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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Top 5 Desert Reads, acc to the Desert Sun, including my book Desert Reckoning, which is #1, with mention of Twentynine Palms. Speaking about both at the Twentynine Palms Book Festival on Nov 13 in Twentynine Palms, portal into Joshua Tree National Park. #booksky www.desertsun.com/story/desert...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Doubleheader Twentynine Palms Book Festival. Speaking about my book Desert Reckoning on the Desert Noir panel along with actor Christian Camargo on Nov 13 at 330, right before my Twentynine Palms convo. Book won the Spur & LA Press Club Awards. See/listen. #booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_S...

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DESERT RECKONING

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Next call. Nov 13/5pm/Twentynine Palms Book Festival. My convo with Jardine Libaire about my book Twentynine Palms. "One of these days I might shut the whole thing down." That's the Mojave talking in my book. LA Times bestseller. #booksky #authorsky #desertsky pioneertowngazette.com/events/deann...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Soon! I'll be in convo re my book Twentynine Palms on 9/13 at 5pm for its 25th anni at the Twentynine Palms Book Festival with novelist Jardine Libaire. This was an LAT "best book of the year" described by Hunter Thompson as "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer." #booksky

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

On 9/11 I was in NYC, on assignment for Rolling Stone, landing just before the planes hit the towers. I had picked that date to fly in because I had a premonition that something big was going to happen in Manhattan, and I might never see my mom again. #writersky www.truthdig.com/articles/911...

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9/11 and the Damage Done

On the day the towers fell, furies flew out of the hole in the ground and like all restless spirits, they headed west I did not realize it at the time, of course, but did have the sense a few days aft...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

After 9/11 bin Laden said the states would not be united. Yrs later, Rep Gabby Giffords was wounded in a mass shooting; a little girl born on 9/11 killed. Shooter obsessed with 9/11. Wrote about it in my prose poem, Reflections in a D'Back's Eye, then a play. #writersky gwarlingo.com/2012/on-the-...

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On the Anniversary of the Tucson Shooting: A New Work by Deanne Stillman - Gwarlingo

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The story of why I wrote this award-winning short film and what happened in the aftermath is now at @goldenstateorg.bsky.social. Hint: Hef wasn't the only one who wanted to be buried near #MarilynMonroe. Piece links to film. www.golden-state.org/marilyn-monr... #filmsky #film #moviesky #movies

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New @goldenstateorg.bsky.social piece about Marilyn Monroe, her 100th birthday, auctions and the ongoing battle over her Brentwood house, and Hugh Hefner buying and now interred in an adjacent crypt at the Westwood Memorial Park and Mortuary. #marilynmonroesky www.golden-state.org/marilyn-monr...

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Marilyn Monroe at 100: Can't a girl RIP around here?

Her house, her grave, her merchandising potential: In death as in life, everyone wants a piece of Marilyn Monroe without her say-so.

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Golden State @goldenstateorg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Her house, her grave, her merchandising potential: In death as in life, everyone wants a piece of Marilyn Monroe without her say-so. Deanne Stillman imagines a different reality for the icon, one where she escapes the "shackles of worship and control." LINK: www.golden-state.org/marilyn-monr...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Trump's not alone in his war against wild horses. They haven't had a friend in the White House since Richard Nixon. You see, he had this childhood secret, and it involved a running horse. My latest piece from @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social. #booksky #authorsky washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/28/r...

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Richard Nixon and Wild Horses: A Love Story

The disgraced late president was an unlikely champion of this symbol of the Wild West.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Beautiful video released by the family of Dolly Parton

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Leslie Caveny @anyonecanbeconned.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I love this!

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"The horses that survived helped the Spanish launch their conquest. But unlike the conquistadors, the horses were not newcomers: After 1000s of years, they were coming home, linked through DNA to Ice Age horses found on this continent." @highcountrynews.org #booksky www.hcn.org/wotr/were-st...

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We're still throwing horses overboard - High Country News

Deanne StillmanDuring the 16th century when conquistadors crossed the ocean from the Old World to the New, their ships often became stranded along the

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For those who haven't yet read Mustang but would like to take a peek, here's an excerpt published on @terrainorg.bsky.social thx to Simmons Buntin, shortly after my book came out, now updated. "The stallion’s voice was not loud, but filled the universe." #booksky www.terrain.org/2009/nonfict...

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Horse Latitudes - Terrain.org

"Horse Latitudes" is an excerpt of Deanne Stillman's Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West.

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Western Lens @planzing.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Morning Sunshine on the Acequia…

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"They were shipped back to Europe in tin cans." See .36, from my Mustang intvw with Voice of America, re the history & plight of wild horses, Oct 20, 2009. Where are the tin cans going now? At the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, site of Ice Age horse fossils. #booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfF...

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Author Urges Protection for American Wild Horses

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You must get and read @deanne5.bsky.social’s book. These monsters are killing the fucking horses and you’re not, nearly, angry enough!

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My book Mustang, published in 2008, an LAT "best of the year," praised by Tony Hillerman, was the first to report about the US govt selling off wild horses to slaughter. Sadly, this has been going on under every President post-Nixon. #booksky #authorsky #wildhorsesky www.amazon.com/Mustang-Dean...

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Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West

is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse across time, from its evolutionary origins on this continent to...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Since Mustang came out years ago, I've called for a moratorium on roundups of #wildhorses bc some end up en route to slaughter (see yesterday's @nytimes.com). Pix here by Bristol Mac Donald from an OG rally to STOP this (circa 09/10) w/me, Neda DeMayo, Wendie Malick, & Petrine Mitchum. #booksky

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The NYT just published a piece about wild horses being siphoned out of govt mgmt and sold off for slaughter. I wrote about this in my book Mustang; listen to Anjelica Huston reading the intro, and Frances Fisher and Wendie Malick for much more. #booksky rarebirdbooks.bandcamp.com/album/mustan...

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Mustang by Deanne Stillman, by Deanne Stillman

10 track album

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Re the Virginia Giuffre case files, here's my @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social piece re my book Twentynine Palms, its 25th anniversary, and the daily breaking accts of sexual violence. "If anyone had listened to Tammy, Mandi and Rosie would be alive." #booksky washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/15/a...

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A Marine, Two Murders, and a War on Women

“Twentynine Palms,” a book deaths near a California Marine base, exposed sexual violence. Some things are better now, many are not.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Whether it’s Pete Hegseth overseeing missile depletion, food shortages, and sailor suicide attempts or Lloyd Austin being Black, both secretaries of defense have angered portions of the electorate.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My adaptation of "Antigone" is screening on 8/19 in the Sarajevo Film Festival, directed by Goran Gajic, starring Mira Furlan ("Babylon 5"). It's a restored recording of our original stage production at the Hudson Guild Theatre, praised in the LAT. #filmfestivalsky tickets.sff.ba/films/3264#f...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

On 8/19 my adaptation of "Antigone" screens at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Directed by Goran Gajic and starring the late Mira Furlan ("Babylon 5"). Wrote this at Goran's request years ago; it was first produced at the Hudson Theatre in LA. RIP Mira. #filmfestivalsky tickets.sff.ba/films/3264#f...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Re Fauci on the grill: during Covid, masks became a proxy war for "Don't tread on me." "And now, that thing we all learned in third grade – 'It’s a free country; I can do what I want' – has become 'Why do I have to wear a mask?'” From early lockdown: #journalismsky publicseminar.org/essays/is-am...

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Is America Going Down Like Custer? - Public Seminar

For many years, I’ve been writing about the promise and the failure of the American dream. The trail has led...Read More

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Blood Brothers joins this Goodreads list of Best Nonfiction Books, Western US History, which also includes Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, and Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer #booksky #authorsky www.goodreads.com/list/show/14...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Phos-Chek is pretty, right? "Two tons of water had been dropped. High winds had disrupted the site. 'By the time the time the ATF arrived, it was like looking at a cremated body and trying to make a case for murder.'" My latest on the #palisadesfire. #journalismsky lareported.org/mistrial-by-...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Did ChatGPT train on The Day of the Locust? Here's my latest on the Palisades Fire for @lareported.bsky.social and the parallels between the painting in the novel & the actual inferno. Plus new stuff about the man who was accused of starting the fire. #booksky lareported.substack.com/p/palisades-...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The ICE agent who killed Johan Guerrero in Maine was an Afghan war vet with a history of domestic violence. The two girls I wrote about in my new @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social piece were killed by a Gulf War vet with a history of rape. #booksky #twentyninepalms washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/15/a...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New piece at @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social about Twentynine Palms, its 25th anniversary, and the news of sexual violence that breaks every day, from Virginia Giuffre and beyond. "If anyone had listened to Tammy, Mandi and Rosie would be alive." #booksky washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/15/a...

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A Marine, Two Murders, and a War on Women

“Twentynine Palms,” a book deaths near a California Marine base, exposed sexual violence. Some things are better now, many are not.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Winner 2026 LA Press Club Award for national political commentary, online, for my Washington Monthly piece, "Alligator Alcatraz: The Ice Detention Center Is a Sin Against Nature." My third LAPC award. @losangelespress.bsky.social @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social washingtonmonthly.com/2025/07/15/a...

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Steven E. de Souza @stevenedesouza.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

A must read: A layer cake of a story, and the tip of the iceberg of a bigger, deeper one. Brava, Deanne.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

"A few years ago, I was giving a talk about Blood Brothers in Wyoming. A woman approached me after everyone else had left and leaned in, whispering. 'I didn’t know Sitting Bull didn’t kill Custer,' she said. 'That’s what they told us in school.'" #booksky washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/25/t...

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The Battle of Little Bighorn and Why It Never Ends

Custer’s last stand was 150 years ago. As America wrestles with its 250th birthday, this commemoration also cuts to the heart of who we are.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

For the 150th anniversary of the Little Bighorn Battle. "When I first visited the site, I experienced something so mysterious that I don’t think I’ll ever recover. The battlefield should be a required visit for all of us." @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social #booksky washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/25/t...

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I never met the Obamas, but my books were in proximity, at Collection Antiques and Books in Pacific Palisades (Blood Brothers) and at Barnes and Noble at Union Square in NYC (Blood Brothers). A copy of Mustang that I signed for Obama was given directly to him by a Democratic Party donor. #booksky

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

JD Vance is a man of faith, sez his new memoir. But the guy almost started a Civil War. As I wrote here, warfare is his legacy. In his 1st memoir he talks about a cousin who started the war btwn the Hatfields & McCoys. That struck me as key. #booksky authorsfordemocracy.substack.com/p/jd-vance-a...

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JD Vance And The White Trashing Of America

A guest post by Deanne Stillman

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Upon the 25th anniversary of Twentynine Palms, an LA Times "best book of the year" which Hunter Thompson called "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer." #authorsky #booksky

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Whether it’s Donald Trump turning the White House grounds into a trashy UFC shithole or Jimmy Carter wearing a cardigan to a fireside chat, both men degraded the presidency.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

@latimes.com op-ed upon publication of Mustang, calling for a moratorium on roundups of #wildhorses, still underway now, as we approach #America250, and the govt deploys the horses as symbols of freedom in #July4th PR, even as it tries to wipe them out. #authorsky www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

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Wild horses aren't free

Failure to enforce a 1971 law endangers the mustangs it was supposed to protect.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Screening today of "Taxi Driver" at the Tribeca Film Festival for its 50th anni. In American Confidential, about Lee Harvey Oswald & his mother, I wrote that Oswald was "America's first Travis Bickle." See @dailybeast.bsky.social intvw w/Bill Morris. #booksky www.thedailybeast.com/lee-harvey-o...

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Lee Harvey Oswald Was America’s First Travis Bickle

Author Deanne Stillman talks to The Daily Beast about her new book that explores the relationship between Oswald and his monster of a mother.

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Deanne Stillman @deanne5.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Is gun violence baked into America's DNA? And what is the way out? Those are questions explored in my play "Reflections in a D'Back's Eye," at the Long Beach Shakespeare Company New Works Festival," June 6/7. See this very nice Broadway World item. #theatresky www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/...

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