Stephanie Insley Hershinow
@S_Insley_H
Quite good: cook, reader, procrastinator. Decent: mom, writer, teacher. Terribly bad: athlete, winker, cat trainer. RTs are jokes I wish I'd made first.
Just checking off my 14yo self’s professional goals. Order a desk copy! wwnorton.com/books/97803938…
And I always am!
IPAs really hit the spot when you’re in the mood to drink a pine cone
Bought an obscenely nice notebook at Choosing Keeping BUT then walked into Liberty and bought nothing, which means the notebook was free. 💅🏻
Also uncool because any email from my press about my book should say “we still think it’s great and everyone loves it and you’re so pretty.”
Ok, so I got an email from my press saying they want to move ahead with feeding my book into the AI machine. All of this creeps me out. Has anyone dealt with this yet?
Ok, so I got an email from my press saying they want to move ahead with feeding my book into the AI machine. All of this creeps me out. Has anyone dealt with this yet?
“What do you do for work?” “Me? Oh, I enroll as a new vendor in the system. On the side, I teach and write.”
The Baltimore Sun, Maryland, October 1, 1911
Sounds more like the foreign service exam to me.
BREAKING: American universities are now adopting a China-style social credit system for admissions. Not hyperbole—our universities have fully transformed into Marxist indoctrination centers.
Guess my Mandela effect is that I was pretty sure everyone knew Trump was all over the Epstein stuff and it was just another one of those things no one cared enough about. I truly can’t comprehend the reactions these days. This is breaking news?
Amy Sedaris or gtfo
Who’s going to play her in the Hulu limited series?
Author Brandon Taylor (@blgtylr) argues that Jane Austen's novel "Persuasion" illustrates how funny—and sad—adulthood can be time.com/7302901/jane-a…
It’s trained on Emily Dickinson.
Is there something about the emdash that is massively overrepresented in some segment of the literary corpus that is causing the LLMs to do that?
8yo last night: Who was the king before the four Georges? I want all the lore.
Saw a TikTok about a book and immediately went out and bought it. I am BookTok influenced now. I can relate to my students. 😂
Back on my bullshit (being weirdly into unfinished c18 paintings), with bonus Sir Thomas Lawrence (my bff) death mask.
I never go viral anymore (everyone seems to be gone), but it’s cute everybody’s into Holbein today.
Doing some public humanities (telling strangers where to stand when looking at Holbein’s Ambassadors).
