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Denise Oswald

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Editor-in-Chief, Pantheon Books. Is this place a toxic snake pit yet? Asking for a friend . . .

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.
And our governments are very much the same.
- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian Graphic Novelist
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Truly gutted by this news. Marjane was brilliant and principled and a true force of nature. It was an honor to get to work with her these last few years. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/w...
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Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Now would be an excellent time to pre-order Chris Smalls’s forthcoming book. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724036...
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When the Revolution Comes by Chris Smalls: 9780593700631 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From one of the most electric and consequential figures to emerge from the contemporary American labor movement, the remarkable story of his battle to create the first Amazon union in the U.S. and...
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
The right's pitch for women's submission is that it will cause men to provide, protect, and cherish women. Turns out the opposite is true. Research shows conservative men see tradwives as lazy parasites. They loathe them. www.salon.com/2026/04/08/w...
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Why MAGA men actually loathe tradwives
A new study shows submissive women aren't cherished but are held in contempt
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think it's more that antifeminism never goes out of style. Like a leather jacket.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you want a taste of what to expect from @chanda.blacksky.app’s THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME, this is an excellent place to start.
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Susan @artlovergirl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I just finished reading “Raising Hare” by Chloe Dalton and highly recommend it. If you liked “H is for Hawk,” you will love this book!!! We can learn so much by studying and appreciating wildlife… #books #reading #BookSky #wildlife #nature #BookClub #memoirs
Book jacket cover for “Raising Hare,” by Chloe Dalton, a New York Times Best Seller.  Memoir about a woman who finds a baby hare (leveret) in the English countryside and ends up raising it.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Music to my ears…
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Author tour alert! You all are not going to want to miss @chanda.blacksky.app.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
It’s not particularly sophisticated but I kind of think that the most straightforward way to understand trumpism is that we have a morally depraved group of fascists who have successfully persuaded a significant chunk of the public to accept their psychological projections as reality
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Absolutely not the news I wanted today. This world is a bit dimmer now and I don’t care what they say, your heart was absolutely in the right place. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
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Catherine O’Hara, actor known for Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek, dies aged 71
Actor, also known for Beetlejuice and her work with Christopher Guest, died after a brief illness
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Could not agree more.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Beyond thrilled to see Chloe Dalton’s RAISING HARE included among the NYT’s best books of the year. It’s been amazing to watch this book work its way into people’s hearts in the same way it did mine. @pantheonbooks.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...
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100 Notable Books of 2025
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Happy publication day, @natanlast.bsky.social, whose fascinating deep dive into the crossword puzzle’s history, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, drops today! I think @mathitak.bsky.social sums the brilliance of this book up quite nicely: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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The crossword has a radical history. A puzzle veteran explores why
Natan Last’s book delves into the crossword's century-long story, exploring what the grids we solve reveal about news and culture.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
At the counter of Russ & Daughters, sitting beside two ladies who seem to be sampling their first bagels & lox, nodding to each other and speaking in emphatic Chinese. New York is the greatest city in the world. Waves of immigration, assimilation and cross-cultural pollination make it so.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Congratulations to @markzdanielewski.bsky.social and the amazing @pantheonbooks.bsky.social team working to get Tom’s Crossing out into the world. I wish I could quote the entire @nytimes.com review, which calls it an “audacious…epic about epics.” This isnt a book, it’s an event. bit.ly/4ofKhfh
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Can the Western Be Reinvented Again? Here’s a 1,200-Page Yes.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Waiting for the Ezra Klein piece arguing that perhaps the Democrats should run pro-Nazi candidates.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I hope the subcontractors got paid up front, because if this goes like any other Trump construction project, they’re screwed—just like the American people. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t “interfere” with the existing White House structure.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Whoever came up with ICE Barbie, ::chef’s kiss::.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I know "Mac Tonight" might seem very silly, but that's the kind of thing thst people who often use this material count on. Here's what the mascot is regularly associated with online.
A person in a moon man mask with swastika and confederate flags, a gun, and a tactical vest
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
😭😭😭
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Alissa Quart @alissaquart.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Nice personal news to share among all of this political misery. Just sold my new book Terra Infirma to @pantheonbooks.bsky.social & editor @deniseoswald.bsky.social, Squeezed's editor. Thanks @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social and @economichardship.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025
So some deaths are funny and other are so serious that people should have their entire lives ruined because they didn’t feel sad about them
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Exactly this
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I wish I was in the mood to laugh…
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Last night a federal judge in L.A. blocked federal agents from DHS from using crowd-dispersal techniques and less-lethal munitions against journalists covering protests. He cited an “avalanche of evidence” that ICE and CBP agents violated First Amendment rights of journalists.
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Federal judge curbs DHS force against journalists in L.A.
The judge cited an “avalanche of evidence” that ICE and Border Patrol agents violated the rights of reporters covering protests of immigration raids.
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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
We need stand united against political assassinations, and equally stand strong and united against everyone who attempts to seize on acts of violence as a pretext for repression of political opponents.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Incredibly well-deserved!
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Devin Burghart @dburghart.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
This is not what you say when you want political violence to stop. This is what you say when you want to go to war against the American people.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Thrilled to see FOR THE SUN AFTER LONG NGHTS on the long list and for the team so hard at work on bringing this to publication. Congratulations Fatemah and Nilo and Concepcion de Leon and go @pantheonbooks.bsky.social!
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Truly a f*cking crime. Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 25/07/2025
Between Musk & the Trump administration, Media Matters has been squeezed to the brink. In settlement discussions, lawyers for X demanded the organization hand over all its cash and shut down — all because MM reported ads appeared on X next to antisemitic content. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
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Under Siege From Trump and Musk, a Top Liberal Group Falls Into Crisis
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/w...
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In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
This brilliant book is available for preorder and I can promise you will never look at the world around you the same way after reading.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I’m pretty sure when you look up “pandering” in the dictionary this comes up. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
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Opinion | Trump, if You Pull This Off, You Deserve a Nobel
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Government for the corporations and by the corporations… E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...
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E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Speaking of Colbert www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wanted...
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Trump Wanted His Justice Department to Stop ‘SNL’ From Teasing Him
“SNL” amounted to “nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials,” Trump tweeted in 2018, pondering whether his thought “should be tested in courts, can’t be legal?”
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 18/07/2025
On the other hand are we about to get ten months of unhinged Stephen Colbert with nothing to lose?
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Beyond thrilled for you, @astra.bsky.social and @lhh.bsky.social and thrilled to see SOLIDARITY on this list. www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/wp-content/u...
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Jane Lindsay Miller @jlmiller.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
MORE 👏 OF 👏 THIS 👏
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
JD Vances kids getting booed because of JD Vance vs kids screaming and crying while their innocent parents are taken from them and in some cases they literally never see them again for the rest of their lives because of JD Vance
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
An excellent reminder that AI is not a thinking machine but a plausibility engine. “Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...
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Opinion | Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part.
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Denise Oswald @deniseoswald.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
RIP Michael Madsen. Clowns to the left of me / jokers to the right…
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a man in a white shirt and black pants is standing in a room with a ghost in the background .
Alt: a man in a white shirt and black pants is standing in a room with a ghost in the background .
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/06/2025
Maybe quit voting for their fucking bills then? Maybe quit confirming their nominees? Maybe shut down the Senate with the many procedural tools available to you? Maybe do something other than send sternly worded letters?
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Here's another angle from Fox News reporter Bill Melugin of Sen. Alex Padilla getting roughed up by law enforcement after he tries to question Kristi Noem at her presser: “I’m Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary. Because the fact of the matter is, a half dozen... Hands off!”
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
So ICE is now more powerful than a sitting US senator? I hope every democrat congressperson stands up for their colleague and demands accountability for what happened to Alex Padilla. They won’t but I wish they would.
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