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Daniel Paisner
@danielpaisner.bsky.social
novelist/ghostwriter/podcaster/beardo

Author: SHOW; BALLOON DOG; A SINGLE HAPPENED THING; MOURNING WOOD; THE BALL; OBIT

Co-Author: HEAVEN HELP US (John Kasich); UNFORGIVING (Lindsey Jacobellis); BLUE (Steve Aoki)

Host: AS TOLD TO
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another merch-in-the-wild spotting - posted here in the neverending tush-push to promote my hardly-read 2022 indie novel about the bungled theft of a #JeffKoons #balloondog sculpture... woof!...

#writinglife #indiepress #indieauthor #fiction #artheist #darkhumor #shopindie #BookSky
a.co/d/anNVJAk
"Sometimes when I’m reading, one of the things I’m looking for is, ‘How has this person made the novel new? For me, this novel was new.” - @zadiesmith.bsky.social, on the #DavidSzalay novel #Flesh, winner of the 2025 #BookerPrize...
#BookSky #AuthorSky
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ Wins 2025 Booker Prize
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“The American people want us to stop the heist, not drive the getaway car.” - @markey.senate.gov
#governmentshutdown
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Senate Passes Bill to Reopen Government Amid Democratic Rift
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
roughing the gasser?...
Trump getting booed at the Commanders game
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
looking forward to hosting a panel this week at the 2nd "Gathering of the Ghosts" conference in NYC with my friends and fellow collaborators... event is organized by #GothamGhostwriters and intended to shine meaningful light on the work #ghostwriters do behind-the-scenes

#writinglife #collaboration
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“Tin soldiers and Nixon coming/We’re finally on our own/This summer I hear the drumming /Four dead in #Ohio" 🎶 ✊️

... a chilling reminder of the overreach of government - and a tribute to the lives we nevertheless manage to live...
#JohnCleary #RIP
#KentStateShooting
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
John Cleary, Wounded in Kent State Shooting, Dies at 74
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"The teenage bedroom of today has been conquered by difference: different languages, different traditions, different voices, different faces...Stephen Miller can rant all he wants about it, but ICE cannot arrest it." @stephenmarche.bsky.social
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/o...
Opinion | America Is Losing the Fight for the Teenagers of the World
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by Daniel Paisner
student journalist #MatthewWinkler has an inspiring, insight-filled story to tell about how his time at #TuftsUniversity led him to discover an unsung hero from the world of #jazz, and then to turn that discovery into a documentary w. the help of his professors...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 99: Matthew Winkler
Podcast Episode · As Told To · 11/04/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
another merch-in-the-wild spotting - posted here in the neverending tush-push to promote my hardly-read 2022 indie novel about the bungled theft of a #JeffKoons #balloondog sculpture... woof!...

#writinglife #indiepress #indieauthor #fiction #artheist #darkhumor #shopindie #BookSky
a.co/d/anNVJAk
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Reposted by Daniel Paisner
we're getting some great feedback on this one - give us a spin and think back to what it took to jumpstart your own writing life...
#TuftsUniversity #writinglife #storytelling #documentary
#journalism #newpodcastepisode
@writersbone.com
student journalist #MatthewWinkler has an inspiring, insight-filled story to tell about how his time at #TuftsUniversity led him to discover an unsung hero from the world of #jazz, and then to turn that discovery into a documentary w. the help of his professors...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 99: Matthew Winkler
Podcast Episode · As Told To · 11/04/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Reposted by Daniel Paisner
new episode - a conversation with student journalist and first-time documentary filmmaker Matthew Winkler...
@writersbone.com #TuftsUniversity #journalism #storytelling
share.google/0NSlpHsawwTk...
Episode 99: Matthew Winkler
Podcast Episode · As Told To · 11/04/2025 · 53m
share.google
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"That ragged sound? I didn’t think they could play. I figured, ‘These guys must be good-looking.’ So I checked the back of one of their album covers and went, ‘Nope, that’s not it.’” - #DonnaGodchaux, on joining the #GratefulDead in the early 70s...
#RIP
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/a...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies at 78
www.nytimes.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
we're getting some great feedback on this one - give us a spin and think back to what it took to jumpstart your own writing life...
#TuftsUniversity #writinglife #storytelling #documentary
#journalism #newpodcastepisode
@writersbone.com
student journalist #MatthewWinkler has an inspiring, insight-filled story to tell about how his time at #TuftsUniversity led him to discover an unsung hero from the world of #jazz, and then to turn that discovery into a documentary w. the help of his professors...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 99: Matthew Winkler
Podcast Episode · As Told To · 11/04/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
student journalist #MatthewWinkler has an inspiring, insight-filled story to tell about how his time at #TuftsUniversity led him to discover an unsung hero from the world of #jazz, and then to turn that discovery into a documentary w. the help of his professors...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Episode 99: Matthew Winkler
Podcast Episode · As Told To · 11/04/2025 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
new episode - a conversation with student journalist and first-time documentary filmmaker Matthew Winkler...
@writersbone.com #TuftsUniversity #journalism #storytelling
share.google/0NSlpHsawwTk...
Episode 99: Matthew Winkler
Podcast Episode · As Told To · 11/04/2025 · 53m
share.google
November 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“I could not... go to my birth country, when there is such an authoritarian bully in the White House, and when the craven Republicans in the House and the U.S. Senate are complicit in their silence.” - #JohnIrving on returning to the U.S. to promote his new novel
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/s...
The World According to John Irving
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
hoping this is the version with our so-called president's temper tantrum...
November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
game of centimeters...
#baseball #WorldSeries #fallclassic @mlb.com ⚾️
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
got a new one due to drop Tuesday - catch this one while you can...

(actually, our episodes are ALWAYS available on your favorite #podcast platforms - just trying to beat the drums a bit...)

#WritingThreads ##WritingCommunity ✍️
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
so who's gonna nominate him for this Heaven thing?...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...
Trump’s Search for Eternity: Heaven? Maybe Not, He Says. Monuments? Absolutely.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
his own private Idaho...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...
He Taught a Class on Keanu Reeves in 1994. What Does He Think of ‘Godot’?
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"We want this to be our forever home." - so-called First Lady
#WhiteHouseRenovation
#WhiteHouseMakeover #PropertyBrothers #SNL
youtu.be/rKgRPlkWk6o?...
White House Makeover - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
BREAKING: WILL SMITH BITCH-SLAPS HOST ON WORLD STAGE
#Dodgers #WorldSeries #WillSmith
www.threads.com/@jatonjustic...
Jaton Justice (@jatonjustice) on Threads
SOLO HOMERUN!!! OMG WILL SMITH!!!! ⚾ DODGERS TAKE THE LEAD FOR THE FIRST TIME!!
www.threads.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
going out on a limb here - predicting we'll need seven games to decide this #WorldSeries...
#GameSeven
@bluejays.com #Dodgers ⚾️
a cartoon character is reading a newspaper titled daily blab world series today
ALT: a cartoon character is reading a newspaper titled daily blab world series today
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM