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Andrew Bertaina

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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 13h
Last four reads Last four reads The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by @Ladiwoods1 The Church of Divine Electricity by Emily Mitchell Animals Strike Curious Poses by @elenavox Mystery essays by @tylercdempsey
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Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Read "Old Folks" written by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social and illustrated by Olivia Mulford. "The look of things confounds me, Doris said, rolling alongside Vern at the old folks home." tinyurl.com/ydy2dtty
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Old Folks — Ghost Parachute
The look of things confounds me, Doris said, rolling alongside Vern at the old folks home. Several squirrels looked up from their acorns suspiciously. Vern was new to the home and admired the clean li...
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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"There was a breeze visible only in the trees. They had finished circling the labyrinth but Vern felt himself no closer to understanding the inner workings of the place he’d come to spend his final days." I love this gem by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Glad to have a new story in the 10th!! Anniversary of Ghost Parachute. ghostparachute.com/issue/octobe...
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Old Folks — Ghost Parachute
The look of things confounds me, Doris said, rolling alongside Vern at the old folks home. Several squirrels looked up from their acorns suspiciously. Vern was new to the home and admired the clean li...
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
804 in DC on October 10th at 7p www.eventbrite.com/e/804-lit-sa...
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Morning read The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by @ladiwoods.bsky.social
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reading and discussing this in my courses today with the author. The church of divine electricity by Emily Mitchell
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"I’ve been carrying on a long term affair with memory. I think, lately, about thinking..." I love how much there is between the cracks of this piece by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Deciphering by Andrew Bertaina
At night, we search for the darkness. We stumble around inside of ourselves. Someone says they can still see the fireflies, and I think, perhaps, I can still see my lover—pale pink lips.We cannot make...
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Great reading at 804 lit salon last night. DC is a great literary city .
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Recent winner of the Pen/Faulkner award, Mahreen Sohail, reading at 804 lit salon.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tomorrow night in DC Six wonderful writers including Mahreen Sohail who recently won the Pen/Faulkner award for her collection of short stories, Small Scale Sinners, from an independent press!
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Book mail Shakespeare’s Montaigne TR Florio
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m teaching two of her essays for my advanced essay course that is meeting on Thursday. What a brilliant, weird, and wonderful mind. One of the great essayists. A loss for American letters
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thrilled to have my contributor copy from @LaurelReview, which includes my story, Love in the Time of Bacteria. laurelreview.org/issues
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Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"In June, we stumble down by the red walls of the canyon. Who made the marks on the walls of our heart?" I love this brilliant writing (the sensory details!) by @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Nina Miller @ninamiller.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Enjoying the work of @andrewbertaina.bsky.social in all its forms. His latest fiction is up now @lit-namjooning.bsky.social for your reading pleasure. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Deciphering by Andrew Bertaina
At night, we search for the darkness. We stumble around inside of ourselves. Someone says they can still see the fireflies, and I think, perhaps, I can still see my lover—pale pink lips.We cannot make...
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So happy to have new work up at literary namjooning literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...
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Deciphering by Andrew Bertaina
At night, we search for the darkness. We stumble around inside of ourselves. Someone says they can still see the fireflies, and I think, perhaps, I can still see my lover—pale pink lips.We cannot make...
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Years quicken. Years pass. Years dissolve. We are made of the years" Such a poignant capturing of emotion in this piece from @andrewbertaina.bsky.social
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Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Flash by: @andrewbertaina.bsky.social, Pamela Painter, @megpokrass.bsky.social, Rebecca Tiger, Liz Crowder, @kiptain.bsky.social, @happilander.bsky.social, and a bunch of people I don't know but am excited to read! Some fantastic artwork, too, especially by my bud, @courtneyb77.bsky.social!
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have a new short piece up at Ghost Parachute ghostparachute.com/issue/septem...
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The Lover — Ghost Parachute
Low scrim of sky. Small puddles, reflecting grey buildings, sky. An old woman walks down the street carrying her groceries. She thinks of herself in the past. Years quicken. Years pass. Years dissolve...
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Last four reads Other Emergencies by Sarah Freligh @MoonCityPress Voss by Patrick White Your name here by John Ashbery Celine in Silence by Hannah Harlee (digital ARC)
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
804 lit salon in DC on Sep 19 at 7p www.eventbrite.com/e/804-lit-sa...
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
804 lit salon
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Last four reads Light by Eva Figes The Delegation by @AvnerLandes The Last Days Of Roger Federer And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer The Lost Estate by Alain-Fournier Tr Robin Buss
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Last four reads Light by Eva Figes The Delegation by Avner Landes The Last Days Of Roger Federer And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer The Lost Estate by Alain-Fournier Tr Robin Buss
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Bruce Rosenstein @brucerosenstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Three Questions for Lauren D. Woods, #Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe; my new blog post #books #writing brucerosenstein.com/three-questi... @ladiwoods.bsky.social @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @autumnhouse.org @cabockwrites.bsky.social
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Three Questions for Lauren D. Woods, Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe – Bruce Rosenstein
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This weekend in DC Currently full for this event but let me know if you’d like to be included in future invites.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I wrote this for you andrewbertaina.substack.com/p/on-writing...
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On Writing and accumulating mulch
I lied.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Geoff Dyer The Last Days of Roger Federer
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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The Odyssey
We finally got around to watching The Odyssey because I’m in favor of the occasional pop culture movie rising to the level of “everyone has seen it.” It’s nice to gather around the water cooler with y...
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
804 lit salon in DC on August 15 at 7p www.eventbrite.com/e/804-lit-sa...
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Stoner
I forget when I first read about Stoner, but it was almost certainly on the artist formerly known as Twitter.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I have a story in here. You can pick it up from the Brink store or at your local Barnes & Noble. It’s a fairy tale retelling with some creative license taken :).
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ashbery
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Very cool to have a story, Princes and Paupers, in the new edition of @f(r)iction. www.brinkstore.org/products/fri...
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Last four reads A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr @nyrbclassics A Silent Language by Jon Fosse tr Searls @FitzcarraldoEds Norwood by Charles Portis A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by László Krasznahorkai Tr Mulzet
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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Morning read A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Last four reads The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil Tr Wilkins and Pike Leave by @shaynester Motherhood: A Ghost Story by Anna Brook @brokensleep The Forgiveness Parade by Jeffrey McDaniel
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Book mail
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Book mail A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East László Krasznahorkai Tr Mulzet
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“Almost all we have nowadays is writers, and hardly anyone reads books anymore…Do you realize, General, how many books are printed annually? I think it’s over a hundred books a day published in Germany alone.” Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities Tr Wilkins and Pike
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Book mail Change the Subject by Claire Hopple @rejectionlit.bsky.social
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Motherhood: A Ghost Story By Anna Brook @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“Hardly anyone reads anymore today; everyone just uses the writer to work off his own excess on him, in some perverse fashion, whether by agreeing or disagreeing.” Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities Tr Wilkins
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The Forgiveness Parade by Jeffrey McDaniel
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Last four reads The Summer Book by Tove Jansson Tr Teal Burn by Stephanie Austin Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan Tr Ash A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Evening
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Excited to have a piece in this @WWPHPress anthology, Capital Love.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Morning read Leave by @shayneterry.bsky.social @autofocusbooks.bsky.social
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