Carrie Frye
@CAAF
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I run Black Cardigan Edit. Working on a novel about the Arctic. Sign up for my newsletter at https://t.co/weEtK6VuYW. Email: [email protected]
Asheville, NC
Joined October 2008
Reluctant to leave a note like this but also don't want to seem rude if I don't respond: I'll be off Twitter for the next few months... until I finish a draft of my book and/or get to the end of the audiobook of the first volume of Robert Caro's LBJ bio. Whichever comes first.
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Catherine Carswell, the late 19th century-born Glaswegian biographer, bestselling novelist, and confidante of D.H. Lawrence, was as uncompromising in her writing as in her strange and adventurous life: June's #FeminizeYourCanon @parisreview
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June 10, 2019 – The life and career of Catherine Carswell was marked by such alarming and recurrent notoriety that her present obscurity is baffling.
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"Warren actually has ideas. She has grand, detailed and daring ideas."
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The Massachusetts senator is proposing something radical: a country in which adults discuss serious ideas seriously.
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An essay about making life changes by harnessing the powers of evil. I recommend this method
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Vanity, hatred, jealousy, competitiveness — they can be very useful!
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Extremely excited for this book, 'The View From Somewhere' by Lewis Raven Wallace. It's about the myth of journalistic objectivity, and it's so relevant to our current cultural conversation. Out in October -- more info:
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A look at the history and myth of the objective journalist and how this ideal has been used to silence marginalized voices. In The View from Somewhere, Lewis Raven Wallace dives deep into the...
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So excited and delighted that this book is one step closer to its appearance in the world.
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Rewatching 'Princess Bride' after all these years, I marvel at Robin Wright, Cary Elwes, and Mandy Patinkin putting in such great performances when they were only 12 years old (and Wallace Shawn all of 14).
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A comparison of Mr. Collinses turns out to be just what I needed today! @CAAF
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In that case, let me say publicly that I love Elizabeth Warren & I think she can win. I love how smart and fearless she is, how she seems sincerely concerned about social justice, and how she has concrete plans for change. Also she seems very funny 😍😍😍
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RIP Tony Horwitz 🙁 I wrote for @Slate about revisiting the great _Confederates in the Attic_ with my 2019 eyes
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The book is wryly funny but also a book-length argument for the continuing importance of history in everyday life.
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Hilary Mantel promises: "We walk the last miles of Cromwell’s life, ascending to unprecedented riches and honour and abruptly descending to the scaffold at Tower Hill." Rejoice, The Mirror and the Light coming 5 March 2020
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I wrote about what happened today in Alabama. And last week in Georgia. And last month in Ohio.
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And it will be nearly impossible to stop.
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The Kirkus review of my book just went up & maybe I'll never read another one because it's gotta be all downhill from here
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A popular young writer tackles a host of cultural movements in her debut collection of essays.
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Reminder that today's "far left" is basically FDR-era policies + race/class/gender diversity. I'm never sure which part they object to
Joe Biden's first campaign rally was full of Democrats worried the party is moving too far left
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No thanks, just lived through one!
PRESIDENTIAL HARASSMENT!
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