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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · 3d

She stood apart from her own stardom, even as she desired recognition, and so successful was Keaton’s deflection of her “I” that we hardly noticed that her career lasted as long as those of her most successful male contemporaries—Pacino, De Niro, and so on—something very rare for a female star.

Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 3d

Hilton Als on Diane Keaton. www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

Diane Keaton’s Shadows and Light

The actress’s nuanced ambivalence.

www.newyorker.com

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · 3d

In a writing phase wherein, every two months, I sit down and write 30-100 lines that are ultimately very satisfying. I stand, exhausted, and I immediately want to return to the feeling but I know it will only return, with any result, in another 60+ days. I could force the matter, but it never works.

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · 3d

Deep thanks for the playlist at the back! I’m listening to it now while playing Super Mario Galaxy & I feel like I’m back in my childhood home on PEI playing Nintendo beside the kitchen radio.

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · 3d

From Eric Schmaltz’s I CONFESS.

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · 3d

I look for you like a mushroom peering
through soil & new earthly shades / I

find you at the riverside & I give you
a golden melon that I grew just last
spring / I

tuck your book into the bottom of my
bookcase & walk by softly each day

Reading @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social’s I CONFESS.

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · 3d

From “I Don’t Want to Get Adjusted to This World” in Ryan Fitzpatrick’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · 3d

history flips
its bad mattress,
tips its server
poorly,
what’s left
for Heaven
to ban, it asks

Reading @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social’s NO DEPRESSION IN HEAVEN.

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KIRBY @itsakirby.bsky.social · 4d

JUST IN. #MONTREAL

Jessica HIEMSTRA @jessicajoyhiemstra.bsky.social @gooselane.bsky.social
KIRBY @knifeforkbook.bsky.social @palimpsestpress.bsky.social
Cory LAVENDER @gaspereaupress.bsky.social

05 NOV 7PM
ARGO BOOKSHOP
argobookshop.ca/

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 5d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 13d

Montreal vigil & march for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Trans & Two-Spirit people happening Oct. 4

An annual vigil and march are taking place in Montreal to memorialize and mobilize for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

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andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · 16d

Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it. @tyolsen.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

The Definitive History of Canada’s Residential School Shame | The Tyee

Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it.

thetyee.ca

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Beep Thief @beepthief.bsky.social · Sep 16

This is one of the most euphonious headlines I’ve ever read.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · Sep 1

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems / to the absurdity of not writing poems”
- Wislawa Szymborska

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tempted by the desperate depths of “revenge procrastination” mid-day as I work from home in preparation for fall classes and various tasks, I am rewarding 25-minute periods of “productivity” (whatever that may be) with a Beyoncé dance break. “Love On Top” has brought my mood to its peak.

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The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 18

Featured this week in The New Quarterly is Misha Solomon's "Yesterday Down at the Canal", from Issue 175! Click here to read the full poem: tnq.ca/story/yester...

Excerpt from Misha Solomon's poem "Yesterday Down at the Canal", published in Issue 175 of The New Quarterly.

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Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social · Aug 14

Always read Bob

Two Showgirls In Love: Travis Kelce And Taylor Swift Have A Chat | Defector

A few minutes into her Aug. 13 appearance on New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift said, “This is my first podcast.” I thought she was making a little joke—surely she’d talked to Marc Ma...

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andrea bennett (they/them) @akkabah.bsky.social · Aug 12

Every single sexual assault court case I see in the news makes me feel relieved I never reported mine.

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · Aug 13

Oh no!

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · Aug 9

Happy to have a new poem in the summer reading issue of @thewalrus.ca . Thanks to @cstarnino.bsky.social for the editorial stewardship. thewalrus.ca/and-then-cam...

And Then Came the Day | The Walrus

Afterward, let’s go home and lay failure, longing, / and some lost cicada husks all belly up on the table

thewalrus.ca

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Choire @choire.bsky.social · Aug 9

Why am I rooting for her though. www.thecut.com/article/food...

Around the same time, the finance department asked some staffers to comb through Muldoon’s previous expenses and note anything they couldn’t account for. At that point, they realized there were hundreds of thousands of dollars in suspicious spending. Right before Muldoon was scheduled to come back from her medical leave, she told a colleague that she had requested more time off, which the company denied. When she came back, she was terminated. Colleagues were told that she had been fired for misuse of company funds. Three months later, she was on a flight to Mexico that she had paid for on the company card when she was still at Food52.

To her old colleagues, it seemed like Muldoon had gotten away with it. “She basically walked away with all of the clothes. And the memories,” said a former staffer. While she had blocked most of her former colleagues on social media, some still had access, watching in awe as she ran the New York City Marathon despite her alleged medical issues and relocated to Los Angeles. In February 2024, she was hired at Substack as its podcast and video acquisition-and-development lead. She was employed for fewer than 90 days.

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Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social · Aug 7

New work from our 2022 finalist Jessie Jones. Enjoy!

periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · Aug 5

newly posted: Jessie Jones : Two poems / @gooselane.bsky.social ;
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/jess...

Jessie Jones : Two poems

Applying the face Near god, near good. Proscenium in shades of aristocratic veins. Vacant rotunda. Oil drops spun wide by light, b...

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · Aug 4

Aversion to private property, seduction by the actual spoils of wealth: this dialectic, so suggestive of the literary writer who knows better than to hope for real financial success but does anyway, surges throughout these novels. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

New TV Novels | Lisa Borst

It’s a literature of dimming stars, smoggy drives through flammable chaparral, frequent benders, prostitutes. Flash periods of productivity where somebody bangs out a script in a week. There’s at leas...

www.nplusonemag.com

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jessi @jessisays.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social for suggesting I submit!

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