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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Grateful beyond words that my essay about living in Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War was selected for Brick 116, which is now out in the world!

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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Thank you @ontarioarts.bsky.social for awarding me a grant through the Recommender Grants For Writers program!

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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

“Would I rather be neurotypical? Maybe; it would be easier. But would I be me? Who would I be?” —Sejal Shah, Even If You Can’t See It: Invisible Disability and Neurodiversity (essay in Kenyon Review): kenyonreview.org/kr-online-is...

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An Essay on Neurodiversity by Sejal Shah | Kenyon Review Online

“Yet why not say what happened?” —Robert Lowell I was in my midtwenties and studying in an MFA program when my mind began to slip. That fall, I survived my […]

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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (4/20): The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman #Books #BookSky #BookSky #BookChallenge

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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (3/20): Moby Dick, by Herman Melville #Books #BookSky #BookSky #BookChallenge

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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Travis : [recording on a cassette] I'm afraid of walking away again. I'm afraid of what I might find. But I'm even more afraid of not facing this fear. I love you Hunter. I love you more than my life. —Paris, Texas (1984) dir. Wim Wenders

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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (2/20): Afterparties: Stories, by Anthony Veasna So #Books #BookSky #BookSky #BookChallenge

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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (1/20): One Ring Circus: Dispatches From The World Of Boxing, by Katherine Dunn #Books #BookSky #BookSky #BookChallenge

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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Wowowow. Every page, every paragraph a gem. 45 pages in, and already I don't want it to end. Laugh out loud funny, gut wrenchingly sad, all the feels. Thank you @tkiramadden.bsky.social for writing this.

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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Just saw this. Highly recommend. More than a sports doc.

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Angelo Santos @angelospins.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Last January, I wrote an essay about going back to the Philippines for a wedding, my obsession with cameras, and my ruminations on returning to my motherland. A year later, my essay somehow found its way into this beautiful anthology. All this to say: keep writing, friends. Your day will come too.

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