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Mike O’Connell

@moconnell.bsky.social

291 followers 170 following 233 posts

Author of Startling Figures: Encounters with American Catholic Fiction/ editor of Conversations with George Saunders/ co-editor of The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies. Fellow at the Jesuit Media Lab.

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Boardwalk by Third Sister Lake in Ann Arbor, MI

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Great mail day, @sheaserrano.bsky.social !

Shea Serrano’s beautiful new book Expensive Basketball, plus an old Shea “shoot your shot” bookmark

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Post someone who looks good in a hat

Norm Macdonald on SNL playing Burt Reynolds in an absurdly large hat

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

In memory of Ryne Sandberg - the funniest/ most memorable baseball card story of my youth:

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Ann Arbor No Kings protest with No Faux King Way sign prominently displayed

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Neighborhood hawk in action (shot with my (old model) iPhone, in Ann Arbor, MI)

Hawk of some sort, gliding low over the grass

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Cheers to Liverpool. This season was an absolute delight

A glass of champagne raised in front of a TV showing Mo Salah beaming while wearing a Champions 24/25 Liverpool shirt

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The only “Liberation Day” worth acknowledging. Read “Love Letter” or “Ghoul” and think about how to respond to authoritarianism

George Saunders’s short story collection “Liberation Day”

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

👀

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Unsurprisingly, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social ‘s new book is excellent. Key idea: “We can do and be so much for each other—but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.” Amen

A picture of the (very beautiful to look upon) yellow cover of John Green’s new book “Everything is Tuberculosis”

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Happy(?) 5 year anniversary of the Gobert Game, to all who celebrate

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

This one’s from an Irish tourist bar in Disney Springs

An official Guinness/ Notre Dame t shirt, showing the Guinness Toucan mascot sporting a golden Notre Dame football helmet, with the words “Game Time. Guinness Time.” under it

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

(As a huge fan of both, these two actually pair really well)

The cover of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, featuring a blue sky and clouds

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Jaden Greathouse racing for a TD, going past a sad Penn State player sitting on the twenty yard line

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Stressful times often call for re-reads. This book gets better each time I read it. It is a masterpiece, and one of the best books of the century. A brilliant and profound reflection on mortality, love, the nature of the soul, and the idea of America. #booksky

Pic of George Saunders’s novel Lincoln in the Bardo

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The time my son and I saw a turtle laying eggs (from a respectful distance)

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Love a bookshelf pic! I actually wrote something about our “family favorites” bookshelf www.dappledthings.org/deep-down-th...

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Mike O’Connell @moconnell.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

If you see this, post a concert photo you took. The Mountain Goats, Detroit 2023

John Darnielle and Co, with a Bleed Out banner at the back of the stage

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