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Nancy Quinn

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 Milwaukee, WI
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Joined February 2009
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Donald Trump put up signs at the reflecting pool blaming "past administrations" for clogging the pipes. He forgets that he is one of those "past administrations," and accidentally blamed himself.
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Nitin Sawhney recommends The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist fivebooks.com/best-books/the… via @five_books
Five Books: The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Nitin Sawhney

Five Books: The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Nitin Sawhney

Composer Nitin Sawhney, one of this year's Booker Prize judges, introduces us to the books they have declared the six best novels of 2024

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MAGA is BIGLY mad at this opening of 60 Minutes Last night. 60 Minutes merely just told the truth. Why does the truth make you guys so angry? @60Minutes
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Extended interview: R.E.M. on songwriting, breaking up and their lifelon... youtu.be/ATHHACcw3Q4?si=zESs… via @YouTube
Extended interview: R.E.M. on songwriting, breaking up and their lifelong friendship

Extended interview: R.E.M. on songwriting, breaking up and their lifelong friendship

The original members of R.E.M. sit down with Anthony Mason for thei...

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Extended interview: R.E.M. on songwriting, breaking up and their lifelon... youtu.be/ATHHACcw3Q4?si=zESs… via @YouTube
Extended interview: R.E.M. on songwriting, breaking up and their lifelong friendship

Extended interview: R.E.M. on songwriting, breaking up and their lifelong friendship

The original members of R.E.M. sit down with Anthony Mason for thei...

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Remembering novelist Dorothy Allison, author of 'Bastard Out of Carolina'

Remembering novelist Dorothy Allison, author of 'Bastard Out of Carolina'

Allison, who died Nov. 6, based her critically acclaimed novel on her own experience of being physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Originally broadcast in 1992.

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Scott Bauer@sbauerAP14 Nov 2024
No joke: The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones’ Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax. apnews.com/article/onion-buy…

Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families' backing

A federal bankruptcy judge in Texas has ordered a hearing into how the satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars, after Jones and his lawyers...

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Bid on a note from your favorite author in The Common's Postcard Auction. lithub.com/bid-on-a-note-fro… via @lithub
Bid on a note from your favorite author in The Common’s Postcard Auction.

Bid on a note from your favorite author in The Common’s Postcard Auction.

The Common’s annual Author Postcard Auction is back for its eleventh year! The Postcard Auction offers the chance to bid on a hand-written, personalized postcard just for you, from a ton of great a…

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week lithub.com/5-book-reviews-yo… via @lithub
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Yasmine Seale on Mosab Abu Toha’s Forest of Noise, Ron Charles on Richard Price’s Lazarus Man, Marisa Meltzer on Lili Anolik’s Didion & Babitz,…

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Justin Albert recommends The Funniest Books of 2024 fivebooks.com/best-books/fun… via @five_books
Five Books: The Funniest Books of 2024, recommended by Justin Albert

Five Books: The Funniest Books of 2024, recommended by Justin Albert

The funniest books of 2024, as shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, introduced by Justin Albert

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Meet the 2024 National Book Award Finalists lithub.com/meet-the-2024-nat… via @lithub
Meet the 2024 National Book Award Finalists

Meet the 2024 National Book Award Finalists

The winners of the 75th National Book Awards—given every year in Young People’s Literature, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced next week in a ceremony hosted by Kate McK…

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2024/11/11/books…

How Do You Spell Rock Royalty? R.E.M. (Gift Article)

In a new biography, Peter Ames Carlin chronicles the rise of an indispensable band and the evolution of its music.

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Heaven just got a little more joyful. 🎶💜 NPR: Ella Jenkins, the first lady of children's music, has died at 100 npr.org/2024/11/10/530876080…
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Didion and Babitz! John Berger! Sylvia Plath! 24 new books out today. lithub.com/didion-and-babitz… via @lithub
Didion and Babitz! John Berger! Sylvia Plath! 24 new books out today.

Didion and Babitz! John Berger! Sylvia Plath! 24 new books out today.

It’s a week after America’s latest, and far from greatest, election, a day that many of us are still processing. I have so much to say, as we all do, and I’ll say it elsewhere soo…

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Six newsletters to get you through this week. lithub.com/six-newsletters-t…
Six newsletters to get you through this week.

Six newsletters to get you through this week.

It’s the week after the election. You’re inundated with takes, ranging from the knee-jerk-libidinal appeal to the sagely analytical post-mortem. More are certainly coming. Writers be wr…

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Richard Price’s Radical, Retrograde Novel theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
Richard Price’s Radical, Retrograde Novel

Richard Price’s Radical, Retrograde Novel

In “Lazarus Man,” he rejects the tropes of contemporary literature.

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Dorothy Allison’s Life Was a Queer Survival Guide theatlantic.com/books/archiv…

The Queer Author Who Spoke the Plain Truth

Dorothy Allison, the "Bastard Out of Carolina" author who died last week, modeled the power of honesty in her writing and her life.

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The antipoverty agenda under Trump isn’t all lost vox.com/policy/383549/minimu…
The antipoverty agenda under Trump isn’t all lost

The antipoverty agenda under Trump isn’t all lost

Successful minimum wage ballot measures offer small signs of hope.

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"The events of the past eight years might prompt some to wonder: If Clinton wasn't good enough, and neither was Harris, will a woman ever be good enough to be president?" @OlgaKhazan writes. "What kind of a woman would it take?" theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
Why America Still Doesn’t Have a Female President

Why America Still Doesn’t Have a Female President

Every woman is the wrong woman.

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Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader

Booker prize 2024: and the winner is... you, the reader

The judges have a hard task at this week’s Booker prize ceremony with five of the six shortlisted books worthy winners, though Percival Everett’s James – a retelling of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn...

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