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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Crowe here in Waukegan is skewing Team Spain

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New book alert #2: Democracy! dropping next week from @illinoispress.bsky.social

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

DANG. My little 2019 book just keeps on trucking. Spotted by a friend at the Obama Library ❤️

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Hello from WYSO-Yellow Springs! the longest continuously operating NPR affiliate in the country, just resuscitated by a gift from Yellow Springs’s own Dave Chappelle.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's no moon flyby, but I was pretty thrilled to learn yesterday that TWO books I published last year @illinoispress.bsky.social are finalists for the 2025 Society of Midland Authors' Richard Frisbie Award for Adult Nonfiction. Huge congrats to @millerscave.bsky.social & Dylan Taylor-Lehman!

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Everything is awful and I’m stuck on a de-icing plane, so it’s time for a relaxing game of “spot the New Yorker typo“

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

This message just appeared on an essay I am reading *for an essay writing workshop*. I hate the people forcing this shit on us so much.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Walked into Evanston’s Chicago-Main Newsstand yesterday snd an actual print edition of Celtic Life, featuring an article on NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU, was staring up at me from the first rack. Magazines! They’re amazing.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Did someone say mass market paperback?

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Here’s what they look like (sweatshirt edition)

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Hey Chicago: ICE is back and so is my Soup & Bread community meal. Join us at the Hideout from 5:30-8 tonight for soup and solidarity

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Less than two weeks to go. Get yr tickets now Chicago ❤️ www.etix.com/ticket/p/912...?

Image of Sinéad O’Connor dressed in a priest’s collar and cross, with text saying “NOTHING COMPARES TO HER”

List of all the writers and musicians participating in the 12/17 salute to Sinéad O’Connor at the Hideout.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Hmmmmm who can tell me if this page exists for AC? (Also, this is why "credits" for books and articles are actually a bad idea. The poor editorial assistant on this doesn't deserve to be dragged)

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

When not even your publisher can get the homonym right

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I spent the snow day learning to use stupid Canva

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

See you tonight Chicago! I try to ask @millerscave.bsky.social unexpected questions tonight @ 6:30 pm at the Book Cellar.

Headshots of author Rob Miller & interviewer Martha Bayne, with the cover of Miller's new book.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Grifters, predators, murderers. I can't give these terrible people oxygen anymore. Here's Patti Smith dancing instead. From last night at the Chicago Theater.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A book that is actually good and offers 26 templates for resisting oppression, strengthening agency, and figuring out how to stand in the courage of your own convictions. Just saying.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Oh, and food! Or drink (2026 is shaping up to be our year of beverage books ...). Here's what it says on our website. Does this sound like something you're working on? Even if it's an idea in progress, I'd love to have one of these fun meetings with you. Reach out at mbayne1 at uillinois dot edu

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A bit more on our event at the Irish Books, Art, and Music festival later this month at Chicago's Irish American Heritage Center. Sat. 11/22 @ 3:30!

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Two days after @millerscave.bsky.social & I throw down at the Book Cellar, I'll be at the Irish Books & Music festival at Chicago's Irish American Heritage Center, bringing the Sinead O'Connor

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

For Chicagoans: Here's more on the return of Soup & Bread this winter. Join us Dec. 3 at the Hideout; all proceeds go to Pilsen Food Pantry. soupandbread.net/2025/10/31/s...

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Here’s a nice photo of the No More Deportations crew outside city hall

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Group of speakers address the council in Spanish “because that’s who this message is for.” “We are tired, we are fearful. We want it to stop.… Let the moms not be scared to take their kids to school. “

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Everything is awful but the legendary bookstore where I worked as a young person called our Sinead O'Connor book "a major, must-read body of work," and it is an ego balm and I'll take it.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Happy Halloween from Waukegan, Illinois

Styrofoam gravestone in a yard marking the deaths of “women’s rights,” “the first amendment,” DEI,” “the Gulf of Mexico,” “Due Process,” and “Tylenol”.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Meanwhile, the other day I learned that a staffer at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Company, where I worked as a very young person, called my book "a major, must-read body of work." I'll take it <3

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Book designer Sheila Sachs and I went over to his studio and found something in his vast portfolio of work that fit the bill. I still have a stash of signed prints of this cover. Maybe I can sell them off & donate the money to the ACLU in his name …

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

really the only thing I can feel good about sharing on social media is this news

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The end of the Printers Row Lit Fest dovetailed perfectly with the protest

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Congratulations to the Printers Row Lit Fest for being the thing that made me finally figure out Canva!

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This sighting, at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co., means the world to me: I worked at the cafe at the old Elliott Bay for a few years in the 80s and it was my 1st introduction to book culture & bookselling. So formative! That our Sinead O'Connor book is there, with shelf talker, is just the coolest.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Also not the point but … what?

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

On our way home from the Boundary Waters ten days ago, we repeatedly saw flatbeds loaded with military vehicles heading south through Wisconsin. I don’t think they were going all the way to DC.

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

AI: making everything dumber since 2025

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Well this was a nice thing to happen today: A great review of NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU in @ala-booklist.bsky.social. Reviewer Amanda Dee (love that their reviews are bylined unlike ... some other trade pubs ahem) says we are "A choir worthy of backing an extraordinary voice." @sonyahuber.bsky.social

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

@laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social’s gorgeous piece on our Sinéad O’Connor book in the print edition of the Sunday Times! I miss print!

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Martha Bayne @marthabayne.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

A gorgeous feature on our Sinéad O'Connor book - albeit with a very odd headline - is out now in Ireland's Sunday Times cc: @sonyahuber.bsky.social archive.ph/sTHwh

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