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I love this so much. Thank you @fulmerford.com

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5 days ago

A bunch of snakes w yellow and gold bands and green eyes

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the annual herpetarium reenactment of John Cassavetes’s A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE.

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2 weeks ago

Interview: Camille Bordas on “One Sun Only” The Chicago-based writer discusses the pleasures of editing, writing in English versus French and the narrative power of anxiety.

I have a new article out in Newcity Lit today about the inimitable Camille Bordas!
lit.newcity.com/2026/02/23/c...

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2 weeks ago

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-Seven - A Hint Of Delight, starring the Deborah Shapiro. This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Deborah Shapiro (Watching the Detective, Consolation, B-Side Editions). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podc

Had a very fun time chatting with Ben Tanzer on his podcast. I haven’t listened to it yet (hard to hear your own voice) but I do remember referencing those 80s Freedom Rock commercials ("well, turn it up, man!") as an example of how nostalgia can be embarrassing. www.tanzerben.com/blog/this-po...

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3 weeks ago

I wrote about one part of my reaction to recent events: the importance and nuance of what it means to subscribe to something.

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3 weeks ago

A photo of a skunk cabbage rising up through the snow. A white text box reads in black font, "Melting ICE. A fundraiser field trip to benefit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund. Saturday, March 14th @ 10:00 am."

A photo of skunk cabbage spathes in the spring. A white text box reads, "Join us for a walk in the woods to see skunk cabbages emerging for spring and learn about winter adaptations in plants. Tickets on sale 2/25 @ noon. 100% of ticket sales benefit Midwest Immigration Bond Fund." A cut out illustration of a skunk cabbage from a vintage field guide overlays the image in the corner.

Did you know that skunk cabbages are thermogenic - they generate their own heat to melt frozen, icy ground and prepare the soil for new growth in the spring?

Join us for a hike in the woods to see skunk cabbages emerging for the spring and raise money for Midwest Immigration Bond Fund.

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1 month ago

So sorry, John. What a loss.

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2 months ago

Incredibly delighted to see this in the Washington Post (and to see Watching the Detective included alongside Cher Part One).

Btw, the holiday sale is still on at www.bsideeditions.com. Get 10% off orders with the code THANKS10 at checkout.

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2 months ago

This means so much to me – thank you, Juan. 2025 has been so rough in so many ways. If this book has added a little light, I'm very happy to hear it.

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3 months ago

I sometimes think about how in the course of his career Columbo met at least four guys who looked like Robert Culp, and three of them turned out to be murderers. Do you think by the fourth one he went in feeling suspicious?

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3 months ago

between our parents homes. My fish was named Cuddles.)
"You're so unassuming," Anna said, at the end of
our meeting. "I mean that as a compliment."
Columbo, too, is unassuming. In a way that would serve a detective—or a would-be writer. Unassuming as a function of being exceedingly observant. To put it another way, you don't make too much of yourself because you are occupied with making much out of what is going on around you. As my father would say:
You don't miss a trick. At least, you try not to.
There are, it turns out, several Columbo storylines featuring writers who overestimate their ability to let no trick be missed. "Murder by the Book" (1971) involves a team of mystery writers-one kills the other. The episode was shot by a 24-year-old Steven Spielberg. In
"Publish or Perish" (1974), it's technically a publisher, played by the suave Jack Cassidy, the murderous writer in the aforementioned episode, who does in a bestselling novelist, to collect insurance money and to keep

Photo of Deborah shapiro’s WATCHING THE DETECTIVE

from Deborah Shapiro’s WATCHING THE DETECTIVE

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3 months ago

“you don’t make too much of yourself because you are occupied with making much out of what is going on around you” — on Columbo & writers being unassuming

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3 months ago

Just a reminder that B-Side Editions offers the option of free gift wrapping, and books make great presents. I don’t have the time/patience/microphone to make an ASMR gift wrapping video so please accept these inert photos and imagine me whispering “Shop small, if at all.”

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3 months ago

It's such a good one

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3 months ago

Watching the Detective by Deborah Shapiro — b-side editions A book ostensibly about the time I got weirdly obsessed with streaming Columbo, but really about so much more.

adding a link if you want to add to cart! (and use code THANKS10 for 10% off your order) www.bsideeditions.com/shop/p/watch...

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3 months ago

❤️ thank you @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social ❤️

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3 months ago

Tonight! Release party for Watching the Detective. At the Whistler. Doors at 6. Would love to see you!

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3 months ago

Thanks so much to @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and @rachellayown.bsky.social for this interview🖤

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4 months ago

HIDDEN RIVER novel
"Lippmann writes like no other" - Paula Bomer, author of The Stalker
SARA
LIPPMANN

Coming at you in May 👀@tortoisebooks.bsky.social

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4 months ago

The date is fast approaching... Wednesday 11/19/25 at the Whistler. Would love to see you there.

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4 months ago

amazing

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4 months ago

I love hearing that! (And Ed Park forever!)

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4 months ago

Thanks for reading, @levistahl.bsky.social 👀🖤

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4 months ago

How to write a horror story: Three writers on the art of the scare The American Writers Museum of Chicago will open an exhibit in November on the influence of religion and culture on creative works, including the horror genre.

super proud to be part of this @wbez.org story alongside two amazing writers, love that I was photoshopped so that it looks like I’m lurking & about to jumpscare the both of them

www.wbez.org/books/2025/1...

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4 months ago

thanks Juan!!

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4 months ago

New book, Watching the Detective, ostensibly about the year I got weirdly obsessed with watching Columbo, but really about so much more. Out 11/18/25. Available to preorder on www.bsideeditions.com 🖤

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5 months ago

Chicago! Save the date for a Watching the Detective book launch party. Weds, November 19th, 6-8pm at The Whistler. Books, beverages, friends, hope to see you there.

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5 months ago

Do you like cities? Do you think they're miraculous instances of collective creativity, not despite but because of the fact that they always involve complex & improvisatory negotiations among dissimilar individuals? Would you like to explain that to kids? Allow me to recommend LEAF TOWN FOREVER:

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5 months ago

Tomorrow (Friday)! I'll be talking with Naomi Washer about her wonderful new book MARGINALIA at @skunkcabbagebooks.bsky.social in Chicago. Would love to see you.

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5 months ago

Print Is Not Dead Talking with designer Matthew Jacobson about book covers, records and music, DIY sensibilities, magic, and more

Design and book people: you might want to check out this interview with super-talented designer Matthew Jacobson, who came up with the cover for Watching the Detective, the next B-Side Editions book (out soon)
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