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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

You should graduate and read those Joe Pickett books with your wife.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

First grade for HATCHET on your own is wild. You were just out there flipping pages.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We also read ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS that year. What kind of survivalist fever dream were we living in that classroom.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A fifth-grade classmate’s reenactment of the pilot’s heart attack as part of her book report is absolutely seared into my memory. I will be seated.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I would say that he's using industry terms he learned from me, but that would not be true.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My loyalty to Goodreads (unwillingness to learn a new interface; grief over losing fourteen years of logging, despite whatever reassurances of a smooth transfer other sites promise) has finally been rewarded (they've added quarter- and half-star ratings).

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“But I don’t care” is another.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“I think you’re more aligned with Donato” is a direct quote from the drive home.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first trailer was, um, concerning. Cathy is such a fascinating character. Don't make her into something she's not!

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Matt Monagle @monagle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm not going to pretend like Trump isn't the beating black heart of America, but I do sometimes wonder how he would've been perceived over the past decade if more media outlets had published his comments verbatim.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?

Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven’t reported this, perhaps because they don’t think it’s noteworthy. It’s as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.

If you’re scratching your head at this “news,” well, it’s because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors’ identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world’s public honors (and so much else), shouldn’t you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right’s efforts to politicize the arts, won’t you also object when the efforts come from the left?

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This probably goes so hard if you’re a Toonhead, because they were clearly digging deep into the vault with the background characters. Unfortunately it’s me in the audience, barely pulling Sylvester’s name.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026

thinking about this tweet again, and the fact that it's got such a hold on me that I genuinely think about it whenever I write a feature because I don't want to do "the hot dog thing"

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Got absolutely annihilated in LL110, but gotta give it up for having the (IMO) easiest questions on the same day they ask if you want to reup for next season. Sure, what the hell.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

POV: you asked a millennial something

Tobias Funke from Arrested Development saying "Well I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help."

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This would have destroyed me as a kid. Reading was EVERYTHING. And not children’s books. Even at a young age.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Blessed that Matt cropped me out of this, the single most unflattering photo of me to ever exist.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Before there was HEATED RIVALRY there was

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

First an eighty-year-old, then an eighty-year-old star of HOME ALONE 2 . . .

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 25/08/2026

Trump pulling in 11% approval in philadelphia greatest city in america sorry

crosstabs on trumps pennsylvania approval, getting 39%, but 11% in Philadelphia

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

*fogs glass with my breath, taps glass* Now, eventually you do plan to have bread with your bread and circuses, right?

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I simply refuse to believe that Mountain Dew has been around since 1948.

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Tim Walz was right to call them weird. Jon Ossoff is right to call them weird. It's not just effective messaging and factually true. Republicans spend so much time and energy viciously otherizing immigrants, queer people, leftists, and so many more groups. Gotta hold up a mirror to take on Medusa.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Me at the Mariners game a couple of weeks ago, watching families have a nice time at the ballpark while I think fans and young and old should be raining boos down on the team.

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Maggie Smith Disapproval

Alt: Maggie Smith Disapproval

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don't even enjoy DUNE that much! Which is only making me angrier!

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Bluesky won't have the juice until I can search at any given time "regal app" and see a dozen different angry posts I can like about how garbage it is.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Good luck! Everyone I've ever worked for there has been very kind.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Not works at Macmillan but have done work for Macmillan, if that helps?

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My enemies will say I have a typo in the movie title, but I would argue I was also being held hostage.

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Andrea Monagle @andreamontoro.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONERS (2026). Back on my unsophisticated bullshit.

Nowadays the Geneva Convention forbids Encyclopedia Browning your prisoners this way.

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