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Dara Kaye
@darakaye.bsky.social
Professional book person at WME, amateur parent everywhere else. Posting from the Quiet Car.
It keeps happening and yet I am appalled every time
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Never in the history of the world has an agent thought "what a clever way to transgress clearly stated processes! This is a person I want to form a business partnership with and link my professional reputation to"
December 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It has happened multiple times and it happened again today. Different guys each time. (Always guys.)

This one asked to speak to an assistant--by name--and said he wanted a personal referral from her to agents who represent his genre.
December 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Next time reactionary backlash jerkoffs object to "new" raceblind Disney casting I'm reminding everyone about the time we had a white king and a black queen as the parents of an Asian prince wooing Bernadette Peters' black stepdaughter in 1997 and it absolutely ruled
November 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Oh right of course, so sorry about this Jason Alexander erasure. The Jason Alexander Cinderella also
November 16, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The way I went "oh god what have they done now"
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
The handshake meme but it's a giant family tree of Lithuanian Jews and Mayflower Puritans all agreeing everyone else has taken the Christmas decorating too far
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I have weirdly moved the other direction on this, in that I went from thinking it did not matter at all to being glad my spouse's family has a similar mix of faith backgrounds
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Still trying to determine how my 6 y/o got the world-weary intonation of "JESUS CHRIST" that comes out when he is mildly frustrated
November 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
oh man I missed that! She's long been one of my favorite voices across twitter and here--was there context on leaving?
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Girls only want one thing and it's texting a journalist bizarre, vague criticisms, telling them they are not a journalist, and then trying to retroactively announce that the whole thing was off the record, which is a thing you only say to journalists
October 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This is the way
October 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
This is bizarre in a way that feels so specific to trump world
October 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
What does it mean that I know the cartoon but not the shirt symbol
October 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM