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The Rap Sheet @therapsheet2006.bsky.social · 13h

This William Teason-painted paperback cover from 1963 is both beautiful and haunting.
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“We Have Always Lived in the Castle,”<br> by Shirley Jackson

We Have Always Lived in the Castle , by Shirley Jackson (Popular Library, 1963). This mystery yarn was first published in hardcover in 19...

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The Rap Sheet @therapsheet2006.bsky.social · 16h

Max Allan Collins has unveiled the cover of "Quarry’s Reunion," his 18th novel starring the killer-for-hire known only as Quarry. The book is due out in late 2026, with artwork by Paul Mann. killercoversoftheweek.blogspot.com/2025/10/cele...

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The Rap Sheet @therapsheet2006.bsky.social · 19h

Another new Sam Spade story from Mark Coggins, the return of "Miss Scarlet," Oxford's John le Carré exhibition, and more crime-fiction-related news. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/10/of-s...

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CrimeReads @crimereads.bsky.social · 1d

Caitling Starling considers the cinema of medicalized body horror. crimereads.com/five-horror-...

Five Horror Films Set in Hospitals

Man, how good was The Pitt? There’s something about a medical drama that will always get me. From ER to Scrubs, from MASH to New Amsterdam, stories about doctors, nurses, medical care in general, n…

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 1d

A cartoon of a vampire with a shepherd's crook, herding ghosts like sheep. A crumbling old castle stands in the background. The vampire looks warily at a gathering storm overhead. The caption reads, "It was time to get the flock back to the castle."

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 19h

The case before the Supreme Court is called Louisiana v. Callais, a redistricting dispute that has become a major test of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), the landmark civil rights law designed to protect Black Americans and other minorities from being shut out of political representation.

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The Rap Sheet @therapsheet2006.bsky.social · 4d

The Rap Sheet's latest wrap-up of crime-fiction news includes notes about Raymond Benson's "The Hook and the Eye," Lambda Literary Award winners, P.I. Nate Heller's next case, the "Reacher" spin-off "Neagley," Edgar Allan Poe's fascination with being buried alive, and so much more.

Bullet Points: No Shutdown Here Edition

• I mentioned last spring on this page that Raymond Benson, the author of several James Bond continuation novels published between 1997 and...

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Space Cowboy Books @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social · 5d

Frequently people come into the bookstore and ask "what is this place?"
Breaks my heart every time.
How can anyone not know what a bookstore is?!

Interior of Space Cowboy bookstore. A room full of books.

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Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s NOVEL Festival Deadline: DRAMA Novel Contest

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Submit your DRAMA Book by the deadline.

A drama novel is a fictional story that centers around characters in conflict at a critical moment in their lives.

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 5d

Just announced at NYCC: I’m writing a KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic with artist @davidhahn.bsky.social in partnership with @nycschools.bsky.social #civicsforall comics program, covering and explaining student rights when it comes to immigration enforcement.

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Mark Coggins @coggins.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Sam's Tavern

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #night #nightphotography #sanfrancisco

Neon sign and entrance of Sam's Tavern by night.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 5d

What a 1977 Czech writers’ manifesto can teach us about “America’s decades-long drift into authoritarianism.”

How a 1977 Czech Writers’ Manifesto Applies to the Stark Realities of America in 2025

The wonderful Czech writer Ivan Klima died this past weekend at the age of 94. Klima lived a remarkable, principled life, having survived both the Nazi occupation of Prague (he spent three years in…

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Scott Von Doviak @vondoviak.bsky.social · 5d

I contributed thoughts on my three favorite Elmore Leonard novels to The Hard Word in honor of the man's centenary. www.thehardword.org/single-post/...

TEN FAVORITE ELMORE LEONARD BOOKS FROM ME AND THREE FROM PEOPLE WHO MATTER

This Saturday, October 11th, will be the hundredth year of Elmore Leonard, a writer who had influence on both western and crime writers as well as other artists. To celebrate and pay respects, I asked...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Author Thomas Lockhaven @thomaslockhaven.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry Rex...
#library #librarian #booksky #bookban #bannedbooks #read #teachers

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4d

In this video I run through all of the big voting and democracy cases the Supreme Court will hear this term and what we need to be watching for. youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA

Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Gerald So @sogerald.bsky.social · 4d

This has been some disinformation campaign:

42% of consumers didn't know Lay's chips were made from real potatoes.

I don't think Lay's is to blame for that.

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Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 5d

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I honestly don't think I could've foreseen the role that blow-up Halloween costumes were going to play in the revolution

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 5d

What book will you buying from which bookshop this #BookshopDay ?

A good bookshop is just a genteel black hole that knows how to read. - Terry Pratchett

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The Rap Sheet @therapsheet2006.bsky.social · 4d

This cannot be good news for public health!

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

The Rap Sheet @therapsheet2006.bsky.social · 5d

The Rap Sheet's Steven Nester looks back at Lionel Davidson's witty 1960 debut thriller, "Night of Wenceslas." Readers lucky enough to find this largely Czechoslovakia-set novel on a shelf somewhere, he says, "are in for an entertaining experience." therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The Book You Have to Read:<br> “Night of Wenceslas,” by Lionel Davidson

(Editor’s note: This is the 190th installment in The Rap Sheet’s continuing series about great but forgotten books.) By Steven Nester Ni...

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Tom Bradley Jr. 📚💙 @tbradleywrites.bsky.social · 6d

“I just knew once I started writing I couldn’t stop, whether people would publish me or not.”

@meganabbott.bsky.social discusses her fascination with the forbidden, her love of "weirdos," and how she got her start

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Janet Rudolph @janetrudolph.bsky.social · 5d

Hitchcock Film Festival, #BodegaBay #Hitchcock mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/10/annu...

ANNUAL HITCHCOCK FILM FEST: Bodega Bay, CA

11th Annual Hitchcock Film Festival, October 17 -18, 2025. Bodega Bay Grange Hall, 1370 Bodega Ave. Bodega Bay. 94923 For more information ...

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