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Katharine Coldiron

@ferrifrigida.bsky.social
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like you wouldn't want to iron your clothes with a cold iron. if anyone wants me I'll be in my room. patreon.com/KatharineColdiron

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Heavy Feather Review @hfr.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Endeavor to remember at the link in bio 👼 Fiction Review: @ferrifrigida.bsky.social Reads Morris Collins’ Sophomore Novel The Tavern at the End of History #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/06/t...
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Fiction Review: Katharine Coldiron Reads Morris Collins’ Sophomore Novel The Tavern at the End of History
Those who choose to enter Morris Collins’ second novel, The Tavern at the End of History, should do so with a focused mind and a strong heart. It’s a philosophically complex, emotionally wrenching …
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jenni @msjennimiller.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
the last original Bust person got laid off today. I don't think Bust has ever gotten credit for what they accomplished/established in terms of feminist pop culture media. my thoughts on the Republican tech bro VC company that bought the magazine and gutted it are not fit for public consumption.
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GW @gwoltjer.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
@ferrifrigida.bsky.social I feel this paragraph. From OUT THERE IN THE DARK
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I’ve been working on my book every day for the past week and I kind of want to keep doing it in lieu of doing anything else I have planned for the next month (I cannot) (we need groceries and clean clothes)
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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Congrats to our reviews editor Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social al & @autofocusbooks.bsky.social for making the @penamerica.bsky.social longlist!!!
screenshot of the PEN-Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award finalists, not gonna list them all, just note that it includes OUT THERE IN THE DARK by Katharine Coldiron
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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
I still don’t fully know if I want to engage on bsky, but here’s my latest blog/patreon post anyway www.patreon.com/posts/145297...
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I'm gonna meet the deadlines I've set for 2025 and early 2026. I am. It doesn't look like it because I spent all of November not seeming like I was doing anything, but a) I was and b) I'm finishing strong in December, because so much else is (finally) off my plate.
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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”
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Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com · 10/09/2025
This book is fantastic! I'm not much of a film buff even & I still loved this. So sharp, well crafted, absolutely fascinating. I want to shove it into everyone's hands & shout "Read this! Read this!" So yeah, read this. @autofocusbooks.bsky.social @ferrifrigida.bsky.social #smallpressseptember
Photo of book Out There in the Dark by Katharine Coldiron
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This pins down exactly what this administration has been doing all year, and I only wish I’d been able to phrase it this well. It’s fake, shammy authoritarianism, but in sheer execution it becomes the real thing.
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
as a minor update, the Holiday Inn isn’t kidding about the Express part - I’m sitting in bed less than half an hour after the car dropped me off
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I am in the back of a fleet car on my way to the Buffalo airport at 9:45 pm. I think I’m going to tell you how I got here. 1/
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Okee, so the BBC has interviewed me for print & radio recently, & is set to interview me for TV in a few hours. That’s great, but also, this is the 2nd time that a national station has interviewed me hundreds/thousands of miles away from my professional microphone & attractive zoom bg setup at home.
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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Francesca Woodman
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
YES, someone needed to say this
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
FYI, I will be in Dallas this Thursday with the one and only Mike Nagel. Hope to see you there!
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Paul Verhoeven believes nuance is for cowards and he’s right! he’s been proven right!
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
not sure if very sad or Ethel Cain’s new one is peerlessly good
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Kevin Murphy @murphofilmo.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I'm just getting started on JUNK FILM by @ferrifrigida.bsky.social and holy shit, I feel very seen in her introduction and how she looks at bad movies and their worth. She explains it more concisely than I have and I feel like I'm going yo tear through this once I settle down with it.
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Today at @barrelhouse.bsky.social, Milan Polk reviews Alex Higley's latest novel, a sharp diagnosis of delayed adulthood, out now from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. Take a look: www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/true-fa...
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Milan Polk Reviews Alex Higley — Barrelhouse
At the heart of True Failure are silhouettes of young adults today searching for meaning and purpose when milestones seem to elude them.
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
I completely agree with this. I am mostly on FB these days, but I know that terminally tweeting in the late 2010s advanced my writing a great deal in the world - and being mostly me with some promo was the key.
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Okay it’s at 6:30 pm!
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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate
Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Not sure what time this is happening, but it definitely is, in #Baltimore, next Wednesday! With the delightful @crabmoney.bsky.social.
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Next Tuesday! See you there, #Philly friends!
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Poured my heart out on Patreon about quitting being a career writer.
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Valuable at the time and infinitely more so in the time since.
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Lindsey Drager interviewed me for @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social. Some choice excerpts:
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Today is my favorite day in the book release cycle: the day I post my acknowledgements to publicly thank those who contributed to my book existing! Books are not as collaborative an art form as movies, but they do require a lot of support from a lot of people. I owe you all so much. 💜
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Janet Maslin @janetmaslin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This was the Rivoli in NYC. 50 years ago this AM I was in a car with the nervous director of “Jaws” and Albert Brooks heading over there. The director wondered whether there’d be a line. There was. It went around the corner and far beyond. He really hadn’t known this could happen. What a day!
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I interviewed the brilliant @ferrifrigida.bsky.social about her new book, Out There in the Dark, about film and perspective and truth and fiction: lareviewofbooks.org/article/if-t...
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If There’s Truth in Cinema, It’s Sideways | Los Angeles Review of Books
Ilana Masad interviews Katharine Coldiron about her new collection of essays, “Out There in the Dark.”
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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Kat's incredible book, OUT THERE IN THE DARK, is ~officially out today~ and I adore it and think you should all read it. I'll be sharing an interview with her tomorrow but for now, go buy it! And come tonight to her virtual launch!!! autofocusbooks.com/store/p/out-...
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OUT THERE IN THE DARK - Katharine Coldiron — Autofocus Books
ABOUT THE BOOK Katharine Coldiron sees her life through a film projector. She watches  The Sound of Music  and observes that time is peculiarly preserved in a narrative film; she watc...
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Tomorrow night (Tues, June 17), I will be launching my new book on my YouTube channel at 6 pm PST. There will be reading, raffle, and Q&A! 1/2
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
me (yesterday): no one has ever written anything worse than this paragraph me (today): I wonder if I can thank a spotify playlist in my National Book Award acceptance speech
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Wrote about Jean, Marilyn, Wikipedia, and doom. www.patreon.com/posts/128889...
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Could Not Have Been Cured | Katharine Coldiron
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Sound on. Narration is from my essay on JEANNE DIELMAN, “Staying Clean,” in OUT THERE IN THE DARK, coming from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social in June.
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I interviewed the miraculous Lindsey Drager for Michigan Quarterly Review. Get her books from Dzanc, asap sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/04/...
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A Dual and Oscillating Reality: An Interview with Lindsey Drager
Lindsey Drager writes beautiful books. If you don’t already know this, get thee to a book retailer immediately to discover it for yourself. Her fourth and most recent book, The Avian Hourglass, cam…
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Today at @barrelhouse.bsky.social, @christinadaub.bsky.social reviews the dual-poet project Q&A FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, which I bought based on this review. Will you, too?: www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/qa-end-...
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Christina Daub Reviews Kim Roberts and Michael Gushue — Barrelhouse
One need not have seen the film to appreciate the absurdity of a Nobel prize winner trying “to reason with a potato intent on drinking men’s blood and taking over the world.”
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
rewatched the Hulu Fyre doc, which contains two incredible quotes: "If you've never been out on bail before, that's the time in your life where you want to be committing the *least* number of crimes" and "You can hope all you want. More frequently you have to sue."
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Today at @barrelhouse.bsky.social, @cdeskilson.bsky.social examines Elizabeth Galoozis's debut, LAW OF THE LETTER. Peruse: www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/law-let...
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CD Eskilson Reviews Elizabeth Galoozis — Barrelhouse
Law of the Letter asserts that the liminal space our language occupies is ruled less by uncertainty than by potential, and by sheer possibility.
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Today at @barrelhouse.bsky.social, Adam Straus reviews Kyle Seibel’s HEY YOU ASSHOLES, new from @clashbooks.bsky.social. Check it out: www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/hey-you...
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Adam Straus Reviews Kyle Seibel — Barrelhouse
One might not think the Taco Bell secret menu could be made tragic; trust Kyle Seibel, it can.
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Small number of ARCs going to #AWP. Find them at the @autofocusbooks.bsky.social table. 🎥👁️
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Something I have learned from watching too much true crime is that if you don’t want your weeping to be part of the show, get up from the chair before you do it
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
yeah, well, I wrote about William Shatner, because life is pretty dull rn otherwise www.patreon.com/posts/but-is...
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But Is It Acting? | Katharine Coldiron
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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Coming June 17, 2025 from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social: OUT THERE IN THE DARK, a collection of hybrid essays about film and me. You can preorder it right now. #coverreveal
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