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Ira Madison III
@irathethird.bsky.social
Best-selling author.
Pure Innocent Fun: Essays out now.

https://iramadison.com/
Profiled the always inspirational Tessa Thompson for California Style Mag.
Tessa Thompson Is a Triple Threat
Join Tessa Thompson on her artistic journey as she embraces new roles behind the camera and shares her creative vision.
magazinec.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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"So much ... is about playing a person who has woken up inside of the choices they've made and realizing those choices are not their own. And then wanting to burn everything down." @irathethird.bsky.social profiles Tessa Thompson, mais oui. ❤️‍🔥 magazinec.com/style/tessa-...
Tessa Thompson Is a Triple Threat
Join Tessa Thompson on her artistic journey as she embraces new roles behind the camera and shares her creative vision.
magazinec.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Finally got to read @irathethird.bsky.social’s short story, “Selling Vermont,” and when I tell you this was a GREAT and also gagworthy read…absolutely worth the $5 subscription if you can swing it!! substack.com/@volume0/not...
Selling Vermont
"Black people like to ski?" | by Ira Madison III
substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
✅ my second publication of the year 🥹

Celebrated the launch of VOLUME 0 issue 10, which features my first published fiction piece — a short story, “Selling Vermont”! ⛷️❄️🔪
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
✅ my second publication of the year 🥹

Celebrated the launch of VOLUME 0 issue 10, which features my first published fiction piece — a short story, “Selling Vermont”! ⛷️❄️🔪
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Thanks for making this readable! In this newsletter I explore the idea of songs/artists making it "if there's any justice," and what exactly creates the unfair circumstances in the pop marketplace.
Why isn’t this song a hit?
The NPR Music Newsletter
By Ann Powers
November 2, 2025
view.nl.npr.org?qs=65775cc99...
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
very excited to have my first published fiction piece, a short story, in the latest issue of Volume 0!
"Black people like to ski?"
An excerpt from new short horror story, "Selling Vermont"
iramadison.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
i wrote about the new tame impala
tame impala and the new cool
On Tame Impala, Dua Lipa, and drugs
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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As was often the case, Roger was right.
October 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.
October 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
i wrote about pta & one battle after another
pta's acts of contrition
One Battle After Another, sex, and forgiveness
iramadison.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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another 10/10 read!! also to the other ira stans out there who are as slow as me, i just realized that there’s a substack chat in which ira is active (free to subscribe & participate in). you should join it with me!! ☺️
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
my album review
she's not your average showgirl
On Taylor Swift's new album, Sweden's artistic legacy, and pop beef
iramadison.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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I told you guys back when ICE first invaded LA the agents tried to go into my hometown Whittier public library to pee. When the librarians told them to get lost they peed all over the building and flower beds in broad daylight.
October 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Can you spare something for Hammam and Abood and the family?
October 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM