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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Honored by this award and thank you to the fine staff of UNP!

Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Our Authors at Large writing retreat to Iceland has wrapped up after a great week of writing, readings, hiking, and otherwise exploring. Now it’s time to start planning the next one 18 months from now.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I’m reading tomorrow night (May 6) at 7:30 at Whoopsie Daisy Wine Bar in Brooklyn, 225 Rogers, along with several other writers, all born in May. Fun concept for a reading series. Come join us if you can.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

My essay on lost things is featured on LitHub this month. Originally appeared in New England Review. bsky.app/profile/lite...

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This week, I’ve been thinking about when The Misfit shoots the Grandmother. It’s right after she reacts not in fear or anger, but with compassion. It’s just too terrifying for him and he shoots her. So many Misfits creating mayhem right now and a lot of good people looking down the barrel of a gun.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Heading to DC for a workshop and reading at George Mason University tomorrow. So nice to just hop on the train from NYC rather than all the hassle of air travel.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Looking forward to my reading tonight and conversation with Amy Margolis at my favorite bookstore!

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I guess I must be a funny guy (or funghi) if Jane Curtin and Mike Doyle read a story of mine for Selected Shorts!

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent

A person in a mask holding a painting that says “hands off my transgenic mice”

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My musings on memoirs-in-essays on the UNP blog.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Today is the publication date of my new collection of essays, HOW TO CHNAGE HISTORY: A Salvage Project. This one took only 25 years to write. bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

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How to Change History: A Salvage Project

A Salvage Project

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If you want to buy something tomorrow, buy books from indie publishers and university presses. Not from Amazon of course.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It’s probably completely logical to him. He thought, “it’s a strip like Las Vegas. A few casinos. Maybe a boardwalk like Atlantic City.”

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

One thing I love about Iowa City is that my doctors almost always want to read my books. My eye doctor who will performing a surgery on me in early January just asked me for my “best nonfiction book” for him and a book of fiction for his wife. I’m going to ask him for free surgery in return!

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Wish I were back in Iceland where I Just spent the last three months teaching at The University of Iceland. Such a privilege to have had such a long time to immerse myself in Icelandic culture and arts.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

My keynote last week at the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Festival in Chiang Mai went as well as anything I’ve ever delivered. Many people suggested I publish it but it’s long, over 5000 words. The title, “How to Change History: A Salvage Project.” Suggestions where to send are welcome!

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Okay, a bit stressful traveling today but at least there’s laksa at my travel lounge in Singapore.

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JC Punongbayan @jcpunongbayan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Please spare a thought for the Philippines, which has been pummelled by 4 typhoons in the past 10 days. We continue to be one of the countries most at risk to climate change.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Off to Chiang Mai in a few minutes. Bracing myself for four planes and the weird bubble of seemingly endless flight over the Pacific. First stop Denver, then SF, then Singapore, then Bangkok. I have my neck pillow, my water, my positive attitude. I’m ready.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I’m considering changing the title of my Substack to How to Change History, which is the title of my forthcoming book as well as a keynote in delivering a week in Chiang Mai, Thailand. It’s also the subject of my most recent post on Substack. robinhemley.substack.com

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Heading to Thailand at the end of this week for the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Association, where I’m give a keynote in Chiang Mai titled after my forthcoming book, How to Change History: A Salvage Project. My first time to Chiang Mai.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Hi All, leaving X finally! Looking forward to interacting with you here.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Heading to lovely Williamstown, MA this weekend to see my daughter in a play. Excited for that but equally excited to be taking a train and not driving or flying.

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Robin Hemley @rhemley.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

I’m not much of an thriller reader, but I enjoyed this one by a pseudonymous friend whose other work I admire as well. Just the right amount of seediness, setting, and character development to adrenalin ratio.

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