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Laura Miller
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Books and culture columnist for Slate
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · 8d
Fourth squirrel down
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · 8d
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If Any Writer Is Due for a Revival, It’s One of Literature’s Most Misunderstood Novelists
Rebecca author Daphne du Maurier was dismissed as merely a “romantic” novelist.
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · Sep 8
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · Sep 1
Squirrels must die
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · Aug 18
The rare times I visit this site, people always seem to be raging at each other, but let me tell you, you don't know rage until the squirrels steal all the peaches from your tree.
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · Jul 17
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Why Is Everyone Convinced a Serial Killer Is Stalking New England?
The collapsed boundary between fiction and fact prevails among the fans of true crime too.
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · Jul 14
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How Did the Author of Space Raptor Butt Invasion Become One of Our Best Mainstream Horror Writers?
Lucky Day is weird, compelling—and very surprising, coming from the author of My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass.
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · Jul 8
Field dinner
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · May 16
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Pat McDermott @twinsetpat.bsky.social · Mar 27
A great book recommendation from @lauramille.bsky.social writing for @slate.com : Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, published 40 years ago.

Postman writes about the transformation from a print culture to a television culture.
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The One Book That Explains Our Current Era Was Written 40 Years Ago
NYT pundits and NBA writers alike can't stop recommending this four-decade-old book.
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · Mar 2
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · Feb 23
Your guide to sweater detectives slate.com/culture/2025...
Detective Shows Are Great, but One Subgenre Is the Very Best
From Mare of Easttown to Broadchurch to The Killing, these shows will hook any mystery lovers.
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · Feb 4
Why we love to imagine the end of the world: slate.com/culture/2025...
Why Humans Can’t Get Enough of the End of the World
Dorian Lynskey’s witty Everything Must Go explores the last human tale.
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · Jan 22
On Han Kang's latest: slate.com/culture/2025...
It’s Her First Novel Since Winning the Nobel Prize. It’s Despairingly Beautiful.
Listen, the snow is falling in We Do Not Part.
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Laura Miller @lauramille.bsky.social · Jan 16
My tribute to the one and only David Lynch slate.com/culture/2025...
David Lynch Was an Oracle
No one ever was, or ever will be, like him.
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