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Ruth Madievsky

@ruthmadievsky.bsky.social
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ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY, a national bestseller & california book award winner | ✍️ The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Cut, etc | HIV & primary care pharmacist linktr.ee/ruthmadievsky

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Robert Welbourn @robertwelbourn.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Second read complete: this book is absolutely incredible. A rumination on trauma, identity, histories both shared and at odds, sisterhood, family, and so much more. @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social has weaved a tale that's as hilarious as it is devastating. A masterpiece.
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Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfwyld.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🌈📚 📖 All-Night Pharmacy by @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social an intoxicating portrait of a young woman consumed with unease over how a person should be Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #lgbtqia #bi
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All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
heated rivalry is the thing that will finally get them to release the dsm 6
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Liz DeGregorio @lizdegregorio.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It’s my third annual favorite books list! This includes newer titles by @brosandprose.bsky.social @melissafebos.bsky.social and @michelletea.bsky.social as well as books by @reelindian.bsky.social and @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social ENJOY! 📚 💜 🌈 🤓 medium.com/@lizdegregor... #literature #readinglist
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Memoir and Poetry and Fiction, Oh My: The Best Books I Read in 2025
Hyeseung Song, Michelle Tea, Alex Dimitrov, Sarah Chihaya and Melissa Febos all had amazing books published this year.
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"I was good at coming up with snappy sentences too weak to hold up an actual plot" is a line I just wrote in my novel draft that's hitting a little too close to home
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
“a witness to history” is cracking me up. like she remembers the cuban missile crisis www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
when you try to look cute for work and your toddler hits you with a “what’s that mommy”
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
every amazon brand is called XITZ or POOSY
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
A Denis Johnson thought I have every day, looking around at the world we have and wishing for the one I thought we were going to make: "That world! These days it’s all been erased and they’ve rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?"
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
You can now search for your books to know if they qualify for the Anthropic settlement. As I suspected, the book I published in 2015 counts, and the one from 2025 that was stolen before it had been published does not. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.
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When Adoption Promises Are Broken
Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.
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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I'm going on tour with BEINGS this week, and I'm very nervous and also excited! Here's the rundown - if you live in these cities or know someone who does, please come/tell them to come??? Philly - Mon, 9/29 Washington, DC - Tues, 9/30 NYC - Wed, 10/1 Providence - Thurs, 10/2 Boston - Fri, 10/3
BEINGS tour poster with the info:

Wednesday, September 24 / Los Angeles, CA / Skylight Books

Monday, September 29 / Philadelphia, PA / Head House Books

Tuesday, September 30 / Washington, DC / Loyalty Bookstore

Wednesday, October 1 / New York, NY / The Strand Bookstore

Thursday, October 2 / Providence, RI / Riffraff Bookstore and Bar

Friday, October 3 / Cambridge, MA / Porter Square Books

Thursday, October 9 / Bronxville, NY / Sarah Lawrence College

Saturday, October 11 / Tarzana, CA / Sunny’s Bookshop

Wednesday, November 12 / Lincoln, NE / Francie & Finch Bookshop
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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
To write about sales track is, essentially, to write about everything—career longevity, creative pressure, labor issues, capital, and what winds up on readers' bookshelves:
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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
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The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
“Seventeen, flirting with drunk boys when their girlfriends went home. Their beautiful fifteen-year-old girlfriends, their chemically straightened hair, their white designer jeans.” @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social, “In High School [We all knew...]” @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2020/04/27/n...
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National Poetry Month Day 27: Ruth Madievsky - The Rumpus
We celebrate National Poetry Month with new poems daily, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
my dad is heartbroken because someone snatched the toy stomach he got my toddler at a medical conference
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I couldddd work on my next novel or I could online shop for more toddler light up sneakers. I feel like I know how this is going to play out
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
can we all free ourselves of the delusion that we will ever make our toddlers beet waffles. who am I saving these videos for
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🏳️‍🌈MxRMax🏳️‍⚧️ @mxrmax.me · 11/08/2025
“You can’t reach a mutual understanding without spilling blood.” Excerpt From All-Night Pharmacy @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social This book is a near-life experience #queersky 🌈 #booksky 📚 #bibabesbookclub
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All-Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky
Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commi...
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
going on book tour (taking my toddler to the library)
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
you can distract a wife with interesting cheeses
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
join me & legendary boyslut zachary zane for a scandalous zoom book club about ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY tomorrow 8/7 at 6 PT 👀
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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
the PBS / NPR stations are asking for your fiscal support. if you do not have that to give, advocate for their survival instead of dreaming of their premature defeat.
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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is my first started review ever. Feels nice. www.booklistonline.com/products/981...
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
love catching my toddler’s first words of the day. today it was “water bottle right there” like ok observational poet
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
every animal that boarded noah’s ark is in my toddler’s bed
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
ok but has anyone actually proven that compulsively checking your email won’t manifest the response you want
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Whenever I thumbs up a message I feel like a boomer responding to the news that his first grandchild was born
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
has a printer ever worked
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
cleaned the floors this morning and they already look like penn station
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
best surprise: ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY is the first ever pick for allstora’s new bi babes book club!!! for literally $1 (?!?!) for the 1st month, you can join the club to get your copy. zachary zane & I will be doing a juicy q&a for subscribers soon 👀
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
jacaranda pervs know now is THE time to visit LA
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
can’t write until i’ve saved 12 recipes i’ll never make
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
sometimes ya gotta wonder if a writer became a less shrewd critic or if you became a more discerning reader
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
the prophecy has been fulfilled 🔮🙏
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
i’m “anytime i’m doing something cool in a dream I think wait who’s watching my kid” years old
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
sleep skirts? please be for real
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
at this point in my life, the drug I wish I could use endlessly with no consequences is afrin
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
if I was a pronatalist obsessive I probably wouldn’t make my car company’s logo an iud
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
love spending saturday night at the movies (listening to my toddler recount the whole day to herself over the baby monitor for 40 minutes)
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
wish I loved anything as much as instagram loves feeding me content from moms who can pump off 10 oz of milk per boob (congrats tho)
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Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Wishing the happiest pub day to @todd-milo.bsky.social's THE LILAC PEOPLE! ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ ⭐ "Exhaustively researched, gorgeously crafted and presciently timed" — @latimes.com ⭐ "A beautiful, necessary story." — @post-gazette.com ⭐ "Wholly unique and original." — @bostonglobe.com
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
“A Los Angeles fever dream that crackles with an energy of transformation & rebirth…” #ExpoReview’s Rebecca Luxton #ExpoRecommends @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social’s ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY. Get it our @bookshop.org & find more #Spring reading recommendations tinyurl.com/SpringReco. @catapultbooks.bsky.social
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
passport office needs to know my toddler’s occupation. idk the love of my life?
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Wolf & Wyld's Queer Bookstore @wolfwyld.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🌈📚 📖 All-Night Pharmacy by @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social an intoxicating portrait of a young woman consumed with unease over how a person should be Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #lgbtqia #bi
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All-Night Pharmacy: A Novel
A Novel
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
toddler loves chappell roan because she thinks good luck babe is about babies getting shots
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
a guy I know from writing stuff came up to me last night as I was talking to another writer and I opened my mouth to say “hey! do you guys know each other?” before remembering they’re literally husband and wife. in case you’re wondering whether mom brain is terminal
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
rooster just crowed at the auto parts shop in echo park right next to where i’m doing a reading. LA is so back
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Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
tonight in LA!
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