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If you're serious about doing a house purge - and I am - then who do you want to be at the end of it? It's a serious question but also not, since it's so self-centred in such a harsh world.
Anyway, I wrote about it. Not entirely seriously.
lesleykrueger.substack.com/p/who-do-you...
Anyway, I wrote about it. Not entirely seriously.
lesleykrueger.substack.com/p/who-do-you...
Who do you want to be after a house purge?
Recycling is easy. Defining your new self, not so much
lesleykrueger.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If you're serious about doing a house purge - and I am - then who do you want to be at the end of it? It's a serious question but also not, since it's so self-centred in such a harsh world.
Anyway, I wrote about it. Not entirely seriously.
lesleykrueger.substack.com/p/who-do-you...
Anyway, I wrote about it. Not entirely seriously.
lesleykrueger.substack.com/p/who-do-you...
A note I wrote went viral--a brief piece about my husband's neurosurgery. American readers jumped on the fact the bill in Canada was precisely $0.00
So what do you do when something you write goes viral?
Being a writer, I wrote about it. It’s up today on the wonderful Jane Friedman's site.
So what do you do when something you write goes viral?
Being a writer, I wrote about it. It’s up today on the wonderful Jane Friedman's site.
Why I Won’t Chase the Post That Went Viral | Jane Friedman
After writing a viral post—about a topic she’s disinclined to dwell on—an author reflects on the worth of chasing that virality again.
janefriedman.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A note I wrote went viral--a brief piece about my husband's neurosurgery. American readers jumped on the fact the bill in Canada was precisely $0.00
So what do you do when something you write goes viral?
Being a writer, I wrote about it. It’s up today on the wonderful Jane Friedman's site.
So what do you do when something you write goes viral?
Being a writer, I wrote about it. It’s up today on the wonderful Jane Friedman's site.
I enjoyed writing this newsletter about trying to figure out how to pace myself these days, looking back to when I seemed to have more time, even though I was living my life at a run. Isaac Asimov comes into it. Just saying. lesleykrueger.substack.com/p/the-infini...
The Infinite Pile of New Yorkers
Or, I need to figure out how to pace myself
lesleykrueger.substack.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I enjoyed writing this newsletter about trying to figure out how to pace myself these days, looking back to when I seemed to have more time, even though I was living my life at a run. Isaac Asimov comes into it. Just saying. lesleykrueger.substack.com/p/the-infini...
Part three, my genocide series. Omar El Akkad's book One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This centres on Gaza. What's going on there is awful. But is he right in writing that voting for Kamala Harris was worse than voting for Trump? lesleykrueger.substack.com/p/omar-el-ak...
Omar El Akkad's cry of anguish
His new book has a perfect title: One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. He means Gaza. How right is he?
lesleykrueger.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Part three, my genocide series. Omar El Akkad's book One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This centres on Gaza. What's going on there is awful. But is he right in writing that voting for Kamala Harris was worse than voting for Trump? lesleykrueger.substack.com/p/omar-el-ak...
I went searching for an old high school friend and found a wonderful documentary. My friend Derek Wilson was an artist and a hereditary chief of the Haisla nation in northwestern B.C. He helped bring a totem pole back from Europe--the first repatriation of a historic pole. Here's what I wrote.
A old friend, a historic totem and its journey home
Artist Derek Wilson helped carve a new totem, helping to bring a stolen pole back to the Haisla people
lesleykrueger.substack.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I went searching for an old high school friend and found a wonderful documentary. My friend Derek Wilson was an artist and a hereditary chief of the Haisla nation in northwestern B.C. He helped bring a totem pole back from Europe--the first repatriation of a historic pole. Here's what I wrote.
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meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology
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This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever read.
April 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is the dumbest shit I’ve ever read.
I recently attended a seminar that included a discussion of AI and the future of publishing. One New York editor, a guy from Penguin, predicted AI will replace ghostwriters in non-fiction.
And fiction? Going to another talk by Samantha Harvey might give us some hope.
And fiction? Going to another talk by Samantha Harvey might give us some hope.
The use of AI in writing vs. Samantha Harvey's Booker-winning approach
An editor calls AI the future of non-fiction. Then there's the question of literary novels.
lesleykrueger.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I recently attended a seminar that included a discussion of AI and the future of publishing. One New York editor, a guy from Penguin, predicted AI will replace ghostwriters in non-fiction.
And fiction? Going to another talk by Samantha Harvey might give us some hope.
And fiction? Going to another talk by Samantha Harvey might give us some hope.
I decided to write about really screwing up -- doing a terrible job when I was interviewed. Also how I thought, Maybe that's something I can harvest for my new novel.
An ancient trope: learning from your mistakes. I'm not sure how well that works in real life. But maybe you have other examples?
An ancient trope: learning from your mistakes. I'm not sure how well that works in real life. But maybe you have other examples?
How to spin gold from dross
By which I mean from ourselves
lesleykrueger.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I decided to write about really screwing up -- doing a terrible job when I was interviewed. Also how I thought, Maybe that's something I can harvest for my new novel.
An ancient trope: learning from your mistakes. I'm not sure how well that works in real life. But maybe you have other examples?
An ancient trope: learning from your mistakes. I'm not sure how well that works in real life. But maybe you have other examples?
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Witkoff was a fool for joining that chat from Moscow. But the entire charlatan national security team also chose to put him on that chat when they knew (or should have known) that he was in Moscow. A spy novel based on this level of cretinous behavior would be unbelievable.
If they’re sharing highly classified military plans over Signal while some of the folks on the thread are overseas, what *else* are they doing?
March 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Witkoff was a fool for joining that chat from Moscow. But the entire charlatan national security team also chose to put him on that chat when they knew (or should have known) that he was in Moscow. A spy novel based on this level of cretinous behavior would be unbelievable.
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Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Some #Measles Patients More Ill. After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection, by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h... via @nytimes.com
For Some Measles Patients, Vitamin A Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Them More Ill
After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Some #Measles Patients More Ill. After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection, by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h... via @nytimes.com
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Over 270 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since Israel resumed its attacks last week, according to Save the Children.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Over 270 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza since Israel resumed its attacks last week, according to Save the Children.
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
A post about editing our ideas -- when writing, but not just writing. Look before you leap?
Edit your ideas as rigorously as your prose
A writing tip about a subject that's usually ignored
lesleykrueger.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A post about editing our ideas -- when writing, but not just writing. Look before you leap?
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Amnesty International (@amnesty.org) urges new Syrian government to allow international investigation of sectarian violence, as death toll continues to rise...
today.lorientlejour.com/article/1451...
today.lorientlejour.com/article/1451...
Amnesty urges Syria to allow international investigation of violence on coast
Amnesty International on Monday urged Syria's new authorities to allow independent international investigators to look into deadly violence that broke out on the country's Mediterranean coast.
today.lorientlejour.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Amnesty International (@amnesty.org) urges new Syrian government to allow international investigation of sectarian violence, as death toll continues to rise...
today.lorientlejour.com/article/1451...
today.lorientlejour.com/article/1451...
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New Program Grants Permanent Residency to Home Care Workers via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/03...
New Program Grants Permanent Residency to Home Care Workers | The Tyee
The longer someone waits to apply for status, the more likely they are to become undocumented, advocate says.
thetyee.ca
March 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New Program Grants Permanent Residency to Home Care Workers via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/03...
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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! - "As Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job... senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko... and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelenskyy’s immediate predecessor as president"
Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents
As Washington ramps up its pressure on Zelenskyy to step aside, his rivals are talking to Trump’s team.
www.politico.eu
March 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
! - "As Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job... senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko... and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelenskyy’s immediate predecessor as president"
Samantha Harvey published her prizewinning books below the radar—until Orbital won the Booker Prize. What does this say about the way books find an audience these days? People in publishing have told me they don’t know what sells anymore. So what do we do? lesleykrueger.substack.com/p/should-wri...
Should writers stake out their lane and stay there?
A review of Samantha Harvey's two very different novels: The Western Wind and the Booker Prize-winning Orbital
lesleykrueger.substack.com
March 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Samantha Harvey published her prizewinning books below the radar—until Orbital won the Booker Prize. What does this say about the way books find an audience these days? People in publishing have told me they don’t know what sells anymore. So what do we do? lesleykrueger.substack.com/p/should-wri...
Happy Valentine's Day! I put up a freebie e-book to celebrate. www.amazon.com/dp/B09VM7KC6...
The Necessary Havoc of Love
Amazon.com: The Necessary Havoc of Love eBook : Krueger, Lesley: Books
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February 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Happy Valentine's Day! I put up a freebie e-book to celebrate. www.amazon.com/dp/B09VM7KC6...
I just re-read Michael Ondaatje's classic novel, In the Skin of a Lion, after seeing it name-checked in a pair of recent books.
It made me think about someone Ondaatje dedicates the book to, poet Sharon Stevenson, a mutual friend who died very sadly.
So what's it like to read the novel now?
It made me think about someone Ondaatje dedicates the book to, poet Sharon Stevenson, a mutual friend who died very sadly.
So what's it like to read the novel now?
Re-reading Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of the Lion
A friend asked, "Does it hold up?"
lesleykrueger.substack.com
February 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I just re-read Michael Ondaatje's classic novel, In the Skin of a Lion, after seeing it name-checked in a pair of recent books.
It made me think about someone Ondaatje dedicates the book to, poet Sharon Stevenson, a mutual friend who died very sadly.
So what's it like to read the novel now?
It made me think about someone Ondaatje dedicates the book to, poet Sharon Stevenson, a mutual friend who died very sadly.
So what's it like to read the novel now?
I'm new here, but I thought I'd experiment by posting something I wrote. I've been doing long walks, seeding copies of a couple of my backlist books in Little Free Libraries. Recently, I ended up calling 911 to try to help a strange, disheveled man. Here's the story on my Substack (which is free).
What You Get Is So Much Stranger Than What You Expect
A story about seeding Little Free Libraries with backlist books -- and making a 911 call.
lesleykrueger.substack.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:52 PM
I'm new here, but I thought I'd experiment by posting something I wrote. I've been doing long walks, seeding copies of a couple of my backlist books in Little Free Libraries. Recently, I ended up calling 911 to try to help a strange, disheveled man. Here's the story on my Substack (which is free).