Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They sure are because now I’m in Richmond k k k kill me 020
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This 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...neonliterary.substack.comCome sit with me in the empty theaterA note on ambition as the old world breaks. 254
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Everything you need to know about getting that next book deal and then eventually dying!!! neonliterary.substack.com/p/darling-li...neonliterary.substack.comDarling, *life* is an option clauseWhen 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. :) 061
Reposted by Anna Sproul-LatimerColumbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social · 03/09/2026So 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... 093
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026😭 I just came on here for the first time in like three months love uuuuuu 120
Reposted by Anna Sproul-LatimerEric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Oh 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... 0248
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I live for Tim Curry’s perpetual startled expressions in that movie 0110
Reposted by Anna Sproul-LatimerMegan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026hmm 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-... 38216
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The REAL winners are all of us in our 40s looking at Vozinha and being like "I too can be not a corpse" 050
Reposted by Anna Sproul-LatimerNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago? 2655011043
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Amidst the screeching, I'm trying to remember my DC aviation hero right now, and the America I'll be trying to honor from some quiet place tomorrow: neonliterary.substack.com/p/on-the-man...neonliterary.substack.comOn "The Man in the Water" and the value of writersA parable in a plane crash. 001
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I 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-...substack.comSo I guess you're the villainIf 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. 000
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026How 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 030
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 25/06/2026What 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 120
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026anyone 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 052
Reposted by Anna Sproul-LatimerMatt 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 2375
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Publishing'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-...substack.comA note on our daddy issuesIn which I discuss projection, anxiety, and the future of serious nonfiction. 041
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 28/05/2026(This is not me arguing with the article's central point, just longing for a world in which we could all just slow the fuck down and get things right via our own brains and legitimate sources) 080
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 28/05/2026pistachios: wonderful; pistachio chocolate flavored mochi: untoward 010
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Let 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)nymag.comNonfiction Book Publishers Aren’t Remotely Ready for AIThey don’t check facts. How will they check hallucinations? 121
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Love, death, publishing gossip, children’s books, David Foster Wallace, have I mentioned death is inevitable open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...open.substack.comOn Mac Barnett and the crud between us allOr: goodnight, nobody. 020
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Honestly it was you mentioning the starvation thing after my meat newsletter that finally got me off of my ass!! Ps hi you two xx 121
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026The 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 😪 050
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026WELL WELL WELL www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...nytimes.comDon DeLillo’s Ribald Hockey Romp Will Return to Stores 061
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 16/03/2026the vibes at London Book Fair really were something. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comMeat! Meat! Meat! Or: what you should know about the current international publishing market and your place in itHere's what I learned at this year's London Book Fair. 012
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Psst: the metadata is a metaphor for love (agape kind) substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comOn finding and loving the metadataOr: why you should care about the boring stuff (and the BISG). 020
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Why can’t I just live full time in the kingdom of Hyrule? ::bangs steering wheel:: lizalfos, I can HANDLE lizalfos 020
Reposted by Anna Sproul-LatimerHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I 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. 222223586027
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Aaaand yadda yadda yadda, the universe and DCPD have literally forced me to give up on trying to drive and spend my morning waiting to see the monks. Here’s to loving kindness shutting everything down. 030
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026JAM THE GEARS OF THE WORLD TO A HALT, MY DUDES. 120
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I 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? 250
Reposted by Anna Sproul-Latimere.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/02/2026watching lindsay vonn and internalizing the important lesson of never trying to do anything past the age of 40 1332833
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026well that's going to cause a lot of flooding isn't it 110
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026All you need to know going in is that Led Zeppelin disbanded in 1980 after their beloved bowler-hat wearing drummer John Bonham died suddenly at 32, and the three surviving members had no idea his son was going to be onstage. 130
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026On a related note — if you want spiritual medicine this Sunday morning, watch this — IMO the greatest performance ever on the Opera House stage: youtu.be/2cZ_EFAmj08?... I promise it’s worth it, even if you don’t think you’re a Led Zeppelin fan.youtu.beHeart - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors HDYouTube video by Mark Pakula 350
Reposted by Anna Sproul-LatimerMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation: 150148258312
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026It’s 40-60! These people are violating the social contract!!! 120
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 07/02/2026No paywall this week. open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...open.substack.comCome sit with me in the empty theaterA note on ambition as the old world breaks. 141
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Excited to be a paying subscriber to this. The staff CVs are 🔥 021
Reposted by Anna Sproul-LatimerFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/02/2026I’ve been using the CIA World Factbook online since I was a little kid. What a stupid, pointless desecration. 23602125