Jeff Esterholm
@jesterholm.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Up North Sconnie.
The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories (Cornerstone Press/UW-Stevens Point, 2023)
Tollund Man: Stories (Cornerstone Press) is scheduled for October, 2026.
The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories (Cornerstone Press/UW-Stevens Point, 2023)
Tollund Man: Stories (Cornerstone Press) is scheduled for October, 2026.
Pinned
Sure, it took me a few years. But I got it done. (This previously appeared on some other social cotillion dance floor, but now it’s here. 👏🏻 )
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WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN: In this gritty collection of crime stories, Derringer Award-winning author @cwblackwell.bsky.social mourns an America lost to the shadows, exploring a broken economic system that has given rise to rampant inequality, violence, and darkness. Available now: bit.ly/4runwWU
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN: In this gritty collection of crime stories, Derringer Award-winning author @cwblackwell.bsky.social mourns an America lost to the shadows, exploring a broken economic system that has given rise to rampant inequality, violence, and darkness. Available now: bit.ly/4runwWU
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DOJ took Leslie Nielsen pretty seriously.
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
DOJ took Leslie Nielsen pretty seriously.
Avoiding the felon-in-chief’s bs last night, we discovered A Ghost Story for Christmas, BBC dramatizations of M.R. James horror stories. Pretty damn good.
December 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Avoiding the felon-in-chief’s bs last night, we discovered A Ghost Story for Christmas, BBC dramatizations of M.R. James horror stories. Pretty damn good.
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This Kennedy Center shit is unacceptable, and whichever Democrats running for president swear to undo it (presuming it goes through, and I presume it will), plus immediately tear down the ballroom, go to the top of my list.
(Plus promising to seek prosecution for the entire administration.)
(Plus promising to seek prosecution for the entire administration.)
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This Kennedy Center shit is unacceptable, and whichever Democrats running for president swear to undo it (presuming it goes through, and I presume it will), plus immediately tear down the ballroom, go to the top of my list.
(Plus promising to seek prosecution for the entire administration.)
(Plus promising to seek prosecution for the entire administration.)
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ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5
December 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
ALA, @bookriot.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @flfreedomread.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social all track different aspects of the movement - no matter how you look at it, book bans are sweeping across the country. Don't miss our joint report: https://bit.ly/4qkTZh5
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Touchy, worm-addled RFK, Jr.
Doing his bit for the felon-in-chief.
Doing his bit for the felon-in-chief.
December 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Touchy, worm-addled RFK, Jr.
Doing his bit for the felon-in-chief.
Doing his bit for the felon-in-chief.
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A new George Harrison video for a classic song, a favorite of mine, and just the positivity we need in these troublsome times.
#GeorgeHarrison
youtu.be/P0d_P11B6Tg
#GeorgeHarrison
youtu.be/P0d_P11B6Tg
George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) [Official Video]
YouTube video by George Harrison
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December 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A new George Harrison video for a classic song, a favorite of mine, and just the positivity we need in these troublsome times.
#GeorgeHarrison
youtu.be/P0d_P11B6Tg
#GeorgeHarrison
youtu.be/P0d_P11B6Tg
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Special committee created to investigate Wisconsin DOJ for no particular reason
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Special committee created to investigate Wisconsin DOJ
MADISON, Wis. -- A special committee will investigate the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu announced Monday.
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December 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Special committee created to investigate Wisconsin DOJ for no particular reason
www.news8000.com/new... #wipolitics
www.news8000.com/new... #wipolitics
“I said this is Stephen Graham Jones' masterpiece because the prose is gorgeous and the plot is complex, engaging, and multilayered, but we have seen these elements from him before. Maybe I should say this is the novel in which Jones does all the things he does but even better than before.”
🔥 Yes 🔥
🔥 Yes 🔥
Going through my favorite reads this year, so revisiting @gabino.bsky.social's insightful review of @sgj.bsky.social's epic Buffalo Hunter Hunter. Appreciate both writers and what they have to say a great deal. #Booksky
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'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' is Stephen Graham Jones' horror masterpiece
The prose is gorgeous and the plot is complex. The author of The Only Good Indians returns again with a spellbinding yarn about one of the bloodiest, most significant parts of the nation's history.
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December 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“I said this is Stephen Graham Jones' masterpiece because the prose is gorgeous and the plot is complex, engaging, and multilayered, but we have seen these elements from him before. Maybe I should say this is the novel in which Jones does all the things he does but even better than before.”
🔥 Yes 🔥
🔥 Yes 🔥
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"How innocently life ate the days" — John Updike, "Couples"
December 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"How innocently life ate the days" — John Updike, "Couples"
It’s Thomas McGuane’s birthday. In celebration, epigraphs from some of his books
December 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It’s Thomas McGuane’s birthday. In celebration, epigraphs from some of his books
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I was asked yesterday if I thought that English might benefit from a governing academy, like French, and noted that a language that, to date, supports dreamed and dreamt, dove and dived, and pleaded and pled, is not a language you can govern.
(And I wouldn't want to.)
(And I wouldn't want to.)
December 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I was asked yesterday if I thought that English might benefit from a governing academy, like French, and noted that a language that, to date, supports dreamed and dreamt, dove and dived, and pleaded and pled, is not a language you can govern.
(And I wouldn't want to.)
(And I wouldn't want to.)
Holiday movies in the house. And Rondo Hatton as The Creeper?
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
December 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Holiday movies in the house. And Rondo Hatton as The Creeper?
Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
“These stories trawl the meaning of life, of death and birth, asking who we were and what we are. They’re about justice and superstition and sorrow, about crawling back from – and towards – the abyss.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting
This collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequality
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December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“These stories trawl the meaning of life, of death and birth, asking who we were and what we are. They’re about justice and superstition and sorrow, about crawling back from – and towards – the abyss.”
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
The latest BS from the BS Administration.
December 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The latest BS from the BS Administration.
Harry S. Truman was right.
And someone should let the current Oval Office occupant know that the buck stops with him too.
And someone should let the current Oval Office occupant know that the buck stops with him too.
December 9, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Harry S. Truman was right.
And someone should let the current Oval Office occupant know that the buck stops with him too.
And someone should let the current Oval Office occupant know that the buck stops with him too.
Great reading news for 2026. 👏🏻👏🏻
April brought a first for CJ: a double-authored piece of detective noir brilliance. @meproctor.bsky.social & @russellthayer10.bsky.social brought the goods with BOP CITY SWING. (Psst! BCS's Tom and Vivian will be back in 2026 in KANSAS CITY BREAKDOWN.)
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/bop-city-swi...
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Bop City Swing
Bop City Swing by M.E. Proctor & Russell Thayer Order here! San Francisco. 1951. Jazz is alive. On radios and turntables. In the electrifying Fillmore clubs, where hepcats bring their bebop...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Great reading news for 2026. 👏🏻👏🏻
‘Fluorescent light through Today’s Special, a vivid green centerpiece the size and shape of a human brain, molded in lime Jell-O, versions of which have actually been observed to glow.’
Thomas Pynchon,
SHADOW TICKET
#SundaySentence 1
Thomas Pynchon,
SHADOW TICKET
#SundaySentence 1
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
‘Fluorescent light through Today’s Special, a vivid green centerpiece the size and shape of a human brain, molded in lime Jell-O, versions of which have actually been observed to glow.’
Thomas Pynchon,
SHADOW TICKET
#SundaySentence 1
Thomas Pynchon,
SHADOW TICKET
#SundaySentence 1
The birthday girl needed a project. This one didn’t take too long.
December 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The birthday girl needed a project. This one didn’t take too long.