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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

About to commence the last in the Dreiser trilogy. Who’s a fan?

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Stoked to appear on @jeffcircle.bsky.social’s excellent The Writer’s Dossier!

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Check THIS out, Lexingtonians!

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Enormous thanks to Joseph Beth Booksellers for supporting my book. I found over 20 copies there, conspicuously placed in FICTION and LOCAL. I signed 'em all. Go getcha one! Much love, JB.

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Delighted to attend @browneallover.bsky.social ’s book launch tonight. Read THEY ALL FALL THE SAME in two sittings. Look for my forthcoming review. A fantastic page turner. Thanks to host Joseph Beth and Crystal Wilkinson. Other notables there, too! See photos.

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Intrigued by these two. Have read Adams’ EDUCATION OF H.A. , but not DEMOCRACY. Never read RH. Anyone have opinions?

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

So cool to be invited to Berea College and to speak at their Loyal Jones Appalachia Center about some “forgotten titles” of App. literature. Thanks especially to my host: novelist, press mate and friend, Rick Childers. @shotgunhoney.com

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Loved this story of Florida pioneer life, equal parts potboiler and ode to the natural world . . . a place fast slipping away to development. (Cool edition with an annotated list of “cracker westerns” and other Florida literary confections.)

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Delighted to appear on the excellent podcast CRIME TIME FM, in which I talk about my novel and Appalachian literature, among other things. Link in comments.

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Excited about this forthcoming interview! x.com/chrismcginle...

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Attention Everyone: The Kirkus reviewer warns us that SOUTH END SYNDICATE: HOW I TOOK OVER THE GENOVESE SPRINGFIELD CREW, is “colorful if unedifying.” Too bad. It was my earnest desire to improve myself— to reach new moral heights—in reading mob boss Anthony Arillotta’s memoir.😂

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Just revisited I. Lerner’s MURDER BY CONTRACT (1958) which I first saw in college in a class called Gangster Film. (Not joking). Highly philosophical confection on life, work, money, morality. Not for everyone. Plot secondary to “higher laws,” as Thoreau would say. 😂

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Time for a re-read. Who’s a fan?

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Hey crime writers. Trust me when I say that you can learn all kindsa stuff about plotting your 21st century novel from this nineteenth-century woman. A study in creating tension. Just gettin' my breath back. Shew.

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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Y’all we have a recommendation and it is that you buy at least ONE book directly from a small press today—not bookshop, not Amazon. Help keep small presses open. @juneroadpress.bsky.social @sundresspub.bsky.social @bellepointpress.bsky.social @lightscatterpress.bsky.social @bullcitypress.com

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Buy a small press book today

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A great photo of Helen Frankenthaler. (Anyone read NINTH STREET WOMEN, by the way? On my list.)

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The stunning quasi-brutalist dorms at UMASS Amherst. (Arch. Hugh Stubbins, 1960s. Also a few Breuer bldgs on campus.)

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

SAY NOTHING, the HULU production, looks like yet another self-consciously quirky, satirical confection. Are you seriously telling me someone decided to make a laugh riot out of PRK’s dark investigative work about the abduction and murder of Jean McConville? Whose idea was this?

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My favorite "moment of realization" scene.

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Crazy interested in these two Florida books, one a novel about early immigrant settlers of the region, and the other a nature study in the spirit of Rachel Carson, I’m told. Who’s read?

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Loved GATOR COUNTRY, part true crime/intrepid reporter narrative and part nature study. Reading Braddon's Victorian novel now, and then on to an old fave from grad school, Trachtenberg's analysis of American gilded age society and the rise of the corporation.

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Deliberately chose this edition for its cover . . . as the original was dull and because I’m always interested in how books are marketed as time goes on. Reading GATOR COUNTRY now (reviewed by @gabino.bsky.social). This title, “Florida’s favorite novel,” is mentioned in GC. Who’s read?

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Dag Hammarskjöld. Once such diplomats lived, long ago.

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 15/11/2024

KEEP BOOKS DANGEROUS Support small press publishers, writers, & artists. PERIOD

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Wes Browne @browneallover.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

“They All Fall the Same is a fast-paced tale of revenge that I couldn’t put down.” - Donald Ray Pollock Kentucky book lovers, the Lexington launch at Joseph Beth Books will include a conversation w/ the wondrous Crystal Wilkinson @crystalwilki.bsky.social on Thurs. 1/9/25. We’d love to see you!

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Recalling kind words from Silas House! (Keeps me going.)

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Chris McGinley @mcginley.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Check these book covers. The guy has RANGE. There’s no singular style here. Rare for an artist.

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