Alexander Pyles
@PylesofBooks
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Father of 6 - Writer - Editor - Critic - Gardener - NBCC member https://t.co/s8CYaIqCsX https://t.co/G3O9JkzTJh
Illinois, USA
Joined June 2017
We buried our son today. We enter a new phase of grief now. Thank you, everyone - for everything. Here is Frankie's eulogy as promised. Also, a google doc link too, in case the screenshots are annoying: https://t.co/8idufewlp9
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Announcing the 2025 Longlist for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada! It’s been a privilege to enjoy & now share the best writing that small presses have to offer; — especially, in an industry & at a time, when we’ve rarely been in greater need of serious fiction.
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“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” This quote, often attributed to Che Guevara, actually belongs to Dom Hélder Câmara, a Brazilian Catholic archbishop who lived between 1909 and 1999. Câmara was
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Just started reading A Fever in the Heartland by Tim Egan and umm 👀👀👀
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In my "listening to the public classical music radio station" era
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Just now finding out that Karl Ove Knausgaard is stateside and doing a book tour blitz that does NOT include Chicago and I'm.....bereft.
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Why anyone feels the need to defend a paramilitary agency invented in my lifetime by the Bush administration is beyond me
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Wrote for the first time in months and it felt so good! All thanks to my writers chat and their bullying ways
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It's always crazy to learn how many men have a worldview that is essentially "Oh MEN have all the power? Well how do you explain that my MOM, who used to tell me what to do when I was a child, is a woman???"
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this painting is called "The Last Sound" & it's by Ibrahim El-Salahi. he painted it in 1964, when he got word of his father's passing. it's meant to represent the sound the soul makes when it leaves the body. what sound do 400,000 Sudanese souls make? what does it look like?
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Mamdani is continuing to clown on our "politics as usual" bc he can simply do things (by working with communities/his staff) and change the lives of millions of people. It doesn't just have to be in NYC - we could have it everywhere.
On day 8 of our Administration, @GovKathyHochul and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.
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Reinstalled bsky, still has the vibe of a remote island populated by a flightless bird with no natural predators
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Liberals built this country by laundering far-right violence into “difference of opinion,” treating the likes of Rittenhouse as bearers of different opinions instead of what they are: auxiliaries of an ideology that openly calls for slaughter.
After thinking about it, should I travel across the state line to Minnesota? 😆
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One of the biggest losses in Catholic media is watching many white influencers platform only safe, cheerful voices instead of prophetic moral witness. These are serious times, and baking or book clubs is the message?
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a naive tendency is to conceive of people in countries undergoing situations like the one in venezuela as either revolutionary or reactionary political agents as opposed to random people who wonder if they'll be able to feed their ailing grandmother or children in the coming week
i just spoke to my father in central caracas, who has been up since two in the morning. he says the streets are completely empty, the feeling among the few people he's spoken to is of bewilderment
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Raging against the old year as the new one struggles to be born.
It's NYE - everyone is throwing up (even the dog).
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Nice unstoppable force… be a shame if I had an immovable object
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