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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This was wild to see. My first time writing for the screen. My thanks to Zoe Kazan for inviting me on this journey back in 2023, and my agent Jason Richman and everyone at @unitedtalentagency.bsky.social for their work on my behalf.

“Written for Television by ZOE KAZAN & ALEXANDER CHEE” in white letters against the black tv screen.

A tv still of Mike Faist, Christopher Abbott and Florence Pugh. White text in a San serif font reads “This East of Eden, adapted primarily by Zoe Kazan-Alexander Chee co-wrote a key midseason episode-with Garth Davis directing, is rich, morally complex and packed with memorable performances."
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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Teacher says, every time you delete a sentence, that's one fewer sentence you'll have to revise in the next draft. That's right, Zuzu! That's right!

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

First Draft: Do whatever you want to me! All I have to do is exist! Second Draft: Make me perfect, asshole.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It would of been a good novel if it had been somebody there to rewrite it every minute of its life.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just turned to Holiday Traditions on SiriusXM to combat the 89-degree weather on Oct 2.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

God willing, next year will mark 40 years of the rhythm not getting me.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An oral history of how an AV cart was wheeled into the gymnasium playing a VHS tape of music videos from the Born in the USA album one Saturday afternoon while we waited for judges' scores on our 8th-grade science fair projects.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let's not hear it for the boy and say we did.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

RIP Dennis Haskins, aka Principal Belding, who was apparently only 38 during the first season of Saved by the Bell and I have never felt so old.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They say to write the novel you would want to read, but they forget to tell you how many times you'll be reading it.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In my teaching days, I once had this kid who punctuated a good percentage of my sentences with the phrase "big facts." A. I think about that kid often. B. I have the opposite of that kid in my brain while I'm writing.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Parasolcial relationship, or the illusion of intimacy with someone holding a decorative umbrella

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Was at an agency gathering/celebration this week and an editor I'm acquainted with described We Lived On The Horizon as an "anti-capitalist manifesto" and she wasn't wrong. If you're feeling a way about things, may I suggest my book? bookshop.org/p/books/we-l...

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We Lived on the Horizon: A Novel

A bio-prosthetic surgeon and her personal AI are drawn into a revolution in this “haunting, suspenseful, and nuanced look at the future we may already be barreling toward” (Esquire) from the author of...

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Confidence level: Have started emailing myself the file every few days, but haven't yet made a title page.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is an especially helpful window into the submission process and the state of publishing in general. Highly recommend.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good evening, #AfterDinnerWritingClub! Can we give ourselves a nickname? How about the Andes Mints?

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

All the Essays I Didn't Have the Emotional Energy to Write: A Memoir in Unwritten Essays

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Empathy when it's convenient, comfortable, or doesn't challenge you to change isn't empathy.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Super duper glad GoodReads is giving folks the did not finish option because if there's one thing the world needs it's more ways to publicly insult writers.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've found that evening and weekend writing is a lot like morning writing in that I always write more when I don't search Wikipedia for dead wrestlers and 1980s sitcoms.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Honored to have a story on this year's @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50. And thanks to Monkeybicycle for giving it a good home. Congrats to everyone on the Top 50 and longlist as well 💙

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The worse the movie, the better the Kenny Loggins song.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My MFA is older than my new hairdresser. And both are less expensive than my old hairdresser.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

RIP Duncan Sheik. If I had to gather 10 songs that felt like the 90s, Barely Breathing would be one of them. Then Spring Awakening. Talented dude.

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AWP @awpwriter.org · 25/08/2026

A new issue of THE WRITER’S CHRONICLE means a new audiobook playlist from Libro.fm! Head there now to find your next great listen by contributors and authors discussed in August’s TWC.

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The Writer's Chronicle Audiobooks Playlist for August 2026

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Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excerpts of Rae Armantrout's Safe Rooms have been published in the Writer's Chronicle! Check them out with a subscription in the #linkinbio. #writerschronicle #publication #saferooms

On a white-lined paper clipped to a beige piece of paper appearing aged are the words (with line breaks indicated by slashes): "safe rooms / rae armantrout / excerpts now in the / writer's chronicle." Below, surrounding the cover of Armantrout's book, are four beige boxes with the sentences (moving clockwise from top right; boxes separated by slashes): "wesleyan poetry series; 128 pages / our rating: 5/5 / poetry of the shifting architecture of a world we think we know / release: august 11th, 2026."

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AWP @awpwriter.org · 28/08/2026

In August’s WRITER’S CHRONICLE, Maria Hummel dives deep into what makes a compelling villain in a work of fiction. Members and subscribers can read “My Antagonist” in full now.

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My Antagonist

Maria Hummel investigates what makes a three-dimensional villain.

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AWP @awpwriter.org · 04/09/2026

In “The Boundary Between Self and Page: Cultivating Voice in Kidlit and Beyond,” Meg Eden Kuyatt explores the importance and complexities of crafting an authentic voice, and provides tips for doing so. Members and subscribers can read the full piece now in August’s WRITER’S CHRONICLE.

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The Boundary Between Self and Page

Meg Eden Kuyatt examines what goes into an authentic, memorable voice.

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AWP @awpwriter.org · 16/09/2026

In every issue of THE WRITER’S CHRONICLE, members and subscribers can read sneak peeks of new and forthcoming releases. Take a peek now, and choose which ones to add to your TBR this fall! (And remember—“all” is always a good option.)

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The Writer's Chronicle

August 2026 Writer's Chronicle issue

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every rock star has a story about how they didn't even want to include a certain song on the album or totally hated how it came out and then it became their biggest hit & boy, it doesn't work that way with novelists, does it?

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm sure it's a terrific show, but if they had wanted me to watch it, they would have titled it something other than Slow Horses.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

RIP Annie Dillard. In grad school, I lived in a trailer on Tinker Creek and her spirit was palpable that whole year.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

After being closed to queries for a year and a half (omg) I’m finally opening back up, writer friends! Wishlist here! www.ericsmithrocks.com/mswl

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Found out this weekend that my wife hates, I mean completely detests, Billy Ocean's Caribbean Queen. It was touch and go for a bit, but we're going to get past this.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You guys I fixed my novel! The document kept starting a new page a few lines before it should have, and I figured out how to make it stop.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Been a while since I've been as satisfied by a show as I was by Furious.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me when the writing is coming out really easily: This can't be good. Me when the writing is coming out with great difficulty: This can't be good.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They say to write the novel only you can write, but hopefully it isn't the novel only you can publish.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reading a novel I'm not sure is good, but I'm sticking with it so I guess I'll describe it as beguiling.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nobody tells you when you marry a millennial how passionately they'll sing Colors of the Wind every time it comes on the radio.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dreamed I bumped into an acquaintance in a library who asked with a sneer if I was still writing & I said I had 271 pages of a new novel & the acquaintance slinked away, so suck on that, self-doubt masquerading as an acquaintance in a library.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sheepishly told my wife the working title for the novel & days later she misremembered it as an actually good title that is now the novel's title. Advice: Tell people your bad ideas in hopes that they will remember them as good ideas.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

NGL I instantly cheer for writers who have long gaps between books. No reason.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

nobody asked, but my novel is also about Natalie Portman. My memoir, too.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Dreamed I had published a sex-forward novel only available as an ebook & it was bringing in decent royalties, but I could only claim the royalties on a CVS app.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Love it when I feverishly check prior drafts for continuity details like I'm some kind of authority on my own novel.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

me: I've written a fair number of words this week! also me: Are they the right words? *fisticuffs*

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Revising a novel is like solving a hundred puzzles you created without really knowing how puzzles work or that you'd be the one solving them.

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