Deanne Stillman
@deanne5.bsky.social
Critically acclaimed writer. Books include Twentynine Palms (praised by Hunter S. Thompson as "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer") and Blood Brothers (starred Kirkus, Newsweek excerpt, praised by Doug Brinkley, Thomas Powers).
High-voltage new trailer for Desert Reckoning, a modern western re a manhunt for a hermit who killed a cop in the Mojave. Fathers & sons, America's obsession with guns, who lives in the desert & why, finding grace in the carnage. Spur Award best nonfiction. #booksky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_S...
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DESERT RECKONING
YouTube video by Deanne Stillman
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November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
High-voltage new trailer for Desert Reckoning, a modern western re a manhunt for a hermit who killed a cop in the Mojave. Fathers & sons, America's obsession with guns, who lives in the desert & why, finding grace in the carnage. Spur Award best nonfiction. #booksky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_S...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_S...
This is a new podcast production of my play "Who Walks the Sands," monologues about fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and longing and desire. They are a mashup of the real and the imaginary. There's also an interview with me following the production. #theatresky
redcircle.com/shows/626558...
redcircle.com/shows/626558...
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is a new podcast production of my play "Who Walks the Sands," monologues about fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and longing and desire. They are a mashup of the real and the imaginary. There's also an interview with me following the production. #theatresky
redcircle.com/shows/626558...
redcircle.com/shows/626558...
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The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed
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New piece at @washingtonmonthly.com, about the Wounded Knee medals, Buffalo Bill's lost film about the massacre, Sitting Bull, and Pete Hegseth, with an excerpt from my book Blood Brothers.
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What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Buffalo Bill
Buffalo Bill lamented the killing of Sitting Bull and the suffering of the Lakota tribe at Wounded Knee. Hegseth wants to ignore it.
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October 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
New piece at @washingtonmonthly.com, about the Wounded Knee medals, Buffalo Bill's lost film about the massacre, Sitting Bull, and Pete Hegseth, with an excerpt from my book Blood Brothers.
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/06/w...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/06/w...
NEW TIME: Taos, Metta Theatre, 10/19, 2pm: a reading of my play "Reflections in a D'Back's Eye," directed by Bruce McIntosh. About America and guns, via the incident in which Gabby Giffords was wounded and a little girl who wanted to play baseball was killed. Also: the Grand Canyon. #theatresky
October 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
NEW TIME: Taos, Metta Theatre, 10/19, 2pm: a reading of my play "Reflections in a D'Back's Eye," directed by Bruce McIntosh. About America and guns, via the incident in which Gabby Giffords was wounded and a little girl who wanted to play baseball was killed. Also: the Grand Canyon. #theatresky
Pete Hegseth just ended the medals review for soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee massacre. Yet even Buffalo Bill tried to make amends with Native Americans, making a film about the incident with Lakota re-enactors. It flopped and vanished from the record. I wrote about this in Blood Brothers.
September 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Pete Hegseth just ended the medals review for soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee massacre. Yet even Buffalo Bill tried to make amends with Native Americans, making a film about the incident with Lakota re-enactors. It flopped and vanished from the record. I wrote about this in Blood Brothers.
For 9/11 24, my remembrance:
Shortly before 9/11, something told me that I might never again see my mother who lived in NYC. I changed plans and headed there on 9/10, landing shortly before the attack. "It looks like Hiroshima down here," she soon said on the phone.
www.truthdig.com/articles/911...
Shortly before 9/11, something told me that I might never again see my mother who lived in NYC. I changed plans and headed there on 9/10, landing shortly before the attack. "It looks like Hiroshima down here," she soon said on the phone.
www.truthdig.com/articles/911...
September 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
For 9/11 24, my remembrance:
Shortly before 9/11, something told me that I might never again see my mother who lived in NYC. I changed plans and headed there on 9/10, landing shortly before the attack. "It looks like Hiroshima down here," she soon said on the phone.
www.truthdig.com/articles/911...
Shortly before 9/11, something told me that I might never again see my mother who lived in NYC. I changed plans and headed there on 9/10, landing shortly before the attack. "It looks like Hiroshima down here," she soon said on the phone.
www.truthdig.com/articles/911...
Taos, Metta Theatre, 8/17, 2pm: a reading of my play "Reflections in a D'Back's Eye," directed by Bruce McIntosh. About America's love affair w/guns, via the incident in which Gabby Giffords was wounded and a little girl who just wanted to play baseball was killed. With the Grand Canyon. #theatresky
August 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Taos, Metta Theatre, 8/17, 2pm: a reading of my play "Reflections in a D'Back's Eye," directed by Bruce McIntosh. About America's love affair w/guns, via the incident in which Gabby Giffords was wounded and a little girl who just wanted to play baseball was killed. With the Grand Canyon. #theatresky
In honor of MM on the anni of her death, here's the trailer for my film "Marilyn Monroe Flees Her Crypt When Hugh Hefner Is Buried Next Door," w/Shayne Eastin, directed Lillian Diaz-Przybyl, produced @butcherbirdprod.bsky.social, "best experimental short" Indie X Fest. vimeo.com/944552498?sh...
Marilyn Monroe Flees Her Crypt Teaser
This is "Marilyn Monroe Flees Her Crypt Teaser" by Butcher Bird Studios on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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August 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In honor of MM on the anni of her death, here's the trailer for my film "Marilyn Monroe Flees Her Crypt When Hugh Hefner Is Buried Next Door," w/Shayne Eastin, directed Lillian Diaz-Przybyl, produced @butcherbirdprod.bsky.social, "best experimental short" Indie X Fest. vimeo.com/944552498?sh...
Yesterday, there were two mass shootings in the US: NYC and Reno. In this essay about the discovery of an old Winchester in Great Basin National Park and our affair with guns, I talk about another mass shooting near Reno - 34 wild horses at Christmas time in 1998. lareviewofbooks.org/article/winc...
Winchester Cathedral | Los Angeles Review of Books
A new installment in Deanne Stillman's "Letter from the West" series.
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July 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Yesterday, there were two mass shootings in the US: NYC and Reno. In this essay about the discovery of an old Winchester in Great Basin National Park and our affair with guns, I talk about another mass shooting near Reno - 34 wild horses at Christmas time in 1998. lareviewofbooks.org/article/winc...
Sometimes mail is fun! Just in from USPS: the 2025 @lapressclub.bsky.social Award for online political commentary, national, for my @washingtonmonthly.com piece, "Mothers, Sons, and Guns," published last year. It's my second LAPC award; the 1st was in 2013 for nonfiction, my book Desert Reckoning.
July 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Sometimes mail is fun! Just in from USPS: the 2025 @lapressclub.bsky.social Award for online political commentary, national, for my @washingtonmonthly.com piece, "Mothers, Sons, and Guns," published last year. It's my second LAPC award; the 1st was in 2013 for nonfiction, my book Desert Reckoning.
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Donald Trump issued pardons to Joe Arpaio, Steve Bannon, six convicted war criminals, and over 1500 January 6th rioters, prompting serious questions about Biden's use of the autopen.
July 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Donald Trump issued pardons to Joe Arpaio, Steve Bannon, six convicted war criminals, and over 1500 January 6th rioters, prompting serious questions about Biden's use of the autopen.
Star light, star bright. My latest piece, "Alligator Alcatraz: The New ICE Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature," in which I talk about Big Cypress National Preserve as a Dark Sky Park, and how the new floodlights are obliterating #starlight. #astronomy
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/15/a...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/15/a...
July 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Star light, star bright. My latest piece, "Alligator Alcatraz: The New ICE Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature," in which I talk about Big Cypress National Preserve as a Dark Sky Park, and how the new floodlights are obliterating #starlight. #astronomy
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/15/a...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/15/a...
My latest piece, "Alligator Alcatraz: The ICE Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature," in which I talk about Marjory Stoneman Douglas and her role in Big Cypress National Preserve, bringing attention to a place that had been written off. @therevelator.org
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/15/a...
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July 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
My latest piece, "Alligator Alcatraz: The ICE Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature," in which I talk about Marjory Stoneman Douglas and her role in Big Cypress National Preserve, bringing attention to a place that had been written off. @therevelator.org
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/15/a...
washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/15/a...
The great novelist Martin Cruz Smith has passed away. He and I were in convo yrs ago for Writers Bloc, re December 6, about Japan just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was a characteristically gripping tale and we had an excellent convo. RIP Martin and thank you.
www.amazon.com/December-Nov...
www.amazon.com/December-Nov...
December 6: A Novel
December 6: A Novel [Smith, Martin Cruz] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. December 6: A Novel
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July 15, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The great novelist Martin Cruz Smith has passed away. He and I were in convo yrs ago for Writers Bloc, re December 6, about Japan just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. It was a characteristically gripping tale and we had an excellent convo. RIP Martin and thank you.
www.amazon.com/December-Nov...
www.amazon.com/December-Nov...
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Whether it’s liberal tweaking their language to be more gender inclusive or Elon Musk tweaking Grok to say more positive things about Adolf Hitler, both sides have a free speech problem.
July 9, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Whether it’s liberal tweaking their language to be more gender inclusive or Elon Musk tweaking Grok to say more positive things about Adolf Hitler, both sides have a free speech problem.
For July 4th, from Mustang.
July 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
For July 4th, from Mustang.
New essay for #July4th on Journal of the Plague Years. "For as long as I can remember, I’ve had dreams that were prescient. Years ago, I dreamed that the states on a 3-D topological map of #America were flying off their bearings, one by one." journaloftheplagueyears.substack.com/p/i-dreamed-...
I Dreamed About the Breakup of the United States
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had dreams that were prescient.
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July 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
New essay for #July4th on Journal of the Plague Years. "For as long as I can remember, I’ve had dreams that were prescient. Years ago, I dreamed that the states on a 3-D topological map of #America were flying off their bearings, one by one." journaloftheplagueyears.substack.com/p/i-dreamed-...
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Jeffries: "When you look at that Declaration of Independence, the second part of it, it reads like an indictment against an out of control king ... they were fed up with Project 1775. So they implemented Project 1776."
July 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Jeffries: "When you look at that Declaration of Independence, the second part of it, it reads like an indictment against an out of control king ... they were fed up with Project 1775. So they implemented Project 1776."
When #CeciltheLion was killed ten years ago, I wrote an open letter to the guy who killed him, asking him to lay down his arms, citing wolf killers who couldn't take it any more and became wildlife advocates. With new anti-wolf policies underway, I ask again. lareviewofbooks.org/blog/essays/...
An Open Letter to Dr. Walter Palmer, Dentist, Hunter | Los Angeles Review of Books
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July 1, 2025 at 9:07 PM
When #CeciltheLion was killed ten years ago, I wrote an open letter to the guy who killed him, asking him to lay down his arms, citing wolf killers who couldn't take it any more and became wildlife advocates. With new anti-wolf policies underway, I ask again. lareviewofbooks.org/blog/essays/...
Congrats to the Doors on their 60th anni! Here's drummer John Densmore narrating a portion of Mustang, "The Horses Return." He's in Mustang too; with Michael Blake ("Dances with Wolves"), he purchased a billboard on Sunset Blvd saying "Stop the Roundups." rarebirdbooks.bandcamp.com/album/mustan...
Mustang by Deanne Stillman, by Deanne Stillman
10 track album
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June 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Congrats to the Doors on their 60th anni! Here's drummer John Densmore narrating a portion of Mustang, "The Horses Return." He's in Mustang too; with Michael Blake ("Dances with Wolves"), he purchased a billboard on Sunset Blvd saying "Stop the Roundups." rarebirdbooks.bandcamp.com/album/mustan...