Alan Drew
@alanauthordrew.bsky.social
Author of the novels THE RECRUIT, SHADOW MAN, and GARDENS OF WATER. Director of Villanova Program in Creative Writing, Villanova Lit Fest, native Southern Californian loving Philly.
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This right here.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This right here.
Needed strength and resolve. Got weakness and capitulation.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Needed strength and resolve. Got weakness and capitulation.
All right, Governor!
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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
All right, Governor!
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Hey poets! Villanova's hiring for a tenure-track position. Deadline is November 3.
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Assistant Professor of Poetry (Creative Writing) job with Villanova University | 2000484
Villanova English seeks tenure-track Assistant Professor (poetry) for Fall 2026. MFA/PhD required; practicing poet; excellence in teaching expected.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Hey poets! Villanova's hiring for a tenure-track position. Deadline is November 3.
joblist.mla.org/job/2000484/...
joblist.mla.org/job/2000484/...
Hey poets and teachers out there! Villanova is hiring for a tenure-track assistant prof position. Great school and a wonderful English Department. Check it out below.
jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
Assistant Professor of Poetry (Creative Writing)
The Department of English at Villanova University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in poetry. The appointment will begin in Fal...
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October 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hey poets and teachers out there! Villanova is hiring for a tenure-track assistant prof position. Great school and a wonderful English Department. Check it out below.
jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001
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The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
September 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
My father was 82nd Airborne, retired as a Colonel in the California National Guard. I can't imagine what he's feeling listening to Hegseth and our dear leader.
September 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
My father was 82nd Airborne, retired as a Colonel in the California National Guard. I can't imagine what he's feeling listening to Hegseth and our dear leader.
America: the country where we devour our children.
August 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
America: the country where we devour our children.
I grew up in a home with people who took many of their marital and parenting cues from Focus on the Family. I'm pretty sure that's a significant reason why I became a writer.
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James Dobson, Influential Leader of the Religious Right, Dies at 89
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August 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I grew up in a home with people who took many of their marital and parenting cues from Focus on the Family. I'm pretty sure that's a significant reason why I became a writer.
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Well, Brooks really doesn't want to write about novelists here. And what limited reading he must be doing. (Though I'm with him on Colleen Hoover.) Also, it's funny how Iowa has become the bogeyman for soft thinking about the state of American literature.
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Opinion | When Novels Mattered
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July 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Well, Brooks really doesn't want to write about novelists here. And what limited reading he must be doing. (Though I'm with him on Colleen Hoover.) Also, it's funny how Iowa has become the bogeyman for soft thinking about the state of American literature.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...
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What the Trump admin understands is that the Republicans on Capitol Hill are cowards.
July 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
What the Trump admin understands is that the Republicans on Capitol Hill are cowards.
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Word.
June 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Word.
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Yeah, but our weak and pathetic mainstream media won’t do that.
June 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Yeah, but our weak and pathetic mainstream media won’t do that.
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
June 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
Digging this new Purelink. Ambient isn't the right word for it. Headphones in, volume up. Beautifully layered music.
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Faith
Purelink · Album · 2025 · 6 songs
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June 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Digging this new Purelink. Ambient isn't the right word for it. Headphones in, volume up. Beautifully layered music.
open.spotify.com/album/4QJJWf...
open.spotify.com/album/4QJJWf...
Most exciting new music I’ve heard in a while. The songs feel on the edge of falling apart, an emotional breakdown catharsis.
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Total euphoria
caroline · caroline 2 · Song · 2025
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May 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Most exciting new music I’ve heard in a while. The songs feel on the edge of falling apart, an emotional breakdown catharsis.
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Taken four months off from writing, to focus on teaching. Enjoyed work, slept well, felt refreshed. Semester's over, diving back into a messy novel, so cue nightmares of plane crashes, of fish hooks stabbing hands, of faceless monsters tugging at ankles, pulling me into darkness. Here we go...
May 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Taken four months off from writing, to focus on teaching. Enjoyed work, slept well, felt refreshed. Semester's over, diving back into a messy novel, so cue nightmares of plane crashes, of fish hooks stabbing hands, of faceless monsters tugging at ankles, pulling me into darkness. Here we go...
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The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.
May 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.
Hey, Philly people! Come on out for a night with Paul Lisicky. It's free and open to the public. Hope to see you there.
April 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Hey, Philly people! Come on out for a night with Paul Lisicky. It's free and open to the public. Hope to see you there.
Look at me, look at me, look at me, I'm tough, look at me, look at me, look at me, I'm a winner, look at me, look at me., look at me...
April 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Look at me, look at me, look at me, I'm tough, look at me, look at me, look at me, I'm a winner, look at me, look at me., look at me...
Had a fantastic night hanging out with the great Victoria Chang at the Villanova Literary Festival. What a reading! And what good company.
I had such a lovely visit to Villanova and their Literary Festival. @alanauthordrew.bsky.social @tseringdhompa and @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Had a fantastic night hanging out with the great Victoria Chang at the Villanova Literary Festival. What a reading! And what good company.
It feels a little like this these days.
April 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
It feels a little like this these days.
Poet Victoria Chang will be reading this Tuesday night at Villanova. Philly people, come on out!
April 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Poet Victoria Chang will be reading this Tuesday night at Villanova. Philly people, come on out!
So this is what we are.
"The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return."
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"The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return."
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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April 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
So this is what we are.
"The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
"The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...