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Michael Taeckens

@mtaeckens.bsky.social

Co-founder, Broadside PR Lit Agent, Massie McQuilkin & Altman https://michaeltaeckenspr.com/about-me/

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Laila Lalami@lailalalami.com · yesterday

I tried to bring the focus back where it needs to be: "Whatever the strategic (mis)calculations behind this crisis, what is indisputable is that on any given day, there are thousands of young people in Morocco who are willing to risk everything for a chance to live in Europe." tinyurl.com/mpeyzavu

The Makings of a Mass Crisis

Unless Morocco’s government provides better jobs, education, healthcare, and human rights to young people, the crisis we witnessed this last week will happen again.

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Laila Lalami@lailalalami.com · yesterday

I haven’t felt like posting on this site since my mother died in October, but I feel compelled to raise my periscope given the horrifying crisis at the Morocco/Spain border in Ceuta and the disturbing amount of misinformation that’s circulating around it.

American Libraries magazine@amlibraries.bsky.social · 2w ago

“I think it’s the most romantic thing I could say, but my life has been liberated by public education.” Read more from the #alaac26 session of novelist @minjinlee.bsky.social https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prices-paid-for-lessons-learned/

Prices Paid for Lessons Learned | American Libraries Magazine

Author Min Jin Lee's latest book explores the hagwon system of Korean education and the economic forces that shape narratives.

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Caleb Crain@calebcrain.bsky.social · last wk.

I’ve been waiting for the print edition to read The Review (I am an old), but my principle here is that if a reviewer isn’t free to give her honest opinion of a work of art, what freedom worth having still exists in the world? Gratitude and ingratitude are just terms for social control here.

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

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Colson Whitehead@colsonwhitehead.com · 2w ago

If you’re looking for a freelance book editor for your project, hit up @wcboggess.bsky.social. When I finished the trilogy, I wanted to someone to read the books back to back, to check consistency, tone, vibe, thematic progression, all of it. William was really great, perceptive & insightful!

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3w ago

Reminder! There are alternatives to Substack! Which do not have its ethical problems! (My newsletter is on Ghost, which is fabulous, and Buttondown is among the others I've heard praised.) Thread--

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

Kate Tuttle@katekilla.bsky.social · 3w ago

There's nobody I would rather have review a new novel by @colsonwhitehead.com than Walton Muyumba, who says that COOL MACHINE, the final book in the Harlem Trilogy, is the best of of the bunch. In print in Sunday's @bostonglobe www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/a...

‘Cool Machine’ completes Whitehead’s Harlem Trilogy with thoughts of justice denied - The Boston Globe

Colson Whitehead’s tenth novel, “Cool Machine,” concludes his crime fiction series centered on the trials and triumphs of Ray Carney, both a legitimate furniture-store proprietor and a fence for stole...

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Colson Whitehead@colsonwhitehead.com · 3w ago

I didn’t know it was airing 🤪, but I hosted a “White Guys Sweating” double feature of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre & The Killing on TCM last weekend. It was fun! www.instagram.com/tcm/reel/Daq...

Turner Classic Movies on Instagram: "Novelist and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Colson Whitehead shares his favorite movie-theater memories, dream dinner guest from the Golden Age...

1,057 likes, 13 comments - tcm on July 11, 2026: "Novelist and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Colson Whitehead shares his favorite movie-theater memories, dream dinner guest from t...

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Kate Tuttle@katekilla.bsky.social · 4w ago

My semi-regular reminder that if you subscribe to a publication and you like antyhing anyone there is doing, try to click on the article, comment on it, write an email to the publication's editor, etc. Because we really live and die by engagement metrics, and it's hard out here on the books beat.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"