Erin Keane
@erinkeane.bsky.social
Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @Salon.com | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
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Erin Keane
@erinkeane.bsky.social
· Oct 17
Welcome, new friends! My book is pop culture criticism woven around my family's origin story: my mom ran away from her military officer family's home at 13, hitchhiked around the country, lived as an adult in 1970s NYC, then married an ex-con her own father's age. bookshop.org/p/books/runa...
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He has a doodle. Good first step.
Quarter-zip on the memoir cover, not chore coat? Interesting. Anyway looks like he's running.
February 18, 2026 at 1:57 PM
He has a doodle. Good first step.
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Conservatives have spent 50 years investing in media and liberals still justify not doing so because Air America failed over 20 years ago
What I am continually struck by is that the GOP are the ones constantly innovating and the Democrats are stuck in neutral.
Masked armed paramilitaries invading an American city? Kidnapping a head of state? Using some young engineers to destroy the federal government and kill millions? Dang.
Masked armed paramilitaries invading an American city? Kidnapping a head of state? Using some young engineers to destroy the federal government and kill millions? Dang.
February 18, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Conservatives have spent 50 years investing in media and liberals still justify not doing so because Air America failed over 20 years ago
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I loved writing the playlist for Teen Queen Training (Janis Ian! Everclear! Miranda Lambert!) and I’m happy to have it up at @largeheartedboy.bsky.social's Author Playlists today <3
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Kristine Langley Mahler’s Book Notes music playlist for her essay collection Teen Queen Training – Largehearted Boy
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February 18, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I loved writing the playlist for Teen Queen Training (Janis Ian! Everclear! Miranda Lambert!) and I’m happy to have it up at @largeheartedboy.bsky.social's Author Playlists today <3
largeheartedboy.com/2026/02/18/k...
largeheartedboy.com/2026/02/18/k...
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the economy can only absorb so many assassins in their natural careers so we had to develop an athletic course for the rest of them, sort of like agility trials for working dogs.
February 18, 2026 at 1:20 PM
the economy can only absorb so many assassins in their natural careers so we had to develop an athletic course for the rest of them, sort of like agility trials for working dogs.
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if y'all love the winter Olympics you should watch For Your Eyes Only, an actually good James Bond movie that features an extended section when he goes to northern Italy and they tie in a bunch of winter Olympics sports
in the same movie the main villain was the benefactor of like a 16 year old Olympic hopeful figure skater who tried to seduce Bond and he turned her down for being too young
she also inadvertently lured him to an ice rink where hockey players tried to kill him
there was a whole winter sports thing
she also inadvertently lured him to an ice rink where hockey players tried to kill him
there was a whole winter sports thing
February 18, 2026 at 1:13 PM
if y'all love the winter Olympics you should watch For Your Eyes Only, an actually good James Bond movie that features an extended section when he goes to northern Italy and they tie in a bunch of winter Olympics sports
Quarter-zip on the memoir cover, not chore coat? Interesting. Anyway looks like he's running.
February 18, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Quarter-zip on the memoir cover, not chore coat? Interesting. Anyway looks like he's running.
biathletes are assassins, right?
February 18, 2026 at 12:55 PM
biathletes are assassins, right?
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Who do I know who is a book critic and who also grew up with Samantha the American Girl Doll. Because there is a book coming this fall, for adults, about Samantha as an adult woman. And I want to cover that shit.
February 17, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Who do I know who is a book critic and who also grew up with Samantha the American Girl Doll. Because there is a book coming this fall, for adults, about Samantha as an adult woman. And I want to cover that shit.
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apropos Bruce Springsteen's tour announcement, may I once again share my list of his 10 best original protest songs (before you ask me why Edwin Starr's "War" isn't here): www.salon.com/2026/02/10/b...
Bruce Springsteen’s protest songs still hit where it hurts
Springsteen has repeatedly turned moments of violence and injustice into songs that demand moral reckoning.
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February 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
apropos Bruce Springsteen's tour announcement, may I once again share my list of his 10 best original protest songs (before you ask me why Edwin Starr's "War" isn't here): www.salon.com/2026/02/10/b...
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LET ME DO A CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF JIZZ MUSIC, LUCASFILM
I CAN DO IT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE, I SWEAR TO GOD
I CAN DO IT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE, I SWEAR TO GOD
February 17, 2026 at 5:39 PM
LET ME DO A CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF JIZZ MUSIC, LUCASFILM
I CAN DO IT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE, I SWEAR TO GOD
I CAN DO IT WITH A STRAIGHT FACE, I SWEAR TO GOD
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Very “like I wouldn’t” coded essay from me to put the respect on Harold and Maude’s names that they deserve.
"Harold and Maude" taught me to not fear dying
Bud Cort's death is a reminder to live the best you can, while you can.
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February 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Very “like I wouldn’t” coded essay from me to put the respect on Harold and Maude’s names that they deserve.
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Yeah, I think it is more fair to say these things were absolutely known and discussed **AND** to an obnoxious extent normalized, with waif-like thinness socially encouraged, and celebrated in the national media & beyond. (One also had to insist thinness was accidental, genetic, even if it wasn't.)
It's telling how hard this America's Next Top Model doc leans on "Standards were different back then" as if awareness of eating disorders, body shaming, etc. were simply never discussed in the early 2000s. They were discussed! >
February 17, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Yeah, I think it is more fair to say these things were absolutely known and discussed **AND** to an obnoxious extent normalized, with waif-like thinness socially encouraged, and celebrated in the national media & beyond. (One also had to insist thinness was accidental, genetic, even if it wasn't.)
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Heathcliff Clavin is this anything
February 17, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Heathcliff Clavin is this anything
Thought about consoling the weeping patron thusly
Heathcliff didn't even dig up her body!!!
February 17, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Thought about consoling the weeping patron thusly
Shout out to the one person absolutely weeping at the end of “Wuthering Heights,” we mostly behaved for you. (10/10 cinema experience, absolutely a MOVIE, this is why we leave our house)
February 17, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Shout out to the one person absolutely weeping at the end of “Wuthering Heights,” we mostly behaved for you. (10/10 cinema experience, absolutely a MOVIE, this is why we leave our house)
I just really love how @ashliedstevens.bsky.social writes about — and now hand-illustrates — food. Maybe you will, too. Free to subscribe! salon-thebite.beehiiv.com/p/12-lazy-wa...
12 lazy ways to eat more vegetables
Simple, forgiving ways to add vegetables without overhauling your life — or your fridge
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February 15, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I just really love how @ashliedstevens.bsky.social writes about — and now hand-illustrates — food. Maybe you will, too. Free to subscribe! salon-thebite.beehiiv.com/p/12-lazy-wa...
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happy v-day everyone
February 15, 2026 at 3:02 AM
happy v-day everyone
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how your email finds me
February 14, 2026 at 6:12 PM
how your email finds me
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February 14, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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Our next skater will be your dad, skating to The National's "Mr. November."
February 14, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Our next skater will be your dad, skating to The National's "Mr. November."
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There’s an element of fantasy to countless rom-coms, but Joan Micklin Silver’s marvelous 1988 sleeper is grounded in genuine interpersonal and cultural conflict. crookedmarquee.com/crossing-del...
Crossing Delancey is a Valentine's Pick for Realists — Crooked Marquee
There’s an element of fantasy to rom-coms, but Joan Micklin Silver’s marvelous 1988 sleeper is grounded in genuine cultural conflict.
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February 14, 2026 at 1:33 AM
There’s an element of fantasy to countless rom-coms, but Joan Micklin Silver’s marvelous 1988 sleeper is grounded in genuine interpersonal and cultural conflict. crookedmarquee.com/crossing-del...
If Democrats need a generically handsome white man in a suit, Andy Beshear is right there and has been pretty consistent in his values. You can say a lot about him — nepo baby, untested on the national scene, Dockers dork — but he is pretty adamantly himself, and decent.
The public values authenticity in public figures above almost everything else.
The fact that Newsom was a standard center-left politician and is now shifting to the right will alienate him from both his old constituency and his new one.
Have Democrats really not learned their lesson on this?
The fact that Newsom was a standard center-left politician and is now shifting to the right will alienate him from both his old constituency and his new one.
Have Democrats really not learned their lesson on this?
A major reason that Gavin Newsom will not be the Democratic nominee is that it's very clear that he read the same stuff we all did last year about swing voters not liking orthodox social liberals and is "pivoting" on certain issues to try and pretend that he didn't have an entire career being one
February 14, 2026 at 12:43 AM
If Democrats need a generically handsome white man in a suit, Andy Beshear is right there and has been pretty consistent in his values. You can say a lot about him — nepo baby, untested on the national scene, Dockers dork — but he is pretty adamantly himself, and decent.