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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I need to make soup. Q: Do I grate my bushel of organic carrots, or roast the butternut squash that 100% need to LEAVE MY FRIDGE? Because, I am quite tired of looking at them. [Plus, I purchased parsnips today. Sns…😬]

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Soupnazi in the Kitchen

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Helen Rye @helenrye.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Gang. We need to stop with the AI tools and take a breath. Research shows they flag up autistic people's writing as AI, for starters. I just ran my 2019 matchbook story The Diamond Factory through this popular one and it said it was 73% AI. This was published 3 years before the release of Chat GPT.

AI detector result showing my own story, written and published several years before the invention of generative AI, as 73% AI.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 30/09/2026

The photographer who captured the insouciant intimacies of teen-agers—kissing, smoking, and hanging out—before Instagram, A.I., and TikTok. www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

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The Teen Portraits That Captivated Sofia Coppola

Joseph Szabo’s pictures capture American adolescents’ spontaneous presence and loose-limbed, insouciant grace.

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve realized that, while I do not cotton to reality tv, I stan two shows: The Real World (Season One) and The Amazing Race… I (foolishly) thought my sister would go on the show with me. But! She couldn’t be persuaded to leave her family for a month or, (ostensibly) a million dollars…🤔🤨 [Umm, Wut?]

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Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A draft dodger annoyed by hippies. A Jaguar heading east. A bag of speed pills. Patrick deWitt’s wonderfully strange "Dodge City" is my Tuesday Review. roncharles.substack.com/p/the-reluct...

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The Reluctant Rebel

In Patrick deWitt’s “Dodge City,” a young man sets off for Canada to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, my! I’ve died and gone to heaven. Turned on the telly in time to catch Sonja Henie!! 🤩 It’s (always) a pleasure to watch her skate…

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Time for a new pinned post! Writer pals, I host query letters and nonfiction book proposals, free, on my site. www.ericsmithrocks.com/perfect-pitch Near Philly? I host free in-person AMAs with industry pros often. www.neighborhoodliterary.com/neighborhoods Hope these resources will be helpful.

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Perfect Pitch — ERIC SMITH

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good Monday: The fog has come not on little pig feet, but it came, nonetheless… Welcome, fall 🍁

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On today’s constitutional, I encountered a locomotive that was paused at a crossroads… Soon, another train passed from the opposite direction, and I began to feel wistful for the train again. I feel ready to ride the rails again. So, please stay tuned 😏 #HeauxBeauxDreams

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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 25/09/2026

Next week is #LitMagWeek and Electric Lit has a lineup of exciting content to share. Check back here daily September 28–October 2 and celebrate lit mags with us!

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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 24/09/2026

Me: How could things get any worse? News: Hold my beer.

200,000 barrels of radioactive waste found on the Atlantic Ocean floor.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When a literary agent says their “list is full” what does that even mean? A little blip on what that is, why I’m closed to certain categories, and why it’s important to treat our colleagues as well as our clients. Take care of each other. ❤️ ericsmithrocks.substack.com/p/opening-to...

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Opening to Queries Again, or Why Agents Close to Certain Categories

What does “my list is full” even mean?

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Welp. Happy Monday! Starting my week by putting out the word on why I’m not using AI. [The reasons I will NEVER use AI are because of the harm it causes…but this was the original hill that I ascended to die on, lol 😆]

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you haven’t been following the Seven Up series, I feel it is one of the most important film projects of my lifetime…it’s quite weird to see it coming to an end 🙂‍↕️ ‘It’s the Bayeux tapestry of TV!’ After six decades, the seminal series bows out with 70 Up www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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‘It’s the Bayeux tapestry of TV!’ After six decades, the seminal series bows out with 70 Up

The ‘hugely important artefact’ that’s followed 14 children since they were seven is set to air its final instalment. The now-septuagenarians and director Asif Kapadia talk about breaking new ground f...

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Jean Cocteau said he preferred cats to dogs because no one has ever seen a police cat." – Michel Tournier

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Kathryn Kysar @darklake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@sunyungshin.bsky.social's brilliant new book HEART EATER was celebrated at @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social last night with a bevy of readers: @mkdordiggsy.bsky.social, @jenbowen.bsky.social, Michael Torres, Rachel Moritz, and @kristincollier.bsky.social. Cannot wait to read it with care!

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신 선 영 辛善英 Sun Yung Shin @sunyungshin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Now available for pre-order! Pub date in January 2027. A shared memorial, a record of witness and resistance, a commitment to ongoing solidarity for human rights, civil rights, and values of care and protection.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/09/2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...

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Play Shuffalo: Thursday, September 17, 2026

Can you make a longer word with each new letter?

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maniacally abstrack black @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

ufsd, black poet with illuminated manuscript

BLACK POET WITH ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT

i ride a giant
bunny onto battlefields
morning star for tail

my angry lapin
“tommie smith”, my tommy gun
to suppress the hate

armored up, teeth sharp
manuscript raised to bludgeon
no quarter given.

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Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 14/09/2026

Together we can beat schizophrenia. Yes we can.

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I cannot wait to watch this ep! As someone who lamented the end of the Airport movies (the Arthur Hailey series), I need my towers to be inferno-ing and my Poseidon's to be adventuring... Anyone else especially excited for Jen's podcast? Because 🤩

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Frederick Melo, Reporter (TwinCities.com, Pioneer Press) @frederickmelo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thursday Oct. 15 at 7 pm, Riverview Theater, 3800 42nd Ave, Minneapolis. Doc series "Not In Our Town" spotlights the lives and experiences of everyday Minnesotans during Operation Metro Surge and interviews with Twin Cities journalists including yours truly. More soon: www.niot.org/minnesotanei...

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Welp. The Airstream is simmering. We are on *low* tonight. The crickets are chirping loudly. Perhaps the trains rumbling behind the house will still be audible. Summer is gone. Fall has fallen. The high temp today: 71f Bonsoir, mes amis...bon rêves #writerslife #amwriting #quotestoliveby

caterpillar on rocky pavement with text writers have to keep writing if they want to mature like caterpillars endlessly chewing haruki murakami

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Welp. First Sunday in regulation play means... Put on my #skol socks and figured out dinner. The verdict? Wild rice soup! Thanks to memories of Byerly's recipe and my on-hand stash of wild rice. #Vikings #NFL #SundayFunday #SwankedUpMocktail

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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've opened a Hermit Crab Flash FIction Workshop online session for 10/18! You’ll write three flash using found forms (aka the hermit crab, because you’re “borrowing” a familiar form). Everyone will receive feedback on their work. Join us! 1-5pm ET $80 www.cherylpappas.net/events

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Workshops & Readings — Cheryl Pappas

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Packy Smith @packysmith.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is why I try to stay calm, cool, and collected at all times, because you never know what people in your life are gonna throw at you, and having the emotional intelligence to tackle the highs and lows of others is vital to your ability to maintain peace.

"The more relaxed you are, the better you are at everything. The better you are with your loved ones, the better you are with your enemies, the better you are at your job, the better you are with yourself."
- Bill Murray

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

make a band edible: Buena Vista Supper Club

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In honor of my life in NYC and my daily two eggs on a toasted, buttered roll with bacon and cheese… I present my Saturday Sammie #WeekendVibes [Note: We didn’t grow up with Kraft American singles, and at the delightful age of sixty this to the best of my recollections is my first package!]

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The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We talked to Daniel Groves about editing The Bloomin' Onion. It's a bold and honest interview about the business of literary journals. Read it here: smokelong-quarterly.mn.co/posts/104400...

A peeling green onion surrounded by the text "The Bloomin' ONION 2024 LITERARY MAGAZINE"

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Welp. The joy of long morning constitutionals are the revelations. From this day forward, my answer to the question, “Do you have a boyfriend?” My answer will be, “Well.I have a rooster...” 🤔 Then, I will quickly exit (stage, left…no heavens, no Murgatroyd. Just me, bounced.)

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Snagglepuss: Exit Stage Left!

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“The collection asks readers to consider what happens when the machinery of occupation turns inward, and what forms of resistance become possible…” We're excited to reveal the cover of American Occupation, a forthcoming document of Minnesota’s resistance to ICE. buff.ly/YiZHxPN

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Here’s the Cover For American Occupation, a Powerful Document of Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE

Two days after Alex Pretti was murdered by federal ICE agents in Minneapolis, on January 24, 2026, we published a “Letter From Minnesota” from the poet Dobby Gibson. As I wrote at the time of the f…

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fyi, When someone asks if I have a boyfriend What I hear is, “On your mark…” and I assume this position:

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Fortnite Aura: On Your Mark Emote

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Laura Grace Weldon @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say... I have been there myself. Each of us is more alike than we are unalike.” ~Maya Angelou

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

i've been married almost 20 years and yet my soulmate still wanders free

Since 2003, an anonymous "grammar vigilante" in Bristol has been correcting misplaced apostrophes on shop signs and street signs at night. He uses a long-handled tool called the "apostrophiser" to reach high signs and fix errors like "Amy's Nail's" and "Cambridge Motor's". By day, he is a mild-mannered engineer who considers his work a cause worth pursuing.

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

People who need you to be all things to all people at all times from day one till the day you die—all without ever changing, as well—that’s problematic, imho… I am a Miz. Thanks to Gloria. Full. Stop.

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As always, I’ve been awake for hours. Per my usual, I peeped at the world through my phone before getting out of bed, and saw that Gloria Steinem had passed away. So, I’ve been lying here listening to my clock radio, staring at the ceiling, when 4 Non Blondes asks “What’s going on?” What indeed…

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Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hey friends, there's a new journal in town, called The Menu, and I'm in their debut issue alongside some greats! Wouild love for you to read my weird micro and the whole issue. 💙 www.durtybeanz.com/kathy-fish

Distressed photographic image of a man in jeans and jacket seated on a chair holding a book up to his face. Text reads: Kathy Fish, and underneath it, "No Heft."

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ope! A wee bit late for my Midnight Ramenvous, iykyk...😏 [The H Mart is ground zero for the best lofi/heaux beaux/bougie-yet-basic ramen, just sayin go for the lobster...]

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I finally read this review and I’m moved by the extent to which Dwight Garner praises the novel and also the depth of his work here—it’s not a simple rave, by any means, but a class on how to read. If you want that.

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MizGolightly @mizgolightly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Y’all. I…I slipped. I’m back on my boulesheet, The Good Wife is on. Someone invent a patch so that I can quit—once and for all: • The Good Wife • How It’s Made • Antiques Roadshow • South Park (sorry, not terribly sorry 🫠) Good night! Airstream, parked.

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