Lydia
@LydiaMWrites
writer • MFA in Fiction Writing @NYUCWP • Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellow • Assistant Editor @APublicSpace • rep’d by Mariah Stovall @TrellisLit
New story out today in @orangesjournal . If you have a chance check it out! It’s one of my favorite pieces. #WritingCommunity #story orangesjournal.com/fiction/girlho…
Everand had to be the worst reading subscription service ever created
I just finished reading The Bee Sting. I feel like if I ever see Paul Murray on the street, I’m obligated to fight him.
Love being profiled with my family at Walmart, having them thinking we’re stealing, just to re-ring up our purchase and GET THE SAME TOTAL 😒 @Walmart
In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.
Very cool how every piece of digital technology is now purposively designed to breed illiteracy
I’m reading Choosing Theo by Victoria Aveline and why is Jade kinda super annoying ?
Actors really have no morals because as soon as they said, you’ll be filming with *this person*, I would’ve been like I’ll pay the fine for breaking this contract or whatever I need to do cause I’m not gonna be in a movie with her absolutely not. But anything for money, I guess.
In the trailer for Ryan Murphy’s 'All’s Fair' legal drama, Kim Kardashian plays a powerhouse divorce attorney running an all-female law firm alongside Naomi Watts and Niecy Nash-Betts
they're literally trying to sneak a clause in the 2025 budget reconciliation bill that PREVENTS THE REGULATION OF AI FOR 10 YEARS. why isn't EVERYONE sounding the alarm about this???
If you are a reviewer/ poetry thinker/ poem lover/ hot girl/ have dreams about losing your teeth/ road trip taker/ gross softie/ animal person/ someone who cries at museums/ food as 'love language' human/ worshipper/ hedonic loser, etc. I'd love to connect with you!!
An update!!! “The Afterlife of Sweetness” is making its earthside appearance soon! ✨✨✨
Cleaning out my stock! I have 15 signed copies of Icarus ✨PAPERBACK✨ version! It's much lighter than the hardcover and honestly, I'm kind of a sucker for paperback. Ships with a little treat! kancrum.com/product/icarus…
Yall so busy worrying about other writers and it’s exactly why your writing won’t reach anyone in any meaningful way 😪
Hell
New Jersey church wanted to build a homeless shelter—town just voted to seize its property. Republican Mayor Daniel Rodrick said "I believe Christ would agree" with his plan to build a park with pickleball courts instead. Town Council voted to take land by eminent domain if the…
Walz: So many Americans thought, “We need to hire a businessman to run government like a business.” Two things about that are wrong. First, no—we don’t need to run government like a business, because we’re not in the profit-making business. We’re in the business of improving…
I truly can’t believe we have been watching Palestinians be killed for almost 2 years. Israel is just being allowed to commit a genocide right before us.
Sometimes I stand at the top of the stairs and d stare down as my family walks pass and THEY DONT SEE ME! It’s like eight steps. Horror movies are right.
People get very pretentious when they start expressing their hate (dislike, despising, whatever) for Ocean Vuong
Jordan Casteel?! LOVE her art! We went to the same tiny undergrad college so this is so cool to me!
Lewis Hamilton bought his own table at this year’s Met Gala and invited black women who "shaped, nurtured, and redefined it all". He invited Lauryn Hill, Regina King, Jordan Casteel, Ming Smith, Adrienne Warren, Danielle Deadwyler, Lorna Simpson and Radhika Jones.