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Arnie Bernstein
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🟦 Narrative nonfiction author. Writing teacher & coach. Speaker, talking head, raconteur. Voracious & ferocious reader. Movie maven. Long-suffering White Sox fan. Proud Jew. Proud Zionist. A Brothers Marxist. https://www.linktr.ee/arniebernstein ✡ NO DMs!
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Arnie Bernstein @realarnieb.bsky.social · Nov 25
Of course you want to subscribe to my Substack “The Typewriter’s Collage.” Your home for think pieces, writerly advice, a virtuoso verbose Time Machine, and lots of references to Chico Marx. First drafts guaranteed to be written on a manual typewriter.
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The Typewriter's Collage | Arnie Bernstein | Substack
Personal essays, stuff on the writing life, movies & books, Judaism, and lots of references to Chico Marx. Drafted on typewriter, edited in MS Word on a Mac, presented to you on SubStack. Serious stuf...
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Just when I thought the world wasn't wonderful enough, I found a Nosferatu Funko at TJ Max--the authentic Max Shreck 1922 Count Orlok!

#Funko #TJMax #Nosferatu #CountOrlok
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Breaking News!

#ElectionDay #Trump #Melania
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Attention writers: The Rolling Stones were wrong. Time is not on your side. Baby, baby, baby, you're out of time.

#AmWriting #WritingHabits #Writing #WriterSky
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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My movie canon cannon makes your movie canon cannon look like a popgun. My latest on Substack.

#Movies #Films #Cinema #HorrorMovies #CharlesBronson #WCFields

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The Typewriter's Collage's Movie Canon Cannon (a recurring series) 🎬
The Typewriter's Collage's cinema canon will blow a cannon hole in your cinema canon. A trio of our favorite films for your dining and dancing and viewing pleasure.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Seven years ago today, a man with hate in his heart and a gun in his hand entered a Pittsburgh synagogue on a Shabbat morning. He shot and killed 11 people, wounded 6 more, and traumatized the Pittsburgh community — and the entirety of the American Jewish community.

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October 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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@#&*&$@# !

#writing #writers #firstdrafts #obscenities #DirtyWords #WriterSky
October 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Sometimes books have unexpected surprises within the pages. My latest on Substack.

#Baseball #Books #Reading #Letters #WriterSky

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One Book, Two Stories
I stumbled on a treasure at the Salvation Army Thrift Store. The biography of Chicago "Black Sox" player Buck Weaver also held an unexpected memoir of two old friends
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October 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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To everything, turn, turn, turn.

#WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WriterSky
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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#PlanetoftheApes #EastWing #WhiteHouse #25thAmendment
October 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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I’m filled with joy, yet a combination of sadness and anger. We won’t rest until the bodies of our murdered are all back home.

#AmYisraelChai #BringThemHomeNow!
October 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#October7 #ReleaseThemNow #AmYisraelChai
October 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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For our hostages, still being tortured by Hamas terrorists in dark tunnels funded by Iran. Baruch Hashem. Release them NOW! ✡️ 💪 🇮🇱

#October7 #ReleaseThemNow #AmYisraelChai
October 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Trump is not H!tler. Trump is not Sta!in. He's Buzz Windrip, the populist demagogue of Sinclair Lewis's 1935 cautionary novel "It Can't Happen Here." Today, October 6, 2025, Lewis’s fiction is more relevant than ever.

(FYI, "It Can't Happen Here" is in public domain)
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It can't happen here : a novel : Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
458 pages ; 21 cm
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October 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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#Writers #Grammar #WriterSky #Copywriters #MarketingWriters #Authors
October 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Everyone loves a seducer

#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WriterSky inktr.ee/arniebernstein
October 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Writers & Typewriters & Caricatures: Day 1 - Franz Kafka metamorphoses with unknown model.

#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #Typewriters #WriterSky #Caricatures linktr.ee/arniebernstein
October 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A meaningful Yom Kippur to all. If you are fasting, may it be an easy one.

#YomKippur
October 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Walter Winchell, the unsung hero in fighting Hitler and American Nazis gets his due. It was an honor to be part of this panel, hosted by the Sousa Mendes Foundation

#JewishHistory #WalterWinchell #AntiNazi

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Walter Winchell and the Defeat of the German American Bund, September 28, 2025
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September 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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A truncated Writers & Typewriters will return after Rosh Hashanah
September 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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L'shanah tovah tikatevu and happy 5786, chaverim!

#RoshHashanah
September 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Writers & Typewriters & Football: Day 4 - Here’s the signals: Kickoff Tee. 1902 Remington 6 —HIKE!!!!!

#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #Typewriters #WriterSky #Football linktr.ee/arniebernstein
September 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Rarely are Albert Einstein and yours truly mentioned in the same breath, let alone the same blog post, but our friends at Open Culture managed to pull it off.

#Einstein

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Albert Einstein Gives a Speech Praising Immigrants’ Contributions to America (1939)
There have been many times in American history when celebrations of the country’s multi-ethnic, ever-changing demography served as powerful counterweights to narrow, exclusionary, nationalisms.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Writers & Typewriters & Football: Day 3 - A snazzy helmut envisions this Daughtery Visible

#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #Typewriters #WriterSky #Football linktr.ee/arniebernstein
September 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Writers & Typewriters & Football: Day 2 - YES!!! The Olympia Post clears the goal posts!
#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #Typewriters #WriterSky #Football linktr.ee/arniebernstein
September 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Speed up! Slow down.

#WritingCoach #WriterForHire #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WriterSky inktr.ee/arniebernstein
September 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM