Thread through all of this is what feels like escalation as Trudy's being put on lithium: 'They're going to try to help me,' she says. But what have we learned about what 'help' means here:

—Lynn Steger Strong #APStogether

This ch always makes me almost forget this isn't fiction bc the choice of this role swap meeting is too good, too terrible. There's so much swapping: the externs traded out; the inmates pick names out of a hat to show what they think the other is.

—Lynn Steger Strong #APStogether

We are reading Bette Howland's W-3 with Lynn Steger Strong and #APStogether .

Today, Day 11 (10/29): Chapter 9 (p. 164–179, to end)

Details and more observations on today's reading & register to join us on November 1 for a virtual conversation of W-3:

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UPDATED: With just 10 days to go, I've updated & expanded my cheat sheet of the critical elections to be watching, and why they matter.

It now stands at 491 things I'm watching: Congress, judges, referenda, sheriffs, DAs, governors, & more. Save & share!

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Watch Georgia: how Howland threads her many complications together so wrenchingly: her music as intrusion, her SNIP, SNIP-ing as ritual she's learned, then her beauty, 'a gift like any other'; her specific pain; then back to yanking at her yarn:

—Lynn Steger Strong #APStogether

in the wake of shitty Supreme Court news I went to Hannah 🧃 looking for stories of people on the ground doing the work and she told me about Partners in Abortion Care — these are the stories I want / we need to hear
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It is Halloween both in the book and in real life!

We are reading Bette Howland's W-3 with Lynn Steger Strong and #APStogether .

Today, Day 10 (10/28): Chapter 8 (p. 146–163, to end)

Details and more observations on today's reading & register to join us on November 1 for a virtual conversation of W-3:

apublicspace.org/aps-together/w…

thanks Kate Tuttle for letting me praise my wonderful mom in the The Boston Globe 💐 💐 bostonglobe.com/2022/10/27/art…

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I knew Lynn Steger Strong was a runner when I read WANT (which, incidentally, broke me out of a very 2020 'I can't concentrate long enough to read anything' slump). time.com/6223006/runnin…

The psychiatrists are meant to come in to fix, name, and diagnose, except they almost never come, except, like so much else in W-3, it is their absence, the constant anticipation and disappointment around their lack that defines most of what they are.

—Lynn Steger Strong #APStogether