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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I guess I am going to be happy that Halt and Catch Fire was included in the 100 best shows list rather than argue that there's no way there are *95* better shows than the show I watched 10 years after it came out and made my entire personality

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Happy birthday to the Use Your Illusion albums and also to me.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Have you ever thought: - Can a book have a favorite Ratt song? - Halt and Catch Fire but make it glam metal lit fic - I want a protagonist who remembers the chewy false promise of a SnackWell’s cookie then GIRLS ON THE EDGE is for you! And you can save 25% now through B&N’s preorder sale

Flyer for 25% GIRLS ON THE EDGE book through Barnes and Noble’s preorder sale using code preorder25 from Sept. 9-11

Trope map explaining GIRLS ON THE EDGE includes 80s glam metal, ambition in male-dominated industries, two messy protagonists, a reference to SnackWell’s cookies, themes of did we get wiser or just older, complicate friendship, three timelines, and references to the early days of the internet

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this is your reminder that if you've ever thought there should be more litfic for people who have a favorite Ratt song, GIRLS ON THE EDGE comes out in March (and the cover is inspired by Sunset Strip glam metal flyers!!!!): bookshop.org/p/books/girl...

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Girls on the Edge

The dazzling, evocative, and tender-hearted story of two women struggling to reconcile the friendship they remember with the reality of their current lives, for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Layne Farg...

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

purchased the most romantic sour cream in the world, the tub that expires exactly one year before my wedding

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NC State University @ncstate.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Introducing Christina Hammock Koch Hall. Today, Chancellor Kevin Howell announced that NC State’s Engineering Building II, located on the Oval on Centennial Campus, has been named in honor of NASA astronaut and three-time NC State alumna Christina Hammock Koch.

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

THE COVER GIRL is 1! I spent years pondering the baby groupie era and why we don’t talk more about the teen girls in the path of 70s rock musicians, and that became my debut novel. I don’t know that I have all the answers but I’m proud as hell of this book. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

A red haired woman in a blue pride tank top holds up a matching blue copy of her book, The Cover Girl

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

it happened to me: I used the phrase "hoodsie cup" in conversation with people not from New England

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

15 years ago, I decided I was going to write a book about glam metal groupies. I quit my job. I got an MFA. I spent 3.5 years querying agents. The book died on sub. Then I re-envisioned it and rewrote it. And now GIRLS ON THE EDGE comes out March 16 from Park Row Books bookshop.org/p/books/girl...

Cover for Girls On the Edge by Amy Rossi, featuring two girls hugging obscured by a hot pink wash

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Time for @bookshop.org’s anti-Prime *free shipping* event so it’s time for me to remind you that THE COVER GIRL is a great summer read. Rock and roll never reckoned with the 70s “baby groupie” era so I wrote about it, with a dose of fashion and hating Reagan on the side bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Cover Girl

Check out The Cover Girl - <strong>"Thrilling and glamorous as its runways and backstage parties, <em>The Cover Girl</em> is also heartbreaking and redemptive with an ending that made me cry. Birdie i...

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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The Cover Girl

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

new fear unlocked: what if the more low-key I try to sound when asking questions for wedding planning, the more high-key I come across???

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

apparently I was the first person of summer to ask about it, @sarahspain.com

A bench that reads “for D. Taurasi who always hated doors” in front of a beautiful lakeside beach”

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A Minneapolis neighborhood school created a @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social registry of books to send home with kids for the summer, and Moon Palace is selling them at a 20 percent discount! Order the books for local students at this link by May 29 moonpalacebooks.com/gift-registr...

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Moon Palace Books

Your neighborhood independent bookstore located in south Minneapolis. Selling new and used books since 2012.

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Nicole Haase @nicolehaase.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Tons of $5 and $6 books and it was easy to do. Please consider helping if you can

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

it's one thing to balance a full-time job and a novel deadline. it's a completely different thing to balance a full-time job and a novel deadline with the Duck Tales theme song relentlessly stuck in your head.

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

@livesinpages.bsky.social just scooped up some chopped salad with a pita chip and dumped it right into my lap

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Kodiak is really pumped about the @marchxness.bsky.social anthology!

A large tan dog poses with the March Xness anthology, HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC. The dog looks thrilled and his tongue is lolling out of his doofy mouth.

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It’s time! I am beyond honored my extracurricular essay on how grunge did NOT kill glam metal is included among such stellar work!

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

THE March Sadness National Championship: (6) Ben Folds Five's "Brick" & @cicilybennion.bsky.social against (1) Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" & @mfitejohnson.bsky.social! Listen to the songs! Read the essays! Which is the saddest? YOU DECIDE (by 9am AZ time 3/31): marchxness.com#/sadnesscham...

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

honestly, glad to see that we can all still take a little time to hate Duke

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James Charlesworth @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Collective Soul & I are down big at the half but hope still lingers on! We've been here before & have shown we're a 2nd half team--still plenty of time for a comeback! Still plenty of time to READ & VOTE "THE WORLD I KNOW" by Noon ET Wednesday! @marchxness.bsky.social marchxness.com/elite8-colle...

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3/24, Elite 8: (6) Collective Soul vs (13) Ani DiFranco — March Sadness 90s Edition

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I know we keep talking about the decline of the iphone keyboard, but mine seriously just autocorrected "the weekend" to "The Weeknd"

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

and since we have been talking about music and cultural impact throughout March Sadness, this is just a tiny reminder that I wrote a novel inspired by the “baby groupie” era in 70s rock and its impact www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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The Cover Girl

"Thrilling and glamorous as its runways and backstage parties, The Cover Girl is also heartbreaking and redemptive with an ending that made me cry. Bir...

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Congrats to @erinkeane.bsky.social and GNR! It’s an honor to go out to a song whose lyrics I hung up on my wall in 10th grade and to such a great essay — as a conflicted GNR superfan, I loved it. And thanks to everyone who read about this song and my dad and got a country song to the Sweet 16! ❤️

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Susanna Donato @susannadonato.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

C’mon now. “Go Rest High on the Mountain” is a sad song, and @mossyair.bsky.social ‘s essay is sad and beautiful. Plus, it makes me think poignantly of my late grandma, singing “In the Garden” in her hospice room, the uneasy way of feeling loved by a song that might not even align with who you are.

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Melissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Let’s go team crows! We’re down at the half and need your help! 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

also I respect that more of our voting population has an emotional connection to GNR than Vince Gill but I do beg of you to watch the "Go Rest High" video and just gaze upon the sheer amount of 90s Ricky Skaggs brings to the proceedings marchxness.com/sweet16-gnrv...

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3/19, Sweet 16: (1) Guns n’ Roses vs (12) Vince Gill — March Sadness 90s Edition

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

is 12 votes insurmountable? probably! but you can still vote... I love the GNR-Vince Gill matchup because it is so fully my 90s -- going from country music to hard rock. and I love the contrast of restraint and excess in these songs. it's pure @marchxness.bsky.social! marchxness.com/sweet16-gnrv...

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3/19, Sweet 16: (1) Guns n’ Roses vs (12) Vince Gill — March Sadness 90s Edition

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Melissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Dad, what were you like in the 90s? Read my essay on Round Here by @countingcrows.bsky.social to find out! It’s up today in the Sweet Sixteen of @marchxness.bsky.social, 90s Sadness edition (aka my entire personality) and we need your help! Read the essays and vote! marchxness.com#/sweet16-cro...

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This is my 5th time writing for @marchxness.bsky.social and my 1st time in the Sweet 16! Vince and I face a formidable opponent in @erinkeane.bsky.social and GNR. Only you can determine the saddest, 90s-est song: marchxness.com/sweet16-gnrv...

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3/19, Sweet 16: (1) Guns n’ Roses vs (12) Vince Gill — March Sadness 90s Edition

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"I am able to access some small piece of that now unrecognizable person I once was... I am able to acknowledge the bad and, in doing so, I get to embrace the good." @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social on Collective Soul for @marchxness.bsky.social continues to be a gift marchxness.com/sweet16-coll...

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3/18, Sweet 16: (6) Collective Soul vs (7) Alanis Morissette — March Sadness 90s Edition

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We do love it when our writers bring their cover chops to a game. This deserves a few extra votes in our view!

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Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

My Alanis @marchxness.bsky.social essay is going up against @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social's heartbreaking essay about Collective Soul in the Sweet 16 today. Both songs are arguably much sadder when taken with the essays. Which one will win? Only you can decide! marchxness.com#/sweet16-col...

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March Sadness 90s Edition

A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

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Katie Moulton @kjmoulton.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

hellooo @marchxness.bsky.social sweet 16! me & hootie are facing off against @cherylgraham.bsky.social's illuminating piece, inc this perfect Kate Bush quote: “I’m not talking about only pain or only ecstasy. The moments of pleasure couldn't exist without the sadness.” marchxness.com/sweet16-bush...

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3/17, Sweet 16: (11) Kate Bush vs (7) Hootie & the Blowfish — March Sadness 90s Edition

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Allison Renner @allisonwrites.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"My Heart Will Go On" is so sad and beautiful to me, and I love that @mfitejohnson.bsky.social's essay is just as sad and beautiful. Vote CELINE! marchxness.com#/sweet16-dio...

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

well, dog daycare went all out.

A large tan dog in a sparkly St. Patrick’s day bow tie, head cocked like he’s posing

A Catahoula leopard dog in a St. Patrick’s Day bow tie somehow looking like Jeff Dunham’s angry old man puppet

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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

ROUND 2! Have Guns N' Roses and Neutral Milk Hotel ever gone head to head like this in any other context? Probably not! 🌧️🥕 Listen, read, VOTE! marchxness.com#/2ndround-gn...

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

thinking about that time my partner's friend thought I was a Disney adult instead of a really passionate fan of the band Cinderella

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

one of my favorites (both the song and the essay)

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Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

my phone reminded me that 8 years ago, I made March Shredness cupcakes for work to gain votes for my @marchxness.bsky.social essay (this remains the peak of my piping skills)

Overhead view of a vanilla cupcake with a hand making heavy metal horns piped in red frosting

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