Meghan McCarron
@meghanmccarron.bsky.social
Freelance journalist covering food & culture. Work in NYT, Atlantic, Bon Appetit. Also a science fiction writer. Recent work in Lightspeed, Nebula & World Fantasy finalist. I live in Los Angeles.
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(1) Write genre from outside of it in, not the inside of it out.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
(1) Write genre from outside of it in, not the inside of it out.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.
I was just listening to KLXU last night, specifically the excellent She Rocks show. I am endlessly nostalgic for my college radio show
November 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I was just listening to KLXU last night, specifically the excellent She Rocks show. I am endlessly nostalgic for my college radio show
Surely we can find 363 other people to pitch in so we can each live there one day a year
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Surely we can find 363 other people to pitch in so we can each live there one day a year
Another thing that gets lost is that SNAP is one of our most successful social programs.
But the cuts to the program are so major, and hit so many different aspects, that those same experts are concerned it will be undermined, and worry what will happen when a recession hits
But the cuts to the program are so major, and hit so many different aspects, that those same experts are concerned it will be undermined, and worry what will happen when a recession hits
November 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Another thing that gets lost is that SNAP is one of our most successful social programs.
But the cuts to the program are so major, and hit so many different aspects, that those same experts are concerned it will be undermined, and worry what will happen when a recession hits
But the cuts to the program are so major, and hit so many different aspects, that those same experts are concerned it will be undermined, and worry what will happen when a recession hits