In this week's newsletter, @jamesfolta.com and I rounded up great writing by Michelle Cohn and Caroline Ulwick in @mcsweeneys.net and Adam Dietz and Ryan Ciecwisz in @pointsincase.com
Plus, info about my upcoming short humor writing workshops.
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If you were friends with a horse, who it be cool to ride on them or a little uncomfortable?
Workers at the American Library Association have announced that they’re forming union with AFSCME Council 31.
It’s still missing and I’m only growing more concerned
Once again I’ve placed my emotional wellbeing in the hands of a sandwich
I trust my manus with all major decisions, business and personal
This is just like Brief Encounter
The clouds have once again foiled my planned morning with the moon
Wow so you CAN buy taste!
There's a writer from Tehran who consistently submits to @pointsincase.com, and he always includes these very funny and sadly self-deprecating jokes about why he isn't submitting more. Thinking of him today -- sorry I rejected a piece of yours this week, Behzad, send more soon
From the moon to the stock market, this week brings some wild Venn diagrams.
There's a writer from Tehran who consistently submits to @pointsincase.com, and he always includes these very funny and sadly self-deprecating jokes about why he isn't submitting more. Thinking of him today -- sorry I rejected a piece of yours this week, Behzad, send more soon
“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984
Wrote on @literaryhub.bsky.social about a win for fiction: the strange case of a piece of speculative writing spooking tech investors this week
If you’re a @literaryhub.bsky.social member, I wrote a little about the etymology of “wuthering” for the member newsletter — you gotta subscribe to see it…
“We won three city-wide wage increases, more secure scheduling, safety improvements. When baristas started to stir in a given area, we had some tremendous, energetic workers that had our back.” said Daniel Gross, co-founder of the IWW Starbucks Workers Union. 1/2
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If you’re a @literaryhub.bsky.social member, I wrote a little about the etymology of “wuthering” for the member newsletter — you gotta subscribe to see it…
James Folta (@jamesfolta.com) and F. Poretti (@fporetti on Substack) dive into our International Bestsellers dataset to investigate what the world has been reading and what great books we might have been sleeping on. data.post45.org/news/intl-be...
mopping my brow, hubba hubba
Hurt that you don't think you're included in "my uncles"
The sign for Zeno nail bar which is in park slope near the Y where I go and every time I walk past it I think, there’s a joke here. Reader, you be the judge
This place can never finish painting your nails because they have to do half of them before they can do them all
The subway is one of my favorite places to go in New York when I want to see pictures of lawyers who will fight for me
This is exactly the kind of vitriolic debate I didn’t want to start!!
Very good episode and very good service journalism from a great podcast
Hate to start a fight on the internet, but I have to push back: I have always enjoyed following Dan's posts
I Wanna Be Your Dogeared, etc.
Wearing a dog collar and my thickest glasses to the Richard Hell NYRB release party so both the publishing nerds and old punks trust me
Actually, the events of Wuthering Heights happened to a buy nothing group I’m a part of
