@jamesmcmanus22.bsky.social
Writer. Teacher. Positively Fifth Street, Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker, Going to the Sun, #booksky #poker #WSOP
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/o... #RollingStones #Satisfaction
The priesthood, or rock ’n’ roll? How the Stones inspired me to break my grandmother’s heart. - The Boston Globe
It was the summer of ’65, and I couldn’t get no satisfaction. But that was OK, because Mick, Keith, Charlie, and Brian couldn’t, either.
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Pre-reading dinner with my wife Jennifer and one of my better writing students.
How ironic that a convicted felon and career fraudster who created a fake scam university to defraud students is now proceeding to lecture a prestigious university like Harvard. It doesn’t get more MAGA red hat than that.
Trump just officially escaped responsibility for the worst act of treason since 1861. #treason #insurrection #JackSmith #Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...
Jack Smith, Who Led Prosecutions of Trump, Resigns
Mr. Smith, a special counsel appointed by Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, had signaled that he would step down before Donald J. Trump’s inauguration.
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. . . especially Passion, Chance-Soon-Silence, and the title story.
Nonia Pariente@npariente.bsky.social · 2y agoCurrently in the last story of this wonderful book. It’s so good that I don’t want it to finish. Very bittersweet, but such excellent storytelling and prose. Can highly recommend!
