S. Kirk Walsh
@skirkwalsh.bsky.social
lost between the social spaces.
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Omar El Akkad's One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is hands down the book of the year.
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2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction
The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
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September 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Omar El Akkad's One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is hands down the book of the year.
www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...
www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...
I wrote this remembrance of legendary Texas birder Victor Emanuel for @texasmonthly.bsky.social. www.texasmonthly.com/travel/birdi...
The First Birding Season Without the Birdman of Texas
The renowned Victor Emanuel, who founded one of the first ecotourism companies almost fifty years ago, taught me and countless others about the ephemeral beauty of the spring migration and the wonders...
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April 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I wrote this remembrance of legendary Texas birder Victor Emanuel for @texasmonthly.bsky.social. www.texasmonthly.com/travel/birdi...
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Hey Austin, this is happening May 9! Looking forward to being in conversation with the brilliant @skirkwalsh.bsky.social about my new novel at @bookpeople.bsky.social!
Join Andrew Porter on May 9th discussing THE IMAGINED LIFE, a taut, elegiac novel about a man trying to uncover the truth about the father who left him behind...
More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...
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April 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Hey Austin, this is happening May 9! Looking forward to being in conversation with the brilliant @skirkwalsh.bsky.social about my new novel at @bookpeople.bsky.social!
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Rip Victor Emanuel 🐦
Here's a lovely 2020 piece @skirkwalsh.bsky.social wrote on the master birder at work on the Bolivar Peninsula for @texashighways.bsky.social.
texashighways.com/outdoors/wil...
Here's a lovely 2020 piece @skirkwalsh.bsky.social wrote on the master birder at work on the Bolivar Peninsula for @texashighways.bsky.social.
texashighways.com/outdoors/wil...
Why the Bolivar Peninsula is One of the Best Birding Spots in the World
Surveying the Texas Coast with renowned birder Victor Emanual
texashighways.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Rip Victor Emanuel 🐦
Here's a lovely 2020 piece @skirkwalsh.bsky.social wrote on the master birder at work on the Bolivar Peninsula for @texashighways.bsky.social.
texashighways.com/outdoors/wil...
Here's a lovely 2020 piece @skirkwalsh.bsky.social wrote on the master birder at work on the Bolivar Peninsula for @texashighways.bsky.social.
texashighways.com/outdoors/wil...
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Twitter being down is like a brief respite from cataclysmic brush fires. Suddenly the air begins to clear.
March 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Twitter being down is like a brief respite from cataclysmic brush fires. Suddenly the air begins to clear.
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The Royal Tenenbaums meets Fleabag...
Join Ashley Whitaker on April 18th discussing BITTER TEXAS HONEY, a hilarious and dizzyingly smart debut about an over-the-top evangelical Texas family!
More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...
@skirkwalsh.bsky.social
Join Ashley Whitaker on April 18th discussing BITTER TEXAS HONEY, a hilarious and dizzyingly smart debut about an over-the-top evangelical Texas family!
More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...
@skirkwalsh.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The Royal Tenenbaums meets Fleabag...
Join Ashley Whitaker on April 18th discussing BITTER TEXAS HONEY, a hilarious and dizzyingly smart debut about an over-the-top evangelical Texas family!
More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...
@skirkwalsh.bsky.social
Join Ashley Whitaker on April 18th discussing BITTER TEXAS HONEY, a hilarious and dizzyingly smart debut about an over-the-top evangelical Texas family!
More info + RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople...
@skirkwalsh.bsky.social
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One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.
February 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.
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Great news for independent bookstores. bookshop.org/ebooks
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January 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Great news for independent bookstores. bookshop.org/ebooks
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We are delighted to announce Rachel Heng as our 2025 fiction contest judge! Her novels include Suicide Club (2018) and The Great Reclamation (2023), which is the winner of the New American Voices Award and a Best Book of 2023 (TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, Amazon Books, and Kirkus Reviews).
December 16, 2024 at 6:11 PM
We are delighted to announce Rachel Heng as our 2025 fiction contest judge! Her novels include Suicide Club (2018) and The Great Reclamation (2023), which is the winner of the New American Voices Award and a Best Book of 2023 (TIME Magazine, The New Yorker, Amazon Books, and Kirkus Reviews).
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The lynchers of democracy hanging out with the lynchers of Black people, both empowered to do it again: now that is more American than the Army-Navy football game. 2/2
December 14, 2024 at 10:32 PM
The lynchers of democracy hanging out with the lynchers of Black people, both empowered to do it again: now that is more American than the Army-Navy football game. 2/2
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You choke to death a Black man named Jordan Neely. You get away with it. Days later, you watch the Army-Navy football game alongside the incoming U.S. president who got away with choking out the peaceful transfer of presidential power. 1/2
December 14, 2024 at 10:31 PM
You choke to death a Black man named Jordan Neely. You get away with it. Days later, you watch the Army-Navy football game alongside the incoming U.S. president who got away with choking out the peaceful transfer of presidential power. 1/2
Highly recommend this beautiful novel—THE LILAC PEOPLE by Milo Todd—about the experience & prosecution of trans individuals during WW2. This novel does what the very best historical does—provide a timeless account of humanity that speaks to our present moment. Pub: 4/29/25, Counterpoint Press.
December 10, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Highly recommend this beautiful novel—THE LILAC PEOPLE by Milo Todd—about the experience & prosecution of trans individuals during WW2. This novel does what the very best historical does—provide a timeless account of humanity that speaks to our present moment. Pub: 4/29/25, Counterpoint Press.
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Austin friends! This weekend! Come and see St. Stephen's production of the timeless evocative classic, OUR TOWN, directed by Mike Dolan and featuring his talented students.
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It's free! No tickets are required. (I'll be at the Friday and Saturday evening performances.) Hope to see you there!
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It's free! No tickets are required. (I'll be at the Friday and Saturday evening performances.) Hope to see you there!
November 30, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Austin friends! This weekend! Come and see St. Stephen's production of the timeless evocative classic, OUR TOWN, directed by Mike Dolan and featuring his talented students.
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It's free! No tickets are required. (I'll be at the Friday and Saturday evening performances.) Hope to see you there!
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It's free! No tickets are required. (I'll be at the Friday and Saturday evening performances.) Hope to see you there!
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Jenny Browne and I are excited to announce our inaugural Dublin/Belfast Writers' Retreat, coming this summer: August 10-17, 2025!
December 3, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Jenny Browne and I are excited to announce our inaugural Dublin/Belfast Writers' Retreat, coming this summer: August 10-17, 2025!
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The more your work is deemed successful, the louder the cries will become, the more they will fall like leaves on that path until it is hard to even see, just as your own thoughts are hard to hear in the clamor. But you must try to remember that purpose, that self, that path anyway. And do the work.
December 5, 2024 at 10:04 PM
The more your work is deemed successful, the louder the cries will become, the more they will fall like leaves on that path until it is hard to even see, just as your own thoughts are hard to hear in the clamor. But you must try to remember that purpose, that self, that path anyway. And do the work.
Jenny Browne and I are excited to announce our inaugural Dublin/Belfast Writers' Retreat, coming this summer: August 10-17, 2025!
December 3, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Jenny Browne and I are excited to announce our inaugural Dublin/Belfast Writers' Retreat, coming this summer: August 10-17, 2025!
Austin friends! This weekend! Come and see St. Stephen's production of the timeless evocative classic, OUR TOWN, directed by Mike Dolan and featuring his talented students.
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It's free! No tickets are required. (I'll be at the Friday and Saturday evening performances.) Hope to see you there!
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It's free! No tickets are required. (I'll be at the Friday and Saturday evening performances.) Hope to see you there!
November 30, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Austin friends! This weekend! Come and see St. Stephen's production of the timeless evocative classic, OUR TOWN, directed by Mike Dolan and featuring his talented students.
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It's free! No tickets are required. (I'll be at the Friday and Saturday evening performances.) Hope to see you there!
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It's free! No tickets are required. (I'll be at the Friday and Saturday evening performances.) Hope to see you there!
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Any short fiction fans out there looking for a read? Have I got the thing for you. Here’s a package I produced last year for @texashighways.bsky.social in partnership w @skirkwalsh.bsky.social. Six wicked good writers on small town Texas. Have at it.
texashighways.com/culture/smal...
texashighways.com/culture/smal...
Small Town Texas Inspires Original Works of Fiction
The emotional fragility of romantic, platonic, and familial relationships shapes the contours of these short stories
texashighways.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Any short fiction fans out there looking for a read? Have I got the thing for you. Here’s a package I produced last year for @texashighways.bsky.social in partnership w @skirkwalsh.bsky.social. Six wicked good writers on small town Texas. Have at it.
texashighways.com/culture/smal...
texashighways.com/culture/smal...
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Took my big Austin novel to my big Austin bookstore for a visit. It seemed at home! Hope you’ll consider preordering THE SLIP from @bookpeople.bsky.social or your local indie! Out 6/3/25 🥊
November 25, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Took my big Austin novel to my big Austin bookstore for a visit. It seemed at home! Hope you’ll consider preordering THE SLIP from @bookpeople.bsky.social or your local indie! Out 6/3/25 🥊
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Adrienne made the books section at Esquire the best one in the business. Heartbreaking to see her and it become a casualty of bad management.
After nearly nine years at Esquire, I’ve been laid off from my role as Books and Fiction Editor. I’m looking for a new full-time role where I can use my storytelling skills, in the book world or beyond it. If you know of anything, I’m at [email protected]. (🧵1/10)
November 25, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Adrienne made the books section at Esquire the best one in the business. Heartbreaking to see her and it become a casualty of bad management.
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SUBMERSED by Matthew Gavin Frank is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.
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Submersed by Matthew Gavin Frank: 9780593700952 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An exquisite, lyrical foray into the world of deep-sea divers, the obsession and madness that oceans inspire in us, and the story of submarine inventor Peter Madsen's murder of journalist Kim Wall—a.....
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November 22, 2024 at 2:51 AM
SUBMERSED by Matthew Gavin Frank is one of the best nonfiction books I’ve ever read.
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www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735986...
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Personal/professional news: I am now the Editor-in-Chief of @texasobserver.org. My entire journalism career has taken place here, as I've learned from all who've come and gone from this little magazine. Thank you to all the colleagues and sources who helped me along the way
November 14, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Personal/professional news: I am now the Editor-in-Chief of @texasobserver.org. My entire journalism career has taken place here, as I've learned from all who've come and gone from this little magazine. Thank you to all the colleagues and sources who helped me along the way
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Congrats to Edgar Rico of Nixta Taqueria in Austin on his appointment tonight as the MICHELIN Guide Texas 2024 Young Chef Award Winner. Check out @skirkwalsh.bsky.social’s interview with Edgar from the January 2024 issue of Texas Highways.
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Nixta Taqueria Chef Edgar Rico on the Joys of Tacos
The James Beard award winner and Austin-based chef is on a mission to spread taco culture
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November 12, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Congrats to Edgar Rico of Nixta Taqueria in Austin on his appointment tonight as the MICHELIN Guide Texas 2024 Young Chef Award Winner. Check out @skirkwalsh.bsky.social’s interview with Edgar from the January 2024 issue of Texas Highways.
texashighways.com/culture/nixt...
texashighways.com/culture/nixt...
It was an honor and a pleasure to interview George Saunders about his early years in the Texas Panhandle—and how it shaped and influenced his fiction for Texas Highways.
One of his favorite Texas authors! One guess? (Elizabeth McCracken, among others!) 🙃 texashighways.com/culture/peop...
One of his favorite Texas authors! One guess? (Elizabeth McCracken, among others!) 🙃 texashighways.com/culture/peop...
October 24, 2023 at 7:46 PM
It was an honor and a pleasure to interview George Saunders about his early years in the Texas Panhandle—and how it shaped and influenced his fiction for Texas Highways.
One of his favorite Texas authors! One guess? (Elizabeth McCracken, among others!) 🙃 texashighways.com/culture/peop...
One of his favorite Texas authors! One guess? (Elizabeth McCracken, among others!) 🙃 texashighways.com/culture/peop...
A: Who is your favorite novelist of all time?"
Tiya Miles: "Toni Morrison — for her sheer bravery, breathless wordsmithing, intellectual range and incomparable understanding of our emotional and social realms." www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/b...
Tiya Miles: "Toni Morrison — for her sheer bravery, breathless wordsmithing, intellectual range and incomparable understanding of our emotional and social realms." www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/b...
October 12, 2023 at 2:06 PM
A: Who is your favorite novelist of all time?"
Tiya Miles: "Toni Morrison — for her sheer bravery, breathless wordsmithing, intellectual range and incomparable understanding of our emotional and social realms." www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/b...
Tiya Miles: "Toni Morrison — for her sheer bravery, breathless wordsmithing, intellectual range and incomparable understanding of our emotional and social realms." www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/b...