Daniel Paisner
@danielpaisner.bsky.social
novelist/ghostwriter/podcaster/beardo
Author: SHOW; BALLOON DOG; A SINGLE HAPPENED THING; MOURNING WOOD; THE BALL; OBIT
Co-Author: HEAVEN HELP US (John Kasich); UNFORGIVING (Lindsey Jacobellis); BLUE (Steve Aoki)
Host: AS TOLD TO
danielpaisner.com
Author: SHOW; BALLOON DOG; A SINGLE HAPPENED THING; MOURNING WOOD; THE BALL; OBIT
Co-Author: HEAVEN HELP US (John Kasich); UNFORGIVING (Lindsey Jacobellis); BLUE (Steve Aoki)
Host: AS TOLD TO
danielpaisner.com
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another merch-in-the-wild spotting - posted here in the neverending tush-push to promote my hardly-read 2022 indie novel about the bungled theft of a #JeffKoons #balloondog sculpture... woof!...
#writinglife #indiepress #indieauthor #fiction #artheist #darkhumor #shopindie #BookSky
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#writinglife #indiepress #indieauthor #fiction #artheist #darkhumor #shopindie #BookSky
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a powerful podcast conversation with veteran collaborator #SamanthaRose - we talk about how she turned her skills as a #ghostwriter on herself while writing her new memoir "Giving Up the Ghost"...
#writingljfe #storytelling #BookSky #collaboration #books #booktalk
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#writingljfe #storytelling #BookSky #collaboration #books #booktalk
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December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
a powerful podcast conversation with veteran collaborator #SamanthaRose - we talk about how she turned her skills as a #ghostwriter on herself while writing her new memoir "Giving Up the Ghost"...
#writingljfe #storytelling #BookSky #collaboration #books #booktalk
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#writingljfe #storytelling #BookSky #collaboration #books #booktalk
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new episode!...
#memoir #storytelling #ghostwriting #books #writinglife
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#memoir #storytelling #ghostwriting #books #writinglife
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Episode 101: Samantha Rose
Podcast Episode · As Told To · 12/02/2025 · 1h 4m
podcasts.apple.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
works midweek as well!...
weekend listening... on all the pod platforms... be sure to like/subscribe/share/review/follow/whatever...
#writinglife #collaboration #BookSky @alexdemille.bsky.social @writersbone.com @goodpods.bsky.social
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#writinglife #collaboration #BookSky @alexdemille.bsky.social @writersbone.com @goodpods.bsky.social
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Episode 100: Alex DeMille - | Listen on GoodPods™
Nelson and Alex DeMille's The Tin Men is an electrifying read and a chillingly timely one," writes The New York Times best-selling novelist Megan...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
works midweek as well!...
Reposted by Daniel Paisner
“Some writers write because they burn with a cause which they further by writing about it. I burn with no causes. I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.” - #TomStoppard
#writing
#writinglife
#RIP
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#writing
#writinglife
#RIP
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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“Some writers write because they burn with a cause which they further by writing about it. I burn with no causes. I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.” - #TomStoppard
#writing
#writinglife
#RIP
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#writing
#writinglife
#RIP
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"... luckily, on the internet you can always find someone who's said what you're thinking not only before you, but better than you, so you don't even have to make the effort to articulate your own thoughts." - #BeatrizSerrano
#Discontent
#amreading
#BookSky #fiction
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#Discontent
#amreading
#BookSky #fiction
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Discontent
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From a…
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November 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"... luckily, on the internet you can always find someone who's said what you're thinking not only before you, but better than you, so you don't even have to make the effort to articulate your own thoughts." - #BeatrizSerrano
#Discontent
#amreading
#BookSky #fiction
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
#Discontent
#amreading
#BookSky #fiction
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
weekend listening... on all the pod platforms... be sure to like/subscribe/share/review/follow/whatever...
#writinglife #collaboration #BookSky @alexdemille.bsky.social @writersbone.com @goodpods.bsky.social
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
#writinglife #collaboration #BookSky @alexdemille.bsky.social @writersbone.com @goodpods.bsky.social
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
Episode 100: Alex DeMille - | Listen on GoodPods™
Nelson and Alex DeMille's The Tin Men is an electrifying read and a chillingly timely one," writes The New York Times best-selling novelist Megan...
go.goodpods.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
weekend listening... on all the pod platforms... be sure to like/subscribe/share/review/follow/whatever...
#writinglife #collaboration #BookSky @alexdemille.bsky.social @writersbone.com @goodpods.bsky.social
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
#writinglife #collaboration #BookSky @alexdemille.bsky.social @writersbone.com @goodpods.bsky.social
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX
Reposted by Daniel Paisner
thankful for this pod platform - and for the very many artists/creatives who have joined the conversation over the years....perhaps listen in while you're stuck in traffic this afternoon, en route to friends and family...
@writersbone.com @alexdemille.bsky.social
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@writersbone.com @alexdemille.bsky.social
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November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
thankful for this pod platform - and for the very many artists/creatives who have joined the conversation over the years....perhaps listen in while you're stuck in traffic this afternoon, en route to friends and family...
@writersbone.com @alexdemille.bsky.social
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@writersbone.com @alexdemille.bsky.social
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I'm late to this @emilynussbaum.bsky.social profile of #KerriRussell, but I just finished Season 3 of #TheDiplomat and it popped to the top of my to-read pile... so disarmingly great - a master class on the celebrity profile...
#journalism
#television
#celebrity
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#journalism
#television
#celebrity
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Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV
But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'm late to this @emilynussbaum.bsky.social profile of #KerriRussell, but I just finished Season 3 of #TheDiplomat and it popped to the top of my to-read pile... so disarmingly great - a master class on the celebrity profile...
#journalism
#television
#celebrity
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
#journalism
#television
#celebrity
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Some writers write because they burn with a cause which they further by writing about it. I burn with no causes. I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.” - #TomStoppard
#writing
#writinglife
#RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
#writing
#writinglife
#RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“Some writers write because they burn with a cause which they further by writing about it. I burn with no causes. I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.” - #TomStoppard
#writing
#writinglife
#RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
#writing
#writinglife
#RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
hate speech?...
top notch mascottin'
November 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
hate speech?...
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
how low can higher education go?...
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Northwestern strikes $75 million funding deal with Trump admin
This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available. Last updated on Nov. 28 at 8:25 p.m. Northwestern reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore at least...
dailynorthwestern.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
how low can higher education go?...
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/28/c...
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/28/c...
some story...
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After a bitter past, woman donates kidney to her ex-husband’s wife
“There is power in forgiveness,” Angela Maples said. “Forgiveness literally saved my life.”
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November 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
some story...
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
so, basically, a purple nurple?...
#Northwestern #academicfreedom #purplenurple
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
#Northwestern #academicfreedom #purplenurple
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Northwestern Agrees to Deal With Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
so, basically, a purple nurple?...
#Northwestern #academicfreedom #purplenurple
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
#Northwestern #academicfreedom #purplenurple
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
now available for pre-order - the full story behind "The Girl in the Green Sweater," the Holocaust memoir I helped to write with #KrystynaChiger, the daughter of author #IgnacyChiger...
#Holocaust #memoir #BookSky
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
#Holocaust #memoir #BookSky
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Beneath the Lightless Sky: Surviving the Holocaust in t…
Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.
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November 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
now available for pre-order - the full story behind "The Girl in the Green Sweater," the Holocaust memoir I helped to write with #KrystynaChiger, the daughter of author #IgnacyChiger...
#Holocaust #memoir #BookSky
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
#Holocaust #memoir #BookSky
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
at the time, critics surely pointed out that this one regrettable moment, this one VERY regrettable moment, would someday wind up in the lede to #FuzzyZoeller 's obit... and now here we are, nearly 30 yrs later... textbook reminder that our legacies are paper-thin...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
Two-time major champion golfer Fuzzy Zoeller dies at 74
Golfer saw his legacy tainted by a racially insensitive comment about Tiger Woods in 1997.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
at the time, critics surely pointed out that this one regrettable moment, this one VERY regrettable moment, would someday wind up in the lede to #FuzzyZoeller 's obit... and now here we are, nearly 30 yrs later... textbook reminder that our legacies are paper-thin...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
so now our so-called president is suggesting that hard-working Americans take their so-called tax/tariff dividend of $2000 and take it to the nearest casino and "double-up" to $2 million... seems about right...
#math #logic #proportion #cognitive
#math #logic #proportion #cognitive
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
so now our so-called president is suggesting that hard-working Americans take their so-called tax/tariff dividend of $2000 and take it to the nearest casino and "double-up" to $2 million... seems about right...
#math #logic #proportion #cognitive
#math #logic #proportion #cognitive
thankful for this pod platform - and for the very many artists/creatives who have joined the conversation over the years....perhaps listen in while you're stuck in traffic this afternoon, en route to friends and family...
@writersbone.com @alexdemille.bsky.social
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@writersbone.com @alexdemille.bsky.social
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November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
thankful for this pod platform - and for the very many artists/creatives who have joined the conversation over the years....perhaps listen in while you're stuck in traffic this afternoon, en route to friends and family...
@writersbone.com @alexdemille.bsky.social
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@writersbone.com @alexdemille.bsky.social
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please share... our so-called president is rage-Truthing over this one... would be a shame if his venting called more attention to it...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
please share... our so-called president is rage-Truthing over this one... would be a shame if his venting called more attention to it...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
“I’m not doing this comeback because I feel like I have to do it or I need to do it...I know who I am.” - #LindseyVonn
"Who [she] is now is who she always was: a badass competitor who always gets up when she’s knocked down." - #BarrySvrluga
#MilanoCortina2026 @postsports.bsky.social
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"Who [she] is now is who she always was: a badass competitor who always gets up when she’s knocked down." - #BarrySvrluga
#MilanoCortina2026 @postsports.bsky.social
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Column | Chasing Olympic gold at 80 miles an hour at 41? Only Lindsey Vonn.
The Olympic downhill gold medalist in Vancouver in 2010, the Alpine skier is embarking on a farewell tour with no precedent.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“I’m not doing this comeback because I feel like I have to do it or I need to do it...I know who I am.” - #LindseyVonn
"Who [she] is now is who she always was: a badass competitor who always gets up when she’s knocked down." - #BarrySvrluga
#MilanoCortina2026 @postsports.bsky.social
wapo.st/4oYUxJ7
"Who [she] is now is who she always was: a badass competitor who always gets up when she’s knocked down." - #BarrySvrluga
#MilanoCortina2026 @postsports.bsky.social
wapo.st/4oYUxJ7
hear hear!... (also, here here!)
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Opinion | I’m 62. Stop Telling Me I’m Old.
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
hear hear!... (also, here here!)
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keeping it 100!...
@alexdemille.bsky.social
@writersbone.com
@simonandschuster.bsky.social
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@alexdemille.bsky.social
@writersbone.com
@simonandschuster.bsky.social
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Episode 100: Alex DeMille
Podcast Episode · As Told To · 11/18/2025 · 1h
podcasts.apple.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"One of the many problems with installing an amoral doofus without a coherent governing philosophy at the helm of the world’s richest nation is that [he] will then behave as an amoral doofus without a coherent governing philosophy." @michaelianblack.bsky.social
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Travel Plans For Thanksgiving? We’re All Headed to Crazy Town
Forget fighting over politics at the Thanksgiving dinner table, because we can all agree that the United States is (over)cooked.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"One of the many problems with installing an amoral doofus without a coherent governing philosophy at the helm of the world’s richest nation is that [he] will then behave as an amoral doofus without a coherent governing philosophy." @michaelianblack.bsky.social
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ah, the voiceless labial-alveolar plosive...
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Trump, 79, Has Baffling Plan to Rename the Republican Party After Himself
The president’s new nickname idea is not one of his best.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
ah, the voiceless labial-alveolar plosive...
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