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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Happy book birthday to ORTIZ'S War, by Nick Reynolds and Katie Sanders! The first time Nick told me the story of Pierre J. Ortiz, I had to double check he was pitching nonfiction. Ortiz barely sounds real:

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Really liked this piece from DO I KNOW YOU? author @sadieding.bsky.social connecting the dots between the return of the r slur, modern disability rights activism, and the mainstreaming of conversations about neurodiversity being a hidden superpower www.notus.org/perspectives...

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Marc, it sounds like you're not just here to praise Caesar--you're here to bury him. It's exciting to see you delve into how the good men do is oft interred with their bones. That kind of message can really inspire, engage, and convert listeners. No friends, no Romans--just countrymen.

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yesterday a New Yorker tote arrived in the mail to accompany the renewal of our subscription, and my husband said "ugh, I *hate* tote bags" and I have never felt more disconnected from my spouse

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

DC friends-- A few years ago I met an extraordinary young man: someone who is a world champion debater, a Harvard Law School graduate, and also...not an asshole?? Hear from this unicorn tomorrow at MLK library, in a talk on having difficult conversations. dclibrary.libnet.info/event/16690745

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Civic Season Reads

An evening with Bo Seo and Shamichael Hallman for Civic Season.. Event starts at June 25, 2026 7:00 PM EDT

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23/06/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 23/06/2026

also I'll put this out there that if ANYONE teaching high school or intro college would like me to come talk about the Middle Ages to your students & why studying the medieval world matters nowadays, PLEASE get in touch. I've given several talks to high schoolers & they are highlights of my career

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Pajeon and makgeolli weather here in DC for sure

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I have a theory that AI is not getting less detectable; instead as more people use it, they are no longer registering how distinctively weird it sounds

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Update from tonight's National Symphony Orchestra concert, the NSO's final scheduled performance at the Kennedy Center -- Tarp is still covering the relevant side, but there's a gap, through which it's clear Trump's name is gone. Hard to capture but easy to see in person.

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

There's a sort of visual joke you're missing if you watched the scaffolding go up via livestream-- Which is that to get to the sign you have to *walk past a cherrypicker* parked to the side (I am not kidding--it's blocked by the bus/trees in this pic I took last night but it's there!)

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I love my neighborhood because everyone showed up to watch Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center and then started reading bits of this incredibly dumb motion aloud to each other in the courtyard when work halted

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I would also like to thank Audra McDonald. I didn't win a Tony Award but just generally

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

What are we casting Pink in like immediately

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Adam Feldman @feldmanadam.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Your annual reminder that the Tonys are spelled just like that: the Tonys. No apostrophe. Just the Tonys. (The Tonys won by Tony Kushner are Tony's Tonys. The Tonys won by Tony Kushner and Tony Shalhoub are Tonys' Tonys.)

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Pink is objectively a weird choice but she is doing the whole thing full out and I can't help but love her for it

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Kenny Ortega really and truly smashed this one

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Sometimes a headline comes along that just tickles you

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Just thinking about how confidently the DOE shot itself in the dick by putting this in the press release The surest way to get the alums who might NOT otherwise have a visceral reaction to the government trying to bully our classmates to start sharpening their knives

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

On the bright side now I'm very efficiently learning which of you went to Smith

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Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

There is a very specific voltage of delight that comes over you when someone finds your book in the wild, reads it, and loves it. Thank you!

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 17/04/2026

How to Get a Great Idea for a Novel feat. my novel TOWARD ETERNITY, published by HarperCollins everywhere ✨🪐 US: www.harpercollins.com/products/tow... UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/towa...

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Another day of trying to just do my normal calls and emails and chores while listening to the president's goons actively work to unravel the fabric of the United States what a time to be alive and have an internet connection beep boop

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The queen in Snow White except instead of seeking constant reassurance from a mirror that I am the fairest in the land, I seek reassurance every time a new AI feature pops up in something I use that the AI still can't satisfyingly finish "Kubla Khan"

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Poets-- Smith College just opened submissions for the new Tammis Day Poetry Prize, awarded for an unpublished debut collection by a woman poet over the age of forty. It is the only such literary prize in the United States. Full details at the link: www.ninesyllablespress.com/tdprize

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Tammis Day Prize — Nine Syllables Press

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Just learned from my author Betsy Rubiner that some archives refer to the genre I'd call "life writing" (journals, diaries, memoir, some kinds of blogs and early social media) as "ego media". EGO! MEDIA! (Launch event for OUR DIARIES, OURSELVES by Betsy Rubiner at @politicsprose.bsky.social)

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Does anyone else hear "Ro Khanna" and have to remind themselves that's a member of Congress and not a member of the Maquis resisting Cardassian domination

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Fuck marry kill but the choices are different ways to cope with a global social disconnection crisis

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Cannot underscore enough that the way to find a literary agent is *not* to ignore all the freely available submission guidelines and instead wander around an agency's physical office until someone asks what you're doing there

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Do you recite "Who would have thought the old man to have had so much poop in him" in a Lady Macbeth voice when your 3 y/o goes potty or are you normal

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 28/11/2025

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

"Extraordinarily moving, exquisitely written, and socially revolutionary...RING OF SALT glows with what we need." Thrilled to see this rave review in the Irish Times for @betsycornwell.bsky.social's new memoir RING OF SALT!

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Sick day with the 3 y/o has moved on from Frozen to the Brandy "Cinderella" Which of course is also the Bernadette Peters Cinderella and the Whitney Houston Cinderella and the Victor Garber Cinderella and the Whoopi and... Lesley Ann Warren is still *my* Cinderella, but man this cast is stacked

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Meanwhile I told my 3 y/o she could select one book to buy. She immediately returned with three copies of a biography of Julie Andrews

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

At a bookstore in Bethesda where a toddler has evidently decided a copy of HARROW THE NINTH is his new emotional support object. Will not put it down I leaned advised him to start with GIDEON but I'm not sure he quite grasped how the multivolume narrative arc is structured

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Obsessed with this quote-- Journalists at the Times of London reporting Americans are at a disadvantage in "sex warfare" because unlike slutty, slutty China, "by statute and by culture" we don't do that www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We saw this at the Kennedy Center the day the news broke about Trump firing the board, and Alex Brightman nailing everything about this part was *still* the most memorable part of the evening. I'm so stoked for the Broadway run playbill.com/article/alex...

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Alex Brightman and Sara Chase Are Going to Schmigadoon! on Broadway

Both will reprise their performances from the Washington, D.C. world premiere.

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

NYC folks--Want to write a children's book with characters that leap off the page? Join this workshop at 92Y on Saturday, 10/11 Taught by NYT bestselling YA author Betsy Cornwell and multi-award-winning picture book author-illustrator Lisa Anchin www.scbwi.org/events/scbwi...

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SCBWI NY Metro Character-Based Writing Workshop

Stories Like Friends: Character-Based Writing Join New York Times bestselling author Betsy Cornwell and Crystal Kite Award-winning author and illustrator Lisa Anchin for a workshop on creating unforg...

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Increasingly grossed out by the very common phrase "[PERSON] is worth [DOLLARS]"

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Iced take: cafes should offer simple syrup next to the sugar and milk as a matter of course

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

This sign has been haunting my commute and I can bear it alone no longer

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The internet should be a place you can find weird stuff if you want but the weird stuff should not be able to sealion you there

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

So many problems are addressed by having a giant bowl of spicy Korean stew and an array of banchan placed in front of me while someone else takes my 3y/o on a walk

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Rilo Kiley's opening act in DC started at 8pm on the dot and planned a 43 minute set, and I wish to thank him on behalf of both DC millennials and our babysitters appreciate the consideration

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Dara Kaye @darakaye.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Just another morning making pancakes for my kids and thinking how weird it is to be an evangelical German-Welsh family in Indiana naming your extremely gentile babies "Shekinah" and "Zachary Levi"

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