Jeff Esterholm
@jesterholm.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Up North Sconnie.
Available now: The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories (Cornerstone Press/UW-Stevens Point)
Second short story collection with Cornerstone Press set for October, 2026.
Available now: The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories (Cornerstone Press/UW-Stevens Point)
Second short story collection with Cornerstone Press set for October, 2026.
Pinned
Sure, it took me a few years. But I got it done. (This previously appeared on some other social cotillion dance floor, but now it’s here. 👏🏻 )
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Seven years later I can finally write about it. I’m sure many can relate. 🐾
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Seven years later I can finally write about it. I’m sure many can relate. 🐾
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COVER REVEAL for my 2nd. Yikes. The ARCs for BODIES IN BAGS have arrived.
Illustrated by the great @egallagher.bsky.social. Designed by Cornerstone Press. Blurbed by @jesterholm.bsky.social, @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social , with more to come (I hope!). Very excited.
Illustrated by the great @egallagher.bsky.social. Designed by Cornerstone Press. Blurbed by @jesterholm.bsky.social, @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social , with more to come (I hope!). Very excited.
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
COVER REVEAL for my 2nd. Yikes. The ARCs for BODIES IN BAGS have arrived.
Illustrated by the great @egallagher.bsky.social. Designed by Cornerstone Press. Blurbed by @jesterholm.bsky.social, @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social , with more to come (I hope!). Very excited.
Illustrated by the great @egallagher.bsky.social. Designed by Cornerstone Press. Blurbed by @jesterholm.bsky.social, @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social @thedrevlow.bsky.social , with more to come (I hope!). Very excited.
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Couldn't be happier to be on NPR's Best Books of 2025, especially with pals and heroes like @wmboyle4.bsky.social @alafairburke.bsky.social @blacktopkid.bsky.social Susan Barker, Sara Sliger
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Couldn't be happier to be on NPR's Best Books of 2025, especially with pals and heroes like @wmboyle4.bsky.social @alafairburke.bsky.social @blacktopkid.bsky.social Susan Barker, Sara Sliger
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Oh, man. My favorite movie of 2025. Beautifully shot, and the acting, whew.
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Oh, man. My favorite movie of 2025. Beautifully shot, and the acting, whew.
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Immigration lawyers say those deported to Ukraine could be conscripted to fight in the war, contrary to international laws that prohibit deportations to places where people could face violence.
U.S. deports dozens of migrants to Ukraine amid war
Immigration lawyers say those deported to Ukraine could be conscripted to fight in the war, contrary to international laws that prohibit deportations to places where people could face violence.
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November 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Immigration lawyers say those deported to Ukraine could be conscripted to fight in the war, contrary to international laws that prohibit deportations to places where people could face violence.
Saturday is winding down.
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Saturday is winding down.
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This excellent WSJ annotation of the Molotov/Ribbentrop … sorry, Witkoff/Dmitriev … “peace deal” for Ukraine shows how ridiculously vague and utterly unworkable this thing is
Free link
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Free link
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Trump’s Peace Plan for Ukraine, Annotated
Here’s a breakdown of some of the key points in the plan and how Ukraine and its European allies might respond.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This excellent WSJ annotation of the Molotov/Ribbentrop … sorry, Witkoff/Dmitriev … “peace deal” for Ukraine shows how ridiculously vague and utterly unworkable this thing is
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Free link
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
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Every photo of ICE detaining someone is a bunch of dudes dressed for war violently taking down someone’s grandma or a restaurant worker. They cover their faces because they know how cowardly and disgusting they look.
November 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Every photo of ICE detaining someone is a bunch of dudes dressed for war violently taking down someone’s grandma or a restaurant worker. They cover their faces because they know how cowardly and disgusting they look.
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New Blondes album just dropped! Pick it up from us at CanCan Wonderland on Saturday!
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
New Blondes album just dropped! Pick it up from us at CanCan Wonderland on Saturday!
Grocery store is decorated, some houses in the neighborhood too.
Start shopping today for that crime fiction reader you know and love. 😉
Start shopping today for that crime fiction reader you know and love. 😉
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Grocery store is decorated, some houses in the neighborhood too.
Start shopping today for that crime fiction reader you know and love. 😉
Start shopping today for that crime fiction reader you know and love. 😉
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‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition
The Norwegian author on his autofictional epic, moving to London, and the psychopath at the heart of his new novel
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November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Enjoying The American Revolution on PBS, but I thought there’d be videos, or at least flip books.
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Enjoying The American Revolution on PBS, but I thought there’d be videos, or at least flip books.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A federal court has blocked Texas from using the new gerrymandered congressional maps for the 2026 election.
November 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A federal court has blocked Texas from using the new gerrymandered congressional maps for the 2026 election.
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On Dec 4, I'll be part of this reading at Fadensonnen in Baltimore. I hope people will come. No word on whether the pink bunny will show yet.
November 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
On Dec 4, I'll be part of this reading at Fadensonnen in Baltimore. I hope people will come. No word on whether the pink bunny will show yet.
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Research accomplished this afternoon at the local historical society.
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Research accomplished this afternoon at the local historical society.
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This isn’t just burying the lede.
This is injecting the lede with arsenic, garroting the lede with a rope, setting the lede on fire, thwacking the lede with the back of a hoe, and distributing the remains of the lede over the Pacific Ocean, 250 miles from the nearest coastline
This is injecting the lede with arsenic, garroting the lede with a rope, setting the lede on fire, thwacking the lede with the back of a hoe, and distributing the remains of the lede over the Pacific Ocean, 250 miles from the nearest coastline
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This isn’t just burying the lede.
This is injecting the lede with arsenic, garroting the lede with a rope, setting the lede on fire, thwacking the lede with the back of a hoe, and distributing the remains of the lede over the Pacific Ocean, 250 miles from the nearest coastline
This is injecting the lede with arsenic, garroting the lede with a rope, setting the lede on fire, thwacking the lede with the back of a hoe, and distributing the remains of the lede over the Pacific Ocean, 250 miles from the nearest coastline
80 candles for Neil Young. 🎂
(CSNY concert, 1974; Photo taken by me with a crappy Kodak Instamatic camera.)
(CSNY concert, 1974; Photo taken by me with a crappy Kodak Instamatic camera.)
November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
80 candles for Neil Young. 🎂
(CSNY concert, 1974; Photo taken by me with a crappy Kodak Instamatic camera.)
(CSNY concert, 1974; Photo taken by me with a crappy Kodak Instamatic camera.)
“The eight senators who would likely be eligible to file claims are Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) & Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).”
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House Republicans Hate A Major Provision In The Bill to Reopen The Government
"What they did is wrong," one House Republican said of the provision, adding it would never pass on its own.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“The eight senators who would likely be eligible to file claims are Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) & Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.).”
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