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Arnie Bernstein

@realarnieb.bsky.social

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🟦 Narrative nonfiction author. Writing teacher & coach. Speaker, talking head, raconteur. Voracious & ferocious reader. Movie maven. Long-suffering White Sox fan. Proud Jew. Proud Zionist. A Brothers Marxist. https://www.linktr.ee/arniebernstein ✡ NO DMs!

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Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Nov 25

Of course you want to subscribe to my Substack “The Typewriter’s Collage.” Your home for think pieces, writerly advice, a virtuoso verbose Time Machine, and lots of references to Chico Marx. First drafts guaranteed to be written on a manual typewriter.
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The Typewriter's Collage | Arnie Bernstein | Substack

Personal essays, stuff on the writing life, movies & books, Judaism, and lots of references to Chico Marx. Drafted on typewriter, edited in MS Word on a Mac, presented to you on SubStack. Serious stuf...

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Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 1d

To everything, turn, turn, turn.

#WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WriterSky

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 2d

#PlanetoftheApes #EastWing #WhiteHouse #25thAmendment

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 10d

I’m filled with joy, yet a combination of sadness and anger. We won’t rest until the bodies of our murdered are all back home.

#AmYisraelChai #BringThemHomeNow!

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 16d

#October7 #ReleaseThemNow #AmYisraelChai

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 16d

For our hostages, still being tortured by Hamas terrorists in dark tunnels funded by Iran. Baruch Hashem. Release them NOW! ✡️ 💪 🇮🇱

#October7 #ReleaseThemNow #AmYisraelChai

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 16d

“Who wears the boots groovier: David, Bobby, Adolf, or Benito? Find out inside!”

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 16d

Trump is not H!tler. Trump is not Sta!in. He's Buzz Windrip, the populist demagogue of Sinclair Lewis's 1935 cautionary novel "It Can't Happen Here." Today, October 6, 2025, Lewis’s fiction is more relevant than ever.

(FYI, "It Can't Happen Here" is in public domain)
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It can't happen here : a novel : Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

458 pages ; 21 cm

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Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 17d

#Writers #Grammar #WriterSky #Copywriters #MarketingWriters #Authors

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 17d

Everyone loves a seducer

#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WriterSky inktr.ee/arniebernstein

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 17d

Writers & Typewriters & Caricatures: Day 1 - Franz Kafka metamorphoses with unknown model.

#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #Typewriters #WriterSky #Caricatures linktr.ee/arniebernstein

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 22d

A meaningful Yom Kippur to all. If you are fasting, may it be an easy one.

#YomKippur

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · 23d

Walter Winchell, the unsung hero in fighting Hitler and American Nazis gets his due. It was an honor to be part of this panel, hosted by the Sousa Mendes Foundation

#JewishHistory #WalterWinchell #AntiNazi

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Walter Winchell and the Defeat of the German American Bund, September 28, 2025

YouTube video by SousaMendesFdn

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Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 22

A truncated Writers & Typewriters will return after Rosh Hashanah

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 22

L'shanah tovah tikatevu and happy 5786, chaverim!

#RoshHashanah

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Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 18

Writers & Typewriters & Football: Day 4 - Here’s the signals: Kickoff Tee. 1902 Remington 6 —HIKE!!!!!

#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #Typewriters #WriterSky #Football linktr.ee/arniebernstein

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 17

Rarely are Albert Einstein and yours truly mentioned in the same breath, let alone the same blog post, but our friends at Open Culture managed to pull it off.

#Einstein

www.openculture.com/2025/09/albe...

Albert Einstein Gives a Speech Praising Immigrants’ Contributions to America (1939)

There have been many times in American history when celebrations of the country’s multi-ethnic, ever-changing demography served as powerful counterweights to narrow, exclusionary, nationalisms.

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Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 17

Writers & Typewriters & Football: Day 3 - A snazzy helmut envisions this Daughtery Visible

#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #Typewriters #WriterSky #Football linktr.ee/arniebernstein

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 16

Writers & Typewriters & Football: Day 2 - YES!!! The Olympia Post clears the goal posts!
#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #Typewriters #WriterSky #Football linktr.ee/arniebernstein

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 15

Speed up! Slow down.

#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WriterSky inktr.ee/arniebernstein

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 15

Writers & Typewriters & Football: Day 1 - Our SS Olympia Field holding its own the 50 yard line

#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #Typewriters #WriterSky #Football linktr.ee/arniebernstein

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 11

🧵/3 by the parachute in-parachute out one-dayers to NYC. Next time a little longer so I can hang with friends

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 11

🧵/2 ...used their unique means and methods to bring down the American Nazis of the late 1930s. Broadcast is set for late 2026. More details as I get them. I had a blast, as you can imagine. I'm a little exhausted...

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 11

🧵/1 So...yesterday was another great one-day trip to New York. I was interviewed for yet ANOTHER documentary on the German-American Bund. This one is for HBO: "Gangsters Versus Nazis," the wild, true tale of how Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and other boys of the Jewish mob...

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Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 11

And so the adventure comes to its happy conclusion. More tomorrow

Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Sep 10

Read this like you’re Edward G. Robinson: M’ya! Me and the boys had a great time in our Brooklyn hideout, see?