Reposted by Anna HeldRichard Held @rgsheld.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Could run this article for every flight he takes 021
Reposted by Anna HeldThe Rumpus @therumpus.net · 28/03/2025BIG NEWS! The Rumpus will transition to new ownership under @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social effective May 1. This change is an opportunity for a more sustainable future and meaningful growth. 🎉 Read the full announcement from our publisher, Alyson Sinclair. buff.ly/aFeXcEE 1119147
Reposted by Anna HeldRobbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 28/02/2025*TWO days left* to submit to the inaugural @therumpus.net contests: Poetry Prize judge: Kaveh Akbar Fiction Prize judge: Rachel Khong Nonfiction Prize judge: @meganstielstra.bsky.social Send us your best by 3/2! therumpus.submittable.com/submittherumpus.submittable.comThe Rumpus Submission ManagerSubmittable only displays categories that are open for submission. If you do not see a category, please reference the below reading periods for information on when you can submit.The Rumpus publishes ... 142
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Is it possible to passive aggressively send someone a Sally Rooney book, because I’d like to. 000
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I loved editing this essay on embroidery and how the act of making forces reinvention and pushing deeper. @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2025/02/20/h...therumpus.netParallel Practice: How to Break a Sentence - The RumpusWhich color might capture the word “would,” for example? And which stitch? 091
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Cutting research budgets is like saying you don't care about cancer or Alzheimer's or Parkinson's being cured within your lifetime. Science is happening so quickly. Outcomes are improving year over year. Diseases that used to be death sentences aren't anymore. And they want to just walk away. 062
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Fighting the instinct to post through something and instead blowing up a group chat from every stage of life. 010
Reposted by Anna HeldTin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 10/01/2025We can't wait to read your debut novels! ✨ Our submission period opens tonight Friday 1/10/25 at midnight PT (technically Sat 1/11/25 @ 12:01 am PT) and stays open until Sunday 1/12/25 @ 11:59 pm PT. See full guidelines, FAQ, and how to submit your work at the link! tinhouse.com/book-submiss... 18433
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 06/01/2025I want to take my parents to a Warriors game and the accessible tickets are over twice what the regular tickets are 👎 000
Reposted by Anna HeldRobbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social · 06/01/2025It’s my honor to announce @therumpus.net’s five nominations for BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2025. Check out this thread and give our nominees some love! 1) @jillchristman.bsky.social’s “Spinning Webs in Space.” #RumpusEssays therumpus.net/2024/10/08/s...therumpus.netSpinning Webs in Space - The RumpusThat was it. She didn’t tell me anything about her life. Not a whisper. 1268
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 30/12/2024I love that Gladiator 2 prioritized Denzel laughing and Paul Mescal palling around with the boys above earning the plot. 020
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 27/12/2024The most liberating feeling I’ve had as an adult is hitting my out-of-pocket max. 020
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Richard will get at least 80% of a sweater for Christmas. 120
Reposted by Anna HeldJoshua Roebke @joshuaroebke.bsky.social · 19/12/2024You almost certainly believe there is little overlap between the routines and aspirations of fiction writers and physicists. You are almost certainly wrong. Wrote about the nature of experiments in physics and fiction. aeon.co/essays/how-t...aeon.coHow the novel became a laboratory for experimental physics | Aeon EssaysBy testing the boundaries of reality, Spanish-language authors have created a sublime counterpart to experimental physics 2259
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Our trainer can make us better, but we can also make him worse. 020
Reposted by Anna HeldRichard Held @rgsheld.bsky.social · 17/12/2024FIB perspective lamellae = Rothko paintings 1356
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Regressing to a second afternoon cup of coffee as an end-of-year treat. 000
Reposted by Anna HeldRichard Held @rgsheld.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I love experiments with overnight steps. Going in the next morning is like going to open christmas presents but then you find out that your present is nothing and didn't work at all. 614916
Reposted by Anna HeldJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 03/12/2024As a food writer I feel it's important to report that sometimes the solution to your problems is eating as much mac and cheese as physically possible 3268701738
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I grated my fingernails and knuckles making dinner tonight. 2024 can end any time! 020
Reposted by Anna HeldRachel Courtland @rachelcourtland.com · 02/12/2024Pitch deadline is this Wednesday! 166
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 01/12/2024My favorite holiday travel ritual is coming home a day early and having a trash Sunday of sleeping in and bar food. 020
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 29/11/2024If you follow up the Friday after Thanksgiving you are a criminal. 010
Reposted by Anna HeldRichard Held @rgsheld.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Will be important to remember over the next 4 years that laughter is the best medicine, seeing as laughter will likely be the only medicine. 36810
Reposted by Anna HeldRichard Held @rgsheld.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Is there such thing as TEMTuesday? Maybe CryoETuesday? Myelinated axon cross section with microtubules and intermediate filaments: 1014414
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 23/11/202423andme is wild. It's like, you might have celiac disease and migraines and breast cancer, but you also have a long ring finger, you skinny legend. 250
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 22/11/2024@therumpus.net starterpack, courtesy of @tlpavlich.gay go.bsky.app/EKs9ZtJgo.bsky.appThe Rumpus Editorial StaffJoin the conversation 12710
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The pietà if Jesus had a tummy ache from eating a cinnamon roll. 51389
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The new McCarthy essay is a true test of whether Bluesky can match the energy of literary Twitter. 020
Reposted by Anna HeldAlyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!) 71734608
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Relying on a complicated sweater pattern to squeeze out my brain like a sponge. 000
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I'm knitting Richard a sweater for Christmas, and it's so beautiful that if we get divorced he has to give it back. 030
Reposted by Anna HeldRichard Held @rgsheld.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Ok I will strive to make this account more science focused but come on: 051
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 14/11/2024The girls were just groomed and I wish this post had smell-o-vision. 010
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Introducing myself because my handle is different here (ajshults at the other place). I’m a nonfiction editor at The Rumpus, personal essayist at The Cut, Vox, Romper, and other publications dead and alive, and run content at a VC. I’ll also post about knitting and my dogs, probably. 0140
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Earlier this year I didn’t think I’d ever really write or have ideas again the way that I used to, and this week I have for the first time in a long time. I’m not sure if it’s good yet but it’s happening. 020
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 13/11/2024This is my husband, who does very cool work and also posts photos of our dogs. 020
Reposted by Anna HeldR. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌 324174364034
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social · 09/11/2024The new joke in our house is when my husband asks me to do literally anything, I say, “Well I guess I have to do as you say now.” He hates it! 020
