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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 wrote this book because I wanted to give these people voices, and I just don’t want to stop listening to them now that they’ve spoken 40,000 words to me

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

And I did finish a complete draft two days ago, but that means I have all kinds of fiddling to do now, and a separate section I want to draft just in case it’s the right thing to add it. Anything to live in this book a little longer before it goes out of my office

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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

This applies to whatever it is you're waiting for from me. Probably.

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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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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Thank you for writing this. It stunned me.

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

In fact you are not! Still haven’t affirmatively placed the MS!

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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

fwiw National Socialists had incredible tailors

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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 developed a mini-specialty in ragging on this book in the late 2010s, to the point that a guy who wrote a biography of the author emailed me to mansplain what I’d written

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

So here I am in the back of this fleet car. Tired and disheartened, only cried out for the moment. Not willing to give up, but not gonna lie about how shitty it is sometimes to be an indie author. /end

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

By GOD I don’t want to damn either of the two events I have remaining on this tour, and I’m sorry to complain when I do have the resources to get myself out of this kind of emotional mess. But this month has been so hard. So extremely hard. 12/

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

My flight tomorrow is at 7 am. I won’t get to the hotel I’m staying at tonight until 10:30 or so. I am exhausted and disheartened and sick to death of talking to strangers. And I’m a few days away from putting on a happy face and trying to sell more books. 11/

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

That basically meant I had to ask a limo service to come get me, and to accept their schedule and rate for a 90-minute ride to the airport. The earliest they could get me was 9 pm. The cost was $170 plus gratuity. I said yes. 10/

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

See, getting to and from Chautauqua is challenging. It’s 90 minutes away from the Buffalo airport, not near any train stations or bus stops. No regular shuttles. Uber and Lyft barely operate in the area, and there are minimal taxi services. 9/

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

In the afternoon I decided that rather than going all the way home to CA and then to BR, I’d just go to BR a few days early and spend some time alone in a Vrbo. So I shifted my flight around, booked a room, and called around to various car services. 8/

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Everything felt different at CHQ, for a variety of reasons, and I was lonely and worn out. But I decided to stick it out and try to rally. Today, Tuesday, was not great either. Too hard to explain. I wound up crying on a public bench like a total grownup woman. 7/

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I booked an entire week in CHQ, hoping to relax, read, maybe write a little. The event was Monday, and I thought seriously of going home. My next event is in Baton Rouge on Sunday, and I was booked to go from Buffalo to Louisiana on Saturday. But a few days at home sounded good. 6/

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

After I was finished, someone walked up and asked if I’d sewed my own jacket, implying that it looked homemade. This was not an ideal comment at this time. 5/

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Plus there was another author event going on at a different location at the same time. So nine people showed up. While I talked, four left. No one bought a book. 4/

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I set up an event in Chautauqua, NY, which is one of my favorite places on earth. They’re a literate crowd in CHQ; I brought 20 books to sell. The event occurred just after a big speech by Doris Kearns Goodwin, while ppl were still in the signing line. 3/

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Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This month I’ve been touring around the east and south of the US: Philly, Baltimore, Richmond, Dallas. It has been going badly. Handfuls of people at the events, ones of books sold. 2/

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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

Bc of how complex my knowledge of bad movies is, & how necessarily short these interviews are, I created a post to answer in depth the common Qs I get asked. $3 or sign up for monthly essays. www.patreon.com/posts/136323...

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A General Primer on Bad Film | Katharine Coldiron

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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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