Moira Macdonald
@moiraverse.bsky.social
Writer, Seattle Times arts critic, debut novelist (“Storybook Ending,” from Dutton/PRH, now in bookstores), ballet nerd, cat person, Nora Charles wannabe
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Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America
Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.
www.feedingamerica.org
October 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't.
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...
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Because it’s fun to celebrate the achievements of friends and colleagues, just finished @moiraverse.bsky.social’s STORYBOOK ENDING. So full of life and intimately incisive observations that made me smile. Just made me feel good and - especially right now - there’s precious little better than that.
October 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Because it’s fun to celebrate the achievements of friends and colleagues, just finished @moiraverse.bsky.social’s STORYBOOK ENDING. So full of life and intimately incisive observations that made me smile. Just made me feel good and - especially right now - there’s precious little better than that.
Apparently you can buy blankets at the multiplex now? Is it too expensive to keep the heat on?
October 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Apparently you can buy blankets at the multiplex now? Is it too expensive to keep the heat on?
Hello, fall. You’re gorgeous. 🍂
October 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hello, fall. You’re gorgeous. 🍂
One of a kind. Rest peacefully. 💔
a woman wearing a hat and vest says la-de-dah on the screen
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October 12, 2025 at 5:22 AM
One of a kind. Rest peacefully. 💔
😢💔https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/seattle-movie-theater-update-siff-will-end-lease-at-historic-egyptian/
Seattle is losing yet another indie movie theater
SIFF Cinema Egyptian on Capitol Hill — known for decades as the Egyptian Theatre — will not reopen under SIFF ownership after flooding last year.
www.seattletimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
😢💔https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/seattle-movie-theater-update-siff-will-end-lease-at-historic-egyptian/
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Good morning! Should you be in need of a bookish distraction, note that fellow local novelist Ashley Ream (“The Peculiar Gift of July”) and I will be chatting at Island Books on Mercer Island at 6:30 tomorrow, Oct. 2, as a “Writers on Writing” event. Come join us! islandbooks.com/event/2025-1...
Writers on Writing: Moira MacDonald and Ashley Ream
islandbooks.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Good morning! Should you be in need of a bookish distraction, note that fellow local novelist Ashley Ream (“The Peculiar Gift of July”) and I will be chatting at Island Books on Mercer Island at 6:30 tomorrow, Oct. 2, as a “Writers on Writing” event. Come join us! islandbooks.com/event/2025-1...
Need a feel-good story today? Here’s one, about my wonderful former colleague @gabrielcampanario.com (who you might know better as the Urban Sketcher), written by the great Erik Lacitis. www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...
A former Seattle Times artist has created a worldwide movement
A remarkable feat by this Seattle-area artist: His urban sketchers group went from 17 members in 2009 to 299,000 worldwide, in 514 cities and more than 70 countries.
www.seattletimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Need a feel-good story today? Here’s one, about my wonderful former colleague @gabrielcampanario.com (who you might know better as the Urban Sketcher), written by the great Erik Lacitis. www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...
It me 🍂
Fall Bitches Already Fondly Gazing at Summer’s Sweet Demise: tinyurl.com/yc574b4r
September 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It me 🍂
I’m thrilled and honored to share that my novel, “Storybook Ending,” is the fall selection for Seattle Met’s book club! www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-cul...
The Seattle Met Book Club Is Back
Our second ever book club selection is ‘Storybook Ending’ by Moira Macdonald.
www.seattlemet.com
September 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I’m thrilled and honored to share that my novel, “Storybook Ending,” is the fall selection for Seattle Met’s book club! www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-cul...
A great one gone today. Here’s a memory: I interviewed him, years ago, and unlike many very famous people, he didn’t use a wall of publicists but just called me himself. The phone rang: “Hi, Moira, it’s Bob Redford.” Rest peacefully, sir. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Robert Redford, ‘Butch Cassidy’ and ‘All the President’s Men’ Icon, Dies at 89
Robert Redford, the screen legend known for films like 'All the President's Men' and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' has died. He was 89.
variety.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A great one gone today. Here’s a memory: I interviewed him, years ago, and unlike many very famous people, he didn’t use a wall of publicists but just called me himself. The phone rang: “Hi, Moira, it’s Bob Redford.” Rest peacefully, sir. variety.com/2025/film/ne...
1. Diet Coke
2. Sunflowers
3. Bright, crisp autumn afternoons
4. Random smiles from strangers
5. Rewatching a movie you love
2. Sunflowers
3. Bright, crisp autumn afternoons
4. Random smiles from strangers
5. Rewatching a movie you love
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
September 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
1. Diet Coke
2. Sunflowers
3. Bright, crisp autumn afternoons
4. Random smiles from strangers
5. Rewatching a movie you love
2. Sunflowers
3. Bright, crisp autumn afternoons
4. Random smiles from strangers
5. Rewatching a movie you love
Life is a lot; maybe you need to pay one last (ha!) visit to “Downton Abbey.” www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Moira Macdonald reviews ‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’
“Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” is as good as it needs to be (even if our critic doubts it is the actual end of “Downton Abbey”).
www.seattletimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Life is a lot; maybe you need to pay one last (ha!) visit to “Downton Abbey.” www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
Just a reminder, in case anyone needs it, that Martin Scorsese’s glorious “The Age of Innocence” is leaving Netflix at the end of the month and oh, does it ever bear rewatching.
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September 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Just a reminder, in case anyone needs it, that Martin Scorsese’s glorious “The Age of Innocence” is leaving Netflix at the end of the month and oh, does it ever bear rewatching.
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August 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Mark your calendars: the wonderful Elizabeth George and I will be chatting about her newest Lynley mystery, “A Slowly Dying Cause,” on September 23 at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park. 📚🔍. Come join us! For tickets: thirdplacebooks.com/event/elizabeth-george
August 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Mark your calendars: the wonderful Elizabeth George and I will be chatting about her newest Lynley mystery, “A Slowly Dying Cause,” on September 23 at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park. 📚🔍. Come join us! For tickets: thirdplacebooks.com/event/elizabeth-george
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August 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I just subscribed! You could too. If you love movies, you’ll love @bwdr.bsky.social. 🎥🍿🎬❤️
Happy #InternationalCatDay to everyone but especially to the most adorable cat in the world, who just happens to live at my house.
August 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Happy #InternationalCatDay to everyone but especially to the most adorable cat in the world, who just happens to live at my house.
So yesterday I was in Ravenna Third Place Books, saying hello to “Storybook Ending” (#4 on the bestseller shelf!), and a staffer told me that someone had left a note for me — which is basically the plot of my book. #lifeimitatesart
August 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
So yesterday I was in Ravenna Third Place Books, saying hello to “Storybook Ending” (#4 on the bestseller shelf!), and a staffer told me that someone had left a note for me — which is basically the plot of my book. #lifeimitatesart
If you were a teen who obsessively practiced “A Chorus Line” routines in the mirror (I was), this beautiful reunion of 50 years of Broadway dancers will touch your heart. 💃 ♥️
This is a really great overview (Lia Chang did a great job on it) of an amazing afternoon of love and celebration.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUIs...
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A CHORUS LINE 50TH Anniversary Flash Mob sings "One" & "What I Did For Love" at Lincoln Center
YouTube video by Backstage Pass with Lia Chang
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July 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If you were a teen who obsessively practiced “A Chorus Line” routines in the mirror (I was), this beautiful reunion of 50 years of Broadway dancers will touch your heart. 💃 ♥️
Well, clearly I have arrived, because I just got an email via my author website from the publicist for a “well-known TV Host & Influencer,” which lists in great detail this person’s A-list credentials and offers a “partnership” with me, for which they would be happy to “discuss our rates.”
a woman in a green dress is sitting at a table and making a face .
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July 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Well, clearly I have arrived, because I just got an email via my author website from the publicist for a “well-known TV Host & Influencer,” which lists in great detail this person’s A-list credentials and offers a “partnership” with me, for which they would be happy to “discuss our rates.”
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My mom emailed tonight that she and her friends had a bottle of prosciutto with their dinner, and honestly that sounds pretty good though I don’t know how they got it in the bottle.
July 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
My mom emailed tonight that she and her friends had a bottle of prosciutto with their dinner, and honestly that sounds pretty good though I don’t know how they got it in the bottle.
My last Seattle Times story for a little while (I’m on leave for a few months, working on another book), and it was a fun one: a tribute to the century-old Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma, a neighborhood movie house filled with stories. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...
This WA movie theater is one of a vanishing few
The updated Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma's Proctor District is one of the state's dwindling single-screen neighborhood moviehouses.
www.seattletimes.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My last Seattle Times story for a little while (I’m on leave for a few months, working on another book), and it was a fun one: a tribute to the century-old Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma, a neighborhood movie house filled with stories. www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...