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Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some professional news, I'll be the Daniel P.S. Paul Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School this spring semester! Hope to catch up with Boston and Boston-adjacent friends!

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · 18/09/2026

Something you may not know, all our issues since volume 54 are available as high-quality PDFs to read on your tablet or e-ink device, for just a few bucks. If you want to support us, this is a great way...these are terrific magazines at an unbeatable price, and you get them immediately

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

~Neither here nor there: I went to Baylor Law with a guy from Arizona who applied to and enrolled at Baylor because their marketing materials emphasized Dallas so much, even showed the D skyline. He thought Waco:Dallas::Scottsdale:Phoenix. “I got to Dallas and just kept driving and driving and…”

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

45. Two weeks ago. In front of child’s piano instructor. 🙋‍♂️

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Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Thanks for the support, carpet cleaning van

Van that says PRO CHOILE
CARPET CLEANING on the back in traffic

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Gig ‘em and good night!

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Birmingham Poetry Review @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Hey! We’re thiiiiiiiis close to opening up our submission window. That gives you just enough time to print your 5 best poems, shove ‘em in an envelope, and mail them to us! Hit the link for deets! (Yes we know we’re old school; we make a gorgeous journal though!) www.uab.edu/cas/englishp...

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Dallas teams need to think of better ways to make the news.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This weighted vest/rucking fad is out of control. It’s moms, it’s dads. You’d think there was an ordinance. I’m going to put a stop to it.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A park where you’re *not* allowed to fly drones would be lovely. 🦟

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Why doesn’t Nike supply Scheffler with some moister wicking shirts?

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Also, I liked not having to think about what to wear each day. Navy suit, white shirt, boots every day for 12 years.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

When I talk to people deciding between graduate programs, I always tell them to map out what the next five, ten, and twenty years of their life will look like, financially, under each scenario. Money’s not the goal, calmness is, and there are magically more hrs in a week to write when you’re calm.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Interesting! I hated every day of law school, but enjoyed most of my days practicing. I know an MFA would help me in terms of craft/community, but lawyering taught me a lot about story-telling, creativity, and grinding. I’ve flailed (still am!), but I’d make the same choice again.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

More on this tomorrow, but thanks to @bluevilla.org for publishing my story about a place where mercy is in the eye of the holder of the hammer.

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Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

published a lil bit of my forthcoming novel with @houseofvladpress.bsky.social recently you can read it here if you want to - i'm in good company for the summer bummer issue! xo houseofvladpress.com/summer-bummer

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HOUSE OF VLAD PRESS

“The damp dishrag hanging over the edge of the indie lit scene.”

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

“What are the names of children at my daughter’s elementary school?”

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

You should write a book! It’s fun!* *Agonizing, so far.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

“Every middle seat is a networking opportunity.” —ancient Dallas proverb.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I was going to defend Bluebell, then realized I haven’t had it in twenty years despite having enjoyed a lot of ice cream over those decades. SWA is Heineken lager: it’s a marketing scam. You’re blinded by the napkin sketch and the “❤️” and the Shamu plane of yesteryear.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

And goddam flash floods and goddam Uvalde and goddam helplessness. Why are you crying, Daddy? Don’t worry about it, just remember the fucking Alamo.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The $teak! Everyone’s pretending about the $teak! It tastes okay, but never better than a mediocre carne asada at 1/4th the price. But we’re a bad Texan if we admit it’s overrated, as are cowboy hats and the State Fair and Southwest Airlines. WELL I HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT!

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Andrew Belfry @andrewbelfry.com · 26/06/2025

Wife: What's your @mcsweeneys.net piece about? Me: How our daughters can't be whatever they want. Wife: ... Wait, what?

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Lawyers and Law Profs and Bears, oh my…wife is co-presenting on “The Fallacy of Work/Life Balance: How to Thrive, Not Just Survive.” There probably won’t be enough mentions of my badass husband-ness, but there will be CLE credit. t.e2ma.net/click/6kl2mg...

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Baylor University || Online Registration

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

My body is 70% carbonated water.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

“Are you familiar with the parable of the organ grinder’s monkey?” m.youtube.com/watch?v=ABY3...

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Parábola del Mono del Organillero

YouTube video by V1C3N73D

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

So many emails from my kids’ schools.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Our nerdy and artistic sons befriended each other last year in 6th grade. She’s an established novelist who is trying to show me the ways of the long, while I tell her what I know of the short. Quick with an insult and heavy handed with the red pen, which I like.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

“It never pays to overestimate yourself.” —Katherine Heiny, Standard Deviation.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The title is always the first thing I write (helps remind me of voice or the idea), but half the time it changes before I submit it.

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Michelle Young @michelleyoung.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I'm taking over the Harper Collins Instagram account today! Check out the latest there, including an AMA I'm doing all day www.instagram.com/harpercollins/

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I ran into this issue with “Bristol Palin Is a Realtor,” which was originally titled “The Idiot.” I didn’t want to be compared to Dostoevsky, who, in my opinion, can’t pull off a good testicles joke.

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Read Cook @readcook.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

3rd Grade-ass lookin’ signature.