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Dana Murphy

@manadurphy.bsky.social
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part-time garbage person, full-time literary agent at @ Trellis Literary Management

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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
cannot even explain the level of sicko unlocked in me when @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social explained that I could combine two of my favorite things (baseball, doing a little worksheet) come learn from the best tomorrow!!! Supplies provided! Tip your bartenders!
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22/03/2026
I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
once again, grateful that someone else managed to put my exact feelings into words because, whenever I try, the only thing I can manage is a guttural scream while I stare at the sun
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Incredible work by @sandyernestallen.bsky.social and @maris.bsky.social. Extra grateful to see my beloved BEATING HEART BABY included. 🥲
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Jason Cohen @cohenesque.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We'll always have this @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social blog. And the home runs. defector.com/is-the-phill...
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Is The Phillies' Good Luck Charm A Dedication To Himbo Culture And Showing Clavicle? [Update] | Defector
Now, as a fan, you may be wondering why Major League Baseball would want to rob us of bare-chested boys of summer.
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Jasper Wang @jaspercwang.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It's been really lovely reading all the tributes to Dan. Many people have asked if they can contribute to support his wife and son. You can do so here: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...
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Visit Dan McQuade's Memorial Website
Take part in remembering Dan McQuade. Read his obituary, share your own memories, and learn about any funeral details on Ever Loved.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I was recently informed that “Dominic the Donkey” is a regional phenomenon? that not everyone knows about “the Italian Christmas donkey”???
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
i loved the 2025 philadelphia phillies. no playoffs can make me hate them. defector.com/what-ill-rem...
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What I'll Remember About The Phillies | Defector
At the Phillies’ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon arch and let someone take our photo, people around us were feeling optimisti...
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
the scammers are back on their bullshit. if we’ve emailed you from a random hotmail account? (literally) no we didn’t.
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
gonna need a public mural of her in philadelphia STAT
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
nothing hotter than a union man
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
another absolute banger from @printrunpodcast.bsky.social, who always speak about this weird work we do so thoughtfully. And thank god they do bc when I try to talk about it, just an ear-bleeding feral scream that only bog creatures can hear comes out??? Anyway, reopening to queries next week!
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Hello. After months and months of self-consciously self-promoting, the day has finally come. I WANT TO BURN THIS PLACE DOWN is available wherever books are sold. www.harpercollins.com/products/i-w...
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I Want to Burn This Place Down
A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman—an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this fo...
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
the lesson that has positively affected me the most in my adult life, the lesson I’m most proud of having learned, is the difference between FEELING unsafe and BEING unsafe
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
somehow, about a decade ago, the internet gave me both @kristenarnett.bsky.social and @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social and god what a fucking gift that I get to know them! My two beautiful pals!!!!
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Genuinely can’t even put into words how fucking lucky we are to have a book-length compendium of Kate advice. This shit is gold!!!
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
everybody lock in, it’s time to tee hee hee with our friend Josh!!!
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I never feel more simple than during our first stretch of sixty+ degree weather every year when my will to live returns like a slap in the face
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Alex Sujong Laughlin @alexlaughs.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
get tickets to come see me and kelsey in boston next week!!!!
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
i also wrote a newsletter about how weird it is to try and sell art in this month in particular, and decided to donate one dollar for every presale to The Attic Youth Center here in Philly buttondown.com/mckinneykels...
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Selling Art At The End of an Empire
I’ve spent all week doing interviews, and I will spend all next week doing the same. I feel really grateful to do interviews, to talk to curious reporters...
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I can’t listen to one more smug millennial whine about young ppl’s reliance on tiktok for recipes and music as if y’all popped out knowing how to read a paper map or use the dewey decimal system or drive stick. you sound like a boomer. grow up.
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speedy ortiz ÷ sad13 ÷ sadie dupuis ÷ haunted guy @sad13.horse · 09/01/2025
editable/addable spreadsheet of music industry folks who have lost their homes to the fires, along with gofundme links and immediate requests where applicable. for sharing docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Support The Music Community - Fire Loss
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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 09/01/2025
Can also vouch for Eva et al., they do amazing good in the community
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Ted Leo 🍉 @tedleo.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Master doc of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in LA. Please share docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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MALAN Fire & Wind Storm Resources
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david ehrlich @davidehrlich.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
hi! my annual video countdown of the year's best movies will be up on monday, january 13. on the advice of "No Other Land" director Basel Adra, the annual fundraiser i launch along with it is in support of The Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the fundraiser is now live: gofund.me/ae3c2b9f
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
why WHY are they making them stand sideways on the stage when a) the screen behind them is out of shot and b) they’re not showing clips???? this broadcast is making me feel INSANE
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
*to the tune of pink pony club* THREE MOVIE DAY
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I have loved working on Normal Gossip so much, and it has consumed three years of my life! I am so excited that we can hand it off to people who I know will be just as good(if not better) than us at making this show a fucking banger: defector.com/welcome-to-t...
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Welcome To The New Era Of Normal Gossip | Defector
It’s a pretty big day for Normal Gossip and Defector! We know everyone loves treats, and today you’re getting three big ones: unhinged cruise ship gossip, our own Kelsey McKinney in the role of guest,...
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
thank god middle-of-the-night-Dana thought to transcribe this very important list she saw in a dream
a screenshot of a note in the notes app that reads “types of snakes:
1. Medusa
2. Long snake
3.”
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
it’s the most wonderful time of the yearrrrr (leftover pie for breakfast season)
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quigley @mquig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
this is the type of energy I'm trying to bring back to my posting
a plate with spaghetti alla vodka inside a bowl made of chicken cutlet, and a piece of bread
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welcome to the glennaissance @maillardreaction.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
this is your annual reminder that ocean spray, the cranberry company, is a member-owned co-op that is obligated by their charter to buy their farmers' entire cranberry crop at higher than market prices! so buy your cranberries this week from ocean spray!
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quigley @mquig.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
this year I said I'd make more art, and I did, and that's nice. here's some I like a lot
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🥲🥲🥲
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 19/11/2024
Happy pub day to @margareteby.bsky.social! Read our conversation about You Gotta Eat and why you should try mayo and pineapple sandwiches www.eater.com/24228934/you...
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In ‘You Gotta Eat,’ You Don’t Gotta Cook
Margaret Eby’s new cookbook is as much about granting permission as it is showing you how to assemble a meal
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M. Kirin 📶⚡ @mkirin.itch.io · 16/11/2024
"i hope this site doesn't end up like the last one :(" Hope has nothing to do with it--DO YOUR PART! Twitter & Truth Social are dying. Their users are used to farming outrage for engagement. Don't give them any! 🚫 Don't argue with them! 🚫 Don't quote them! ✅ #BlockAndMoveOn
A poster showing a weeping skull wearing a red hat. The skeleton is holding a smartphone that is showing no comments, shares, or likes, as though no one is interacting with its posts. The text on the poster reads "This account does not feed trolls. Block and move on."
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
we’re so back (taking screenshots of an article that is so aggressively targeted to my specific interests that it brings me to tears)
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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
wow ty @inquirer.com for including my forthcoming gossip book in this holiday gift guide!! www.inquirer.com/life/inq2/be...
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A very Philly holiday gift guide
Explore the ultimate Philly gift guide! From local eats to unique keepsakes, find the perfect gift for everyone on your list and celebrate Philly spirit this season.
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
freaking! out!!!!
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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Oz Perkins, man. One of my favorite interviews this year, had so much fun with it. Our interview on unseen forces, sympathy for the devil, parentage, and the dark magic at work inside his diabolically creepy horror-thriller LONGLEGS, for Inverse: t.co/2VFn2oDSU8
“The fact that Republicans could think Democrats worship the devil and eat babies is so fabulous in terms of how fucking stupid that is,” he says as our interview wraps up. “It's much worse what happens in the name of Christianity, in the name of God, than what happens in the name of the devil.”

Adds Perkins: “I don’t know that there have been many crusades that have happened because of the devil. I don’t think many Native people were uprooted from their homes and slaughtered because of the devil. I don't think anybody's saying, ‘Hail, Satan’ when we are colonizing a land. They're saying, ‘Praise Jesus.’”
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
well well well they'll just let anyone in here huh
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Margaret Eby @margareteby.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
No shade to BA but I wrote this book because when I’m catastrophically hungover i am nowhere near an herb. I know the only answer is microwaved cheese (optional Cool ranch crumble) bsky.app/profile/case...
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 26/07/2023
this post made me laugh so hard that it's easily 27% of the reason I joined this place
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Dana Murphy @manadurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2023
how much could ruining a social media platform possibly cost, michael? fourty-four billion dollars?
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