tix for on their last time through AZ but lowkey jealous you got to see them (and again!)

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 5d

If you're in Phoenix/Tempe today, come out to the Rift for the first Desert Grit Reading Series, with me, @shipraagarwal.bsky.social, @jonathanin2k.bsky.social, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, and @stephanieaustin.bsky.social!

Poster for the Desert Grit Reading Series, which takes place October 4 at 3pm at Rift Wine Bar and Taphouse

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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 5d

It's my birthday and I want another round of "Trump is secretly dead" discourse, come on bsky you're my only hope

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 6d

Next Tuesday I'm giving a Work Talk for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social at 7pm at Wave Archive with @leahmensch.bsky.social and Katie Jean Shinkle. I'm talking about a Michigan 1995 Simulator, Leah's doing Braverman impersonations, and KJS is dishing on Bad Men. Deets: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

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Department of English at Arizona State University @asuenglish.bsky.social · 5d

"What does it mean that Jane Austen was hanging out with groups of radicals, and radical politicians and the women in their lives?"

ASU English professor @devoney.bsky.social visited with @kjzz.org’s Lauren Gilger about the "real" Jane Austen.

Listen: ow.ly/BhPc50X6jPP #ASUHumanities

Arizona’s own Jane Austen scholar argues the author wasn’t a reclusive spinster

In her new book, “Wild for Austen,” Devoney Looser argues Austen was much more than a quiet spinster who never married and instead wrote about the love stories she never lived out.

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 5d

"You commit to something, and you just become the incubator for the work."

My conversation with Yuts / @geographyofrobots.bsky.social (maker of the great game NORCO) is up on @graywolfpress.bsky.social's Games Lab today: graywolflab.org/2025/10/03/e...

Electric Geographies

Ander Monson in conversation with Yuts, creator of NORCO I first encountered NORCO last year teaching a course on narrative games. It’s a throwback-style point-and-click video game released in 2022…

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Leah Mensch @leahmensch.bsky.social · 5d

My mom took too much Tylenol when she was pregnant with me and accidentally created the worlds foremost Kate Braverman scholar

Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 6d

Next Tuesday I'm giving a Work Talk for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social at 7pm at Wave Archive with @leahmensch.bsky.social and Katie Jean Shinkle. I'm talking about a Michigan 1995 Simulator, Leah's doing Braverman impersonations, and KJS is dishing on Bad Men. Deets: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 15d

A little sneak peek of our substack post going up tomorrow featuring photos by Tucsonan Steve Renzi of Downtown Tucson in the 1980s

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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 16d

I love richard siken and calling things essays even if the publishers says they are not (claudia rankine)

Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 17d

New feature on @richard-siken.bsky.social's newest book which is arguably essays!
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Four Essays (?) by Tucson's Own Richard Siken

New Siken book dropped 08/26; he's reading at UA Poetry Center 10/9

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 17d

New feature on @richard-siken.bsky.social's newest book which is arguably essays!
open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Four Essays (?) by Tucson's Own Richard Siken

New Siken book dropped 08/26; he's reading at UA Poetry Center 10/9

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 19d

Mighta did a thing : thediagram.com/merch/produc...

The Predator with a Latte at a Starbucks

A fine shirt you should definitely wear to Starbucks.

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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 18d

So maybe 14 years ago I spent several weeks in Lithuania & talked to many Lithuanians, several of whom told me a story I keep think about: during the Soviet era there was a sort of USSR Olympics, in which the different regions of the Soviet bloc would compete against each other. (1/4)

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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 23d

Which Robert Redford movie should I make my kid watch tonight? Sneakers, right? It's Sneakers.

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 22d

My dad loved Robert Redford, especially in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. During my dad's last year, we watched it together, and I learned dad only remembered the first half of the film: for him, the movie ended not in death but in escape, via a shared leap of faith. If only, if only, if only.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Off the CliffScene (3/5) | Movieclips

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 27d

oh dude I just made one for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 23d

An original Tucson essay by Dorian Rolston on teaching Peggy Shumaker's "Moving Water, Tucson": open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Heaven or Tucson by Dorian Rolston

On Peggy Shumaker: an original Tucson Essay

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 28d

Good work @housleydave.bsky.social and @tmcallister.bsky.social

Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great essay by @tmcallister.bsky.social at The Metropolitan Review about his experience with large and small presses, with a clear-eyed, experienced idea of the pluses and minuses. Also a nice confirmation that querying agents is awful for nearly everybody. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...

To Go Big or Come Home?

On the Writing Life With Major and Indie Publishers

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ghosts coming over the mountain

photo of the Catalina mountains in the middle distance with trees and other greenery in the foreground. There are multiple clouds in the sky above, including two large white ghost-shaped clouds coming over the mountains.

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · Sep 8

I just found out that REFUSE TO BE DONE is going into its 8th printing! I've heard so many stories from writers whose projects have been helped along by this little yellow book over the past three years. Nothing makes me happier!

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · Sep 8

Come and join us on our new chat thread about the movie from last night, 1975's Dog Day Afternoon, for our Tucson Essay Movie Club members: substack.com/chat/5666207

Tucson Essay Club chat

Join now in the Substack app

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · Sep 7

Come join us and Manuel Muñoz tonight at Casa Video 8pm for Tucson Essay Movie Club, featuring 1975's Dog Day Afternoon. These events are primarily social, a writer introducing a movie that excites them with a brief essay, and we all watch it together.

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · Sep 7

Two new Tucson Essay Club stickers for you in the shop: tucsonessayclub.org/store/

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