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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 20h

I couldn’t be more pleased with this cover by Barbara Neely Bourgoyne for my essay collection – May 2027 and available for pre-order. Many thanks to Barbara and to editors @lisaampleman.bsky.social & @haakwing.bsky.social, and the team at @acrebooks.bsky.social acre-books.com/titles/ash-c...

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We, a group of established writers who have had the privilege of teaching in the Sewanee Writers’ Conference over the past six years, are writing to express our outrage and dismay at the unexpected departure of the Conference Director, Leah Stewart. >>>Read the full letter by following the link.

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My upcoming essay collection from @acrebooks.bsky.social has a page (cover coming soon). Available even to pre-order now, if you like to get in on a good thing early 🙏🏻

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Somehow this book of prose poems (& some of my photographs) is three years old today. Thank you to @acrebooks.bsky.social and to the readers 🙏🏻

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Grateful to @sternbergh.bsky.social & NY Times Opinion for recirculating today my essay about the Palisades Fire and the far-reaching health effects of 9/11. Sadly relevant again in light of recent disclosures about toxic air from WTC dust, smoke, and ash www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | What 9/11, Cancer and the Palisades Fire Taught Me (Gift Article)

We’ll never know with certainty that carcinogens in the smoke, dust and ash from the World Trade Center caused my wife’s cancer and my own.

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking of those we lost that day 25 years ago, those we’ve lost in the years since, and all of the survivors.

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Opinion | What 9/11, Cancer and the Palisades Fire Taught Me (Gift Article)

We’ll never know with certainty that carcinogens in the smoke, dust and ash from the World Trade Center caused my wife’s cancer and my own.

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

posting a gift link to this excellent essay by Dan O'Brien about watching his world burn, twice: Once in NYC on 9/11 and once in the Palisades Fire in LA. Both O'Brien and his wife developed cancer from toxic air—which seems timely given the revelations of this week www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Opinion | What 9/11, Cancer and the Palisades Fire Taught Me (Published 2025)

We’ll never know with certainty that carcinogens in the smoke, dust and ash from the World Trade Center caused my wife’s cancer and my own.

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Manuscript delivered. ‘Ash: Catastrophe, Performance, & the Craft’ (essays) publishing in May with @acrebooks.bsky.social ✨

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Manuscript delivered. ‘Ash: Catastrophe, Performance, & the Craft’ (essays) publishing in May with @acrebooks.bsky.social ✨

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DavidGrimm @davidgrimm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Still a few seats open for my Playwriting class at HB Studios. 10 Sundays, starting 20 Sept. hbstudio.coursestorm.com/category/pla...

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Playwriting | HB Studio

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Happy to share this news: I’ve been named to the Fulbright Specialist Roster for the next three years. I’ll be available to collaborate with universities and arts organizations around the world, particularly in teaching creative writing with a focus on personal and geopolitical trauma.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's Friday. The weekend is just about upon us.

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The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Check this out if you are interested in the history of our Journal!

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Howard Sherman @hesherman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Like so many arts writers, I've been the victim of downsizing. But I'll continue to write and you can find my work here, for free. Maybe I'll be a respite from all the political Substacks. Thanks!

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Yes, Yet Another Substack. But On The Arts.

15 years after launching my website, I have adopted the platform de jour.

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Many thanks to the Midwest Independent Publishers Association for awarding Acre Books "Best Small Press" for 2026! We are grateful for this recognition! 🎉🎉🎉 #publishers #booksky

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Many thanks to David Weldon Hudson @ the Criterion Current for the kind words about my essay on EEPHUS in @filmquarterly.bsky.social 🙏🏻 @textplusimage.bsky.social www.criterion.com/current/post...

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Many thanks to @dwhdaily.bsky.social at Criterion Current for this note on FQ's new issue: "Playwright and poet @bydanobrien.bsky.social has a beautiful piece in the new Film Quarterly on Carson Lund’s Eephus (2024), 'a perfect little film'..."

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We are always delighted to publish new books by Acre author @bydanobrien.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Delighted to see Acre twice represented on the finalist list for the Julie Suk Award for Best book of #poetry! Congrats to @marthasilano.bsky.social (TERMINAL SURREAL) and CD Eskilson (SCREAM / QUEEN)! 🎉🎉🎉 #booksky jacarpress.com/suk-award/

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Julie Suk Award - Poetry Book Contest - Jacar Press

Enter the Julie Suk Award Competition for the best poetry book published by a small, literary press in 2024. Call Jacar Press.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Vaccines save lives. This is the FIRST time that ZERO cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Yes, you read that correctly. ZERO.

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Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study

The HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has reduced the risk of dying from the disease before the age of 30 in England to almost zero, the first study of its kind showed Thursday.

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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

With the coming retirement of our extraordinary publisher / editor Nicola Mason, the Acre masthead will soon enter a new era! Stay tuned for details. In the meantime, our sister publication @cincinnatireview.bsky.social is in need of a new managing editor! Details below. #booksky 🖊️

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Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Copies of FQ’s Summer Issue are landing in subscribers’ mailboxes and Inboxes (thanks to @ucpress.bsky.social), Cover: My Father’s Shadow (Akinola Davies Jr.). Inside: Alexandra Juhasz’s Please Hold, Horror in the High Desert, Marie Epstein, The Boys/Gen V, interview w/ J. Hoberman & other gems!

Cover of Film Quarterly, Summer 2026. Cover Image: My Father’s Shadow (Akinola Davies Jr.).

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

imagine drawing a crowd in the middle of the night to watch them remove your name from a building

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Lisa Ampleman @lisaampleman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Update: I'm going to move over to @acrebooks.bsky.social full-time starting in Aug. Sarah Haak and I will be co-executive editors there as Nicola Mason moves into a consulting role after 10 ears founding and running the press. So we're seeking a new managing ed at @cincinnatireview.bsky.social!

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

‘The Body of an American’ announced for early next year at LAC Lugano in Switzerland, before touring to the National Theaters of Rome, Naples, and Genoa. Very grateful to Director Jacopo Gassmann, the artistic team he’s assembled, and the co-producing theaters for their care and artistry.

Photo of Jacopo Gassman director of The Body of an American by Dan O’Brien premiering at LAC Lugano early 2027 before tour of National Theaters of Rome, Naples, and Genoa

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Brian Trapp @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

So excited that this magazine is back in the world. Read it!

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Northwest Review @northwestreview.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Check out our recent interviews and reviews before our relaunch issue goes live on Monday! nwreview.org

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Very pleased to share that I have a new book coming out with @acrebooks.bsky.social in May 2027. The title is “Ash,” and it’s a collection of personal essays about, well, as the subtitle says, “catastrophe, performance, and the craft.” I can’t wait to collaborate with everyone at Acre again.

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