James D.F. Hannah
@jamesdfhannah.bsky.social
Shamus-winning author of the Henry Malone novels. Appalachian to the bitterest of ends. Rep: @michellerichterbks.bsky.social Insta @jamesdfhannah. He/him jamesdfhannah.com
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he's on a mission from god
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
he's on a mission from god
We’re going the distance, we’re going for speed here at That Noise at 2 a.m., where we’re talking about running and nothing else. Nope, just running.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We’re going the distance, we’re going for speed here at That Noise at 2 a.m., where we’re talking about running and nothing else. Nope, just running.
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Hey, y'all. We can all get this done with a little teamwork. Thanks
Hey everyone. Sorry to be asking with things the way they are , but the power steering pump is almost dead on our car and it’s going to cost around $1000 to fix. It’s an older Mazda and it’s tucked into the most awkward place ever! And it’s original to the car. IYKYK. WD-40 going to make a fortune.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Hey, y'all. We can all get this done with a little teamwork. Thanks
To the shock of no one, folks trying to defend AI “art” are unimaginative AF.
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
To the shock of no one, folks trying to defend AI “art” are unimaginative AF.
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To be chosen by Steph Cha and Don Winslow and to be among some of my favourite people and writers is an overwhelming honor.
Huge thanks to Starlite Pulp for its first home.
Please get yourself a copy, if not for my dirty little spite story, than for one of the other 19 amazing ones.
Huge thanks to Starlite Pulp for its first home.
Please get yourself a copy, if not for my dirty little spite story, than for one of the other 19 amazing ones.
October 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
To be chosen by Steph Cha and Don Winslow and to be among some of my favourite people and writers is an overwhelming honor.
Huge thanks to Starlite Pulp for its first home.
Please get yourself a copy, if not for my dirty little spite story, than for one of the other 19 amazing ones.
Huge thanks to Starlite Pulp for its first home.
Please get yourself a copy, if not for my dirty little spite story, than for one of the other 19 amazing ones.
It’s a wild, wild life at That Noise at 2 AM, where we’re celebrating the release of this year’s Best American Mystery and Suspense. My story “Road to Nowhere” is part of this year’s collection.
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#47: This must be the place
BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE 2025, edited by Steph Cha and Don Winslow and including my story "Road to Nowhere," is out today.
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October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It’s a wild, wild life at That Noise at 2 AM, where we’re celebrating the release of this year’s Best American Mystery and Suspense. My story “Road to Nowhere” is part of this year’s collection.
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Got a hot tip from @andymboyle.bsky.social that copies of BAMS '25 were out in the wild, so I had to check it out. He was right! Get your copy today! #bams2025
October 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Got a hot tip from @andymboyle.bsky.social that copies of BAMS '25 were out in the wild, so I had to check it out. He was right! Get your copy today! #bams2025
No matter what Christopher Cross says, if you get caught between the moon and New York City, falling in love is NOT the best you can do. You are in serious "Sandra Bullock in GRAVITY" jeopardy, and quick thinking and survival skills are in order.
Priorities, people.
Priorities, people.
October 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
No matter what Christopher Cross says, if you get caught between the moon and New York City, falling in love is NOT the best you can do. You are in serious "Sandra Bullock in GRAVITY" jeopardy, and quick thinking and survival skills are in order.
Priorities, people.
Priorities, people.
Come out, come out, wherever you are, because it’s That Noise at 2 AM, talking to @tonywirt.com about his latest thriller, SILENT CREEK.
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October 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Come out, come out, wherever you are, because it’s That Noise at 2 AM, talking to @tonywirt.com about his latest thriller, SILENT CREEK.
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When you’re revising your novel but you’re also testing how much “track changes” can handle.
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October 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
When you’re revising your novel but you’re also testing how much “track changes” can handle.
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I've been talking to a lot of people the last few days, and, in case there's any doubt, I want to be clear: What Down and Out Books is doing is goddamn shameful, and staining an otherwise really incredible legacy.
Question: if your publisher sends out an email stating no more payments will be issued to their authors, do you think they’ve already spent the money they owe them or they’re just keeping it for themselves? Yes, this is about Down and Out Books.
October 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I've been talking to a lot of people the last few days, and, in case there's any doubt, I want to be clear: What Down and Out Books is doing is goddamn shameful, and staining an otherwise really incredible legacy.
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Mark your calendars! On Nov 14 @ noon PST, I'm interviewing my friend, the brilliant @sheilakathleen.bsky.social virtually about her new book on @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN on behalf of Scottsdale's @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social. You can tune in via FB/YT: calendar.time.ly/9plshfqx/pos...
October 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Mark your calendars! On Nov 14 @ noon PST, I'm interviewing my friend, the brilliant @sheilakathleen.bsky.social virtually about her new book on @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN on behalf of Scottsdale's @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social. You can tune in via FB/YT: calendar.time.ly/9plshfqx/pos...
When the bell tolls, it tolls for thee at That Noise at 2 AM, where we’re talking to @curtisippolito.bsky.social about his climate change anthology, ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
When the bell tolls, it tolls for thee at That Noise at 2 AM, where we’re talking to @curtisippolito.bsky.social about his climate change anthology, ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER.
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Nothing good comes from hanging out with right-wing Germans. Absolutely nothing.
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Top AfD politician makes surprise visit to White House
Vice President JD Vance has spoken out against the far-right AfD’s political exclusion in Germany.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Nothing good comes from hanging out with right-wing Germans. Absolutely nothing.
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What does it mean to you to be a Southerner?
Someone asked me that today in an interview
To me being a Southerner is the center of my identity as a black man, as a human , as a writer.
This place of blood and toil, of pain and passion, of joy and agony. Of hatred and hope
This place that -
Someone asked me that today in an interview
To me being a Southerner is the center of my identity as a black man, as a human , as a writer.
This place of blood and toil, of pain and passion, of joy and agony. Of hatred and hope
This place that -
September 27, 2025 at 4:20 AM
What does it mean to you to be a Southerner?
Someone asked me that today in an interview
To me being a Southerner is the center of my identity as a black man, as a human , as a writer.
This place of blood and toil, of pain and passion, of joy and agony. Of hatred and hope
This place that -
Someone asked me that today in an interview
To me being a Southerner is the center of my identity as a black man, as a human , as a writer.
This place of blood and toil, of pain and passion, of joy and agony. Of hatred and hope
This place that -
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For the morning crowd.
FFC #Telluride25 review: FRANKENSTEIN, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...
Telluride '25: Frankenstein - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/****starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltzscreenplay by Guillermo del Toro, based on the book Frankenstein; or: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelleydirected by Guillermo d...
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September 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
For the morning crowd.
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Go see it this weekend, the biggest screen you can find. Here's a movie that can express and amplify all your rage, frustration, alarm, fatigue...and most of all your need for hope.
A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)
¡viva la revolución! once in a great while a movie meets its moment and the collision is explosive, exhilarating, incendiary. a film for our times and maybe a better one than we deserve.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Go see it this weekend, the biggest screen you can find. Here's a movie that can express and amplify all your rage, frustration, alarm, fatigue...and most of all your need for hope.
Listen, if you’re getting raptured this week, we’d appreciate it if you set the contents of your liquor cabinets outside now and left your car unlocked and the keys on the dashboard. This will save time for all of us left behind. Thanks!
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September 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Listen, if you’re getting raptured this week, we’d appreciate it if you set the contents of your liquor cabinets outside now and left your car unlocked and the keys on the dashboard. This will save time for all of us left behind. Thanks!
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This was a cool exercise—writing about which books share DNA with “On Fire and Under Water.” Grateful to the @wirobooks.bsky.social for inviting and hosting me.
With mentions of work from John Woods, Ivy Pochoda, @jordanharper.bsky.social, and Delfina Cuuero.
With mentions of work from John Woods, Ivy Pochoda, @jordanharper.bsky.social, and Delfina Cuuero.
Bedtime Stories: September 2025 | Washington Independent Review of Books
The Independent is an important voice in the community of readers and writers dedicated to book reviews and writing about the world of books.
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September 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This was a cool exercise—writing about which books share DNA with “On Fire and Under Water.” Grateful to the @wirobooks.bsky.social for inviting and hosting me.
With mentions of work from John Woods, Ivy Pochoda, @jordanharper.bsky.social, and Delfina Cuuero.
With mentions of work from John Woods, Ivy Pochoda, @jordanharper.bsky.social, and Delfina Cuuero.
Literally more shit to deal with.
Water treatment workers are grappling with how to protect against a new threat: hackers burrowing into the system and wreaking havoc.
Flushable wipes and Iran: Water treatment facility adds cyberattacks to worry list
Water treatment workers are grappling with how to protect against a new threat: hackers burrowing into the system and wreaking havoc.
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September 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Literally more shit to deal with.
What movie do you consider perfect?
September 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
What movie do you consider perfect?
I'm off the internet for four hours and suddenly everyone's talking the rapture is Tuesday when we all know it happened on January 12, 1981 as the second single from the "Autoamerican" album.
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September 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I'm off the internet for four hours and suddenly everyone's talking the rapture is Tuesday when we all know it happened on January 12, 1981 as the second single from the "Autoamerican" album.
Quality content.
Black/Hunter - a thread of preparation and anticipation for Shane Black's PLAY DIRTY
September 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Quality content.
Thanks to Craig Francis Coates at Cold Caller for letting me ramble about writing and my story “Road to Nowhere,” in this year’s Best American Mystery and Suspense.
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BAMS '25: Meet James D. F. Hannah
Part 2 of the 'Best American' Interview Series
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September 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thanks to Craig Francis Coates at Cold Caller for letting me ramble about writing and my story “Road to Nowhere,” in this year’s Best American Mystery and Suspense.
coldcallermag.substack.com/p/bams-25-me...
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