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Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC
Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
Want to get in touch? You can reach me by email.
Recent posts
🔖 How Literary Female Friendships Shaped the Fiction Market
This piece by Sarah Lonsdale describes the kind of literary friendship I fantasize about having. Who wants to be my literary bff?
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Highlights & Notes
Naomi Royde-Smith was an astute literary editor of the Saturday Westminster and brought Macaulay, an awkward “innocent from the Cam” as she described herself, into her circle of friends, who seemed to Macaulay “to be more sparklingly alive than any in my home world.”
Please. Bring me into your literary circle.
Macaulay would often stay in her friend’s Knightsbridge home where they held soirées for authors and journalists to bolster each other’s standing and forge mutually supportive networks.
We can host soirées. I’ll set up the video chat.
Tell me about your favorite literary friendships and relationships! I’m especially fond of the Shelleys, who wrote collaborative diaries. ♥️
Also, I don’t know who in the SNL writers’ room is a mom, but solidarity, friend.
To those of you who celebrate Christmas and have children, I hope your kids’ joy offsets your exhaustion today. To everyone else, I hope your Friday goes really well.
I have so many thoughts on Jingle Jangle! This article about how the movie centers Black Girl Magic addresses the aspects of representation in casting, hair, and clothing better than I ever could. Plus Jessica, Journey, & Jeronicus integrate math, physics, and magic. The maximalist costuming is so joyful!
Netflix: 22 minutes left in Jingle Jangle!
Me: 😭🥺💗💞💗🥺😭
Jingle Jangle: has huge climactic sequence with positive resolution
Netflix time bar: shows 36 minutes and 16 seconds left
Me (understanding story structure): 😬🥺😬😳😬
Today has been the kind of day where you lie down on the floor after wrapping the Christmas presents and hope someone will come pick you up.
One song into Jingle Jangle and I’m aching for more R&B musicals - originals, not juke box shows. 🍿
The results of this Spotify-evaluating AI are hilarious. Enya + The Lonely Island are peak Kimberly music. We DO stan Daniel Tiger in this house. And I WAS a self-styled hipster-with-a-baby-bjorn manic-pixie-dream-girl!
