@jadoogan

Bossy little bluebird. Former bookseller. Sometime children’s publishing person. Currently: Hamline MFAC ‘24. https://xitter.cf/t.co/leBWniH68G

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The creator of Pat the Bunny, Dorothy Kunhardt, was an innovative artist and writer with a quirky personality. Though she was sometimes discouraged, she never let a “no” keep her from creating something new. DOROTHY’S IDEAS, lyrical picture book biography. #pbpitch #nf #l
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Can anyone local see the Aurora?
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TIL that Daphne du Maurier wrote the short story that The Birds is based on, so she wrote the source text for two of his movies. (The other one being Rebecca.)
audrey hepburn enthusiast@darylandfilms9 Oct 2024
it's been over sixty years and no film promo pic has gone as hard as this still of tippi hedren lighting one up with a crow for alfred hitchcock's 'the birds' (1963)
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I would love to see Jamaica Inn, but what are the odds it’s available at all when the only way to watch Rebecca is to buy the Criterion DVD?
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I have not seen The Birds but I used to read the short story from my English text book over and over on the school bus (as a very cool child with many friends)
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Jesse Doogan retweeted
alexandra@birdmotives8 Oct 2024
[dropping hints that i really want that new yorker editorial associate job] i coöperate well in a team setting. my skills could shine working with preëminent writers at an élite publication
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I want this to stop being true. (Apparently it was Internet Archive this time, which feels like some kind of irony.)
Jesse Doogan@jadoogan4 Mar 2019
Turns out this service is called HAVE I BEEN PWNED and I will just keep finding out who I've given my data to when I learn that they've allowed it to be stolen.
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I wrote about tomato pie and judging books by their covers
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The Anthropologie app splash screen took its art direction from 101 Dalmatians
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This graphic biography of Tolkien and Lewis’s friendship comes out next week and I’m SO excited
John Hendrix@hendrixart20 Sep 2024
At this hour, on this date, in 1931… C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien have their legendary conversation about God and Myth on Addison’s Walk, and then into the night at Magdalen College. “One of the single most important conversations of the 20th century.”
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I do sometimes wonder if this is actually a necessary correction to books getting to be just TOO long. amp.theguardian.com/books/20…

The big question: are books getting longer?

A new survey of bestsellers and critics’ picks has concluded that the average book is now 25% bigger than 15 years ago. But not everyone reads things this way

theguardian.com
Publishers Weekly@PublishersWkly17 Sep 2024
Publishers try skinnier books to save money and emissions | @BBCNews buff.ly/4guNP9K
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(But also ALSO, trimming that last 10% would require an editor who is given actual time to edit, a thing that doesn’t seem to exist in the way that it did.)
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something about books getting smaller to save the planet while endless AI swallows glaciers whole to "summarize" emails
Publishers Weekly@PublishersWkly17 Sep 2024
Publishers try skinnier books to save money and emissions | @BBCNews buff.ly/4guNP9K
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It’s a banner day for MFAC!
Hamline MFAC@HamlineMFAC10 Sep 2024
We’re so proud of faculty member @erinentrada and 2013 alum Alicia D. Williams. Congratulations on being selected for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature longlist!
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I launched a newsletter over the weekend! It’s a bloggy, monthly newsletter about books and food. open.substack.com/pub/jessed…
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Sepia Castle
Tiny Spires 🏰@tinyspires31 Aug 2024
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Local people: apparently we are not done with cicada-related horrors cbsnews.com/news/cicadas-mit…

Cicadas come with an itchy pest — nearly invisible mites that can cause rashes and travel with the...

Hundreds of thousands of the tiny wind-soaring and itch-inducing critters can fall from trees every day and are packed with a venom that can paralyze prey 166,000 times their size.

cbsnews.com
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(I found this out just before I burnt my house down to try to stop what I thought had to be spider bites)
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This is the thing. I’m not actually wildly concerned about Tom Sawyer’s Island. But the river and the riverboat are vital in making the Magic Kingdom feel special
Jenny Nicholson@JennyENicholson13 Aug 2024
I feel like the appeal of the river is that it creates a grand impression and makes the park feel like a big kingdom. All the stuff near the water feels cooler because of it. Even if you don't go to the island or on the water it improves your experience.
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