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Author: WOMAN OF INTEREST (2024), QUOTIENTS (2020), & THE HOPEFUL (2015). WOMAN OF INTEREST orders:

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Tracy O'Neill
3 months
Knocked out, bowled over, and otherwise thrown to see WOMAN OF INTEREST in @NewYorker ! “Dark, deeply funny memoir…Dashiell Hammett meets ‘Fleabag.’”
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Today, I got my PhD and didn’t even leave my living room. Here’s a snap from my Zoom dissertation defense as the committee deliberated and I selfied.
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4 months
Mary Robinson on her “golden dream” in this interview in @parisreview
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2 years
Somehow managed to keep my big mouth shut about this since June, but I’m over the moon to publish my memoir WOMAN OF INTEREST with @HarperOneBooks which means I’ll get to be edited by @rakeshsatyal and I couldn’t be more grateful to have @mere215 in my corner & scoring K-Os.
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Tracy O'Neill
10 months
WOMAN OF INTEREST has a cover & pub date! The book’s about the time I tried to get a private eye to find my mother in Korea—and searching for what makes up the life of any woman of interest forever. Preorder here if you’re down for early support:
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5 years
The galleys for my novel QUOTIENTS have arrived, and I adore them so! Look out for the book May 2020.
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2 years
Looks like Civatella Ranieri will fulfill my dream of writing in a castle! So happy to be granted this fellowship alongside so many writers I 🖤🖤🖤
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2 years
I love the editorial process.
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4 years
Very excited to receive a research/translation grant from Vassar College to think more about the feminism of “wayward” Korean women!
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
It’s here! My novel QUOTIENTS launches today. I began it 5 years ago, at the time not sure I’d ever publish again. Every day working on it has been a privilege & I’m infinitely grateful to those who helped this book find its way. Thank you!
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3 years
I wrote for the New York Times for the first time.
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5 years
I’m finding light in corners under quarantine. These are frightful times, but I’m feeling very lucky that I’ll be joining the full-time faculty at Vassar College this fall.
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3 years
QUOTIENTS got a new paperback cover, and a friend said it’s sexy, and I said thank you. 8/31 it’s here.
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4 years
when I finish a piece
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I'm very excited to share that my novel QUOTIENTS will be published by @soho_press ! Thrilled to work with the brilliant @markedoten and grateful to my ride-or-die agent @PantherFist .
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4 years
I am humbled that Lit Hub says QUOTIENTS will “knock you on your ass.” And I’m knocked on my ass to see my novel alongside Lit Hub’s other favorite 2020 books.
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Literary Hub
4 years
The year: not good. The books: great. HERE ARE OUR FAVORITES.
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Tracy O'Neill
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The WOMAN OF INTEREST galley is here! June 2024 the book launches. If you need a copy before then, let me know here: .
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3 years
At the dentist a man asked if my Deb Olen Unferth book was self help. When I told him it was a story collection, he recommended the Chicken Soup series.
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3 years
As a Korean-American adoptee with an Irish last name, I’m excited when people think to include me in Asian American lit stuff. This year I’m doing my 1st Asian American lit panel at @215festival ! Hope you’ll join me, @knguyen & Sonya Chung, May 14. #APAHM
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4 years
NaNoWriMo but instead of writing a novel you write a chapter of a good novel
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!!!!!!! So very excited !!!!!!! to see !!!!!!! WOMAN OF INTEREST !!!!!! in the @vulture summer reading recs !!!!!
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3 years
All I do is reset forgotten passwords.
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
In light of Atlanta, I shall thread. I used to bartend at a lounge called Happy Ending housed in a former massage parlor. This week, I’m thinking about how the job afforded me the opportunity to take low-paying adjunct work and write—but also how issues of race and power were...
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3 years
The QUOTIENTS paperback is out today. It is also the first day of school, and I made it to work in 2 hours. Praise be for the soft, cheap good things.
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
A year ago I brought my little brother to bingo in Brooklyn, and I would do almost anything to be able to do that today.
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Tracy O'Neill
3 years
A terrific opportunity for someone: a Simon & Schuster book deal for a debut author from an underrepresented group. Entries open June 1. Get it!
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
FKA Twigs suing Shia LaBeouf points out the lack of resources for holding abusers to account. I spent over a year pursuing answers to the question: can domestic violence offenders get better? Here’s the feature I wrote on abusive partner intervention.
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6 months
Third book, first @PublishersWkly starred review! 🙏🏽 WOMAN OF INTEREST lands June 25!
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Tracy O'Neill
4 months
It’s here! It’s here! WOMAN OF INTEREST is out in the world courtesy of @HarperOneBooks . Huge thanks especially to the dream team: @rakeshsatyal & @mere215 ! So lucky to do the damn thing with you.
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Tracy O'Neill
2 years
Some cute news: I’m super happy to now be repped by the very brilliant @mere215 which means we get to talk about my favorite subjects (books, wild women, mysteries, existentia.)
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Tracy O'Neill
6 years
I wish I could have read these books when I was young, reading books in NH trees, but mostly I am just happy I don’t have to wish for them anymore. Here’s to @nicole_soojung & @alexanderchee , two of the real lovelies.
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Tracy O'Neill
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Had semi-existential dread this morning but then heard somehow WOMAN OF INTEREST is one of the Best Memoirs of 2024 according to @esquire ! 🥲 WOMAN OF INTEREST arrives June 25! Thank you @nicolesjchung .
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Tracy O'Neill
3 years
Wonderful to kick off AWP with these guys. I’ll remember: @AlexKleeman on zooming out to write capitalism, @mdbell79 on negotiating dystopian & utopian impulses, @ReeAmilcarScott on the affective field of contingent labor, @row_ie_argument on Ann Beattie in IKEA.
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Jess Row
3 years
Hot damn! I didn’t get a good picture of the room, but that was the most people I’ve spoken to in a long time. Thanks to @mdbell79 , @ReeAmilcarScott , @tracysoneill and @AlexKleeman for a 🔥 🔥 🔥 panel on capitalism and the futures of fiction. #awp2022
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Tracy O'Neill
3 years
the pandemic was very tough for debuts so it’s extra lovely to see this year’s longlist
@Center4Fiction
The Center for Fiction
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We are thrilled to announce the longlist for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize! The 27 titles were selected by 116 volunteer readers from 143 submissions. Find the full list here:
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
Happy Korean American Day from your local Korean American author (and dog)! 🇰🇷🇺🇸
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and so the genre of infrastructure gothic was born
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I can be real petty but my unsolicited award season advice: 1) being happy for people > subtweeting conditions of an award 2) know no one took anything away from you; the award was never fucking yours 3) the way to deal with crawling toward death is goth aesthetics & metal
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Tracy O'Neill
3 years
will never stop thinking about the moment at the reading last night when, due to poor timing with applause for an author, my friend shouted to me “i think i would love having sex with that person” from the front of the room
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3 years
keep an eye out, like so, for the QUOTIENTS paperback 8/31
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4 years
every writer launching a book in this pandemic doing virtual events like “what? i always lean my head on my hardcover just like this when i’m at home on the computer” yes, i’m about to log onto zoom
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Tracy O'Neill
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It’s coming! My novel QUOTIENTS comes out in less than two weeks on May 12 and preorders are available now at your favorite bookstore. My NYC go-tos are @wordbookstores & @TerraceBooks . I also 🖤 @Bookshop_Org which supports local independent bookstores.
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3 years
AWP: spent days straight with people I adore, lost my voice screaming screams of ecstatic recognition, mostly forgot to take pictures, ended up with this photo to remember it all by
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
SOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY! Congratulations @charles_yu who just won the @nationalbook award! THE BEST NEWS!!!
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Tracy O'Neill
5 years
I’ve been outed—QUOTIENTS is the novel I wrote when I was supposed to be focusing on my PhD coursework! 😈 My dissertation defense will be ~2 weeks before the book launches on May 12. 😬 Please share your stress relief tips/whiskeys. 🧘🏻‍♀️
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3 years
Back home to Brooklyn thank god and have had: pierogies, brisket, ribs, 3 arguments, fried chicken, latkes, a plastic bowl of noodles on street corner, a whiskey cocktail, unadulterated whiskey, 4 types of dips, taro boba, a Spanish tortilla, time with friends. I am so happy.
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So far my leaving New York City essay is short: Last week I moved upstate for two hours, then immediately turned around and came back.
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Tracy O'Neill
2 years
Naturally, wonderfully, thoughtfully @katiekitamura kept a full house at @Vassar rapt in discussion of language, manipulation, and literature.
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4 years
Woke up early to call my ma for #MothersDay , grab today’s @nytimes with QUOTIENTS in the Book Review, & eat donuts. Perfect Sunday and it’s not even noon yet.
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My memoir WOMAN OF INTEREST is out June 2024, and until then I will be “honoring Amy Winehouse,” my new euphemism for vaping.
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3 years
Can someone help me learn how to make my office look not like a garage?
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3 years
interrupting the obsessive olympic tweets to share that @GinaApostol came to Vassar & brought the house down
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
Why yes, I will take any opportunity to think about Don DeLillo’s fiction. I wrote about his new novel about a world stripped of screens, THE SILENCE, for @4_columns .
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
Nice to see QUOTIENTS in the mix with some writers I love like Percival Everett and Don DeLillo
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Big Other
4 years
Announcing the Finalists for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Fiction!
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Tracy O'Neill
3 years
Made an artistic breakthrough on the build your own sandwich at my deli: burrata, arugula, broccoli rabe, pesto.
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4 months
I tend to feel that the word “honored” is over-used, but I am indeed so very honored to be reviewed by one of my favorite writers @pmcottrell in the new issue of @BOMBmagazine ! 🙏🏽 “Shape-shifting memoir…singular and transcendent.”
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2 years
This is the only blurb that matters (or makes a différance for the nerds.)
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
I think about this DeLillo interview a lot, usually when I’m microwaving a burrito.
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4 years
I didn’t expect to write this essay—and yet. A piece on knowing what is right for you, coronavirus, and mothers:
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Tracy O'Neill
3 years
In the book, this would be when @kylelucia told me “we need to talk.” In reality, it was a blaze of love and glory for this book launch queen. WIN ME SOMETHING has arrived!
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4 years
publishing: if you need a “distraction” this week also publishing: books save lives
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3 years
Some cute 2021 stuff: 1. QUOTIENTS paperback
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4 years
That this man claimed to have a “sexual addiction” and robbed the parlors doesn’t make this not a hate crime. It speaks to the intersecting vulnerabilities of Asian-American women who face sexualized racial violence and classed resentment.
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South Florida Sun Sentinel
4 years
UPDATE: The gunman in the Atlanta massage parlor shootings was on his way to Florida, where he intended to carry out similar attacks, investigators said
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Tracy O'Neill
5 years
Authors with books out this spring/summer already have cancelled events, myself included. So I’m sharing a thread with books I’m psyched about you can preorder at @Bookshop_Org to support to writers & indie bookstores. Life Events by @believekarolina 1/
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New York Times Books
5 years
"The irony of all this is that what makes bookstores so potent, our ability to be community gathering places, has become our biggest liability."
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Tracy O'Neill
3 years
After many years, I have heard the critiques on the lack of art in my apartment. I own decorations and perhaps even will hang them.
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4 years
getting prepped for next semester with Professor @salesses
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Tracy O'Neill
5 years
If you’re against media unions & think journalism’s always been a poor man’s game, please grasp that Hemingway was being paid a better rate in 1944 than many publications offer today. 1944!
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Tracy O'Neill
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I spent a lot of 2020 worrying, but in between worrying I finished a PhD at Columbia (i.e. Zoom), ate a lot of junk food, and published a bit. A thread of some things that weren’t worrying: 📚My novel QUOTIENTS, which came out in May 1/...
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Hi, I’d like to shine books I read in 2020 so here’s a thread I’ll add to a little each day as the year closes. BLACK SUNDAY by @thatTola TRUE LOVE by @SarahNumber4 PARAKEET by @mhbertino RIDING WITH THE GHOST by @my19thcentury LITANY FOR THE LONG MOMENT by @mkimarnold 1/...
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I think I just missed my PhD graduation on Zoom while eating desk pasta and troubleshooting the formatting of a Word doc which feels very on-trend for this pandemic.
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Tracy O'Neill
5 months
Cannot wait to launch WOMAN OF INTEREST with THE @CCooperJones on June 26 at @greenlightbklyn !
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As a kid in MA, I thought the Boston Globe was literally the only newspaper—in the world. Today it’s great to see WOMAN OF INTEREST in the @BostonGlobe Summer Reading Preview!
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
Check out this talk with the very brilliant editor Yuka Igarashi, one of the few people whose taste I trust🖤
@AuthorsGuild
The Authors Guild
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"I want Soft Skull to keep publishing books no one else will." In our Q&A with an Editor series, Yuka Igarashi discusses taking over the editor-in-chief role for the legendary edgy indie press, Soft Skull Press.
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The new issue of @NYMag says do read WOMAN OF INTEREST, and no arguments here.
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Naturally @mhbertino brought the house down at @booksaremagicbk .
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
Nothing makes you feel sentimental like when your friend who knew you when you wore bootcut jeans tries to make you feel special about your pandemic milestones.
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4 years
This dog just barked at his own fart.
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Optical allyship is publishing: -insulating from criticism w/ a few POC writers while making $ publishing racist texts -publicly donating to justice orgs but not paying salaries viable for POCs without generational wealth -not trusting POCs to write about stuff besides racism
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Tracy O'Neill
3 years
a true friend will name your party looks
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Tracy O'Neill
2 years
Reading at Les Bleus tonight, 7pm! Email lesbleusnyc @gmail .com for the guest list and address.
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4 years
before the 80s, there was no bdsm. you just walked a mile uphill, barefoot in the snow, until you came and begged for mercy.
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
Okay, fine, I will say “now more than ever”: If this disturbs you, now more than ever, it’s time to support indie lit.
@PublishersWkly
Publishers Weekly
4 years
BREAKING: Penguin Random House will buy Simon & Schuster. Our story is forthcoming.
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People say defunding the police is nonsensical. What is common sense about these budgets? Imagine handling your own finances this way: spending $32 a month on rent, $9 on healthcare, & $294 on weapons & security. Consider that the defund movement is sensible budgetary reform.
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
I keep seeing people describe books I’ve read as “hopeful” that are not hopeful at all. Blurbers, just let literature be “bleakly captivating.” Make “bleakly captivating” a thing.
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4 years
One great thing about being an Asian-American writer is getting to do events with @aaww . Next Thursday @hanbae & I will discuss my novel QUOTIENTS on @instagram Live at 2pm EST.
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Tracy O'Neill
5 years
I wrote a story for the @pleiadesmag Periodic Table issue. 🤓🔬🧪 It contains the non-autobiographical sentence “I am barely a notably precise shape.” (I am squarely a notably precise shape.) 🟩🟦🟪 Thanks @RosebudBenOni & @BibliophileMari for asking me to contribute.
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Tracy O'Neill
2 years
At the risk of a bad pun, I had a blast writing this story in @BOMBmagazine . Included: sex, drugs, and the heroic female loser. I adore this issue with an excerpt from @aColinWinnette , an interview with Saidiya Hartman, & @dlb on Raw Poetic.
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Tracy O'Neill
6 years
A new Amy Hempel collection is coming. Someone get me the smelling salts.
@mhbertino
Marie-Helene Bertino
6 years
Finally, some outstanding news.
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4 years
I have brought this into my writing practice.
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
Yesterday driving I realized I left my wallet at a Panera 120 miles back with 168 to get home. A teenager gave me a $10 Stewart’s gift certificate when I didn’t have enough gas to drive back to Panera. As it turns out teenagers & gas station gift certificates can be pretty great.
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
I bought myself a confetti cake for dinner two days ago, and today for lunch I’m eating leftovers and reading Helen DeWitt, and I would very much like recommendations for excellent essays about The Last Samurai.
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4 years
This is an adding 3 sticks of butter to the mashed potatoes week.
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4 years
one thing I’m into: reading a poem first thing when I wake up
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Tracy O'Neill
4 years
Can domestic violence offenders get better? I wrote about abusive partner intervention programs, more commonly known as batterer intervention programs, for the new issue of @thebafflermag :
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Tracy O'Neill
3 years
woman would literally rather let her chubby dog lie on her rather than going to therapy
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