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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, are you sure you won't?

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Tim Horvath @timhorvath.bsky.social · 13h

Happy pub days live here--can't wait to read Amber Sparks's new novel!

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 16h

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 12h

A great book, Amber! Congrats.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 16h

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 1d

You could!

Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 1d

Apropos? ;-)

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 1d

The lion does not concern itself with flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, no, it is not good. But it also elicited a *snort-laugh* from me so...

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

Is it good if you have a president frequently musing about his eternal damnation?

Trump, 79, Admits He Is Probably Not Going to Heaven

The president conceded that he might be turned away at the pearly gates.

www.thedailybeast.com

Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 2d

#ruthless

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Gigi Little @gigilittle.bsky.social · 3d

So excited to have an interview about my book in the Chicago Review of Books! Writer Elisa Shoenberger called Who Killed One the Gun? a "wonderful new metafictional detective noir." Huge thank you to @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 3d

I shouted, "No!" at my monitor. Can I stay?

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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 3d

OK, more on the nuggets...please tell me no beavers were harmed... ;-)

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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 3d

thanks, man!

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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 3d

My books in Powell's. TWILIGHT OF THE GODS now a staff pick from the incomparable Gigi Little! And thanks to Kevin Sampsell as well for stocking my books. Tagging my publisher. @jamesreich.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social

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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 3d

My books in Powell's. TWILIGHT OF THE GODS now a staff pick from the incomparable Gigi Little! And thanks to Kevin Sampsell as well for stocking my books. Tagging my publisher. @jamesreich.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social

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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 3d

OK...so...your definition of wonder is consistent with what I get from Boston. :-) The MFA is always a good time!

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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · 3d

Boston, I guess. I want to move back. Not that there's anything wrong with Philly. I'm not sure about wonder either place. Maybe I shouldn't have answered this, lol. ;-)

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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · Sep 3

Update: there's now a new page for my book on Kill List on @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's website! www.bloomsbury.com/us/kill-list...

Kill List

A minute-by-minute analysis of Ben Wheatley's film, Kill List (2011).2011's Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley and written by Wheatley and Amy Jump, provides a…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social · 4d

Loved writing this for the good folks at @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social · 4d

Matthew Specktor (@specktor.bsky.social) unwraps a fishy feud between a high priestess of California modernism and the Pope of Pop Cinema.

nyra.nyc/read-herring