Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026All editors, consider yourselves pitched Signed, The guy Tom Colicchio said wrote "the only book about the restaurant industry that doesn't make me cringe" 020
Reposted by Samuel AshworthBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Jeff Bezos could’ve done what several other wealthy newspaper owners have done — turn the Post into a nonprofit and provide it a sizable endowment. Instead he did shit like this ⤵️ 191204475
Reposted by Samuel AshworthWashington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The Washington Writers Conference is underway with the "Debut Authors: How They Did It" panel! @dcwriterscon.bsky.social @samuelashworth.bsky.social #booksky 042
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026There are some GREAT substacks. That doesn’t excuse the fact that the platform has plunged literary media into the same winner-take-all landscape you see across all social media 020
Reposted by Samuel Ashworth◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 30/04/2026DC, Maryland, Virginia 1732220310
Reposted by Samuel AshworthDefector @defector.com · 30/04/2026Subscribe to Defector: defector.com/products 22593144
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I need a email autoresponder that says “I am on deadline and and have the executive function of a six year-old please do not send me any emails right now” 130
Reposted by Samuel AshworthSamuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026If you're a writer in the DC area and you're looking for a community, free editorial support, and a quiet place to write, Flor Coffee + Books in Georgetown is launching WRITERS HOURS on Monday mornings. I'll be there as author-in-residence doing free 10-15 minute consultations. Come out! 1144
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I think often of the ending of SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY where the longevity guru/billionaire just kind of slough-melts, and @shteyngart.bsky.social was right about everything else in that book, so, like, your lips to God’s ear, Gary 120
Reposted by Samuel AshworthBarrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Hey we're opening for subs for all genres for the next print issue June 1. Put it in your calendar. Fiction is capped at 500 subs and tends to fill fast. More details soon 15835
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 24/04/2026media.tenor.comtwo men are dancing in a room with a piano .ALT: two men are dancing in a room with a piano . 020
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026'“You have to be more surgical about it than with a lot of other problems,” she said, “unless you’re going to, like, take the computers and chuck them into the sea.” But why not?' GET IN THE SEAnewyorker.comWhat Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?“I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ... 040
Reposted by Samuel AshworthAllison Morrow @amorrow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now 384941777
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 22/04/2026There is a very specific voltage of delight that comes over you when someone finds your book in the wild, reads it, and loves it. Thank you! 051
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Turned on the basketball game and I literally cannot tell what’s happening because of these deranged video game ass rectangles over everyone’s head 100
Reposted by Samuel AshworthMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22/04/2026When someone posts something that looks like this. With airspace between every sentence to emphasize profundity. Even in sentence fragments. Because of concision. Which is the most powerful weapon we have. The likelier it is that you are reading some terrible overshared AI-generated crap. 1628121
Reposted by Samuel AshworthJenny Yacovissi @jbywrites.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Folks - Last call to sign up for the best writing conference in the DMV! Pitch three agents your fiction manuscript or nonfiction proposal, learn from publishing pros, & chat up some of your favorite local authors. @dcwriterscon.bsky.social www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/page/the-202...washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.comThe 2026 Washington Writers Conference | Washington Independent Review of BooksThe Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books. 053
Reposted by Samuel AshworthChristopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 21/04/2026we all know I have no life, so: 41594883394
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026It gives me absolutely no pleasure to say it but the factual answer here is Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man and it’s not close 000
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026This has bugged me for YEARS and I'm glad someone finally took it on!! 0241
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026This is exactly why I don't pitch NY mag: they dangle their writers in front on the internet like pinatas. Editors have a duty of care, and sometimes that means you gently tell a writer, "hey, you're 22, maybe you don't need the entire internet to know this about you." 110
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I hope distant human civilizations treat this like the tablets of Ea-Nasir 020
Reposted by Samuel AshworthHannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Got to celebrate a wonderful book from wonderful @zachpowers.bsky.social last night! Read this book, friends! And give my bud all his 🌸🌺🌼! 163
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 19/04/2026For about a year now I've been fantasizing about an entirely new kind of literary event: exciting, theatrical, and a little bit combative. Yesterday at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference, @writesloud.bsky.social, @poeticmoni.bsky.social, and @zachpowers.bsky.social and I pulled it off. 1114
Reposted by Samuel AshworthJake Varn @jakevarn.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Snagged books by @housleydave.bsky.social , @ericarstern.bsky.social @aaronburch.bsky.social & more from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social. S/o to great craft sessions from @aurorabonner.bsky.social and a Primetime Writers Wrestling Match between @samuelashworth.bsky.social & @writesloud.bsky.social 162
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Can I forthrightly say on main that Christina Koch is the hottest woman I’ve ever seen 010
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I worry I'll never write anything more perfect than the phrase "a roar of fuck-words" www.vice.com/en/article/i... 010
Reposted by Samuel AshworthDave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Writers you are welcome in the back seat of my car! Also tomorrow at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference at American University. Still some tickets left. See you tomorrow everyone! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference 062
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Tomorrow @writesloud.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social, and @poeticmoni.bsky.social and I are trying something new at this conference: a "panel" entirely driven by audience questions, on-stage arguments, props, and a scoreboard. It's going to get rowdy. You want to be there. 053
Reposted by Samuel AshworthDaniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 16/04/2026In case you missed it: first-person video footage of the U.S. Navy Divers Medical Team opening the hatch and entering inside the Orion Integrity capsule to meet the Artemis II heros U.S. Navy Courtesy Asset/ Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One www.dvidshub.net/video/100269... #Artemis 🧪🔭 1203574936
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026“Martin calls to say he’s sending more electrical equipment/That’s good, we can always use some more electrical equipment” God, @themountaingoats.bsky.social knows how to launch a song into orbit I want to hear your favorite mountain goats lines, let me get some pleasure out of this miserable app 020
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Everyone is trying to find a use for this shit that ordinary consumers actually want or will pay for and almost everyone is failing 110
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026I wonder if anyone outside of NW DC is aware that JD Vance‘s current house *directly* faces…the Embassy of the Holy See 000
Reposted by Samuel AshworthJoshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I keep screaming from the rooftops that print news is the future and we better start figuring out what that looks like, and literally no one in the news industry believes me. 541968283
Reposted by Samuel Ashworth Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 14/04/2026WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great 14466241318
Reposted by Samuel AshworthStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 12/04/2026‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Plot That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’ 151913222
Reposted by Samuel AshworthJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Where the grass is [redacted] and the girls are [redacted]. 312792344
Reposted by Samuel AshworthLM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social · 11/04/2026highly recommend! ✔️👍💯 i’ve said it before but sure i’ll say it again—great skeeps, fantastic advice & yeah i got a story pubbed based on feedback from this confab 👇 052
Reposted by Samuel AshworthClive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 10/04/2026hey kids you may want to tune into the NASA livestream for the Artemis 2 mission it's rapidly approaching home and the earth is getting *big* they're set to splashdown at 8:07 pm tonight www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt... 918058
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Both @writesloud.bsky.social and I believe that writers should fight in public loudly and entertainingly. So next Saturday we're DOING IT LIVE at the @barrelhouse.bsky.social Conversations and Connections conference. There may or may not be prizes.barrelhousemag.comBarrelhousing with Hannah Grieco About Writers Wrestling Live, Coming to the Barrelhouse Conference on 4/18/26 — BarrelhouseWe emailed with our friend Hannah Grieco about her session Writing Wrestling Live, coming to the Barrelhouse conference at American University in DC on April 18, 2026. 021
Reposted by Samuel AshworthDave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I interviewed @writesloud.bsky.social about her session at the upcoming @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on April 18 (still spots left!) with @samuelashworth.bsky.social, @poeticmoni.bsky.social, and @zachpowers.bsky.social, WRITERS WRESTLING LIVE! www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/sowhat-...barrelhousemag.comBarrelhousing with Hannah Grieco About Writers Wrestling Live, Coming to the Barrelhouse Conference on 4/18/26 — BarrelhouseWe emailed with our friend Hannah Grieco about her session Writing Wrestling Live, coming to the Barrelhouse conference at American University in DC on April 18, 2026. 175
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 09/04/2026I'm still thinking about this. I don't mean ya gotta hand it to Izzard. The best thing you can say is that it's a colossal feat of memorization, which is why it felt one step up from watching someone recite Pi for 2.5 hours. But from minute 1 it had the stink of a vanity project no one said no to. 010
Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Saw Eddie Izzard do Hamlet tonight. I don’t mean she played Hamlet. I mean she played every single role with no props or costumes. It’s one of the most catastrophic failures I’ve ever seen on a stage. Bad on every conceivable level. Good. Artists should fail more. That‘s what risk means. 020
Reposted by Samuel AshworthLilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 08/04/2026FYI if you use AI to write emails to authors, they'll be indistinguishable from the slop scams we're all getting on a daily basis (and just in general... if you use AI to write me an email I will treat it as I treat all AI—feel a moment of contempt and then ignore it) 0143