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Julia Fine

@finejuli.bsky.social
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Wrote MADDALENA AND THE DARK (Flatiron), THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE and WHAT SHOULD BE WILD (Harper). The witch from next door.

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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
FUTURES, a novel for anyone who loves The Fox sisters, is sick of private equity, and wonders what the witches from Macbeth would be doing today, headed soon to a future near you 🔮🔥
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My favorite Sondheim genre is "philosophical revelation that explains the whole show, experienced while getting dressed after good sex" (examples include Moments in the Woods, The Miller's Son)
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Decades of my life spent thinking Meredith Blake's line was "what are you, rubber taniro" when Hallie asks "are you talking to me"
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Feeling seen
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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Our fifth installment in the Chicago Renaissance series is an essay about Megan Stielstra (@meganstielstra.bsky.social)—and her book The Wrong Way to Save Your Life (2017, @harpercollins.bsky.social)—by Julia Fine (@finejuli.bsky.social). chireviewofbooks.com/2026/04/15/t...
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
FREE! TONIGHT! FOR WRITERS! An online intro to publishing class with the brilliant @finejuli.bsky.social to kick off @storystudiochicago.bsky.social's monthlong Pub Crawl (where you can learn a LOT more about publishing), but tonight is commitment-free and you can just get the lay of the land! 1/
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.
No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/11/2025
an arc where the former governor of NY loses increasingly inconsequential elections until the series finale is him trying to run for senior class president at a local high school and getting his ass kicked by some 17 year olds.
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“No Country for Old Jenn” Jordan @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Thank you @finejuli.bsky.social! I could not put this book down, riveting and fascinating!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba
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In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
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Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Now serving ep. 375D: Margaux Eliot stopped by to talk about HONEYMOON STAGE, which explores early 2000s culture via a former production assistant’s descent into the confusion, chaos, and karmic consequences of reality TV. @finejuli.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/11/06/t...
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Turns out Tidal is only a few dollars more a month for a family plan than Spotify and they have a cool feature where they’re not running ads to recruit for the gestapo.
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
If this picture of my empire of Jell-O shots speaks to your soul, that's your sign to read HONEYMOON STAGE
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Heather and Jessica @fuggirls.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
For him? Gosh I hope so -H
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/11/2025
God I hope so, or I have been putting in all this effort for nothing.
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
can't believe we have to do another full year of this robocop cosplay starving children golden ballroom bs before the midterms
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I have a book out today, so obviously my agent and I have been discussing each character's vote in the NYC election. Anyway: it's about early 2000s reality TV and identity performance and trust, I'm proud of it, it's on sale today, and its main gal would go for Zohran
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Honeymoon Stage
Check out Honeymoon Stage - <p><b>Brimming with wit and romance, this twisty trip back to the early 2000s follows as a former production assistant's upcoming marriage descends into the confusion, chao...
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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
"Do we feel better about ourselves and the fact that we are not billionaires, because we can sit here making fun of them?" @finejuli.bsky.social (Margaux Eliot)'s interview with @awolfson.bsky.social on her new book "Honeymoon Stage” (Little A) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/04/i...
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“Inauthentically Authentic”: Reliving Reality TV in the Aughts with Margaux Eliot (aka Julia Fine) - Chicago Review of Books
When you discover that everyone around you is performing a role, how can you learn to trust anyone at all? In Honeymoon Stage, Margaux Eliot’s debut novel—Eliot is the nom de plume of Chicago-based th...
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Elizabeth Niarchos Neukirch @elizabethniarchosneukirch.com · 03/11/2025
In my first article for Newcity magazine, I spoke with @finejuli.bsky.social (writing as Margaux Eliot) about Honeymoon Stage, her "MTV reality show book" 🎬🌴💄 More on this witty & humorous romp through early aughts pop culture in the story linked below!
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Julia Fine Takes Readers Behind the Reality Show Cameras in “Honeymoon Stage,” Writing as Margaux Eliot
For anyone who's ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in the making of a reality show, Chicago author Julia Fine provides a look at the off-screen drama in her new novel, “Honeymoon Stage.”
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Where did everyone from the golden age of lit twitter ultimately end up settling down? Feeling especially bummed right now about the loss of that community.
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
So proud of Chicago right now. We show up for each other.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2025
my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The answer is The Hobbit part one
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Guess what age-inappropriate movie my 5yo was watching when she said "they're not his friends, they're just some elves who came randomly to his house!"
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A. Natasha Joukovsky @joukovsky.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Fun & clever & kept me up late—go preorder!
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Get in, we're reading oldschool Ishiguro
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Very funny to me that when my 8yo asks about MLB trades, he says "what did he evolve from?"
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
What radicalized me? The feeling that it's all a lot of oysters but no pearls
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
My literary hot take is that every novel should be somehow inspired by Daphne du M's Rebecca
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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Exciting news today! Our next Intensive Coaching Cohort -- with @finejuli.bsky.social‬ leading -- is now open for registration. This six-month program, with weekly online meetings, begins August 11. Only six spots per cohort, so grab yours now! buff.ly/GRW5Bdg #writingcommunity
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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Chicago! Join us for a FRONTIER launch party next week! @ericarstern.bsky.social & @finejuli.bsky.social at @volumesbooks.bsky.social, on 6/5
promotional flyer with essential info for this event -- 6/5, 6:30, Volumes Book Cafe
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Really missing old Twitter right now as a place to document how desperately NYTCooking wants me to make rhubarb crisp
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Out November 4, preorder now 🌴💋🎥🫶💍
Cover for Honeymoon Stage
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Severely underestimated how much of parenthood would include 4yo explaining scenes from Home Alone 2
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Pope Hotel has prepared us for this
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Joseph Brassey @josephbrassey.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Okay so, the SAVE act requires 60 votes to overcome a Democratic filibuster. The Republicans have 53 votes. Now is the time to call your senators and demand they block this thing, because they absolutely can.
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Popping in to let you all know that this season of White Lotus was actually the best one yet
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I copied the wrong post, but HERE is more on the 3.5% figure: www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
3.5% is all we need. 3.5% of the population being engaged and committed is the magic number to overthrow a dictator. And I'd bet that if 2% of us were *out protesting* yesterday, more of us are out there than that. Keep up the pressure.
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Khadijah M Silver (they/them), JD/MPH @khadijah.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
He is nearly 15 hours in and fired up! @booker.senate.gov THANK YOU
Cory Booker spitting fire about the economy and all the republican deficit hawks cowing to a president exploding the budget
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics. "Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The Stefanik withdrawal pretty much negates any argument of "we have a mandate," yes?
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
War and Peace (1869)
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/03/2025
Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian producer of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was attacked by a group of Jewish settlers in the West Bank and later arrested by the Israeli army, according to activists and a neighbor who spoke to The Post.
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Palestinian director of Oscar-winning film attacked by settlers in West Bank, activists say
Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the documentary “No Other Land,” was attacked in his home village of Susya, according to activists.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Shout out to Jeffrey Goldberg for reporting on this now instead of waiting two years to put it in a book.
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Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hear me out, Taylor Swift's Bejeweled but it's Pierre Bezukhov to Helene
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