Associate Editor at The Sun

Durham, NC
Joined August 2013
Derek Askey retweeted
For our Lit Mag Reading Club, I got to chat with Derek Askey, Associate Editor of @TheSunMagazine. What a lovely long-standing lit mag this is. No ads, no fees, just an enormously supportive and active subscriber base.
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Was the band Television called Television because Tom Verlaine's initials were TV??
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Just learned Shelley Duvall was nominated for a Razzie in 1981 for her performance in The Shining. How is that possible? How do you watch the scene where she talks to the pediatrician about Jack breaking Danny's arm and not be convinced it's one of the best performances _ever_?
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Absolute killer day proofreading, caught a capital O masquerading as a zero, might have to take the rest of the day off.
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Delighted to have the opportunity to talk about alcohol — the "king of intoxicants" — with the insightful & affable @slingerland20 in the July issue of @thesunmagazine. thesunmagazine.org/issues/55…
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Just learned that the British version of Applebee's is called Wetherspoon's and that is exactly the name I would have guessed for the British version of Applebee's
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Barbershop idea, yours if you want it: American Hairlines
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Sequel idea: Ancient Cody Banks
Biggest regret about not living in Pittsburgh anymore is not getting to hear "omicron" in a yinzer accent.
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Listening to Neil Young's "You and Me." That line "thinking bout the times we had, some were good and some were bad, guitar fighting the TV" is definitely about him getting in a fight when his wife was trying to watch the news and he kept practicing Everybody's Rockin' songs
Phone autocorrects "Yo La Tengo" to "Your LA Tango," is this a tweet?
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Did one of those things where a bunch of neighbors get together and bring their own beer and chairs and sit 8 feet apart from one another and let me tell you I can't recommend it enough.
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The Sun has lifted our paywall. In this moment of isolation, we wanted to share stories about what connects us, the challenges we face, and the moments we rise to meet them. Read the current issue or browse our 45-year archive by topic, section, or year: thesunmagazine.org/read.
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"The palace has a moss problem" is the most Destroyer line ever.
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The Grateful Dead's logo is better than the Grateful Dead don't @ me
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