Deanne Stillman

YouTube video by Deanne Stillman DESERT RECKONING

High-voltage new trailer for Desert Reckoning, a modern western re a manhunt for a hermit who killed a cop in the Mojave. Fathers & sons, America's obsession with guns, who lives in the desert & why, finding grace in the carnage. Spur Award best nonfiction. #booksky
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This is a new podcast production of my play "Who Walks the Sands," monologues about fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and longing and desire. They are a mashup of the real and the imaginary. There's also an interview with me following the production. #theatresky
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The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed

CONGRESS AS A FAMILY
#TheShutdown

Here at No Kings Washington DC! #NoKings

What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Buffalo Bill Buffalo Bill lamented the killing of Sitting Bull and the suffering of the Lakota tribe at Wounded Knee. Hegseth wants to ignore it.

New piece at @washingtonmonthly.com, about the Wounded Knee medals, Buffalo Bill's lost film about the massacre, Sitting Bull, and Pete Hegseth, with an excerpt from my book Blood Brothers.
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NEW TIME: Taos, Metta Theatre, 10/19, 2pm: a reading of my play "Reflections in a D'Back's Eye," directed by Bruce McIntosh. About America and guns, via the incident in which Gabby Giffords was wounded and a little girl who wanted to play baseball was killed. Also: the Grand Canyon. #theatresky

Pete Hegseth just ended the medals review for soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee massacre. Yet even Buffalo Bill tried to make amends with Native Americans, making a film about the incident with Lakota re-enactors. It flopped and vanished from the record. I wrote about this in Blood Brothers.

For 9/11 24, my remembrance:
Shortly before 9/11, something told me that I might never again see my mother who lived in NYC. I changed plans and headed there on 9/10, landing shortly before the attack. "It looks like Hiroshima down here," she soon said on the phone.
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UPDATE: THIS HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO A COUPLE OF CAST ISSUES. WILL LET YOU KNOW WHEN RESCHEDULED. THANK YOU!

Taos, Metta Theatre, 8/17, 2pm: a reading of my play "Reflections in a D'Back's Eye," directed by Bruce McIntosh. About America's love affair w/guns, via the incident in which Gabby Giffords was wounded and a little girl who just wanted to play baseball was killed. With the Grand Canyon. #theatresky

Marilyn Monroe Flees Her Crypt Teaser This is "Marilyn Monroe Flees Her Crypt Teaser" by Butcher Bird Studios on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

In honor of MM on the anni of her death, here's the trailer for my film "Marilyn Monroe Flees Her Crypt When Hugh Hefner Is Buried Next Door," w/Shayne Eastin, directed Lillian Diaz-Przybyl, produced @butcherbirdprod.bsky.social, "best experimental short" Indie X Fest. vimeo.com/944552498?sh...

Yes, alas.

Winchester Cathedral | Los Angeles Review of Books A new installment in Deanne Stillman's "Letter from the West" series.

Yesterday, there were two mass shootings in the US: NYC and Reno. In this essay about the discovery of an old Winchester in Great Basin National Park and our affair with guns, I talk about another mass shooting near Reno - 34 wild horses at Christmas time in 1998. lareviewofbooks.org/article/winc...

Sometimes mail is fun! Just in from USPS: the 2025 @lapressclub.bsky.social Award for online political commentary, national, for my @washingtonmonthly.com piece, "Mothers, Sons, and Guns," published last year. It's my second LAPC award; the 1st was in 2013 for nonfiction, my book Desert Reckoning.

Donald Trump issued pardons to Joe Arpaio, Steve Bannon, six convicted war criminals, and over 1500 January 6th rioters, prompting serious questions about Biden's use of the autopen.

Star light, star bright. My latest piece, "Alligator Alcatraz: The New ICE Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature," in which I talk about Big Cypress National Preserve as a Dark Sky Park, and how the new floodlights are obliterating #starlight. #astronomy
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My latest piece, "Alligator Alcatraz: The ICE Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature," in which I talk about Marjory Stoneman Douglas and her role in Big Cypress National Preserve, bringing attention to a place that had been written off. @therevelator.org
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December 6: A Novel December 6: A Novel [Smith, Martin Cruz] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. December 6: A Novel

The great novelist Martin Cruz Smith has passed away. He and I were in convo yrs ago for Writers Bloc, re December 6, about Japan just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was a characteristically gripping tale and we had an excellent convo. RIP Martin and thank you.
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Whether it’s liberal tweaking their language to be more gender inclusive or Elon Musk tweaking Grok to say more positive things about Adolf Hitler, both sides have a free speech problem.

How the West was run Mustang The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West Deanne Stillman Houghton Mifflin: 368 pp., $25

This is the Pam Houston review in the LA Times that helped kick it off. It was an LAT "best book of the year," and won various other awards.
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Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West Buy Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

Yes. Mine was published in 2008; this year is its 17th anniversary. It launched the convo regarding wild horses in the West and the ongoing wars to wipe it out; the book that you mention draws from it although this isn't stated. You can read many reviews of mine here. www.amazon.com/Mustang-Dean...

For July 4th, from Mustang.

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I Dreamed About the Breakup of the United States For as long as I can remember, I’ve had dreams that were prescient.

New essay for #July4th on Journal of the Plague Years. "For as long as I can remember, I’ve had dreams that were prescient. Years ago, I dreamed that the states on a 3-D topological map of #America were flying off their bearings, one by one." journaloftheplagueyears.substack.com/p/i-dreamed-...

Mustang by Deanne Stillman, by Deanne Stillman 10 track album

She narrates that section of my book in the audio. rarebirdbooks.bandcamp.com/album/mustan...

Wendie Malick to Star, Produce Hallmark Channel Movie ‘Wild Horse Annie’ The "Hot in Cleveland" actress will play Velma Johnston, an animal rights activist who campaigned to protect America's wild horses.

At one time, actress Wendie Malick optioned the "Wild Horse Annie" portion of my book for a film. We did run into difficulty moving beyond that.
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Ohio once had more colleges and universities than any other state. Any Ohioans familiar with the old rhyme about the name "Ohio"? "High in the middle and low on the end"? Now it's really low.

BLM but it's a function of a complete misunderstanding and betrayal of wild horses that goes back for decades. This must be understood in order to deal with what's going on. Again, all laid out in book - and at my talks, there is consistently a wide range of people who get what I'm talking about.