Maud Newton

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Writer. Bylines: Guardian, Harper's, Esquire, Time, Slate, WSJ, Harper's Bazaar... Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE, a best of the year per New Yorker, NPR, WaPo, Time. Opinions mine.

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“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced impeachment articles against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

"My mother... reacted exactly as I had feared she would, as if she had learned of an infidelity." I know from painful experience that this reaction is common, and I'm grateful to Andrea Robin Skinner for sharing what happened to her. (via @sarahweinman.bsky.social) www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

My stepfather sexually abused me when I was a child. My mother, Alice Munro, chose to stay with himwww.thestar.com In the shadow of my mother, a literary icon, my family and I have hidden a secret for decades. It’s time to tell my story.

We are still very early in the tenure of this Supreme Court. It's really just getting warmed up.

Garrard Conley's first novel ALL THE WORLD BESIDE is a singular and magnificent work of art and the subject of my latest newsletter. Along the way: the sins of the fathers, Puritan ancestors, epigenetics, queer kinship, and the musicality of his prose. ancestortrouble.substack.com/p/art-and-ki...

Emily Raboteau's LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL: MOTHERING THROUGH "THE APOCALYPSE," is out today. In my newsletter, admiration for her work broadly and this book in particular, along with photos of Emily and her ancestor wall, and her reflections on creating the memorial after her dad's death as she wrote:

Art & Kinship: Emily Raboteau's Lessons For Survivalancestortrouble.substack.com Emotional recurrences in families have fascinated me as long as I can remember. As I explain in Ancestor Trouble, “the more I feed my fixations, the sooner they tend to wither, but this one tends to p...

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Re-upping this Google spreadsheet, which now has 360+ fundraisers for Palestinians seeking help with medical or evacuation costs. Please help if you can.

For those of you who wish to donate to help Palestinians with medical care or evacuation costs, here is a Google spreadsheet that lists various GoFundMes. (Sorry, I closed my tab before I could note whom to credit for the link.) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Idra Novey's TAKE WHAT YOU NEED is an exemplary novel, one of my favorites of recent years. I've read it three times and I'm looking forward to reading it again before talking with the author on March 14, at 6:30 PM at B&N on Atlantic Ave. stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

Idra Novey discusses and signs TAKE WHAT YOU NEED with Maud Newtonstores.barnesandnoble.com Join us for an in-store event, Idra Novey discusses and signs TAKE WHAT YOU NEED with Maud Newton, on Thursday, March 14, 2024.

I've got a one-day workshop coming up in Miami as part of the Miami Book Fair's Big read: Family Stories We (Tell Ourselves We) Can't Tell. Priced for accessibility; size-limited for intimacy. Also, some of what I'm reading and thinking, in my newsletter. ancestortrouble.substack.com/p/family-sto...

Family stories we (tell ourselves we) can't tellancestortrouble.substack.com Hi friends, I’m experimenting with not explaining myself after an absence. So: I’m back! I’ve got a one-day afternoon workshop coming up from the Miami Book Fair for the Miami Big Read this spri...

NYC! I'll talk with @abbottkahler.bsky.social about her first novel, WHERE YOU END, at Mysterious Bkshp tonight at 6 PM, if you need an antidote for winter doldrums and the-world-is-falling-apart malaise. We'll talk gross cults, mirror twins, DNA discoveries, the 70s... substack.com/home/post/p-...

Hitting the road for WHERE YOU END!substack.com Come say hi.

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“It was a season of death in a year of death in a culture bent on ignoring death, within a national body politic that was consumed with the gobbling up of itself by a death cult called oil, capitalism and empire.” Happy pub day to @manjula.bsky.social, whose amazing book I will never shut up about.

How California's worst fire season — so far — became a writer's most powerful metaphorwww.latimes.com Manjula Martin had a bad 2020 — between a medical emergency and fires targeting her Sonoma County home. How she turned the pain into a memoir, 'The Last Fire Season.'

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Taking this as a chance to repost @maudnewton.bsky.social on Muriel Spark's A Far Cry From Kensington and a character described as a pisseur de copie www.theawl.com/2013/01/bett...

The old school insult we really need to bring back is: PISS ARTIST that’s PISS ARTIST. It covers most of the online world tbh.

For @jeannakadlec.bsky.social's newsletter I shared thoughts on talking (or not) with family about your writing about them and how writing about abuse is not abuse. (w/ @thefrankiedlc.bsky.social @megjoneswall.bsky.social @esmewang.bsky.social & more) jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/how-to-not...

how to (not) talk to your family about your writingjeannakadlec.substack.com according to 10 of my writer friends

Calling my reps on Gaza again feels almost futile but not quite as futile as social media feels to me right now, so I'll keep it up.

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all the thanks to @esmewang.bsky.social @lillydancyger.bsky.social @maudnewton.bsky.social @thefrankiedlc.bsky.social @megjoneswall.bsky.social @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social & more for sharing their experiences on ~writing about family~ jeannakadlec.substack.com/p/how-to-not...

how to (not) talk to your family about your writingjeannakadlec.substack.com according to 10 of my writer friends

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One thing I do if stuck on a scene is write the crappy version, then a few days later write another version without looking at the first, then write a third a few days after that. Usually, in the combining of different versions, I get to a good rough draft.

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Want to hear a wild stat? Nearly a thousand $1 million+ earners didn't file tax returns for at least one year from 2017 to 2020. Just didn’t bother. And the GOP is trying to help them by slashing IRS funding. When the IRS is defunded, rich tax cheats make out like bandits.

This morning I woke up with the first lines of "The Fairies" in my head. I haven't thought of this poem since I was very young. No idea how I learned it. Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren’t go a-hunting For fear of little men...

The Fairies by William Allingham - Scottish Poetry Librarywww.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk Up the airy mountain, / Down the rushy glen, / We daren’t go a-hunting / For fear of little men; / Wee...

A brief newsletter for the thinning veil. ancestortrouble.substack.com/p/wishes-ami...

Wishes Amid the Thinning Veilancestortrouble.substack.com My sister took this photo of our mom and me in May 1998, in Asheville, after our granny (our mom’s mom) died. When I was younger, all I could see in it was how deeply I resembled my mom in ways I di...

Contacting my reps again to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, for whatever that's worth.

Ida wishes you a good All Hallows' Eve. 🎃🍁✨

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Reupping a fun thing I got to do for Halloween a few spooky szns ago: I was lucky enough to visit Edith Wharton's haunted mansion and write about her ghost stories for the Paris Review Daily www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/10...

Ghost Hunting with Edith Wharton - The Paris Reviewwww.theparisreview.org Ghost hunting at Edith Wharton’s estate in the Berkshires.

Florian, tolerating my "She Sells Sanctuary" singalongs this morning. He's dubious that this really counts as research.

"The war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas is shaping up to be one of the deadliest single events for journalists in decades. In the 23 days since Hamas’ initial attacks in Israel, at least 29 journalists have died." (by @joshuabenton.com) www.niemanlab.org/2023/10/the-...

The death toll for journalists in the Gaza conflict has reached 29www.niemanlab.org The war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas is shaping up to be one of the deadliest single events for journalists in decades. In the 23 days since Hamas' initial attacks in Israel, at least 29 journal...

The tax-exempt evangelical disinformation network that is an extension of Kenneth Copeland's church is excited about the new House speaker, and the war. If you aren't familiar with the Victory Channel, I wrote this recently: slate.com/human-intere...

People Stress About Elderly Parents Watching Fox News or OAN. My Mom’s Hooked on Something Even Wo...slate.com I know everyone’s tired of worrying about people like her. I am, too.

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Good morning, I wrote you all a ghost story. It's about the movies Ghost & Ghostbusters, and NYC after a pandemic. I've spent the last 3 1/2 years writing this--it was one of the harder things I've written in quite some time, and I hope you enjoy it.

Signs of Ghosts - Longreadslongreads.com What do we do when there are whole cities full of ghosts, each one with their own unique story to tell, each one with something left undone?

Weird week—Max and I both have a dreadful flu that no one else seems to have. Levels are low. But I want coffee for the first time in a week, a positive development, surely!

I haven't been on social media much lately, but I wanted to mention that I signed this letter last week. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/oc...

An Open Letter on the Situation in Palestine · LRB 18 October 2023www.lrb.co.uk We call on our governments to demand an immediate ceasefire and the unimpeded admission of humanitarian aid into Gaza....

I rarely eat northern biscuits, but I took a chance in Manhattan the other day on a rosemary honey biscuit that would've delivered if sold as a scone.