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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 11h

The Great Chicago Fire was today, in 1871. No one remembers, then, the Peshtigo Fire that also happened on that day in Wisconsin. It is the deadliest wildfire in American history. #WisconsinSky #TheMoreYouKnow www.wmtv15news.com/2025/10/08/o...

October 8, 1871- Deadliest wildfire sweeps through northeast Wisconsin

On this day- October 8, 1871- the deadliest wildfire in American history swept through Northeast Wisconsin.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 1d

For journalism nerds - the 25 most influential magazine covers of all time (c/o the @nytimes.com): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 1d

From one of the most inspiring upbeat people in Wisconsin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GeQ...

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Banned Books Week to those that celebrate. #BookSky bannedbooksweek.org

Banned Books Week | October 5-11, 2025

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday, @pbs.org. It broadcasted for the first time on 10/5/70. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg-7...

5th October 1970: PBS, the national Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, was launched

YouTube video by HistoryPod

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 5d

Book Nerd Update: I'm pretty excited that there's a new Thomas Pynchon novel coming out. I'm more excited that it's based in Wisconsin. #BookSky www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon: 9781594206108 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The new novel from Thomas Pynchon, bestselling and award-winning author of Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice. “A masterpiece.” —The Telegraph “Bonkers...

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 5d

Go Brewers! #BaseballSky www.youtube.com/shorts/d4Fo_...

Nate Gibson's Brewers-themed country album

YouTube video by WisconsinPublicRadio

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 6d

Wisconsin’s most famous son is heading to the silver screen: www.fastcompany.com/91402080/fra...

Frank Lloyd Wright, coming soon to a theater near you

Filmmakers have partnered with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation to finally turn the celebrated architect's life story into a movie.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 6d

A new month means a new little essay I wrote about my favorite little nature spot in Madison: Cherokee Marsh. www.cherokeemarsh.org/post/october...

October Fog

As I walk in the fog across Cherokee Marsh, I can’t help thinking about time and changing seasons and the mysteriousness of life and, ultimately, death.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 6d

Keep it up, Stephen. #BookSky apnews.com/article/step...

Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says

A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 7d

The writing spots of Booker Prize-nominated authors. #BookSky www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...

This is where The Booker Prize nominees write: from kitchen tables to a cemetery bench

From kitchen tables to bare desks (and even a cemetery bench): 12 writers from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist on their favourite writing set-ups

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 14d

I like sports. I like sports writing. I like knowing about the Kenya Ice Lions (c/o National Geographic): www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/...

Ice hockey is flourishing in ... Nairobi

There's only one rink in the country—and it's tiny—but the Kenya Ice Lions have their sights set on the Olympics.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 15d

Shana tovah, to those that celebrate.

Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 15d

This is awful news for news. www.kuow.org/stories/seat...

Seattle's Cascade PBS announces layoffs, end of online long-form journalism

The move, attributed to a $3.5 million annual loss in federal funding, marks the layoffs of 17 staffers and the creation of three new positions, Cascade PBS President and CEO Rob Dunlop told KUOW.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 16d

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus #PoetrySky www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/...

Fall Poems

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 17d

Bored? Good. Keep it up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQK...

You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.

YouTube video by Harvard Business Review

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 19d

I like old time baseball and good ol' storytelling. This piece, c/o @defector.com, has both: defector.com/hank-thompso...

Hank Thompson Lived A Wild, Tragic, Forgotten Life In Baseball | Defector

Baseball tends to present the first men to crack the sport’s shameful racial barrier through a gauzy lens, their caps topped with a halo. There is the sanctified Jackie Robinson, and his Brooklyn team...

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 20d

They hit a few good spots, for sure. @peoplemag.bsky.social visited Madison on @uwbadgers.bsky.social football weekend. people.com/people-s-24-...

Exactly What to Eat, Drink and Do in Madison, Wisconsin on One Perfect Day During Football Season

Bike around scenic lakes, sip an icy martini at a swank supper club, order a pre-game milkshake at a beloved diner, and cap off the night at a traditional fish fry in Wisconsin’s charming capital city...

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 20d

I love 1930s photography. How did the US government fight poverty through photos? #PhotographySky (story c/o 1440) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i7v...

How the US Government Used Photography to Fight Poverty

YouTube video by 1440 Daily

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 22d

Farewell, Robert Redford. I think one of his unheralded roles - "All is Lost." www.youtube.com/watch?v=no1r...

All is Lost Official Trailer

YouTube video by Universal Pictures UK

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 23d

Thinking of Addie Mae Collins (14), Cynthia Wesley (14), Carole Robertson (14), and Carol Denise McNair (11), the girls who died in the Birmingham church bombing that happened on this day in 1963. #HistorySky

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 24d

Stop scrolling. Start doing. #ArtSky (story c/o @apnews.com) apnews.com/article/find...

Tips on stepping back from screens and starting a new hobby

A lot of us want to reduce our time spent on screens. Experts say picking up a new hobby can help do that and offer a range of other health benefits.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 27d

I had the opportunity to write about Yoko Breckenridge who created a Japanese language library in Minneapolis (story c/o @finebooks.bsky.social). #BookSky www.finebooksmagazine.com/issue/two-li...

Two Libraries Save a Midwestern Japanese Book Collection

Manabu.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 28d

Happy birthday, Mary Oliver (1935-2019). #BookSky www.loc.gov/programs/poe...

The Summer Day

Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my han...

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