Emma Copley Eisenberg
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writer 💙 debut novel HOUSEMATES ( @hogarthbooks May 28, 2024) 💙 free Palestine 💙 co-founder @bluestoopphl
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At the dim sum place last night, straight couple on a date. Guy says, “I think The Social Network is truly my favorite movie of all time.”
Girl gets up and walks out
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Every time I meet an amazing woman’s mediocre bf a part of my soul dies
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"In my mind I responded to your email but in fact I did not"
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As I child I desperately wanted a canopy bed, it was the symbol of all the childhood things I wanted. What was yrs?
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As a child I would play Oregon Trail and name the characters after kids who were bullying me at school and set it to "No rations, grueling pace!" and it would be like "Nina has been bitten by a snake" and I would be like, onward bitches, ford the river!!!
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My kink is calling older white men with doctorates by their first names
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Your daily reminder that nonfiction books are not fact checked unless the author pays for them to be. Publishing houses do not hire or pay for fact checkers!!!!
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An important thing to remember when we talk about forgiveness, Ursula LeGuin reminds us, is that some things are unforgivable
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This is your monthly reminder that most nonfiction books are not fact checked
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When the Law & Order detectives come to talk to you, what urgent side activity will you be doing?
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people say queer women hate men but straight women hate them so much MORE
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For
@esquire
I wrote about the state of fact checking nonfiction books & how we (writers, readers, editors, agents) should all care that it's a deeply unstable and unregulated process with no industry standards IF it happens at all (thread)
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OK here it is. I wrote about what the wildly popular Instagram account QUEER APPALACHIA. What it is, and what it is not. Where does the money they raise really go?
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How many jobs do I have to do and how many do I have to do well before I can just have one job
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Normalize telling your students you’re an adjunct and what that means
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I wish we talked more about that every piece of reported journalism is an iceberg with what’s published being the tiny piece above the water and everything that got cut or couldn’t be legally proved floating below. Every piece has an enormous, bigger ghost truth we’ll never read
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I do not like these chairs. My ass does not fit in them. Please to stop putting them everywhere
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I want to be good at baths but am just not good at them. Get in, I’m bored and too hot
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Still not enough people know about Grace Paley and her work, despite her books nominated for the Pulitzer & NBA & her organizing work against the Vietnam war, for race & gender equality, and for a fair wage inside academic institutions being a blueprint for today. So, a thread:
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What’s the biggest RED FLAG you’ve pressed snooze on?
I once found out the guy i was dating read Freud everyday and then…kept dating him 👻👻
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so writing a book is like running right up to the edge of the thing and always feeling like you could get a little closer to the thing if only you had 10 more years to keep working on it?
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I do not understand the insistence on the word "panties" when "underwear" will do just fine
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It's ok to call me professor // thrilled to say I've accepted an offer to be a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching fiction & nonfiction at
@wesleyan_u
for 2022/2023 <3 <3
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Joyfriend ==> life friend
We ate banh mi, read some Audre Lorde & made a promise to be together a very long time
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what else is the American dream if not to sacrifice everything to raise a child who will publish essays about how you fucked them up in prestigious literary magazines that no one reads
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“You must always have a bottle of chilled champagne in the fridge—highest quality you can afford—in case something good happens” — my Dad
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The Third Rainbow Girl comes out today. She is out in the world now living her life! I wish her way more than luck ⚡️⚡️
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UPS just showed up at the last possible moment with my finished hardcovers, a Christmakuh miracle that suits this whole glittery sad joyful mess of a project that’s eaten my whole heart for 8 years ✨✨ I wrote a book ✨✨
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May I humbly suggest: coffee ice cream in your coffee
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Writing for the future is hope // thrilled to get to write two more books & for
@HogarthBooks
& with the wonderful Alexis Washam 💘
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Something I think about a lot is that I wrote a story in my MFA in which a guy initiates sex with his gf by going down on her and all the men in the room said they did not believe it, his character as a man and that a man would do this was not believable
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I didn’t get to meet
@thegoodcatboy
but i got to meet his lovely mom
@ellenfromnowon
and talk the big questions & stare at his likeness. it was really grand 💖
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One of my least favorite things is the framing of ice cream as "indulgent" or "decadent." It's a food, and it has high fat content like many other foods. That's it
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Publishing has a fatness problem! I broke it down over at
@newrepublic
!! Tysm
@lmlauramarsh
for the wonderful edits
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Appropriately, I’m crying outside a 10/10 moo ice cream place. Thank you
@nytimesbooks
for this generous, probing review of The Third Rainbow Girl ✨✨✨
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it's incredible how I can be the annoying COVID paranoid friend in one friend group and the irresponsible party pal in another
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why are all literary readings not ICE CREAM SOCIALS
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The only person I can ever imagine walking me down an aisle/“giving me away” is my therapist
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Love of our lives, Archie, died today. He was almost 20 years old, fit as a fiddle, just curled up and died. He was so loved. May there be a fire & snacks in the great beyond my friend ✨✨✨✨
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I forgot how hanging out with people makes you temporarily forget your problems
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There's a special place in hell for young boomer/old gen X white women who insist on making life for millennial women as shitty as it was for them
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I am buying my first ever queen bed because I am worth it & my partner has moved in & it feels like the true end/beginning of something
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I'm thrilled to finally get to reveal the cover for HOUSEMATES over on
@ElectricLit
. It's the joyful Philly roadtrip lonely jacket of my dreams! xxx
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How does a “person” be a “writer” and also “clean” their house in the same month asking for me
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When I was at
#UVA
in MFA program, professor John Casey sexually harassed me & other female students: touching inappropriately at social functions, sexually-inappropriate comments, referred to women as "cunts," passed us over in class & thesis advising. Complaint filed today
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It’s my 32nd birthday and I have pals & am working on projects that scare me & I am alive & it feels pretty good ✨✨✨✨✨✨
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One thing I wish I had realized earlier is that when a writer reads from their new book, the “I” they read references a self at least three selves ago
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Growing up as a plump brunette Jew child in nyc I felt Jessica Simpson was the literal opposite of me in every way so listening to
@yourewrongabout
‘s tender portrait of her humanity is the ultimate gorgeous mind fuck
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In light of ye old gross Meghan Daum essay on Appalachia may I humbly suggest you follow these amazing thinkers and writers from the region:
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This week is the 35th anniversary of the day the Philadelphia police department dropped a bomb on a block of row homes killing 11 citizens, also known as the MOVE bombing. This piece by
@GeeDee215
@NPRCodeSwitch
is my favorite
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A piece i have been working on for about two years and which has literally almost made me quit writing comes out on Monday — 📺
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still remember when
@Remember_Sarah
played me a rough cut of one of the first ever episodes of
@yourewrongabout
as we drove north into canada and was like "is it any good?" and I was like "GOLD" <3 love you my brilliant friend
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In my MFA, one of my male colleagues called me a dyke & then told me I could not be gay b/c he wanted me. I wrote a queer af short story
@LAReviewofBooks
inspired by it. And to that guy, wherever you are, this one’s for you 🖕🏻
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I used to come here with my sister when she was in college and I was a sad teen. This means everything to me
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REJOICING my story of a little fat girl & a fat babes pool party in
@VQR
has won a PUSHCART PRIZE 💦 many many thanks to
@reyes_edits
🍾
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“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.” —Rebecca Solnit
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I am simply stunned by this starred review of HOUSEMATES!!! "Emotionally rich and quietly thought-provoking, this is simply a stunning debut."
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Eeee I shall be a Breadloaf fellow in nonfiction this summer! Working with
@melissafebos
@Paul_Lisicky
or Mitchell Jackson who can sayyy what a fun lottery
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If you’re a black creative writer looking to write reported journalism for the first time I will do a one hour consult on how to launch & place your project for free ⚡️⚡️ we need reported pieces holding people & companies accountable in this moment written by black creatives
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Reporting is just calling people on the phone and writing down what they say pass it on
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These are the books I read all the way through in 2020. There’s only 27 of them and I feel some shame about that. Often it was a struggle to read at all. But each one woke me up in some way 💌
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If you'd like to talk about sexual harassment in MFA/graduate programs or at conferences, Nell Gluckman at the Chronicle of Higher Education is interested in speaking with you. Her email is nell.gluckman
@chronicle
.com
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Trailmix is just a obstacle-filled hunt for chocolate, I don't make the rules
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I would just like to say
That AWP will be in Philly next year
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for
@phillymag
I wrote about my *in process* journey to being chill about being a fat person in not many clothes in public -- plus the magic of fat swimming <3
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Helping my mom separate keep from throw away in the parental garage & we have come to the juncture of My AMERICAN GIRL DOLLs please send prayers
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Thanks to
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I now know that SHALLOW HAL was made by the same director who made GREEN BOOK
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Today’s gender is LITTLE COTTONTAIL a small brown country frump who everyone told would never be an Easter bunny
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OK I did it! 68K word baby novel with wobbly legs sent to my editor! Back to this joyful trashfire website
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Something I think about a lot is that part in Pretty Woman where Rich Gere realizes he doesn’t make anything or build anything and then he fixes that
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.
@alexanderchee
says that every time you go into a bookstore to put your finger where your book will one day be—so I did
@booksaremagicbk
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🌿 In which i wrestle with ethical non monogamy 🌸 I felt like most things on the internet veered between ridiculous dismissals and goey proselytizing so I wrote what I would have wanted to read 🌿
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The Third Rainbow Girl is out in paperback today 💙 it’s been a gorgeous and terrible 1 year since she came out 💙 I am chock full of gratitude for every note & reader & call in & hole & feeling of recognition & every time I see her creased on a bedside floor
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make that a THIRD!!!!!!!!!!!
HOUSEMATES 🏡💕 is going into a second printing!!!! Thank you to all the booksellers, readers, reviewers, TikTokers & my team at
@HogarthBooks
@randomhouse
! Celebrating with this tasty bagel 💕
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🎉🎉THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia has a pub date. Put the complicated emoji of your choice on 1/21/2020 🎉🎉
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w/great joy, here is the cover of THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL.
@HachetteBooks
gave me the actual rainbow I didn't know this story needed & for that, and for these v generous words, I am v v grateful. Here's to the dark & to the light. Pre-order:
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as an ex-fact checker I believe fact checkers should be compensated fairly and standardly for this labor, a thing that can only happen if publishers take on the responsibility of paying them rather than shirking that to authors
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HOUSEMATES 🏡💕 is going into a second printing!!!! Thank you to all the booksellers, readers, reviewers, TikTokers & my team at
@HogarthBooks
@randomhouse
! Celebrating with this tasty bagel 💕
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