Dana Murphy
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part-time garbage person, full-time literary agent at @trellislit
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Well, now that the news is officially out...
I am absolutely out-of-my-gourd excited to be joining the team
@trellislit
next month!
As the kids say — get in loser, we're thread-ing!!! 🧵
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I was anxiety-knitting at the
@Phillies
game when the very delco guy (60s) behind me tapped me on the shoulder: “I just wanted to thank you. my mom would knit and drink beers and watch the phils too. The only thing missing is a cigarette in your hand. This was a nice reminder.”
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I will never forget the way he said “we kids would all go to bed and the next morning, well… the beers were gone but we’d have three new mittens.”
I feel so lucky to love this city and this team, man.
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i speak to dogs as if they are babies and i speak to babies as if they are 47 year old divorcees
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big christmas moment for me: confessed to my family that the vodka bottle in their cabinet has been mostly water for ~15 yrs and we dumped it out together
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strikes work, this new contract slaps, and now every creative industry has a baseline upon which to build their own AI protections thanks to the WGA's unfuckwithable stamina and faith.
solidarity forever, unions forever.
As an author, I genuinely want to kiss the feet of the
#WGA
NegCom who got the studios to commit that AI isn't writing. Stuff like this tends to trickle down through industries. You all may have saved so many more than just your own!! x
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y’all are cute with your plastic chokers but get ready for the realest 90s throwback thanks to what I found in my childhood bedroom
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girl fieri
Florence Pugh is seen during the Womenswear Spring/Summer 2024 as part of Paris Fashion Week.
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you girlies really just leap at the chance to do gender essentialism as a treat every damn time, huh
like I know I’m a feral bitch with a lack of general life skills and a bevy of truly good men in my life so I always feel alienated by these convos but please I beg you GROW UP
There are a lot of issues with The Cut story, but no one can argue this paragraph isn't true, and it is exactly how I explain why I have no desire to date again.
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sorry everyone but i must log off work for the rest of the day because my husband spotted a groundhog in the overgrown lot across from our house so my only choice is to sit at the window until i too see the hog
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Nothing is more exhausting to me than the moralizing of living in New York. It is not objectively magical because it is magical to you; it is not objectively harmful because it is harmful to you. It is just a place.
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hey, publishing twitter, don’t make me tap the fucking sign.
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I’d like you all to know that the best bagel store in my hometown (there are many) has reopened after many years (a maserati drove through it) and the first thing I heard was a perfect Long Island accent saying “it takes seven years to reopen and your fuckin’ door still sticks.”
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to all my sweet publishing friends that I can just SENSE are still at their desks right now: go home. It will still be there tomorrow, it will still be there in January. Anyone who’s mad about it, send them to me and I will gladly snap their fingers clear off.
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im so sorry for making sweeping psychoanalytic judgements on twitter dot com, but this Brad and Jen stuff has big “we’re the children of divorce generation and we want mom and dad to make it work” energy
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asking this for no particular reason at all but do you work in publishing and are worried about losing access to your emails, contacts, data in case of unexpected termination but don’t know how to back em up? bc baby I’ve got a month off and I used to work in IT so call me
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I apologize in advance for the thread TK but the publishing discourse du jour is making me feel like my brain is melting out of my ears and if we're talking about GREAT EDITORS, we might as well do a little line edit — shall we?
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SAG-AFTRA is now on strike and "fall festivals are f*cked," says one studio executive: “You can’t premiere movies anywhere without your stars. No stars, no movie.”
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in one week I get to marry the dude who still looks at me with the same mix of deep patience and mild amusement that he did on my sixteenth birthday isn’t that FUCKING WILD
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this email is sick as hell. more of this bravery and outrage from those on the inside (harper or otherwise), please.
@hcpunion
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don’t get me wrong, I’m excited about the album but claiming “midnight” as insomniac hours is some eighth grade shit
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so many very smart and true things have already been said, so I'll try to add something I haven't seen spoken to yet:
Corporate Publishing is a small industry. And if my back-of-the-napkin math is correct, we lost roughly 1% of our acquiring editorial work force today.
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I have a lot of complicated feelings about my alma mater but I’ll tell you—for every no-spined little shit I met there, I knew ten others willing to teach me how to think more radically, how to imagine a better world, how to reach outward instead of inward, how to love in action.
🇵🇸BREAKING: NYU faculty have formed a chain around Gaza Solidarity Encampment as student organizers prepare to pray
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my husband doesn’t understand the difference between “dessert” and “a treat” and it’s driving a real wedge between us
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alright I’m halfway through American Fiction and I’m going to need whatever publishing motherfuckers consulted on it to reveal themselves because the details have made me say OH NO out loud too many times for it to have been written without a mole (complimentary)
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speaking as said agent, who rarely has time to keep up with everyone’s brilliant writing during the year and so binges on those end of year threads over vacation: DO IT.
Everyone on the fence about posting an end of year work thread because folks out here want to dunk on self-promotion: do it. My 2018 end of year list is what prompted my now-agent to reach out to me and ask if I had a book.
Fucking promote your work.
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i have not been working out in quar but i HAVE been grating a lot of parm and whisking a lot of alioli so I will be coming out of this with one jacked right arm
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sometimes you think you're doing alright in the grief department and then your dead friend's favorite song becomes an inexplicable hit nearly 40 years late thanks to the spooky teens and let me just tell you, if i only could make a deal with god in-fucking-deed...
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lil schwarbastian
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white friends I hope that every dollar you spend on books to better yourself you are matching to bail funds and black owned orgs who are on the ground right now
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agent friends - if you’re going out with anything right now, I urge you to talk to your clients and consider holding subs to all striking imprints. This is an unprecedented moment for workers rights in this industry and we all can play a material role in supporting their action.
Picket line means ⚠️🙅🏻don't cross🙅🏻⚠️‼️
STRIKE STARTS 11/10
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this year there are lightning bugs on our patio for the first time and it feels like the smallest, most perfect joy
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I woke up feeling /weird/ and then I put on my best crop top and loose linen, am getting a BAGEL, and will spend my day working on v wonderful one-day books. It’s not always so easy telling my brain to shut up and do what I want, today it was. Wishing y’all a good brain Friday.
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any lit fic motherfuckers looking for a chilling short story premise: there is a waifish reformation-lite model that has been following me around the internet via targeted ads for years and I just realized that she looks so familiar bc she is from my hometown
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you guys, it happened again but this time it was a chrysler
I’d like you all to know that the best bagel store in my hometown (there are many) has reopened after many years (a maserati drove through it) and the first thing I heard was a perfect Long Island accent saying “it takes seven years to reopen and your fuckin’ door still sticks.”
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when
@rachsyme
says
#distancebutmakeitfashion
, you put on a gown and find the good light and get to work
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adult woman stares off in horror as she whisks aioli in her kitchen after realizing that egg salad is just eggs two ways
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who is she
We're reprising our
#MeetTrellis
series to welcome the newest member of our squad, the wonderful
@manadurphy
! Head on over to our IG to learn more about Dana:
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deleting petfinder off my phone like it’s a dating app. welcome to the fam (did somebody say) Beveragino 💜
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should we consider every person under 50 who had to jump ship because the only way to get a promotion they rightfully deserve is moving to another publisher?
Editors WANT to stay, to build a list and relationships. Publishers have chosen for decades to deny them this.
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can someone explain why every written recipe says it takes 10-15 minutes to caramelize onions when it takes 45 minutes minimum to do it right???
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Biden reciting “on eagles wings” is a dog whistle to philadelphia go birds pass it on
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if the sustainability of your industry is dependent on external subsidies (generational wealth, support by partner, the need for additional part-time work) then your industry is failing.
any trumpeting about 'unprecedented profits' should carry that asterisk.
FYI this means editors were being paid below the NYC poverty line:
"NYC has tallied its own poverty measure since 2005, ...to account for higher costs of living. In 2019, the threshold was $36,262 in annual income for a household of 4"
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just a little whisper to remind you that (if it is accessible to you) this is a gr8 opportunity to spend money at small businesses: bodegas, green markets, Chinatown groceries etc instead of a chain store that looks like a nuclear holocaust cleared out every pasta but lasagna
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oh look, there she goes running her mouth 😳
“Protect your heart, your good gooey insides, by reinforcing the boundary between who you are and what you make.”
@manadurphy
of
@thebookgrp
features in this week’s Agents & Editors Recommend:
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when you’re nearing thirty, a “loosey” is when a place sells single la croix
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here is the thing — I have spent a decade watching this industry throw valuable talent aside, forcing them out of publishing altogether, for the sake of some bullshit memory of a golden era. When everyone came from the same pedigree and the books they published reflected that.
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ahem
hey, publishing twitter, don’t make me tap the fucking sign.
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ily sweet infants putting on underwires and denim to feel normal in these trying times, but as a seasoned wfh-er might I reccomend: calf length lounge robe and those socks they give you for free at the hospital with the little rubber spots on the bottom
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I’ve kept a running list of who has left the industry over the last year.
Today I’m pledging a dollar for every one of those beloveds who couldn’t “stick it out” to
@hcpunion
fund because FUCK THIS SHIT.
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an important thing to know about me is: yes I have always been this way
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hope my therapist is ready to talk about the good place finale on monday
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"It is so hard to keep on living when you are tired and the whole world seems bad and your brain is against you. It is so hard to go to therapy and take your pills and wake up in darkness and decide to keep going. But we do it. We are doing it together."
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just a little reminder that subsidizing your business expenses via paying as little employment tax as possible is not 'innovation'!
Book workers need unions before all publishing work is given to freelancers
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why yes the lady will have TWO cherries in her old fashioned tonight
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i think about this video conservatively fifteen times a week
Since Paul Rudd is trending, a reminder this piece is his greatest work
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@jayasax
Jude Law in two-piece cranberry velour track suit with matching skull cap picking out ravioli at the w village Citarella.
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I was so overcome with love for this headline that rather than laugh at it, I short circuited and burst into tears.
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And this is where I will break character bc:
THIS IS STILL HOW THOSE EDITORS BUY BOOKS. NOTHING ABOUT THE WAY THEY DO THEIR JOB HAS CHANGED. THEY GET PAID MORE MONEY THAN GOD TO REFUSE TO ADAPT WHILE ASSISTANTS WITH THREE JOBS PRINT OUT THEIR GD EMAILS FOR THEM.
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the two hundred dollar linen jumpsuit that instagram is advertising to you (dana) might look chic and breezy on that size four model but you (dana) do not have two hundred dollars, will look like a wide baby, and will drop olive oil on it within seconds of wear.
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as a starting place, I'm pledging $25 for every contract I've done with Harper over the years.
Any other agents want to play along?
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big
@Remember_Sarah
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I wasn’t ready to laugh at this as hard as I am right now
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not me tearing up in the literal club when I saw this tweet!!!! What a gorgeous day to be a publishing worker, and what dumb luck to be in this industry at the same time as every brilliant member of the
@hcpunion
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of all the wild and thrilling surprises that last night’s Edgar Awards held, learning that
@mountain_goats
is a
@danyakukafka
fan might be
#1
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my only evermore take atm is that I would very much like someone to write me a 'tis the damn season novel about a celebrity returning to her small hometown during the liminal week between xmas and new years and making out with her townie ex. Big Sweet Home Alabama energy.
#mswl
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just love to do my very scientific, data driven job like spending a half hour thinking about "which editors like hiking"
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fellow agents, HEY HI HELLO, apparently this needs to be said:
now is not the time to be shitty little self-important dickheads to our editor comrades, alright?
and if I find out that any of you are fucking around? I promise you — you will find out. I will make sure of it.
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apropos of absolutely nothing why do you ask —
fellow agents, PLEASE make sure there is a termination notification clause in your employment contracts, especially if you're a contractor/commission-only.
Protecting our authors' labor is inherently linked to protecting our own.
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two middle aged women with thick long island accents talking over one another is my asmr
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on the fifth day of the
@hcpunion
strike, we are in weepy awe of these beautiful people fighting for every one of us. If you haven’t joined the line – either physically or from far away – what what what the fuck are you doing????
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Today is the sixth anniversary of my entanglement with
@thebookgrp
, a job that full-stop changed my entire life. They took a chance on this little hot-mess 22 yr old and let me blaze my own weird little trail in this insane business.
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Tonight I bullied
@ericsmithrocks
into telling me where/what time he was born. If you also wondered what all the crying was about: he’s a cancer rising.
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almost just double downed the worst cooking mistake of my life - knocking back a large swig of a bottle of Worcestershire thinking it was beer - by nearly taking a sip of reserved hot beef fat in a mason jar thinking it was wine
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obviously these olds know nothing about teen girls because you should be even MORE scared when they’re nice
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also referring to someone's "shining pedigree" is, uh... a real dog whistle. let's not be SO on the nose about our bigotry.
(or, you know what, let's. it's better that your reader knows.)
not to mention the optics of calling someone "the last class act in trade publishing" when you're comparing an aging rich white generation to the most diverse* in every sense generation in publishing history
(*still primarily white, straight, cis and don't forget it, but still)
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well well well well well
Listen I don’t make the rules but imagine how quick the Phillies would win the World Series if they kissed just a little
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I am horrified to report: Julie Cooper is supposed to be 34 years old in the first season of The OC
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WFH means: being able to work from the road; editing at your favorite bar/coffeshop; workforce accessibility for those of us who can't work in a traditional (aka ableist) office setting. WFH is /not/ this isolating fuckshit we've been living in since March 2020.
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ok where are my rom-com editors who share my very specific achilles heel: characters in their early twenties..............
forgive me for using this hell site to crowd source but I'm going out with something soon that I am VERY EXCITED ABOUT and I want my list to be airtight.
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@Remember_Sarah
this past year has been one long loop of me pulling the scooby doo villian mask off of my symptoms that I attributed to other chronic illness for years and it being adhd underneath the mask EVERY GD TIME
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might I recommend engaging with some truly dumb content to help calm your central nervous system? These are some of my favorites, pls share yours.
a note about my taste: I love LOVE truly deeply dumb stuff. I’ve been keeping this list to remind myself of what may make me feel a little better on bad days. Pls add to these idiot things if they make you happy too.
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i really want one of those dumb cups that keeps your coffee the perfect temperature and yes i do hate myself for it
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I went to long island for twenty-four hours and have returned with fourteen bagels. I will not be taking any more questions at this time.
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Sat next to cute baby and hip dad at a cafe, thought “why does every NY dad look like a fucking Stroke these days”. Realized said Dad was Julian Casablancas.
Your most boring, mundane, inconsequential celebrity encounter. Go!
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this is fucking criminal and if I have one calling in this god forsaken industry it is to ruin the life of anyone who thinks this systemic subjugation of our workers is acceptable
Let's be very clear: a full-time, NYC-based assistant job to two literary agents that pays only $35,000 a year is exclusionary. That's by design and it's unconscionable. Falling back on "industry standard" numbers to offer, say, $40k is bad enough; not even pretending is shameful
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there is a hard line between marrying Seth / killing Seth and that line is: did you go to therapy and did it work
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an unexpected source of relief this week has been listening to my favorite albums from the early aughts. possibly because those were also days filled with a lot of staring at the ceiling, feeling out of control, when days felt like years?
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@rachsyme
maybe not traditional glamour but: get some of those socks they give you at the hospital with the rubber stickies at the bottom. Superior to all other indoor winter footwear.
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