Afton Gray Montgomery

who gave me the keys to the bluesky

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

I really like how Casey Cep has the “Weird, twisted Americana” beat at The New Yorker.

Being passively evil is so last decade. This is evil on purpose, baby.

I know people have ten million things to say about Severance, but I just want one of those ORTBO hats

Alongside Blue by Afton Montgomery — The Normal School I, alongside him, folded every napkin in the same direction. Nudged straight the faded carpet samples that made every cement step down to the basement a different frugal pattern and color. I wished ou...

new blue micro NF www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2025/02...

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.

The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

Valzhyna Mort: “Real writing, I believe, starts with distance.”

[tentatively] crying laughing throwing up

into which type of hell have we fallen?

backed out if AWP v last minute but hope you all find nice cushioned chairs to sit upon and have a rest.

This is incredibly bad— a CDC website clone but w fake and misleading health advice (especially about vaccines), brought to you by the NGO formerly run by the current HHS secretary.

love to see this @sarahjeong.bsky.social

YES.

this is so neat. what a stack.

bonus: fruit splooges in an erotic way

My favorite genres are:

5. author did research for 12 years to write a tight 275 pages that make you gasp a lot

4. teen girls are people too!

3. something sinister is happening in book world as an allegory for the real world

2. sentences like wisps

1. a gal has a thought while doing the dishes

Torrey House

the amount of mealy-mouthed people crawling out of the woodwork to imply mahmoud khalil doesn’t deserve our full-throated support is evidence of the conditions that allowed him to be disappeared in the first place.

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Screenshot of an Al Overview response that reads, “‘On the road’ consists of three words. On, the, and road.”

Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

"We interpret because we cannot analyze... Interpretation is merely a statement of subjective experience after having moved through the story, a statement about how it made us feel, not a concrete analysis of how those feelings were evoked or their structural role within the story itself." -BT

story basics # 1, openings this is the beginning, etc etc

cry-laughing on a monday vis a vis: "We are in the era of the post-literate writer." blgtylr.substack.com/p/story-basi...

Naomi Kanakia: "The people who understand th[e] process [of selling a literary novel] generally don't talk about it, because part of being a successful literary commodity is the illusion that you are sui generis and have some unique voice that you'd never allow the system to dilute." SCREAMING ❗‼️

in this economy, I need a car honk sound that’s gently like “hey little buddy, just letting you know the light is green; no worries!”
the one-size-fits-all “Fck You” sound is entirely too loud.

Murderer.

Reading the Room: An Interview with Paul Yamazaki - The Paris Review “The more bookstores you go into, the more you’ll realize how many different ways there are to be curious.”

“My faith in the reader is profound.”
love love this interview with forever-buyer Paul Yamazaki. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/02...

$21.95 has class.

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