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Economist at University of Virginia -- international trade and labor markets, immigration. He/him.

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GottaLaff , to random
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Busted..

Via david.heath.writer on Threads:

Journalist Jonathan Katz fact checked Katie Britt’s horrific rape story from her over-the-top rebuttal.
Despite all the drama, it turns out to be a story that happened 20 years ago - and not in the U.S. but in Mexico. It’s a story that was recounted in Congressional testimony in 2015.

Katie lied when she blamed this on Joe ’s border policies and when she said it happened in the U.S.

johnmclaren ,
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@GottaLaff @BlueDot Jonathan Katz is consistently excellent. I strongly recommend his newsletter:

https://theracket.news/subscribe?ref=bCn10oe30m

weirdwriter , to bookstodon group

So what does @bookstodon think of the Pass the Salt book cover? It is a Nonfiction novella so I am including on this too.

Provided by the Publisher. Pass the Salt cover Is on a dark charcoal (almost black) background, with the title in large block capitals in the centre of the page. Underneath the title is a simple cartoon depiction of a salt shaker. Your name is beneath this in smaller capitals. The text and cartoon are in a musk-pink colour that contrasts well with the background. The cover is very minimalist but effective (in my humble opinion!) and the writing contrasts clearly with the background.
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    • johnmclaren ,
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    @gryphonEschmidt @weirdwriter @bookstodon I love the cover, but I am somewhat hung up on the concept of a “nonfiction romance novella.“

    johnmclaren ,
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    @gryphonEschmidt @bookstodon @weirdwriter sounds intriguing! Good luck with this.

    scotlit , to bookstodon group
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    The Woefully Neglected (and Partially Unfilmable) Creations of Alasdair Gray

    “Novels narrated in the first-person or in the third- can have those choices rendered cinematically […]. But Gray used endnotes, illustrations, typography, plagiarism, self-reference, and the layout of the page to further his plots, to deepen his diegesis, and to make us laugh.”

    @bookstodon

    https://lithub.com/the-woefully-neglected-and-partially-unfilmable-creations-of-alasdair-gray/

    johnmclaren ,
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    @scotlit @bookstodon I feel behind. I've gotta read some of this stuff!

    johnmclaren ,
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    @scotlit @bookstodon fantastic. Thank you. This goes into the queue!

    NickEast , to bookstodon group
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    Reader questions: What are you currently reading, and would you recommend it?

    @reading @bookstodon @bookbubble @books


    johnmclaren ,
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    @kimlockhartga @NickEast @reading @bookstodon @bookbubble @books good to know. There There was really absorbing. I felt as if I got to know a whole world that I had never heard of before. Indigenous Oakland. People in the book seemed very real.

    KitMuse , to bookstodon group
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    I have a question for I've been thinking about writing
    in line with the genres I already write. However, I write for fun and for my "happy place", I'm wondering if there has to be a murder in a cozy mystery or if I could deal with other crimes and if they can be written without all the frenetic/zany side characters? Is that a different mystery subgenre?

    Thoughts appreciated.

    @bookstodon

    johnmclaren ,
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    @KitMuse @bookstodon Sounds like you may be about to create your own genre.

    (There probably is a market for mystery stories centered on mild vanalism, after all.)

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