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novelist/ghostwriter/podcaster/beardo Author: SHOW; BALLOON DOG; A SINGLE HAPPENED THING; MOURNING WOOD; THE BALL; OBIT Co-Author: HEAVEN HELP US (John Kasich); UNFORGIVING (Lindsey Jacobellis); BLUE (Steve Aoki) Host: AS TOLD TO danielpaisner.com

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"Just because someone is no longer physically here doesn't mean that relationship has to end," writes veteran #ghostwriter
#SamanthaRose in her new memoir, recounting her mother's suicide and re-imagining all the conversations they never got to share.
#writinglife
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04.12.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a powerful podcast conversation with veteran collaborator #SamanthaRose - we talk about how she turned her skills as a #ghostwriter on herself while writing her new memoir "Giving Up the Ghost"...
#writingljfe #storytelling #BookSky #collaboration #books #booktalk
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02.12.2025 20:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 101: Samantha Rose Podcast Episode Β· As Told To Β· 12/02/2025 Β· 1h 4m

new episode!...
#memoir #storytelling #ghostwriting #books #writinglife
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02.12.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a powerful podcast conversation with veteran collaborator #SamanthaRose - we talk about how she turned her skills as a #ghostwriter on herself while writing her new memoir "Giving Up the Ghost"...
#writingljfe #storytelling #BookSky #collaboration #books #booktalk
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Episode 101: Samantha Rose Podcast Episode Β· As Told To Β· 12/02/2025 Β· 1h 4m

new episode!...
#memoir #storytelling #ghostwriting #books #writinglife
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

02.12.2025 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

works midweek as well!...

01.12.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88

β€œSome writers write because they burn with a cause which they further by writing about it. I burn with no causes. I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.” - #TomStoppard
#writing
#writinglife
#RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

30.11.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

wait, you can release MRI results in the middle of an IRS audit?...

01.12.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Discontent THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE β€’Β From a…

"... luckily, on the internet you can always find someone who's said what you're thinking not only before you, but better than you, so you don't even have to make the effort to articulate your own thoughts." - #BeatrizSerrano
#Discontent
#amreading
#BookSky #fiction
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

30.11.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

woof!...

30.11.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 100: Alex DeMille - | Listen on GoodPodsβ„’ Nelson and Alex DeMille's The Tin Men is an electrifying read and a chillingly timely one," writes The New York Times best-selling novelist Megan...

weekend listening... on all the pod platforms... be sure to like/subscribe/share/review/follow/whatever...
#writinglife #collaboration #BookSky @alexdemille.bsky.social @writersbone.com @goodpods.bsky.social
go.goodpods.com/JTHcGX

30.11.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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thankful for this pod platform - and for the very many artists/creatives who have joined the conversation over the years....perhaps listen in while you're stuck in traffic this afternoon, en route to friends and family...
@writersbone.com @alexdemille.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

27.11.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

I'm late to this @emilynussbaum.bsky.social profile of #KerriRussell, but I just finished Season 3 of #TheDiplomat and it popped to the top of my to-read pile... so disarmingly great - a master class on the celebrity profile...
#journalism
#television
#celebrity
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

30.11.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88

β€œSome writers write because they burn with a cause which they further by writing about it. I burn with no causes. I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.” - #TomStoppard
#writing
#writinglife
#RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...

30.11.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

hate speech?...

29.11.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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about last night...
#SixSeven
@dictionarycom.bsky.social
#WordOfTheYear
@ny-knicks.bsky.social

29.11.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Northwestern strikes $75 million funding deal with Trump admin This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available. Last updated on Nov. 28 at 8:25 p.m.Β  Northwestern reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore at least...

how low can higher education go?...
dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/28/c...

29.11.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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After a bitter past, woman donates kidney to her ex-husband’s wife β€œThere is power in forgiveness,” Angela Maples said. β€œForgiveness literally saved my life.”

some story...
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

29.11.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Northwestern Agrees to Deal With Trump Administration

so, basically, a purple nurple?...
#Northwestern #academicfreedom #purplenurple
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...

29.11.2025 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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be sure to add to your bookshelf...

28.11.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beneath the Lightless Sky: Surviving the Holocaust in t… Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

now available for pre-order - the full story behind "The Girl in the Green Sweater," the Holocaust memoir I helped to write with #KrystynaChiger, the daughter of author #IgnacyChiger...
#Holocaust #memoir #BookSky
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

28.11.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two-time major champion golfer Fuzzy Zoeller dies at 74 Golfer saw his legacy tainted by a racially insensitive comment about Tiger Woods in 1997.

at the time, critics surely pointed out that this one regrettable moment, this one VERY regrettable moment, would someday wind up in the lede to #FuzzyZoeller 's obit... and now here we are, nearly 30 yrs later... textbook reminder that our legacies are paper-thin...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...

28.11.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Doctor recommends taking 'a fart walk' on Thanksgiving 'And there's actually a second very good reason to engage in the fart walk.'

say what now?...
#thanksgiving
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27.11.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

so now our so-called president is suggesting that hard-working Americans take their so-called tax/tariff dividend of $2000 and take it to the nearest casino and "double-up" to $2 million... seems about right...
#math #logic #proportion #cognitive

27.11.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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thankful for this pod platform - and for the very many artists/creatives who have joined the conversation over the years....perhaps listen in while you're stuck in traffic this afternoon, en route to friends and family...
@writersbone.com @alexdemille.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

27.11.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office

please share... our so-called president is rage-Truthing over this one... would be a shame if his venting called more attention to it...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

27.11.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Column | Chasing Olympic gold at 80 miles an hour at 41? Only Lindsey Vonn. The Olympic downhill gold medalist in Vancouver in 2010, the Alpine skier is embarking on a farewell tour with no precedent.

β€œI’m not doing this comeback because I feel like I have to do it or I need to do it...I know who I am.” - #LindseyVonn

"Who [she] is now is who she always was: a badass competitor who always gets up when she’s knocked down." - #BarrySvrluga
#MilanoCortina2026 @postsports.bsky.social
wapo.st/4oYUxJ7

27.11.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | I’m 62. Stop Telling Me I’m Old.

hear hear!... (also, here here!)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...

27.11.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 100: Alex DeMille Podcast Episode Β· As Told To Β· 11/18/2025 Β· 1h

keeping it 100!...
@alexdemille.bsky.social
@writersbone.com
@simonandschuster.bsky.social
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18.11.2025 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Travel Plans For Thanksgiving? We’re All Headed to Crazy Town Forget fighting over politics at the Thanksgiving dinner table, because we can all agree that the United States is (over)cooked.

"One of the many problems with installing an amoral doofus without a coherent governing philosophy at the helm of the world’s richest nation is that [he] will then behave as an amoral doofus without a coherent governing philosophy." @michaelianblack.bsky.social
www.thedailybeast.com/travel-plans...

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