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Dec 4, 2024 | 
jeannakadlec.substack.com | Jeanna Kadlec |Esmé Weijun Wang |Lilly Dancyger |Cedar McCloud
astrology for writers is an exclusively reader-supported publication. if you enjoy getting this newsletter in your inbox, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. We are all horribly over-indexed on gift guides. I don’t think you particularly care about what kind of notebooks I like. But I do think you might be interested in knowing what other astrologically-curious writers might have been up to this year.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
memoirland.substack.com | Sari Botton |Sarah LaBrie |Annabelle Tometich |Lilly Dancyger
Since 2010, invariouspublications, I’ve interviewed authors—mostly memoirists—about aspects of writing and publishing. Initially I did this for my own edification, as someone who was struggling to find the courage and support to write and publish my memoir. I’m still curious about other authors’ experiences, and I know many of you are, too. So, inspired by the popularity of The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire, I’ve launched The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
bombmagazine.org | Lilly Dancyger
I’ve been reading Lilly Dancyger’s work for over a decade, ever since I heard her name bouncing around the New York City literary scene when I moved there after college in 2014. Her writing, including journalism, criticism, and personal essays, has explored many topics including incels harassing sex workers, villainous womenin pop culture, and the wisdom ofcanceling a book dealwhen it’s not right for you.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
theoffingmag.com | Janan Alexandra |Deborah Thompson |Lilly Dancyger
1. We tend to use the word “bitter” to denote taste, temperature, or feeling. Often, though not always, bitterness carries a negative charge, bringing us into proximity with a mostly undesirable set of feelings or experiences. Perhaps like jealousy, one doesn’t aspire toward bitterness in one’s inner life, relational world, emotional wheelhouse, etc. 2. In common parlance, the word is familiar and mundane: bitter greens, a bitter wind blew all night.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
jeannakadlec.substack.com | Jeanna Kadlec |Lilly Dancyger |Cedar McCloud
Jeanna! I have to say I had to process some gatekeepy feelings as I went to write a testimonial [for the astrology for writers discord] because I love this space so much and am afraid of change. (1/2)— MelI am someone who is, and has always been, chronically online. In middle school, I was on Left Behind message boards.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | Lilly Dancyger |Barrie Miskin |Beth Ann Fennelly |Margo Steines
My favorite read in 2024 Lilly presents the consuming power of love as a force that can exist in platonic friendships. Her voice is clear, accessible, and searching, and she represents the 90s/00s downtown NYC that I grew up in with an uncommon allegiance to the vibes of the times. Would read again in a second and probably will. Loved Most 🥇 Writing 🥈 Emotions Writing style ❤️ Loved it Pace 🐕 Steady Why should I read it?
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
theoffingmag.com | Deborah Thompson |Lilly Dancyger |Ananda Kumar. S
tía Daniela has a Depeche Mode rose tattooed above her ankle tía Hortensia moves from pot to pot across her backyard, begonias, hibiscus, and gardenias anointed with holy hose water tía Janie tells stories of young white men asking her to two-step at Cowboys Dance Hall tía Susan makes the sign of the cross every time she drives by a Catholic church tía Cindy says aver while she puts on reading glasses to look at a photo of your novio tía Rosie watches Sex in the City reruns on E! before bed...
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
lillydancyger.substack.com | Lilly Dancyger |Cassie Mannes Murray
The question of “What’s next?” is ubiquitous in author interviews—I think it comes from a place of genuine curiosity and excitement, interviewers wanting to give authors a chance to talk about what they’re currently working on instead of beating the same drum about a book they’re probably sick of talking about—but it can also feel overwhelming or too soon.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
pinestatepublicity.substack.com | Lilly Dancyger
To kick off the month, we have a 🚨MUST-READ🚨guest post from one of my favorite writers Lilly Dancygerabout “spin-off essays.”Coming up in publishing and writing, Lilly has always been someone I look up to for her tenacity, her willingness to push herself as a narrator on the page, and the way she seamlessly braids threads in both short essays and longer form memoir. She works hard, and that work pays off.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
theoffingmag.com | Lilly Dancyger |Lupe Mendez |Deborah Thompson
What I want, more than I want a child or a childfree life, is to make a decision and feel sure it was the right one. This is a choice. This is the insult. This is carelessness of a system and a society.
