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Many things are bad. I hope you're doing okay and I love you.
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yo remember when they tried to end the fucking post office so we couldn't vote
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NFL Black Lives Matter commercial showing players kneeling without acknowledging Kaepernick is revisionist posturing happing in real time.
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I hope the kids from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill found love.
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We really have to be radicalized by this. By that I mean fully embody that reality that the current landscape of this planet is defined by this country pointing huge guns at everyone else and asking to be thanked at every turn.
US delegate: Without us, not a drop of water reached Gaza.
Children of Gaza: Without you, Israel wouldn't have found ways to kill us.
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Pardons are fun because it's a reminder like, you know all these rules and laws and punishments and cruelty, it's completely arbitrary.
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It shouldn't be controversial for racism to be met with tangible consequences.
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So you mean rich people cheat the system to get their kids in.. in an institution that artificially creates a perception of scarcity regarding a resource that is not scare in order to drive extraordinary costs up which in turn perpetuates mass inequality at all levels of society?
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This might be an insane question. But when you see prologues/ epilogues in novels y'all def read them right?
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White people only like talking about racism if they can executive produce the convo.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but the work you've put in can and will manifest in ways that are beautiful.
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@iSmashFizzle
And I just know if you ask a Swedish person about the racism in their country they'll act like "What??? We don't have that here :) " smfhhhh
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I'm nominated for a National Book Award. Shit it crazy. It's kinda hitting me now.
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I really, genuinely oscillate between, "I'm actually trash" and "where the fuck is my MacArthur???"
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This was really intro to Propoganda. Some of you never read this and it shows smh
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I really hope y'all fuck with it, but for the first time, truly, I'm proud regardless of whatever happens next.
CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS my debut novel
SPRING 2023
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HERE IT IS, my DEBUT NOVEL: CHAIN-GANG ALL STARS
I LOVE YOU.
BANKAI
art work by: Kimberly Glyder
PRE ORDER HERE
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All love to
@ElleOnWords
for
#PublishingPaidMe
and the discussion and the transparency it provided. As a result my contract has been changed to better reflect the worth of the work. Big love to all the writers who were vulnerable and transparent in that moment.
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Twitter if you don't watch yourself will make it feel normal/automatic to shit on things, express dislike or moral superiority and then second guess earnestness/ joy / any non-hating type shit.
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It's so wild to me that y'all go into y'all streaming app, type in the name T*ylor Sw*ft and just rock out. We all live such different lives. lol
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Friday Black, my first book, came out five (5!!!!) years ago. My life hasn't been the same since. Thank you all for all of it.
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Pretty excited for everyone in this pic.
Honored to be among those not pictured as well.
#TheSeasonCometh
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Revision is crazy cause from day to day you go from. "Wow. I should quit now and not shame my family." to "It's crazy that I'm bout to be a Nobel Laureate."
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There is no higher compliment than when ppl say they taught your work .
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IMAGINE the privilege of being able to violently protest to the point of breaking down the doors on Capital hill? Had it been Black bodies there would be a massacre on your television right now I promise you.
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Huge deal for me. I use these in class often, I found some of my favorite authors through this anthology. To be included next to some of these names is special for me.
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Just got through my novel for copyedits. I got one y'all. I did the thing.
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It's kinda wack how as you get more publications you get almost forced to pretend like you were only ever in super well known spaces. Shout out to Pembroke, Compose: A Journal of simply good writing, Foliate Oak, Broken Pencil Magazine, Gravel Online Journal.
I am always grateful
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When I'm reading a book I love it makes me wanna write, it makes me wanna teach, it's like electric. I'm feeling that reading Ling Ma's BLISS MONTAGE.
I will be celebrating it with an annoying intensity in the following Tweets lol
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4 years ago today FRIDAY BLACK came out and my life hasn't been the same since. Thank you so much for reading, for sharing the book, for teaching it. Y'all made a collection of short stories have an impact I never could have imagined. And I imagine things for a living lol.
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This hit different seeing the Medals on the book. I will always be grateful.
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It feels like people hate or love things now, exclusively. It's okay to mildly enjoy things. It's okay to feel ehh. If somebody who made a film or something you have feelings, positive or negative, for, it's okay to have no feelings on their personal character.
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My sister says snarky smart things on IG sometimes. (Shes a scientist so mostly shes just annoyed at how dumb the rest of us are)
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Has anyone else noticed that if they don't immediately put away fresh laundry away their life quickly descends into chaos?
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This woman in Food Network was making chicken nachos and just inexplicably differentiated between the nachos for the boy and the serving for the girls. Like what?!?!
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Currently Reading this brilliant book by Sarah Thankam Mathews and theres a short passage that I think is a great example of use of DYNAMIC VERBS and making movemeny feel like a Journey.
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@diffuser85
@Matthew85210877
It's about accountability. The NFL can easily express how they were on the wrong side of history and mishandled the entire situation. That's a necessary step in terms of growth because the same thing they're putting in the commercials a player was forced to end his career over
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I like how I use the slightest inconvenience or feeling down or not 100% or really anything as an excuse to get ramen or Pho. I don't even feel bad from my booster but i'm like, lemme get Pho just in case.
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One year ago my book, FRIDAY BLACK, arrived to the world and since then I've been supported and enveloped with so much love I was able to survive what also ended up being the most difficult year of my life. Thank you all forever.
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Without question one of the ABSOLUTE most humbling readings/considerations of a story of mine. As a gamer and someone who specifically studied most of the loop movies mentioned (and someone playing 12 minutes now) I am beyond humbled and grateful. Thank you
@JacobGeller
Although time loops have become a central narrative device for games, few seem willing to answer a fundamental question: how do the actions taken “in loop” impact the protagonist? Is there such thing as a truly consequenceless situation?
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Grateful for all of it!! Almost showtime again!
SOME👏🏾 GREAT 👏🏾NEWS 👏🏾
Did you love
@NK_Adjei
’s FRIDAY BLACK like I loved it? If so, join me in being over the damn moon that his next book is coming and that it’s coming from PANTHEON BOOKS! So effing proud we will be publishing him.
@gibbsne
#MeredithKaffelSimonoff
🔥
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Truly an honor to be listed here among these awe inspiring artists. So grateful to my whole team
@gibbsne
and
@mere215
and
@likaluca
and everybody at
@PantheonBooks
. And huge thank you to these judges and the whole of
@nationalbook
.
Spring Valley, Rockland County we HEREEEE
Visit our website to learn more about the ten titles on the 2023
#NBAwards
Longlist for Fiction!
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Friday Black Review. For this I am truly grateful.
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Women owning sexuality gets exponentially more scrutiny than men expressing their preference/tendency for physical violence/murder.
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After a long battle with cancer my Father, Dennis Adjei-Brenyah, has passed away. I ask that we remember him for all the light he brought to so many communities both local and abroad.
For those that wish to pay their respects, information regarding the arrangements are below
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Just as many times as you tell yourself you're terrible at writing, do me a favor and when you cross a sentence/passage/page/chapter that is fire please gas yourself out loud and make the fact that you're actually incredible known to the walls of your writing area too.
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FRIDAY BLACK is a Story Collection full of weirdness. That fact that you all made it what it has become is miraculous. Truly.
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I shudder thinking of the bags I've fumbled cause I didn't have the emotional energy to open a damn email lol.
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We REALLY out here.
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Over 100 THOUSAND ppl are dead and you want to slow testing? He has to be removed from office. He is completely unfit.
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You can't be a part of this movement and neglect Black Trans Lives. It's all of us get free and we not renegotiating on that.
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Y'all promise to pre order my novel if I show y'all the cover today?
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A LOT of these professor SUCK as educators. Not cause they don't know what they're teaching, but because they don't know understand who they're teaching.
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We have slave owners on our money. I don't know how we're ever surprised.
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My Dad woulda loved this. Al Roker was that dude growing up.
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Just a few of the option for Author Photos. Which One y'all choosing?
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We made 30 under 30!
Happy Birthday Dad!
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Yall didnt tell me a part of adulthood was having a growing pile of clothes that don't fit but you dont wanna admit dont fit.
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I'm telling you. Do what you want. Don't let these ppl run you into not being excited about yourself.
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So I was on Seth Meyers. Here is the video. Thank you guys for supporting me through this crazy year. A lot of this stuff gets insanely overwhelming but you guys keep it fun. Love y'all. Special shout out to my students and everybody from the 845!
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Beyond the immense honor of being associated with this kind of brilliance I'm just now discovering I always wanted to be included in a Destiny's Child like portrait with
@RavenLeilani
and
@blgtylr
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Very often people ask me questions like "what does dystopia mean to you ???" Or "why do you write dystopian fiction?"
I literally just watched a nine year old describe the carnage in a bombed maternity ward in the fashion of a news reporter. That's my answer from now on.
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So y'all that write essays about hard things. Do y'all be crying in front of the computer a lot or... ? Like am I doing this right?
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Got Galley copies which is wild. To Celebrate imma give a copy to one of Y'ALL that Pre-order. Send me a screenshot of your order or just tell me (honor system lol) and I'll add your name to one of those randomized raffle things. I'll send a book to 1 or 2 people!!!
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Twitter deactivating earlier could have, considering the pandemic, saved so many lives.
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What are some of the things that have held you down during the last 5-6 months? For me photography and running have been big.
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It's a powerful thing to know your gifts, creatively or otherwise. Naming them is a way to cultivate power and align yourself in your purpose.
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#PublishingPaidMe
10K for the North American Rights to Friday Black, my debut. The deal was for 2 books, the second book : 40K.
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Paperbacks are here
Look what's arrived? The trade paperback of CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS hits shelves 1/23!
@nk_adjei
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Every school had a kid who could do the moonwalk. And that kid understood the burden of fame at a very young age.
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If your "Review" begins "I don't really like Short Stories" i.e a direct admission of prejudgement against the thing you're about to review, that's an automatic disengage for me.
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When I started this novel in like 2013 it was wayyyyy beyond me. And now I'm starting to meet it and understand it.
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Another One.
Orbital lasers are a fun narrative shorthand. They represent the peak of militarization, a near-godlike power made manifest through technology. And yet, in reality and fiction, this tech simply underscores that no weapon can truly end war.
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What I'm saying is The Office of Historical Corrections is a STELLAR and UNMISSABLE collection of fiction you should buy right now if you can.
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I've said it before but don't let weird masculinity shit keep you from adding Beyonce and certain Britney Spears songs to your workout playlist and unlocking your full power.
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If you want to not think about institutional hypocrisy briefly, I directed this music video for your pleasure.
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Definitely the most personal thing about me not written by me to date. That's a testament to
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who made it easy to talk about life.
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Stephen King reading this still feels wilddd to believe. Like what?!
The explosive debut novel CHAIN GANG ALL STARS by
@NK_Adjei
is a must-read, endorsed by none other than the master of horror himself. If you haven't read already, what are you waiting for? This book is a brutal, beautiful ride through a dystopian America.
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