Daneet Steffens
@daneetsteffens.bsky.social
Books, science, more TK. Bookish words for Boston Globe, CrimeReads, LitHub, LARB, etc. Also: swimfan.
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This book is never going to get written if I don't have some tea.
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This book is never going to get written if I don't have some tea.
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It was 30 years ago today that BBC Two transmitted the opening episode of Our Friends in the North - one of the greatest television dramas the BBC has ever made.
For the anniversary, I've been down to Caversham to take a look through the show's files and explore some of the tales they tell...
For the anniversary, I've been down to Caversham to take a look through the show's files and explore some of the tales they tell...
Our Friends in the North
30 years on from the first episode of this groundbreaking drama, we take a closer look into the programme’s archive to reveal a time capsule of a turbulent era.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 8:53 AM
It was 30 years ago today that BBC Two transmitted the opening episode of Our Friends in the North - one of the greatest television dramas the BBC has ever made.
For the anniversary, I've been down to Caversham to take a look through the show's files and explore some of the tales they tell...
For the anniversary, I've been down to Caversham to take a look through the show's files and explore some of the tales they tell...
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New @minjinlee.bsky.social novel, AMERICAN HAGWON, coming from @reaganart.bsky.social's Cardinal imprint on 9/29!
Book media: for ARC requests -->
michael at broadsidepr dot com
cordelia dot calvert at hbgusa dot com
Book media: for ARC requests -->
michael at broadsidepr dot com
cordelia dot calvert at hbgusa dot com
Min Jin Lee's 'American Hagwon' to be released in September
Min Jin Lee's new novel, “American Hagwon,” explores why Koreans are so focused on education. It's her first book since her acclaimed “Pachinko” and is scheduled for September.
apnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:04 PM
New @minjinlee.bsky.social novel, AMERICAN HAGWON, coming from @reaganart.bsky.social's Cardinal imprint on 9/29!
Book media: for ARC requests -->
michael at broadsidepr dot com
cordelia dot calvert at hbgusa dot com
Book media: for ARC requests -->
michael at broadsidepr dot com
cordelia dot calvert at hbgusa dot com
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The Giant Book by Wild Drawing (WD) in Grenoble, France. #StreetArt
January 11, 2026 at 9:37 AM
The Giant Book by Wild Drawing (WD) in Grenoble, France. #StreetArt
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Georges Kleinbaum>The B. Kliban Appreciation Society
January 10, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Georges Kleinbaum>The B. Kliban Appreciation Society
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Bryan and @eyedotter.bsky.social announce their next graphic novel, Lo! An Amazon!
In the Age of Revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft spoke out for the other “’one-half of the human race”: that of womankind.
1/4
In the Age of Revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft spoke out for the other “’one-half of the human race”: that of womankind.
1/4
January 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Bryan and @eyedotter.bsky.social announce their next graphic novel, Lo! An Amazon!
In the Age of Revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft spoke out for the other “’one-half of the human race”: that of womankind.
1/4
In the Age of Revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft spoke out for the other “’one-half of the human race”: that of womankind.
1/4
“Each section adopts a different form because each era experiences Cuddy’s presence differently—as burden, as myth, as stone Cathedral incarnate….This isn’t decorative fragmentation. The leap across centuries reveals continuity.”
I really appreciated this review of Cuddy, a book that now feels like a once in a lifetime, never-to-be-repeated creative project.
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...
Time Measured in Stone: Benjamin Myers's "Cuddy"
Benjamin Myers writes about people history overlooks—working-class lives, rural communities, and the way the past refuses to stay buried.
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:40 AM
“Each section adopts a different form because each era experiences Cuddy’s presence differently—as burden, as myth, as stone Cathedral incarnate….This isn’t decorative fragmentation. The leap across centuries reveals continuity.”
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Fred Lyon, Lombard Street from Telegraph Hill, Night, San Francisco, 1956.
January 2, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Fred Lyon, Lombard Street from Telegraph Hill, Night, San Francisco, 1956.
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But if we must, have a happy one
December 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
But if we must, have a happy one
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"Snowy Owl". John James Audubon. 1840.
December 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"Snowy Owl". John James Audubon. 1840.
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my proportions
Virginia Woolf, Diary, last entry for 1930
Virginia Woolf, Diary, last entry for 1930
December 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
my proportions
Virginia Woolf, Diary, last entry for 1930
Virginia Woolf, Diary, last entry for 1930
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Gígja Einarsdóttir, photographer who was born and raised around Icelandic horses #WomensArt
December 26, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Gígja Einarsdóttir, photographer who was born and raised around Icelandic horses #WomensArt
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Merry Christmas from Aces and all the other holiday black cats!
December 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Merry Christmas from Aces and all the other holiday black cats!
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Illustration by Moomins author, Finnish artist Tove Jansson.
#December25th #ArtAdvent 🎄 ❄️ #ChristmasDay 🤍
#December25th #ArtAdvent 🎄 ❄️ #ChristmasDay 🤍
December 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Illustration by Moomins author, Finnish artist Tove Jansson.
#December25th #ArtAdvent 🎄 ❄️ #ChristmasDay 🤍
#December25th #ArtAdvent 🎄 ❄️ #ChristmasDay 🤍
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By Guy Billout
December 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
By Guy Billout
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We just posted a piece about reading resolutions! Do you have one? Why not read what Joanna Rakoff, Adrienne Brodeur, and Andre Dubus III have to say about theirs? In the print edition of the @bostonglobe.com this Sunday, but online here and now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/a...
What’s your New Year’s reading resolution? - The Boston Globe
"As I do with most resolutions, I keep the bar on the ground," says Annie Hartnett.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We just posted a piece about reading resolutions! Do you have one? Why not read what Joanna Rakoff, Adrienne Brodeur, and Andre Dubus III have to say about theirs? In the print edition of the @bostonglobe.com this Sunday, but online here and now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/a...
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A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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I can’t gather all my Rob Reiner thoughts at this point in the evening, but my very first favorite grown-up movie that was My Favorite Movie, like I went around telling people for years that it was, was THE SURE THING in 1985. A very big part of the romcom switch being flipped for me.
December 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I can’t gather all my Rob Reiner thoughts at this point in the evening, but my very first favorite grown-up movie that was My Favorite Movie, like I went around telling people for years that it was, was THE SURE THING in 1985. A very big part of the romcom switch being flipped for me.
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When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
Directed by Rob Reiner
Directed by Rob Reiner
December 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
Directed by Rob Reiner
Directed by Rob Reiner
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For millions of us, this was the first time we ever saw Rob Reiner. …When he became “Meathead” on “All in the Family.”
He was brilliant from Day One.
He was brilliant from Day One.
December 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
For millions of us, this was the first time we ever saw Rob Reiner. …When he became “Meathead” on “All in the Family.”
He was brilliant from Day One.
He was brilliant from Day One.
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RIP Rob & Michele Reiner
His movies gave me so much happiness.
He directed the funniest movie I’ve ever watched and provided wonderful straight man support to Christopher Guest in its funniest scene: youtu.be/uMSV4OteqBE?...
His movies gave me so much happiness.
He directed the funniest movie I’ve ever watched and provided wonderful straight man support to Christopher Guest in its funniest scene: youtu.be/uMSV4OteqBE?...
Amp. goes to 11 (This is Spinal Tap)
YouTube video by dovenol
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
RIP Rob & Michele Reiner
His movies gave me so much happiness.
He directed the funniest movie I’ve ever watched and provided wonderful straight man support to Christopher Guest in its funniest scene: youtu.be/uMSV4OteqBE?...
His movies gave me so much happiness.
He directed the funniest movie I’ve ever watched and provided wonderful straight man support to Christopher Guest in its funniest scene: youtu.be/uMSV4OteqBE?...
“This is what writing does when it means more and more and more the more you look at it. You could spend a lifetime with just one Shakespeare play and still find new things in every line.”
I wrote this, a long analysis of a single line of Shakespeare and what it’s doing. How good writing is an ethical practice. And my continuing attempts to work out what it is that I’m spotting when I look at a piece of text and go “oh that was written by AI.”
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
a single line of Shakespeare contains an ethical universe
on what we get from individual word choice, what good writing is, plus: what I put in my ChatGPT settings to make it helpful
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“This is what writing does when it means more and more and more the more you look at it. You could spend a lifetime with just one Shakespeare play and still find new things in every line.”