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O'Neill of Chicago
@brianoneill.bsky.social
Books, baseball, Great Lakes. Writes reviews all over, and at South Side Sox. Big fan of rivers and such. He/him
Excited to have written about Patrick Wensink's "The Great Black Swamp" (@beltpublishing.bsky.social), a charming look at the unintended consequences reshaping the land, for Great Lakes Review.

greatlakesreview.org/the-price-of...
December 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I wrote about a nonfiction book and collection of short stories to explore the Great Lakes, time, compression, erosion, and the way our lives are shaped by things we can't control for Great Lakes Review.

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December 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Earlier, the thinnest layer of ice creeping across the lake.
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM
OK so Big Aurora isn't a total hoax, I guess.
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
It is incredible that we take it for granted that the President will abuse his power if people don't agree to satisfy his ego.
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This feels bandwaggony but Aldo is very earnest and goofy so I am going to say Toronto
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Enjoying this beautiful and mournful collection right now with a fire, wine, a storm over the lake, and a good dog.
October 19, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Haunted Ecologies, by @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social, is so incredibly good so far. I try to take comfort in the supernatural but it never lets you forget the horrors that are coming. I've also been moved to tears like three times in the first five stories.
October 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I love when rain in the distance seems like melting clouds, which is kind of what it is.
October 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
My keen sense of weather is intuiting that there is lightning to the north.
September 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
OK, but he's lying. You can say that.
September 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Imagine being this easily played and thinking you're not the mark.
August 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I get how reparations and prosecution are non-starters when you are meeting only with the aggressor on the aggressor's terms, but the abducted children should be a clear starter for any semi-neutral third party.

(from @drfarls.bsky.social)

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August 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I wrote a review of William Sites's "Sun Ra's Chicago: Afro-Futurism and the City" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) for Great Lakes Review, reflecting on how we talk about the region, and how the Midwest can be much weirder and more diverse than we think.

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August 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Eliminating jobs and sacrificing any and all privacy is a small price to pay for no longer having to undergo the effort of taking out your wallet or your phone.
July 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country

Because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country

Because of the fact that Rosie O'Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country
July 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
July 12, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Along with wonderful tributes from @brettballantini.bsky.social
@soxmom72.bsky.social, @dontizzlejones.bsky.social and @liddlektina.bsky.social, I've got a bit about the life and memories of Bobby Jenks.

www.southsidesox.com/2025/7/6/244...
July 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I don't know what I expected
June 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The amount of people we're going to have to deal with whose entire lives have revolved around Trump is staggering. It'd be hard enough if they were just ding-dongs down the block, but they are in real important positions!
June 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Really excited to have had a chance to write about ON THE GREENWICH LINE (Shady Lewis, tr Katharine Halls) for @necessaryfiction.com. A strange sad wonderful book, and more brually relevant with each dehumanizing day.

#booksky
June 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I don't know, didn't Antifa HQ mobilize pretty strongly in support of the Pro Act? I thought it was one of the key planks of their official platform!
May 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
"But they are not the fresh faces who can give the Democratic Party a sleek new look."
May 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Roger Ebert agreed.
May 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
At the game, apparently! He's the guy on the phone.
May 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM