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Jill Erickson @jillellene.bsky.social · 2d

And this is even a more ancient list of scary books …

www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/blog/scary-b...

Scary Books on The Point - Falmouth Public Library

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Jill Erickson @jillellene.bsky.social · 2d

And I have discovered other scary radio lists!

www.falmouthpubliclibrary.org/blog/scary-s...

Scary Stories for Halloween as Heard on The Point - Falmouth Public Library

If you missed today’s Halloween scary story edition of the book show on THE POINT, have no fear … you can listen online! And if you enjoyed Dan Tritle’s choice of spooky sounds, you too can have spook...

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Jill Erickson @jillellene.bsky.social · 2d

Ghostly stories for Halloween via @wcai-npr.bsky.social … a repeat show from quite a few years ago. I am always delighted to be in the studio with Mindy & Jayne!

www.capeandislands.org/show/the-poi...

Ghostly stories

On The Point's monthly book show, bewitched and haunting themes in stories and poems.

www.capeandislands.org

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Jill Erickson @jillellene.bsky.social · 5d

@jdickerson.bsky.social So sorry to hear you are leaving CBS News. You will be missed.

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Jill Erickson @jillellene.bsky.social · 9d

A song I have been listening to for decades … and has just returned into my heart. I still deeply miss Nanci Griffith. What a gift to have seen her live at Passims so many years ago …

m.youtube.com/watch?v=yBBi...

Nanci Griffith, "From a Distance" on Letterman, August 30, 1988

YouTube video by Don Giller

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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 11d

"(Reviews “are all a species of stupidity, even when they are not stupid,” [Updike] wrote in 1970, before he began to write them regularly himself.)" A very fine Dwight Garner piece on the big new edition of John Updike's letters. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...

John Updike Called His Letters Dull. They’re Anything But.

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Jill Erickson @jillellene.bsky.social · 11d

I did enjoy the Thomas Mallon review & the book also got a great review by Dwight Garner in the @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/b...

John Updike Called His Letters Dull. They’re Anything But.

www.nytimes.com

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Jill Erickson @jillellene.bsky.social · 11d

And happily some other mentions …

Jill Erickson @jillellene.bsky.social · 11d

And thanked …

Jill Erickson @jillellene.bsky.social · 11d

And I hope you get to see the index!! Just got my copy of the book … happily (or unhappily because he hoped to edit this) Chris Carduff is in the index …

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Jill Erickson @jillellene.bsky.social · 12d

Red in the morning … sailors take warning …

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Geoff Wisner @geoffwisner.bsky.social · 12d

Thoreau, Oct. 20, 1855. I find, here and there on the hill, apples, sometimes three or four, carried to the mouth of a striped squirrel's hole, 4 or 5 rods from the tree, with the marks of his teeth in them, by which he carried them, and the chankings or else fragments of the skin of others there.

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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 15d

This weekend's WSJ Fiction Chronicle leads with Lee Clay Johnson's "Bloodline," a story of gonzo small-town demagoguery in the vein of Coover, Gass, Crews and other chroniclers of the North American berserk. It is, to put it mildly, a timely subject. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Fiction: Lee Clay Johnson’s ‘Bloodline’

Plus Fredrik deBoer’s “The Mind Reels” and Claire-Louise Bennett’s “Big Kiss, Bye-Bye.”

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Paula Hersey @capeproducer.bsky.social · 14d

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spookygirl55.bsky.social @spookygirl55.bsky.social · 14d

Falmouth, MA, village green - more great pics from our 1000+ crown turnout!

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 14d

"Call me Ishmael..."

#MobyDick was first published in London #OnThisDay in 1851. This Armed Services Edition of Herman Melville's novel was distributed to US troops during #WWII.

More info on @ransomcenter.bsky.social's IG feed: www.instagram.com/p/DP9ieE0CDU...

#Melville #booksky #TheWhale 📚📜🐳

Herman Melville, Moby Dick (New York: Editions for the Armed Services, 1944?). Harry Ransom Center Book Collection, PS 2384 M6 1944b.

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Joseph Buxbaum @jdbux.bsky.social · 14d

The bell in First Congregational Church in Falmouth, MA was forged in 1796 by Paul Revere. It has been rung over 30,000,000 times. Today the congregation rang it especially for the No Kings event.