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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I have watched the pr*sid*nt of the Un*ted St*tes—in my constitutionally protected opinion—behave and speak (‘What if a bomb dropped on yeh head right now?’) like a Qu*ens m*bster. I am ashamed for my country.

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

NO KING!!! NO EMPEROR!!! NO DICTATOR!!! Happy (real) Washington’s Birthday! (22 Feb. 1732, N.S. / 11 Feb. 1731, O.S.)

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Remembering Mort Künstler (1927-2025), the ‘king’ of pulp covers and a leading American historical artist. I interviewed him in 2008 for my ‘Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History’ (2d ed). He was generous with his time, discussing the covers he painted for Classics Illustrated in the year 1953.

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Honouring Black History Month: CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED/ACCLAIM SG61, NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS (March 1998); cover by Steven Musgrave. [CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED trademarks and associated copyrights are the property of First Classics Inc. All rights reserved.]

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

In honour of our neighbour to the north and friends worldwide, I’ve decided to adopt the Canadian/British spelling of such words as colour, realise, centre, etc. (Having written for a Toronto publisher in the past, it comes naturally.) I know it’s a little thing, but there it is. We do what we can.

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Remembering Marianne Faithfull (1946-2025).

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In the late 1980s, during my much-missed National Book Critics Circle days, I reviewed for Spectrum—a Little Rock alternative paper—Claudia Koonz’s “Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics.” Given the new administration’s current direction, it’s time to read it again.

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

So proud of Bishop Mariann Budde and the Episcopal Church.

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This month keeps sending me back to the 1955-58 Capitol Sinatra for music to match my post-November 5 mood. These are the albums—‘In the Wee Small Hours’; ‘Where Are You?’; ‘Only the Lonely’—that most directly speak to me in this moment. (At least I haven’t drifted—yet—into the dark ‘No One Cares.’)

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A young Johnny Hallyday (years before “Retiens la nuit,” etc.) behind Simone Signoret in "Les Diaboliques" (dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955).

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

From my friend, author Jerry Hogan of Fayetteville, AR: ‘In January 1839, Nelson Orr, a Cherokee on the Trail of Tears, was mortally stabbed by Willis Wallace, a Fayetteville "grocer"… Orr was … connected to and part of the hierarchy of the Cherokee Nation…’

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Happy memory: a festschrift I edited and dedicated to the Scottish Stevensonian scholar David Daiches. International contributors (Jenni Calder, Richard Dury, etc.) wrote papers for the ‘RLS 2000’ conference, Little Rock, celebrating the 150th anniversary of Robert Louis Stevenson’s birth.

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

‘Babylon Berlin,’ Seasons 1-4; Liv Lisa Fries and Volker Bruch; German with English subtitles. More timely than ever—highly recommended.

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Yslan Hicks and Bill Jones, Chicago, September 2024.

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William B. Jones (Bill Jones) @billjones-ci.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

First post. Just so you’ll know it’s me.

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