Author of AMERICAN POP, PLAY PRETTY BLUES, and THE QUEEN CITY DETECTIVE AGENCY snowdenwright.substack.com
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Mar 30
The Lemannaissance is upon us! Thank you so much to everyone at the @oxfordamerican for shepherding this piece into publication. Jackson folks: Nancy and I will be in conversation this Wednesday at @LemuriaBooks!
oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/na…
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May 28
My best advice for not-yet-successful writers: Learn grammar. That puts you ahead of 99% of successful writers
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Apr 28
Me: Modern readers are crazy for wanting perfectly kind and decent protagonists. People like that don't exist!
Me after watching both seasons of Jury Duty: Okay, two people like that exist.
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Apr 27
Although I liked the first season of Beef--haven't watched the second--the idea of an anthology series centered and titled around "conflict" is hilarious. It's like a composer doing a series of symphonies on "sound," a choreographer doing a series of ballets on "movement"
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Apr 21
Neil McCauley: There's a flip side to that coin.
Vincent Hanna: What, like all coins?
#SnarkyHeat
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Apr 18
My literary obsessions, by decade. How long, where to end, where to begin, kickers, ledes, etc.
In my 20s: Sentences
In my 30: Chapters
In my 40s: Paragraphs
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Apr 15
No reader has ever complained that TOO MUCH happened in a novel. No reader has ever wished a writer HADN’T used quotation marks for dialogue. No reader has ever wished a writer HADN’T used the Oxford comma. No reader has ever thought, Hurray! Present tense!
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Apr 13
The Pitt, judging by its first four episodes, is just ER with less visceral medical scenes and dialogue that's far, far more atrocious. This show is its pluralized title
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Here's a sort of blooper reel from my recent essay on Nancy Lemann:
open.substack.com/pub/snowde…
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PSA for writers: "Like" is not a synonym of "such as," despite its colloquial use as one. That line in your bio means you've been published in magazines "similar to" Ecotone and Ploughshares. You could honestly claim you've won awards like the Pulitzer Prize
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Resurrection Day Tidbit: My fave means by which Freddy Krueger was resurrected for a sequel? A dog peeing on his grave. Seriously, in part four, that's the plot mechanism--a dog raising its leg and unleashing a fiery-hot stream of dog urine on Fred Krueger's grave. Happy Easter!
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People claim Sorcerer failed at the box office because of Star Wars, but I think the reason's much simpler: a bad title.
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Snowden Wright retweeted
@SnowdenWright in conversation with Southern author Nancy Lemann. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/pt1XJIVCsW8
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I'm a bigger fan of Parul on Lerner than I am on Lerner on Lerner (on Lerner on Lerner on Lerner...)
Will there be a more beautiful novel this year? Reviewed Ben Lerner's latest nytimes.com/2026/04/03/magaz…
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Confused about the difference between autofiction and autobiographical fiction? Just remember the first part of "autofiction" is short for "autopilot," not "autobiographical"
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Snowden Wright retweeted
“Society is Lemann’s métier. She’s a belletrist of etiquette.”
—Snowden Wright speaks to the reissues of Nancy Lemann’s “Lives of the Saints” and “The Ritz of the Bayou” alongside her latest work “The Oyster Diaries,” out April 7.
🔗: shorturl.at/1DkgB
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Mar 29
Back in grad school, a fellow student, regarding a piece that eschewed quotation marks for dialogue, offered the writer two words of advice as brutal as they were correct: "Grow up."
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Mar 28
I need to watch The Pitt. Can't believe they made an entire show about the rowdy frat from the movie PCU
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Mar 25
I recently witnessed a moderator for a panel at a literary conference read from his own book as though he were a panelist. First time I've ever seen that kind of breach in panel etiquette. "He's not about to--oh my god, he is . . ."
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Mar 24
Inventor of Yoo-hoo: What if chocolate milk . . . but without the milk? Genius! The future is CHOCOLATE WATER
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