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bmanuel.bsky.social
Writer/critic for hire 📍LA 📚 Hello Stranger (OUT NOW!) 📚 The Male Gazed (2023) 📚 Judy at Carnegie Hall (2020) 🏰 Writer on The Cardboard Kingdom series (2018, 2021, 2023) LAFCA, GALECA, Peabody Awards Juror www.mbetancourt.com
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Always a highlight of Oscar season.

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This photo is healing me

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Having fun recapping The White Lotus over at the @avclub.com. Here’s me on episode 1

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speak on it, king #filmsky

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Please respond with five bullet points about what you are doing to help me sell my books. Violators will be prosecuted. Thank you.

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Finally got my hands on “Hello Stranger” by @bmanuel.bsky.social — cannot wait to dive in! (Artwork from when Manuel posed for @doableguys.bsky.social earlier this year)

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Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

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♦️💜🌿

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Happy Valentine’s Day! 🌹 From messy lesbian situationships and even messier breakups to love stories lost to history and heartwarming stories of friendship, we’ve got your reading needs covered. 📚 Which one are you picking up this vday?

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It’s been one month since HELLO STRANGER was published and no better reason to celebrate that than Valentine’s Day! If you love Before Sunrise, Closer, Take This Waltz, Weekend and the like, you’re bound to enjoy these “musings on modern intimacy.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757080...

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There's a reason COMPANY/"Being Alive" were key when I was sketching out what to cover in HELLO STRANGER (I also thoroughly enjoyed researching the many drafts the song went through before we got this stunner of a tune).

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I watched "The Matrix" and thought "Wow, what an incredible reflection on identity and the self, the impulse of human freedom, the need to liberate ourselves from technologies of control" whereas these Silicon Valley bros saw fields of human batteries and thought "yes, yes, let's actually do that."

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A joy to chat with @fakedansavage.bsky.social about flirting & Hello Stranger. savage.love/subscribe (Use promo code HELLO to subscribe & listen to the full Magnum episode)

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When straight men troll for trans men on dating apps. A woman is horrified that her and her husband's new unicorn, has such a young looking face. On the Magnum, Dan chats with writer Manuel Betancourt, about his new book "Hello Stranger." Listen now at savage.love/

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“OJOS ASÍ” AT THE GRAMMYS IN 2025.

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You too can listen to me read my way through HELLO STRANGER: tantor.com/hello-strang...

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New author headshots, courtesy of the talented John Lagucki. đź’•

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Covering Sundance virtually this year; thread incoming. Ahead of the fest I talked with Gregory Nava about returning to Park City with El Norte.

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Uhhh, hi! It's me, Bookshop.org, a place to buy books online where every purchase financially supports indie bookstores instead of some billionaire.

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Decades later, “El Norte” returns to its Sundance Roots with a special screening. Story by @bmanuel.bsky.social www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

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Had the pleasure of drawing @bmanuel.bsky.social last week with @doableguys.bsky.social. And picked up his new book as well! Can’t wait to dive in!

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democrats: we will provide bipartisan support for you President Trump president of Colombia:

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Today’s PSA: it’s Colombia not Columbia.

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