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Jul 27, 2022

Oh, HELLO there. 👀 Today is #coverreveal day for I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, a new novel by <checks notes> me. It's the literary feminist boarding school murder mystery you didn't know you needed! Out 2/21/23, but preorders are great karma... bit.ly/ihavesomequest

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There was one story collection where the paper was too rough. I just couldn't do it.

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Lupita Aquino

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Morning #BookTwitter! I want to get better at DNFing books this year….so tell me about the pettiest reasons you’d DNF a book

My apologies for posting carrot porn, but we just found this in a bag of baby carrots. What on earth.

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max asher miller

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Excellently written piece about terribly written AI prose

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I wrote about it here, and then decided 5:15 on a Monday was an AWESOME time to post something to social media. But I do hope you'll read it. It gets weirder. rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/we-have-noth

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Mondaire Jones

@MondaireJones

I don’t know what’s more ridiculous: that George Santos surprised his boyfriend with non-existent tickets to Hawaii and then stole his cell phone, or that an 18-year-old was able to quickly discover Santos was wanted by Brazilian police using a search engine.

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I genuinely think they can teach out how to write better, by teaching us how NOT to write like an AI bot. Which, to be honest, a lot of writers do.

I have good news about AI writing bots: They are pretty awful, for good reason, at creative stuff. Behold the sonnet I asked it to write about a sea urchin and lost love. But there's more. 🧵

I've loved doing daily writing prompts in 2022. I'm taking the prompts off Twitter and onto my Substack for '23... Hope to see you there!

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That's my last one for Twitter; I'll be posting lots more (and longer ones!) on my Substack this year, if you're interested. rebeccamakkai.substack.com

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Send this one to your uncle in Florida:

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The Atlantic

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The Republican Party is unquestionably complicit in the premature deaths of many of its own supporters, a phenomenon that may be without precedent in the history of both American democracy and virology, writes @yeahyeahyasmin. theatlantic.com/health/archive

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You need to watch this fish tube. Really.

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Vala Afshar

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This system helps native fish pass over dams in seconds rather than days

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That's my last one for Twitter; I'll be posting lots more (and longer ones!) on my Substack this year, if you're interested.

SubMakk

Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity. Click to read SubMakk, by Rebecca Makkai, a Substack publication with thousands of...

#365prompts, Day 365 (yesterday; my last prompt!): The Mensa meeting is interrupted by a drunk elevator repairman. He came in here because he saw the donuts. Elsewhere in the same Hyatt, a senator is starting an affair with a poet. It's a Tuesday in March, raining hard.

ME TOO, Salon. Me too.

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Salon

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22 books we're looking forward to in 2023 ift.tt/HFWlC1Y

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In the riveting new #novel from

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, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite #NewHampshire boarding school. Reserve your seat to join #LitattheLounge on Wednesday, February 22! Tickets: bit.ly/3Yth1oB

Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@QasimRashid

Here's some New Years perspective to start your 2023. Barbara Walters, Anne Frank, & Dr. MLK, Jr. were all born in 1929. Yet while we were just with Ms. Walters days ago, those two icons are portrayed as ancient history. Remember, "The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

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Found in the comments under a FB knitting kit ad. I’m confused and fascinated.

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Julie Klausner

@julieklausner

My favorite detail in the list of things George Santos lied about so far- WHY DID HIS FAKE ANIMAL CHARITY NOT RESCUE MORE CATS?????

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Just found this nice little drink recipe from 1941. Someone please make it and tell me if it cures gout or what.

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Viking Books

@VikingBooks

Booksellers keep raving about I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU. 🌟💫 Mary Powers at

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's forthcoming novel "an excellent page-turner, and my favorite of Makkai's books to date." Learn more: bit.ly/3HI47x2

#365prompts, Day 364: Give a main character a heart monitor for the duration of your story.

Greta Thunberg

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this is what happens when you don’t recycle your pizza boxes

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#365prompts, Day 363: The fifth lawsuit also made headlines.

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#365prompts, Day 363: Write the first lines of a story called "The Ottawa Peach."

#365prompts, Day 361 (yesterday): You would not think a Christmas tree could smell that bad.

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Number of decedent's we've had in the morgue shot by intruders into their home: 0 Number of women we have had shot by their husbands in the last two months with a gun he owned: 10

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(Folks asking for recipe: it’s yours when I get home late this afternoon!)

Also, bonus points if you can guess, in the photo above, which cake was iced/streuseled by my Virgo child, and which one by my Libra child. (Not a trick question.)

Here's the whole dang story, if you're interested, plus (for subscribers) the recipe, but if you're broke and want the recipe just DM me, because if you like jam, I like you. Also four other Really Good Things!

Five Good Things

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It took a lot improvisation and investigation, but WE DID IT, for Christmas morning breakfast. It does not look like the original, but it was soooo good.

A few years ago I asked everyone on every social media platform to help me solve the mystery of the Seven Sisters Cake from the late, great Swedish Bakery in Chicago. 🧵

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#365prompts, Day 360: Write a story that takes place entirely in the customer service line at the airport, as passengers wait to rebook their flights.

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Ladies! Simply subtract your mind, and you, too, can have a brighter face!

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#365prompts, Day 359: Write the first lines of a story called “It Was Never About You.”

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#365prompts, Day 358: The story starts when Jason decides to buy himself an 1852 thesaurus for Christmas.

Ryan

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Dec 23, 2022

Grandma with dementia called me guapo and ‘needs to introduce me to granddaughter’ aka me…being trans is wild lmao

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