Dennis Tafoya
@dennistafoya.bsky.social
Crime writer. Author of DOPE THIEF, coming to Apple TV+ in 2025.
www.dennistafoya.com
www.dennistafoya.com
1, cut a hole in a box
2, put your cat in that box
3, make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
2, put your cat in that box
3, make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
November 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
1, cut a hole in a box
2, put your cat in that box
3, make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
2, put your cat in that box
3, make her open the box
And that's the way you do it
Hopefully, the judge responded:
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Hopefully, the judge responded:
It’s hard not to feel that the last fifty years of American history is about how, when the disenfranchised, the poor and the powerless caught even a small, unrealized glimpse of shared opportunity, the powerful decide it would be better to burn it all.
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It’s hard not to feel that the last fifty years of American history is about how, when the disenfranchised, the poor and the powerless caught even a small, unrealized glimpse of shared opportunity, the powerful decide it would be better to burn it all.
For me, it’s easy: Born of Man And Woman, by Richard Matheson. I read it when I was 11 or 12 and growing up in a house where it was a lot easier to identify with the deformed protagonist than the ‘normals.’
October 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
For me, it’s easy: Born of Man And Woman, by Richard Matheson. I read it when I was 11 or 12 and growing up in a house where it was a lot easier to identify with the deformed protagonist than the ‘normals.’
Can we agree now not to read the inevitable articles (or buy the inevitable books) by people who took the money and then found themselves doing ‘unconscionable things they now regret?’ Can we agree in advance you should have fucking known better?
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Can we agree now not to read the inevitable articles (or buy the inevitable books) by people who took the money and then found themselves doing ‘unconscionable things they now regret?’ Can we agree in advance you should have fucking known better?
Thanks to @penguinpress and Victoria Laboz for early access to David Nasaw’s brilliant THE WOUNDED GENERATION, a comprehensive reexamination of how America dealt with returning veterans and the persistence of trauma. Especially excellent on how black veterans were sold out and gay veterans purged.
October 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Thanks to @penguinpress and Victoria Laboz for early access to David Nasaw’s brilliant THE WOUNDED GENERATION, a comprehensive reexamination of how America dealt with returning veterans and the persistence of trauma. Especially excellent on how black veterans were sold out and gay veterans purged.
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
August 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.
So cool to see a much-deserved Emmy nomination for Brian Tyree Henry. He put everything he had into Ray.
July 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
So cool to see a much-deserved Emmy nomination for Brian Tyree Henry. He put everything he had into Ray.
Tuesday, July 8! @jenconley45.bsky.social @scottadlerberg.bsky.social @victordeanda.bsky.social @smccaffery.bsky.social @jonmcgoran.bsky.social and Patrick Lambe at John and Peter’s in New Hope, PA!
June 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Tuesday, July 8! @jenconley45.bsky.social @scottadlerberg.bsky.social @victordeanda.bsky.social @smccaffery.bsky.social @jonmcgoran.bsky.social and Patrick Lambe at John and Peter’s in New Hope, PA!
Pictures from the Mojave:
May 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Pictures from the Mojave:
My new favorite bar, Virginian Cocktails in #29palms, California. Founded in 1938, five years before the Marine base at the north end of Adobe Road.
May 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
My new favorite bar, Virginian Cocktails in #29palms, California. Founded in 1938, five years before the Marine base at the north end of Adobe Road.
Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!
March 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Happy International Transgender Day of Visibility!
Great day signing books at Farley’s Bookshop. Thanks to everyone who came out!
March 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Great day signing books at Farley’s Bookshop. Thanks to everyone who came out!
Signing today at Farley’s Bookshop in New Hope PA. Come from 1:00 to 3:00 for signed copies of the new paperback edition of Dope Thief.
March 29, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Signing today at Farley’s Bookshop in New Hope PA. Come from 1:00 to 3:00 for signed copies of the new paperback edition of Dope Thief.
Official publication day of the paperback edition of Dope Thief - PLUS the ebook is $2.99 across all platforms.
March 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Official publication day of the paperback edition of Dope Thief - PLUS the ebook is $2.99 across all platforms.
How big a GoFundMe to buy our country back from these corrupt, traitorous psychopaths?
February 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
How big a GoFundMe to buy our country back from these corrupt, traitorous psychopaths?
Why aren’t we talking about this more? This petulant psycho doxxed a judge’s daughter. (From @zey.bsky.social in the NYTimes)
February 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Why aren’t we talking about this more? This petulant psycho doxxed a judge’s daughter. (From @zey.bsky.social in the NYTimes)
People scarcely remember that some Americans fought fascism before WWII, in groups like the Lincoln Battalion during the Spanish Civil War. They were labeled ‘subversives’ and ‘premature antifascists.’
February 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
People scarcely remember that some Americans fought fascism before WWII, in groups like the Lincoln Battalion during the Spanish Civil War. They were labeled ‘subversives’ and ‘premature antifascists.’
Cause nothing says ‘masculine energy’ better than handing the bully your lunch money before asks.
February 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Cause nothing says ‘masculine energy’ better than handing the bully your lunch money before asks.
Yeah, your pet is awesome or whatever, but Buzz has a theme song and a sloth best friend.
January 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Yeah, your pet is awesome or whatever, but Buzz has a theme song and a sloth best friend.
90 years ago this month, Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff started filming Bride of Frankenstein on the Universal Lot for director James Whale. Lanchester said she based her famous hiss on the hissing of swans. “To a new world of gods and monsters!”
January 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
90 years ago this month, Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff started filming Bride of Frankenstein on the Universal Lot for director James Whale. Lanchester said she based her famous hiss on the hissing of swans. “To a new world of gods and monsters!”
Before Nazis were invited onstage at the inauguration: In a couple of days it’ll be the 80th anniversary of the battle that earned Audie Murphy his Medal of Honor. Audie, 19 years old and already a 2nd lieutenant, was ultimately credited with the deaths of 241 Nazi soldiers during the war.
January 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Before Nazis were invited onstage at the inauguration: In a couple of days it’ll be the 80th anniversary of the battle that earned Audie Murphy his Medal of Honor. Audie, 19 years old and already a 2nd lieutenant, was ultimately credited with the deaths of 241 Nazi soldiers during the war.