Delaney Nolan
@delaneynolan.bsky.social
Journalist for @thelensnola. Work in The Guardian, The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, Fortune, Sierra, etc
On tour for debut novel HAPPY BAD:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327/happy-bad-by-delaney-nolan/9781662603280/
On tour for debut novel HAPPY BAD:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327/happy-bad-by-delaney-nolan/9781662603280/
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Delaney Nolan
@delaneynolan.bsky.social
· Oct 14
My debut novel, HAPPY BAD, is out today! Come see me in New Orleans, New York, Chicago, wherever.
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the guardian also had a White House correspondent weigh in and, ngl, I think our take is better
November 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
the guardian also had a White House correspondent weigh in and, ngl, I think our take is better
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“Sometimes, when I’m stuck, I’ll pull books from the shelves and luxuriate in other people’s first sentences. It’s like taking a bite of every chocolate in the box, or wandering through a high-end hat store…” writes @delaneynolan.bsky.social, author of Happy Bad (Astra House). at.pw.org/WRNolan
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
“Sometimes, when I’m stuck, I’ll pull books from the shelves and luxuriate in other people’s first sentences. It’s like taking a bite of every chocolate in the box, or wandering through a high-end hat store…” writes @delaneynolan.bsky.social, author of Happy Bad (Astra House). at.pw.org/WRNolan
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Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
So excited for this one tonight! Great to be back in Iowa City 🥰
Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by @delaneynolan.bsky.social and conversation with Jamel Brinkley!
November 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
So excited for this one tonight! Great to be back in Iowa City 🥰
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At On the Seawall, I wrote about Delaney Nolan's HAPPY BAD! www.ronslate.com/on-happy-bad...
on Happy Bad, a novel by Delaney Nolan – On the Seawall
www.ronslate.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
At On the Seawall, I wrote about Delaney Nolan's HAPPY BAD! www.ronslate.com/on-happy-bad...
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"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall
bit.ly/43fQHT7
bit.ly/43fQHT7
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
"Fascinating for the way that it feels thoroughly contemporary while also grappling with countless Big Ideas. It’s sneaky like that": @tobiascarroll.bsky.social on @delaneynolan.bsky.social 's novel HAPPY BAD via Astra House & On The Seawall
bit.ly/43fQHT7
bit.ly/43fQHT7
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A new #cli-fi novel set in East #Texas from Astra Publishing House asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? Frances Madeson explores in an excerpt from Happy Bad and author Q&A w/ @delaneynolan.bsky.social.
deceleration.news/new-cli-fi-n...
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New Cli-Fi Novel Gropes for Happiness through the Dark of Texas Blackouts and Louisiana Heat – Deceleration
Delaney Nolan's distinctively American novel Happy Bad asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? An excerpt from the novel and Q&A with author ...
deceleration.news
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
A new #cli-fi novel set in East #Texas from Astra Publishing House asks: Are we constitutionally capable of surviving the disasters wrought by our corporate masters? Frances Madeson explores in an excerpt from Happy Bad and author Q&A w/ @delaneynolan.bsky.social.
deceleration.news/new-cli-fi-n...
deceleration.news/new-cli-fi-n...
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the government is giving me $10 billion because i made a phone app that reminds you to kill yourself
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
the government is giving me $10 billion because i made a phone app that reminds you to kill yourself
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Our TSA delays for different reasons...
New Orleans airport TSA lines briefly close as 'erratic' man strips to boxers, JPSO says
www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
New Orleans airport TSA lines briefly close as 'erratic' man strips to boxers, JPSO says
www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
New Orleans airport TSA lines briefly close as 'erratic' man strips to boxers, JPSO says
A woman in the airport filmed the incident and posted it to TikTok.
www.nola.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Our TSA delays for different reasons...
New Orleans airport TSA lines briefly close as 'erratic' man strips to boxers, JPSO says
www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
New Orleans airport TSA lines briefly close as 'erratic' man strips to boxers, JPSO says
www.nola.com/news/crime_p...
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I loved this book, if you're free tomorrow night in Boston!
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I loved this book, if you're free tomorrow night in Boston!
Boston! Tomorrow!
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Boston! Tomorrow!
I think it's cool that I swapped a lot of texts with people last night - people outside NYC, people in the South - that just said "Zohran 🥹"
His win is bringing hope to people far from New York. People in far more vulnerable places.
His win is bringing hope to people far from New York. People in far more vulnerable places.
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it's cool that I swapped a lot of texts with people last night - people outside NYC, people in the South - that just said "Zohran 🥹"
His win is bringing hope to people far from New York. People in far more vulnerable places.
His win is bringing hope to people far from New York. People in far more vulnerable places.
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this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 3:00 AM
this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam
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New York are you really ready to have a mayor who's a cutie patootie? Like are you prepared for that reality
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
New York are you really ready to have a mayor who's a cutie patootie? Like are you prepared for that reality
Ah Boston: it is like someone had the vision to say "what if New York City, but colder and more racist"
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Ah Boston: it is like someone had the vision to say "what if New York City, but colder and more racist"
Nice to be back in the city of my birth, i.e. everyone's most hated city, i.e. Boston. Have immediately started driving like an enormous bitch. I missed it here
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Nice to be back in the city of my birth, i.e. everyone's most hated city, i.e. Boston. Have immediately started driving like an enormous bitch. I missed it here
Had so much fun at Thacker Mountain Radio Hour with @squarebooks.bsky.social in Oxford, MS!
Catch it on the radio this week and snag a copy of HAPPY BAD here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327...
Catch it on the radio this week and snag a copy of HAPPY BAD here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327...
November 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Had so much fun at Thacker Mountain Radio Hour with @squarebooks.bsky.social in Oxford, MS!
Catch it on the radio this week and snag a copy of HAPPY BAD here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327...
Catch it on the radio this week and snag a copy of HAPPY BAD here:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/796327...
New York are you really ready to have a mayor who's a cutie patootie? Like are you prepared for that reality
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
New York are you really ready to have a mayor who's a cutie patootie? Like are you prepared for that reality
This is both racist and astoundingly incorrect
When I had food stamps I couldn't even use them to get a rotisserie chicken, because you can't buy *hot* food with SNAP. They're very restrictive!
When I had food stamps I couldn't even use them to get a rotisserie chicken, because you can't buy *hot* food with SNAP. They're very restrictive!
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
November 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is both racist and astoundingly incorrect
When I had food stamps I couldn't even use them to get a rotisserie chicken, because you can't buy *hot* food with SNAP. They're very restrictive!
When I had food stamps I couldn't even use them to get a rotisserie chicken, because you can't buy *hot* food with SNAP. They're very restrictive!
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Israel already broke the ceasefire.
Settlers have been beating Palestinians in occupied territory after the ceasefire.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Settlers have been beating Palestinians in occupied territory after the ceasefire.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Israeli arson, bulldozers and forced labour in the West Bank’s Tulkarem
Israeli violence continues in occupied West Bank where soldiers act with impunity, Palestinians made to work for free.
www.aljazeera.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Israel already broke the ceasefire.
Settlers have been beating Palestinians in occupied territory after the ceasefire.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
Settlers have been beating Palestinians in occupied territory after the ceasefire.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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"The danger of AI is not that it will achieve consciousness & hit the big red button. The end is much less flashy, far more stupid: ...resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness."
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How.
It’s not hostile super robots you should worry about—it’s the heat they’ll generate.
www.thenation.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"The danger of AI is not that it will achieve consciousness & hit the big red button. The end is much less flashy, far more stupid: ...resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness."
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
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"But the #AI overlords tell us with a straight face that their products, which cannot draw an accurate map of the United States, will somehow solve this crisis, if only we let them make it worse first."
Always better late than never when it comes to @delaneynolan.bsky.social's print #climatechange
Always better late than never when it comes to @delaneynolan.bsky.social's print #climatechange
AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How.
It’s not hostile super robots you should worry about—it’s the heat they’ll generate.
www.thenation.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"But the #AI overlords tell us with a straight face that their products, which cannot draw an accurate map of the United States, will somehow solve this crisis, if only we let them make it worse first."
Always better late than never when it comes to @delaneynolan.bsky.social's print #climatechange
Always better late than never when it comes to @delaneynolan.bsky.social's print #climatechange
Missed my flight *while at the gate* because I was so absorbed in this one
October 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Missed my flight *while at the gate* because I was so absorbed in this one
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Had such a fun NYC launch of HAPPY BAD at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social last night with Julia Phillips!
Snag a copy here:
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/happ...
Snag a copy here:
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/happ...
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Had such a fun NYC launch of HAPPY BAD at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social last night with Julia Phillips!
Snag a copy here:
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/happ...
Snag a copy here:
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/happ...
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Wrote for @thenation.com about how we're all gonna drown in hot oceans because we are air conditioning slop bots 💫
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
AI Is Going to Kill Everyone You Love. The Surprise Is How.
It’s not hostile super robots you should worry about—it’s the heat they’ll generate.
www.thenation.com
October 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Wrote for @thenation.com about how we're all gonna drown in hot oceans because we are air conditioning slop bots 💫
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
www.thenation.com/article/envi...