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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I keep looking at the images in this piece. So good.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I sense a book in the making? I'd love to read your writing connecting these dots b/w country and jazz.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Caturday. This sweet girl and sweet boy are not blood related but have been together since they were tiny kittens. Now age 5. Very different, but always in tandem. Just the best.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That shanked punt sort of topped it off.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks for sharing this, Dean. Somehow I had missed it.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road by Lucinda Williams

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What is the best recording of Beethoven's Triple Concerto Op. 56? Before 1950 preferred but not essential. Thank you in advance.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today is Coltrane's centennial. So I'm re-upping this piece I wrote on his first biographer in 2014. Piece won an ASCAP Deems Taylor-Virgil Thomson Prize. One of my favorite projects. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/06...

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An Absolute Truth: On Writing a Life of Coltrane by Sam Stephenson

June 3, 2014 – A few years ago I found a used, first-edition hardcover of Dr. Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins’s 1975 book, Coltrane: A Biography, online for $150. I had long

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I wish we could ban the word “honestly” for 10 years

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A Ford Taurus wagon hybrid or Honda Accord wagon hybrid would crush it

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Charlie Largent @charlielargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A Streetcar Named Desire. Los Angeles premiere this day in 1951. Directed by Elia Kazan. Starring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, and Karl Malden. Spanish poster. Art by Macario Gómez Quibus.

Vivien Leigh, rushing down a staircase, is held back by Brando.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ed O'Brien's recent LP, "Blue Morpho," might be the best record any member of Radiohead has made outside of the band so far, in my view. I crank the CD in my car and I find myself looking for reasons to drive 40 minutes - long cuts between points A & B - so I can hear the entirety in one sitting.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I spent 1997-2017 researching Gene Smith. Last 5 days in Hudson Valley, Berkshires, stopping by his grave Hyde Park, flying in/out Hartford. Didn't know about show at Yale until cousin's husband in Seminole, FL sent this link. Life strange and oddly perfect sometimes. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

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‘W. Eugene Smith and the Art of Witnessing’ Review: Indelible Images

The Yale University Art Gallery highlights the photojournalist’s work—including his classic photo essays for Life magazine—ranging from his pictures of World War II to those of rural and industrial li...

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's so nice to watch tennis when the TV commentators are not massive figures talking non-stop, and that includes the play-by-play types, too, not just the analysts.

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David Cantwell @cantkill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Leaning bigger tent, as always, so there’s Emmylou and Loretta, Stony and Waylon, but also Ronstadt and Womack and more, including bluegrass!

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thanks. This is a helluva cool list. Love inclusion of the Scene album.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

David Berman’s Purple Mountains tour opening show at small club in Nashville. (He took his life a few days before).

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yes. It would be asking a lot of two rookies to match the combined production of Deluca, Mesa, and Mullins, especially defensively. And Vilade sometimes in RF, too. But, sure, I'd take it.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

As things stand today, almost 120 games into the season, the Brewers have the best record in MLB and the Rays have the second best record. The massive payroll teams have records that aren't as good.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Clinton got 42% of the vote in 1992. 58% of the people went in the booth and voted for somebody else. I voted for Bill twice and Hillary once. But 1992 achievement wasn’t that great.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

+1000. And if this were the Premier League, there would be only 38 games in a season. In 38 games in baseball, anything can happen. The Red Sox are 27-5 in the last 32 games. The Rays had a 24-4 run earlier this season.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Lyric Research: A Conversation On Writing, Documentary Work, And Getting Lost Ross Gay Sam Stephenson 9/17/26 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Central Library If you'll be in Madison, this should be fun. www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/events/lyric...

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Lyric Research: A Conversation On Writing, Documentary Work, And Getting Lost | Wisconsin Book Festival

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I read this excellent essay on Susan Stewart by Ange Mlinko last night. Stewart's work moves to the top of my list. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Ange Mlinko · On Susan Stewart

For Stewart, this is what poetic process is: the closely observed emergence of empirical knowledge out of chaos,...

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m good at driving a forklift

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Photograph by Tacita Dean on the album cover.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A great new classical solo piano record. Highly recommended. Unique sequence of material both venerable and brand new, and tremendous performances by Sarah Rothenberg.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Nachos warmed in a microwave instead of an oven are not edible

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Perfect. That person will be happy to serve on every committee!

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The most beloved Mets are Taylor and Torrens

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Judy Woodruff in 1992. I was working on Capitol Hill age 26, an important job on Ways and Means over my head, and met her at a fundraiser. She was in her 40s and stunning. She looked like Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Every new novel is now designed by the same person or AI algo. This is the terrific store in Austin TX, BookPeople, yesterday.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

The word “honestly” is the new “literally”

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The most beautifully sordid comedy ever made.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Truly original work by Emily LaBarge. Inspiring. And kudos to @transitbooks.bsky.social for bringing it to the U.S. Not easy to get something this "unclassifiable" published.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

North Haven (ME) Public Library this morning.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

People that wouldn't know Rory Sparrow from Woody Woodpecker are now claiming to have been Knicks fans since the 70s.

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Sam Stephenson @sfstephenson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Many thanks to @flakphoto.news for snapping this pic and sending it to me this past weekend. My book Jazz Loft Project on display in City Lights in San Francisco. Thank you, Andy.

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