Michael Dolan
@michaeldolan.bsky.social
Author/Raconteur Founder/Editorial Director of Winding Road Stories HWA member Former CondeNast, AQ Mag Boxer/bodybuilder Cooking/art/fashion/music/books/travel
Born 100 years ago today, Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" on The Ed Sullivan Show
Tony Bennett "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" on The Ed Sullivan Show, November 22, 1964. Subscribe now to never miss an update: https://ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe Watch more of Tony…
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New one's up! #Beetlejuice, #StevenKing, and #Whalefall with @tracedthurman.bsky.social ( @bloody-disgusting.com, @horrorqueers.bsky.social )! youtu.be/1wy3VE_rn3k #horror #psychology #podcasts #podcast
Trace Thurman (HorrorQueers podcast, Bloody Disgusting) | HMUH S07E16
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So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
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Very excited to bring this new thriller by Catlyn Ladd to the world on November 10th.
Winding Road Stories@wrdstories.bsky.social · last wk.COVER REVEAL Are you ready for The Jehovah Project? The new thriller by Catlyn Ladd debuts November 10th with Winding Road Stories.
Very proud of this book by Bobby Cassidy Jr. It's an incredible story of toughness and perseverance. It debuts today with @wrdstories.bsky.social
Winding Road Stories@wrdstories.bsky.social · 3w agoRequiem for a Middleweight, the story of how Irish Bobby Cassidy battled through boxing, alcoholism and organized crime to try to become the father he never had, debuts today.
Please give your doggies an extra treat and hug from me for having to deal with the fireworks today.
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Missing England fan found in pub 'blissfully unaware' of global search
Michael Hewitt's frantic family had sparked a global search when he "vanished without a trace" after leaving Leeds on June 20 to travel to the US via Barcelona for the World Cup
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Worked out a little better than when King Kong tried to do it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Wow -- one of the climbers atop the Empire State Building appears to have gotten down on one knee and proposed to the other
Awesome idea from my friends at Brooklyn Public Library www.bklynlibrary.org/america-250/...
250 for 250 Booklist | Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating our country's 250th anniversary the best way we know how: with a thoughtful, surprising, irresistible booklist.
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“You build a novel. You have to build it like a building so that it stays standing when you’re not in it.” —Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk, The Art of Fiction No. 246
“I think the novel has to stay attached to life somehow. It has to share the terrain of life.”
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Russell Avery is hitting the road this August! The SURVIVING THE LIE tour starts 8/12 in San Diego w/ @curtisippolito.bsky.social where we'll also be discussing his newest novel, WAVES OF BURDEN. (And for the L.A. locals, I finally get a Vroman's event!)
What a great idea for a book. Matt Smith nailed it with THE ONES IN THE CORNER! Catch his full commute-length interview at thewritersdossier.com @cmattwrite.bsky.social
I'm usually very anti-algorithm, but every once in a while, Spotify hits a good rabbit hole that takes gym workout headphone music to another level.
Thanks so much to Jeff Circle for having me on The Writers Dossier to talk THE ONES IN THE CORNER, its publisher @wrdstories.bsky.social, and the novel’s origins.
C. Matthew Smith—THE ONES IN THE CORNER
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How to Sedate Yourself and Others, the new horror novella by Clare Castleberry, debuts today. shorturl.at/vzRND
New one's up! Sleepovers, The Shining, and going on adventures with @jennwexler.bsky.social (The Sacrament, ABCs of Death 2, Beneath, Most Beautiful Island, Darling)! youtu.be/JKxy-NEOZcc #horror #psychology #podcasts
Jenn Wexler (The Sacrament, ABCs of Death 2, Beneath, Most Beautiful Island, Darling) | HMUH S07E13
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Celebrating @joycecaroloates.bsky.social birthday tonight and hearing her speak about the art of the short story and her new collection, The Frenzy, which debuts today.
From the daily newsletter: what art meant to Hockney—and what the artist meant to art. www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...
David Hockney’s Big, Brilliant Life
From the daily newsletter: what art meant to Hockney—and what the artist meant to art.
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My favorite Sicilian restaurant has reopened in Brooklyn. It has been there for over 100 years, is under new management with the blessing of the family that owned it, and it's wonderful. barferdinando.com
Bar Ferdinando | Bar in Brooklyn, NY
All day, Italian bar in one of the oldest Italian restaurants in the country. Ferdinando's Focacceria has fed Brooklyn since 1904. New York City's oldest Sicilian restaurant, founded to serve the long...
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“With novels, like cakes, you never know.” —Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies, The Art of Fiction No. 107
On a “favorable” review in the Times of London: “[It] began with these chilling words: ‘To speak of a good novel from a Canadian writer sounds like the beginning of a bad joke.’”
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