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Patrick Strickland

@patrickobrienstrickland.com

Writer from Texas Managing editor @inkstickmedia.com Books: A History of Heartache (2026), You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave (2025), The Marauders (2022) & Alerta! Alerta! (2018)

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Inkstick Media@inkstickmedia.com · 6d ago

"At the end of the controversial 'Antifa trial,' Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to three decades in prison for moving a box of zines and antifascist literature. His sister wants people to know the real Daniel." By: @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social inkstickmedia.com/a-prairielan...

A Prairieland Defendant's Sister Speaks Out After 'Antifa Trial'

The sister of a Prairieland Antifa trial defendant speakers out against the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing activism.

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Inkstick Media@inkstickmedia.com · last wk.

"Seven publicly traded companies hold active contracts or data agreements with ICE and DHS: GEO Group, CoreCivic, Palantir, Axon Enterprise, Thomson Reuters, RELX (whose LexisNexis division provides ICE with its Accurint database), and GlobalX Airlines." By: @tylermcbrien.com and Jon Nealon

Are Your Investments Fueling For-Profit Immigrant Detention?

Activists around the US are turning toward divestment as ICE increasingly relies on for-profit companies to handle immigrant detention.

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Inkstick Media@inkstickmedia.com · 3w ago

"Ninety years ago, a young American communist named William Herrick crossed the Atlantic Sea with dreams of killing fascists. He returned with a bullet in his spine and resentment for his old comrades. Decades later, he'd become a novelist and turn his pen against the left he once championed."

The ‘American Orwell’ Who Fought in the Spanish Civil War

After turning to fiction later in his life, William Herrick's chronicles of leftist betrayal earned him the nickname the 'American Orwell.'

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Patrick Strickland@patrickobrienstrickland.com · 3mo ago

I got to go on @texaspublicradio.bsky.social's Book Public, hosted by the unmatchable Yvette Benavides, and talk about my new book A History of Heartache.

Texas Public Radio@texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Patrick Strickland discusses his story collection "A History of Heartache." These are stories set in North Texas that chart the small moments of grace, and the almost insurmountable mistakes boys inherit. Read More👉 ebx.sh/3u0dyZ

Patrick Strickland@patrickobrienstrickland.com · 4mo ago

"But in A History of Heartache, a short-story collection that is his first work of fiction, he returns to Texas and peels back the mask of a worn-out suburbia to reveal stark human tragedy." I'm stoked as all heck to get this thoughtful and generous review of my book from the Dallas Morning News:

Characters stumble through uncertain lives in D-FW author's story collection

In "A History of Heartache," Patrick Strickland returns to Texas and peels back the mask of a worn-out suburbia to reveal stark human tragedy.

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Southern Review of Books@southrevbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Beyond the pain and the characters who bear it, this book is a commentary on the ways America abandons its people to fend for themselves." @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social reviews A HISTORY OF HEARTACHE by Patrick Strickland. @melvillehouse.bsky.social southernreviewofbooks.com/2026/04/15/a...

“A History of Heartache” Is a World Where No Saviors Are Coming

Bleak, clear-eyed, abrasive, and thoughtful stories about the forgotten folks of East Texas.

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Patrick Strickland@patrickobrienstrickland.com · 5mo ago

At Inkstick, @moiralavelle.bsky.social reviews @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's 'Here Where We Live Is Our Country,' out next month.

Inkstick Media@inkstickmedia.com · 5mo ago

In her forthcoming book, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social "writes to make you fall in love with the Bundists — with their charm, their surety, their steadfastness, their loquaciousness — but more so to make you fall in love with their ideas." A new review by @moiralavelle.bsky.social

Patrick Strickland@patrickobrienstrickland.com · 5mo ago

A harrowing letter from Gaza: "For two years, I have not so much as turned on a heater. What would be the point? There is neither gas nor electricity. The only source of warmth are wood fires, and they are suffocating."

Inkstick Media@inkstickmedia.com · 5mo ago

"In central Gaza, our situation was no safer. In the neighborhood where I live, we woke on a recent morning to tragedy: a five-story residential building, home to the Shanna family, had collapsed. The building had survived Israeli shelling, but the fierce winds proved too much."

Patrick Strickland@patrickobrienstrickland.com · 5mo ago

At Inkstick, @tylerfromtexas.bsky.social spoke to Behrooz Ghamari, a former political prisoner in Iran and author of the new book 'The Long War on Iran' (from @orbooks.bsky.social) "The interventionist policy only creates disasters," he said.

Inkstick Media@inkstickmedia.com · 5mo ago

"For Trump, all of this is a spectacle," says a former Iranian political prisoner and sociologist named Behrooz Ghamari, author of the new book 'The Long War on Iran.' He adds, "The interventionist policy only creates disasters."

Patrick Strickland@patrickobrienstrickland.com · 6mo ago

A Greek coast guard ship "collided with" a boat carrying refugees, killing 15. Now an autopsy shows that the Afghans who died in the incident perished because of head wounds rather than drowning.

Autopsies show migrants in shipwreck off Greece died of head injuries, not drowning

Most of the 15 Afghan migrants who were killed off the Greek island of Chios last week when their dinghy collided with a coast guard vessel died of head injuries, not from drowning, autopsy results se...

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