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Bossy little bluebird. Former bookseller. Sometime children’s publishing person. Hamline MFAC ‘24. Currently querying. http://jessedoogan.substack.com

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Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?

my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

06.03.2026 14:34 👍 630 🔁 52 💬 53 📌 39

I LOVE this

03.03.2026 23:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

03.03.2026 15:28 👍 4712 🔁 920 💬 50 📌 35

We literally had a pizza party and even that could not save it

03.03.2026 15:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The library sending their overdue notices out on Sunday mornings is a violation of my religious rights

01.03.2026 17:29 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Instagram has put me in a very specific demographic and it is wild over here

27.02.2026 16:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“So good I know I won’t be waiting for Friday to make these!” is the new “remember you are dust”

27.02.2026 16:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Like, is Gorton Seafood specifically catering to a Lent-observing audience or is this person incidentally Catholic and decided to take that angle?

27.02.2026 16:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Who will write me 10,000 words on Lenten spon con

27.02.2026 16:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

perfect movie

21.02.2026 02:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat

21.02.2026 02:24 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

19.02.2026 18:05 👍 1461 🔁 285 💬 19 📌 39

Okay I absolutely thought George was a girl and the illustration was a girl with black hair and a black skirt falling and as soon as he became a man I lost interest

19.02.2026 19:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was so fun

19.02.2026 19:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

get rid of him right away

19.02.2026 03:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

oh for sure when the blood-sucking lawyer was in the bathroom stall

19.02.2026 03:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Getting the big ones out of the way: yes, it is dinosaurs and yes, they eat SEVERAL guys

19.02.2026 03:38 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I have just seen Jurassic Park in the theater and for the first time, AMA

19.02.2026 03:38 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR

17.02.2026 23:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

you live in a boxcar *one time* and they call you "the boxcar children" forever

15.02.2026 17:41 👍 91 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0

Jam in a latte is the best move

15.02.2026 18:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I have not and this is quite important to me

15.02.2026 03:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If Carly Rae Jepsen has no fans, I am dead, but perhaps the “Call Me Maybe - Manhattan Clique Remix” that is essentially only the refrain “call me maybe” over 2012 dance beats for five minutes straight should be banned from whatever music services play in MRI machines

13.02.2026 16:09 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I only use notepad when I absolutely need clean text with nothing weird happening. Why did they add the weird thing????

11.02.2026 21:45 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Splurging on rotisserie chicken” when they are almost always significantly cheaper than a raw whole chicken you make yourself.

11.02.2026 04:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Surely it is safe to see Hamnet and then H is for Hawk next week!” But no. I cried over Hamnet bird and now I can’t cry with H is for Hawk bird.

10.02.2026 00:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It has Claire Foy in it! It was out for approximately a week and I saw another movie in that week and now what will I do????

10.02.2026 00:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I am devastated to learn that I have missed H IS FOR HAWK in theaters. Gonna adopt a bird to deal with this grief.

10.02.2026 00:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I saw him in Chicago on Friday and he is perfect.

09.02.2026 23:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Il est oraaaaaaaaaaaange

09.02.2026 00:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0