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Happy Halloween. “Death is the sanction of everything the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.” Walter Benjamin. #booksky #writingcommunity 💙💙📚💙

Cool! I grew up in California and remember getting soft drinks at roadside stands shaped like giant oranges.

If it were April 1, this might make sense.

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Googie on!

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We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a stunning novel. My favorite by Shirley Jackson.

Changing my profile photo for the season.

There might be ghosts where I teach too, but perhaps they died from boredom, so I haven't noticed them.

And they're fucking dope. No reason for them to go this hard.

The Master of Monterey. It has a ship and a motley crew.

I’m inspired by Benito Cereno and Billy Budd, along with that big white whale. And I wrote one novel set in the 19th century, based on historical events that Melville himself had a peripheral part in.

You’re right. I used to sleep in that bed frequently in the 1830s.

Melville!

I never would have guessed!

If AWS goes out, your bed will try to kill you.

We can hope!

I remember that … one sinner thought he was going to heaven and was snatched away by a demon because he thought he was pre-absolved by the pope. The demon laughs and says he knows how logic works.

Did they have deckle edged books in the fifth century?

Congrats!

Finished the buffalo hunter book recently, and recommending it to friends. You put a twist in the very last sentence.

Have you been a Jeopardy answer yet?

I just bought my pal’s new book The Perils of Girlhood out on Nebraska.

Sounds more like a lineup of cover bands.

Thanks ... it's been awhile since I published a book, but I'm close.

Let them eat cake.

Thanks!

At a migrant labor camp whose very name means forgotten, a child's sudden illness leads to tensions between workers and the land barons enforcing their contracts. Into this dispute Esteban Alas is reluctantly drawn as a mediator, until an act of violence forces him into a more tragic role.

Happy Tenth Book Birthday to my novella, Camp Olvido. The book won the Miami University Press Novella Prize. Thanks again to all at @miamioh-press.bsky.social.
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Thanks once more to all at @miamioh-press.bsky.social

Thanks. This started my morning well.

Happy birthday!