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I Would Follow This Poem to Hell and Back www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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It was such a thrill to talk with Megan Marshall, one of my biographer/historian heroes! I hope you give our interview a listen and treat yourself to a copy of AFTER LIVES.

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Some good DEI and social justice news. www.newhavenarts.org/arts-paper/a...

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I visited the University of Connecticut School of Law Library in 2023 and am just now posting about it. Researching its history and revisiting these photos makes me want to go back. chriswolak.com/2025/02/09/u... #libraryblog #lawlibrary #UConnLaw

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#currentlyreading for @bookcougars first quarter readalong — Shirley Jackson’s legendary The Haunting of Hill House. Bookmark from Books Are Magic #booksky

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This lesbian got her hair cut last night by a gay man in the home where Fitz-Greene Halleck last lived and where he died in 1867. We’ve always been here, always will be. No executive order can erase LGBTQIA+ people 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/fitz-gr...

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learning to enjoy bad writing on websites because that means that at least a person wrote it, somebody who cared about what they were writing about enough to try. totally non-dystopic state of affairs

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New on the blog — first library visit post of the year! Check out photos from my visit to the beautiful Tunxis Library of CT State Tunxis in Farmington, CT. #librarylove #academiclibrary #library chriswolak.com/2025/01/24/l...

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In-person and livestream 📚 🎉

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Yesterday was a good day.

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#currentlyreading one of my most anticipated books of 2025 — the 4th entry in @authorhenderson.bsky.social’s Alex Carter series. Wildlife biologist searching for jaguars in New Mexico runs into more than she bargained for. Out March 4. #BookSky #Suspense #Netgalley @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social

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It is important to know these new executive orders are more like wishes or intentions at this point, not laws. Still, scary stuff.

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Today on the blog, I share memories of meeting Jimmy Carter in Plains, Georgia. chriswolak.com/2025/01/15/j...

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I always enjoy recording this annual Top 10 special episode. 2024 was a good reading year for all three of us. 📚🎉

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We’ll be discussing one ghost story per episode (every-other-week) from this collection beginning in Feb. Read with us, if you dare, bwahaha! 👻

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@valleygirl07.bsky.social I hope you’re safe. The news is devastating.

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Good morning! Sharing my first blog post of the new year, a photo essay about a pilgrimage I made with some friends to Carson McCullers' house in Nyack, New York. Hope you enjoy it! chriswolak.com/2025/01/08/c...

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I came across The Militia House by John Milas at Bank Square Books in the fall. So glad I picked it up then because I don’t want to put it down now! Part war story, the experience of a logistics Marine corporal in Afghanistan, and part haunted house horror. Or haunted barracks, to be precise.

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Bookmail! Buddy always appreciates new books entering the house and gets first sniff. I plan on reading this one in 2025. DR MARY WALKER: An American Radical, 1832-1919 by Sharon M. Harris. 👋 @sharonmharris.bsky.social #drmarywalker #medalofhonor #biography #bookmail #tbr2025

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Today's new post on the blog is the beautiful 1903 Nyack Public Library.

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Ghost stories! 👻 (@bookcougars theme for 2025)

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@eddieselover.bsky.social Just found out that Shakti Gawain died via your beautiful 2018 tribute on the impact she had on you. Decades ago I wondered why she wasn't a bigger name but as I read your words I nodded along: she was doing the work.

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The Dragon from Chicago by Pamela D. Toler is an excellent read. Sigrid Schultz had amazing language skills, strategic smarts, and keen emotional intelligence. She was also in the right place at the right time and committed completely to her found career as a journalist.

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“On the left, we don’t know how to appeal to people’s deep passions. We think we’re very smart and very critical. But where’s the radical imaginary by which people will be passionately absorbed?”

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Opening night for this new play is 12/13 🎭

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Attending two Moby-Dick marathons were highlights of my reading year. I'm in the photo used in this article taken at the Seaman's Bethel at the New Bedford Whaling Museum's marathon and also attended Mystic Seaport's overnight on the Morgan, an amazing experience! www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

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