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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Just finished Peter Orner 's The Gossip Columnist's Daughter at the register of @prairielights.com and enjoyed it...very unusual, deconstructed novel, like a story within a story. Looking forward to meeting Peter tonight at his reading and asking him about his newest book!

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

My newest Substack post is up: backdesk.substack.com/p/bestseller... (Free to subscribe 🎉📚)

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I wrote in this week's Substack post about some recent writing milestones and keeping the momentum: backdesk.substack.com/p/moving-for...

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

A @prairielights.com customer asked me this morning if I was Claire Lombardo (who used to work here). She pointed at a picture of Claire on the back of her novel Same As It Ever Was & insisted we look similar. I took that as the highest compliment. 📚🩵

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My latest Substack post is up--I think this monthly one might be my favorite to write: backdesk.substack.com/p/bestseller...

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I often forget to post about my Substack, backdesk.substack.com (still figuring out Blue Sky), but it's growing slowly and is a lot of fun to make. If you want to know what it's like to be a bookseller at @prairielights.com or how I'm working to become a "real" (i.e., paid) writer, take a look!

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Today's random thought: I now hear "I am a zen cow" in my head every time I eat a kale salad, thanks to @rachelyoder.bsky.social and her marvelous novel Nightbitch.

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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My new book THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS comes out October 7 and is available for pre-order! If you order from @prairielights.com I'll sign your copy! www.prairielightsbooks.com/book/9781644... @graywolfpress.bsky.social

The cover of donika kelly's poetry collection The Natural Order of Things. Open and translucent cicada wings on the left side of a white background with the title and author name toward the right.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 13/03/2025

The government runs out of money tomorrow at midnight. Let me explain how we got here. Part one:

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A little good news with my nightmare of a fed loan servicer, MOHELA: called & got a process forbearance because I applied for IDR recertification right before it was banned. Hoping senator @warren.senate.gov & others joining her keep fighting for borrowers like me who got stuck w/ the worst one.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

As of next month, my fed loan servicer, MOHELA, wants me to pay nearly half of my monthly salary. No warning or explanation, and it looks like they've been trying to force borrowers to pay unlawful amounts of money for awhile: protectborrowers.org/education-de...

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Education Department Finds Widespread Servicing Failures at MOHELA - Student Borrower Protection Center

Advocates renew calls to ban MOHELA from the student loan industry.

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

What I'm reading tonight at the upstairs info desk of @prairielights.com : Eat the Buddha by Barbara Demick--a rare blend of thorough research & exquisite storytelling. A careful explanation of what China did to Tibet & why. Excited for her next, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove--coming May 20th!

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I just finished my seventh Substack post & am enjoying this no-expectations creating more than I thought I would. backdesk.substack.com

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Happy Sunday! Yesterday I posted a Substack entry on waiting for a "Big Deal Lit Mag" (not naming them yet) to follow up with me on a forthcoming essay publication. If you've been in this boat before, you know the agony. backdesk.substack.com

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

What I'm reading today at the upstairs info desk of @prairielights.com : American Bulk by Emily Mester, an Iowa NWP alum. (I'll be introducing Emily at Prairie Lights for the reading on February 17th, too.) Forty pages in & so far impressed by the honesty and insightfulness. Plenty to think about.

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My fifth Substack post is online, and I managed to keep it from being a mere rant about AI in my word processor (though I'm still greatly concerned about it).

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I've never been this offended by Microsoft. What makes them think we want AI in our word processor? It also took more time than it should have to figure out how to disable Copilot, but I'm relieved I did. Couldn't write a word this morning until that sh*t was gone.

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Shakespeare's ready for a new day ☀️

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

My fourth Substack post is up, and this one merges a bit of physics with creative nonfiction. ✨ backdesk.substack.com

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Third Substack post, and this one features my inscribed paperback copy of Martyr! and what it helped me realize as an emerging writer: backdesk.substack.com

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I started a Substack as a still learning-everything emerging writer (for other writers figuring it all out, too). Forgot to mention my first post, but here's the second! backdesk.substack.com

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Maya Wiley @maya4rights.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Vice President Kamala Harris last night at the Naval Observatory, her home for the last 4 years, reminding all of us of our strength, our blessings and why she is one of them.

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 02/12/2024

Submissions to The Commuter are OPEN! We want to see your short prose, poetry, and graphic narratives. Each category will be capped at 375 submissions, so don't wait to submit! buff.ly/3PoeZ6l

Call for submissions: The Commuter. Short prose, poetry, and graphic narratives. Open through 12/10 or until cap is reached. Each category capped at 376 submissions. More info on EL’s Submittable page

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Shorter is Better Book Club @shorterbc.bsky.social · 12/04/2024

We're excited to announce that the next Shorter is Better meeting will be on Tuesday May 28th at 7:30 PM ET and that we'll be reading Everywhere, Tony Danza by @wendyoleson.bsky.social from CutBank Books! Buy a copy here: www.cutbankonline.org/2024-chapbooks

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My cat Shakespeare is giving chill vibes this morning

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Jenny Rowe @jenny-rowe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What I'm reading at an info desk tonight at @prairielights.com: an ARC of Care and Feeding, a memoir by the late Anthony Bourdain's assistant @lauriewoolever.bsky.social. Sharp, insightful, and shies from nothing. Halfway through & devouring like a good meal! Look for it on March 11th, 2025.

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 03/12/2024

Hi Bluesky! Our first post on this app is a big thank you to all the Iowa City shoppers who visited us during the holiday weekend--we wouldn't be here this long without you. 📚📖📘

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