Nebula & Hugo-winning SFF writer & musician. Books w/ Small Beer Press & Berkley, stories everywhere, songs at Bandcamp. Baltimorean by choice. Queer. She/her. Repped by @kmkirtland.
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@emmadilemma I found a book of celebrity walking tours, and reading the one about midtown Manhattan I was struck by the fact that a walking tour based solely on who lived in a given neighborhood, not when they lived there, is a weird layered form of time travel. After that, yes, a ton of research. Thanks for these lovely observations.
Sarah Pinsker
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and just like that, it's about new york, grounded in geography and action but – you realize only at the end – unmoored from time. i know more about these faces and places than some of my friends. staying at the algonquin was a bucket-list item i satisfied as covid began to recede. i kept checking my phone as jazz tunes were named. but i'm no historian, and the fluidity of time snuck up on me.
'we now take liberties with the script', @sarahpinsker@wandering.shop wrote at the start, just before putting an f-bomb in george gershwin's mouth. it would take a year of research, the year she probably spent, to determine exactly what those liberties were. it's a lot easier to just let it envelop you, like the tickling of ivories up an air shaft on a hot day.
Sarah Pinsker
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i am notoriously slow with fiction right now but had to check in - the first two of these stories are surreal and amazing, sliding you from a world you understand to one that is gradually revealed to twist in upon itself @sarahpinsker@wandering.shop
