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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 2d

The start of my poem for my brother in the latest @southernreview.bsky.social — very grateful to editor Jessica Faust 🙏🏻

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 2d

New work from Acre #poet @bydanobrien.bsky.social in @southernreview.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 2d

The start of my poem for my brother in the latest @southernreview.bsky.social — very grateful to editor Jessica Faust 🙏🏻

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 2d

The start of my poem for my brother in the latest @southernreview.bsky.social — very grateful to editor Jessica Faust 🙏🏻

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s the start of a longer poem of mine in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, a journal I love — very grateful to poetry editor @andrewdavidking.bsky.social and editor @ovillalon.bsky.social 🙏🏻 www.zyzzyva.org/2025/09/10/i...

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 4d

Here’s the start of a longer poem of mine in the new issue of @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social, a journal I love — very grateful to poetry editor @andrewdavidking.bsky.social and editor @ovillalon.bsky.social 🙏🏻 www.zyzzyva.org/2025/09/10/i...

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Lee Spracklen @leespracklen.bsky.social · 4d

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

Robert Capa’s iconic Spanish Civil War photo: A mystery that endures 90 years later

The Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid is hosting the largest retrospective in Spain of the photographer’s work, with 250 pieces, including images, publications, and objects on war and life

english.elpais.com

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 6d

Likewise, Caridad! Looking forward to reading your newest

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Caridad Svich @csvich.bsky.social · 6d

@bydanobrien.bsky.social sent me a new play. a good day. ❤️

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 8d

An encore of my essay about my brother in Esquire Singapore today . . . esquiresg.com/family-suici...

The Story Behind My Brother's Suicide Note

The story behind my brother's suicide note: Could my brother have made it any more obvious that he needed our help?

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 9d

Not sure — she’s still writing it!

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks Ro!

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 9d

Well she’s written her own sketch shows, co-created and co-written TV shows, co-written an audio book, co-written screenplays and more than a few TV pilots along the way . . . but, drumroll please, this is my wife’s first proper book and it sold at auction in the spring ✨

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Sewanee Writers' Conference @sewaneewriters.bsky.social · 12d

Come live and write with us in Sewanee! The Department of English & Creative Writing's is seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Poetry position! Apply by Nov. 3.

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 13d

If you're nearby . . . I'll be reading from a new play www.uab.edu/news/arts-ev...

Attend a free lecture by renowned playwright, poet Dan O’Brien at UAB on Oct. 8

www.uab.edu

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 14d

Our Fall Issue is here! Explore new stories, essays, poems, conversation, and art from a dazzling breadth of interests and styles.

Read Issue 130 (or subscribe) at zyzzyva.org

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 14d

The moment demanded something expert and eloquent. Jimmy Kimmel met it, and then some [gift link]

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Jimmy Kimmel Rose to the Occasion

www.nytimes.com

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ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · 18d

Join us Monday to celebrate our new Issue 130! We’ll be @citylightsbooks.bsky.social with pizza, wine, and a reading from Issue 130 contributor @keenanthewriter.bsky.social

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 20d

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 20d

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue

deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Once Again Aims To Help Working Actors Get Health Insurance With New Casting Notice

Jimmy Kimmel wants to help actors get health insurance with a new casting notice for his talk show

deadline.com

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Russ Frankenstein (no relation) @russ41.bsky.social · 20d

I'd been wondering how things were going with Patrick; glad to hear he's doing well.

Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · Jul 11

An uplifting update about the writer Patrick Fealey, who has a home after 13 months without. Thanks to Ed Fitzpatrick for including a few words from me on the play I’m writing about Patrick’s experience of homelessness.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/11/m...