Daneet Steffens
@daneetsteffens.bsky.social
Books, science, more TK. Bookish words for Boston Globe, CrimeReads, LitHub, LARB, etc. Also: swimfan.
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Illustration by Moomins author, Finnish artist Tove Jansson.
#December25th #ArtAdvent 🎄 ❄️ #ChristmasDay 🤍
#December25th #ArtAdvent 🎄 ❄️ #ChristmasDay 🤍
December 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Illustration by Moomins author, Finnish artist Tove Jansson.
#December25th #ArtAdvent 🎄 ❄️ #ChristmasDay 🤍
#December25th #ArtAdvent 🎄 ❄️ #ChristmasDay 🤍
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By Guy Billout
December 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
By Guy Billout
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We just posted a piece about reading resolutions! Do you have one? Why not read what Joanna Rakoff, Adrienne Brodeur, and Andre Dubus III have to say about theirs? In the print edition of the @bostonglobe.com this Sunday, but online here and now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/a...
What’s your New Year’s reading resolution? - The Boston Globe
"As I do with most resolutions, I keep the bar on the ground," says Annie Hartnett.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We just posted a piece about reading resolutions! Do you have one? Why not read what Joanna Rakoff, Adrienne Brodeur, and Andre Dubus III have to say about theirs? In the print edition of the @bostonglobe.com this Sunday, but online here and now. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/a...
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A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
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I can’t gather all my Rob Reiner thoughts at this point in the evening, but my very first favorite grown-up movie that was My Favorite Movie, like I went around telling people for years that it was, was THE SURE THING in 1985. A very big part of the romcom switch being flipped for me.
December 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I can’t gather all my Rob Reiner thoughts at this point in the evening, but my very first favorite grown-up movie that was My Favorite Movie, like I went around telling people for years that it was, was THE SURE THING in 1985. A very big part of the romcom switch being flipped for me.
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When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
Directed by Rob Reiner
Directed by Rob Reiner
December 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
Directed by Rob Reiner
Directed by Rob Reiner
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For millions of us, this was the first time we ever saw Rob Reiner. …When he became “Meathead” on “All in the Family.”
He was brilliant from Day One.
He was brilliant from Day One.
December 15, 2025 at 5:28 AM
For millions of us, this was the first time we ever saw Rob Reiner. …When he became “Meathead” on “All in the Family.”
He was brilliant from Day One.
He was brilliant from Day One.
“This is what writing does when it means more and more and more the more you look at it. You could spend a lifetime with just one Shakespeare play and still find new things in every line.”
I wrote this, a long analysis of a single line of Shakespeare and what it’s doing. How good writing is an ethical practice. And my continuing attempts to work out what it is that I’m spotting when I look at a piece of text and go “oh that was written by AI.”
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
a single line of Shakespeare contains an ethical universe
on what we get from individual word choice, what good writing is, plus: what I put in my ChatGPT settings to make it helpful
open.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
“This is what writing does when it means more and more and more the more you look at it. You could spend a lifetime with just one Shakespeare play and still find new things in every line.”
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Congratulations to @damianbarr.bsky.social! THE TWO ROBERTS has been shortlisted for the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place
‘Crackles with creative rebellion’ Douglas Stuart
‘A vivid and moving portrait of two fine artists’ The Times
‘Crackles with creative rebellion’ Douglas Stuart
‘A vivid and moving portrait of two fine artists’ The Times
December 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Congratulations to @damianbarr.bsky.social! THE TWO ROBERTS has been shortlisted for the @stanfordstravel.bsky.social prize for Fiction with a Sense of Place
‘Crackles with creative rebellion’ Douglas Stuart
‘A vivid and moving portrait of two fine artists’ The Times
‘Crackles with creative rebellion’ Douglas Stuart
‘A vivid and moving portrait of two fine artists’ The Times
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Christmas at McSorley’s Old Ale House, 15 E. 7th St., East Village, NYC.
December 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Christmas at McSorley’s Old Ale House, 15 E. 7th St., East Village, NYC.
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You know airports can’t stop #FridayReads! Let’s share some books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing a chunk of my soul. It has monsters, too. And maybe a bit of violence…
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
December 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
You know airports can’t stop #FridayReads! Let’s share some books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing a chunk of my soul. It has monsters, too. And maybe a bit of violence…
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...
bookshop.org/p/books/hous...
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Charles E. Martin
New Yorker, December 20, 1969
New Yorker, December 20, 1969
December 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Charles E. Martin
New Yorker, December 20, 1969
New Yorker, December 20, 1969
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Bob Staake
New Yorker, December 22, 2008
New Yorker, December 22, 2008
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Bob Staake
New Yorker, December 22, 2008
New Yorker, December 22, 2008
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Doing a book cull and why is it so hard, oh right because books are my friends
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Doing a book cull and why is it so hard, oh right because books are my friends
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“The wood.”
“The wood?”
“The wood, the wood,” she repeats, like Poe trying to write a poem.
—Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet
“The wood?”
“The wood, the wood,” she repeats, like Poe trying to write a poem.
—Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“The wood.”
“The wood?”
“The wood, the wood,” she repeats, like Poe trying to write a poem.
—Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet
“The wood?”
“The wood, the wood,” she repeats, like Poe trying to write a poem.
—Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet
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Thankful for all of you who do the thing and bring real art into the world.
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Thankful for all of you who do the thing and bring real art into the world.
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“Starlings in vast flights drove along like smoke, mist ... some moments glimmering and shivering, dim and shadowy, now thickening, deepening, blackening.”
- S.T. Coleridge (1799)
This quote is from this blog page that calls starlings “the bird with the stars in its feathers.”
- S.T. Coleridge (1799)
This quote is from this blog page that calls starlings “the bird with the stars in its feathers.”
The bird with the stars in its feathers | The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire Manchester and North Merseyside
Our volunteer, David Merry, has a special place in his heart for starlings. Read all about why he thinks these beautiful birds need more recognition.
www.lancswt.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 AM
“Starlings in vast flights drove along like smoke, mist ... some moments glimmering and shivering, dim and shadowy, now thickening, deepening, blackening.”
- S.T. Coleridge (1799)
This quote is from this blog page that calls starlings “the bird with the stars in its feathers.”
- S.T. Coleridge (1799)
This quote is from this blog page that calls starlings “the bird with the stars in its feathers.”
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Always read Celeste.
Happy Thanksgiving. I wrote this piece 6 years ago but I think it's just as relevant today. www.bonappetit.com/story/celest...
www.bonappetit.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Always read Celeste.
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My absolutely favorite artwork for today, capturing the holiday more poignantly than any other: Alice Neel, Thanksgiving, 1965
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
My absolutely favorite artwork for today, capturing the holiday more poignantly than any other: Alice Neel, Thanksgiving, 1965
“Keep on making your work.” ❤️🙌❤️🙌❤️🙌❤️🙌❤️🙌❤️
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
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going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“Keep on making your work.” ❤️🙌❤️🙌❤️🙌❤️🙌❤️🙌❤️
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So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
November 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
So I'm editing the Edinburgh Edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Relatedly, if you're in the UK and you or your library possess the deluxe large paper British edition (1912 or 1914 versions), please let me know. It's the version with Iguanodon footprints on the cover.
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Cartoon by Ellis.
Donna Donna>The Original Church of Sarcasm H2O
Donna Donna>The Original Church of Sarcasm H2O
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Cartoon by Ellis.
Donna Donna>The Original Church of Sarcasm H2O
Donna Donna>The Original Church of Sarcasm H2O