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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
<3 bless you Helena for this correct take
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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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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thank you!! (Belated)
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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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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
😭 I just came on here for the first time in like three months love uuuuuu
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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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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I live for Tim Curry’s perpetual startled expressions in that movie
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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
Amidst 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...
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On "The Man in the Water" and the value of writers
A parable in a plane crash.
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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
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! - even shorter
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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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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Baahahahahahaha
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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
(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)
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
pistachios: wonderful; pistachio chocolate flavored mochi: untoward
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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 · 28/05/2026
MIKE WHY
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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 · 05/04/2026
Honestly it was you mentioning the starvation thing after my meat newsletter that finally got me off of my ass!! Ps hi you two xx
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Aw, thank you ❤️❤️
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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
Aaaand 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.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🙏 😪 🤦‍♀️
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
JAM THE GEARS OF THE WORLD TO A HALT, MY DUDES.
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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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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
well that's going to cause a lot of flooding isn't it
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
All 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.
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Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
On 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.
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Heart - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Honors HD
YouTube video by Mark Pakula
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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
It’s 40-60! These people are violating the social contract!!!
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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 · 07/02/2026
Thank you ❤️
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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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