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Jane Tyson Clement:
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"Candace Kahn," Almost Romance:
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Nick Cave:
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supercrayon:
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Christina Long (Washington Post)
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Seanan McGuire:
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Morrie Morgan, in "Work Song" by Ivan Doig:
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Jason Mendoza:
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Augusten Burroughs:
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armeowda:
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Stan Tatkin
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Lani Diane Rich:
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Justin Peters:
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Anne Lamott:
“If you’re paying attention and making your own life as beautiful and rich and fun as it can be, you might just attract someone who’s doing the same thing,” she said. “You can give up on tracking someone down with your butterfly net.” “Never give up, no matter how things look or how long they take. Don’t quit before the miracle.”
Seanan McGuire:
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Grangousier:
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Joy:
"I feel a constant low level of stress every day, just by virtue of existing in my environment,"
Fancy Feast:
"When she was on a bad date, she would go to the bathroom, hit her nose until she got a nosebleed, and excuse herself, because it was easier to punch herself in the face than suffer the consequences of rejecting a man."
Ber:
"Get your freak on, screw the powers that would deny you."
Lee Bradford:
"Lee? Why does all this weird shit only seem to happen to you? Well, disembodied voice from nowhere-statistically, it has to happen somewhere."
David Neal:
“Nobody told us that our ‘15 Minutes of Fame’ would include shaming, insults, threats, etc. And that we might not have even asked for it.”
Debbie Harry (???)
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February 28, 2017

Founding Fathers links

American Prankster: Benjamin Franklin
"Jefferson was a child of the Enlightenment, and arguably the most enlightened of them all. For two centuries, historians have found him “maddening,” “a sphinx,” “a mass of contradictions,” “an enigma” and you get the point… Some modern historians, who dedicate their entire careers to analysis-by-single-issue, usually fail to acknowledge whatever might be understood as a whole. Then of course, there is the sneaky feeling that Mr. J. did not wish to be so easily understood."

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Jesse Q. Sutanto: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
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Katie Cotugno: Birds of California
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C.K. Chau: Good Fortune
Reviewed September 13. (***)
Aimee Lutkin: The Lonely Hunter: How Our Search For Love Is Broken
Reviewed September 10. (***)
D.L. Soria: Thief, Liar, Lady
Reviewed September 9. (****)
Taylor Jenkins Reid: Carrie Soto Is Back
Reviewed September 8. (****)
Taylor Jenkins Reid: Malibu Rising
Reviewed September 4, 2023. (****)
Lana Harper: Back In A Spell
Reviewed September 4. (***)
Lana Harper: From Bad to Cursed
Reviewed August 31. (***)
Edward Sorel: Mary Astor's Purple Diary: The Great American Sex Scandal of 1936
Reviewed August 20. (***)
Anna Sortino: Give Me A Sign
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Ashley Poston: The Seven Year Slip
Reviewed August 10. (****)
Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer: Lavender's Blue
Reviewed July 30. (****)
Katherine Center: The Bodyguard
Reviewed July 17. (****)
Kate Quinn: The Diamond Eye
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Maureen Ryan: Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood.
Reviewed June 13. (*****)
Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone: A Merry Little Meet Cute
Reviewed June 13. (***)
Katharine McGee: American Royals III: Rivals
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Stacy Wolf: Changed For Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical
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Jen DeLuca: Well Traveled
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Nan Fischer: Some Of It Was Real
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Sangu Mandanna: The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Reviewed May 11. (****)
Eva Carter: Owner Of A Lonely Heart
Reviewed May 10. (****)
Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman: Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Reviewed May 9. (***)
John Scalzi: Travel by Bullet
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Robert Dallek: An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
Reviewed April 23. (**)
Naomi Novik: The Golden Enclaves
Reviewed April 20. (***)
Alan Brinkley: John F. Kennedy
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes: The Final Gambit
Reviewed April 10. (****)
Mary Robinette Kowal: The Spare Man
Reviewed April 8. (****)
Andrew Lownie: Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
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Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers: Inside Bridgerton
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Jennifer Estep: Conquer the Kingdom
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Seanan McGuire: Backpacking Through Bedlam
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Kate Andersen Brower: Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
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