Amanda Stern @amandastern Twitter profile

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Amanda Stern

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3 months

Biden is saying true shit incoherently. Trump is saying fake shit coherently. We’re fucked. #Debates2024

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5 years

I'm missing my absolute favorite day in my neighborhood for a jaunt to Governor’s Island. If you don't have plans, get yourself to Fort Greene Park stat for the Great Pupkin, artisan fair and other amazing doings. You will not regret it!

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5 years

I am spending my entire day waiting to watch Phoebe Waller-Bridge host SNL tonight.

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8 years

Pussy protecting going strong in NYC. #WomensMarch

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3 months

@JeanneHoffa It doesn’t sound like a cold. It sounds like his voice has run ragged from debate prep. It’s the mumbling, trailing off, swallowing words and forgetting what he’s saying that’s freaking me out. Everything he’s saying is true, though.

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5 years

There are four writers—two of them popular on Twitter—who have been extraordinarily shitty to me in person. I’ve decided to write each one of them into my books, and you can guess who they are. And that, my friends, is how you get people to read your work!

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8 years

I'm trying to find her email to thank her, in the meantime...

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8 years

Remember the name. Remember the face. Thank you, U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly. #ACLU #MuslimBan

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4 years

It has been 137 days since I’ve given or received a hug. Being single has many privileges but living alone during a pandemic and feeling largely forgotten by people with families is not one of them. Hello, I am depressed.

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3 months

@michelemccarrol Fact checking after the debate and not in real time is useless.

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Amanda Stern

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6 years

Have you ever heard a man asked why he didn't report his priest for sexually abusing him as an altar boy? Or why he waited so long to say anything? No, you haven't. Because men believe men. Despite the fact that a majority of predators are men.

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5 years

Grand Central (Hachette) published Little Panic, and I’m so psyched the staff walked out. This is vile.

Publishers Weekly

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5 years

BREAKING: Employees at the Little, Brown imprint of Hachette Book Group have staged a walk-out in protest of the company’s acquisition of Woody Allen's forthcoming memoir. This story is developing.

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1 year

@hwinkler4real Thank you, Fonz!! I wrote the book the movie is based on. I’m Kvelling that you watched it!!! ❤️

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1 year

Finally made it into the ⁦ @NewYorker ⁩, just not entirely in the fiction section. “Gen X-er Goes Bat-Mitzvah-Dress Shopping”

A Gen X-er Goes Bat-Mitzvah-Dress Shopping

Amanda Stern, whose book “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah” is now an Adam Sandler movie on Netflix, discusses spaghetti straps and goyim friends at Bloomingdale’s.

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3 months

@SurrenderedMind I am not “you.”

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9 years

Promises are just words that don't know the future.

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6 years

@Esor___Fasa @vivafalastin @ChelseaClinton I’m already mortified on behalf of your adult selves who will have to accept this moment as part of your past.

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2 years

@mkonnikova @catdl At the belly button there's a door that the baby opens. When it's time for the baby to exit, the mother simply rings the doorbell. I can explain it further when we next hang out.

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8 years

Two accountants were fired for fucking up best picture at the Oscars, but @jeffsessions lies under oath and the GOP is like La La Land!

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2 years

I guess it’s official and can announce? @AdamSandler is making my 2005 Young Adult novel “You are SO Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!” (written under the pseudonym Fiona Rosenbloom) into a movie for #netflix thanks to @evelyngfrick for her super fandom! (Yes, it will be updated!)

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3 months

To be clear, I’m still voting for Biden. I just wish I had another choice. #Debates2024

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3 months

@SPI2011 😂 no

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2 years

@rgay This slow reveal is definitely the best way to leave Twitter.

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3 months

@DailyNoahNews You sound like someone who thinks people give a shit about what you think. How adorable.

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Amanda Stern

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5 years

I’ve just started this book and I can’t stop talking or thinking about it. Please buy it, read it and spread the word. Not only is in an important topic, it’s a fantastic book.

Ibram X. Kendi

@ibramxk

5 years

What if in addition to receiving gifts on our birthdays, we gave gifts? We gave gifts to our loved ones, we gave gifts to the world. On this my birthday, I’m proud to say #HowToBeAnAntiracist is available wherever books are sold.

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5 years

The best way to explain anxiety is to take the fear you feel now about the Coronavirus and imagine experiencing this every single day without a discernible threat. That’s us. That’s me, since I was 2 years old. That’s why I’m doing well. This is my wheelhouse. #Coronanxiety

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@amandastern

6 years

Always wanted to take a class with @neilhimself ? Now you can. Sign up for his @masterclass ! I’ve already taken @shondarhimes and @SteveMartinToGo and I’m way less stupid than I was before.

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3 months

@jrocinha99 America is not known for its open mindedness. I repeat: we’re fucked.

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6 years

I found a book on the street I've never heard of by an author I don't know. Anyone know this book? #thedudavocado

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@amandastern

3 years

And now this: a newsletter. PITCH: An uncredentialed layperson uses her personal, lifelong battle with anxiety to introduce others to a variety of therapeutic modalities, historical figures, and concepts in psychology well known to those with credentials and medical degrees.

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2 years

@SilvermanJacob I just cleaned my perception box, so I can see it now.

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3 months

@29_Jewels @JeanneHoffa I think we’re all well aware of his stutter. This feels like old age mumbling and side effects of medication.

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2 years

“We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.” –Virginia Satir

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Amanda Stern

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4 years

@bessbell She blocked me and it’s remained one of my greatest (and easiest) achievements.

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Amanda Stern

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4 years

I’ve had a panic disorder since I was an infant. This pandemic is the sort of scenario I’ve been afraid of my whole life. Consequently, I’ve been preparing for it my entire life. This is why anxious people are doing okay and others are not. Ask us questions. We can help you.

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6 years

@realDonaldTrump The thing you’ll really be best at is being a case study for future psychologists.

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6 years

I feel like I’d be a better writer if I changed my name to Lin-Manuel Amanda. Cc: @Lin_Manuel

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3 months

@JoyceCarolOates This is an astonishingly repressed take.

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3 months

Two geriatric white men arguing about their golf handicap during a presidential debate is peak America #Debates2024

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2 months

Did Trump just admit to having sexy time with Kim Jong Un?

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Amanda Stern

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4 years

Is anyone else tired like they’ve never been tired before? It’s 6:26pm and I can barely keep my eyes open. I feel like I swallowed the world’s stress and just want to sleep.

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Amanda Stern

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6 years

Whenever I ask people how they are and they respond “no complaints,” I know we have nothing in common.

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Amanda Stern

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4 years

Just Spike Lee pouring champagne into my mouth. ⁦ @40AcresBrooklyn ⁩ #fortgreene #fucktrump #BidenHarris2020 #46

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Amanda Stern

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5 months

@SilvermanJacob Reading that made me sweepy.

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Amanda Stern

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6 years

After much hemming and hawing, I have decided to blog twice a week about anxiety and panic. I'm trying for Tuesdays and Thursdays. May it last more than a week. Go have a look!

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Amanda Stern

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2 years

@reshamkarfa Talking about it. When you tell people about what you’re working on, you get rewarded for work you haven’t yet done. Delay your gratification and get rewarded for the work you’ve already done!

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

4 years

Had the best time with @neilhimself on @bookablepod ! I’ve already bought half his books picks. Have a listen, you’ll love it!!

Neil Gaiman

@neilhimself

4 years

In which I recommend some Xmas books to Amanda Stern on Bookable. I have much too much fun...

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2 years

@MichaelFulwiler I’m feeling murdery

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Amanda Stern

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1 year

It's true, our kids are in crisis, and it's urgent. It's also true, that while this is news, it isn't new. They've been struggling for decades. And so have we. Read today's "How to Live" newsletter on what I learned and what we can do to help.

To Care For Our Youth, We Must Care for Ourselves First.

Our Kids Are In Crisis.

www.thehowtolivenewsletter.org

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6 years

This is the best list I've ever read.

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Amanda Stern

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4 years

As my neighbor just said, “Trump finally passed a test.”

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Amanda Stern

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1 year

YOU ARE SO NOT INVITED TO MY BAT MITZVAH comes to @netflix on August 25th, 2023! Starring: Sunny Sandler, Sadie Sandler, Adam Sandler, Jackie Sandler, Idina Menzel and others!! FIONA ROSENBLOOM=AMANDA STERN.

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Amanda Stern

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6 years

This just in! My book was chosen as the best book of 2018 by a little boy in Boston who knows one word. “Was Little Panic your favorite book of 2018?” I asked him. “Yesh.” He said. Done and done.

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Amanda Stern

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1 year

If every person who watched a certain movie, bought a copy of the book it's based on ( #youaresonotinvitedtomybatmitzvah ), it would make the NYT's Bestsellers list, which means every buyer could say they made someone a New York Times Bestseller!

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah!

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Amanda Stern

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1 year

The last six weeks, my doctors, and 4 radiologists, and I thought I had lung cancer. My biopsy was April 3rd. NO CANCER. They don’t yet know what I have, but after 5 months of sickness, coupled with 6 straight weeks of fear, I’M TAKING THE REST OF TODAY OFF CUZ I’M TIRED. #inbed

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5 years

Women are happier without children or a spouse, says happiness expert | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian

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Amanda Stern

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6 years

I gave a talk at the West Hampton synagogue on Thursday and I think I’m losing my game because it took THREE DAYS before one of the women emailed to say she had someone to set me up with.

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Amanda Stern

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4 years

Thank you kind strangers who saw my tweet quoted in @JenSeniorNY ’s @nytimes piece and are now sending me all sorts of glorious virtual hugs. May you live forever.

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

2 months

Hey @FBI this is the creepy, weird dude who keeps stalking @KamalaHarris

JD Vance

@JDVance

2 months

I thought the reporters traveling with Kamala might be a little lonely given that she never answers questions from them, so I figured I’d come say hello and check out my new plane while I was at it.

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

5 years

Hi. I am devastated by the misogyny in this country. Do not comment if you disagree. I honestly cannot bear to hear it right now. “Elizabeth Warren, Once a Front-Runner, Will Drop Out of Presidential Race - The New York Times”

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Amanda Stern

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1 year

@MarieMyungOkLee Years ago, a now famous author was egregiously rude to me at a party. I heard someone ask if she’d met me. The famous author said, “No, and I’m dying to read at Happy Ending!” (My reading series.) When the guy pointed to me, her face dropped and I smiled, waved. Never booked her.

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

4 years

Every non native New Yorker who is declaring that New York is dead I have news for you: New York died when you all came here.

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

6 years

I tried flirting again tonight. Very handsome man in CVS with a cute dog. I bent down to pet the dog and when I stood up, I realized the man looked familiar. “I know you,” I said. He looked at me, smiled, and said “I’m your doctor.”

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

6 years

Happy Ending is back FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY! To celebrate the launch of my new book "Little Panic," we're having an ANXIETY & MISDIAGNOSIS night. Performers are all tagged! 6/27 at Joe's Pub. 7pm @GrandCentralPub #mylittlepanic #happyendingnyc #anxietynight

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

3 years

Damn, this really resonates with me today. @NedraTawwab is always able to organize the jumble of feelings and thoughts that tumble through us and organize, edit and offer them back, succinct and spot on. #nedranuggets

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Amanda Stern

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4 years

If I had known how popular depression tweets were, I’d have live-tweeted through my darkest days. Thank you everyone for commenting and helping me out of bed. I feel your love and send mine to you.

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2 years

It’s a family affair! Adam Sandler Adapting 'You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah' PS. I am Fiona Rosenbloom.

Adam Sandler and His Family to Star in ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Movie at Netflix

Netflix is turning the beloved coming-of-age novel "You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah" into a feature film.

variety.com

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3 years

It’s Christmas Eve 2021. I have Covid.

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Amanda Stern

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4 years

It’s been 35 seconds since I got my second Covid vaccine shot and so far I feel fine.

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3 months

I think it’s time for an edible? #Debates2024

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@amandastern

2 months

@LisaSelinDavis I believe I was the “middle aged woman wearing a loose fitting mask.” If efforts by people with underlying conditions to protect themselves during a Covid spike makes you change your political party, it’s not the mask that’s the problem—it’s your lack of empathy or compassion.

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8 years

Karl Ove Knausgaard is currently reading Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts. #edbl

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11 months

I don’t know what happened, but I’m shocked and deeply saddened to hear that @gabehudson died. I didn’t know him well, but he was lovely and kind, and a hell of a writer. This is just terrible.

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

6 years

It’s been exactly one month since my book came out and I finally feel proud!

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@amandastern

6 years

I knew it was bad news when there were no updates but somehow I did not think he would die. Luke Perry, you will always be my teenaged heartthrob. #LukePerry #condolences

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

7 years

I am also very good with horses. #stablegenuis

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

5 months

We shared a limo, we hosted an event, we had a giggle and some real conversation, and I’ve never forgotten how deeply seen I felt in his company. RIP Paul. 💔 “Why Write?,” by Paul Auster | The New Yorker

“Why Write?,” by Paul Auster

From 1995, the author answers the age-old question in a series of five subjects: a film, a fall, a storm, a note, and a game.

www.newyorker.com

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2 years

14 years ago, I was the Mistress of Ceremonies at Paul La Farge’s wedding. This weekend I officiated his memorial. Life is short. Tell your people WHY you love them, not just that they are loved.

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5 months

@Tim_Denning Perhaps you should take to heart what Jung says about how people judge because thinking is hard. You’re judging people for being “losers” because you misunderstand what “work-life balance” and “self-care” means. You have some work to do, my friend.

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@amandastern

2 years

Store credits should never expire. Agree or disagree?

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6 years

@marinaaak96 @AngryBlackLady No one’s putting you there, you were born there.

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@amandastern

3 years

Is there a name for the sadness and depression that washes over you at the first beautiful day after a long winter? The sounds of kids playing, the jingle of the ice cream truck, the expansiveness of the sun, the longer stretch of day, it all makes me sad, and I need a name.

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@amandastern

6 years

@realDonaldTrump So is this a novella, or a novel? I just want to make room on my shelf.

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3 months

@hkatewilliams So many readers (including literary critics) confuse purple prose for poetry.

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@amandastern

4 years

@monaeltahawy Well, wait a minute...before you get too stringent about this, maybe we should have @realDonaldTrump do a live demonstration of what he’s suggesting?

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5 years

UPDATE:

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

8 years

Before my book sold, and after. Thank you to Bill Clegg, Grand Central Publishing and Millicent Bennett. Book out Spring 2018!!

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

3 years

One of the best episodes of The Daily I’ve ever heard, and I’ve heard them all. Not just because I learned even more about Sondheim but because I learned about @JesseKGreen who feels (and sounds) like a friend-in-waiting. HIGHLY REC’D

All Of It With Alison Stewart

@AllOfItWNYC

3 years

Good Morning Team AOI! Today we'll be honoring Stephen Sondheim with @JesseKGreen . Tweet us your favorite Sondheim songs and we'll play some on air!

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

4 years

You ever go on a date with someone and the second you hear their voice you know this will never work and need the date to end immediately? I’m on that date right now.

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

9 years

Sorry we can't take action; we're too busy sending our thoughts and prayers.

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Amanda Stern

@amandastern

2 years

A wonderful intro to my beloved, brilliant friend Paul La Farge who, inexplicably, shockingly and without anyone’s blessing, passed away this week at the age of 52. His email sign-off inviting friends to dinner: “Even if I saw you last week, it's been too long.” God, I miss him

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

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One of my oldest friends, the novelist Paul La Farge, died this week. He was the charismatic and loving center of a vibrant group of writers and creatives for almost 30 years, and a great writer himself, especially about the secret and the strange. 1/3

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3 months

@JustLinda802 @29_Jewels @JeanneHoffa That’s appalling. Tonight is awful, but there’s no excuse for voting for Trump.

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@amandastern

5 years

I'm the on the latest episode of You, Me, Empathy! Talking about anxiety and Little Panic! Please have a listen.

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@amandastern

2 years

@mdbell79 Agreed. A good host sets the right tone with an author. A great host sets the right tone with the author and the audience. If you’re smiling and jovial, the audience knows they too can be smiling and jovial.

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@amandastern

6 years

On Facebook a friend sends me a photo of a man reading my book on the subway. A week later a different friend emails me a photo of the same man reading my book on the subway. I post both photos on Instagram and a different friend comments: “oh my God, that’s Rod!”

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@amandastern

8 years

. @realDonaldTrump tweets like he's under house arrest and his only access to the outside world is Alex Jones.

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@amandastern

4 years

A while back I bought a small bowl at a stoop sale. $2. I love it. It makes me happy. So I finally looked at the bottom for identifying marks. It says Homer Laughlin China, which I thought meant “Made in China. “NOPE. Guys! My $2 mixing bowl costs $325. BECAUSE IT’S CHINA.

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@amandastern

5 years

Global quarantine to an introvert is the dream we’ve all fantasied about. What we didn’t foresee was the constant demand to communicate on Zoom, email, text and phone. I’m exhausted. Introverts with kids, I feel for you so hard.

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5 years

UPDATE: Carol Burnett and I are meeting in real life in 2 hours and I’ve never been more nervous for anything.

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@amandastern

6 years

Anxiety: a constant state of tearing shit up every time you sit down. Sorry coaster.

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6 years

My brother had dinner with the Dalai Lama last night. I ate half my friend’s baked potato and watched an episode of the Bachelor. Pretty sure I’m winning.

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