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Images canโ€™t force compassion in culture that accepts violent death - Uvalde Leader News In the chaotic days after May 24, 2022, I fielded calls, emails, and handwritten letters from heartbroken and angry people across the nation, urging families to release photos of the childrenโ€™s wounds...

โ€œKirk declared his risk was worth it. Uvaldeโ€™s 19 students and two teachers never had a say.โ€ www.uvaldeleadernews.com/articles/ima... #Uvalde #CraigGarnett

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Good times with client Wendy Benchley this morning at @lbjlibrary.bsky.social. Before Jaws took over his life, Peter Benchley was a speechwriter in the LBJ White House.

10.09.2025 15:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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David Foster Wallace: prophet of American loneliness

FalkinLitโ€™s David Masciotraโ€™s latest in re DFW: unherd.com/2025/08/davi...

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2024 Book Award Winners and Finalists Congratulations 2024 Book Award Winners & Finalists Fiction WINNERWe Burn Daylight by Bret Anthony JohnstonFINALISTSThe Turtle House by Amanda ChurchillMalas by Marcela FuentesWe Were the Univeโ€ฆ

Congrats Falkin Literary clients Scott Semegran and Craig Garnett!

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20.08.2025 23:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For all my ARC readers/podcasts/journalist friends! #POPCORNDISABILITIES is now available to read via @Netgalley. #tcmparty

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Better to Reign in Art Than Serve the Algorithm: Ozzy Osbourne as One of the Last Rebels What distinguishes Ozzy from the boring and unimaginative pop stars of the algorithm is that it was an image he created. And when he created that image, he was often battling against record company ex...

FalkinLit's David Masciotra: "Anyone honest would have to acknowledge that it is impossible to imagine the rise of anyone like Ozzy in the contemporary โ€œmarketplace,โ€ which more than anything is what it sounds likeโ€“a zone where commerce has finally won its ancient fight with art." shorturl.at/j07uT

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Why โ€˜Jawsโ€™ Works

Yes. Yet more Jaws stuff from #falkinliterary. Not often you have 2 clients (Bouzereau & Benchley) in one moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/a...

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Tonight

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Holy god giant mutant ticks in ATX everybody run

24.06.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿฆˆ ๐Ÿ“– ๐ŸŽฅ

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50 Years After โ€˜Jawsโ€™ Terrified Filmgoers, a Reporter Looks Back Podcast Episode ยท The Book Review ยท 06/13/2025 ยท 37m

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13.06.2025 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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le paperback

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This is all to say Iโ€™ll be sharing more from my book WELCOME BOILS AND GHOULS, the first oral history ever written on the show, as we get closer to its release in 2027.

11.06.2025 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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So excited to announce my next book, POPCORN DISABILITIES, hits shelves November 13th! This was a labor of love that I hope makes people look closer at the movies they love. Preorders are available now through the @Bloomsbury website.

www.bloomsbury.com/us/popcorn-d...

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Jaws at 50: Spielbergโ€™s marine masterpiece transformed the movies โ€“ and us The original blockbuster turned fear of sharks into decades of persecution but, at long last, the tide may be turning

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

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paperback out now. if not, why havenโ€™t you read this yet? tell meโ€ฆ

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'Popcorn Disabilities' Cover Reveal and Release Date I'm going long, book long, on disability in film.

Excited about this. The core reason I wanted to work with Kristen. thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/popcorn-di...

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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story | Official Trailer | National Geographic
YouTube video by National Geographic Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story | Official Trailer | National Geographic

CONGRATULATIONS to Falkin Literary clients Laurent Bouzereau and Wendy Benchley!
youtu.be/jrBN9zcQAGw

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Falkin Literary is pleased to be working with Nancy Allen to bring her memoir to market. Nancy is an actress and anti-cancer activist best known for her starring roles in the films Carrie, RoboCop, 1941, Dressed to Kill, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination, and Blow Out.

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Out today

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Need a beach read on the Cรดte dโ€™Azur? #falkinliterary

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Fun podcast, book, stage show event last week with Santa Cruzians Amy and April here in Austin. #ShamelessSex

06.05.2025 15:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New client alert: Jake Lancaster is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was awarded the Henfield Prize for Fiction. His short stories have appeared in The Common, TriQuarterly, Heavy Traffic, Forever Magazine, Adroit Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere.

23.04.2025 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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10 years in print this week

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Espana ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ #jaws@50 #falkinliterary

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COVER REVEAL. Pleased to announce that my 2024 story The Rock Statue will be anthologized in The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seventeen, edited by Ellen Datlow
@datlow.bsky.social. More details soon.

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โ€œThe giant bugs are back with a gruesome vengeance! Lovers of the kind of monstrous plague the Guy N. Smith tradition loosed upon the world should find much to relish in this book. โ€ โ€“ Ramsey Campbell, Master of Modern Horror, says about TICK TOWN

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