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merch idea: I Survived the Bread Loaf Hayride™️ everyone talks about the magic of the mountain, but i couldn’t have imagined it until i experienced it. this year was @breadloafwriter’s 100th anniversary, and i felt so lucky to write and play and learn in this sacred place, with its legacy of literary luminaries (joan didion smoked in these chairs! julia child cooked in this kitchen! toni morrison taught at this podium!) and, even more special to me, this year’s cohort of brilliant writers and teachers. to be guided by my generous workshop leaders @tonijenseniswriting and @notyourjenji, have my brain re-wired by lectures and readings from @marie.helenebertino and @gabbat, take craft classes with @paul_lisicky and @hyeseungs, meet new friends, reunite with old ones, eat maple creamees, spiritually meld with this meadow, party in the laundry room, and get whacked in the face so hard during the hay ride i thought i’d need medical attention? magic. i don’t know if it was the head injury or the magic of those ten days (or both!) but i left the mountain with a profound new understanding of why we write: it is, as @elizmccrack put it, as a practice of “looking for ways to love the world.”
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Favorite books I read this summer💫
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Belated post from Bread Loaf’s centennial conference, as I came down with Covid the day after arriving home. Still, ten beautiful days on the mountain steeped in words were worth it! Grateful for my lovely, talented workshop led by brilliant, incisive @tonijenseniswriting and insightful, humane @notyourjenji; for stellar lectures, readings, & craft classes with writers I love; for new friends, including @abhijitsarmahwritespoetry, whose beautiful work is in @freedomtunnelpress’s forthcoming anthology of Indian writers and artists; & for a reunion with my childhood friend Ana-Klara. Special thanks to @asccharlotte’s Emerging Creator Fellowship for funding my attendance at Bread Loaf. @breadloafwriter
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Want to learn more about the woman who popularized Astrology in the U.S.? FOLLOW THE SIGNS: SEARCHING FOR LINDA GOODMAN, AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN ASTROLOGY QUEEN by Courtney Ann LaFaive is out now from University of Iowa Press! "Astrology’s popularity in the US has ebbed and flowed," LaFaive writes, "with the twenty-first century experiencing another boom in interest as Millennials and Gen Z have discovered astrology just as their parents or grandparents did during the 1960s and ’70s. But this time, instead of listening to the musical HAIR or reading Linda’s books, they’re embracing astrology via Chani Nicholas’s Instagram page (@chaninicholas) or Jessica Lanyadoo’s podcast (@ghostofapodcast). They’re using astrology to envision new ways of relating to gender, power, and identity. . . . While Linda laid admittedly imperfect groundwork, we would not have American astrology’s contemporary resurgence without her." To learn more head over to @volumeone, where Evelyn Nelson interviews LaFaive about Goodman's influence, astrology as a tool for self-discovery, and how, frustratingly, headlines discredited Goodman following the death of her daughter.
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🗞️ Have you read @rachsyme's rich and thoughtful review of FOLLOW THE SIGNS? Check it out now in @newyorkermag 🗞️ “Follow the Signs is a pensive, often sublime book that isn’t a dutiful work of scholarship so much as an adventure tale, blending fiction, criticism, and memoir.”—Rachel Syme, THE NEW YORKER Available on our website now!
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Dear lovely people, We’ve got some great events in June, and our back patio is lit and power washed. We hope to see you out there! June 4th 6-7PM - More Than What Eyes See by Miso Kwak in conversation with Caitlin Tobin - ROOM June 7th 6-7PM Again, Harder by Alice Stoehr in conversation with Camilla Tracy-Bartz - ROOM ** POSTPONED ** June 10th 6-7PM This Messy, Gorgeous Love: A Buddhist Guide to Lasting Partnership by nico hase and devon hase - ROOM June 14th 3-4PM The Hyacinth Labyrinth by Jamie Pacton in conversation with Jamie Butler - ROOM June 16th 6-7PM Superliquid Water, A Poetry Reading with Leon Pradeau, Steve Timm, Kai Ihns, and Lewis Freedman - ROOM June 23rd 6-7PM Candice Wuehle and Courtney Ann LaFaive in conversation on Ultranatural: A Novel and Follow the Signs: Searching for Linda Goodman, America’s Forgotten Astrology Queen - ROOM June 24th 7-9PM A Queer and Trans Open Mic Night - ROOM June 26th 5-9PM Live on Queen Pop-Up Bookstore at The Orpheum (FREE) That’s all for now! Love, Room
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How do we provide students living in rural spaces the permission they need to write about their experiences? Courtney Anne LaFaive gives us the tools.
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Courtney Ann LaFaive discusses Linda Goodman as a cultural icon in the latest episode of The Astrology Podcast. @kortnijajajajaja
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Happy publication day to @kortnijajajajaja's FOLLOW THE SIGNS: SEARCHING FOR LINDA GOODMAN, AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN ASTROLOGY QUEEN, out today from @uiowapress! 🌌 If you have ever been asked “What’s your sign?” you have Linda Goodman to thank—or blame. America’s first New Age celebrity, Goodman’s 1968 book, Sun Signs, sold over 60 million copies, while the advance for her second book, Love Signs, broke an unprecedented $2.25 million. And yet, while Goodman was teaching the world how to search the skies for clarity, her gaze was fixed upon her own dark, mysterious pursuit. . . . . #followthesigns #courtneyannlafaive #astrology #lindagoodman #nonfiction #trellisliterarymanagement #reading
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💫 Happy pub day to FOLLOW THE SIGNS by Courtney Ann LaFaive 💫 If you have ever been asked “What’s your sign?” you have Linda Goodman to thank—or blame. America’s first New Age celebrity, Goodman’s 1968 book, SUN SIGNS, sold over 60 million copies, while the advance for her second book, LOVE SIGNS, broke an unprecedented $2.25 million. And yet, while Goodman was teaching the world how to search the skies for clarity, her gaze was fixed upon her own dark, mysterious pursuit. In 1973, Goodman’s daughter was found dead and the police declared it a suicide; Goodman believed otherwise. She spent years depleting her fortune, chasing down leads that might uncover the real truth about her beloved daughter’s death. Headlines criticized and discredited Goodman, ultimately overshadowing the revolutionary nature of her work. Reading Goodman’ astrological wisdom decades after its heyday, LaFaive contemplates the redemption of Goodman as a literary and spiritual figure, all the while reckoning with her own impulsive forays into love and relationships. FOLLOW THE SIGNS asks what it means when facts become stranger than fiction and who we become when we must walk away from those we love.
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✨Thursday, May 14 at 6:15pm at Dotters Books✨ Join us for the release of Courtney Ann LaFaive’s Follow the Signs: Searching for Linda Goodman, America’s Forgotten Astrology Queen. Courtney will read from her book, answer questions, sign purchased copies, and share a Linda-Goodman-themed ritual with all attendees. Courtney Ann LaFaive is the author of two books, an Eau Claire native, and Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Dakota.
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Want to learn more about Courtney Ann LaFaive’s FOLLOW THE SIGNS? Here’s what early readers are saying 💫🪐🌗✨ If you have ever been asked “What’s your sign?” you have Linda Goodman to thank—or blame. America’s first New Age celebrity, Goodman’s 1968 book, SUN SIGNS, SOLD over 60 million copies, while the advance for her second book, LOVE SIGNS, BROKE an unprecedented $2.25 million. And yet, while Goodman was teaching the world how to search the skies for clarity, her gaze was fixed upon her own dark, mysterious pursuit. In 1973, Goodman’s daughter was found dead and the police declared it a suicide; Goodman believed otherwise. She spent years depleting her fortune, chasing down leads that might uncover the real truth about her beloved daughter’s death. Headlines criticized and discredited Goodman, ultimately overshadowing the revolutionary nature of her work. Courtney Ann LaFaive first discovered Goodman’s books as a teenager. Reading her astrological wisdom decades after its heyday, LaFaive contemplates the redemption of Goodman as a literary and spiritual figure, all the while reckoning with her own impulsive forays into love and relationships. FOLLOW THE SIGNS asks what it means when facts become stranger than fiction and who we become when we must walk away from those we love.
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