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Susan Donovan Bernhard

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Novelist WESTERLY (June 1, 2026), WINTER LOON (Little A) | caring human, traveler.

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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
WHAT REMAINS OF YOU is a deeply felt, expertly plotted page-turner. Thrilled for the opportunity to chat with Kimberly for Dead Darlings! Read the interview, come celebrate @belmontbooks tonight, and happy pub day to the delightful, generous @kimberlyhensle! www.deaddarlings.com/interview-ki...
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Interview with Kimberly Hensle Lowrance, Author of What Remains of You
Interview with Kimberly Hensle Lowrance, about What Remains of You, her astounding debut novel that is a domestic mystery but also a story of navigating grief.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The epigraph for my forthcoming novel WESTERLY!
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
No Kings, Boston edition.
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James Charlesworth @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Collective Soul & I are down big at the half but hope still lingers on! We've been here before & have shown we're a 2nd half team--still plenty of time for a comeback! Still plenty of time to READ & VOTE "THE WORLD I KNOW" by Noon ET Wednesday! @marchxness.bsky.social marchxness.com/elite8-colle...
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3/24, Elite 8: (6) Collective Soul vs (13) Ani DiFranco — March Sadness 90s Edition
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Melissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Guys, the Crows are getting…murdered out there. Read the essays & vote Round Here! @marchxness.bsky.social marchxness.com#/elite8-crow...
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March Sadness 90s Edition
A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)
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James Charlesworth @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Round 2 of @marchxness.bsky.social! My essay re Collective Soul's "The World I Know" & last chances to change is up against Des'ree/Emily Podwoiski, whose excellent essay helped dispatch Goo Goo Dolls in the 1st rd.😬 CS & I got our game faces on! Let's go! READ & VOTE! marchxness.com#/2ndround-co...
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March Sadness 90s Edition
A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)
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James Charlesworth @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Been a rough 1st half for me & Collective Soul & our backs are against the wall...but in the words of Ed Roland, "you don't know what good feels like until you feel bad." We're gonna regroup at half & come out ready to go! Plenty of time to READ & VOTE COLLECTIVE SOUL! marchxness.com#/2ndround-co...
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March Sadness 90s Edition
A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Thin line between sad and depressing. Oof. 💔
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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Oh absolutely @mlfaliveno.bsky.social and Counting Crows🐦‍⬛ for me, lover of sad songs. Beautifully written, wow, and this: “But Round Here is so sad that sometimes I can’t listen. So sad I skip ahead to Omaha. So sad I can’t resist dipping my toe in the water anyway, and eventually step in.” Yup.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Amazing essay. Voted for it like 20 times! (I kid!!@marchxness.bsky.social!) But I punched my 1 vote super hard.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Because of course, these are the hardened criminals. The callousness and cruelty is astounding.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#teamdictionary
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
We need more of this kind of truth telling.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I’m excited to reveal the cover for my new novel WESTERLY. This gorgeous painting by Rebecca Aldernet represents so much to me and perfectly captures the coastal settings in Ireland and Maine. WESTERLY is about motherhood, sisterhood, secrets, silencing, and women, facing forward, into the wind.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
So excited to finally announce that my next novel WESTERLY will be published by @amazonpublishing.bsky.social next year! ☘️🌊
Author of WINTER LOON Susan Donovan Bernhard’s WESTERLY, a family saga about one woman’s journey from post WWII Germany to Ireland to Maine, where she lives with a false identity assumed as a child, with far-reaching, life-altering repercussions for three generations, pitched as for readers of Ann Napolitano, Mary Beth Keane, and Ann Patchett.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.
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FACT SHEET
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WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM!
Note For This Week's Discussion:
Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis;
(2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I need to know what the H. stands for in JFC when the F is an H because I want to use the full name.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This is quite the post. 1. He unambiguously directs his AG to go after those who investigated him for his crimes 2. He admits being influenced by online chatter He is mob bossing out in the open, because he knows he has corrupted every federal law enforcement agency into submission.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Watching Saeed Jones watch The Pitt is the everything joy-fix I need.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/09/2025
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Been thinking about this poem all day because I had to do a hard thing that is weirdly embarrassing. Looking forward to second guessing myself all night long.
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by Fleur Adcock
There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them.
It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Is Texas invading Illinois?
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This makes me physically ill. @warren.senate.gov @whipkclark.bsky.social can we please get rid of this clown before he gets us all killed? Please?
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I saw the crescent. You saw the whole of the moon.
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Caoilinn Hughes @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Hello! New to using this platform, but thought to share a piece I wrote for @theguardian.com about long distance train travel and the lineage of writers who have traversed Europe by rail. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
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James Joyce went by train from Dublin to Trieste. A hundred years on, it’s a very different experience
It is more than a century since Joyce crossed Europe by rail but there is still inspiration to be found on the overland journey to Trieste
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Wreck my novel, Terry Gross.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
“Putin would eat you for lunch.” Today, exactly that happened.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Absolutely psyched for this novel!
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“In the coming years, as publishers do the important work of fighting book bans locally and nationally (with PRH leading the charge) and protecting their copyrights from being stolen by even larger corporations to train large language models…” Maybe publishers could consider not giving them deals?🤔
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14/08/2025
"John Donne fucked, and he made sure everyone knew it. He could make a poem about a flea the horniest piece of literature in the English canon."
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Major English Poets, Evaluated By Whether or Not They Fucked
1. Shakespeare fucked. 2. It’s cliché to say that Byron fucked, but what can you do? He did fuck. Dude’s middle name was “Gordon” and not even tha...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 18/07/2025
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery. America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons. Watch and share his message.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Boat on the Garavogue #sligo
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Scoop: The Wall Street Journal is working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein—but is said to be facing pressure from the White House, with Trump himself calling Editor-In-Chief Emma Tucker to object. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...
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Trump's WSJ Epstein Fury
The Wall Street Journal is said to be working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, prompting protest from the White House.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/07/2025
Exclusive: Trump officials have indefinitely suspended work on a crucial tool to predict extreme rainfall frequency, a move that experts said will make the country more vulnerable to storms supercharged by climate change.
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NOAA was developing a way to predict extreme rainfall — until Trump officials stopped it
The tool would have projected how climate change could affect rainfall frequency and intensity in communities across the nation.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Andrew Cuomo, serial sexual harasser and liar, a thread. From the state report on his abuse. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21...
We, the investigators appointed to conduct an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, conclude that the Governor engaged in conduct constituting sexual harassment under federal and New York State law. Specifically, we find that the Governor sexually harassed a number of current and former New York State employees by, among other things, engaging in unwelcome and nonconsensual touching, as well as making numerous offensive comments of a suggestive and sexual nature that created a hostile work environment for women. Our investigation revealed that the Governor’s sexually harassing behavior was not limited to members of his own staff, but extended to other State employees, including a State Trooper on his protective detail and members of the public. We also conclude that the Executive Chamber’s culture—one filled with fear and intimidation, while at the same time normalizing the Governor’s frequent flirtations and gender-based comments—contributed to the conditions that allowed the sexual harassment to occur and persist. That culture also influenced the improper and inadequate ways in which the Executive Chamber has responded to allegations of harassment.1
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies, and to all who celebrate Jaws:50.
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Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
An ICE agent pointed a gun at the head of a civilian—for snapping a photo of his license plate. One hand on the trigger, the other fumbling the car door. He didn’t realize someone else was already filming. R/t@longtimehistory
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
@warren.senate.gov @markey.senate.gov
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter
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Allison 🧬⚾️ @petitephd.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥
A series of tweets from Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney:

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."

MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling."

YOUNG still going: "I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this ... I ask myself, how can this be?"

"I have the protection that the founders wrote into the constitution, along with imposing upon me a duty to speak the truth in every case. I try to do that. What if I didn’t have those protections. What if my job was on the line, my profession... Would I have stood up against all this? Would I have said, 'you can’t do this?' You are bearing down on people of color because of their color. The constitution will not permit that."

"Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?"
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
No Kings, yasss Queens march and protest in Boston today.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Yeats Day and I’m thinking of my dad and wondering if he knew any other Yeats poem but this one: A Drinking Song Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. I lift the glass to my mouth, I look at you, and I sigh.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs
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Richard Tofel @dicktofel.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes. www.propublica.org/article/buke...
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“Delay, Interfere, Undermine”
President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....
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