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Samantha Dunn
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Author Failing Paris, Not By Accident & more. Senior editor, Southern California News Group & BOOKISH virtual show. sdunn@scng.com
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LA friends. I'll be reading from She's Under Here and discussing the book with the magnificent @samydunn.bsky.social at Diesel Bookstore on Sunday, September 28 at 3:00 p.m. Please come—I'd love to say hi. (p.s. A reservation helps the store plan.)

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Karen Palmer with Samantha Dunn, discusses and signs "She's Under Here".
dieselbookstore.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Same. And I want it right now.
July 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This article from Persuasion on Substack stopped me in my tracks today: “Is America Still a Free Country?”
July 16, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Ginsberg: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.
Twitter: Hold my beer.”

I have real work to do yet here I am, immersed in this addictive crack thing of a novel by @marksarvas.bsky.social
#amreading
July 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Mexico sent more than thoughts and prayers.
Just wow! Can we appreciate the fact that a team from Mexico is in Texas helping with the search and rescue. 👏🏽
July 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
This is pretty astounding. 79% of Republicans are happy with the way America is right now, 4% of Democrats are.
June 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Maybe only journalists will get this, but damn I still laughing…
May 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Is our creative class disappearing?
What does it mean to be "problematized"?
Matthew Specktor and Meghan Daum are two of America's most exciting writers at the intersection of cultural criticism and personal narrative. Experience them both on this episode of BOOKISH—
Bookish with Meghan Daum and Matthew Specktor
YouTube video by Southern California News Group
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May 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
“Slouching toward tyranny” is a phrase. I read the other day, and it seems to be more and more accurate…
This is really scary and bad
April 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The White Lotus season 4 should be set among the crisis PR staff at White Lotus headquarters, just dealing with everyone constantly dying at all their properties
April 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
If my husband is actually being paid by George Soros as MAGA contends the protesters are, we might actually be able to afford groceries now that the tariffs have kicked in…
April 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM
“Your failures and fears are portals. Step through.” Spent some time with the luminous Lidia Yuknavitch— enjoy our conversation here:
Bookish with Lidia Yuknavitch and 4th annual Noteworthy authors of 2024
YouTube video by Southern California News Group
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March 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
For all who celebrate…😂
A More Realistic AWP Schedule www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...
A More Realistic AWP Schedule
8:00 AM to 5:30 PM - Daily Meditation Room For People Who Have Been Submitting to the New Yorker and Poetry for Years Without an Acceptance 9:00 AM...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
“I have chosen to spend my life creating literature as resistance.”
Lidia Yuknavitch does indeed.
Read our conversation: www.ocregister.com/2025/03/14/w...
Why ‘Chronology of Water’ author Lidia Yuknavitch revisits the past in ‘Reading the Waves’
While Kristen Stewarts turns ‘The Chronology of Water’ into a movie, its author revisits her past in a new memoir, ‘Reading the Waves.’
www.ocregister.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
No surprise that the Democratic Party approval ratings are in the toilet right now.
March 16, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.” —Albert Einstein
March 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I thought austerity plans were for when a country is in a recession or depression, not to put us in one.
March 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
And how are you enjoying your dystopia?
March 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
Roxane Gay Books & The Audacity Submission Manager
THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book ...
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March 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Per Heather Cox Richardson: Martin Matishak of The Record, a cybersecurity news publication, broke the story that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stop all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.

Gee. I wonder why…
March 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
So this is where we are.
March 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“White House Correspondents’ Association sees control of pool reports to Kremlin.”
There, I fixed it.
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
White House Correspondents’ Association cedes control of pool reports to Trump administration
The move breaks from decades of cooperation between the White House and the journalists who cover the president.
www.politico.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
No kings.
Pass it on.
February 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM