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Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasplat.bsky.social
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Founding Partner, Neon Literary. Get in, loser, we're making it art. www.neonliterary.com

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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They sure are because now I’m in Richmond k k k kill me
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This requiem for The Kennedy Center I wrote in Feb is perhaps my "favorite" thing I've ever written in the sense that I have to keep coming back to it for self-soothing at every step in this humiliating march toward completely optional national suicide :) neonliterary.substack.com/p/come-sit-w...
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Come sit with me in the empty theater
A note on ambition as the old world breaks.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Everything you need to know about getting that next book deal and then eventually dying!!! neonliterary.substack.com/p/darling-li...
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Darling, *life* is an option clause
When should you exercise your option? What’s going to happen when you do? My answer involves the full measure of darkness bound up in the human condition. :)
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Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So are nonfiction books dead or not? Veteran agent Anna Sproul-Latimer on why people misunderstand who’s buying them and what writers should pitch, with @greenwell.bsky.social on The Kicker. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Oh hey, my agency’s next “let’s make publishing less mysterious” event is live, and is centered on memoir! American Grammar! 8/21! An AMA with @annasplat.bsky.social @ashleylopez.bsky.social @farahnazrishi.bsky.social! And as always, it’s free. www.neighborhoodliterary.com/neighborhood...
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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
hmm feels like there was a good book about this problem last year? BAD COMPANY Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream bookshop.org/p/books/bad-...
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The REAL winners are all of us in our 40s looking at Vozinha and being like "I too can be not a corpse"
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I wrote this about Threads drama but it feels applicable to the slightly more upscale and neurotic drama on here too substack.com/home/post/p-...
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So I guess you're the villain
If you interact with any people--ever--you’re going to end up on someone's shit list. Here's a people-pleaser's guide to processing that pain without professional self-sabotage.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
How many more times do you think you’ll see a full moon on a cloudless sky in your life, if you counted? 20, 30? A hundred if you’re lucky? Get out there and look. It’s perfect
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What a time to live directly under the flight path for just about every DC fighter jet flyover for everything. What a time to be alive. Love 2 have my eyeballs vibrating here for 2 weeks straight
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
anyone familiar with the already-boneheaded behavior of motorists at this traffic circle knows exactly what will happen if you throw in an additional gigantic arch blocking everyone’s sightlines. between that and the planes it’s just going to be 24/7 splintered metal and people beef. A MESS
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating, to work in the margins, outside a central perception." —Don DeLillo, The Names
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Publishing's serious nonfiction problem is a weird Freudian thing we're dealing with internally and I won't hear otherwise!!1! substack.com/home/post/p-...
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A note on our daddy issues
In which I discuss projection, anxiety, and the future of serious nonfiction.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Let she who has never made a factual error in a piece cast the first stone etc etc, but kind of ironic that this piece bemoaning the state of fact checking [as of now] gets a big fact wrong in graf 3: nymag.com/intelligence... (Rosenbaum is a Matt Holt/BenBella author; S and S is just distributor)
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Nonfiction Book Publishers Aren’t Remotely Ready for AI
They don’t check facts. How will they check hallucinations?
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Love, death, publishing gossip, children’s books, David Foster Wallace, have I mentioned death is inevitable open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...
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On Mac Barnett and the crud between us all
Or: goodnight, nobody.
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ChonginTommy @benrockstock57.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The Age of Innocence, lolsob. My teens and twenties: THIS IS THE MOST TRAGIC ROMANCE OF ALL TIME My thirties: THEY WOULD HAVE BROKEN UP IN 5 MINUTES ANYWAY My forties: Porque no los dos 😪
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
WELL WELL WELL www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...
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Don DeLillo’s Ribald Hockey Romp Will Return to Stores
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
the vibes at London Book Fair really were something. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Meat! Meat! Meat! Or: what you should know about the current international publishing market and your place in it
Here's what I learned at this year's London Book Fair.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Psst: the metadata is a metaphor for love (agape kind) substack.com/home/post/p-...
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On finding and loving the metadata
Or: why you should care about the boring stuff (and the BISG).
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Why can’t I just live full time in the kingdom of Hyrule? ::bangs steering wheel:: lizalfos, I can HANDLE lizalfos
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I forgot to check the peace monks’ route this morning, and it’s my precise morning commute, and my kids and I are trapped half a mile or so behind them and will be for at least an hour, and God this is kind of a holy experience?
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/02/2026
watching lindsay vonn and internalizing the important lesson of never trying to do anything past the age of 40
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
And I could not be more proud.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.)  If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
No paywall this week. open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...
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Come sit with me in the empty theater
A note on ambition as the old world breaks.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Excited to be a paying subscriber to this. The staff CVs are 🔥
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/02/2026
I’ve been using the CIA World Factbook online since I was a little kid. What a stupid, pointless desecration.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
If you're a Post journalist who got laid off today: 1. [pats bench] come sit by us, is it time to go get that book deal?; and 2. even if not, I'd be happy to comp you a free year's subscription to "How to Glow in the Dark" if you reach out this week. neonliterary.substack.com?utm_campaign...
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How to Glow in the Dark | Anna Sproul-Latimer | Substack
Book publishing advice and community for authors of fiction and nonfiction, written by the agents at Neon Literary. Click to read How to Glow in the Dark, a Substack publication with tens of thousands...
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Think of the world we could have if we just got our money back from like 100 people and enacted a little antitrust legislation. It's closer than you think. Let your rage and sorrow in. Let it make you delulu for this.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 04/02/2026
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) 

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.
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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Tapping the @greenwell.bsky.social sign www.megangreenwell.com/the-adults-i...
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The Adults in the Room
Megan Greenwell's 2019 article about G/O Media and Jim Spanfeller's mismanagement of Deadspin
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
watching wildly incompetent men come in and destroy every single thing that is tender and sacred in the city where my family has lived for 160 years is really, truly going to send me to the nuthouse
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Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Last year Will Lewis told WaPo staff that "people aren't reading your stuff." As though it was their fault that he and Bezos had corrupted the opinion section, demolished local coverage, and alienated thousands of subscribers. Now a great newsroom is being destroyed to hide their gross incompetence.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I don’t even know what to say.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The actual money I would have paid to see the face of Jason Epstein, octogenarian pioneer of Anchor Books and founder of the NYRB, when he got this email
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I say this with love as a human booger and avid metal detectorist: this hobby is not the same thing archaeology, and anyone who thinks it is is probably doing something wildly unethical!!! PS literally thousands of women have been involved in this hobby for decades, including on social media lol
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I keep thinking this week about how the relationship between J. Epstein and Nonfiction Guys Who Have One Big Stupid Thesis About Brains was already so well-known by 2019 that @kentdwolf.bsky.social and I kinda founded Neon as the antithesis to that www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/b...
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Katie Hill, Who Quit Congress Amid Ethics Inquiry, Will Publish Memoir (Published 2020)
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Am I going out tonight? No. Am I wearing her anyway in memoriam as I do laundry and emails? Yes. #catherineohara
Me wearing Catherine O’Hara’s spot clean only sweater from the Schitt’s set, which smells like feet at this point but is my most prized possession COH wearing the sweater like 10 years ago
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
If you know me, you know that I love this woman so much that I bought four (4) of her Moira costumes from the Schitt's Creek charity wardrobe sale in 2019 and still wear them all the time. Oh, I am so, so, sad about this. www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/c...
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Catherine O'Hara Dead at 71
Catherine O'Hara -- famous for her work in "Schitt's Creek," "Home Alone," and "Best In Show" -- is dead ... TMZ has learned.
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Now Steve Reich should express solidarity Steve Reich should express solidarity now Reich should express solidarity now Steve Should express solidarity now Steve Reich
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
wow what a coincidental confluence in the zeitgeist, nyt. ;) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/b...
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Did Don DeLillo Invent the Racy Hockey Novel?
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 27/01/2026
brb permanently muting "The Party told you to"
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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
It’s the system, firing Greg Bovino isn’t going to do anything, ABOLISH ICE! but also like…I just know he’s crying in his SS coat eating ice cream watching The Border and I guess that’s not NOTHING
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