Nina de Gramont

Book of the Day ~ The Christie Affair by @ninadegramont.bsky.social

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Thank you!

CITRUS - A Thesis Film by Hadley Gessner - Indiegogo CITRUS is a teen satire about two girls navigating their assumed roles in southern society. When split up at a boy’s house, they explore their identities through sexuality, conversation, and an orange...

My daughter is following her bliss — about to graduate from Tisch. Please consider donating to her senior thesis project. Every little bit helps, she’s almost at the halfway mark! www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

I teach in a creative writing program and have read hundreds of poems written by students who are on the spectrum.

Speak, speak, speak!

Picked my dog up from the kennel this morning but somehow cannot break the habit of checking their webcams?

News!

What fun! I hope you enjoy the story!

Thanks Peter!

Dear friends, it's too late for next year, but please don't use AI for statements of purpose for writing programs. (Or anything.)

This includes for research about specific program. AI gets facts wrong. Those mistakes are glaring. Just look at the program's website directly.

As a former bookseller and loader of spin racks, this is a thrill!

I don’t know!

I have said that at least six times today.

Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.

Gessner Named Kenan Distinguished Professor Creative writing professor and lauded environmental writer David Gessner has been awarded the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professorship in Creative Writing.

Creative writing professor and lauded environmental writer David Gessner has been awarded the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professorship in Creative Writing. uncw.edu/news/academic-affairs/chssa/2024/10/gessner-named-kenan-distinguished-professor

I promise you, once you free yourself from the notion that other writers are your competition and start viewing them as your fellow weirdos who share similar special interests as you, your life in publishing will become so much easier.

(I meant to write poster but poser works too)

Facebook too. I just saw one so vile it brought tears to my eyes and the poser clearly considered himself morally superior.

Here's a thing you should know:

I've been working with extremely adept writers, many of them positively dripping in prizes, for decades, and they don't always get punctuation right, and they don't always know what nonplussed means, and they can't always tell the difference between lead and led.

I’m so excited about this stellar review in Publisher’s Weekly for David Gessner’s latest, The Book of Flaco!

We are hiring for two Assistant/Associate Professor positions! Details and requirements are posted at jobs.uncw.edu/hr/postings/... (Fiction) and jobs.uncw.edu/hr/postings/... (Poetry).
Please share with qualified and interested folks, or any appropriate group.

Despair is understandable but not sustainable.

I wonder which bromance will implode first — RFK or Musk?

Whenever I’m tempted to turn on cable news I watch an episode of Friends instead. Highly recommend.

Since 1987, my life has been the wait between Stephen McCauley novels. So excited this one has landed!

Oh Word. What did contractions ever do to you?

Reese Witherspoon has been recommending books for 5 years. Here are 10 of the best. Add these to your list.

www.mamamia.com.au/reese-wither...

Read The Christie Affair by @ninadegramont.bsky.social if you haven’t yet. It’s INCREDIBLE.

I think all artists can relate the the part where Frankenstein was like "I am going to make a man that is SO BEAUTIFUL" and then when he's finished he's like "I fucked up."