Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
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It's official: my second novel, MUTUAL INTEREST, is out from
@BloomsburyPub
in Feb 2025 and is available for preorder everywhere now! It’s a queer love story set in early-1900s New York. This one is truly a piece of my heart. Thank you for preordering!
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I am a Scholastic employee, so I’m clarifying that it’s my personal opinion when I say: this is a cowardly, demoralizing, and harmful way for Scholastic to use its power in this industry. And sharing this statement—internally too—after COB on a Friday speaks no better of them.
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Unrestrained summer fun: just watched a gull straight-up haul a live shark out of the water.
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As the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books, and as a household name for over 100 years, Scholastic could be using its position to push back and advocate for the children it claims to serve. Instead, we get this. (Again, this is my personal opinion.)
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This is happening simultaneously with several other internal struggles, if folks have the bandwidth to help us hold Management accountable here
TGIF! Real talk: has been uncanny to work through
@Scholastic
’s back-to-school rush while simultaneously fighting for a fair contract. I hope educators using
#Scholastic
products are aware the company is doing everything it can to avoid compensating its
@nyguild
workers fairly.
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Respectfully, I do not trust any NYC resident who says their first bird of the year is anything rarer than a house sparrow, starling, gull, or pigeon. What, do you wear a blindfold until you get to the Ramble? Embrace your habitat!
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I’ve been dropping my various bird pics into this meme format for 10 minutes now and to be honest the actual show has big shoes to fill re: the amount of joy it’s bringing me
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TGIF! Real talk: has been uncanny to work through
@Scholastic
’s back-to-school rush while simultaneously fighting for a fair contract. I hope educators using
#Scholastic
products are aware the company is doing everything it can to avoid compensating its
@nyguild
workers fairly.
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Patience rewarded today by the Wellhouse in Prospect Park--after just enough of a wait to test my faith, four chilly European Goldfinches. This was the first time I'd gone out with such a specific goal, so I'm glad it worked out! Thanks to everyone who signaled their fav hangout.
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My debut novel GLASSWORKS has a gorgeous *cover* by Myunghee Kwon—and you can preorder it now from
@BloomsburyPub
for May 16, 2023! Come spend a century with the Novaks!
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What was the first movie to adapt a source material character’s disfiguring injury into “a cool scar over one eye (but make sure it does NOT affect the eye itself)”
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"I graduated [college] in 1972 with subscriptions from my mother to both Brides magazine and Ms. magazine. That’s why I was unhappy."
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Absolutely could not be more excited to work with Grace McNamee at
@BloomsburyPub
to bring this novel/piece of my heart into the world. Endless thanks to
@dani_bukie
at
@SterlingLordLit
! Holy cow!
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I think for me one of the most striking lessons of
@rokwon
's THE INCENDIARIES is that lyrical, gorgeously image-focused fiction doesn't have to have a sprawling page count—and conversely, that short novels don't have to be small in scope or minimalist at the line level.
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Some chilly denizens of Prospect Park doing their goddamn best.
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Headed to Prospect Park today to take glamour shots of my favorite wood duck pair. This is the best view I've ever had of the female's speculum! (Listen, I know. I didn't name it.)
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So much poignant and hilarious in
@rachsyme
's interview with Rosie O'Donnell. I love this testimonial from a pioneer of stunt casting--emblematic of the whole conversation, both extremely relatable and impossible to imagine living.
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Delight of
#ShipwreckNY
: seeing
@CecilBaldwinIII
make
@happierman
laugh so hard he cried through his superhero mask.
http://t.co/55UODtEbHv
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Had a blast at Baisley Pond Park today, where
@marthaharbison
led a Feminist Bird Club walk for Weird Duck Time. My lifer redheads (!) and lots of other winter friends, including a big raft of clowning ring-necked ducks.
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Beautiful day at the Marine Park Salt Marsh to shake off our post-blizzard cabin fever. The intervening reeds technically make this a
#worstbirdpic
, but I really liked this little guy. Let's just say it adds atmosphere?
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Finally got out there in
@BrooklynBotanic
! Some folks knew their angles better than others (several, not pictured, couldn't even *pretend* to sit still) but I was happy to see everyone.
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I’m loving
@thehighsign
’s CAMERA MAN, a genre-bending Buster Keaton bio/cultural history of “the invention of the 20th Century.” It’s a phenomenal form: biography via contextual immersion, with fascinating tangents on (e.g.) chain pancake-restaurants and mail-order architecture.
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We are starting Glassworks pub day with a review in the NYT, and I am coasting from here!!
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Read
@NifMuhammad
on Bruce & mortality, hearing him "trying to wrestle not only with the song’s current legacy but also with how it might be co-opted decades from now, when he won’t be around to make sure people understand the ache behind the song’s fury."
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Glassworks has been in the world for one month today! Thank you so much to everyone who has picked it up, especially those of you who have reached out to let me know it spoke to you in a way that mattered.
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Got out of town this weekend--Jones Beach & Montauk 💫
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Every year I find so many new books to love on this list. It’s unreal to see Glassworks on it this year. Incredible!! Thank you!!
We are thrilled to announce the longlist for the 2023 First Novel Prize! Congratulations to these 25 debut novelists. Read more about their stories here:
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Hey y'all
@Andy_Karl
's performance in
@Groundhogdaybwy
is the most charismatic and tireless I've ever seen. Go see him.
#ChampionsAdjust
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Spring at the salt marsh! Snowy egret razzle dazzle, willets, and lots of osprey action.
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I'm so beyond thrilled to be working with Grace McNamee and
@BloomsburyPub
on a second novel, THE SYNDICATE. Have you ever wished the classics featured more queer polycules and/or Machiavellian scented candle empires? Let's get weird!
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Honored to be rubbing shoulders with all these stellar folks on the
@granum_fdt
longlist, all of us with our hearts committed to new work in progress. Thank you so much!
We are delighted to announce the longlist for the 2023 Granum Foundation Prize! This year, we received more than 1,100 applications from 49 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., and the standard of work was exceptionally high. Read more: .
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Very special
#TheZoneCast
show last night, ft. surprise guests
@Lin_Manuel
as Taako,
@may_wise
as Magnus, and
@JustinMcElroy
&
@travismcelroy
as digital overlords.
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With inflation at historic levels,
#Scholastic
union members have not received a wage increase since 2021.
@Scholastic
can afford to pay us what we’re worth: cost-of-living raises that actually keep up with inflation, and a $65k minimum salary.
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Okay so I'm projecting but I gotta assume this bumper is a bit of a dream come true,
#greatjob
@Lin_Manuel
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The phoebes are back! Feeling particularly grateful for spring this year. Sapsucker, flicker, and downy got me the closest I've ever been to a
@BrooklynBotanic
woodpecker superfecta in a single visit--maybe next time!
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Cool visitor at Marine Park today: A hybrid (Eurasian x American) wigeon.
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A great day yesterday setting up symbolic fencing for shorebird nests with
@NycPlover
. If you mess with these string lines at Riis or Ft Tilden this summer, you mess with me! 😡
#protecttheplovers
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"The name's Olivia, so let me LIVE."
@Lin_Manuel
in pigtails.
@freestylelove
amazing start to finish. Good lord.
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"What else COULD it be, it's got a yella belly and it's suckin' sap!" Mr. & Mrs. out in Prospect Park today, plus white-throated sparrows at peak floof and the only chickadee I've ever seen sit still for more than half a second.
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I love my job at
#Scholastic
very much! I particularly look forward to doing it under a fair contract and for a fair wage!
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"I'm married to the idea of social and cosmic justice, but my Earth body is married to Dennis." New Judge
@hodgman
:
http://t.co/0YvraIWEhX
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If you are in a union and have the opportunity to sit in and observe bargaining sessions, I highly recommend doing so. It is profoundly illuminating to hear employers say out loud what they really think of their workers. Anyway, looks like it’ll be an interesting fall
#Scholastic
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#TolstoyTogether
3/27. Tag yourself, I’m the officer “who very much wanted to take one more little pie, but was embarrassed, and who therefore pretended to be surveying the area.”
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Maximally chaotic reward for squinting at this shot: they included the Hugo detail that his parents’ names are Jeanne and Jean “Vlajean” Valjean
Nov 18th 1815 - Jean Valjean is released from prison, after serving 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread
#LesMiserables
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Exercising my constitutional right to draw blueberries
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Four equally valid Valentines at Fort Tilden today: flirting buffleheads, independent partner long-tailed ducks, a smirking single eider, and a loon heading up a big weird flotilla.
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I am very proud of the work I do for
@Scholastic
, which makes it especially painful to watch the company be *so* resistant to compensating me and my colleagues fairly. Bargaining this contract has been a stark reminder of the fact that a job cannot love you back.
#Scholastic
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In my experience it is in fact very easy to adapt to the clear, functional use of the singular "they" in daily life. Comments like this only reveal that the person making them has never tried to respect a trans/nonbinary person and can't imagine doing so. Logistics follow love.
"they" will not become a part of general usage, not for political reasons but because there would be no pronoun to distinguish between a singular subject ("they") & a plural subject ("they"). language seeks to communicate w/ clarity, not to obfuscate; that is its purpose.
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#TolstoyTogether
4/21. Before the punchline about the military, this paragraph is a veritable sermon for those of us on lockdown.
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#TolstoyTogether
5/12. I never realized how much Napoleon’s spyglass survey of the battle echoes Natasha’s impression of the Opera in Volume II. Concealed confusion and anxiety in the observation of a staged and terrible chaos.
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I love my colleagues. I love my job. But for too long
@Scholastic
has been counting on those feelings to stand in for fair treatment and a fair wage. Today we walked out.
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I have a new story up this morning at
@Little_Fiction
! It's sort of about living in the city and sort of about living in a subway car at the bottom of the ocean:
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It’s been a helluva few weeks around here, which made coming home to Glassworks galleys an extra-bright bright spot. Preorder for 5/16! 💖
@BloomsburyPub
@SterlingLordLit
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#TolstoyTogether
5/31. Today’s pages resonate with today’s world. Grief, despair, duty. Convalescence after spiritual and physical wounds; the reality that many never recover. And the impossibility of yielding to “perfect” sorrow: “life did not stop, and one had to live.”
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This is my first read of the P&V translation, and I'm finding the endnotes interesting and often very touching: "It was an old custom ... to lay straw over the cobblestones of a street where a person lay gravely ill ... to deaden the noise of carriage wheels."
#TolstoyTogether
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Quite a lovely first day out in the world for Glassworks!! Excited to celebrate at
@greenlightbklyn
(5/17),
@chariscircle
(5/18),
@HarvardBooks
(5/19) 🧡💜🐝💖
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So
#SheRa
was amazing; personal highlights included Mermista's shoes, the extra-hoarse stank Bow's voice actor put on all his screams, and anytime the transformation sequence happened offscreen but we still got the music/lights with the camera on other characters, thank you
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I have been going to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden every Sunday I can since getting a membership for Xmas, and my new favorite genre of conversation to overhear is “children explain science concepts to their parents/guardians”
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I want to tell you 2 things I love about Myunghee Kwon's gorgeous GLASSWORKS cover. One: the book is set in four time periods (1910, 1938, 1986, and 2015), and I love that no matter which of those eras you hold in your mind when looking at this cover, you can find yourself there.
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Legally, you can draw a nuthatch at any time. No one can stop you!
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I have a story in the new
@Salamander_Mag
! It’s about deciding whether and how to give up on a place, a self—how hard it can be to tell the difference between growth and stagnation; setting a boundary and abandoning a loved one. And yes, it is set on the Moon! DIDION! IN! SPACE!
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Part of Austen's genius: there's no story of open-sea gale or Napoleonic battle so harrowing as Anne and Wentworth accidentally ending up alone in a room together.
#APStogether
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@pearlrhein
Too hard to commit to an all-time favorite, but fairly certain this was the *first* time I consciously loved one of these
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#TolstoyTogether
5/30. “two days before, this soldier had burned his shirt while drying it over the campfire, and how everybody had laughed at him.” Again and again, LT pauses in the midst of historically abstract summary & gets infinite mileage out of a single specific detail.
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#TolstoyTogether
3/24. War & Peace strikes me on this read as a book about how performed distress coexists with real distress. One layer: noticing when the characters speak French versus Russian; trying to parse each one's reasons for slipping out of one language into the other.
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It's April, which means we are only one month away from the start of the ✨Glassworks TOUR✨! Mark your calendars! I'll see you in Vermont
@NorthshireBooks
, Brooklyn
@greenlightbklyn
, Cambridge
@HarvardBooks
, and on the ~world wide web~ via
@chariscircle
&
@bcplinfo
!
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Holy cow thank you!
Excited to put a little good news out into the world, difficult as it may be to choose: here are our
@PushcartPrize
nominees for 2020! Best of luck to them.
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This passage on the “clockface of human history” resonates especially on this read—our combination causal-observational role in world events; not the lack of free will exactly but interactions so complex that any given step is inextricable and so feels inevitable
#TolstoyTogether
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I’m so excited to have a story forthcoming in
@Salamander_Mag
this June. It is set literally on the Moon, so this is multiple dreams coming true at once.
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I love Tolstoy’s ongoing obsession with the way the same action can motivated by insecurity or by confidence—and his increasingly pro-insecurity stance, evident by the jerks he assigns to be delegates from calmsville.
#TolstoyTogether
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Decompressing at the end of a truly once-in-a-lifetime week! Thank you to everyone who came out to a Glassworks launch event or picked up a book. I’m so thrilled to have this story out in the world. 🧡💜🐝💖
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#TolstoyTogether
4/29. The opening of Volume III was difficult to read, in our current world. Tolstoy litigates not just one war but all of history: for the descendants, causes will always seem insufficient.
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"These would have been all my friends." Anne's mourning the loss of Wentworth's social circle--kind, unceremonious people both interesting to and interested in her--really lands as a second heartbreak. Perhaps more keen, even if quotidian.
#APStogether
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.
@safe_as_hauses
EVERYONE FAMILY OF ORIGIN IS AVAILABLE WHEREVER BOOKS ARE SOLD WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK 🔥♥️
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It was so much fun to put together this reading list for
@ElectricLit
from one of my favorite subgenres: novels about family businesses (broadly construed).
@elizmccracken
,
@NovicSara
, Ishiguro, Dickens and more!
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#TolstoyTogether
4/17. Oh sweet Pierre, "involuntarily becoming the head of the Petersburg Masons." My greatest wish for him is that he do something, anything, completely on purpose.
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5/13. The clear breakout star of today's passage is the doctor holding his cigar between his thumb and pinkie so it doesn't get bloodstained.
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Drunk William Powell with the rose is incredible; I understand why they cut to him so many times in this scene and I'm honestly impressed they managed to include shots of anyone else
#screwballfall
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Three pages apart. Valjean and Javert are both insane drama queens and in another life could have been very happy together making door-slamming, cape-sweeping entrances to every room.
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Months ago I had an idea for a writing project that would require me to learn (some!) wine theory; now I have sunk more cumulative reading days into it than I care to calculate and I maintain an *exact* 50% suspicion that it is all a scam
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Paging
@TheIneptBirder
, 90% of my photos from today look like one (or both) of these:
#WorstBirdPic
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I've mostly been birding without the camera this summer (lots of scrambly hikes and sand/water)--but still finding a few favorite shots on this rainy day
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So much of this book is Tolstoy expressing profound human truths by taking two cuties and making them fail, yards from the finish line, to kiss.
#TolstoyTogether
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After 50 pages of buildup, the way Austen paces and directs attention during the reunion with Wentworth is so skillfully frustrating--one summarizing run-on sentence, full of semicolons and em dashes. We're with Anne, hustled through what should be a climax.
#APStogether
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#TolstoyTogether
5/26. Another section that feels like a koan written for our current moment--the self-sabotage of returning the city to "normal" and depending on "labor-loving artisans" to work under duress. Pierre finding in captivity the peace that eludes him in free life.
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I have a story in this (gorgeous) issue! Cannot wait to read the rest.
Special delivery! Salamander
#50
is here and will be mailed out soon. The issue is live online, where you can read excerpts and find out more about contributors: . Subscribe now to get this purple beauty sent directly to you!
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As of this afternoon, I have what feels like a complete, coherent outline for something new and novel-length. Cannot wait to start drafting and see all the many, varied ways the wheels will immediately come off this wagon.
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While on a birding, hiking, naturally fractal, covid-strange upstate vacation, I’m unbelievably excited to have signed with
@dani_bukie
at
@SterlingLordLit
. Can’t wait to get to work; glad to have a moment to stop and smell the Daucus carota.
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This lunch scene might loom largest of any in the movie for me…rare roast beef sandwiches! It’s a master class in so many kinds of comedy and evokes all 5 senses. Grant is iceskating backwards obviously, but everyone on screen is nailing their assignment.
#screwballfall
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Today’s (unplanned!) glass adventure at
@NYHistory
: Clara Driscoll haunting some of the lamps she designed to remind you “Tiffany” doesn’t mean Louis; the boys in the back room (girls in the back room numerous but unphotographed); forbidden fragment drawers
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January 1 is such a weird day. More consciously ambitious than I’ll be all year and yet also still in my pajamas at 3:30pm.
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Jeez the transition from polishing a MS for publication to drafting the next one...like going from doing a sibling's wedding makeup to getting drunk with your newest, messiest friends.
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