Laura Scalzo
@laurascalzo.bsky.social
Writer. Reader.
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“Scalzo takes the reader on a journey through well-researched history, supernatural curiosity, and a deep appreciation for life and death and even tragedy. I found myself inside the mind of this young lady, and I forgot that I was reading a book. I don’t remember that happening to me before.”
I’m not sure why but my daughter holding up a large can of beer at the movies looks like a Renaissance painting.
February 15, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I’m not sure why but my daughter holding up a large can of beer at the movies looks like a Renaissance painting.
“This is particularly useful in publishing, where adults really don’t know what they are talking about,” Biel said. “As such, I threw out the rules that don’t make any sense or serve the stated goals. I rebuilt mechanisms for what was best for what I wanted to achieve.”
Check out this absolutely DELIGHTFUL blog and interview with Joe for our 30th anniversary from Upbeat Noise!
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The Year of the Zine: Microcosm Publishing celebrates thirty years
Sure, 2025 was also The Year of the Zine, but we’re doing it again. Q+A with Joe Biel, author and founder of Microcosm Publishing.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
“This is particularly useful in publishing, where adults really don’t know what they are talking about,” Biel said. “As such, I threw out the rules that don’t make any sense or serve the stated goals. I rebuilt mechanisms for what was best for what I wanted to achieve.”
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I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.
February 13, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.
I am breathless with disgust.
“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”
@reuters.com
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@reuters.com
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February 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM
I am breathless with disgust.
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"Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous."
~ Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow
#Booksky
~ Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow
#Booksky
February 13, 2026 at 12:13 PM
"Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous."
~ Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow
#Booksky
~ Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow
#Booksky
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Yup. So good.
Kurt Vonnegut Explains “How to Write With Style”
Kurt Vonnegut Explains “How to Write With Style”
If you feel the need for tips on developing a writing style, you probably don't look right to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' journal Transactions on Professional Communications...
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February 12, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Yup. So good.
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I've been going to these fancy conferences and just doing a gloves off thing for the last few months and I feel freer than a guy with five DUIs riding an ebike on a sidewalk.
February 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I've been going to these fancy conferences and just doing a gloves off thing for the last few months and I feel freer than a guy with five DUIs riding an ebike on a sidewalk.
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For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM
Watch or (Rewatch) one of my favorite New York films "Crossing Delancey" (1988) - Dir. Joan Micklin Silver, Screenplay by Susan Sandler, based on her play.
Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, & Reizl Bozyk.
Full movie ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Il...
Watch or (Rewatch) one of my favorite New York films "Crossing Delancey" (1988) - Dir. Joan Micklin Silver, Screenplay by Susan Sandler, based on her play.
Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, & Reizl Bozyk.
Full movie ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Il...
Crossing Delancey (1988)
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
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February 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM
Watch or (Rewatch) one of my favorite New York films "Crossing Delancey" (1988) - Dir. Joan Micklin Silver, Screenplay by Susan Sandler, based on her play.
Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, & Reizl Bozyk.
Full movie ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Il...
Watch or (Rewatch) one of my favorite New York films "Crossing Delancey" (1988) - Dir. Joan Micklin Silver, Screenplay by Susan Sandler, based on her play.
Starring Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, & Reizl Bozyk.
Full movie ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Il...
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This is a rough time to be a person with situational awareness.
February 12, 2026 at 11:41 AM
This is a rough time to be a person with situational awareness.
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell
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I did the thing! I emailed, cold, the author of a book I liked to tell them it was good, and to say thanks. Know what? That's a good idea. You were all correct. Everyone should do that.
February 11, 2026 at 1:31 AM
I did the thing! I emailed, cold, the author of a book I liked to tell them it was good, and to say thanks. Know what? That's a good idea. You were all correct. Everyone should do that.
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Worth mentioning that Sam Darnold was kicked to the curb, sidelined, and overlooked prior to becoming a Super Bowl winning quarterback. Keep going mates, wherever you are, and I’ll do the same.
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Worth mentioning that Sam Darnold was kicked to the curb, sidelined, and overlooked prior to becoming a Super Bowl winning quarterback. Keep going mates, wherever you are, and I’ll do the same.
Listen, I’m a jewel thief, ok? I’m gonna brag about how I make more money than the jewelry store down the street and in the future everyone who does it this way also will. The NYT’s is gonna feature me as a predictor of things to come.
Good?
Good?
fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
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The New Fabio Is Claude
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February 8, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Listen, I’m a jewel thief, ok? I’m gonna brag about how I make more money than the jewelry store down the street and in the future everyone who does it this way also will. The NYT’s is gonna feature me as a predictor of things to come.
Good?
Good?
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Way better, baby. 🖤🖤🖤
The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.
February 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Way better, baby. 🖤🖤🖤
Next time let’s elect a president that doesn’t want to kill anything he can’t fuck why don’t we. (Gift link)
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Next time let’s elect a president that doesn’t want to kill anything he can’t fuck why don’t we. (Gift link)
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...
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bring back shame
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
bring back shame
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“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.”
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
![I am all at a loose end since you left; I feel as if I haven't seen you for ten years. Every conversation that I have with my mother is about you. Everyone here loves you dearly.
Under what constellation were you born then, to be blessed with such qualities, so diverse and so rare?
I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone. We got on well together, didn't we? It was very agreeable.
It was so good that I do not want to share the pleasure with anyone else. If you happen to use Croisset in one of your books, do disguise it so that nobody recognizes it. I would appreciate it. The memory of your visit is just for the two of us, for me. That is how selfish I am.
I particularly missed you last night, at ten o'clock. There was a fire, over at my wood-merchant's. The sky was pink and the Seine was the colour of red-currant syrup. I worked at the pumps for three hours and I came home as weary as the Turk with the giraffe? [...]
One of the Rouen newspapers (Le Nouvelliste) reported your visit to Rouen, so that on Saturday after I had left you I met several bourgeois in a state of indignation over the fact that I had not put you on display. A former magistrate took the prize: 'If we had known that she was here... we would have... we would have ..? - five-minute pause, he's looking for the word - We would have... smiled at her.' That would have been rather meagre, don't you think?
[...]
To love you 'more' is difficult for me. But I do embrace you most tenderly.
Your letter this morning, so melancholy, stirred me. We parted company just at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words. All of the doors between the two of us are not yet open. You inspire a great respect in me and I do not have the courage to ask you questions, Farewell, I kiss your sweet and lovely countenance, and I am
Your
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February 7, 2026 at 12:06 AM
“We parted company at the moment when all kinds of things were about to find their way into words.”
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
Find yourself a correspondent who writes to you as Gustave Flaubert did to George Sand.
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Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.
We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge.
We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.
Funeral Rites for Wash Post
Pro Walmart
Whatever George Will is talking about
Pro Ice
Anti urban life
Military Action in Iran
Pro Walmart
Whatever George Will is talking about
Pro Ice
Anti urban life
Military Action in Iran
February 5, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Funeral Rites for Wash Post
Pro Walmart
Whatever George Will is talking about
Pro Ice
Anti urban life
Military Action in Iran
Pro Walmart
Whatever George Will is talking about
Pro Ice
Anti urban life
Military Action in Iran
Watching the worst try to tell us they control art and music reminds me why I’m excited for my friend’s new book, coming out in May from @microcosm.bsky.social. The DC story is art up not power down no matter how much they want you to think otherwise.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Watching the worst try to tell us they control art and music reminds me why I’m excited for my friend’s new book, coming out in May from @microcosm.bsky.social. The DC story is art up not power down no matter how much they want you to think otherwise.
microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...
microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/book...
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Starting in April, I’m teaching a six-week writing workshop at the wonderful Writers & Books in Rochester, NY. If you live in the area, please join me.📚💚
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Bright Beginnings: Writing Your YA Novel - Writers & Books
A 6-week workshop with Melissa Ostrom Location: Writers & Books, 740 University Ave, Rochester NY Price: Members $320 | General Public $360 One need-based scholarship available Minimum Enrollment: 7...
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February 3, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Starting in April, I’m teaching a six-week writing workshop at the wonderful Writers & Books in Rochester, NY. If you live in the area, please join me.📚💚
wab.org/event/bright...
wab.org/event/bright...
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Im excited about Bad Bunny's superbowl performance!
#SupportImmigrants
#SupportImmigrants
February 2, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Im excited about Bad Bunny's superbowl performance!
#SupportImmigrants
#SupportImmigrants