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reporter | writer | producer/host @podcastmicro | New Orleans vs. all y’all | holler: drew @gulfstatesnewsroom .org | (205) 957-3285
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SOME NEWS: I’m writing a novel! This is a small moment from the work-in-progress. I’d love it if you read it.
Huge thanks to
@misternagel
for accepting it and to
@havehadhavehad
for publishing.
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damn if only there were another letter the state looked like
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UPDATE: many of those arrested are being charged with “Hate Crime on Law Enforcement” per NOPD
The two groups have clashed and the police have arrested a bunch of people and cleared the park
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Yes I’m a writer. No I don’t have a book coming out.
WE EXIST
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HAPPENING NOW: protesters have occupied Jackson square park. The gates are locked shut and police are present. Balloons and letters from a proposal earlier are now separating the two lines.
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Did it hurt? When your mayor called you resilient because you won’t have power for 3 weeks
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gardening is wild. I never had beef with a caterpillar before
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in south louisiana, when the weather gets cool enough, the gumbo pot light comes on
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Question for writers! what the hell is wrong with you?
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you can’t talk to me like that. i run an online literary magazine
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A couple of weeks ago, I read something about the benefits of a daily nap. So I’ve started taking a 15-20 minute nap every day and here are some of what’s happened.
🧵:
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The two groups have clashed and the police have arrested a bunch of people and cleared the park
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An honest question for writers: what the hell is wrong with you?
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this will be what gets Louisiana to address climate change
Louisiana boiled crawfish prices sit at almost $13 per pound
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Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Attack while they're distracted
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an offering has been made. may we all live mas in 2024
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HAPPENING NOW: Jewish groups holding a Seder on Poydras, condemning the genocide in Gaza, refusing to drink or feast in solidarity with the millions starving in Gaza.
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For
@antigravitymag
’s End of the Year issue, here’s my thread of
@mayorcantrell
’s Top 5 Travel Tips!
🧵:
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You either die a hero or live long enough for NOLA History Guy to call you a racist
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Saw this on Facebook and was so happy to see
@christylorio
’s thoughts and words still making people smile. We miss you ❤️
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Last week,
@SenJohnKennedy
’s racist comments about Mexicans drew international attention. The former-Democrat from Louisiana’s accent has been the subject of ridicule and debate, but is it genuine? I put together a little explainer for
@guardian
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Seems a good time to remind people that after Hurricane Ida,
@StormyDaniels
stayed and started up a rag-tag mutual aid group, using her name and resources to raise money and feed people in New Orleans. Very cool to interview her for
@antigravitymag
.
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the best kind of writing to me is the kind that makes me want to write
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holy shit y’all.
NEW: This summer, we reported on the contents of a controversial database used to train generative AI products from Meta, Bloomberg, and others. Many people requested an ability to search it. Today,
@_alexreisner
delivers.
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Oh no big deal just found out I won an Edward R. Murrow award on my birthday
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Reason for withdrawal? I read it again and it’s just not very good I’m sorry
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suspending the "Students for a Democratic Society" and saying most protestors were not affiliated with the university, but then suspending students of your university because they were part of the protest is certainly something!
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Just lost 69,420 followers. Anybody else losing followers?
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you’re laughing. people are traumatized by third person and you’re laughing
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yeah i got an MFA
Mutha
Fuckin
Absolutely no idea what i'm doing
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Some news! Excited to announce that I’m joining the NPR team in the Gulf States Newsroom as a reporter covering health equity! Very excited for this opportunity, and can’t wait to get to work telling impactful stories from the Gulf Coast (always looking, DMs open)
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@lorenaoneil
@KateLStorey
@VanityFair
'Lambert is a soft-spoken, bearded 34-year-old who grew up in the small town of Orcutt in Santa Barbara County, California, where he was voted “Most Bashful” in junior high school.' This piece is a master class in economically setting a scene. Great stuff!
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This morning, I finished the first draft of my first novel. 75,000 words -- some of them pretty good! What a crazy feeling.
SOME NEWS: I’m writing a novel! This is a small moment from the work-in-progress. I’d love it if you read it.
Huge thanks to
@misternagel
for accepting it and to
@havehadhavehad
for publishing.
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, some residents who stayed behind like,
@StormyDaniels
and
@jordaneworleans
, formed mutual aid groups that provided critical supplies to residents. Read about their incredible work in my latest for
@antigravitymag
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If you’ve been wondering what the truth is behind the
@faubourgbeer
announcement that they would be stopping production at the New Orleans facility, here’s a brief video explainer, along with a link to the full article I did for
@antigravitymag
&
@IlluminatorLA
.
@WAdrewhawkins
separates fact from fiction in the story of Faubourg Brewing and private equity, published in partnership with
@IlluminatorLA
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my daughter’s 5th grade class has a “classroom economy” where they have jobs and earn fake money for activities and stuff.
They haven’t gotten paid in a month so she’s organizing a strike.
I have never been more proud.
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look buddy. the freckles in our eyes are mirror images. ok? and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned. alright?
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Stephen, a corn and soybean farmer in Franklin, Louisiana, described this year’s crop as “catastrophic.”
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Question for writers: when you’ve got a piece finished, do you blast it out to any journal that *might* be interested or do you send it to 1 or 2 that you think it’s perfect for?
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school’s closed so it’s take-your-daughter-to-work day
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I was a freshman at LSU when I got Dayna. I very much did not have my shit together. But she was always there, through every high and low.
When I went back for my master’s, she would sleep at my feet while I worked.
Today, she’s still at my feet as I defend my thesis.
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Have a new fiction piece out today in
@havehadhavehad
This story was inspired by bedtime and the never ending questions from my five-year-old that in the moment seem never ending, but when they’re gone, I’ll wish were never ending.
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somewhere there’s a microbrewery making an absurdly disgusting IPA called hoppenheimer and there’s nothing anyone can do about it
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Good morning! Six years ago today, it was a Wednesday, it was raining, and
@dyl_evers
and I woke up and decided to skip work and get married. The secretaries were our witnesses and the judge played church bells with a remote control and it was perfect. Happy anniversary, my love.
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this is the kind of shit that makes indie lit so much fun. none of us are getting paid. we're all ripping open our hearts banging out 50-word earnest death screeches while we're on the clock at work and none of this will matter soon but nothing ever did and yet we screech
Oh my god,
@Aaron__Burch
are you going to skull all these
@DanTheDadBodGod
style pieces?
I’m over here crying on the TL and you’re not even skulling!
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I don’t care, I’m saying it: cicadas are dumb. Anybody can sleep for 17 years get a job
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something about today just feels acceptance-y, doesn't it? it does. i'm manifesting it. for me and all y'all. we're all getting acceptances today.
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Dropping unvaxxed 8 y.o. off at school and she says, “Dad I don’t want to do this.”
What I wanted to say was, “Me neither, sweetheart. Let’s go get donuts instead.”
What I really said was, “Everything is going to be okay, sweetheart.”
You know, like a liar.
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plz stop liking and sharing this tweet i'm trying to write fiction
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tell me a story
seven years ago. we woke up and decided to get married. today we woke up, got two kids to school, fed the dogs, got some coffee and a poem. happy anniversary my love!
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tell me you ain’t read it without telling me you ain’t read it !
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Friday fiction acceptance from
@thecitronreview
? Uh, yes please! First acceptance of the year and my submission queue is officially empty.
2022 LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO
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Full disclosure: I reached out to
@AccidentalCajun
thinking he might be good for this story and he immediately said “nah bruh you need to talk to my friend Bunny” and he couldn’t have been more right. That’s centering the right voices right there
I’m proud of my friend Bunny Young and grateful to
@WAdrewhawkins
for using her in his story.
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the problem with writers today is they never crumple up bad drafts and toss them into a waste bin with a little basketball goal over it smh
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Super excited to announce that our little lit podcast has joined the
@lithub
family and will be added to
@lithubradio
’s stellar programming!
The rumors are true! Micro’s fairy godmothers
@lithub
@lithubradio
are granting our podcast wishes 💖🤩✨
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I passed
I was a freshman at LSU when I got Dayna. I very much did not have my shit together. But she was always there, through every high and low.
When I went back for my master’s, she would sleep at my feet while I worked.
Today, she’s still at my feet as I defend my thesis.
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Starting a lit mag that instantly rejects your submission
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In February 2022,
@laFemmeArsene
resigned from
@MusiCNOLALIVE
because of a number of organizational problems, including "intentional targeting of employees of color" and "plantation politics." I spoke to former staff and the founder for
@scalawagmag
🧵
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first day of the semester and someone asks "do our papers need to be AP style?" prof says "i don't give a shit." already my favorite class
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Anne Rice was a real one. Super nice. Knew how to party. Supportive of young writers in the city. Inspiring to so many more. What more could a writer hope for? Rest well, Queen.
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I’ve been taking Spanish lessons for a few months and today I’m gonna take my daughter (who is fluent from going to immersion school since K-5) to a Mexican restaurant and we’re gonna order in only Spanish. Wish me luck! I’m nervous!
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Small clip from my interview with
@StormyDaniels
for
@antigravitymag
. Go read about a few of the mutual aid groups that stepped up when public officials failed to adequately care of the people of New Orleans after Hurricane Ida
Here’s the link:
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“saw you at the parade last night!”
what I saw at the parade:
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alas, I did not make the recent
@havehadhavehad
cut, BUT, I did finish (or at least work on lol) a piece I may have not otherwise found the time for. That’s the magic of HAD for me
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Today’s my birthday and I’d love it if you dropped a link to a story that you love. Could be yours, someone else’s, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism, bathroom stall, the back of a napkin, whatever—send me something that moves you.
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in South Louisiana we don’t say I love you, we say do you need any ice, and I think that’s really beautiful
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how does every tiny new bit of information make it just exponentially worse??
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For a small fee, I will go to your enemy’s writing workshop and say, “is this supposed to be YA?”
For a small fee, I will go to your enemy’s writing workshop and say, “this feels like it wants to be two poems”
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Writers! If you have a book coming out in 2023 keep that shit to yourself
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Today we’re at a motel in Demopolis, Alabama for an NPR story on rural healthcare access, and we got 2,069 words on the novel.
and we crossed 42k total!!
SOME NEWS: I’m writing a novel! This is a small moment from the work-in-progress. I’d love it if you read it.
Huge thanks to
@misternagel
for accepting it and to
@havehadhavehad
for publishing.
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nostalgia is reaching beneath the sofa all the way back to the wall with the end of the vacuum cleaner hose and snagging a ball of fluff that isn’t fluff but the last, final threads of fur from a dog you suddenly realize you haven’t cried about in a while
keep thinking about how this works as a kinda fun prompt (itself borne out of an "eskimo have 50 words for snow, feel like Americans should have 50 words for nostalgia" tweet "prompt" from me (Aaron))
write your own "50 words for nostalgia" and we'll RT them?
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I made sure I sat next to her in an American Lit course. Had a huge crush. When we later were in the same novel writing class together,
@thejsdavis
put us in the same group and we spent a semester writing together and reading and critiquing each other’s work.
Couples… don’t all speak at once but… how did you meet your other half?
Indulge me I’m a romantic!
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It’s career day at my kid school and my son’s best friends dad works for a food distribution company and brought snacks. Okay Zach, gauntlet thrown. I’m putting the kids on All Things Considered
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