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Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasproul

4 years

Prowling around the empty nighttime suburbs with headphones on, trying to figure out if this tree in someone’s yard is a chestnut (no, chinquapin), I hear a man’s voice across the street behind me: M’AM. M’AM. M’AM!!!

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Fun reminder: Delilah is a real woman who went to my college and was totally grossed out by this song, written by a man she was not interested in

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6 years

Exclusive: Plain White T's Song 'Hey There Delilah' Is Being Turned Into a TV Series @plainwhitets

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YES, I HAVE AN APP, he says. I hold up my phone and the leaf I’ve low key just ripped off the tree I’m standing under. “I also have an app,” I say. “For trees.” Two weirdos nod at each other solemnly.

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I took a video of the ISS moving through the sky, but I can’t upload it till I get home. Imagine a tiny bright spark passing by, unhurried, while an old man and not-young woman stare up in their frozen places from an empty street. Your people are out there, even in the dark.

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6 years

Once again: wow do I hate that Twitter won't just show me tweets in goddamn chronological order. Simply hearing updates on this story is hard enough - wandering through Picasso's temporal-surrealist nightmare to get them is hell

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4 years

Has anyone else experienced this wild swing in time perception: an eternal March followed by an April that went down in one instant gulp, like the kind that’s way too big and fast and causes that special torture peristalsis?

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4 years

“Oh wow!” I say. And right on cue, it comes into view, a slow firefly. We stare up in silence, mouths open, 20 feet apart. THEY’RE JUST GOING ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS UP THERE, he says. We are silent some more. “Do you...do this often?” I say.

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4 years

M’AM. It’s an older guy standing in his front door with a glass of wine. SORRY TO STARTLE YOU, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING. LOOK TO THE HORIZON THERE. IN A MOMENT YOU WILL SEE THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.

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5 years

Oh God, I just realized something: every single one, every SINGLE one, of the top 10 bestsellers of the decade turns almost entirely on the plot of a woman's suffering, dying, or abuse. How did I not see this until just now? And how soon can I go back to bed today

Lincoln Michel

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5 years

The 10 best selling books of the decade.

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4 years

I think: am I about to be tackled? I think: does he think I’m a cat burglar? Does he he have a gun? I turn around, take my headphones off slowly.

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5 years

Please slide into my DMs, resigning @Deadspin writers who don’t have an agent yet. I have seen your next chapter, and it’s a big ol’ book deal with Anna.

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6 years

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4 years

I’ll tell you one thing: when this is over, I am just going to go nuts with my personal style. Velvet everything. High collared looks year round. I might even become a Bejeweled Walking Stick Person. Small, villainous sunglasses. It’s over for you hoes.

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2 years

Today is my 37th birthday. If you’re older than I am, what’s the one hindsight thing you wish you could go back and tell yourself about life in one’s late 30s? Advice, wisdom, whatever.

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4 years

Once more for the people in the back: the near-wholesale loss of American chestnuts was the biggest ecological disaster in American history. Appalachian poverty is what it is today in large part because the chestnuts disappeared. EASTERN FORESTS USED TO LOOK LIKE THIS, PEOPLE:

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@seywarddarby

4 years

"By almost any metric, the American chestnut was a perfect tree." When C asks how my day was, I often regale him with a great story I read. Yesterday it was this @ByKateMorgan piece.

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5 years

Periodic reminder: if you love a book or a poem or anything you read, please let the author know directly. Even if it's decades old. Even if you think the author is way too famous to care. They need it. They need it real bad. I promise.

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4 years

Do you know who’s still not dead here at the end of 2020? Beverly Cleary, age 104, that’s who. 2 pandemics and counting in the tank. Here she is in 1955, age 39, looking at the camera like, “my familiar and I are less than halfway through our life span. Tuck Everlasting who?”

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4 years

NOT TO RUIN THE FUNGIBLE, GESTURAL QUALITIES OF METAPHOR HERE WITH TWO POSTSCRIPTS OR ANYTHING, BUT: 1. the story of the American chestnut is one of microscopic hope in the face of mind-boggling grief. Its salvation and our own are tenderly intertwined.

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5 years

It's too bad no one will ever really know if he's Woody Allen's son or Frank Sinatra's

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@MiaFarrow

5 years

In honor of a Steve Sondheim’s birthday this weekend... Ronan will kill me for this but here he is as a teenager singing a little Not While I’m Around” - the song i used to sing to him when he was little.

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4 years

Oh my God - he’s copypasting the “i hearby claim my Facebook photos are my copyright per international copyright law” scam but for presidential power

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@annasproul

4 years

Please read THE OVERSTORY by Richard Powers to understand why. Please also donate to @chestnut1904 if you're so moved. 2. I use @PictureThisAI and iNaturalist. No idea what Mr. 2-neighborhoods-over used for the ISS. And the leaf I'm holding is a CHINQUAPIN OAK. Already made ID!

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@annasproul

5 years

Good morning! Bald eagles don’t scream: their sound is more of a dainty peeping. The “eagle” sound you’re familiar with is likely that of a red-tailed hawk, dubbed in by someone who found the truth embarrassingly effeminate. Truly the perfect national metaphor.

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5 years

“Talk about a friend who is different” - I’m sorry, is this the Common App? Is Anderson Cooper the dean of admissions at Kenyon?

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3 years

Driving to my parents’ place from mine takes me by the place where a friend died in a car crash when we were 18. His parents built a little memorial there - a simple bench facing a plaque - and when I drove past with my kids today, I recognized his dad there, sitting by himself.

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3 years

@TypingNonsense @AITA_reddit This is an awful lot of grandiose personality disorder for $150k a year.

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4 years

I hate this. I hate this. I want to scream. This is a story of a brilliant man falling through hole after hole right on down to an early death inside the Swiss cheese of American exceptionalism, racism, and condescending bootstrapper tropes.

CNN Opinion

@CNNOpinion

4 years

"He did everything right to achieve the American dream. And he died on April 1st -- leaving his three children orphaned.... But his story is not simply a tragedy. It is a triumph that he only got to see the start of," writes @JohnAvlon

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5 years

Oh my God, I did it. I found the courage to say “do you know this is the Quiet Car? You can’t talk” to a table of loud tourists, and then one called me a “stupid asshole” in a Castilian accent, but they left, and then the 5 people around me QUIETLY CHEERED 😭😭

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4 years

One of you casually suggested on here a while back that I start making my own scented candles to “save money,” and, uh....thank you for what has turned into the 2020 dissociative craft escape journey of a lifetime

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4 years

@EzellWrites To my great surprise 2020 psychotic break has taken the form of an obsessive (OBSESSIVE) search for American chestnuts in local forests

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4 years

Has anyone invented San Junipero yet?

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4 years

Oh look, my future was written in my old Berenstain Bears books, and I didn’t even know!

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5 years

My mentions are a beautiful holiday chorus of "but did u see 8 out of 10 of them were WRITTEN by women?" Yes. I did see. The cool thing about structural misogyny is that we all carry it together!

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3 years

Said it before, will say again: grace is the most generous and appreciated gift you can give any working parent (or anyone, really) right now. Your patience. Your empathy. Your most faithful benefit of the doubt. I suspect I'm not the only one who cries from gratitude whenever.

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@annasproul

8 years

@TheBrodyFile so true! I'm constantly talking with people I've just met about how to commit sexual felonies!

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5 months

Monday morning reminder: you can't actually save time. That's not a thing. The goo is coming out of the tube forever and at the same rate no matter where you choose to smear it. You're going to die. :) Go out to lunch, for heaven's sake, it's nice out

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I just Wikipedia-ed the woman who wrote WAVE, one of @time 's just-named best books of the 2010s, about the unbelievably tragic loss of her entire family in the '04 tsunami, to make sure she had found some measure of OK in this brutal world, and...guys. She's married to Fiona Shaw

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5 years

The most DC thing imaginable: the hold music at the Watergate bar reservations line is literally Richard Nixon talking about Vietnam

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6 years

Really cool to see the THR article make zero mention of this. "A contemporary fairy tale!" Hooray

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@annasproul

3 years

He’s been gone as long as he was here, and his dad is still such a good one. So are all of you dads who’ve lost babies and babies who’ve lost dads. Happy Father’s Day. We aren’t going to forget them, either.

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@annasproul

5 years

Are you ready for a story that has single-handedly restored my faith in humanity, ending in a shameless plug for this local IT business owner, Imran Moorad of Dotsight Solutions, everybody please hire him?

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@annasproul

2 years

“I’m so sorry,” the barista said, eyes aflame. “My colleague made a typo when he was typing your name—“ “Ha ha, all good. Was it Ana? Hana?” I said. “I—“ she said.

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@annasproul

3 years

There will come a day when I am on a hayride on a beautiful fall day with some parents from my child’s kindergarten class, and one of them will say “it’s a beautiful day,” and I will NOT immediately blurt out “just like 9/11,” plunging the hayride into silence. Today is not it

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5 years

Hello. I have just emerged from several minutes of holding my head at a lower elevation than my heart after this piece gave me THE VAPORS. Authors, please read. Clients, please God see me if you are or were unclear about any of this!

How to Lose a Third of a Million Dollars Without Really Trying

As a young writer, my naiveté about the publishing process nearly led me to financial ruin. Here’s how to avoid my mistakes.

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2 years

Has anyone else given up on trying to explain why they’re running so behind on deep thinking work because the accumulation of small-scale calamity behind the curtain is just so preposterous at this point?

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@annasproul

4 years

How the light gets in: you watch Scott and John, the couple next door, working peaceably at their kitchen window some nights, wondering how they’re passing the hours in the warm quiet. And then today, this turns up in your doorway, a quiet gift from them.

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@annasproul

3 years

@annehelen "Thank you for your patience" is my usual, but I'm experimenting with the balls-out refusal to acknowledge the passage of time and just getting down to the business. It makes me feel like a serial killer but also a....man

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4 years

This is intended for an audience of one, and the obviousness of that - the hostage-negotiation baby man horror - really, really hammers home just how insane it was that anyone ever ever EVER ordered their life by his whims and cowered in fear of his reactions

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Laura Ingraham prepares her audience for the likely possibility that the President will lose the election

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@annasproul

5 years

Happy birthday, Britney Spears! Another big thing happening today: I’m starting a new literary agency with @kentdwolf .

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@annasproul

5 years

I suspect other people have made this observation before, this being New York, but boy is refilling one’s MetroCard an existentially horrifying dilemma

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7 years

@Buellie1208 @Nicole_Cliffe yes, I have to say that hobbling into on my crutches 2 days later introduced me to the great, great pleasures of having told one so

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@annasproul

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I like Biden just fine, AND seeing all these coordinated pro-Biden tweets, I feel like I’m Newland Archer at the end of Age of Innocence, at the moment he realizes that the family wagons have circled and He Will Be Remaining With Wife.

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5 years

Hi! Do you like distracting yourself from vague horrors you can't control by deep-diving on esoteric Wikipedia horrors you can? If so, here are some lists for you! (If not, mute me for 5 minutes)

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7 years

@Nicole_Cliffe My 4th grade teacher told me "stop crying, crybaby" after I fell playing tag. My leg was broken in 2 places

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@annasproul

5 years

My GOD, can good people STOP using "porn stars" as lurid shorthand? Those women were among the first and bravest people to speak truth to power about Trump, and PS, their background in porn was not incidental to their bravery. I will grind this gear into the ground.

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A president who stays married for a quarter century and doesn't carry on with porn stars. A president chosen by Americans, not by the Russians. A president who respects the Constitution. It all seems like ancient history now, but it's been less than three years.

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::whispers:: Memoir title, Ben. Memoir title. Call me I can make this happen and will just be sitting here at my desk casually

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@BenAffleck

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@NewYorker I’m doing just fine. Thick skin bolstered by garish tattoos.

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Oh God, this is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read.

I just learned I only have months to live. This is what I want to say. - The Boston Globe

I’ve been a journalist for more than 60 years. So after doctors delivered the news, I sat down to do what came naturally, if painfully: Write this story.

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4 years

Periodic reminder: if someone in publishing is taking longer than expected to respond to a message, it is never, ever, ever because they have read your material and are awkwardly sitting on their disdain. It's because they haven't read it yet.

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2 years

PEOPLE OF THE INTERNET: Please, please come to the American Chestnut Festival, which is happening Sunday at Congressional Cemetery (1801 E St SE, 20003) and has been my after-hours labor of love for dear God I can't even tell you how long. (I'm the fest chair.)

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“I’ve never won a book award before!” says Laurie Moore, not kidding. “WHAT???!?!?!” screams a drunk lady in the audience, speaking for us all.

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5 years

Periodic reminder: If you’re lucky enough to get a book deal and don’t have an accountant yet, get a fee-based (not commission-earning) one with experience in advance v. royalty and 1099 income THE SECOND that handshake deal is done. The second. Immediately.

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@annasproul

6 years

Putting it out there again: book publishing loves wonderful, networked, recently laid off journalists who suddenly have a lot of time to go deep on world-changing work. Anna at rossyoon dot com!

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@annasproul

5 years

@alex_abads :whispers: they use it in the straight version too

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3 years

He died of gallstones - *gallstones* - because every ICU bed in the state was full. I almost typed something about us being a bunch of medieval peasants because of the sheer benighted stupidity of it all, but honestly, that’s unfair to medieval peasants.

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@annasproul

5 years

@JennyAment PS: hire Imran for all your DC area computing needs!!

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@annasproul

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If you are an author, here is the single most important thing you can remember to keep my people from driving you insane: no editor or agent that I know ever reads a manuscript/draft and then withholds a reply b/c we hate it so much that we don't know what to say.

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@annasproul

4 years

If 5 minutes on Twitter these days is enough to make you sick too, please accept this offering from my heart, a heart that loves you very much and wants to hold you in safety: Judith Butler just HOSING a terf. HOSING. 😭

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@annasproul

3 years

When can children under 12 get the damn vaccine already?!

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@annasproul

5 years

If you could go back and tell 2009 You one piece of advice that would have REALLY HELPED if it hadn’t taken you this WHOLE DECADE to learn, what would it be?

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1 year

do you think jonathan safran foer slept last night

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1 year

Natalie Portman and her husband Benjamin Millepied have separated after 11 years of marriage, Us Weekly reports.

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3 years

Everybody FREAK OUT! Congrats Carmen!

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@annasproul

4 years

I’m going to need a special crossover episode of @yourewrongabout , @MaintenancePod , and @whyaredads to address the insane reaction to Krispy Kreme’s free donut promo. The science denial. The fatphobia. The Puritanism. OMG. America is not OK

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@annasproul

5 years

This is a *beautiful* piece about the power of chosen family, kind families, and deep platonic love.

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3 years

Me: pooh-pooh, you foolish conspiracy theorists. I am your intellectual superior. Me 5 seconds later: [muttering] bay leaves do nothing. We’re all in the pocket of Big McCormick, and everyone knows it

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::whispers:: $4/word times four or five big features a year is “27-year-old associate at a big law firm” money, and I for one want to live in a world where beloved, experienced, incandescently talented writers for major natl publications are worth at least three times that

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@JennyAment I’m sitting in my car weeping now, because it’s so important to remember that most people in the world are kind. They are aching to help. This story started in one of the darker moments of my adult life so far, and look where it ended. Imran, thank you. ❤️

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Oh my God. Guys. My son just spent an hour talking about volcanoes with @janinekrippner thanks to the magic of Geology Twitter, and she *brought him a hunk of lava from Kamchatka.* I think he will be hugging that rock to his heart for the rest of his life. 😭

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4 years

This tree *was* the social safety net for people in the region -- white, Black, Native. It was often used as currency. It was a staple food source. Were they still around in preblight numbers, chestnuts could meet the caloric needs of the *entire current US population*

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4 years

ME AGAIN! I’m seeing so many people say they felt buoyed and refreshed by this story, comforted to tears. Me too! Such is the power of wonder, play, and nature. A power that is—like all of them here—segregated. Violently so. Do what you can to help.

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6 years

PS: this decade-old CCT piece is 100% the limit of my knowledge about this! Based on the vehemence of debate below about my interpretation of the story, I think there's a great follow-up longread hint hint journo followers, but pls interview people who actually know them.

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5 years

My sister and I have a phrase: “it’s not about the coat.” Long story involving s/o she knew sobbing “about” a lost coat per se, but really about a breakup. We say this to remind e/o that people’s embarrassing, petty gripes are often their way of processing terrible grief.

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You might see people complaining about what seem like small issues. Maybe they are. Also possible that this moment amplifies everything & what you’re seeing is someone’s last straw.

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My home office is now a fully functional American chestnut arboretum. They require special non-soil potting mixture. Once they are sprouting leaves, because I am growing them indoors, they will also require - I kid you not - daily recess to develop wind literacy.

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2 years

Hey DMV: look up! Circumhorizontal arcs happening all over the place. These require a pretty rare concatenation of factors to occur (high icy cirrus clouds, certain latitude and time of year/day), so you better enjoy this pastel firestorm and do so forthwith (cc @capitalweather )

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4 years

above all else, i'm just gobsmacked that this is a rare instance of an interview being *undersold* in pre-event hype

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4 years

that is going to win several emmys, that was a lot, i am love with both of them, in love, the end

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@annasproul

4 years

Peak Neon deal announcement. God I love you @wordscience and @kentdwolf

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@annasproul

4 years

It’s the first anniversary of the last normal weeks of our lives. Your inner timer remembers, even if you didn’t.

speedy ortiz ÷ sad13 ÷ sadie dupuis ÷ haunted guy

@sad13

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have you been having a garbage 1-2 weeks? like the worst ones of the whole pandemic? i don't think i know a single person who doesn't feel that way, all for totally different reasons, "i just wanna see something"

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So proud of @manwhohasitall and all you ambitious Boy Bosses who conquer the world while balancing kids, office, power dressing, skincare, and Me Time. And now a book about to publish in AMERICA?! Go get ‘em, dada.

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4 years

If you do even cursory rabbit holing into this story, you will see that it is INSANE we don't talk about this national trauma in schools, in history books, in all of our discussions about inland Eastern seaboard culture, all the time. INSANE.

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@annasproul

5 years

Good morning from the HOSPITAL LOBBY where I am waiting for the husband of our CLIENT WHO JUST GAVE BIRTH to bring down signed contracts because SOME big 5 publishers inexplicably still don’t do DocuSign in 2019!

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Today is my 39th birthday and therefore the first day of my 40th year. Fortysomethings plus: what’s your best advice for someone my age? What did you wish you knew or did?

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Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasproul

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I am sitting in my car doing something like panting after reading this piece; my heart is pounding. It’s all I can do not to go put my fist through a wall.

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Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasproul

4 years

I hear my 3 children running around upstairs, playing a version of "tag" that involves the youngest, age 2, running around after the rest, laughing and yelling "I COVID! I COVID! I COVID!" Oh God, I feel like I am witnessing the development of Ring Around the Rosy: The Sequel.

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Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasproul

3 years

@JenAshleyWright With most kids, it's a matter of months vs years that you're not sleeping. Most of them are sleeping a solid 12 by something like...6 months? (I honestly forget.) The bear for me is that those 12 hours are 7pm to 7am and mornings make me want to die.

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Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasproul

5 years

Good morning! I am dying inside at the level of well-intentioned but totally-off opining about seven-figure advances in my feed. Remind me later today to talk about various reasons why you all are wrong about this, although I do love you.

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Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasproul

7 years

If you read Cat Person, Cat Person Behind the Music is equally brilliant:

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Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasproul

4 years

Honestly surprised we haven't seen more of these "did u know taking care of small children is actually grueling" threads from male Twitter users who live in the Bay Area

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Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasproul

1 year

I maybe cried a little at this: on tour in Seattle for her new book, AP’S US HISTORY, @petridishes —my sole client who is also a preexisting friend—saw a familiar face in the audience: Mr. Zimand, who taught both of us (actual) AP US History and moved out west 15+ years ago.

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Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasproul

5 years

The point of this photo with @TheGoodDeath is that the nail in question is a portrait of her head.

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Anna Sproul-Latimer

@annasproul

5 years

I have realized much too late in life that the sum total of heroism (for most of us) is this: when the call comes to act on something personally sad, hard, shameful, or awkward - to lose - for the sake of a much greater but more abstract good, do you do it?

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