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Rachel Wright

@rachelwrighting.com
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Writer and editor. Into art, Earth, and diversity. ADHD superstar. Music fan. Purveyor of female rage. Free Palestine. Fuck ICE. I mostly post about books and music.

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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 18/06/2026
From With My Back to the World by @victoriachang.bsky.social
Untitled #5, 1998
When Agnes came on screen, I thought of all the canvases that still hold her gaze. Maybe a painting is an accumulation
of our gazes and why they sometimes seem human. When I look at the pastel bands, the painting collects my seeing and
sends back a dead person's feelings. I am surprised when the feelings don't feel outdated. Agnes said an artist needs to be
alone. What if I've spent my whole life wanting to be seen?
In that way, I've wanted to be the painting, not the painter.
But I am the painter. Even now, I walk outside at night just so the sky can see me one more time. Stéphane Mallarmé once
wrote: Paint not the thing, but the effect it produces. I have wanted the sky all along, but my wanting was misplaced. I lift
my hand into the air and feel something grabbing my wrist.
But it's not the sky, it's the beauty of the sky.
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 27/05/2026
I had the great honor and challenge of copy editing this report, which my father (a research librarian and my personal hero) contributed to. It’s a meticulous, empirical case for reparations in Fulton County. I can’t wait for y’all to see it!
Flyer advertising a town hall meeting at 6 pm on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 at the Auburn Ave Research Library to discuss the Fulton County Reparations Task Force’s Reparations Harm Report; a QR code links to an RSVP website.
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 13/01/2026
Happy Pub Day to Bianca Stone’s new collection, The Near and Distant World! @tinhouse.bsky.social I loved this collection’s questions about the meaning and purpose of both life and art given the state of the world. Some poems express despair, some transcendence, but all are filled with empathy.
Cover of Bianca Stone’s poetry collection The Near and Distant World
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 17/12/2025
Another great mail day from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social. This book is sooooo up my alley, and the design is gorgeous. I can’t wait to read!
Advance copy of Yah Yah Sholfield’s book On Sundays She Picked Flowers, featuring a young black girl peeking out from a lush garden.
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 13/12/2025
How gorgeous is the cover of this poetry collection from @tinhouse.bsky.social, y’all? Gonna dive in by the fire this weekend.
Cover of poetry collection Maybe the Body by Asa Drake, featuring a live rabbit inside a bell jar, while a snake slithers around outside. A pair of pink roses is in the foreground.
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 26/11/2025
Look what came in the mail today! Can’t wait to dive in tonight!
An advance copy of The Near and Distant World, a poetry collection by Bianca Stone
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 08/08/2025
Good mail day! Can’t wait to read this Atlanta-set novel by Nic Stone and tell y’all about it! @simonandschuster.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Boom-T...
An advance copy of Boom Town by Nic Stone
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 06/05/2025
One of my favorite things about this time of year is that I can work outside. The words flowed easily this morning and I am so happy.
Blue sky and green canopyBlack dog resting on deckBrown dog looking out from deck
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 01/05/2025
Butterfly!
A blue and orange butterfly spreads its wings on some ivy
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 03/04/2025
Good morning snooze going on for our handsome gentleman.
Elderly Malinois dog sleeping with his nose on the carpet.
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 18/03/2025
Working on an article about Flannery O’Connor (keep your eyes peeled!) and came across this timely gem from Mystery & Manners.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 15/03/2025
Sitting on Flannery O’Connor’s porch outside her bedroom window at Andalusia Farm.
Selfie in a rocking chair
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 02/03/2025
Sunday brunch!
Fancy cappuccino and poppy in a vase
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 26/02/2025
One nice thing about living in Georgia is you can pretty much always expect the daffodils to start blooming before March.
Several daffodils blooming in a patch of dead leaves.
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 16/02/2025
Besties and I went to @highmuseumofart.bsky.social today and were blown away by this portrait in oils. Incredible artistry.
Incredibly photorealistic oil painting of a Rwandan man, a friend of the artist. 

Papay Solomon, 
“Portrait of Benjamin Gasinga Gaspard”
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 16/01/2025
Checked out I Was a Teenage Slasher by @sgj.bsky.social from my library yesterday, and man, is it a wild ride so far. I’m a big fan of his work and this one does not disappoint.
Cover of I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones, depicting a hoodied person whose face is in shadow.
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 10/01/2025
You guys. It snowed. I am so happy. And so is Murphy. (Lulu could take it or leave it.)
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 14/12/2024
Just finished A Botanical Daughter by @noahmedlock.bsky.social and holy fuck, I loved this book. It’s bizarre and grotesque and gorgeous. Sort of a queer cross between Frankenstein and Little Shop of Horrors. and beautiful. Highly recommend.
Cover of A Botanical Daughter by Noah Medlock: a woman’s face in profile with lush plants growing on it and a skull tucked in
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 13/12/2024
Happy Tay Day to all who celebrate. 2024 would’ve been much darker for me without her.
Taylor Swift in all her sparkling glory
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 12/12/2024
Murphy wants everyone to know that he has a tennis ball. You can’t touch it, but you can look at it in awe and jealousy.
Extremely handsome and dapper elderly malinois dog with a tennis ball in his mouth.
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 10/12/2024
Finished this book over the weekend. It was lovely and sad and haunting and the characters were so vividly written. I very much recommend.
The cover of A Good House for Children by Kate Collins

The front door of an ivy-covered house
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 04/12/2024
I listened for 75,446 minutes in 2024. What about you? #SpotifyWrapped
Spotify wrapped

Top artists 
Taylor Swift
Beyoncé 
Remi Wolf
Chappell Roan
Sabrina Carpenter 

Top Songs
Cinderella 
Bejeweled 
My Kink Is Karma
Motorcycle 
Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 02/12/2024
Image of skeleton at a computer, surrounded by papers, text reads:

For the last time:
Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into

Please stop screaming into the abyss; we are not insured for that
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 23/11/2024
Current read. This is my first @tananarivedue.bsky.social and I’m so loving it. I can’t wait to dive into more of her work. Checked out the audiobook from my library; after writing and editing all day, I just don’t have the focus left to read for pleasure. Thankfully this reader is fantastic.
Image of the cover of The Good House by Tananarive Due: a front door opening, light pouring in, and a staircase in shadow. This is the audiobook cover, narrated by Robin Miles.
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Rachel Wright @rachelwrighting.com · 16/11/2024
So far, the part of my brain that believes in science has not been eaten by parasitic worms, so I got vaccinated today.
Selfie with vaccine band-aids
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