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Paul J. Garth @pauljgarth.bsky.social · 1h

I've been talking to a lot of people the last few days, and, in case there's any doubt, I want to be clear: What Down and Out Books is doing is goddamn shameful, and staining an otherwise really incredible legacy.

Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 5h

Question: if your publisher sends out an email stating no more payments will be issued to their authors, do you think they’ve already spent the money they owe them or they’re just keeping it for themselves? Yes, this is about Down and Out Books.

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 1h

Mark your calendars! On Nov 14 @ noon PST, I'm interviewing my friend, the brilliant @sheilakathleen.bsky.social virtually about her new book on @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN on behalf of Scottsdale's @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social. You can tune in via FB/YT: calendar.time.ly/9plshfqx/pos...

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 1d

When the bell tolls, it tolls for thee at That Noise at 2 AM, where we’re talking to @curtisippolito.bsky.social about his climate change anthology, ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER.

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 9d

Nothing good comes from hanging out with right-wing Germans. Absolutely nothing.

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Top AfD politician makes surprise visit to White House

Vice President JD Vance has spoken out against the far-right AfD’s political exclusion in Germany.

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 11d

What does it mean to you to be a Southerner?
Someone asked me that today in an interview

To me being a Southerner is the center of my identity as a black man, as a human , as a writer.
This place of blood and toil, of pain and passion, of joy and agony. Of hatred and hope
This place that -

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 15d

For the morning crowd.

Bill Chambers @flmfrkcentral.bsky.social · 16d

FFC #Telluride25 review: FRANKENSTEIN, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...

Telluride '25: Frankenstein - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

****/****starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltzscreenplay by Guillermo del Toro, based on the book Frankenstein; or: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelleydirected by Guillermo d...

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 12d

Go see it this weekend, the biggest screen you can find. Here's a movie that can express and amplify all your rage, frustration, alarm, fatigue...and most of all your need for hope.

A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)

¡viva la revolución! once in a great while a movie meets its moment and the collision is explosive, exhilarating, incendiary. a film for our times and maybe a better one than we deserve.

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 16d

Listen, if you’re getting raptured this week, we’d appreciate it if you set the contents of your liquor cabinets outside now and left your car unlocked and the keys on the dashboard. This will save time for all of us left behind. Thanks!

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Curtis Ippolito @curtisippolito.bsky.social · 16d

This was a cool exercise—writing about which books share DNA with “On Fire and Under Water.” Grateful to the @wirobooks.bsky.social for inviting and hosting me.

With mentions of work from John Woods, Ivy Pochoda, @jordanharper.bsky.social, and Delfina Cuuero.

Bedtime Stories: September 2025 | Washington Independent Review of Books

The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.

www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 17d

Literally more shit to deal with.

NPR @npr.org · 17d

Water treatment workers are grappling with how to protect against a new threat: hackers burrowing into the system and wreaking havoc.

Flushable wipes and Iran: Water treatment facility adds cyberattacks to worry list

Water treatment workers are grappling with how to protect against a new threat: hackers burrowing into the system and wreaking havoc.

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 17d

What movie do you consider perfect?

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 17d

So mad I didn't get to meet @nicholasmeyer.bsky.social at New Orleans. I had my TIME AFTER TIME Blu-ray ready for him to sign.

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 17d

When I was wearing dark suits all of the time and talking talking about aliens, I got told I was too far into my X-Files cosplay. These dip shit however, get to completely exist in their fantasy world.

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 17d

Southern Baptist Church in Eastern Kentucky right here. This stuff broke me. I was 10 years old, looking for signs of the apocalypse.

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 17d

I'm off the internet for four hours and suddenly everyone's talking the rapture is Tuesday when we all know it happened on January 12, 1981 as the second single from the "Autoamerican" album.

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 19d

Quality content.

Jedidiah Ayres @maybejed.bsky.social · 23d

Black/Hunter - a thread of preparation and anticipation for Shane Black's PLAY DIRTY

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks to Craig Francis Coates at Cold Caller for letting me ramble about writing and my story “Road to Nowhere,” in this year’s Best American Mystery and Suspense.

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BAMS '25: Meet James D. F. Hannah

Part 2 of the 'Best American' Interview Series

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404 Media @404media.co · 22d

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social · 23d

Still time to sign up for my VIRTUAL short story, query writing and beginnings workshops! Classes start this week, so get those registrations in! writerscircleworkshops.jumbula.com/fall-2025-ad...

The Writers Circle

At the Writers Circle, we believe in the uniqueness of each writer's voice. Our workshops nurture that pure, honest self-expression in each of our students. We welcome the most reluctant child, the...

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 21d

I’m not saying “Kathleen” by Josh Ritter is the greatest love song of all time.

What I am saying is, there haven’t been any better ones.

Josh Ritter: "Kathleen" Video/Montage

YouTube video by Josh Ritter

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 23d

For Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month, I put together a @bookshop.org list of my favorite mystery books by Latine authors, including @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social @gabino.bsky.social @nodarse.bsky.social @latinasleuths.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social. bookshop.org/lists/must-r... @crimewoc.bsky.social

Must-Read Latine Crime Novels

I spotlight some of my favorite mystery/thriller/crime novels written by Latine authors - just in time for Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month!

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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 23d

Not that anyone asked, but here's my definitive list of the 10 greatest rock songs about heroin*.

*The list was limited to one song by the Velvet Underground, a band whose entire catalog seems like an ode to the drug.

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 24d

One of the many things I love about Jordan’s intensely powerful and almost violently prophetic crime fiction is that, with each new book, I’m convinced THIS ONE is his masterpiece. Then he goes and outdoes it with the next one.

(That said, A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE is indeed that, and drops April 28).

Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social · 25d

In preparation for my new novel A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE dropping this April, I'm starting this thread to catalog my work:

Cover for my upcoming novel A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE

Cover for my novel THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA

The cover for my Edgar-winning novel SHE RIDES SHOTGUN

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24d

"You are being musically mean to me and it's hurting my feelings so I am going to call the police department that we are supposed to be supporting to report a feels violation."

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24d

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 24d

This is a country song about how people in appalachia should have empathy for black people. Its by Tyler Childers

Tyler Childers - Long Violent History (Official Audio)

YouTube video by TylerChildersVEVO

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