@MissEmilyTweets

Reading books and editing books and once upon a time ran the reading series @BigUmbrellaNF. Member of the slow tweets movement. She/her.

 Brooklyn, NY
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Joined August 2010
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Can you imagine how embarrassing it would be if birds ever found out about birding
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Opinion by Mattie Kahn: The “fearless” label, meant as a compliment, is actually a condescension, minimizing the seriousness of girls’ activism and the real dangers they face. wapo.st/45YUyDU

Opinion | For girls’ sake, let’s end the myth of the ‘fearless’ girl

The “fearless” label, meant as a compliment, is actually a condescension, minimizing the seriousness of girls’ activism and the real dangers they face.

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HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY to BURN THE PAGE by the hilarious, inspiring, badass @pwcdanica. This book is about breaking the narratives that hold us back, and about fucking up and trying again and finding your place and your own power. Also, heavy metal. So proud to be on team Danica🤘🔥
Agents ILY, and I really love working w you, but following up w/in 12 hrs of a submission and then wringing hands about editor burnout, it’s giving a liiiittle bit
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Congratulations to the utterly brilliant @soniapurnell whose A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE has now sold a half a million copies! I'll never stop gushing about how great this book is, a genuine masterpiece of narrative history and a true joy to publish @grainnefox @VikingBooks
Sonia Purnell@soniapurnell8 Mar 2022
A huge thank you to everyone in North America who's bought A Woman of No Importance! Beyond thrilled by this milestone. #virginiahall #resistance #womeninhistory #changedmylife thank you too @vikingbooks @grainnefox
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This week on a work call I asked someone, oh do you live in LA? Or are you in New York? My inner midwesterner is dead. I killed her. I’m so ashamed.
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Understand your market, price for value -- these are dirty words for artists. But designing a profitable AND fun business can be creative. So much gold packed into a 21-min @NPRLifeKit episode from @HellYeahGroup. npr.org/2022/02/03/107792384…… #tweet100

Financial advice for artists who think they're 'bad with money' : Life Kit

Getting your finances in order can be intimidating, especially for freelancers, creatives and side-giggers. Financial planner and artist Paco de Leon shares simple, holistic advice for tuning up your...

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Friends: take care of urself Partner: take care of urself Social media: 10 ways to take care of urself The entire medical establishment: stress bad, sleep good, take care of urself My mom: take care of urself Me: haha yah I know, don’t worry, I will! Narrator: But, she wouldn’t
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For 2022 I wish for us all to develop boundaries as firm and consistent as the NPD Bookscan sign-in ❤️
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I am yelling though
Kait Feldmann@kaitfeldmann16 Dec 2021
The publishing urge to all caps book titles in texts with non-publishing folk despite knowing it will read like you’re yelling
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LOVE love love this interview with @millzymai on her gorgeous, fascinating, wonderfully strange gem AN OUTSIDER'S GUIDE TO HUMANS. Paperback out next month!
Emily Kwong@emilykwong123412 Nov 2021
The moment I finished @millzymai's brilliant book, I hoped she'd come on #NPRShortWave. A convo about the science of living, how writing this book began with meltdowns, and how messy rooms are thermodynamically inevitable... w/ @rebeccalramirez @ggrayson npr.org/2021/11/11/105492736…

Camilla Pang On Turning Fear Into Light : Short Wave

Camilla Pang talks with Short Wave host Emily Kwong about her award-winning memoir, "An Outsider's Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me About What We Do And Who We Are." Diagnosed with autism...

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new first draft from @colindickey is a good news day for everyone!!!
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honestly? Every chapter & location in @calflyn's book blew my mind, but the waste land where plants are metabolizing heavy metals left after WWI chemical weapons were "disposed of" (set on fire) is...woah Excerpt on @atlasobscura atlasobscura.com/articles/zo…
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Yes!!! Congrats @calflyn on landing on the shortlist for the UK's Wainwright Prize--in the fabulous company of David Attenborough @ElizKolbert @MerlinSheldrake @rebeccagiggs and Dieter Helm!! What a list.
The Wainwright Prizes@wainwrightprize4 Aug 2021
The first of the #Conservation shortlists, @calflyn #IslandsofAbandonment. A book about what happens when nature is allowed to reclaim its place. Congratulations! #WainwrightPrize21 #ConservationWriting
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Obsessed w this @dcexaminer review of ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: "It punctures assumptions about nature’s fragility to encourage hope, not further recklessness, and to cultivate deeper thinking about environmental ethics and our place in the world."news.yahoo.com/life-finds-wa…
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(and obvious bonus points to this review title, which I was very much hoping would arise w/r/t this exceptional book's underlying premise...)
Congrats to the wonderful @calflyn and ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT on being longlisted for the Wainwright Prize!! Keeping very good company on this shelf here.
The Wainwright Prizes@wainwrightprize24 Jun 2021
We are thrilled to announce our second longlist, this time for Writing on Global Conservation! Congratulations to our twelve longlisted authors! #WainwrightPrize21 wainwrightprize.com/2021-lon…
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