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Michael D. Durkota

@durk13

writer - author - pool player ✯ Once in a Blue Year https://teapaw.org/t.co/LZnLmplQSN

 Pittsburgh PA
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Joined February 2010
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I am reading The Secret History by Donna Tartt, and I am getting increasingly angry that no one recommended this book to me before. #amreading
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So you’re saying as long as I don’t ‘go big’ I get to go home?
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If you are not watching #LuckyHank, you need to fix that. #GreatWriting #GreatStory @AMC_TV
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"All the Light We Cannot See" brings Pulitzer Prize winner to life in spine-tingling trailer ew.com/tv/all-the-light-we-c…
'All the Light We Cannot See' first look brings Pulitzer Prize winner to life

'All the Light We Cannot See' first look brings Pulitzer Prize winner to life

'All the Light We Cannot See,' the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, comes to life in first-look trailer and images for the four-part miniseries.

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It is healthy to watch the first 10 minutes of The Newsroom S1:E1 from time to time.
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Veterans deserve a whole month durkota.net/?p=890
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inkstable.com | Five Famous Writers and their Favorite Fountain Pens durkota.net/?p=887
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Check out Anthony Doerr (In Person) at Carnegie Music Hall! #TenEvenings @pghartslectures pittsburghlectures.culturald…
Anthony Doerr (In Person) - Pittsburgh | Official Ticket Source | Carnegie Music Hall | Mon, Oct 3,...

Anthony Doerr (In Person) - Pittsburgh | Official Ticket Source | Carnegie Music Hall | Mon, Oct 3,...

Anthony Doerr (In Person) - Pittsburgh | Official Ticket Source | Carnegie Music Hall | Mon, Oct 3, 2022, 7:30pm | #TenEvenings @pghartslectures | Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures

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🌸 EEVA LANCASTER@eevalancaster3 Jun 2022
Writer resources | rogue rhetoric durkota.net/?page_id=97 via @durk13 Thanks for including me, Michael! Check out the writer resources on his list. :) #indie #publishing #writing #WritingCommunity
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10 Famous Novels That Didn’t Win the Pulitzer Prize by @janiceharayda link.medium.com/mEBdseQdXpb
10 Famous Novels That Didn’t Win the Pulitzer Prize

10 Famous Novels That Didn’t Win the Pulitzer Prize

Notable losers include ‘Catch-22,’ ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Catcher in the Rye’

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Jenna M. George@jennamgeorge5 May 2022
Calling all #indieauthors, #authors, #writers, #bloggers, and #poets on this beautiful Thursday afternoon 📚 Here's a #writerslift for the #WritingCommunity. Share your work below! I'll retweet it. Also, if you follow me, I'll follow you back 🥰
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Here are the first reviews of every Ernest Hemingway novel. lithub.com/here-are-the-firs… via @lithub
Here are the first reviews of every Ernest Hemingway novel.

Here are the first reviews of every Ernest Hemingway novel.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If y…

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I guess #facemasking is no longer a penalty in the #NFL.
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rogue13@rogue13pubs4 Apr 2020
Award-winning #psychological suspense #novel by #indieauthor Michael D. Durkota @durk13 mybook.to/BlueYear bit.ly/BlueYear 100% of all book proceeds will be donated to @GarySiniseFound for COVID-19 support. #Kindle #kindleunlimited
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Exercise wherein I edit the first paragraph of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises to see how many words I can trim, and therefore claim the title for sparse prose durkota.net/?p=874
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Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writing with Style openculture.com/2022/02/niet… via @openculture
Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writing with Style

Nietzsche’s 10 Rules for Writing with Style

The life of Russian-born poet, novelist, critic, and first female psychologist Lou Andreas-Salomé has provided fodder for both salacious speculation and intellectual drama in film and on the page for...

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From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done nytimes.com/2021/09/24/books…
From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done (Published 2021)

From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done (Published 2021)

“Cloud Cuckoo Land,” Doerr’s first novel since “All the Light We Cannot See,” unites five characters over a millennium in a tribute to books and those who love them.

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Proud to be a part of this. uniontownapps.ogdennews.com/… #writing #truecrime
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