Writer / fiction / @IowaWritersWksp / @MacDowell1907 // Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic // Previously a paleoanthropologist.
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So Yiyun Li is visiting here tomorrow, but the Daily Iowan decided to interview some random for its ‘Ask the Author’ feature. Highly questionable, cannot condone, would reconsider. dailyiowan.com/2022/09/20/as…
New on my blog: an admiration of the striking poetry collection “Green for Luck” by Margaret Yapp, published in 2024 by @eastoverpress. davidwrites.net/blog/2024/6/…
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"We eloped the week after the moon landing, the Apollo men back on earth but still quarantined."
In this week's miCRo, @davidwrites1 takes us back and forth in time and space to tell the story of a marriage. buff.ly/3VKg5gf
New on my blog: an admiration of the wonderful short story collection “You Were Watching from the Sand” by @JulianaLamy, published in 2023 by @RedHenPress as the winner of the Ann Petry Award. davidwrites.net/blog/2024/1/…
Very grateful to @MacDowell1907 for the support! I’ll be there, snowshoes on, in Jan/Feb 2024.
We are thrilled to announce our fall-winter 2023-2024 Fellowship awardees! macdowell.org/news/163-artis…
Uh oh, someone lost the most expensive part of their car.
ALT a BMW hood ornament laying on a sidewalk
Clearly Netflix can’t afford to pay what the writers are asking for. I mean, nothing indicates austerity and tough economic times like [checks notes] expanding into the restaurant business? #WGA
Netflix is opening up a restaurant in Los Angeles
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Below is the link to the Netflix Bites Restaurant that shows how it really looks.
While the tweet is correct, it shows AI-generated images.
netflix.shop/en-de/pages/bi…
Me, watching the final episode of Barry and realizing that the new “Max” iPad app leaves up the ‘chrome’ (time, date, wifi strength, battery strength, etc) the whole time.
ALT The character of NoHo Hank from the HBO show Barry looking confused/disturbed. The show is playing on an iPad with the time/date/wifi strength/etc still showing.
A good story, inaugurating a good idea for a new literary journal … that’s like getting two tacos.
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Now that it’s in my head, I can’t shake it: Stan Van Gundy doing the commentary on Heat - Celtics game sounds almost exactly like Vince Gillgan of Breaking Bad fame.
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David Simon, the creator of The Wire, says he’s on strike to protect new generations of writers and make sure they aren’t exploited by studios.
He also explains how studios are cutting jobs to please shareholders and making TV shows almost impossible to run. cc @AoDespair
That multiple sports commentators/journalists have been so dismissive of a possible concussion (aka brain injury) is wild. Kudos to @dpyoung13 for telling the story. (Green also smacked his head hard on the floor, but nobody mentioned a possible concussion then either.)
Lots of people breaking out their brain scanners and mind readers today sfgate.com/warriors/article/…
I really liked reading this piece and maybe you will too?
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It’s not every day that you see a 2x NBA MVP get into it physically with a team owner. In a playoff game, no less. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of language gets used in talking about this. “Competitor” is an early betting favorite over “aggressive.”
The @MastersReview 2022 Anthology of the Best Stories by Emerging Writers, selected by Peter Ho Davies, is available now. I'm glad to be in the company of @KunkleFredrick @lathamwithapen @roy_udehubaka @ner_ves @pgarcialujan
& others. Thanks @ColeA_Meyer bookshop.org/p/books/the-mas…
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Iowa's MFA in Spanish Creative Writing is celebrating ten years. The CLAS program, which is one of many acclaimed writing programs at Iowa, has garnered worldwide prestige and helped many students go on to publish: bit.ly/3oAPSmg 📚
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Still thinking a lot about @erintheswan's fantastic, literary-scifi epic WALK THE VANISHED EARTH, which I read earlier in the summer. Like STATION ELEVEN but with wildness and dislocation in place of community and continuity. Strange, haunting, beautifully written.
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Labor of love, six years in the making. MOVEMENT is out now! Raw, vulnerable, powerful stories remixing music and migration remixed. Episode 1 featuring @oddisee, episode 2 featuring @jesusdiazqba. Listen/subscribe at Linktr.ee/movementstories. so much more to come this season!
A totally biased but still valid recommendation: get in on Witness early. bookshop.org/p/books/witness…
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