Lydia Kiesling
@lydiakiesling
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Author of novels THE GOLDEN STATE & MOBILITY. Writing in NYTMag, The Cut, etc. Buy MOBILITY:
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Mobility is out today! I tried to write a novel about how oil moves in the world and how one particular person moves with it. It was a humbling, confounding, exhilarating experience. I'm so grateful to everyone who has supported this book at every stage.
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"don't blame individuals for climate change" is about someone putting air conditioning in their house so they don't boil alive not for celebrities emitting at the level of a small country to run errands. Unlike most people they actually have the means to make impactful changes 🤗
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NuvaRing watching J&J get put on hold for health risks
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Housed people have the privilege of having their worst moments in private; unhoused people don't. This gives some people the profoundly mistaken impression that the person they see acting belligerent on the street is and will be that person every single moment of their life.
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My favorite thing about human beings are the vulnerable flash autobiographies people leave in the comments under videos of songs on youtube
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I get that tracking monthly spending is important but when it's
Coffee: $75
Childcare: $3095
it is hard to feel that coffee is the problem
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If being a housewife fulfilled all these women they wouldn't be bringing Spielberg-level production values to TikTok is the thing
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I am begging a newspaper to put some parents who are extremely amped about child vaccines on the cover for once in their gd life
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Unrelated my friend had health insurance and when she gave birth to a baby she still owed the hospital $12,000
Breaking News: U.S. births declined for the sixth straight year in 2020, as the pandemic accelerated a trend that has been building for the last decade.
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I love hearing about economics from people who don't mention that one hour of most American work doesn't pay for one hour of most American childcare
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Why does the gen z character in white lotus dress like the cool hunk in a 90s teen movie I am weeping 😭
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It's 113 degrees in the Pacific Northwest and the US government is doing air strikes in Iraq. I beg the US government to divert its money (our money) and energy to different pursuits!
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Setting my intention for 2020 by watching Sense & Sensibility wherein Emma Thompson wrote a screenplay for an iconic text, embellished it, and assigned herself the role of the 19-yr-old heroine at age 36
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Every celebrity flying on a private jet should be responsible for paying for one small town's heat pumps and solar panels
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This is fucking chilling. Full dystopia. Gift link:
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The sexiest words a spouse can say are "we'll make it work" after you reveal your plans to do something very inconvenient
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People are like "oh my favorite book is The Great Gatsby" and yet fail to appreciate this, another American epic
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I'm not afraid of aging anymore because i put a calendar reminder for ten years from now to google everyone in the cut age-gap essay and now i have something to look forward to
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Absolutely unhinged. I believe the tide of public sentiment is turning if strident supporters of Israel's campaign are resorting to qualifying casualty numbers like this, especially after insisting on the strictest purity of condemnation for Hamas from everyone else
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You ever just look at your household items and wonder which one has already put in motion the complex cellular mechanics of your death
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Why doesn't one (1) billionaire just fund all the GoFundMes so the rest of us can stop putting donations on a credit card and then seeing a new one and saying oh shit gotta do that one too oh shit, literally what is the point of being a billionaire
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Not enough of a deal was made of the fact that English Language & Composition is the only AP exam an AI can't do
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This story describes a group of boys with the most wholesome possible hobby of riding bikes around the city and checking out new routes together and this woman should be deeply ashamed
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If you're a dad and you get parental leave through work and you don't take every minute of it (this is common) you're not being a good worker, you're being an absent partner and making it more likely that dads who do want to spend time with their babies won't get the opportunity
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Why is
@NPR
letting the people blocking aid trucks to Gaza have the last word on this segment like what they are doing is normal or in any way acceptable and not fucking evil
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Hello to everyone whose "process" is wistfully thinking about the thing they are supposed to be writing while running manifold domestic errands half of which are necessary & half of which are a mechanism to keep the writing itself perpetually an arm's length into the future
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I'm about to mute this so I can do my work--gotta save up for a heat pump (it's ~11,000 dollars) ✈️
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Starting to think it was a mistake to tie all of my mental health to being able to go to a specific coffee shop and sit in a specific seat for two hours each day drinking a specific beverage
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@bradys_01
All my reels are thin attractive white women with eight children pretending domesticity is easy and that their social media work is not a career 🤪😓
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I aM FulFillED [training a toddler to lipsync to a clean version of Big Energy over the course of ten hours]
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Do you mean to tell me that signing up for mastodon means picking a guild to join like some sort of medieval man
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If I stop buying coffee I can buy this house in 200 years
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Literally should be illegal to allow college students to write articles for a major magazine
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I have heard a lot of versions of a statement that the streets are full of people who are "too far gone," which is a viewpoint that allows for resignation, inertia, dehumanization, and violence.
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Being a parent is just screaming "I'm in the BATHROOM" louder and louder until you die
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You think you're mad about childcare and preschool and then you learn about the cost, process, and administrative effort to secure aftercare for a school day that ends at 2:30, a "hard stop" that evidently no one has communicated to American employers
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She is brave to write this. People say "just have a baby; it'll work out" (depending on the prospective mom; race/class can suddenly invoke doctrine of "personal responsibility"), but the reality is that it's financial doom for most Americans to have kids
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S/o to the kindergarten teacher who is talking about what happened yesterday to an online class of little kids using Daniel Tiger & the "feel so mad" episode & saying the rioters didn't express their feelings in a good way & people who work at the Capitol deserved to feel safe 😭
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Last year: universal free lunch for Portland public school students
This year: five percent "processing fee" to load money in the lunch account with a card, which is the only way to load money in the lunch account 🫠
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[People arguing against debt relief who have never been poor and who will soon benefit from the great millennial wealth transfer and are cosplaying hardship based on a brief experience of financial discipline in their 20s that was ultimately a ritualized performance of virtue!!]
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I like to feel solidarity with women having a little a breakdown but the fact that public school is not even the faintest consideration for these people feeling strapped with minimum 300k annual household incomes is why I simply cannot
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On NPR they said Italians have been asked not to go outside except for "work and other emergencies" and now I have a both an ethos and a title for a novel
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This is objectively terrifying but I'm obsessed with the style of it. The last paragraph is balls-to-the-wall. I am ready to enlist in medical school. (It's also unfair when doctors are good writers, we get it, you are smart and useful.)
Every day Dr. Craig Smith, Chair of the Dept of Surgery, sends out a
#Covid_19
update. We will be posting them here each evening.
This is the COVID-19 update for today, 3/20/20
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The federal government won't demand people wear a small mask to end an epidemic but it will come to your town with millions of dollars of tactical gear and throw someone in a van because someone else wrote "ACAB" on a wall
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The media is talking about 12 gallons of milk when they need to be talking about 12 hours of childcare
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It is absolutely incredible how swiftly the human writer's mind can vacillate between total confidence and utter doom re: their current project. Is Science even aware.
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(I am not begrudging child care professionals their money, which I know is insufficient, btw.)
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Support group for novelists who feel like their novel can only be complete if they read 500 books of nonfiction first but it's impossible so they have piles of unread books sitting around hoping that they will somehow receive vibes from them
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Portland appears to have tacitly outsourced much of its disaster relief to protest & mutual aid groups so perhaps the Oregonian can stop running their frequent "antifa has gone to far" editorials now
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Also: -filled it with hot men
-attached iconic director who filled it with sweeping views of green hills, white laundry hanging on a line, and endless stately Georgian (?) rooms
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If you are rage-donating to politicians please also love-donate a little something directly to people/mutual aid orgs in your town bc even if political donations do eventually Trickle Down in the form of better policies it will take a long gd time
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Me when my first daughter was born: "I don't want her to see scantily clad women dancing because she will absorb society's poisonous messages"
Me now: "gather round girls and honor JLo & Shakira who are more powerful than the government. Anything is possible if you work hard 😭"
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Please help
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Our children beg us for bespoke bedtime stories which I find nightmarish because I have no imagination but tonight my husband just started telling them the plot of Lost and they were RAPT
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My best of 2021 list is just the different frozen foods I ate from Trader Joe's and how much they meant to me
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It's my big kid's last day of preschool. As the vast majority of education/care before kindergarten is private in America, getting her to her first day of Kindergarten via one home daycare & two preschools has cost $76,682. This is a vast sum that has not enriched her caregivers.
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I wrote a new novel! It's called Mobility and it's about the oil industry, work, family, 90s geopolitics, complicity, inertia, spreadsheets, gender, power & desire. I'm thrilled to work with Emily Bell again as part of a new publishing venture with
@zandoprojects
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@CrookedMedia
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My mother-nose has discerned that a child has left a clementine or other citrus somewhere in this house to rot but I can't find it. This is the kind of shit The Lost Daughter was talking about.
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A survey found that 37% people would rather fact-check my tweet than email their congressperson
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I am a) overwhelmed with gratitude and b) 34.5 and have thus committed the scam of the century
The 2018 5 Under 35 authors have been announced! We're thrilled to this year honor Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Akwaeke Emezi, Lydia Kiesling, and Moriel Rothman-Zecher.
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Imagine if men of every birth and station did not feel the need to murder women
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People replying like "they are using the bikes TOO much it's a SCAM" ...they are teenagers with no money hanging out with friends like teenagers do!! If they were sitting around in a park there would be twenty nextdoor threads about it, or whatever the NY version of nextdoor is
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A professor who makes 180k/year complaining about paying undergrads to do her tedious professional tasks with money that is *not even hers* but is secured through e.g. the passive income of a war criminal's gracious endowment or perhaps in a very oblique way from the taxpayer, me
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I got $200,000 for a literary fiction debut and I'm very far from selling that many books
#publishingpaidme
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*whispers* If the government doesn't bail out childcares and preschools alongside other businesses than people mostly women won't be able to go back to work anyway. Childcares and parents are hanging by a thread economically in the so-called best of times. 🌠
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Somehow when the pandemic started I was 35 and now I'm 37 and it's still pandemic 🤔
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A woman's essay about her mental illness & her marriage and how those things intertwined is getting her truly the most vile scary classical bust invective saying she should die but on the plus side it's also enraged ostensibly normal people who are reading it as an advice column
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(I paid $150 out of pocket to give birth to my babies solely because my spouse had a unionized public sector job. It should be illegal to charge individuals thousands of dollars to give birth.)
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It's my birthday, I'm 36, please order my book from an independent bookstore because according to the limited stats available to me 7 people worldwide bought it last week (thank you to these 7 heroes) and I hope to one day sell another
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Re: Bon Appetit article, if you have an "assistant" who interacts with other members of your family (??) & books things for you & takes calls on weekends & "runs your life" aka does all your annoying shit & you aren't even paying for it personally you should pay them 90k not 35
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Most kids don't want to be with their parents all day either and would instead prefer to play learn and grow with friends and schoolmates, and yet no one is telling them "guess you hate your parents AFTER ALL" like it's some kind of gotcha, I demand justice
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I don't understand the game stop thing but I am inferring from tweets that they are closing the stock market bc a message board banded together to sink a hedge fund even though they did not do this when hedge funds banded together to destroy the economies of many nations
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One minute you're flirting sharing cigs sending texts the next you're buying Raising Your Spirited Child
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This man's attitude toward students at his own university seems perverse and disqualifying
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Did it hurt? When you had a little window of time you could have used to work on your book but you scrolled instead
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@NanetteFondas
I certainly can empathize with that element of it but the videos trying to promote "traditional" wifely roles are disingenuous especially when that kind of public performance of motherhood also can be monetized!
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Ladies don't let them cosmetically remove a body part you learned of for the first time earlier this week
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Proud of the personal growth of 2016-2020 that now allows me to examine my mental health and say, ah, yes, not good
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Follow-up:
-I'm not a doctor
-NuvaRing may work very well for you!
-I did not like it for mental health reasons but everyone is different
-its manufacturer settled a large lawsuit a few years ago but so have many other companies 🤷♀️
-vaccines are amazing & I would take them all✨
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Is the Abbott that managed to corner the market on formula in the US and then completely fuck it the same Abbott that managed to corner the market on home COVID tests in the US and then completely fuck it?
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@daphnekylee
@Millicentsomer
Oh my god, every night, I feel so much less alone knowing there's a term for it 😭
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Love "free babysitting" as a critique of American parent attitudes toward schools when working parents in the US are generally required to pay for before/aftercare/3 months of summer camp in our very functional system where school schedules bear no relation to most work schedules
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It is really very telling that someone who had an arms-sales job is saying the current situation is too much to stomach
State Dept official resigns in protest of Biden Admin policy re Israel’s assault on Gaza. Read his letter:
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Oregon saying vaccinations having to be 70% before reopening and then stalling out on vaccinations and saying we're reopening anyway is very much me with my children and the iPad when behavior has been suboptimal
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Serenely reading iPad kid discourse knowing that our school buildings were closed for one (1) year in 2020-21 for COVID and three (3) weeks this month for strike. They just closed libraries on weekend in NYC. If you want screenless kids just fund civic society appropriately tysm
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I dreamed of kindergarten bc I wouldn't have to pay for childcare anymore but then remembered that school lasts ~4 hours and is not in session for a whole season of the year. Funny how American society is structured around a mostly imaginary American life
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In two hours I'm appearing on a zoom class of undergraduates to talk about being a writer and I don't know whether to stay in this to convey reality or to change into a business blouse to convey a deceitful professionalism
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If we got universal childcare I would probably miss out on its direct benefits by a year or so but I'm still DESPERATE FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO HAVE IT this isn't hard
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Like the usage describe here should be a transit advocate's dream not a dangerous fundraising opportunity for racist clowns
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If you get any money from a book deal or other writing or anything that gives you a 1099 please please please open a SEP-IRA or individual 401k because if you don't you are just paying that in taxes
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I believe in foolhardy miracles now because a bumble bee was twitching and flightless on our stoop and my child put a Smarties brand candy dipped in water in front of it and it extended its little proboscis to the Smartie and after several minutes visibly revived and flew away
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I talked to fed-up moms who spend winter miserably figuring out the summer. I read 100 years of NYT articles & learned summer camp panic is not new (& is an ouroboros of class anxiety masking a profound lack). And I asked camp directors WHAT is going on.
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Solidarity with every one of the national book award honorees planning to use their platform to speak out against a US funded humanitarian disaster. Solidarity with the organizers for standing against censorship in the face of sponsor pressure.
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