Seth Augenstein
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Writer. LAMA WITH A GUN from @pandamoonpub: https://t.co/rYFQDLmc7M PROJECT 137: https://t.co/Xc3qcFsc8S Non-fiction fmrly in @forensicmag and @starledger.
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Joined August 2012
RELEASE DAY - Lama with a Gun is HERE! Grab what Kirkus called an "exhaustively researched, bloody, and compelling work of historical fiction" ... a "gripping saga" lost to the history written by the victors - until now. #booktwt From @pandamoonpub
https://t.co/O62aj7fyOH
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Cool reporting man thanks
Hegseth answered my questions. It’s off the record so no details but I am very pleased with his leadership!
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"They should have brought red flowers to celebrate. For the first time in his life, he did what he always wanted to do: feel happy for himself." — Shizue Hiraoka, Yukio Mishima's mother, at her son's funeral
On this day, 25 November 1970. The great poet and Samurai Mishima Yukio committed seppuku. May we honor his legacy and show him the respect he deserves.
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Today, we honor author and man of high vision, Yukio Mishima, who died November 25, 1970. 散るをいとふ世にも人にもさきがけて 散るこそ花と吹く小夜嵐 A small night storm blows Saying ‘falling is the essence of a flower’ Preceding those who hesitate. - Jisei (death poem) of
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William Faulkner on writing Sanctuary: "I had just written my guts into The Sound and the Fury though I was not aware until the book was published that I had done so, because I had done it for pleasure. I believed then that I would never be published again."
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I am a hoarder of old books, and one of my favorite things is finding a dog-eared corner. Extra points if the passage on the page moves me before I notice it has been so marked. It’s a wordless communication across time and space and outside the confines of death. It is one
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In his own words, @questlove remembers his friend, collaborator and brother, D’Angelo. “D’Angelo, to me, was one of the last pure artists in Black music.” Read the personal tribute: https://t.co/ikLTIGYRR6
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Happy to report the Spooky Season reading material has landed . Bravo @therealjoebob @kinky_horror
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A prodigy. A prophet. A pioneer. From church in Richmond to 'Brown Sugar' reshaping soul music, #DAngelo didn’t just drop — he shifted culture. As the world mourns, we trace his sacred journey from boy genius to legend. 🔗 Read OKP Exclusive: The Origin Story of D’Angelo:
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It takes some kind of balls to even suggest this to the creator of The Wire:
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William H Gass. discussing The Tunnel, 1995 Jonathan Franzen in The Corrections, 2001
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August 18, 1973. Reports of a bizarre, chainsaw-wielding family—stories that would ignite the world’s imagination—began to filter out of Central Texas. Happy Texas Chainsaw Massacre Day!
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It's easy to say all fiction is political. But do you have the courage to say that all politics is fictional.
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It’s going to be 98 degrees here again today. This guy’s birthday should be a national holiday.
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A bastion of storytelling and FUN - thank you @BrianKeene and @VortexBookComix and @marysangiovanni for being an oasis
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