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specktor.bsky.social
Novelist, memoirist, co-founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books
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one of my favorite sentences ever published is in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid when Ondaatje describes Pat Garrett as having “the ability to kill someone on the street walk back and finish a joke” and

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Every so often, political media will go out of its way to create a story and then externalize it as though it happened naturally at the hands of some other party. "Continued questions" from whom? "Emerging" from where? This is police shooting-speak.

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This was a fun conversation! open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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This is gonna be so good! Chicago, come through!

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20 years of joy from @aquariumdrunkard.com, and my own few contributions to the site are ones of which I’m inordinately proud. If you don’t subscribe, you oughta. It’s crucial for real heads

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@specktor.bsky.social's The Golden Hour is a wonderful book. I said nice things about it in @ala-booklist.bsky.social:

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Tomorrow night at 7:00 I’m launching THE GOLDEN HOUR at Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo, chopping it up with my pal @jasondiamond.bsky.social. Can’t wait for this. Brooklyn and NYC people come through! powerhouse-books.ticketleap.com/book-launch-...

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@specktor.bsky.social remembers his mother’s fight to find her place in LA: “All of this suggests not a person who’s simply afraid to be late, but rather one who is running: who remains, always, in flight.”

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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

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Start your day with the lads

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The Golden Hour author @specktor.bsky.social takes The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire. memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...

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THE GOLDEN HOUR by @specktor.bsky.social is out today, published by @eccobooks.bsky.social! www.harpercollins.com/products/the... Finished reading it a couple of days ago, and it's excellent. Very highly recommended. (Review soon: grading has just been all-consuming...)

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THE GOLDEN HOUR is out in the world today! If you're in LA, I hope you'll come see Tom Bissell and I chop it up at Diesel Books at 6:30

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This piece by @anamariecox.bsky.social is an absolute ripper. It gets what’s happened to the movies, and the culture, just right. How we arrived at this pass is exactly the story I tell in THE GOLDEN HOUR, which is out tomorrow newrepublic.com/article/1935... via @newrepublic.com

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