Ted Flanagan
@tedflanagan.bsky.social
Writer | Paramedic | EVERY HIDDEN THING (Crooked Lane/PRH) out now | Past: USMC 2nd Recon, Newspaper Guy | Fiction Editor Tough Crime | Adjunct Faculty Drexel MFA
Coming this Fall! Add this to the new Elmore Leonard bio due out next month and I think you’ve got a pretty spectacular one-two combination of literary biographies over the next 3 months or so!
May 26, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Coming this Fall! Add this to the new Elmore Leonard bio due out next month and I think you’ve got a pretty spectacular one-two combination of literary biographies over the next 3 months or so!
“Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.” ~ Finley Peter Dunne
My first newspaper editor taught me that back on Day One — I think about it every damn day.
My first newspaper editor taught me that back on Day One — I think about it every damn day.
May 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.” ~ Finley Peter Dunne
My first newspaper editor taught me that back on Day One — I think about it every damn day.
My first newspaper editor taught me that back on Day One — I think about it every damn day.
Why It’s So Hard To Find Small Press Books
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Why It’s So Hard To Find Small Press Books
And what you can do about it.
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May 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Why It’s So Hard To Find Small Press Books
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Thrilled to tell you I've just published a new episode of The Speakeasy podcast today. In this one, my guest co-host
Stephen J. Golds & I have a great chat with our guest
@tedflanagan.bsky.social about his debut novel, and much more. Links ⤵️⤵️ 🧵1/2
Stephen J. Golds & I have a great chat with our guest
@tedflanagan.bsky.social about his debut novel, and much more. Links ⤵️⤵️ 🧵1/2
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thrilled to tell you I've just published a new episode of The Speakeasy podcast today. In this one, my guest co-host
Stephen J. Golds & I have a great chat with our guest
@tedflanagan.bsky.social about his debut novel, and much more. Links ⤵️⤵️ 🧵1/2
Stephen J. Golds & I have a great chat with our guest
@tedflanagan.bsky.social about his debut novel, and much more. Links ⤵️⤵️ 🧵1/2
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President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.
February 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.
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This is a superb and impressively self-reflective demonstration of why Kash Patel is as wrong a candidate as anyone could possibly imagine for the sensitive position of FBI Director. Utterly missing: The humility to laugh at oneself. Bazinga!
www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...
www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...
Kash Patel Is Unsuited to Be FBI Director
And he certainly doesn’t pass my own tests from when I was considered for the job.
www.thebulwark.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:46 PM
This is a superb and impressively self-reflective demonstration of why Kash Patel is as wrong a candidate as anyone could possibly imagine for the sensitive position of FBI Director. Utterly missing: The humility to laugh at oneself. Bazinga!
www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...
www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel...
Without a doubt — women are dying. Women who didn’t need to. Women who could have been saved by a simple procedure. There is blood on the hands of all republicans. As the father of a young woman, I am afraid of my countrymen and what they’re willing to sacrifice in the name of hypocrisy and avarice.
Good morning and Happy Thursday to everyone who is determined to turn up the volume and EXPOSE all of the brutal, deadly consequences of abortion bans in America.
They're not "pro-life."
They're pro controlling women's bodies.
They're not "pro-life."
They're pro controlling women's bodies.
December 5, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Without a doubt — women are dying. Women who didn’t need to. Women who could have been saved by a simple procedure. There is blood on the hands of all republicans. As the father of a young woman, I am afraid of my countrymen and what they’re willing to sacrifice in the name of hypocrisy and avarice.
Random tidbit from my reading this morning:
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
~ Carl Jung
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
~ Carl Jung
December 4, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Random tidbit from my reading this morning:
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
~ Carl Jung
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
~ Carl Jung
Two great people talking books and writing? Hell yes!
Delighted to appear on the excellent podcast CRIME TIME FM, in which I talk about my novel and Appalachian literature, among other things. Link in comments.
December 3, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Two great people talking books and writing? Hell yes!
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Every year, we ask NPR staff and book critics to share their favorite titles in our annual Books We Love guide. Behind the scenes, it's fun to spot trends and see what gets nominated again and again.
12 novels that NPR critics and staff were excited to share with you in 2024
Every year, we ask NPR staff and book critics to share their favorite titles in our annual Books We Love guide. Behind the scenes, it's fun to spot trends and see what gets nominated again and again.
www.npr.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Every year, we ask NPR staff and book critics to share their favorite titles in our annual Books We Love guide. Behind the scenes, it's fun to spot trends and see what gets nominated again and again.
“We are American writers, absorbing the American experience. We must absorb its heat, the recklessness and ruthlessness, the grotesqueries and cruelties. We must reflect the sprawl and smallness of America, its greedy optimism and dangerous sentimentality.
December 2, 2024 at 12:29 PM
“We are American writers, absorbing the American experience. We must absorb its heat, the recklessness and ruthlessness, the grotesqueries and cruelties. We must reflect the sprawl and smallness of America, its greedy optimism and dangerous sentimentality.
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I have new holiday-themed micro-fiction, "Epiphany," up on PUNK NOIR!
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Punk Noir Press
The Only Crime Is Getting Caught
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December 2, 2024 at 1:29 AM
I have new holiday-themed micro-fiction, "Epiphany," up on PUNK NOIR!
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/punk-noir-ma...
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/punk-noir-ma...
Behold, the magisterial splendor of the Flanagan Family Christmas Tree circa 2024
“Little full. Lots of sap.”
“Little full. Lots of sap.”
December 1, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Behold, the magisterial splendor of the Flanagan Family Christmas Tree circa 2024
“Little full. Lots of sap.”
“Little full. Lots of sap.”
“You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” ~ Nelson Algren
November 30, 2024 at 5:23 PM
“You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” ~ Nelson Algren
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I talked to journalists and writers who have found a larger and more engaged audience for their work on Bluesky, without having to see “AI bots and Nazis” at the top of their replies.
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Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2024 at 2:46 PM
I talked to journalists and writers who have found a larger and more engaged audience for their work on Bluesky, without having to see “AI bots and Nazis” at the top of their replies.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
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November 28, 2024 at 2:25 AM
To all who celebrate!!
March 21, 2024 at 12:54 PM
To all who celebrate!!
Re-reading — and if you haven’t yet, definitely check this classic noir out!
March 16, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Re-reading — and if you haven’t yet, definitely check this classic noir out!
One of the most beautiful, bleak, and powerful novels you’ll ever read. Will be thinking about this book for a long, long time.
February 6, 2024 at 1:33 AM
One of the most beautiful, bleak, and powerful novels you’ll ever read. Will be thinking about this book for a long, long time.