Rebecca van Laer
Novella: How to Adjust to the Dark, Long Day Press | Next book: Cat, Object Lessons/Bloomsbury | Work in Joyland, The New England Review, The Florida Review, etc. | 🐱🌿🐔
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- Such a pleasure to chat with @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social about CAT!
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- Me! In @memoirland.bsky.social ! Talking about my history with diaries (and LiveJournal), the fork in the road that took me from autofiction to memoir, and my advice on navigating the sticky truths of nonfiction (and publishing). substack.com/home/post/p-...
- Is it wrong to apply for a residency for "nature writers" with your novel about environmental toxins 🌳
- Why does Meta thing I have TMJ? Facial recognition or context clues?
- Thrilled to be in @fullstopmag.bsky.social today talking about CAT, my bee venom allergy, writing as immunization to past and future pain, and the long process of finding a project's heart. www.full-stop.net/2025/11/11/i...
- So lovely to be interviewed by Miranda @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social — and for CAT (from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social) to be selected as Book of the Day 🐱
- Would love to tell my 17-y-o self that my 37-y-o self is the author of two books, one about cats, who spent Halloween weekend at a Battle of the Cover Bands ft. The Dead Boys and DNA
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- It's national cat day! I know the perfect way to celebrate.... www.bloomsbury.com/us/cat-97987...
- Telling our new veterinarian "just so you know you're treating a celebrity"
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- Today I'm interviewed in Lux Magazine newsletter, wherein Cheryl Rivera and I discuss whether pets are slaves, animal consciousness, and whether unconditional love exists. (These are all topics of CAT btw!!!!) lux-magazine.com/lux-for-life...
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- Another little excerpt of CAT, out now from Bloomsbury 🐱
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- I've become the thing I hate most...someone bad at replying to email
- How do you get your dad to stop sending you AI art
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- Why does it feel like fall!!!
- Found out my publisher hired my preferred audiobook narrator by Googling myself and finding a pre-order link at an Italian bookstore. This is how it's supposed to work, right?
- So how often does PT make everyone ELSE cry
- Hand-sold my book to my gynecologist. That is commitment 🐱
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- Tried to reduce my em-dash usage; realized colons and semicolons are just as frequent 😅
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- Reposted by Rebecca van LaerColumbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university. www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
- All Columbia faculty should be on strike, full stop 💘
- Bard College dumping Conjunctions but buying Lapham's Quarterly....plot twist 👀
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- Reposted by Rebecca van LaerTHREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/
- Okay this is genuinely scary af
- Just learned they don’t have pi day in Europe (where today is 14/3 and there is no 31/4). Is this…the last remaining good thing about America?
- Call me old-fashioned but I still think it's weird when writers aren't neurotic freaks!
- In all seriousness, what could compel a serious writer of literary fiction to defend the theft of her colleagues' work 😭
- My favorite genres are: 5. World has ended. Now what? 4. Not really sure if this is a dream but at least we're having fun! 3.Two people ruining each other's lives [romantic] 2. Two people ruining each other's lives [platonic] 1. This woman is ruining her own life
- Scheduled my book release freakout for August but it came early 🫠
- Hope everyone at work knows I don't wear the same skull sweatshirt every day — that I actually alternate between two identical skulls sweatshirts
- Why did I buy a pound of kumquats and what should I do with them
- Left eye started twitching again but it's probably totally fine and reflects in no way upon the state of the world........right???
- Help I'm getting targeted LinkedIn ads from...the police?!
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- Today is a great day to cancel your Prime subscription (and your WaPo subscription, should you have one) ✨
- Trying to get in my daily 1000 words but he’s doing this
- 30k words into the thriller, am I ok???????
