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Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 8d

Join us at the kickoff to PEN/Faulkner's new series THE BIG IDEA with a discussion about how music can both heal mourners and capture the profoundness of grief.

Doors at 5:45. RSVP required.

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Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 8d

Friends, please share widely. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Gm...

YouTube video by Ways and Means Committee

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Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

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safe-climate @safe-climate.bsky.social · 8d

Orwellian danger!

With the media distracted by the made-for-TV drama of James Comey’s indictment, Trump signed a little-noticed national security Memorandum 7 identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as indicators of radical left violence. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

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Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 11d

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Meditations in an Emergency

Essays and analyses by Rebecca Solnit

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Three years for Three Muses

Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 12d

"This week marks the third birthday of THREE MUSES, my debut novel. It took me almost twenty years to get a novel published, so I tend to mark these occasions!"

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In community

Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 16d

So generous !

Washington Writers’ Publishing House @wwph.bsky.social · 16d

Such a terrific read of your evocative must-read, world, essay!!

Discussion and Reception: The Big Idea: How does music help us mourn? - Goethe-Institut USA

Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you for sharing. I’m really excited about this !!

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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · 16d

DUET FOR ONE ( @regalhouse.bsky.social) author and @penfaulkner.bsky.social board member @marthaannetoll.bsky.social will launch the Foundation’s new series, The Big Idea, in partnership with Goethe-Institut DC next month. Tickets are free with registration: www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/st...

Wed, 10/15/2025 – PEN/Faulkner's The Big Idea series

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19d

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 17d

When you’re off to read @busboysandpoets.bsky.social with @wwph.bsky.social

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Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 20d

"This is America, whether or not you like it, Darth Vader. Removing the incriminating evidence does not undo the truth."

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Say his name

What is America without our history?

New York by water, and by piano

Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 22d

Join me for @theinnerlooplit.bsky.social's monthly writing series, Write Now, hosted at the Goethe-Institut in Washington.

www.eventbrite.com/e/write-now-...

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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 27d

Our demand remains: ICE OUT OF DC. NATIONAL GUARD GO HOME.

Trump's control over MPD has now expired but the federal occupation of DC is still going strong. Agents are still harassing and detaining people — including this morning in Columbia Heights.

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Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 27d

"On a day that was overcast and cool, the city never looked more beautiful."

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New writing in AMERICA's FUTURE: Poetry and Prose in Response to Tomorrow

Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · 29d

My interview with Deb English, author of “Time’s Breath”, for Baltimore Fishbowl is now available to read. Join us at The Ivy Bookshop on 9.18 for the launch event.

www.theivybookshop.com/event/book-l...

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Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you to @sarahlandenwich.bsky.social for the kind words!

Jon Batiste writes "Petrichor"

Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Our country recently marked the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina [...] The disaster was a terrible window into racism and neglect of lower income Americans that reached the highest levels of government."

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When a word changes your life

Washington D.C. Indies Contend With Police and Military Presence

Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · Sep 3

GET OUT OF OUR CITY DARTH VADER STOOGES! Please show some bookstore love friends, we need our book stores. @loyaltybooks.bsky.social @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social @politicsprose.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The Trump administration’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., last month is impacting sales and foot traffic to various degrees at indie bookstores across the city.

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Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ed Simon is one of my writing heroes. So excited to see he and colleague writers launch @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social To read more about Ed's work, check out this piece I wrote in #Image Journal. imagejournal.org/article/ed-s...

Ed Simon Takes on Satan: The Devil Is in the Details - Image Journal

Ed Simon. Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology. Cernunnos, 2022. Ed Simon. Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology. Cernunnos, 2023. Ed Simon. Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Barg...

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Pittsburgh Review of Books offers a new outlet for comment and criticism

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Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social · Sep 2

"[Simon] wants PRoB to be 'kind of a way in which Pittsburgh writers can be presented to the world and a way in which world writers can be presented to Pittsburgh.'

Thanks to Bill O'Driscoll at @wesa.fm for this feature in advance of our 9/3 launch! www.wesa.fm/arts-culture...

Founding editor Ed Simon discusses the brand-new Pittsburgh Review of Books.

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Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · Sep 3

Happy Birth Day @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social ! So glad to see you out in the world and can't wait to be writing for you. Readers, writers subscribe for great content!

Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

“More than in the subject matter we publish, or literally where we’re headquartered, the 'Pittsburgh' in The Pittsburgh Review of Books is a matter of mentality, of perspective...”

We're live! Read a message from our founder and Editor-in-Chief, Ed Simon.

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A New Magazine of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Review of Books

The first printing-press in Pittsburgh was purchased by the aspiring newspaper editors John Scull and Joseph Hall from a manufacturer in Philadelphia; it took

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Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just dug this one out of the files @rabihalameddine.bsky.social @wirobooks.bsky.social www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/all...

All Roads Lead Home | 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.

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Six Very Depressing Books That Might Just Cheer You Up

Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · Sep 2

Love that you share some of my favorite books here @rabihalameddine.bsky.social @lithub.com.web.brid.gy What's not to love about Hrabel? Bakker? Tolstoy? Alexievich? and Alameddine? lithub.com/six-very-dep...

I’ve always read my way through depressions. When my world sucks, I shut the drapes, hide under the cover, and read. And I will read everything: novels, classics, epic fantasy, romance, spy novels,…

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Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social · Aug 31

Please read this. Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made...

We Were Made for This

Twenty years ago, on August 29, 2005, a huge hurricane hit the Gulf Coast. New Orleans's levees failed, as had been predicted, and much of the city went underwater. Although the authorities had issued...

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