Alexandra King (@Alexandrasking) profile picture

Journalist (@CNN). Writer (lots of places). Formerly @UN. One half of Lyles and King gallery. Likes: Art, justice, human rights, girl power, lists.

New York
Joined March 2009
An essay from me in the @guardian today about having 3 miscarriages in a year, and becoming the proprietress of NYC's loneliest bakery
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"I’ve never fell off a big chimney. You only fall off one of them once." #OnThisDay 1979: Extraordinary steeplejack Fred Dibnah was introduced to the nation.
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Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Seamus Heaney. “Walk on air against your better judgement”
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The end of The Road by Cormac McCarthy, as beautiful a paragraph as has ever been made by hand
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Ah I adore you, Chase. Nobody else carries me laminated in their wallet. A thousand bows…..
I carry this poorly laminated @marykarrlit poem wherever I go and today it fell out of my wallet at the nadir of a moment of desperation—the most obvious crap, like a hand gripping me firmly on the shoulder
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The Cherry Blossom forest in Naru Japan. The blossoms or Sakura, bloom from the last week of March into the first weeks of April.
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An incredible poem by Fiona Benson…
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Portraits famous photographers have taken of their partners (a thread): – at Tucson, AZ
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24 hour daycare is an essential, often too invisible resource for so many American parents. Proud to profile Ms Betty, Brittany and the kids of Angels of Essence in this film, made with star producers ⁦@laceylrussell⁩ and ⁦@_jeffkopp⁩ cnn.com/videos/us/2023/01/23…
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Gather ‘round, ladies. It’s time for the annual buying of The Notebook That Will Change Everything™️.
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some people are just touched by the heavens
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Fixed this for Shakespeare
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Spectacular time lapse of the the Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus), From finding and inspecting her new home to raising a family
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Harrowing, essential reporting from the always superb @ebruenig
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Only the comfort of darkness, The ice-cold, unfreezable brine, Could melt the cries into silence, Your bright hands into mine. —Galway Kinnell poets.org/poem/comfort-darkn…
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Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for good.
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Shirley Jackson’s short story from 1948, which inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction—and caused some readers to cancel their subscriptions. nyer.cm/tr3047M
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My friend @Alexandrasking’s piece for The Guardian about her experience of pregnancy loss & baking bread is exceptional - generous and true. Do read it: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
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