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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 11/09/2025

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Natalie Bakopoulos and conversation with @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social !

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Meet @aceisjoy.bsky.social, one of our fiction grads and social media intern, whose time in the program led to personal development on and off the page.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

✍️ The application period for the 2026 FSG Writer’s Fellowship is now open! The application period began on June 16, 2025, and closes on July 18, 2025 . More information about the fellowship can be found at fsgfellowship.com.

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This is why we can’t have nice things like a publishing industry

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I’m a tad biased but I’ve read this ARC and I loved this novel and I think you will too!

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Want to learn more about applying to the MFA Program for Writers. Two weeks from today, Sunday June 8th at 1pm ET, meet our director and learn how to prepare your application.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23/05/2025

This comment period ends today, 5/23, at 11:59 pm ET. Please do comment asap if you believe the government should allow us to get COVID vaccinations. I can't believe we even have to petition them about this, but here we are.

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Kimberly Burns @kimberlyburns.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🙌 Here comes @melissafebos.bsky.social THE DRY SEASON (thanks @nytimes.com) 💥💥💥 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/b...

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21 Nonfiction Books Coming this Summer

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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

“It took me ten years to live and two years to write” is how Bob Dylan once described Tangled Up in Blue. The song not only opens the masterpiece that is his 15th studio album Blood on the Tracks, it’s key to unlocking the whole record. 🧵

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Amazing that anyone could believe that this institution was/is anything more than a place sloppy, unsuccessful and racist intellectuals could try and glorify themselves as bastions of free speech and free thought

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I know the trend of students using AI to cheat is sad, sure, but so is grading, so let’s abolish the grading system at all levels of education and find news way to teach and motivate ourselves and our students and evaluate their work.

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

One of the great feelings of middle aged Dad is ripping three extra sets of weights bc Dylan’s “Things Have Changed” comes on the shuffle play

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Finally saw "Sinners." GotDAMN that was good. It's so beautiful to see a Black creative, in the fullness of his power, ignore all the "shoulds" and conventions and just COOK. That movie was so good it made me come home and write.

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

✨Cover Spotlight!✨ Check out the fantastic cover for ✨Archipelago: A Novel (8/19/25) by @nataliebakopoulos.bsky.social — designed by Beth Steidle, Tin House director of design & production. "A gorgeously sly page turner.” —Laura van den Berg More: bit.ly/ArchipelagoN...

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

He will not hesitate to kill as many popes as it takes

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

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'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects

A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This is so funny, I might have to print it out and frame it

FOX NEWS CARD: PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
DECLASSIFIED THE JFK FILES
ENDED FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR PAPER STRAWS
ENDED PRODUCTION OF THE PENNY
NEWS LIVE
(Stephen Miller in a window explaining why this is awesome)

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I saw SINNERS two nights in a row it was that good

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

This is the point in the commercial where I look at you, smile and nod, take a bite of the tomato in my hand, enjoy it, then look down, pick up dog poop, and hurl it at the politician speaking in the park while you heartily applaud

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Holy fuck SINNERS is Cinema. @ryancoogler.bsky.social did it just went out there and did it

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

God love Ryan Coogler for taking his clout from Black Panther and David Zaslav’s money to make a horny, gory, morally grey, politically complicated, very funny original adult art movie shot on IMAX 65mm for real—that a bunch of industry insiders were rooting for to fail.

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I suddenly wondered if the final speech @carriecoon.bsky.social gives at the end of White Lotus deliberately echoes Sonya’s last speech at the end of Uncle Vanya. This is why I’m an insomniac

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

No Kings protest in Santa Fe, NM

Sign that says NO KING with a crossed-out gold crown

Sign: NO KING
Let the warning ride forth once more:
Tyranny is at our door

Small child holding a sign:
NO KINGS
NO NAZIS

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Dr. Maria Hoeffer, ND @indigospin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Cincinnati is showing up to protect democracy! #50501 #HandsOff

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The New York anti-Trump protest today is BIG! Looks like tens of thousands on the streets. #50501movement #HandsOff #NoKings (🎥 L2FTV)

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Kevin Maples @bkevinmaples.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Huge crowd in Lexington, Kentucky today to declare "No Kings!" #50501 #NoKings #NoKing #HandsOff #protest #Kentucky #Lexington #indivisble

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I pray there isn't a hell, because we would all go there for this

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

When people ask me what I do lately, I always say “I’m in show business.” One of the great phrases ever. Exciting and completely vague

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Happy Pub Day, Big Chief! What a great debut novel ❤️✍️🏆🌙

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Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Small Rain has won the PEN/Faulkner Award. I don’t know what to say, except that I’m very grateful to the judges, & very moved to see my book included alongside such excellent writers.

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Congrats, friend! I love this for you!

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

That speech at dinner from @carriecoon.bsky.social was transcendent acting. She’s so good. One of the very very best

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Reagan Arthur @reaganart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A powerful letter and far more courageous than a lot of millionaire law partners I could name

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Booker set to beat Strom Thurmond’s pro-segregation record, now this. Small green shoots of political life in the Dems

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Dean Bakopoulos @deanbakopoulos.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

One of the most fiercely loyal and kindest people I’ve ever worked with, my TV agent Tony Etz, has passed away. I’ll miss him more than I can say. deadline.com/2025/03/tony...