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Holly Smith
@hsmithwrites.bsky.social
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Editor-in-chief, Washington Independent Review of Books. Loser-in-chief, "Jeopardy!" season 39. "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."
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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 30m
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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 50m
"Ten Tumbleweeds Roll By, Pt. II" was better!
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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 2h
10 horror movies to get to know me

Alien
The Shining
It Follows
The Witch
The Babadook
Salem's Lot
Fright Night
An American Werewolf in London
Night of the Living Dead
The Ring
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social · 2h
10 horror movies to get to know me

Lake Mungo
Evil Dead 2
Island of Lost Souls
The Thing
Alien
Re-Animator
Near Dark
One Cut of the Dead
Witchhammer
The Descent
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Lee Gardner @leegee.bsky.social · 2h
10 horror movies to get to know me

Island of Lost Souls
Cat People
I Married a Monster From Outer Space
Onibaba
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Thing
From Beyond
Pulse
A Dark Song
When Evil Lurks
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 2h
Podcast: Mark K. Updegrove. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/aut... @harperbooks.bsky.social @markupdegrove.bsky.social #booksky
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Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 4h
I'll be reading as part of the tribute to the god Percival Everett at the Writers Center next Friday, October 17.
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 6h
Percival Everett to Headline the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival in Rockville, MD! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/per... @lizaachilles.bsky.social @samuelashworth.bsky.social #booksky
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Alex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 6h
Weirdly enough, I think this works. No one is more insecure than a new ICE agent. They want to be the blonde guy in DHS’s AI Nazi posting so badly. Instead, they’ll be guarding indistinguishable suburban warehouse #16361 while inflated frogs and dinosaurs thrust in their face all day every day.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
#WarRavagedPortland
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 6h
Percival Everett to Headline the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival in Rockville, MD! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/per... @lizaachilles.bsky.social @samuelashworth.bsky.social #booksky
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 9h
A rip-roaring read about that most iconic frontier town. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/d... @aaknopf.bsky.social #booksky
Deadwood: Gold, Guns, and Greed in the American West | Washington Independent Review of Books
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Stephen R. Platt @stephenplatt.bsky.social · 23h
Saddened by the passing of John Grady, an incredibly collegial, supportive and public-minded editor and writer. It was an honor to get to know him through the Biographers International military history roundtable.
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 1d
In memory of longtime contributor John Grady, who recently passed away, we share here his final piece for the Independent, an interview with @stephenplatt.bsky.social (THE RAIDER, @aaknopf.bsky.social): www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... #booksky
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h
Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.
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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 23h
I don't even believe in God, but I'm right here beseeching the universe.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d
listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly
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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 23h
Roasted salt-and-vinegar cabbage doesn't look like much, but my inner Eastern European peasant loves it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h
Update from the war zone in Portland.
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 1d
In memory of longtime contributor John Grady, who recently passed away, we share here his final piece for the Independent, an interview with @stephenplatt.bsky.social (THE RAIDER, @aaknopf.bsky.social): www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... #booksky
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 1d
An Interview with Ren Cedar Fuller. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... @autumnhousepress.bsky.social #booksky
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Holly Smith @hsmithwrites.bsky.social · 1d
Today's "No-Pressure Reading Recommendation" to my students...
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 1d
A gym-rat professor scorns the disappointing humans around him. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/m... @catapultbooks.bsky.social #booksky
Muscle Man: A Novel | Washington Independent Review of Books
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Jenny Yacovissi @jbywrites.bsky.social · 1d
Q from @wirobooks.bsky.social: Feeling subversive this banned books week? A: You bet, & not just this week, either!
Then make it a DIY personal protest: choose your faves from the oft-banned books, read in public, & watch 'em squirm!
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Feeling Subversive? | Washington Independent Review of Books
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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 1d
mahomes sells the town on the monorail and travis muscles the city council into voting for it
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
I love them both but Travis and Patrick look like they’re running a traveling medicine show in the Great Depression
Travis Kelce, wearing a newsies hat and a shirt that seems to be pattered on a motels wallpaper, and Patrick Mahomes, wearing a red checkered vest made out of an Italian restaurants tablecloth
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d
It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 2d
Feeling subversive? In honor of Banned Books Week, tuck into one of these targeted titles! www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/fee... @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social #booksky
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Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social · 2d
"America’s Future" calls out to what we could be. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/a-c... @cabockwrites.bsky.social @wwph.bsky.social #booksky
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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 2d
"Read, read, read...rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. When asked if I’m a writer, I think sometimes I should say, ‘No, I’m a rewriter’”
David McCullough on the art of bringing #history to life. A review of History Matters in @wirobooks.bsky.social:
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History Matters | Washington Independent Review of Books
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2d
There's nothing new under the sun
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