Shannon
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Reader. English professor. Follow books, film, foreign affairs/history, baseball(Bucs), and soccer (Everton). Partial to hounds.
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“‘To grieve in peace’ is a common phrase but it’s a peculiar one, is it not? A contradiction, a demanding, even unachievable stasis state.”
Joy Williams on Gene Hackman’s last days.
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Joy Williams on Gene Hackman’s last days.
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One Four Two Five Old Sunset Trail, by Joy Williams
On the last days of Gene Hackman
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November 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“‘To grieve in peace’ is a common phrase but it’s a peculiar one, is it not? A contradiction, a demanding, even unachievable stasis state.”
Joy Williams on Gene Hackman’s last days.
harpers.org/archive/2025...
Joy Williams on Gene Hackman’s last days.
harpers.org/archive/2025...
watching "Bad Day at Black Rock" and it's very small town with a dark secret
November 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
watching "Bad Day at Black Rock" and it's very small town with a dark secret
Voted and 5 of the poll workers are people I run into every day when we're all walking our dogs on the 6:30 AM shift.
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Voted and 5 of the poll workers are people I run into every day when we're all walking our dogs on the 6:30 AM shift.
Enlightened and Wild at Heart are two of my favorites. Diane Ladd (esp paired with Laura Dern) did good work.
November 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Enlightened and Wild at Heart are two of my favorites. Diane Ladd (esp paired with Laura Dern) did good work.
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Very exciting! Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives is coming out next week!
#MargaretAtwood
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‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?
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November 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Very exciting! Margaret Atwood’s Book of Lives is coming out next week!
#MargaretAtwood
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
#MargaretAtwood
@margaretatwood.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Costumes so good, they needed to confirm identity
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Costumes so good, they needed to confirm identity
saw this in previews a few weeks ago. If you get a shot, take it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/t...
Laurie Metcalf Is Riveting in ‘Little Bear Ridge Road’
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October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
saw this in previews a few weeks ago. If you get a shot, take it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/t...
Making the most of my insomnia and reading Angela Flournoy's 2nd novel, The Wilderness. Like the structure- each section is divided by year and by voice, a different female friend is centered each time.
October 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Making the most of my insomnia and reading Angela Flournoy's 2nd novel, The Wilderness. Like the structure- each section is divided by year and by voice, a different female friend is centered each time.
Nobody smokes better than Robert Mitchum (Watching Out of the Past)
October 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Nobody smokes better than Robert Mitchum (Watching Out of the Past)
Im watching a friend's puppy while he is at the ER, and it has come to this. Fences. Agatha in the chair like a little gargoyle, and Luther doing his best If this gate weren't here, I'd... Meanwhile, the puppy is finally asleep after 3 hrs.
October 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Im watching a friend's puppy while he is at the ER, and it has come to this. Fences. Agatha in the chair like a little gargoyle, and Luther doing his best If this gate weren't here, I'd... Meanwhile, the puppy is finally asleep after 3 hrs.
Had a few flights over the long weekend and read both "These Days" by Lucy Caldwell and "Dominion" by Addie E. Citchens. Perfect flight books/under 300 pages.
October 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Had a few flights over the long weekend and read both "These Days" by Lucy Caldwell and "Dominion" by Addie E. Citchens. Perfect flight books/under 300 pages.
going to see Neko Case this week and just read that she currently composing the musical theater adaptation of 'Thelma & Louise.'
October 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
going to see Neko Case this week and just read that she currently composing the musical theater adaptation of 'Thelma & Louise.'
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In the wake of this excellent report by the New York Times's Matthieu Aikins into a culture of lawlessness that has suffused parts of US Special Operations Command and some of its vets I was left wondering how many with such broken SOF CVs have been recruited into ICE
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
They Celebrated Vigilante Justice on the Battlefield. Then They Brought It Home.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In the wake of this excellent report by the New York Times's Matthieu Aikins into a culture of lawlessness that has suffused parts of US Special Operations Command and some of its vets I was left wondering how many with such broken SOF CVs have been recruited into ICE
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
"We have robbed the past of its privacy" has hooked me. Looks like I will be reading another McEwan. Thought I'd tapped out after 4. open.spotify.com/episode/0vHO...
Ian McEwan
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September 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"We have robbed the past of its privacy" has hooked me. Looks like I will be reading another McEwan. Thought I'd tapped out after 4. open.spotify.com/episode/0vHO...
Have had H.O.O.D stuck in my head every since I saw the Kneecap verdict
September 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Have had H.O.O.D stuck in my head every since I saw the Kneecap verdict
I was here for the worst start of Skenes career. Please clap.
September 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I was here for the worst start of Skenes career. Please clap.
Uber driver wants to talk to me about advantages of AI. Talks, talks some more. I bring up water consumption, and a moment later, he turns on the radio. Scene.
September 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Uber driver wants to talk to me about advantages of AI. Talks, talks some more. I bring up water consumption, and a moment later, he turns on the radio. Scene.
Flight book. The Benefactors/Wendy Erskine.
September 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Flight book. The Benefactors/Wendy Erskine.
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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
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September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
rewatching Enlightened, and Laura Dern is so reliably good in this, everything. Also the show where I learned Luke Wilson can act.
September 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
rewatching Enlightened, and Laura Dern is so reliably good in this, everything. Also the show where I learned Luke Wilson can act.
you knew they'd find a way to blame women for autism
September 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
you knew they'd find a way to blame women for autism
When you start packing.
September 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
When you start packing.
My heart when that dog entered La Vuelta with the chair attached to his leash. Never seen that before.
September 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
My heart when that dog entered La Vuelta with the chair attached to his leash. Never seen that before.
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"Plenty of new TV novels, alas, betray a sincere admiration for television and the people who make it." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...
New TV Novels | Lisa Borst
It’s a literature of dimming stars, smoggy drives through flammable chaparral, frequent benders, prostitutes. Flash periods of productivity where somebody bangs out a script in a week. There’s at leas...
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August 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
"Plenty of new TV novels, alas, betray a sincere admiration for television and the people who make it." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...