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WHEN I WAS YOUNG IN THE MOUNTAINS by Cynthia Rylant is an excellent children's book about growing up in Appalachia, not that I know anything about Appalachia, but I like to think I know good writing.

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I've wanted something similar to this for the last couple of decades. I think it would make make people feel more invested in the country. (I'm looking right at you, 90 million nonvoters.)

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Walter Hill is better at writing about a burglar than I am. C'est la litterature.

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@reganmacarthur.bsky.social Your time is nigh.

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“I wore a light blue shirt with a blue and red sports coat and no tie and a blackjack in the pocket... I looked like a used-car salesman. I looked like one every day, but that day the realization landed on me like pigeon shit.” —Joe R. Lansdale, MORE BETTER DEALS (2020)

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He's a role model for all writers. Frankly, he should be a role model for actual humans, too.

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I've walked Alcatraz enough to know it's a porous, rusting shithole that cost way too much to keep up in 1963. If you're going to lose billions rebuilding an entire island prison fortress from scratch, shit, why not do it on Martha's Vineyard and at least trigger some libs with all your waste?

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I admit I've been remiss about covering catalytic converter theft in my fiction, but I just liked writing burglaries too much. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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art by Marcos Mateu-Mestre

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McGinnis!

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This is all true, but I would advise not going during a garbage strike in the summertime, though.

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I've wanted something similar to this for the last couple of decades. I think it would make make people feel more invested in the country. (I'm looking right at you, 90 million nonvoters.)

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Watching Andor, and realizing there will be people who shed tears over this fiction while cheering on the reality it mirrors.

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DEAD CALM (1989): Nicole Kidman was 22. Billy Zane was 23. Sam Neill, playing Kidman's husband, was 42! The movie never delves into that disparity. The story came off pretty muddled this time. Is Zane supposed to be the ghost of Kidman's dead son? Or is he a sexy threat to a shaky marriage?

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Grab a coffee this morning, maybe get a bagel, English muffin, whatever, and give this little Columbo-esque piece of Flash fic a read. It's a sharp spot of trouble indeed. Maybe, uh, skip the morning cigar...

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I rejoined Goodreads so I could list the latest book, but someone already did it! Whoever you are, kind stranger, thanks very much. :D Here's With Ravens Passing the Moon (out May 27th), wishlist it and it's lke giving a bald man's head a rub for good luck! www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

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(1 of 2) Somebody just referenced SUNSET (1988) on here. I don't think the movie's a success, but there's a moment worth seeing. James Garner, as an aging Wyatt Earp, is visiting the film set where they're about to...

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Bugs makes this case accurately and eloquently. what happened is not "man speaks from beyond the grave" what happened is "they showed an expensive cartoon in court"

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a photo by Gordon Parks

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Hey, screenwriters, you know that somebody is going to have to write Canadian RED DAWN. Why can't it be you? www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

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Nice poster for DIE HARD

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"Just 'cause he speaks a little guilty, that don't make him innocent."

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I honestly think it's one of the best television series ever made.

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I have reached the swearing-at-inanimate-objects level of aggravation.

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It would be nice to live in a house with a balcony, wouldn't it?

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Featured today on The Fight City, my survey of Norman Mailer’s boxing nonfiction. When Mailer was young and brash, he wanted to be Muhammad Ali. As he aged, he made peace with being more of a Cus D’Amato - and his writing got more interesting as a result. www.thefightcity.com/norman-maile...

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A strange, abandoned world where faith is a disease and help is light-years away. The Owl Men of Shanidar, my sci-fi weird tale, is out now!

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"He glanced at the clock and saw it was 11:11 and he didn't hesitate: he made a wish from the heart, but then the possibility of the wish coming true became too frightening so he glanced at the clock again to see if there was still time to change his wish."

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Happy Orson Welles Day to those who celebrate.

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Karine Laval

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"To Hawks, joking is no light matter. It's one of the most important things people can do for each other."

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I've been curious about this for decades.

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In the parking lot of the dying mall, the guy passing out cards for his psychic-reading business couldn't even predict that I wouldn't be interested. Sad, really.

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