retired reporter, fiction writer now, and obsessed reader
western massachusetts
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gofund.me/b00c5779 this seems vital in a time like this, to help in anyway us lucky people can. Feeling pretty powerless.
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Congrats just started reading it last night and about a third of the way in, wow, so rapt by your talent
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I just wrote a @theactionnet letter: Please Include the Strongest No Cost Calls Policy in the Budget. Write one here: act.commoncause.org/letters/…
Saw Clair Fuller in South Hadley last night, if you have the chance, lovers of great writing, literature and story should do all they can to see her.. Lovely event, amazing novel.
Did you hear? The Memory of Animals author @ClaireFuller2 begins her book tour this Monday, kicking off at @mcnallyjackson in NYC! Check out this list to see when the tour nears you so you can get in on the fun!
To honor a veteran, here's the story of Albert Scott of Brookline who enlisted in WW1 at 15 years, 6 months and was killed at 16 in France killing 30 Germans. "Scotty," the reported youngest to serve, was honored with a painting and certificate. RIP to Scott all vets on this day
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I don't know what happened with him, but found him so irritating. He's supposed to focus on the news, right, not his wardrobe or himself. The show will be so much better without him. I wish him well in his future and look forward to watching the show with just the women.
BREAKING | Don Lemon has been terminated by CNN, the anchor announced on Monday just hours after he’d ended his morning broadcast.
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Federally Ban Assault Weapons: Educators, School Clinicians, School Staff & Parents Unite chng.it/DjRT6hKP via @Change
Great reporting thank you
New: Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge. propub.li/3KEo0pO
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New: Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me that someone would do this,” says one former judge. propub.li/3KEo0pO
Saw Catherine Lacey teapaw.org/fsgbooks about Biography of X at my favorite Odyssey Bookshop. odysseybks.com talk, great book. Thanks.
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Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year.
"That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty," the author says. n.pr/3yT1Olt
Been reading Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom this year. Some insane bits, today he writes of gluttony - "God gave food to people, and the devil gave cooks."