Thanks @martinseay.bsky.social Mildred Pierce is a huge inspiration, such a compliment ❤️

& @katprow.bsky.social's @marchxness.bsky.social essay on loss, precarity & Crystal Waters contains some of the best writing on restaurant-worker espirit de corps this side of MILDRED PIERCE:

marchxness.com/the-essays#/...

What can you do with a history degree?

Looks like Pedro Pascal was with Karol G and Cardi B in the Casita.

I will admit that Ricky Martin made me a lil emotional.

not Benito showing us exactly how immigrants make America great with all that working class visualization!! in this essay I will…

*started…

writer friends! I’m attempting to resurrect a craft essay about space and silence in fiction that I stayed years ago. I have a lot of canonical examples, but I’d love some ideas of recent fiction that “pauses” the plot as the prose continues. Any ideas? #writers #fictioncraft #amwriting

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Found a bookstore that stocks your novels

"... fear of heights has nothing to do with the distance from the ground or tall buildings,... it’s about our own human urge to fall when we get that far up, the knowledge that we could plummet, we could go, if we wanted. When I think about Spencer, I wonder why I didn’t choose to fall with him,..."

Christ, the Crystal Waters piece, and its parallels to the story of someone I used to know, absolutely broke me.

Addiction’s a hell of an affliction, and it ran very different courses in our respective lives.

I’m fucking grateful for where i landed and the people who held me through it.

Just Like You and Me: Katrina Prow on Crystal Waters — March Sadness 90s Edition

"Since 2020, pandemic-induced mental health crises resulted in exacerbated abuse of substances..." @katprow.bsky.social does everything I love for a @marchxness.bsky.social essay to do!

We learn about Crystal Waters & "Gypsy Woman," but also about Kat, & life itself! marchxness.com/justlikeyou/

thank you so much @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social 💜💜

thank you for reading @brianasalmons.bsky.social 💜

@drewpasmith.com thank you for the kind words—I worried about how much to write with this one, as there’s so much to say on addiction and the unhoused population, but I’m so happy to read this resonated 💜

new extracurricular live on @marchxness.bsky.social

It’s kinda a bummer, but Merry Christmas!

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Thank you! I’ll send to my student.

writer friends: I have a student working on a memoir about doxxing, cancel culture, and the alt-right online mob mentality. do you know any memoirs about this that they can read for inspo? or any creative nonfiction on this topic?

hoping to try something new next quarter with a lit-based comp class. I want to talk about labor and the working class. What are your favorite pieces of lit (CNF, poetry, short fiction) about work? link me!

TRULY SHOCKED. also no Boyz II Men?!

SO many good songs left to choose from. I wanted Madonna or PM Dawn or TLC or Whitney F*ing Houston! But I think I’ll pitch an extracurricular on Crystal Waters “Gypsy Woman,” as it’s my strongest essay idea. Join me! Someone HAS to do Whitney.

Oooh that was one of my choices! So glad it’s represented this year.

Thought of a few more R&B this morning:
Keith Sweat - Twisted (a must!)
Xcape - Who Can I Run To?
112 - Cupid
Brandy - Brokenhearted or Almost Doesn’t Count

& my Fiona Apple vote is for Paper Bag.

thinking/writing about music are my favorite things! Join the fun.

Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed to Live Without You
Jon Secada - Just Another Day
Roxette - It Must Have Been Love
Michelle Branch - Goodbye to You
The Cardigans - Lovefool
Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
Fastball - The Way
Bush - Swallowed
Smashing Pumpkins - Drown
Hootie - Let Her Cry

Mariah Carey - Breakdown (this is the saddest & best Mariah song)
Cat Power - Metal Heart
Hole - Doll Parts
and my Elliott Smith vote is for Pitseleh.

In that vein then, there’s Alice Deejay, “Better off Alone,” Haddaway’s “What is Love?” Gigi D’Agostino’s “L’Amour Toujours,” and Real McCoy, “Another Night.”

A few more that I just thought of: Selena, “Dreaming of You.” Arrested Development’s “Mr. Wendal,” or Crystal Waters, “Gypsy Woman,” (both about the unhoused), Brandy, “Have You Ever?” or Skee-lo, “I Wish.”

Also feel like “Mmm mmm mmm mmm,” from Crash Test Dummies is a must.

The holy trinity of Sheryl Crow: Can’t Cry Anymore, Strong Enough, and Leaving Las Vegas