🇨🇦 Janet Somerville
@janetsomerville.bsky.social
#Gellhorn enthusiast. Dog lover. Anti-fascist. Writer for hire.
HOW MIDSUMMER NIGHT (2024)
YOURS, FOR PROBABLY ALWAYS: MARTHA GELLHORN'S LETTERS OF LOVE & WAR (2019)
Contributor to Toronto Star #book pages.
https://janetsomervillewriter.com
HOW MIDSUMMER NIGHT (2024)
YOURS, FOR PROBABLY ALWAYS: MARTHA GELLHORN'S LETTERS OF LOVE & WAR (2019)
Contributor to Toronto Star #book pages.
https://janetsomervillewriter.com
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Yours, For Probably Always by Janet Somerville: 9780593455845 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Before email, when long distance telephone calls were difficult and expensive, people wrote letters, often several each day. Today, those letters provide an intimate and revealing look at the lives an...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
The fearless, indefatigable, singular MARTHA #GELLHORN was #BOTD in St. Louis. (b. 8 Nov 1908)
I wrote a book about her.
@prhaudio.bsky.social
Ask for it at your library or treat yourself to a copy & learn more about how timeless her words are:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/679091...
I wrote a book about her.
@prhaudio.bsky.social
Ask for it at your library or treat yourself to a copy & learn more about how timeless her words are:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/679091...
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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Be kind. Do something nice. To others and to yourself. These are difficult times. And difficult times call for empathy, humility, and community. — Happy Thanksgiving, may better days lie ahead.
November 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Be kind. Do something nice. To others and to yourself. These are difficult times. And difficult times call for empathy, humility, and community. — Happy Thanksgiving, may better days lie ahead.
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Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.
November 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.
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Al Roker: Now for the fan favorite New York police marching band.
Me: Fan favorite, Al?
13yo: Just because people are too afraid to boo doesn’t make them a fan favorite.
Me: Nice one [Dad-boy high 5]
Me: Fan favorite, Al?
13yo: Just because people are too afraid to boo doesn’t make them a fan favorite.
Me: Nice one [Dad-boy high 5]
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Al Roker: Now for the fan favorite New York police marching band.
Me: Fan favorite, Al?
13yo: Just because people are too afraid to boo doesn’t make them a fan favorite.
Me: Nice one [Dad-boy high 5]
Me: Fan favorite, Al?
13yo: Just because people are too afraid to boo doesn’t make them a fan favorite.
Me: Nice one [Dad-boy high 5]
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Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
Author tells high court her public support for group means her books could disappear from UK stores altogether
The Irish author Sally Rooney has told the high court she is highly unlikely to be able to publish new work in the UK while the ban on Palestine Action remains in effect because of her public support for the group.
On the second day of the legal challenge to Palestine Action’s proscription, the effect on Rooney, who said her books could disappear from UK stores altogether, was held up as an example of its impact on freedom of expression. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
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To prison with her; and away with him.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
To prison with her; and away with him.
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
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How Can We Hold the Criminal Trump Regime Accountable?
Donald Trump failed up again thanks to a judge throwing out his Georgia election interference case, but that doesn't mean there aren't other ways to hold him and corrupt MAGA Reeks accountable.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Donald Trump failed up again thanks to a judge throwing out his Georgia election interference case, but that doesn't mean there aren't other ways to hold him and corrupt MAGA Reeks accountable.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
How Can We Hold the Criminal Trump Regime Accountable?
Donald Trump failed up again thanks to a judge throwing out his Georgia election interference case, but that doesn't mean there aren't other ways to hold him and corrupt MAGA Reeks accountable.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Donald Trump failed up again thanks to a judge throwing out his Georgia election interference case, but that doesn't mean there aren't other ways to hold him and corrupt MAGA Reeks accountable.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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Hard to believe. Then again, this play warps time, so I have no idea what time it is at any given point.
godotbroadway.com
godotbroadway.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hard to believe. Then again, this play warps time, so I have no idea what time it is at any given point.
godotbroadway.com
godotbroadway.com
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National Guard troops don't sign up to be used as political pawns. They sign up to serve their country, not needlessly deploy to American cities to pick up garbage. These two soldiers should be alive right now and at home with their families for Thanksgiving. I'm furious.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
National Guard troops don't sign up to be used as political pawns. They sign up to serve their country, not needlessly deploy to American cities to pick up garbage. These two soldiers should be alive right now and at home with their families for Thanksgiving. I'm furious.
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King has said he intends to return the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for arts and culture he was given in 2003. Click here for the full story: https://bit.ly/48j5xtL
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
King has said he intends to return the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for arts and culture he was given in 2003. Click here for the full story: https://bit.ly/48j5xtL
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'Sea at Sunset,' was painted towards the end of James Dickson Innes' working life, and was likely to have been done at Rye in Sussex where he went to work with Frank Slade and other friends in 1913. He died from tuberculosis the following year, aged 27.
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 PM
'Sea at Sunset,' was painted towards the end of James Dickson Innes' working life, and was likely to have been done at Rye in Sussex where he went to work with Frank Slade and other friends in 1913. He died from tuberculosis the following year, aged 27.
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Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!
November 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!
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Wow. This is something.
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Wow. This is something.
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Absolutely fantastic book.
THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US made NPR's Books We Love list!
It's described as a "paradigm-shifting, immersive book" and "a trenchant exploration of how America's disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth have fueled housing insecurity for poor working families."
It's described as a "paradigm-shifting, immersive book" and "a trenchant exploration of how America's disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth have fueled housing insecurity for poor working families."
November 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Absolutely fantastic book.
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Today in Canadians are hella smart:
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Today in Canadians are hella smart:
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The US government under Trump is an epic money laundering scheme. They’re robbing the taxpayers blind for crap nobody asked for!
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The US government under Trump is an epic money laundering scheme. They’re robbing the taxpayers blind for crap nobody asked for!
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George Eliot, Novelist, Poet, Translator, #BornOnThisDay in 1819, in Nuneaton, England
“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
🎨 Frederic William Burton
“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
🎨 Frederic William Burton
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
George Eliot, Novelist, Poet, Translator, #BornOnThisDay in 1819, in Nuneaton, England
“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
🎨 Frederic William Burton
“That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
🎨 Frederic William Burton
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This is how you do flash fiction.
Landlord finally got back to me. Poltergeist guy is coming Monday.
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is how you do flash fiction.
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In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Saturday morning with #PuckAndMartha.
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Saturday morning with #PuckAndMartha.
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One thing that works well for Zohran Mamdani is that he is maybe the most relentlessly on message politician I have ever seen.
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
One thing that works well for Zohran Mamdani is that he is maybe the most relentlessly on message politician I have ever seen.
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November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
If you're looking for another way to divest from Amazon and instead support your local community, hi, nice to meet you 👋
When you buy audiobooks through us, a portion goes to your independent bookstore. It's an easy way to shop small all year long.
When you buy audiobooks through us, a portion goes to your independent bookstore. It's an easy way to shop small all year long.