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@msphilp.bsky.social
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I added a voiceover to clips of me walking through parks searching for forsythia and complaining about winter while occasionally referencing the book I was reading. youtu.be/fAmvzY0eBmw
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Reading Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
YouTube video by Stephanie Philp
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I was scared to read this book but didn't need to be. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Reading Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
which didn't scare me even though I thought it would
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"...elephant slides mattered because they made ordinary life playable." www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Loved @cowenwriter.bsky.social in @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social writing about book reviews and pointing to how many fall into the “‘overview’ category where the reviewer merely describes what is in the book without any critical acumen brought into play.” www.riverstreetwriting.com/blog/2026/3/...
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Say What?: On the Culture of Book Reviewing in Canada — River Street Writing
According to Dreamers Creative Writing Magazine, a periodical currently soliciting online reviews of Canadian books: “it's not really worth your time to write a negative review. What’s the point? It’l...
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
"...technology has jaded people to marvels, making them harder to wow." @economist.com www.economist.com/interactive/...
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How magicians stay relevant in the age of AI
As TikTok dulls the world’s sense of wonder, conjurors are adapting
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Eric Puchner in The Sewanee Review ➡️ thesewaneereview.com/articles/ast...
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
“I yearn for the blueprint, but there is no blueprint. If there were a blueprint, an MFA would be a law degree.” Loved Sidik Fofana’s craft essay “Stumbling Along” in The Sewanee Review ➡️ thesewaneereview.com/articles/stu...
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
“But what comes after finality? Is anything capable of following it?” — Yiyun Li in the @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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“Any Human Heart,” by Yiyun Li
And here sat Maureen, who had no one else to send flowers to as sweet revenge. And here sat Lilian, who had thought that little in life could surprise her anymore.
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Notes on Bed Rest www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Notes on Bed Rest
I spent months limiting my movement, to protect a high-risk pregnancy. How did it change me?
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“If you want to lift a heavy barbell, you can either bench press it or use a forklift. But if you want to build physical strength, you must lift the barbell yourself. Your brain is no different.” Loved this in @thetransmitter.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/from-bench-t...
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Teaching students how to use AI responsibly
Effectively teaching students how to employ AI in their writing assignments requires clear guidelines—and detailed, case-specific examples.
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Shaming myself by posting old essays on substack
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Guitar Tooth
The thought of her disapproval frightens me because it will confirm a newly acquired fear that maybe I have bad taste, that maybe I have nothing interesting to say at all.
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“Sometimes it feels as though I pay my therapist so that I can ask her What does that even mean? over and over again.” Reading excerpted @zoewhittall.bsky.social in Brick. brickmag.com/product/bric...
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Kathleen Keenan’s Solstice in @thenewquarterly.bsky.social is exactly what I needed on this rainy day. “You think that’s just how it works, life providing you with abundance, but it isn’t. Oh, it isn’t at all.” tnq.ca/story/solsti...
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“How much, if at all, can an image be manipulated and still be considered documentation?”
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Steph @msphilp.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
“Her devoted readers seemed to blithely accept that her stories, with their grisly leitmotifs, were the product of a saintly lady who was making it all up, out of empathy.”
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Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis? www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
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