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Latest novel: THE GREAT AMERICAN BETRAYAL "Best Comedy Books of 2022" —Vulture English professor, novelist, satirist, father, husband, dog owner, gardener, liker of good beer https://scottsteinonline.com
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These days, writing a novel with any element of satire means constantly deleting what you've just written because it's not nearly stupid enough.

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First daylily bloom.

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Just signed a 5-year contract extension to teach at my university. Will have to see after that if there are still universities. #academicsky

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I'm grading papers all day. No more news or appalling events, please.

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Update: the Southern Magnolia has its first flower.

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I don't think of myself as a sci-fi writer so much as a satire/comedy writer, but writing weird and idiosyncratic novels made it much harder to find an agent and publisher. For some reason, they didn't want to read footnoted novels narrated by a coffee machine robot. scottsteinonline.com

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Trump gets Joe Rogan and Elon keeps custody of Big Balls.

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My students submitted final papers last night for my "Strangers in Strange Lands" course. I hope they wrote them.

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Cheers to anyone writing a book or still capable of reading one.

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Another #FridayReads from the road! Let’s boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m sharing the book that started its own genre: Zero Saints. Back and better than ever, baby! Let it slither into your soul… www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

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I guess you can flush him after all.

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It's like a really weird Taylor Swift song.

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Nice to see that my novel The Great American Deception has been bought or read by people who also bought or read books by writers I sort of know from Bluesky. @harkaway.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @scalzi.com www.amazon.com/Great-Americ...

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Cheers to the fascist divorce.

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Who gets custody of Big Balls?

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Our great grandkids are going to think everything was so stupid.

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Eating a burrito, drinking a great beer, listening to '90s grunge, and reading everyone's posts about Trump-Musk feud. Not sure it gets better than this.

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Somewhere out there a flat earther is looking at the news, stirring horse paste into his raw milk, and crying

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Cheers to the fascist divorce.

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Who gets custody of Big Balls?

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There is no more Matrix. It's all one big glitch now.

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Switching from writing satire to writing comedy was the right decision

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Laughing thinking about future history students writing dissertations about today @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

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The whole Internet is one Trump-Musk exchange away from bursting into song.

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The first day in years that I pity people who aren’t online all the time.

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Elon Musk is now standing outside the White House holding a boombox over his head.

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I am sorry to report that there has been no sign of the robin the last two days and a couple of lower branches on the shrub were broken. I suspect foul play (not fowl play—I don't think a bird is responsible, certainly not a duck, goose, turkey, or pheasant). Still investigating.

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