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Sophia

@skmadeleine

9 months

@miri_yam_ one time a landlord told me that I wouldn’t have to deal with leaks over my bed if I were “better behaved” bc God wouldn’t be punishing me but what I learned from that experience was you actually can just withhold rent until it’s fixed

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it’s funny when people find out you work in publishing and they say “wow so you get paid to read books all day!” And you have to be like so close !! that is actually the part I don’t get paid for 💙

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@miri_yam_ Being called a “bad girl” several times at 1 in the morning by my landlord (not hot) is why I now try to avoid parts of Williamsburg!!

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@skmadeleine

2 years

hearing how many millions your company makes while they refuse to give you a fair contract is something that can be so personal

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@skmadeleine

2 years

it’s so important to have friends who don’t know about publishing, it’s so important to have a friend who will interrupt you to say “The Secret History of what”

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@skmadeleine

3 months

FaceTimed my mom, briefly mentioned all the women who got punched in the face downtown, she said “oh reminds me of when I first moved to New York. This guy was blowing darts into women’s backsides” like??????????

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@skmadeleine

1 year

the people at Gucci who work in our building are literally going to be so happy for us, they’re our biggest supporters they love us soo much

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@skmadeleine

1 year

watching you all do this bit is bringing up the unfortunate reminder that when I was 13 this was one of the hottest things I felt I had ever seen

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@skmadeleine

1 year

so true ✨

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@skmadeleine

5 years

@rachsyme “and it is close to this man’s work, which makes it good, and introduced by a man, also good!”

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@skmadeleine

1 year

okay and are the insignificant impacts on the company’s operations in the room with us now?

The New York Times

@nytimes

1 year

After a three-month strike, the HarperCollins union reached a tentative agreement with the publisher that includes an increase in minimum salaries and a one-time bonus of $1,500.

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@skmadeleine

5 years

If I were a single man in possession of a good fortune, I would simply be in want of a wife

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@skmadeleine

2 years

same friend

Sophia

@skmadeleine

2 years

it’s so important to have friends who don’t know about publishing, it’s so important to have a friend who will interrupt you to say “The Secret History of what”

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@skmadeleine

4 years

hey @Harpers I did a quick first pass on this letter as if it were a submission, and I — one of your unpaid interns

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@skmadeleine

2 years

if the Harper strike works & we get even just some of what we're asking for, other big publishers will feel pressure to follow suit or risk losing talent! there will be ripple effects across the industry!!

HarperCollins Union

@hcpunion

2 years

Our strike deadline is approaching and we have not yet reached an agreement with management. They haven't scheduled a bargaining session with us since we offered updated proposals last week. So it's time to ramp up our planning for our strike. Please pledge your donation today!

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@skmadeleine

3 months

this reeks

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@skmadeleine

1 year

emailing my favorite IT guy to reset all my passwords because I can’t get into a single Harper app

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@skmadeleine

3 months

I say this with love. this book would change so many of you for the better

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@skmadeleine

1 year

first day back in the office vibes

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@skmadeleine

3 months

when I tell publishing people I don’t rly drink sometimes they’re like “but HOW do you work in publishing!” Easily. 1) caring what publishing people think about your life is loser behavior 2) it’s actually fun + fine to have a Shirley temple without doing a whole Lolita bit

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@skmadeleine

2 years

on strike at the same time as / partially because of my one year anniversary working ✨two jobs / 6 days a week✨love my Sundays at @bookculture , won’t ever leave, but would love if they weren’t necessary #hcponstrike

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@skmadeleine

2 years

✨✨✨thrilled to have acquired this beautiful and poignant novel and cannot wait to put it out into the world ✨✨✨

Lang Leav

@langleav

2 years

So excited to announce my new novel OTHERS WERE EMERALDS with @HarperPerennial Thrilled to be working with you, Amy Baker and Sophia Kaufman @skmadeleine 😍 and thanks to my agent Alec Shane @alecdshane

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@skmadeleine

1 year

🚨🚨🚨and what are the scabs even doing?? Emailing cool agents who won’t respond bc they won’t cross the picket line?? erroneously putting keywords in the subtitle field?? Assisting editors who haven’t reached out to their own assistants in 40 days?? Soooo embarrassing

Gary Lovely

@colonellovely

1 year

Imagine being a cringy ass @HarperCollins scab after all @hcpunion is doing for book workers. Y'all are embarrassing as hell

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@skmadeleine

2 years

day 5 on the picket line

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@skmadeleine

1 month

the simple fact is that editing this book has been the best part of my job for the past several months and galleys are almost here so if you want to be put on a List, my dms are Open

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@jeremypgordon

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It begins

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@skmadeleine

2 years

I saw Goody Proctor on the picket line and she said you weren’t there………..embarrassing

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@skmadeleine

1 year

Lang has written such a beautiful book that keenly captures the tender, joyful moments that make up an adolescence, grief after loss, and the way prejudice spirals into incalculable violence and tragedy. Working with her is a dream and I’m so excited for this book to come out 💚

Lang Leav

@langleav

1 year

Thrilled to share the gorgeous cover of my new novel Others Were Emeralds, a nostalgic love letter to my youth and immigrant roots, set against the backdrop of anti-Asian sentiment sweeping Australia in the late 90’s. So much of my heart has gone into

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@skmadeleine

4 months

called the corporation to get them to explain something to me and after I told the guy on the phone what my salary is, he started referring to my “situation”

Sophia

@skmadeleine

6 months

the corporation Harper uses to offer 401ks has a little page where they suggest “side hustles” for anyone who wants to boost their retirement savings! Lots of helpful tips, very normal stuff

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@skmadeleine

6 years

Consider replacing "this is not who we are" with "this is not who we want to be" for two reasons: it places more emphasis on the power of the collective to change what's happening as opposed to some patriotic legacy, and it's more historically accurate

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

4 years

constituents engaging, learning, asking questions,

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

4 years

I’ve read 60 books since april, will this pile hit my literal ceiling before there is a vaccine, will I ever find peace, yes I did take notes,

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@skmadeleine

2 years

the CEO of Harper when we remind him how A Bug’s Life ends:

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

1 year

Rumor has it Harper is hemorrhaging talent (the rumor is true)

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@skmadeleine

7 months

proud to be in such good company

Greta Rainbow

@gertsofficial

7 months

Shondaland asked me to identify a few women “to watch” in book publishing and I think we chose very well

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@skmadeleine

2 years

going to bed every night this week knowing that even though we’ll lose our paychecks and maybe our jobs, we’re doing the right thing

HarperCollins Union

@hcpunion

2 years

Picket line means ⚠️🙅🏻don't cross🙅🏻⚠️‼️ STRIKE STARTS 11/10

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

6 years

listen January lasted for 17 years and then I took ONE nap in February and now it's almost APRIL

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@skmadeleine

2 years

still thinking about the girl I volunteered with at the abortion clinic who, after listening to the preacher bluster about regret for a while, said “I regret getting a BFA, that doesn’t mean I think it should be illegal”

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

3 years

told my boss I like her plant, and not only is it not real, it is part of a filter, so it doesn’t even exist, humility is a virtue to be practiced every day

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

2 years

not a rich Big Five publisher that won’t pay their workers or a cool indie publisher that can’t pay their workers but a secret third thing

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@skmadeleine

2 years

it’s really beautiful to call an author to let them know about the strike and hear “bring them to their knees” in a Scottish accent

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@skmadeleine

1 year

told my very old very french grandmother about the strike and she said “will you achieve this goal?” and I said we hope so and she went back to eating her chocolate mousse without further comment

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

3 months

feel like I should clarify I have 🫀 inflammation from Covid & literally can’t walk more than a block or two at a time, bc it’s scary to me that when I tell people, they had no idea that could happen. Anyway, all my friends are referring to this as my delicate condition

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@skmadeleine

3 months

to have an MRI tech say through the speakers “you’re doing so, so well” while your heart rate is on display for a whole room to see is really not an experience anyone can prepare you for. You kind of just have to deal

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@skmadeleine

2 years

here’s me at the phoebe bridgers concert last night looking like I just dropped off my kids to have a good time

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@skmadeleine

3 years

watching people whose st. Patrick’s/game day puke I had to clean up @ the cafe talk about the “effects” of a higher minimum wage

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@skmadeleine

1 year

don’t look now but the worst person you know is posting “you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves” on their Instagram story as we speak

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@skmadeleine

2 years

they’re the same picture

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@skmadeleine

2 years

this is so *not* it

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@skmadeleine

4 years

buying cranky old new yorkers’ used books for a job was a blessing and a curse, the blessing is all the little papers they left in them!!! the curse is unemployment

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@skmadeleine

5 years

falcon: cannot hear the falconer things: falling apart the center: sorry I’m just at capacity right now

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@skmadeleine

3 years

showing up to @bookculture every Sunday to do my little chores

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@skmadeleine

1 year

a man on the street stopped me to ask if he really looked 50 years old, I demurred, he insisted, I said no not really, he said someone told him he did! so I said oh well you know life is hard these days and he cut me off to say NOT FOR ME! and then continued walking

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@skmadeleine

1 year

at Book Culture I rescue important chic mass markets and convince my boss to order Levain cookies for us and at Harper I field multiple texts a day from friends who are 🤏🏼 this close to quitting

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

3 years

What if Mark Ruffalo had been a fourth dad in mamma Mia

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@skmadeleine

1 year

considering adding him to a finished book mailing bc of this

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

6 months

the corporation Harper uses to offer 401ks has a little page where they suggest “side hustles” for anyone who wants to boost their retirement savings! Lots of helpful tips, very normal stuff

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@skmadeleine

1 year

not a day goes by that I don’t think about this image I found in a Michigan girl’s scrapbook from 1945

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@skmadeleine

3 years

once during a Christmas mass I attended in my youth, the priest rolled a small boy up in wrapping paper on the altar to explain how we are all gods gifts to each other and then couldn’t rip the tape so the child had to shimmy out of it in front of 100s of people

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@skmadeleine

5 years

I’m getting Fight Club mansplained to me at work. Not a drill

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@skmadeleine

7 years

Gentle reminder for straight ppl that the appropriate caption for pictures you take @ pride parades w ur bff is not "haha we're not dating!"

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@skmadeleine

7 years

What if instead of survivors tweeting #metoo male celebrities tweeted #himtoo with pics to out predators in Hollywood wouldn't that be WILD

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@skmadeleine

3 years

just thinking

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@skmadeleine

6 years

"your essay should be like the school skirt: long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep it interesting" - one of my favorite high school teachers

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@skmadeleine

3 years

still thinking

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath – Heather Clark

Clark’s biography is not only one of the most impressive examples of the form in recent history, but a long overdue exercise in placing Sylvia Plath firmly within the poetic traditions she helped...

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@skmadeleine

3 years

just thinking

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@skmadeleine

2 years

I asked another friend of mine if the book she was recommending to me was a novel and she said “it’s fiction” and I said novels are fiction and she said “I won’t let your big words scare me Sophia”

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

7 years

you know those guys who think the greatest Compliment they can Bestow upon a Woman is to tell her they approve of her music? I hate them

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@skmadeleine

2 months

emailing agents about “meeting for coffee” later this spring, knowing damn well I haven’t had caffeine in four years

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@skmadeleine

3 months

@miri_yam_ what is it with so many people assuming everyone around them is walking around empty, lacking a rich interior life, I can’t think of an outlook more depressing

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

4 years

once I delete all my social media, move to Cork, and own a little tea kettle, I simply will not care if it’s over for you all or not

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

1 year

striking is not enough, someone needs to do for publishing what Missy Peregrym did for gymnastics in Stick It (2006)

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@skmadeleine

2 years

watching these two during formative years of my life definitely did something to me psychically and i highly doubt it was positive

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@skmadeleine

1 year

this is today

Laura Harshberger

@laurzard

1 year

Tomorrow is day 44 of the strike and a bunch of people are going to physically cross our picket line for the first time because of mandatory RTO and all I can think about is how fucking resilient and courageous every person on strike is.

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@skmadeleine

2 years

great essay to read if you too are tired of novels where women with baggage are slinking around town having sex that either bores them or bores you

Noor Qasim

@Noqasimshere

2 years

Had the good fortune to write about (now Nobel winner!) Annie Ernaux and contemporary stories of desire for @thedrift_mag

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@skmadeleine

3 years

if Suzanne Collins had released The Hunger Games 10 years later it would have been Tom Holland Peeta and Noah Centineo Gale

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@skmadeleine

3 months

sometimes Angel Food business meetings are me saying to Miriam “have you watched Quiet on Set” And she says “no that sounds horrible. Have you watched Real Housewives” and I say “no that sounds horrible.” and then we go through submissions

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

8 years

My last sentence for my last paragraph for my last essay for my last exam: "And thus he must burn in Hell." I walked out giggling

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@skmadeleine

5 years

A hot british guy just bought every novel, poetry collection, and play I told him to, and I will never see him again. That’s called heartbreak

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@skmadeleine

4 years

the trick is to simply not let the email find you at all

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@skmadeleine

1 year

group chat kicking off the week

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@skmadeleine

7 years

I related to E.T. as a child because I was also short, ugly, and touched things with only my index finger

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@skmadeleine

3 months

when you’re nice to us about our magazine this is who you’re being nice to

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Sophia

@skmadeleine

5 years

okay fine I will admit to being sexist in exactly one scenario, yes, when I’m alone in a room with a boy and a bug, you’re right, I expect the bug to squash the boy

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@skmadeleine

6 years

just remembered that I once got into an argument with a friend about how much punctuation can change a story and at some point i'm pretty sure I said "Call me, Ishmael ;) " and then she refused to talk to me for a week

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@skmadeleine

2 years

“harpercollins works hard to provide salaries that are competitive within the publishing industry and market.” they’re so close to getting it…..just need a lil push…….

HarperCollins Union

@hcpunion

2 years

One of the things we're good at is editing.

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@skmadeleine

7 years

Real science = the more times you watch devil wears Prada the worse the boyfriend gets

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@skmadeleine

7 years

Matt and I just watched a girl plug her nose, slam an espresso shot, and chase it with soy milk in the middle of the cafe and I just

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@skmadeleine

1 year

ending the first day back in office

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@skmadeleine

5 years

There are a lot of inconvenient things in my life right now but developing a crush on andy samberg in brooklyn nine-nine was one I really did not see coming

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@skmadeleine

2 years

the truth is that on my move-in day freshman year at UofM I saw a beautiful building from very far away with red little dots on the ground and went towards it thinking it was an art installation and it was in fact empty red cups on a frat lawn and THAT is culture shock

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@skmadeleine

3 months

grateful that texting @miri_yam_ very casually “I’m around if you still want another editor” evolved into swapping long voice memos every day and bullying her into coming to my apartment so we could look at vintage public domain ads for cake

Angel Food

@angelfoodmag

3 months

happy spring, our first issue is born:

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@skmadeleine

6 years

Some guy came into the cafe and said whenever he's down bc of the weather he comes here because he knows there's at least a 75% chance that if I'm working, the music will be Amy Winehouse, Hozier, or the Vaccines and I don't know how to feel about that

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@skmadeleine

3 years

happy pride to my all girls west side soccer team in 2nd grade who elected to name ourselves the “bruisers” and put eye black under our eyes before every game until a ref told our coach to knock it off

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@skmadeleine

10 months

they thought they could keep me from the books. please

ezra kupor

@ezra_kupor

10 months

having a normal one at the office

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@skmadeleine

4 years

this was my childhood clock no wonder I can’t fking tell time

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@skmadeleine

1 year

day 50 on the picket line eve

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@skmadeleine

5 years

Idk who needs to hear this right now but Virginia Woolf once ended a diary entry with “too much and not the mood”

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@skmadeleine

1 month

if after reading this, you’re curious about what the benefits are in having a union in a publishing house, always happy to chat

miri

@miri_yam_

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for @VersoBooks online i wrote about book publishing and the labor that makes it happen

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@skmadeleine

3 years

I found 1 of the life plans organized by decade I wrote down when I was 8. Turns out I am not spending 20-30 in an Amish community, nor am I on track to spend years 30-40 “at sea”

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@skmadeleine

4 years

I love and cherish my catholic school friends

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@skmadeleine

9 years

Nothing like getting kicked out of an independent bookstore in the rain to make you feel like a quirky subplot

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@skmadeleine

2 years

don’t let our cute pics fool you into thinking this is all fun + games!!! we walked the equivalent of 14? miles on the picket line but if I want to take a hot bath to recover I need to heat water on the stove because there’s not enough hot water to fill a tub in my apartment ;)

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