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Evelyn McDonnell

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Lady scholar. Woman who writes.

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Zócalo Public Square @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
For Earth Day, writer @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social introduces readers to an early 20th-century "hermit history-maker" who modeled a life of coexistence with nature. zps.la/4cp5Lmr
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The Minnesota Hermit Who Changed Environmental History | Essay
Ernest Oberholtzer Is One of the Most Important—and Overlooked—Champions of Protecting Nature in the U.S.
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
 “I HAVE FOLLOWED MY INSTINCTS AND TRIED TO USE COMMON SENSE IN MY BEHAVIOR.” Joan Didion said she wanted this quote from Mina Curtiss to be her epitaph. To celebrate the paperback of “The World According to Joan Didion,” Ms. published an excerpt in which I talk about “the California woman.”
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Forget East Coast Cool—Joan Didion Was a California Woman
An excerpt from The World According to Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell about womanhood, feminism, identity and California
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Starting today readers who perhaps couldn’t afford the hardbound version of “The World According to Joan Didion” can enjoy the paperback. I’ll be celebrating its release with a reading and signing at 5 in Bayfield, Wi. www.apostleislandsbooksellers.com/events
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Apostle Islands Booksellers
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
In 1984 a New York Times article cast shame on Joan Didion’s author photograph for Democracy. Archival research reveals that during the journalistic scuffle, the author answered a question that many have wondered: “Yes, I am a feminist,” she told the gate-keeping Christopher Lehmann-Haupt.
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How Being Slut-Shamed by The New York Times Brought Out the Feminist in Joan Didion
New archival documents reveal how a sexist critique in The New York Times pushed Joan Didion to finally claim feminism as her own.
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
In his latest book “Everything Is Now”: The 1960s New York Avant-Garde — Primal Happenings, Underground Movies, Radical Pop,” J. Hoberman offers a comprehensive overview of an inventive, tumultuous place and time. I reviewed for The New York Times. tinyurl.com/mw4nmst2
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Book Review: ‘Everything Is Now,’ by J. Hoberman
In “Everything Is Now,” J. Hoberman recreates the theater, film and music scenes that helped fuel the cultural storm of the ’60s.
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The US government is in the process of terrorizing its own people. I wrote this essay a few months ago, after they came for an innocent member of my family. Sadly, its words have become more relevant. magazine.lmu.edu/articles/dis...
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Disappeared – LMU Magazine
Evelyn McDonnell describes the loss of a loved who was seized and detained amid round-ups currently being conducted by the U.S. government.
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
On this Memorial Day, I'll take my marching orders from the Queen, the Boss, and the drummer. Read the article: www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202... Graphic by Terelle Jerricks
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The marine mammals of SoCal have been in mortal crisis for 2 months. I’ve been dealing with the DA event as a volunteer at the Marine Mammal Care Center. I wrote about the crisis and the need for volunteers for the Earth Day edition of Random Lengths www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Last night I attended a tribute to the late, great Chilean artist and musician Violeta Parra that was also a celebration of the publication of “Thanks to Life,” a comprehensive scholarly biography by Ericka Verba.
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Ouiser_B @gingerbabes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is written by the bishop who stood up to Orange Voldemort. Everyone should be buying this. It's available on Amazon for $14. I'm an atheist and I'm buying it. #booksky
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Joan Didion in "Los Angeles Notebook," 1965-67. Once again, she warned us.
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The billionaire bozos who are wrecking today’s newspapers have made more apparent than ever the need for independent media. I’m honored to be a columnist for Random Lengths News and to have my essay about the imperative for a free press be the lead story in their 45th anniversary issue.
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The Imperative For Independent Journalism - Random Lengths News
Random Lengths News The Imperative For Independent Journalism - The Los Angeles Harbor Area's Only Independently owned news magazine serving San Pedro, Wilmington, Carson, Lomita, Torrance, Long Beach...
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Brilliant sunset and super low tide tonight. Our neighbor snapped us walking and our dog running with strangers.
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Snorkeling in a California kelp forest is like floating over a tropical canopy, but with brightly colored Garibaldi darting through the leaves. I recently had the pleasure of experiencing this with Michael Marty-Rivera, kelp curator at Kelp Ark at AltaSea. www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...
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Kelp’s Green Hope—The Fight to Protect Earth’s Ancient Ocean Forests - Random Lengths News
Random Lengths News Kelp’s Green Hope—The Fight to Protect Earth’s Ancient Ocean Forests - The Los Angeles Harbor Area's Only Independently owned news magazine serving San Pedro, Wilmington, Carson, L...
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Waving hi in La Jolla.
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
There were these crazy ripples in the sky at Cabrillo Beach tonight. Venus lurked among them and a jet navigated their squiggly trails. They looked like water breaking on shallow shores or the sand patterns beneath the waves. The world turned upside down. Anyone know what these clouds are called?
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Saturday morning Cabrillo beach
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/11/2024
AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride. "They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This might explain why Phillips 66 is closing its refineries in Wilmington and Carson. Don't let the door hit you in the a** on the way out! www.dailybreeze.com/2024/11/21/p...
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Phillips 66 indicted on charges it dumped tainted water from Carson refinery into sewer system
The oil refiner is accused of illegally discharging hundreds of thousands of gallons of industrial waste during the pandemic.
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Remastered recordings by the Gits remind us what was lost when Mia Zapata was killed.
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Pink sky.
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Evelyn McDonnell @evelynmcdonnell.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I do like an app named after something in nature.
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