Tag: Emily Slatin


  • I became intimately familiar with Whitney Hanson’s poetry recently, thanks to an Instagram reel I was shown by the Algorithm. I IMMEDIATELY pre-ordered her newest poetry book “the love of my life” and it arrived on the evening of its release day, July 7th, 2026. It showed up while I was taking a much needed…

  • “I am alive in a life that would have seemed almost impossible to explain to certain earlier versions of myself, and some part of me had apparently decided that 5 AM was the correct time to contemplate the distance between then and now.” – Emily Slatin, “Measuring the Distance Between Then and Now … I…

  • … Emily asked me to share this, so I did. Really important topic, actually: Being a Queer Girl Isn’t Something You Decide. AI needs to stay out of ripping off music! And music adjacent. And just content in general. We are all just training shit… Anthony Fantano, I totally agree with you. … Sav has…

  • AWESOME STORY!  This is one of my favorite Pokemon episodes BTW. Kinda makes more sense to me why that is now. Sad ending for an amazing voice actress… passed away from an untreated stomach virus (we all know why that was untreated…) … Beautiful stuff from the wife.  “Sometimes the real purpose of returning home…

  • If you missed part one… you can find it here at Barnes and Noble: rescuegirl557.com/darkhorse You can find Volume 2 here on B&N: rescuegirl557.com/darkhorse2 This is the second volume of my wife Emily Slatin’s autobiographical essay series. I’ll be taking notes on this book just like any other. I will return to cover part one…