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Alexandra King

@Alexandrasking

Journalist (@CNN). Writer (lots of places). Formerly @UN. One half of Lyles and King gallery. Likes: Art, justice, human rights, girl power, lists.

 New York
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Joined March 2009
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BBC Archive
@BBCArchive6 Sep 2023
"I’ve never fell off a big chimney. You only fall off one of them once." #OnThisDay 1979: Extraordinary steeplejack Fred Dibnah was introduced to the nation.

Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack, 1979

Steeplejack Fred Dibnah single-handedly demolishes a massive chimney stack, brick by brick, from the top down.

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Seamus Heaney@HeaneyDaily30 Aug 2023
Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Seamus Heaney. “Walk on air against your better judgement”
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Walter Kirn
@walterkirn14 Jun 2023
The end of The Road by Cormac McCarthy, as beautiful a paragraph as has ever been made by hand
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Ah I adore you, Chase. Nobody else carries me laminated in their wallet. A thousand bows…..
Chase Berggrun (@patriphobe) profile pictureChase Berggrun@patriphobe29 Mar 2023
I carry this poorly laminated @marykarrlit poem wherever I go and today it fell out of my wallet at the nadir of a moment of desperation—the most obvious crap, like a hand gripping me firmly on the shoulder
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Danny Deraney
@DannyDeraney28 Mar 2023
The Cherry Blossom forest in Naru Japan. The blossoms or Sakura, bloom from the last week of March into the first weeks of April.
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An incredible poem by Fiona Benson…
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Portraits famous photographers have taken of their partners (a thread): – at Tucson, AZ
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Gather ‘round, ladies. It’s time for the annual buying of The Notebook That Will Change Everything™️.
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some people are just touched by the heavens
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Lincoln Michel@TheLincoln22 Oct 2022
Fixed this for Shakespeare
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Science girl
@sciencegirl8 Oct 2022
Spectacular time lapse of the the Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus), From finding and inspecting her new home to raising a family
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Only the comfort of darkness, The ice-cold, unfreezable brine, Could melt the cries into silence, Your bright hands into mine. —Galway Kinnell poets.org/poem/comfort-darkn…
The Comfort of Darkness

The Comfort of Darkness

Darkness swept the earth in my dream,

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Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Do not let it grieve you, no one leaves for good.
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The New Yorker
@NewYorker18 Jul 2021
Shirley Jackson’s short story from 1948, which inspired the most mail The New Yorker had ever received in response to a work of fiction—and caused some readers to cancel their subscriptions. nyer.cm/tr3047M
“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson

“The Lottery,” by Shirley Jackson

Fiction, from 1948: “The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”

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My friend @Alexandrasking’s piece for The Guardian about her experience of pregnancy loss & baking bread is exceptional - generous and true. Do read it: theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

A maddening grief: my year of miscarriages and how I got through it

Navigating an uncharted landscape, I found solace in an unlikely place

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This is the most beautiful piece. In conversations about babies and pregnancy, loss is often left in the shadows. How generous to be let in like this.
Alexandra King (@Alexandrasking) profile pictureAlexandra King@Alexandrasking10 May 2021
An essay from me in the @guardian today about having 3 miscarriages in a year, and becoming the proprietress of NYC's loneliest bakery
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The Guardian
@guardian10 May 2021
A maddening grief: my year of miscarriages and how I got through it theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…
A maddening grief: my year of miscarriages and how I got through it

A maddening grief: my year of miscarriages and how I got through it

Navigating an uncharted landscape, I found solace in an unlikely place

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I’ve asked my 3rd year illustration students at @sva to come up with a post-pandemic New Yorker magazine cover. Here is what they sent in:
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Annie@nontanne25 Dec 2020
my favorite poem is the beaufort wind scale i guess
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So proud of you @Alexandrasking. Well deserved 👏👏
The Emmys (@TheEmmys) profile pictureThe Emmys
@TheEmmys18 Nov 2020
El Premio Emmy de Noticias por EL REPORTAJE ESPECIAL DE NOTICIA DESTACADO EN ESPAÑOL es para... No Olvidado: La muerte y dignidad en la frontera estadounidense | @CNN @Alexandrasking #LosEmmys
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