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andrewbertaina.bsky.social
Andrew Bertaina
@andrewbertaina.bsky.social
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The body is a temporary gathering place (2024 Autofocus) . One Person Away From You (2021 Moon City Press)3x notable at Best American Essays. Work in The Best American Poetry, The ThreePenny Review, Prairie Schooner etc.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 12h
Incredible sketch!!
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 17h
Really fun reading at the 804 lit salon last night with @michaelbarron.bsky.social , @karenpalmer.bsky.social , @darbyprice.bsky.social @kristinaten.bsky.social Tim Stafford and @writesloud.bsky.social !!

It was a lovely evening to hear from a bunch of talented folks.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 19h
It was a delight. The audience loved it. Glad to have it as a part of a fun night :)
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 21h
Sometimes you read Nina and everyone just stares at you. Sometimes you read Nina & the audience gets her & you. Huge thanks to @laurenwoods.bsky.social and @andrewbertaina.bsky.social at 804 Lit Salon, & the whole crowd, for being that audience that gets us.

ICYM her:
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Grieco: 'Nina Parker Chooses Nymphomania'
Fiction by Hannah Grieco
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d
804 lit salon
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d
Caturday
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 1d
Morning poem—Seamus Heaney
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d
October River
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you :)
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d
She’s so damn good. What a sentence writer.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d
Post it!!
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d
October Yeats
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 2d
Morning read

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

This page included a surprise little section on Oroville Dam, which is only 30 minutes from where I grew up, a dam I pass every time I return to what used to be home.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d
We are down here in time, where beauty grows. Even if things are as bad as they could possibly be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and wing

Annie Dillard
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 3d
Last four reads

Panzer Herz by Kyle Dargan

Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth

Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard

The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe by @ladiwoods.bsky.social @autumnhousepress.bsky.social
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 4d
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 4d
Reminder that we’ll be featuring some amazing authors this weekend at the 804 lit salon in DC :).
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Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 4d
This event is on Sun at @peoplesbooktakoma.com. My daughter @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social will be my conversation partner. She lived the story of our harrowing disappearance, as well, and I suspect the questions will be fire. Come join us!

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Karen Palmer for She’s Under Here
“Once upon a time, I disappeared.” So begins Karen Palmer’s harrowing and redemptive memoir, She’s Under Here. In 1989, shortly after her second marriage, Palmer and her new husband quit their jobs…
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 4d
Halloween house vibes
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d
Lovely passage! Your essays are wonderful
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d
Fantastic story :). Love to see it
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d
One of my favorite writers with a new story :)
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Whitney Collins @whitneycollins.bsky.social · 5d
I am beyond excited to have my story “Truth or Consequences” published with @hexliterary.bsky.social!
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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social · 5d
"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

Folks, you aren't prepared for this new @whitneycollins.bsky.social story--perfectly written, utterly strange, incredibly compelling. We are so damn excited (and lucky) to share "Truth of Consequences" this week on hex! An absolute wonder! ✈️
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d
Remembering a line from In Search of Lost Time, the top half of their trunks flooded with light.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d
No :/
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d
James Wright—May Morning
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social · 5d
Morning walk
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