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The Rap Sheet @therapsheet2006.bsky.social · 27m

The Rap Sheet's Steven Nester looks back at Lionel Davidson's witty 1960 debut thriller, "Night of Wenceslas." Readers lucky enough to find this largely Czechoslovakia-set novel on a shelf somewhere, he says, "are in for an entertaining experience." therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The Book You Have to Read:<br> “Night of Wenceslas,” by Lionel Davidson

(Editor’s note: This is the 190th installment in The Rap Sheet’s continuing series about great but forgotten books.) By Steven Nester Ni...

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Tom Bradley Jr. 📚💙 @tbradleywrites.bsky.social · 21h

“I just knew once I started writing I couldn’t stop, whether people would publish me or not.”

@meganabbott.bsky.social discusses her fascination with the forbidden, her love of "weirdos," and how she got her start

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Janet Rudolph @janetrudolph.bsky.social · 2h

Hitchcock Film Festival, #BodegaBay #Hitchcock mysteryreadersinc.blogspot.com/2025/10/annu...

ANNUAL HITCHCOCK FILM FEST: Bodega Bay, CA

11th Annual Hitchcock Film Festival, October 17 -18, 2025. Bodega Bay Grange Hall, 1370 Bodega Ave. Bodega Bay. 94923 For more information ...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 2h

Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, and John Banville’s Venetian Vespers all feature among the best reviewed books of the week.

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, John Banville, and more

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 16h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1h

Trump has begun dismissing federal workers, with furloughed staff at the Department of Health and Human Services now facing permanent layoffs. The cuts are hitting the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention especially hard.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 11h

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
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The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 9h

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 55m

There's only one way Whovians can read this headline ...

From the New York Evening World, July 28, 1920
#DoctorWho #Whovians #press #headlines

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 39m

“It’s even colder than I’d expected, a blow that knits my muscles together.” Read from Anbara Salam’s new novel, The Salvage.

The Salvage

It’s even colder than I’d expected, a blow that knits my muscles together. Pushing all my strength into kick kick kick I swim down down, concentrating only on moving. My heart is racing from the sl…

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The Rap Sheet @therapsheet2006.bsky.social · 2d

Book publisher Down & Out has shuttered its doors after 15 years in business. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/10/down...

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 2d

@shannonbowring.bsky.social considers the art of getting inside a despicable character’s head.

Beyond One-Note Nastiness: On Getting Inside the Head of a Despicable Character

I have always been fascinated by the question of whether our lives are determined by fate or by choice. In the final installment of The Dalton Novels, a trilogy about a small town in Maine, my char…

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 3d

Social media post by Josh Crowley (sp?): If I build a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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The Rap Sheet @therapsheet2006.bsky.social · 3d

Among the most interesting recent crime and thriller releases are works by Richard Osman, Ann Cleeves, Elmore Leonard, Beth Lewis, Thomas Pynchon, and Susie Dent. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/10/revu...

Revue of Reviewers: 10-7-25

Critiquing some of the most interesting recent crime, mystery, and thriller releases. Click on the individual covers to read more. ...

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 3d

"The enemy from within" is POTUS.

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Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve had the good fortune of receiving some ARCs in my day, but I have never—ever—received an advanced reader copy of a book tucked into a can of turpentine before. Chris Panatier’s DAYTIDE for the win. There’s a feather! In hardware stores March 2026. Thank you @rapturepublishing.bsky.social