Erin Keane
@erinkeane.bsky.social
Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @Salon.com | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
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Erin Keane
@erinkeane.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Welcome, new friends! My book is pop culture criticism woven around my family's origin story: my mom ran away from her military officer family's home at 13, hitchhiked around the country, lived as an adult in 1970s NYC, then married an ex-con her own father's age. bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
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Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.
R.E.M.
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band
The Hold Steady
The National
My Morning Jacket
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band
The Hold Steady
The National
My Morning Jacket
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
R.E.M.
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band
The Hold Steady
The National
My Morning Jacket
Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band
The Hold Steady
The National
My Morning Jacket
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Good morning! I wrote a biography of someone who helped found the women's rights movement in the 1850s, and kept at it through the Civil War, scandals, chronic illness, and decades of defeats.
Amelia Bloomer
A fascinating look at an underappreciated woman in American history whose newspaper fostered a national conversation on women’s issues.Those who recognize the name Amelia Bloomer usually do so because...
www.arcadiapublishing.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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back on the streets in less than 24 hours smh
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
back on the streets in less than 24 hours smh
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the nypd finally caught buzz lightyear thank you mayor adams
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
the nypd finally caught buzz lightyear thank you mayor adams
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Nothing Compares to You
What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us
By Sonya Huber and Martha Bayne www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin...
What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us
By Sonya Huber and Martha Bayne www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin...
Nothing Compares to You
An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinéad O’Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Si...
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November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Nothing Compares to You
What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us
By Sonya Huber and Martha Bayne www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin...
What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us
By Sonya Huber and Martha Bayne www.simonandschuster.com/books/Nothin...
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This book is very good just saying
Promote your books! Your mom in a book club’s holiday gift:
In 1970, my mom ran away from home for the first time. She was 13. Over the next several years, and under 2 assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America. I wrote about how her story shaped me.
bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
In 1970, my mom ran away from home for the first time. She was 13. Over the next several years, and under 2 assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America. I wrote about how her story shaped me.
bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This book is very good just saying
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Can't be with loved one this Thanksgiving? Miss the family drama? Read this and you won't miss them at all www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734363...
Fiend by Alma Katsu: 9780593714348 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Historical horror maven Alma Katsu turns her talents to the modern world for the first time, in this terrifying tale about an all-powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb. "If you liked.....
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November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Can't be with loved one this Thanksgiving? Miss the family drama? Read this and you won't miss them at all www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734363...
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this is the soap opera way and it's the only way. oh you have opinions about who else should have played the part? tell it to your coworkers. at the water cooler. that is the appropriate venue we're trying to make a show here
Bond writers in 2025: agonising over the change of actors
Interview with the Vampire (series) in 2022:
Interview with the Vampire (series) in 2022:
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
this is the soap opera way and it's the only way. oh you have opinions about who else should have played the part? tell it to your coworkers. at the water cooler. that is the appropriate venue we're trying to make a show here
Promote your books! Your mom in a book club’s holiday gift:
In 1970, my mom ran away from home for the first time. She was 13. Over the next several years, and under 2 assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America. I wrote about how her story shaped me.
bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
In 1970, my mom ran away from home for the first time. She was 13. Over the next several years, and under 2 assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America. I wrote about how her story shaped me.
bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Promote your books! Your mom in a book club’s holiday gift:
In 1970, my mom ran away from home for the first time. She was 13. Over the next several years, and under 2 assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America. I wrote about how her story shaped me.
bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
In 1970, my mom ran away from home for the first time. She was 13. Over the next several years, and under 2 assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America. I wrote about how her story shaped me.
bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
As god as my witness
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
As god as my witness
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When the "outliers" are the most famous and celebrated people in the industry, and the "good ones" are all the nameless/faceless people who everyone acknowledges have less power and are valued less, then you're just re-describing the problem with different words.
I’d find “these out outliers, we shouldn’t read too much into them” more persuasive if we hadn’t *just* gone through a cycle of rewarding/praising Nuzzi.
November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
When the "outliers" are the most famous and celebrated people in the industry, and the "good ones" are all the nameless/faceless people who everyone acknowledges have less power and are valued less, then you're just re-describing the problem with different words.
It’s not too late www.salon.com/2025/11/26/s...
Skip the turkey. Host a Sides-giving - Salon.com
Skip the worst part of the holiday and focus on what everyone is really there for: the sides
www.salon.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It’s not too late www.salon.com/2025/11/26/s...
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Hey, Gen Xers — wanna relive your college days?
Here's the long-out-of-print soundtrack album for UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991), in hi-fi FLAC format, complete with CD liner notes, to send you into a Proustian reverie:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pfhf7...
Rock on, babysitters!!
Here's the long-out-of-print soundtrack album for UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991), in hi-fi FLAC format, complete with CD liner notes, to send you into a Proustian reverie:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pfhf7...
Rock on, babysitters!!
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Hey, Gen Xers — wanna relive your college days?
Here's the long-out-of-print soundtrack album for UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991), in hi-fi FLAC format, complete with CD liner notes, to send you into a Proustian reverie:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pfhf7...
Rock on, babysitters!!
Here's the long-out-of-print soundtrack album for UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991), in hi-fi FLAC format, complete with CD liner notes, to send you into a Proustian reverie:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/pfhf7...
Rock on, babysitters!!
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The only appropriate Nuzzi/Lizza movie is a musical, in case you haven’t already realized it.
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
The only appropriate Nuzzi/Lizza movie is a musical, in case you haven’t already realized it.
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i won’t be able to sleep a wink tonight because i’m so excited to see my favorite macy’s parade float
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
i won’t be able to sleep a wink tonight because i’m so excited to see my favorite macy’s parade float
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I pray that I never become so self-absorbed that I give thousands of children pertussis
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I pray that I never become so self-absorbed that I give thousands of children pertussis
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worst forest/trees problem in generations is that a canto is A SECTION OF A LONG POEM. THAT'S IT. YOU DIDN'T WRITE A CANTO BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THE WORD LOOKED COOL ON YOUR MEMOIR. CANTOS ARE POEMS. THAT LANGUAGE IS DYNAMIC DOES NOT MAKE YOUR SLAMBOOK A CANTO AMERICAN OR OTHERWISE
November 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
worst forest/trees problem in generations is that a canto is A SECTION OF A LONG POEM. THAT'S IT. YOU DIDN'T WRITE A CANTO BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT THE WORD LOOKED COOL ON YOUR MEMOIR. CANTOS ARE POEMS. THAT LANGUAGE IS DYNAMIC DOES NOT MAKE YOUR SLAMBOOK A CANTO AMERICAN OR OTHERWISE
I sacrificed part of a fingertip to the butternut squash gods one Thanksgiving, wear those scars with pride
Happy "slicing off the tip of your finger and a portion of your nail" eve, to all those who celebrate! Found our mandolin and set it out for tomorrow.
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I sacrificed part of a fingertip to the butternut squash gods one Thanksgiving, wear those scars with pride
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Happy "slicing off the tip of your finger and a portion of your nail" eve, to all those who celebrate! Found our mandolin and set it out for tomorrow.
November 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Happy "slicing off the tip of your finger and a portion of your nail" eve, to all those who celebrate! Found our mandolin and set it out for tomorrow.
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Happy Noam Chomsky Day to all who celebrate
One year at a bar the night before thanksgiving a stranger leaned over to ask me the name of the guy who was both a linguist & an activist & I blanked for a minute & then leaned over & shouted NOAM CHOMSKY, & he shouted back NOAM CHOMSKY & soon we had the whole bar chanting NOAM CHOMSKY NOAM CHOMSKY
Small town and suburban bars the week of thanksgiving have the most insane vibes—adults at home visiting parents and already going insane and sneaking out at night to drink. Weird and terrifying kinships form
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Happy Noam Chomsky Day to all who celebrate
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You never hear about the pilgrims anymore, T. It's because they sailed with Columbus.
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
You never hear about the pilgrims anymore, T. It's because they sailed with Columbus.
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Withnail and I is a Thanksgiving movie, I’ve decided. It’s cold and rainy but clearly not the dead of winter, they go to a relative’s house, they have an unwanted visitor, they cook a bird…
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Withnail and I is a Thanksgiving movie, I’ve decided. It’s cold and rainy but clearly not the dead of winter, they go to a relative’s house, they have an unwanted visitor, they cook a bird…
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THATS RIGHT PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS
@lollardfish.bsky.social said we should promote our books so I’m just doing what I’m told. @wwph.bsky.social #professorsky #academicsky #gunviolence
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Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir
An American Educator's Memoir
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November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
THATS RIGHT PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS
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Hey! My book is now on sale everywhere (you’ll probably have better luck getting it online than from bookstores, alas), but come buy a signed copy at one of the following events! Thread:
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Hey! My book is now on sale everywhere (you’ll probably have better luck getting it online than from bookstores, alas), but come buy a signed copy at one of the following events! Thread: