@nicolegalland.bsky.social
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Just starting BOY by @nicolegalland.bsky.social (on the recommendation of @austintichenor.bsky.social) and looking forward to visiting Elizabethan London for a while #Booksky 💙📚
April 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Just starting BOY by @nicolegalland.bsky.social (on the recommendation of @austintichenor.bsky.social) and looking forward to visiting Elizabethan London for a while #Booksky 💙📚
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New on the podcast, author @nicolegalland.bsky.social joins us to talk about the world of boy players, young apprentices who performed women’s roles onstage in England before 1660. Her novel, "Boy," follows one of these real-life members in Shakespeare’s company. www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...
Shakespeare's Boy Player Alexander Cooke | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
June 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New on the podcast, author @nicolegalland.bsky.social joins us to talk about the world of boy players, young apprentices who performed women’s roles onstage in England before 1660. Her novel, "Boy," follows one of these real-life members in Shakespeare’s company. www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...
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Just finished @nicolegalland.bsky.social BOY 📚 💙 - really enjoyed it! Xander & Joan are such a compelling pair, could really picture London as a place, and the players were fun. And Joan’s finale speeches were so satisfying! (I may even have shouted aloud “Go Joan go, stick it to him!”)
May 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Just finished @nicolegalland.bsky.social BOY 📚 💙 - really enjoyed it! Xander & Joan are such a compelling pair, could really picture London as a place, and the players were fun. And Joan’s finale speeches were so satisfying! (I may even have shouted aloud “Go Joan go, stick it to him!”)
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I wrote about @nicolegalland.bsky.social’s fun historical novel BOY for @folgerlibrary.bsky.social and how (among many other delightful things), it amplifies one of Shakespeare’s great meta-theatrical moments. @americantheatre.org
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
"Boy my greatness": Imagining Shakespeare's actor Alexander Cooke | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
April 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I wrote about @nicolegalland.bsky.social’s fun historical novel BOY for @folgerlibrary.bsky.social and how (among many other delightful things), it amplifies one of Shakespeare’s great meta-theatrical moments. @americantheatre.org
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
What a lovely review for BOY!
historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/boy/
historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/boy/
Boy - Historical Novel Society
Sander Cooke and Joan Buckler, best friends since childhood, have watched one another grow towards their dreams. Sander, a popular boy player in the Chamberlain’s Men theatre company, is the toast of ...
historicalnovelsociety.org
February 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
What a lovely review for BOY!
historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/boy/
historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/boy/
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We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social
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Posting here, too, in case RT'ing over on Shitter gets my account deleted.
February 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Posting here, too, in case RT'ing over on Shitter gets my account deleted.
January 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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An excerpt from BOY by @nicolegalland.bsky.social, her hugely entertaining new novel about one of Shakespeare's boy actors. Out next month but available for pre-order now! I loved it.
January 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
An excerpt from BOY by @nicolegalland.bsky.social, her hugely entertaining new novel about one of Shakespeare's boy actors. Out next month but available for pre-order now! I loved it.
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"America, you know Canada as your hat. We’d like to keep it that way."
Canadians Politely Decline Statehood
“Trump threatens ‘economic force’ to make Canada ‘51st State’ after PM resignation.” — The Independent - - -America, you know Canada as your hat. W...
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January 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"America, you know Canada as your hat. We’d like to keep it that way."
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NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians.
www.nj.com/politics/202...
www.nj.com/politics/202...
N.J. just struck a blow against banning books
It's called the "Freedom to Read Act."
www.nj.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:29 PM
NJ passes a law preventing cranky fucknuts from going apeshit on school libraries and librarians.
www.nj.com/politics/202...
www.nj.com/politics/202...
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"I was running away from something I feared: writing fiction that takes place in a world of relentless, insidious, omnipresent tech."
#LitHub #RealBookishDiscussion #MakesYouThink #Booksky #HistoricalFiction
lithub.com/tired-of-tod...
#LitHub #RealBookishDiscussion #MakesYouThink #Booksky #HistoricalFiction
lithub.com/tired-of-tod...
Tired of Today’s Tech: Writing Historical Fiction in a Technocratic American Present
The last time I wrote a novel set in what I considered to be the present was 2009-2010. The iPhone had appeared in 2007, but it had nothing to do with my characters, who were poor or old or both an…
lithub.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:13 PM
"I was running away from something I feared: writing fiction that takes place in a world of relentless, insidious, omnipresent tech."
#LitHub #RealBookishDiscussion #MakesYouThink #Booksky #HistoricalFiction
lithub.com/tired-of-tod...
#LitHub #RealBookishDiscussion #MakesYouThink #Booksky #HistoricalFiction
lithub.com/tired-of-tod...
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people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
December 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM
people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.
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Samuel Beckett (to himself after waiting ten minutes outside the dressing room while his mom tries on jeans): “I’ll wait. But I’ve waited long enough. For what? Her call. Then I’ll wait for her call.”
Famous Authors Lose Their Moms in Department Stores
James Joyce: “Maaaaaam, oh, maaaaaaaaa…” Albert Camus (to a concerned Big Lots manager): “Lost maman in home goods today. Or maybe it was yesterday...
buff.ly
December 4, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Samuel Beckett (to himself after waiting ten minutes outside the dressing room while his mom tries on jeans): “I’ll wait. But I’ve waited long enough. For what? Her call. Then I’ll wait for her call.”
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RFK, Jr. is the last person who should stand on any soap box and moralize.
November 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM
RFK, Jr. is the last person who should stand on any soap box and moralize.
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The lighter side of sausage-making in the era of #Shakespeare - wish I’d put this gag into my novel #BOY!
November 26, 2024 at 11:50 PM
The lighter side of sausage-making in the era of #Shakespeare - wish I’d put this gag into my novel #BOY!