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Author, critic, Willa Cather Professor of Latinx Studies & English. Directs @UNLEthnicStu , edits Machete. @LAReviewofBooks @TheBrooklynRail @sensesofcinema . 🔥

Lincoln, NE

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Joy Castro

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“A stunning work of the imagination—a brilliant evocation of the way war, exile, and freedom defined the Cuban nation from the start, and how the wounds of the early republic haunt us still.…A spectacular achievement.” —Ana Menéndez

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One Brilliant Flame a book by Joy Castro

A nineteenth-century utopia becomes a powder keg of political intrigue and betrayal in an enthralling historical novel--inspired by actual events--by the author of Flight Risk.Key West, 1886. The...

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Joy Castro

2 years

I was asked by a Big 5 editor if Isabel Morales, the protagonist of ‘Flight Risk,’ *had* to be Latina—because she loved the book so much otherwise. I said yes. She said no.

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Amazing how many academics eventually quietly mention their lake houses, mountain cabins, sailboats, family wealth. If you come from a working-poor background & feel a sense of unbelonging, that’s not in your head. Just know that there are plenty of us here, too. We belong.

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What have you never regretted spending money on?

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Get comfortable with people not liking what you write, not getting what you write. Keep writing into your own vision. Let your work find its real readers.

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4 years

Just got a letter of apology from an editor re: changes she asked me to make years ago regarding toning down the police brutality in one of my novels & about the way that what #PublishingPaidMe caused me chronically to doubt my talent. I’m sitting at my kitchen counter sobbing.

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The house in Sils Maria where Nietzsche spent his summers, 1881-1888

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Writers: Avoid envy by energetically championing other writers whose work you truly love. Celebrate & cheer their successes as if they’re your own, and it’ll start to feel like they are. Life is much happier & less lonely that way.

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Sometimes even just dishes, drying on their rack, suddenly knock me softly breathless with their simple homey loveliness, & I have to stop & think, ‘Wow. How beautiful my life is now.’ How deeply fortunate I am, & how grateful to still be here, still able to appreciate it all.

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“Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything.” —Jack Kerouac

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5 years

Happy to say I eloped with the love of my life on Saturday. Quiet, simple, good. I am utterly happy.

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3 months

As someone whose mother also chose my sexually abusive stepfather over me, I’m saddened by this news & wish great healing for Andrea Skinner & her siblings. Telling one’s story publicly, though scary, helps tremendously. ‘The Truth Book’ changed my life.

Alice Munro’s daughter says mom kept silent when stepfather sexually abused her

The youngest daughter of celebrated Canadian author Alice Munro has opened up about sexual abuse by her stepfather and the deep hurt she felt when her mother chose to support

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"Most Americans don’t realize that 70% of college-level teaching is performed by higher education’s most vulnerable workers: adjunct instructors, who teach for painfully low wages on temporary contracts."

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With good political leadership, Nebraska could be incredible. We’ve got wind, water, sun, land, affordable housing, low unemployment, & tons of smart young people who want a livable future.

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@EmilyVanDuyne Yes! I used to teach it in an undergrad theory course to illustrate Marx’s point that interpersonal romantic narratives obscure economic power relations. Hanks’s character destroys her independent business, but we’re supposed to “Awww!” at the end. Loathsome film.

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@maudnewton Yes. In the Christian sect in which I was raised, there had to be 2 adult eyewitnesses to corroborate a child’s accusation of molestation. What molester waits for an audience? The structure is built for (& likely by) perpetrators.

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Genre-based accusations leveled at memoir & personal essays for self-absorption seem patently absurd. Every week, my graduate students’ manuscripts knock me out with their generosity, compassion, & sociopolitical engagement. So smart, so finely wrought. The self is just a lens.

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2 years

“I invite you to not distract yourself with busyness, and to remember that busy does not equal healed or home.” — @drthema

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2 years

I will seriously go to my grave still having to look up how to spell ‘hors d’oeuvres’ every single time

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6 years

Very happy about this. Many thanks to the kind members of the profession who wrote the letters that made it happen, & to #UNL . It’s rare for a Latina to make it to named full professor, & I’m grateful. #class #ethnicity #highered

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@thewritingdomme Thank you so much! Yes, a different editor (who loved Isabel just as she was) acquired it in a 2-book deal for six figures. ‘Flight Risk’ appeared in 2021, & the second book just came out this month. ☺️

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🥂🎉🎂💐 Impromptu Birthday Manifesta! I turn 54 today, & I woke up feeling so happy & grateful. I’m healthy, solvent, & in love. I have a wonderful son. I love my work. I get to teach & learn from brilliant young people, all earnest & smart & hopeful & hardworking. 1/?

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“Up to 75% of domestic violence homicides happen at the point when the woman is trying to leave or after she has already left. Women stay to stay alive. And yet we are still asking victims of abuse why they didn’t just leave.” #DV

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FKA Twigs is exactly right – why do we still ask abuse victims why they didn't leave? | Arwa Mahdawi

Twigs told an interviewer this week ‘We have to stop asking that question’ – pointing to a much-needed reframing of how we think about abuse

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“The shots have been tweaked to target the latest subvariants of omicron that triggered the latest waves of infection, & preliminary data from Pfizer & Moderna suggests the new shots provide much stronger protection against infection…”

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We Now Have COVID Boosters That Target Omicron. Here's What To Know.

Can you get one if you recently had omicron? How long will it give you immunity? Experts explain the latest on the Pfizer and Moderna bivalent shots.

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I learned only recently that my favorite kind of handbag fastening mechanism is called a kiss clasp, & I really like knowing that. To me, the style just feels sweetly old-fashioned. (Reflections while waiting in line to board a flight…)

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Excited! My novel of political intrigue ONE BRILLIANT FLAME, set amid the anticolonial Cuban insurgency in Key West in the late 1800s, will publish January 2023. Queer #Latinx historical fiction. Review copies in March/April 2022. If you’d like one, let me know.🇨🇺🌈

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"The habits of the wealthiest mirror the supposed ‘pathologies’ of the poor. But while those in poverty are called lazy, the rich are dubbed bon vivants." ( #ENGL487 , this reminded me of Bruno in 'Strangers.')

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Painful to read this when financial resources for the teaching-&-learning mission of the university continue to dwindle. The fans’ “comfort”? Their need to be able to go grab a drink? Some of our classes are held in windowless basement rooms with inadequate security measures.

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If the NU Board of Regents approve the plan put forward by Husker Athletics on Oct. 5, it would be the largest single project in terms of cost ever undertaken in university history.

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"Racist grandpas may be dying out, but their bigotry is regenerating in today's youths." — @crampell

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@jcaroccio Thank you. Well done. When I went on the (then already lousy) market, I refused even to apply for any jobs that weren’t tenure-track. Refusing to undervalue the worth of our labor is the only power we have. The more solidarity we have in this, the better for everyone.

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At my institution, if faculty members decide that the health risk of in-person teaching is too great, they must still somehow ensure a meaningful on-campus experience for students enrolled in their classes. I’d say knowing your professor didn’t die for you is pretty meaningful.

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When I turned 50, I decided to start running. I’d never been a runner (or an athlete of any kind). I never dreamed that today, at 56, I’d run for a solid hour—much less that I’d have written 2 more novels. #agingwell [on the Malecón w/my friend Kim Coleman in 2019]

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Oh, hooray! 🎉🌺🔥🌺🎉 Happy day! It begins to become real…

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"Does anyone teach English anymore at UNL?" Actually, yeah.

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Baffled by @BenSasse 's tone-deaf piece. I teach at the University of #Nebraska . Many of our students work shockingly hard to pay their way.

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New York Times Opinion

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The trouble with adolescents today? Says @BenSasse : They've simply never had to do a hard day's work in their lives.

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@joannachiu Thank you so much. Traveling alone often as a teenager, I encountered such situations frequently. No one ever intervened, & it was always so awkward/scary, extricating myself without making some predatory weirdo angry. Thank you for taking action—& for writing about it.

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Y’all, in 3 days—Monday, August 15th—my little brother Tony, whom some of you know from ‘The Truth Book’ & who’s now 49, who’s been working for decades as one of the best damn auto mechanics in Austin, will buy the shop where he’s labored. One of the proudest days of my life.🎉

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Because I’ve written all 7 of my books by hand, people ask what kinds of pens & notebooks I use. It has varied over the years, but I currently love @Leuchtturm1917 notebooks & these TŪL pens:

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Happy Father’s Day to my beloved dad, Libano Fabio Castro, who killed himself in 2002. Happy to say that, 21 years later, for the first time, I breathed normally all day on Father’s Day. Parents, please don’t choose suicide. Please choose to get the help you need.

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@espiers Thank you so much for this thoughtful, thorough, balanced piece. I’m also an adoptee who found her biological mother, & I am also a mother myself, as well as a former foster mother. The magnitude of the trauma of unwanted children—& mothers who want but can’t afford them—is vast.

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Coming soon, #LNK ! Indigo Bridge Books in the Near South.

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My historical novel 'One Brilliant Flame' will appear on Jan. 3, 2023. Pre-orders are now available. Set in 1886 in Cuban Key West, it's a sleek literary noir that engages anticolonial struggle, race, power, capitalism, socialism, anarchism, & gender & sexuality.

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Just so beautiful. Thank you, designer @micaelaalcaino .

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“You see, I am an only child & a Libra. I take for granted that there will be a documentary one day…I do not want for confidence…I do not write unless I have something to say & I know in my deepest self that only I can write it.” —⁦ @tressiemcphd ⁩

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Going to Random House + "THICK" events

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@LoebDavon • Professionalize the experience for yourself. It’s a practical task, not an emotional one. Identify best venues. Follow norms. Keep good records. • Rejection is not a referendum on the quality of your work; it’s about fit at the moment the editor reads it. Let go. Move on.

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“I want to write a poem about how capitalism is a sinking ship & how the extreme wealth-hoarding & extractive polluting systems that benefit a few billionaires are destroying our planet & killing us all. But the orcas beat me to it.” — @alexispauline ⁩

Heat Is Not a Metaphor

As the hottest summer on record draws to a close, how do we make sense of the images of a climate in crisis?

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, upon being asked if she uses smart technology in her home or turns on the washing machine herself: “My husband does that.”

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“‘Abortion bans aren’t popular,” [⁦ @NebraskaMegan ]⁩ Hunt said. ‘Any time government tries to come between a patient & a doctor—Nebraskans know that’s none of our business.’”

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Ricketts says no special session will be held to further restrict abortion rights • Nebraska...

Ricketts says no special session to further restrict abortion rights, citing lack of enough support for banning the procedure after 12 weeks

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“We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace.” —⁦ @TheAmandaGorman ⁩

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I love teaching so freaking much it’s ridiculous. Despite everything—despite *everything*—I felt such a surge of delight when I emailed my fall literature students this afternoon. Like, as grim as everything is, I’m still absurdly grateful to get to do this for a living. #UNL

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I love this thread. First-gen & working-class/poor kids are often socialized by their families & communities to be self-reliant, to take care of not only themselves but others (younger sibs, etc.). In college & grad school, I never went to office hours, never asked for help.

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Me, an insane person, fully vaxxed, tested, & N95-masked, getting ready to fly from Nebraska to Germany (where the bureaucrats await) on Christmas Day. Did I mention insane? 🎄🎉🥰

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This semester, I’ll be teaching a 3-credit course in Autobiographical Writing at a medium-maximum-security men’s prison in #LNK . Students will earn college credit. Many thanks to #UNL for supporting this important work.

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I hung this sign on my son’s door when he was a little boy. He’s 34 now. Today I learned he still has it.

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“Writers who have recently completed an MFA, MA, or PhD in creative writing, and who need a year to complete their first book, are encouraged to apply.”

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O'Connor Fellow in Creative Writing - Nonfiction - New York, United States

Colgate University invites applications for the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing. This year we invite applications for a...

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“Don’t write what you remember. Write what you are unable to forget.” —Sandra Cisneros

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2 years

💋😍😂 You’ll love my next one. It’s about an anarchist, a communist, labor activists, an anticolonial insurgency—available for pre-order now! Get your hate on!

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“Whereas a social movement has to persuade people to act, a government or a powerful group defending the status quo only has to create enough confusion to paralyze people into inaction.” — @Zeynep Tufekci

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“But every time I almost pulled the plug, I’d come back to this: ‘I didn’t come this far just to come this far.’ And I’d pick myself up and keep going.” —⁦ @T_J_Newman ⁩

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My Bestselling Novel Was Rejected 41 Times

My Novel Was Rejected 41 Times Before Becoming a Bestseller. Here are 8 Truths About Perseverance I Want Everyone With a Big Dream to Know

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9 months

Thrilled beyond speech! Congratulations, @thesusanito , on this recognition of your brilliant work! 💐🥂🎉 Thank you for your excellence & heart. Thanks to @KEliasRowley , @_RachelCochran , @SamaraRafert , & the whole team at @ohiostatepress . So proud #Machete got to publish it.

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National Book Critics Circle

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The finalists for the NBCC Award for Autobiography are Susan Kiyo Ito, David Mas Masumoto and Patricia Wakida, Ahmed Naji and Katharine Halls, Safiya Sinclair, and Matthew Zapruder.

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@BrianCLovato FWIW: For years now, I’ve invited any students who couldn’t finish the reading to take their books out into the hall, without penalty, & finish. I tell them it’s more important for them to encounter the work with their own brains, freshly, than to fake their way thru discussion…

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Let’s be clear: when a federal administration is forbidding words—“climate change,” “diversity,” “evidence-based”—it’s no coincidence that state-level pols are going after a department of English.

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Nothing has gone wrong when you make the right decision for yourself—personally or professionally—but still feel really sad. Closed doors can hurt, even when you’re the one who closed them. And that’s okay.

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Would love to see us elect an Indigenous governor & Indigenous legislators to lead us in restoring the land, protecting the water, transitioning to green energy, & creating meaningful work, good housing, rich educational practices, sexual freedom, & bodily autonomy for everyone.

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@gestalt_designs !!! Me, too. Total sock-love.

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…but I invite anyone who thinks racial ideology underpins none of this lost-haven-for-those-who-value-culture-&-art nostalgia to think through what’s happening in Tartt’s most recent book.

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Donna Tartt's multicultural fantasy: How "The Goldfinch" got away with its disgraceful racial...

In the Pulitzer-winning novel, people of color read like wishful caricatures. Why isn't anyone talking about it?

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4 years

Even our mammoths are ready. #Maskup , #UNL !

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3 years

Excited to share the link to my conversation with @writeantiracist on Tuesday, July 6! Join us at to plan your own anti-racist creative writing workshop.

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Remembering my first campus interview (1996), when a tenured professor asked me, one-on-one in her office, if my parents were migrant farmworkers, & how disappointed she was, because that was the kind of Latina they were “really hoping to get.” And then I went & gave my job talk.

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. @BetsyDeVos Hi, Betsy. There is such a thing as a free lunch. It's what my brother & I ate as kids, & it was the best meal of our day.

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Omg this is so massive I can hardly breathe! 😭💐🌺🏆🥂💖🎉

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PEN/Faulkner Foundation

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We are thrilled to announce that What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez has been selected as the winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!

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Oh, hooray! 🎉🔥🥂 It looks like @lithub will reveal the gorgeous cover of my new political novel, ‘One Brilliant Flame,’ tomorrow. If you love “beach reads for smart people,” as my novels have been called, check this one out. What a way to kick off a wonderful weekend! 🥳🌺

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The Rutgers strike: “notable for the solidarity it showed between tenured university professors and the part-time employees who have increasingly taken their place.” #highered #labor

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Rutgers deal could be 'game-changer' across U.S. as part-time faculty win protections

'Grueling' talks plod on as Rutgers tenured professors hold out to help lesser paid adjuncts and graduate student workers.

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Such a gut-punch to smart, competent, diligent, generous women everywhere. Again.

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“Forgive me, I was not honest with you, life— to you I stand answerable.” — @ilya_poet

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"My people, you were really something fucking fine / on the morning of first arrests:" from Ilya Kaminsky's "Alfonso Stands Answerable" @ilya_poet

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Friends: Before ever uttering the phrase that So-and-so is just ”not a good fit” for your company/organization/office/department, ask yourself if a very deep & honest way about whether the truth is that your workplace has failed to make itself a good home for anyone different.

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😂 Yes! I’m a big quitter. I quit reading books I don’t like, quit doing things that make me unhappy…I left a tedious ceremony early just yesterday. Quit. Quit all the things that crush your soul. Quit relationships that deplete you. Quit. Life’s short, friends.

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Emotionally healthy people are quitters. They quit things all the time. They keep moving, trying, and doing until they find things they don’t want to quit. Quitting comes from self awareness.

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34° out there. Feeling super-cozy this evening, all tucked in with a fire—& well provisioned…

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Our dad would be passing out in joyful disbelief. Wish he were here to see this. #WarrenCastro2020

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One shitty way to handle homelessness: just destroy the bushes that once provided shelter.

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Flying out today for 4 months at the @AmericanAcademy (thanks to my partner, who won; I’m the proud & happily trailing spouse this time). Made a pact w/my friend S. to finish my novel my December 1st. Cannot wait for the whole blessed gift of time & beauty to begin.

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Cool & different take on the physical miseries of pregnancy from @anne_theriault . (This blew a little fuse in my brain. Much obliged.)

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Happy Birthday, Baby. 🥂🎉🥂

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2 years

Welcome to the world, ‘One Brilliant Flame’! Huge thanks to everyone who helped us reach this publication day. 🔥🥂💐🌺🎉 #Cuba #KeyWest @amightyblaze #amightyblaze

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The Supreme Court has now proven itself fully unfit to make decisions on behalf of a 21st-century nation-state. It has failed on bodily autonomy/reproductive justice, Indigenous sovereignty, & climate crisis. It longs for a mythologized & violent past, not a livable future.

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So surprised & delighted that “Noir Story” made ⁦ @Wigleaf ⁩’s Top 50 of 2024!

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Noir Story - SmokeLong Quarterly

It started like any other dumb relationship. No particular red flags. I’m reading this book on Afro-pessimism, he said. A white guy. He closed the book on his thumb to keep his place and held it up...

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Joy Castro

5 years

“All the wrong people are crying, and all the people who ought to feel something do not.” —⁦ @jpbrammer ⁩

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Joy Castro

4 years

Transformation complete. I am an anime character.

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Joy Castro

2 years

For the record, I loathe being put in breakout groups.

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Joy Castro

4 years

There should be a specific word for the happy, buoyant, entirely good feeling you get when you think back on how someone asked you to do something you didn’t want to do & you said no.

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Joy Castro

7 months

"The problem isn’t that graphic language exists in books. The problem isn’t that rape survivors have written about their experiences. The problem is standing on a platform as a state senator...to tell one of your colleagues to give you a blow job." -- @NebraskaMegan :

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Senator Megan Hunt

7 months

Here’s the full video. I hate sharing it but it’s part of the public record and people ought to see what the fuck goin on in their Legislature. #NELeg

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Joy Castro

7 years

Turning 50 today. Healthy, happy, solvent, & in love. Grateful for every breath, every friend, every lesson learned. Looking forward—

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Joy Castro

7 years

“a charity run in his name has multiplied his mission by thousands, wiping out the lunch debt of every student at all 56 schools in Minnesota's St. Paul Public Schools”

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Joy Castro

8 months

We’re over the moon! Claire was also a graduate specializer in Ethnic Studies—& won, while still a doctoral student here, a $1.35 million @MellonFdn grant for a digital archive of Puerto Rican literature. She’s 🔥💫🎉!

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Nebraska CAS

8 months

Congratulations to alumna Claire Jiménez ('22, PhD English) who was longlisted for the @penfaulkner Award for Fiction for her novel, "What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez"! 👏 Details: @unlenglish @unlethnicstu @nebraskaalumni

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Joy Castro

2 years

I am so blessed & beloved. 🙏🏼💐 Feeling very lucky today.

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Joy Castro

4 years

I cared a lot about the communities I lived in when I could afford only to rent. I planted trees on rented land, painted rented walls, cleared trash from lots that weren’t mine. Wealth ≠ care. In fact, it was landlords that let the places rot. You know nothing about the poor.

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Joy Castro

5 years

Yesterday I saw a #LNK bus driver get out of her bus, walk partway down the block, & gently lead back a blind man who’d overshot the bus stop. She talked with him so kindly as she helped him onto the bus. And then they drove away.

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Joy Castro

10 months

My Cuban grandmother probably never dreamed her secret-recipe flan would end up being baked in a little German village… 🇨🇺🇩🇪😂🍮

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Joy Castro

1 year

My beautiful “commute.” (I wish you could hear the soft rush of the breeze through the trees.) In 2015, I gave up owning a car, so I spend a significant portion of my income on housing close enough to my workplace that I can walk. For me, it’s been possible, & it’s been worth it.

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Joy Castro

4 years

“‘I have never written a plot-driven novel,’ Le Guin said. ‘I admire plot from a vast distance, with unenvious admiration. I don’t do it; never did it; don’t want to; can’t.’” In the new ⁦ @LRB ⁩—

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