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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 28/09/2026

hi, have you read this book? because you should read this book. also, Christopher Caldwell's introduction here is just wonderful.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 28/09/2026

I have to figure out how to make travel insurance work and uggggghhhh I'm preemptively tired

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 27/09/2026

a whole-ass galaxy to play in and they're like hey. hey I heard you like this one thing so even though we turned that thing into a rancid sausage while trying to meet the worst fans' expectations, we're gonna do it again, cool? (rebels is the best stars wars, though, so I feel confused)

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 26/09/2026

how am I? well, I'm farming the utterly impossible electric lizalfos tails in tears of the kingdom. that's how I am. so.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 26/09/2026

okay yes am Baby but for Jeremy Saulnier and a hilariously perfect trailer song choice (for once!!! FOR ONCE) I will be Tuff

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Slayground | Official Promo | A24

YouTube video by A24

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 26/09/2026

a friend of mine once, in all sincerity and/or obliviousness, called it "ChatGPS" and I have adopted that completely; I offer it up here for the rest of you to enjoy

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 25/09/2026

could everything maybe not happen all at once QUITE so much

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 25/09/2026

I'm never going to be able to get that Ocarina of Time Switch 2, am I

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 24/09/2026

you had me at "new Morphine album" but then it got better!!!!! "liner notes written by Hanif Abdurraqib"

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 24/09/2026

the problem with Neagley is not that the formula needs Reacher (as one review I saw said) but that the writing is riddled with cliches and aggravatingly gendered

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 24/09/2026

aggressively jealous of those of you who take your life stress and just throw yourselves fully into writing. what is that like. how do I become That Person

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mutual aid alert. Siobhán Kirchstein, whom I've known for many years, is a trans woman who works as a janitor at KU and has been targeted for using a bathroom. Her case has been profiled in many venues, including by M. Gessen at the NYT. I've talked to her at length recently.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 23/09/2026

how did I only learn this week that a whole-ass 1980s movie took place at my childhood mall

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How to Beat the High Cost of Living - Wikipedia

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 23/09/2026

At risk of hyperbole: Real “end of media” shit right here. If you weren’t already buying physical media and downloading everything, start now, because this industry could soon cease making or distributing anything worth half a fuck

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 23/09/2026

Absolutely love that we have the one and only @maris.bsky.social reading one of Ursula's tart and satirical and pointed publishing posts this week

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 23/09/2026

went to my first WNBA game last night and on the one hand it was excellent (a wild OT win for the Fire's final game of the season) and on the other hand ... what in the sensory overload? why does loud-ass random music playing the entire time the game is happening???? am I stuck in tiktok?!?!?

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 22/09/2026

kinda feel like some book industry person complaining that the national book awards have "got to occasionally nominate a book that we’ve actually heard of" is more telling on themself than making any kind of commentary but sure, okay!

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 22/09/2026

jfc I need a perimenopause group chat

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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for

Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."

Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.

Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 22/09/2026

Can someone show Bret Stephens the NYT bestseller lists? Presently—if my quick skim is accurate—there is a total of one writer of color across hardcover fiction and nonfiction. (Presumably Ted Cruz's book about Clarence Thomas is not the kind of "DEI checklist" book Stephens is mad at.)

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 22/09/2026

you know what isn't full of AI slop pretending to be written by your favorite author? your local independent bookstore

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 22/09/2026

if, on the negative side, this review is not getting finished tonight, at least on the plus side I got past 800 words before a sentence devolved into me yelling AND WHAT THE FUCK AM I TALKING ABOUT at myself

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21/09/2026

Appropriate that they found such an "evil motherfucker" accompanying photo, my god, is there any way in which this oily scumbag doesn't suck

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 21/09/2026

why yes I do have many things to do including write some late reviews and a column and a bunch of my own shit but see I just finished Greenglass House and it was PERFECT and now I need to read all the other books in the series IMMEDIATELY, oops

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 19/09/2026

this is a silly question maybe that no one can answer for me, but: if you were planning a road trip that started at the Grand Canyon and ended at Zion, which of those two places would you spend more time?

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 18/09/2026

friends! foes! folks! I hope you'll chime in on this—

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 18/09/2026

here is a very random question: why did all the yellow-starred messages in my gmail suddenly become blue-starred messages? google you can't do this to me, I have a system!!!!

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 18/09/2026

NEW CAT NEW CAT (but also what do I do with my wish to see the zombies but also not be scared, help)

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brosaleigh @brosaleigh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NEW PERENNIAL DAY NEW PERENNIAL DAY NEW PERENNIAL DAY 😍😍😍😍😍😍 music.apple.com/us/album/mod...

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Modernism by Perennial on Apple Music

Album · 2026 · 10 Songs

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 18/09/2026

idk why the BBC has that open call for producers for Doctor Who when they should clearly give the show to Greta Gerwig

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 17/09/2026

could someone just tell me which non-substack newsletter platform is best, thanks

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 16/09/2026

yes I did buy myself tickets for the earliest showings (all in the burbs while Portland is in trafficpocalypse, ugh) and yes I am going to have to bring tissues. thank goodness for 21+ balcony seats; at least I won't scare any children while sobbing

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 16/09/2026

I have paid my stupid taxes and I have made an appointment for my flu and covid shots and frankly I feel like that's enough for the day. it's plenty. it's too much. let me lie down.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Crash and the Boys will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Crash and the Boys from SCOTT PILGRIM. They're a three piece band on stage, two white men in front on guitar and bass, and a 10ish year old Asian girl on drums in the back.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 15/09/2026

on account of having been traveling, followed by a lot of life shit, I have lost track of whether I've reposted all the author readings this year BUT I LOVE THEM ALL OKAY

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 15/09/2026

Resist this phrasing: Some people are feeding prompts into AIs and presenting the results as "their own stories." They're not. They're extruded plastic plagiarism. They may write their own prompts but they sure ain't writing their own stories, and nor is "AI" bc it's a fruit machine not agential.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 14/09/2026

this is such an interesting (and depressing) question! my answer was Some Desperate Glory, which I think definitely counts (though idk if it was in a crate), but can you come up with any others?

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Let's get weird, friends!

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