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Alan Drew

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Author of the novels THE RECRUIT, SHADOW MAN, and GARDENS OF WATER. Director of Villanova Program in Creative Writing, Villanova Lit Fest, native Southern Californian loving Philly. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/78292/alan-drew/

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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · 7d

Hey poets and teachers out there! Villanova is hiring for a tenure-track assistant prof position. Great school and a wonderful English Department. Check it out below.

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Assistant Professor of Poetry (Creative Writing)

The Department of English at Villanova University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in poetry. The appointment will begin in Fal...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8d

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · 8d

My father was 82nd Airborne, retired as a Colonel in the California National Guard. I can't imagine what he's feeling listening to Hegseth and our dear leader.

Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Aug 27

America: the country where we devour our children.

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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Aug 21

I grew up in a home with people who took many of their marital and parenting cues from Focus on the Family. I'm pretty sure that's a significant reason why I became a writer.

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James Dobson, Influential Leader of the Religious Right, Dies at 89

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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Jul 11

Well, Brooks really doesn't want to write about novelists here. And what limited reading he must be doing. (Though I'm with him on Colleen Hoover.) Also, it's funny how Iowa has become the bogeyman for soft thinking about the state of American literature.

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Opinion | When Novels Mattered

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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Jul 1

What the Trump admin understands is that the Republicans on Capitol Hill are cowards.

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · Jun 10

Word.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Jun 8

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 8

Yeah, but our weak and pathetic mainstream media won’t do that.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 8

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Jun 8

Digging this new Purelink. Ambient isn't the right word for it. Headphones in, volume up. Beautifully layered music.

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Faith

Purelink · Album · 2025 · 6 songs

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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · May 31

Most exciting new music I’ve heard in a while. The songs feel on the edge of falling apart, an emotional breakdown catharsis.

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Total euphoria

caroline · caroline 2 · Song · 2025

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · May 30

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

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There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · May 20

Taken four months off from writing, to focus on teaching. Enjoyed work, slept well, felt refreshed. Semester's over, diving back into a messy novel, so cue nightmares of plane crashes, of fish hooks stabbing hands, of faceless monsters tugging at ankles, pulling me into darkness. Here we go...

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Susan Bernofsky @translationista.bsky.social · May 6

The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.

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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Apr 23

Hey, Philly people! Come on out for a night with Paul Lisicky. It's free and open to the public. Hope to see you there.

Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Apr 9

Look at me, look at me, look at me, I'm tough, look at me, look at me, look at me, I'm a winner, look at me, look at me., look at me...

Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Apr 9

Had a fantastic night hanging out with the great Victoria Chang at the Villanova Literary Festival. What a reading! And what good company.

Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · Apr 9

I had such a lovely visit to Villanova and their Literary Festival. @alanauthordrew.bsky.social @tseringdhompa and @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social

Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thanks so much for coming out!

Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Apr 9

It feels a little like this these days.

Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Apr 5

Poet Victoria Chang will be reading this Tuesday night at Villanova. Philly people, come on out!

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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Apr 1

So this is what we are.

"The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return."

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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison

The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

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Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Mar 25

Two weeks from today! Philly people, come on out. The reading is free and open to the public.

Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Mar 24

Thou doth protest too much.

Alan Drew @alanauthordrew.bsky.social · Feb 28

Unless the the Republicans grow spines, the world is soon going to be a very different place.