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Susan Donovan Bernhard

@esdeebeewriter.bsky.social
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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 · 16/06/2026
A favorite! Love Seville! 🍊
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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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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Forever fan
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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
I feel like you and @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social should make some sort of a wager if either of you makes it to the finals or 🙏🏼 if both of you do. I still think about Santa Monica and Africa.
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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
Available June 1! Launch @belmontbooks.bsky.social on June 2. You’re invited.
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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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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I need to know the message… 💫
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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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ORIENTATION
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 · 26/09/2025
Can somebody do something about this, like, anytime now?
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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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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Some speech is free and some will definitely cost you.
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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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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I have emojis specific to each kid so I can text just the emoji and they know. They know. In fact, I’m going to throw some love out right now.
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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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Big Smile GIF
ALT: Big Smile GIF
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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.
THINGS
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 · 01/09/2025
About Time
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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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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Celebrate your hard work and accomplishments! We all need joy! Congratulations!
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Oh cool. Prayers.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Saw this somewhere else so not taking credit but high visibility vests over camouflage is quite a flex.
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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 · 27/08/2025
Now you see me. Now you don’t.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Thats civil war.
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Susan Donovan Bernhard @esdeebeewriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
And so what? Who’s going to stop him? The Supreme Court?
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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
I see your chonk and raise you a chonk.
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