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1455 Literary Arts @1455litarts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you SO MUCH for the amazing turnout at our Women Writers Anthology reading @thewriterscenter!! Every single writer who read today (and in the anthology) is amazingly talented!! Thank you to every contributor who read today and for supporting your fellow writers!!

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She's back and she's back BIG. Deesha Philyaw (PEN/Faulkner winner, National Book Award finalist) releases debut novel The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman. Order now at deeshaphilyaw.com. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/celebratin... #SomeThingsConsidered

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Amber Sparks rides the bus imagining women's lives because "women are stories": exactly why I asked her to write about 1455 Women Writers Anthology. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/amber-spar... #SomeThingsConsidered #substack #ambersparks #1455womenwritersanthology

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Deesha Philyaw, author and previous guest on the Podcast Some Things Considered, is releasing a new book The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, available September 29th, 2026. @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Learn more at deeshaphilyaw.com Watch her on Some Things Considered at seanmurphy.live

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monthly Vinyl Club Round Five: Robert Johnson, Alpha and Omega of American music. One man, one guitar, one legend that grows the more you understand it. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/the-monthl... #SomeThingsConsidered #substack #robertjohnson #monthlyvinylclub

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"How dare you even think twice about who's in charge and writes the checks." They asked Ali that. He had an answer. From red, white and blues, out now at the link in bio. #muhammadali #newbook #politics #poems

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jeannine Ouellette @jeannineouellette.bsky.social (The Part That Burns author, Writing in the Dark creator) wrote our Women Writers Anthology introduction. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/jeannine-o...

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Isn't silence what art always responds to, replaces, or rectifies? 1455's Women Writers Anthology: 165 voices, 17 countries, silence as peace/defiance/transformation. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/sean-murph... #SomeThingsConsidered #substack #1455

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's here! 1455's Women Writers Anthology: 165 writers, 17 countries, 32 states exploring silence as refuge, erasure, resistance, revelation. For women, silence has often been both condition and choice. Read more and check out the anthology: murphlaw.substack.com/p/1455s-wome...

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1455 Literary Arts @1455litarts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1455’s Women Writers Anthology is officially available now, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to share it with the world! Order your copy now on Amazon, and learn more at 1455litarts.org/wwa #newbook #bookrelease #1455WomenWritersAnthology #reading #writing

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy 100th, John Coltrane. Decade of 1957-1967: among the most profound creative arcs in human artistic history. Some things exceed language, and that's exactly the point. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/john-coltr... #SomeThingsConsidered #substack #johncoltrane

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New poem at Good Men Project! "Regulars": bartending and other things. Read more and subscribe to my Substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/original-p... #SomeThingsConsidered #substack #originalpoem #thegoodmenproject

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Complete God's work — or at least Cortez's. Everyone knows a fish rots from the head." Jake Gittes figured that out too late. From red, white and blues, out now at the link in bio. #jakegittes #newbook #politics #poems

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

New story in @MassReview that invokes a song I had forgotten turns 40 this year. Yo @vurnt22.bsky.social "I got a reason to believe we all won't be received..." @PaulSimonMusic @livingcolour.com

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This week, @kaylaancrum.bsky.social joins Some Things Considered to discuss Adam, Mine, Frankenstein, myth and reinvention, AI and authentic creation, and why our strangest speculative stories so often reveal the deepest truths about being human. Watch the full episode at seanmurphy.live

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I expected good work from 1455 Young Poets Anthology, but did not expect to be changed by it. Began as a publishing project, became proof that art remains most powerful antidote to despair. Available everywhere now. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/what-177-y...

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This week, K. Ancrum @kaylaancrum.bsky.social joins Some Things Considered to discuss Adam, Mine, Frankenstein, myth and reinvention, AI and authentic creation, and why our strangest speculative stories so often reveal the deepest truths about being human. Watch the full episode at seanmurphy.live

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

K. Ancrum on Adam, Mine—bold Frankenstein reimagining exploring creation, desire, identity, what it means to be human. When machines imitate creation's surfaces: why do we make things at all? Watch the episode at the link in my bio! #SomeThingsConsidered #podcast #yaauthor #authordiscussion

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The Empathy Adjustment": pulled over pre-sunrise, scared shitless, involuntary empathy reset. Relief converts angst to adrenaline. But first: feel bad. That's the honest start. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/original-p... #SomeThingsConsidered #substack #poetry

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Raffi Joe Wartanian joins Some Things Considered to discuss his new album Makam Delta, as well as the many creative threads that converge in his work—from poetry and essays to the oud. Watch the full episode on YouTube or Substack at seanmurphy.live #SomeThingsConsidered #Podcast #poetry #music

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Everyone says young people don't read and poetry is dying—just don't tell that to the hundreds who sent us poems not for money or status but to make sense of being alive. The kids are more than alright. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/what-177-y...

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Raffi Joe Wartanian (Glendale Poet Laureate, Academy of American Poets Fellow) on Makam Delta—Middle Eastern traditions meeting American blues/folk/Appalachian sounds. Tune in and subscribe at the link in bio. #SomeThingsConsidered #podcast #music #raffijoewartanian

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day! One day celebrating workers while unpaid internships are normalized as "opportunity" and literary gatekeepers do less while staying comfortable. Systems built on exploitation eventually eat themselves. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/annual-lab...

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Christian B. Miller joins Some Things Considered to discuss his new book, The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World. Full episode is out now on YouTube and Substack at seanmurphy.live #SomeThingsConsideredPodcast #podcast #books #reading

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Five years gone: Lee "Scratch" Perry, who invented dub, mentored Marley, inspired hip-hop, and made Keith Richards call him a shaman. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/lee-scratc... #SomeThingsConsidered #substack #leeperry #music

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

3 Quarks Daily column: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying on the Dixie Limited as analog antidote to AI unreality. Computers can mimic but lack originality and soul. Best way to resist bad stories: tell better ones. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/as-ai-lay-...

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Monthly Vinyl Club Round Four: Hendrix's Electric Ladyland—his masterpiece, growth unlike any musician ever. From "Purple Haze" to "Rainy Day" in two years: inconceivable, impossible, but it happened. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/the-monthl...

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"He'd get his chance to play Christ for Scorsese; here he is Christ, arms akimbo — dying for our sins, obviously." Platoon already knew the ending. From red, white and blues, out now at the link in bio. #sergeantelias #newbook #politics #poems

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Twenty-four years ago today. The cemetery is where her body rests; everywhere else I go is where she still exists. For Linda Murphy, and all the mothers. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/august-26-... #SomeThingsConsidered #substack #originalpoem #grief

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New poem: if men burn the earth, all our mothers weep to drown the fire, flooding the world with salted tears until we find "the serenity of a deathless, maternal eternity." For Linda Murphy: 8/23/43 - 8/26/2002. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/a-poem-for...

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Well-oiled and indifferent citizens held silver sun reflectors to get more light — since it's never cloudy in California, or anywhere you can avoid the draft. From red, white and blues, out now at the link in bio. #richardnixon #newbook #politics #poetry

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Arthur Lee's Forever Changes remains most accurate American document of 1967, utterly of its time yet still fresh, documenting the hippie scene's underbelly while everyone else celebrated the light. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/arthur-lee...

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Season 6 Episode 2 of STC is out now! In this episode of Some Things Considered, Christian B. Miller discusses his book The Honesty Crisis, exploring the complexities of honesty in an increasingly deceptive world and its implications for society. Link in bio! #SomeThingsConsidered #podcast

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Somewhere in the dark, alone, that's where an evil soul is imprisoned forever — not in any hell designed by someone else, but in the one it built while it thought no one was watching. From red, white and blues, out now at the link in bio. #polpot #newbook #politics #poems

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Five years gone: appreciating Charlie Watts is simple, properly appreciating him is the difference between domestic light beer and a perfect Guinness. Indispensable without being loudest in the room. Read more and subscribe to my substack: murphlaw.substack.com/p/charlie-wa... #SomeThingsConsidered

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sean Murphy on Some Things Considered with Dinaw Mengestu Watch the full episode at murphlaw.substack.com/p/season-4-e... #somethingsconsideredpodcast #podcast #writer #reading #books #fiction #nonfiction #art #politics #masculinity #immigration

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Sean Murphy @bullmurph.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

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