Deborah Heiligman (she/her)
@dheiligman.bsky.social
Author, writer (yes they're sort of different), dog person, human mom & partner, too. Love reading, social justice, peace, cooking vegetarian, fountain pens. Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) www.Deborahheiligman.com
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Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Libraries are free for you to use, serve the public good, are great, support creators financially and, I cannot be clear enough about this-- ARE FREE FOR YOU TO USE-- so pirating books makes you kind of an asshole, not some Marxist revolutionary.
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
If the book you want isn't there *request it.*
www.nypl.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I am thrilled that Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) is on the JWA Book list for winter! @mackidssl.bsky.social @fiercereads.bsky.social @macmillanaudio.bsky.social You can read it or LISTEN to it!
JWA's Winter 2025 Book List has arrived 🥳
Explore titles that illuminate Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, reveal the challenges of pop icon Carole King, explore an exchange of letters between Holocaust survivors, examine antisemitism in the US, and more: buff.ly/wzdT2CT
Explore titles that illuminate Judeo-Iraqi Arabic, reveal the challenges of pop icon Carole King, explore an exchange of letters between Holocaust survivors, examine antisemitism in the US, and more: buff.ly/wzdT2CT
November 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I am thrilled that Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) is on the JWA Book list for winter! @mackidssl.bsky.social @fiercereads.bsky.social @macmillanaudio.bsky.social You can read it or LISTEN to it!
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hope to see you in Denver! A Loudmouth badge is waiting for you.
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Hope to see you in Denver! A Loudmouth badge is waiting for you.
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Lots of great books here! Shoutout to fellow #nonfiction #kidlit #authors @dheiligman.bsky.social @CandaceFleming @debbielevy.bsky.social @annbausman.bsky.social Thank you @ala-booklist.bsky.social #WhoOwnstheMoon #spaceexploration #spacelaw #MegaKidLitFeed www.booklistonline.com/products/981...
Booklist Online: Leading Book Discovery
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November 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Lots of great books here! Shoutout to fellow #nonfiction #kidlit #authors @dheiligman.bsky.social @CandaceFleming @debbielevy.bsky.social @annbausman.bsky.social Thank you @ala-booklist.bsky.social #WhoOwnstheMoon #spaceexploration #spacelaw #MegaKidLitFeed www.booklistonline.com/products/981...
Thrilled that the New York Public Library chose Loudmouth as one of the best books of the year--and named it a top ten teen book. Thank you! @mackidssl.bsky.social
www.nypl.org/blog/2025/11...
www.nypl.org/blog/2025/11...
Best Books of 2025: Top 10 Picks for Kids & Teens | The New York Public Library
Noteworthy new books for kids and teens recommended by NYPL's expert librarians and staff.
www.nypl.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Thrilled that the New York Public Library chose Loudmouth as one of the best books of the year--and named it a top ten teen book. Thank you! @mackidssl.bsky.social
www.nypl.org/blog/2025/11...
www.nypl.org/blog/2025/11...
Thrilled that the New York Public Library chose Loudmouth as one of its best books of the year, and even named it a top ten teen book. www.nypl.org/blog/2025/11...
Best Books of 2025: Top 10 Picks for Kids & Teens | The New York Public Library
Noteworthy new books for kids and teens recommended by NYPL's expert librarians and staff.
www.nypl.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Thrilled that the New York Public Library chose Loudmouth as one of its best books of the year, and even named it a top ten teen book. www.nypl.org/blog/2025/11...
Just strutting my NYPLBESTBOOKS Button.
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Just strutting my NYPLBESTBOOKS Button.
Congratulations, Susan!
Welcome Susan Polos as our incoming president of USBBY! Susan has served with USBBY for eight years, four as @amlibassoc.bsky.social representative and four as an elected USBBY board president. She is a school librarian in Greenwich, CT
November 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Congratulations, Susan!
Can't wait for @ncte.org annual next week. Here's my schedule. Will I see you there? (Thanks for the beautiful graphic, @mackidssl.bsky.social !)
November 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Can't wait for @ncte.org annual next week. Here's my schedule. Will I see you there? (Thanks for the beautiful graphic, @mackidssl.bsky.social !)
Mamdani's "Aunties." Wes Moore for Prez? Texas legislators a liberal can love. Mexican Prez. Claudia Sheinbaum groped. New books. Little girls and their "Girl Dads." open.substack.com/pub/lettycot.... Letty Cottin Pogrebin praised LOUDMOUTH in her latest newsletter! @mackidssl.bsky.social
Mamdani's "Aunties." Wes Moore for Prez? Texas legislators a liberal can love. Mexican Prez. Claudia Sheinbaum groped. New books. Little girls and their "Girl Dads."
NewsLetty #179
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November 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Mamdani's "Aunties." Wes Moore for Prez? Texas legislators a liberal can love. Mexican Prez. Claudia Sheinbaum groped. New books. Little girls and their "Girl Dads." open.substack.com/pub/lettycot.... Letty Cottin Pogrebin praised LOUDMOUTH in her latest newsletter! @mackidssl.bsky.social
I was so busy BEING there at @usbby.bsky.social I forgot to take photos. If anyone has some of my panel, please send! Thank you. Here are some slides from our talk about #Kidlit #nonfiction @mackidssl.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I was so busy BEING there at @usbby.bsky.social I forgot to take photos. If anyone has some of my panel, please send! Thank you. Here are some slides from our talk about #Kidlit #nonfiction @mackidssl.bsky.social
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DYK that Helen wang started the #namethetranslator hashtag? Lots of top Shenjeng books are translated from around the world. #IBBYRegional
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
DYK that Helen wang started the #namethetranslator hashtag? Lots of top Shenjeng books are translated from around the world. #IBBYRegional
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Getting ready to hear a conversation among Katherine Paterson, Claudia Lepman Logan and Christopher Franceschelli moderated by Marc Anderson #IBBYRegional25
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Getting ready to hear a conversation among Katherine Paterson, Claudia Lepman Logan and Christopher Franceschelli moderated by Marc Anderson #IBBYRegional25
@usbby.bsky.social Katherine Paterson is in the room.
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
@usbby.bsky.social Katherine Paterson is in the room.
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@usbby.bsky.social Working on my part of this presentation about #kidlitnonfiction The inside story of how we #kidlit creators think about our books, including Ann Bausum @cylev.bsky.social @dashkaslater.bsky.social Ray Anthony Shepard, Carole Boston Weatherford & more. #nonfiction is SO important
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
@usbby.bsky.social Working on my part of this presentation about #kidlitnonfiction The inside story of how we #kidlit creators think about our books, including Ann Bausum @cylev.bsky.social @dashkaslater.bsky.social Ray Anthony Shepard, Carole Boston Weatherford & more. #nonfiction is SO important
@usbby.bsky.social Working on my part of this presentation about #kidlitnonfiction The inside story of how we #kidlit creators think about our books, including Ann Bausum @cylev.bsky.social @dashkaslater.bsky.social Ray Anthony Shepard, Carole Boston Weatherford & more. #nonfiction is SO important
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
@usbby.bsky.social Working on my part of this presentation about #kidlitnonfiction The inside story of how we #kidlit creators think about our books, including Ann Bausum @cylev.bsky.social @dashkaslater.bsky.social Ray Anthony Shepard, Carole Boston Weatherford & more. #nonfiction is SO important
Yay! Please let me know what you think of EG!!
Have you started your Know-vember reading challenge?? 💡📚 #TLSky #BookSky My next nonfiction read- Loudmouth: Emma Goldman vs. America (A Love Story) by @dheiligman.bsky.social #EduSky
November 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Yay! Please let me know what you think of EG!!
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We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:
Why do I keep getting emails from a tractor supplier and Dick's Sporting Goods? I would think the algorithm would do a better job. Is this just another sign of decline?
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Why do I keep getting emails from a tractor supplier and Dick's Sporting Goods? I would think the algorithm would do a better job. Is this just another sign of decline?
This is what resistance looks like. Bravo!!!!
I've got some great news: It is thoroughly satisfying to share what I hope will be my last-ever update on the 2023 Texas book ban, a.k.a. House Bill 900, a.k.a. the READER Act, which is that a federal judge has stopped the law with a permanent injunction.
chrisbarton.info/the-case-aga...
chrisbarton.info/the-case-aga...
October 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is what resistance looks like. Bravo!!!!
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ICE agents get the NYC salute
October 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
ICE agents get the NYC salute
I treated myself to a new fountain pen & it came today. It's a red Pilot Metropolitan with a stub nib, also called an italic nib. I got Iroshizuku Momiji to go with it. I'm very happy. It's the little things, friends. #fountainpens
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I treated myself to a new fountain pen & it came today. It's a red Pilot Metropolitan with a stub nib, also called an italic nib. I got Iroshizuku Momiji to go with it. I'm very happy. It's the little things, friends. #fountainpens