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Jeff Esterholm

@jesterholm.bsky.social

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Reader. Writer. Up North Sconnie. Available now: The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories (Cornerstone Press/UW-Stevens Point) Second short story collection with Cornerstone Press set for October, 2026.

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · Nov 7

Sure, it took me a few years. But I got it done. (This previously appeared on some other social cotillion dance floor, but now it’s here. 👏🏻 )

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you. As a longtime fan, I’m confident.

Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 18h

Good luck to you and the other residents, Michael. 🍀

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 19h

Via the Wayback Machine
Washington DC, nearly 20 years ago. Any number of retrumpican names could easily replace Bush’s.

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Michael Magras @michaelmagras.bsky.social · 19h

These @freeportmaine.bsky.social Town Councilors have the authority to pass a firearms ordinance to stop this. Most towns in our area have done so. Freeport refused, even though Council Chair Joanna Benoit wrote to me before her election that she would "advocate for a gun-free Freeport." 2/2

A list of the seven elected public officials in Freeport, Maine, who have refused to pass a firearms ordinance: Joanna Benoit, John Egan, Darrel Fournier (now an ex-councilor), Chip Lawrence, Matthew Pillsbury, Daniel Piltch, and Eric Smith.

Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for sending it, David.

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 2d

Isn’t human nature the most consummate sham and lie that was ever invented? Isn’t man a creature to be ashamed of in pretty much all his aspects? Is he really fit for anything but to be stood up on the street corner as a convenience for dogs?”
Mark Twain, in a letter to William Dean Howells

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Thomas Trang @thomastrang.bsky.social · 3d

LFG

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 3d

“Unbelievable,” Murphy said. “He’s 21 years old and doing the things he’s doing in the first couple games here, in the environment, just know that’s special. That’s special. We all wish we could have that — have that it factor the way Jack-Jack does.”

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Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Happy pub day to Pynchon!

Lemme just text him real quick and see if I can get him to come sign these…

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 3d

Prime Day is bullshit.

Buy from your locals if you can.

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 4d

Cronkite, Murrow, and other CBS greats roll in their graves, toss their heads in disgust.
Goodbye, @cbsnews.com

NPR @npr.org · 4d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Anne C. Serling @anneserling.bsky.social · 4d

rodserling.com/narrate-your...

Narrate Your Own Twilight Zone Competition 2025 - Rod Serling Memorial Foundation

rodserling.com

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, David. It’s been a good one.

Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 5d

Hotel Lobby Art of Central Wisconsin

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SJ Rozan @sjrozan.bsky.social · 9d

Hey, now that the Big Military Meeting is over, it's time to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

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Angel Luis Colón @angelluiscolon.com · 9d

Just in time for spooky season, my YA horror novel is free to read for ALL of October over at simonteen(dot)com!

#spoookyreads #spookyseason

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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social · 9d

SONGS TO WOODY-CJ anthology call y'all

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 11d

I understand that, and agree with it totally. I certainly feel it.

Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 13d

“My thesis is that landscape is more than a setting, more than a pretty backdrop for the action. Place is where we grow from, where characters grow out of; we are a product of those places and those communities. If you can’t understand them, you can’t write about them.”

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Gareth L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social · 13d

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but you shouldn't be afraid to embrace your unique creative voice. Make the art only you can make. Let your imagination run wild. Shine like a star. The world needs your brilliance.

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 14d

“…if we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.”
William Faulkner, The Paris Review interview, on Emmett Till.

Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you! I appreciate it.

Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 14d

It’s William Faulkner’s birthday! 🥳
Cheers! 🥃

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Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social · 14d

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