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Shannon

@shannonfego.bsky.social
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Reader. English professor. Follow books, film, foreign affairs/history, baseball (Bucs),and soccer (Everton). Partial to hounds.

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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 12h
started The Furrows by Namwali Serpell, and realizing the repeated line, "I don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt" is exactly how you have to experience it.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've made a grave error. Took a gummy while hanging around my mom and 2 of my siblings, etc (sharing a beach house until tomorrow morning). I'm on Day 3, and this is when things go south.
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Longreads @longreads.com · 02/10/2026
"Many writers need an inciting obstruction. For Henry James, it was his own sexuality. For Nabokov, it was a homeland to which he could never return. For Barry, it has been a family secret that it was not his place to speak of." Giles Harvey for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/m...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/magazine/sebastian-barry-family-ireland-secret.html
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
would love a Brewers vs White Sox World Series
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
First season of It's Always Sunny where I've thought it's time to call it.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Pirates have won 80 games. First time since 2018. Now I want 82.
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NY Times @nytimes-news.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Book Review: ‘Said the Dead,’ by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
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Book Review: ‘Said the Dead,’ by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Skunk sleeping in trash can on Bard College campus (friend sent)
A close up of a skunk sleeping on top of a pillow of trash
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FOREVER WARS @forever-wars.com · 11/09/2026
Today we must remember the victims of the war on terror with as much compassion as we remember the victims of the 9/11 attacks, writes @attackerman.bsky.social
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Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore
Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
best band I saw in 2025
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trying my gin & tonic with Drumshanbo Gunpowder irish gin. Still rank The Botanist 1st, but this comes second. Hendricks moves to 3rd and never saw it coming.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This show is one of those small,good things in an impossibly heavy time. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
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How Owen Thiele and Jack Innanen revived the classic TV slow-burn romance in 'Adults'
The actors spoke about their characters' big moment in the Season 2 finale of the comedy, the alternate ending they taped and where their relationship might go in Season 3.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Got my brother to pick up this Claire Gleeson novel (and The Amusements & Boys Don't Cry) when he was in Dublin a few weeks ago. Had a hard time finding these here. Knocked back the first 90 pages of this one today.
My hand holding a paperback novel with an orange background. The title is in White lettering: Show me where it hurts. The image is of a woman with a bob taken from behind. She is cupping her face w/ her left hand as her right is folded across her left leg. She is looking out a window. The interior is shadowed, sunny and green outside the window.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well, fuck. Nobody wanted Dolly to go.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Putting together a fall/winter reading list, and I want to add an Alejandro Zambra book. Loved Chilean Poet, but not familiar with his other novels. Suggestion?
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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I'll just add one thing--the final story in Daanje's book is the best fictional reckoning with the concept of quantum reality that I have ever read. Even better than the attempts by Cormac McCarthy and Benjamín Labatut (both of whom also gave it a Gothic sensibility, interestingly).
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
That's such a tight angle. Glad we got one in. #everton
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
the way we lost at trivia tonight. Fucking science.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
images from the Beatles movie made me hiss
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
like we needed another reason to dislike Liverpool.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Having a gin (The Botanist) and tonic (fever tree/ Mediterranean) with lemon, 6 juniper berries,& a rosemary sprig. Cannot recommend enough. Best version of my favorite. (I know i posted something similar in June, but this is important).
The drink i just mentioned shown in a purple cocktail glass i got a set of at an antique store.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
he's like Gatsby looking at the green light
Luther on the end of an antique bed, looking over his backyard- a sea of green with a single light shining through the back fence separating my yard from the one behind us
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Bowen Yang is a perfect choice for Oh, Mary! Saw it with Cole Escola 14 months ago or so, but think Yang would be worth a 2nd viewing.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Finally going to watch The Red Shoes (1948)
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
the way I wanted to point out to the guy next to me that I was benching more than him
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 27/07/2026
TODAY: @g-kwiatkowski.bsky.social on applying meaning to the world. "Perhaps the home had been placed there so that its residents would spend their final years under the gaze of the dead. Or perhaps the location meant nothing beyond the use of an available building." flaminghydra.com/the-third-ti...
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Sense made / Foe defeated
A text analyzed by Grzegorz Kwiatkowski; Trevor Alixopulos consults Dr. Strange
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Great finish to the Tour. Tadej the king of avoiding crashes.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This Pavement show is literally 4 generations of women supporting their partners.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Tonight. There's a Pavement type out there. God knows I dated enough of them. Anyhoo, going.
A large marquee that says NATIONAL, the venue and below it, today's date and Pavement.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
80% chance of storms all evening, and I'm already an hr in to being Luther's emotional support animal.
Me, a middle aged dark haired lady in the awkward stage of growing out bangs, holding a tri-colored beagle with red ticks who needs to be huddled for any storm.
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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
An exceptional piece of writing from @leanderalphabet.bsky.social that sums the whole World Cup up defector.com/fifa-got-wha...
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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 19/07/2026
“Never bathe a baby lest they defeat you in some future battle.” – Sun Tzu
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That Bitch trying to get in the pic.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My first Euro 2028 post
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
pouring a Spanish red in solidarity
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Style Weekly @styleweekly.com · 19/07/2026
As a novelist, I could live anywhere, but this city's literary community fills my cup.
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Richmond made me a writer
As a novelist, I could live anywhere, but this city's literary community fills my cup.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
started Alejandro Zambra's novel, Chilean Poet and know one of you recommended it a few years ago. Takes me awhile to get to the ones you've added to my own list, but haven't been disappointed w/ one of your suggestions.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
what an obscene amount of food a 1/2 cup of oats create
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
really liked this novel.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It will be delicious if/when Trump has to congratulate Spain though
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That's why you pick Jordan Pickford.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
we got a Mark Twain question at trivia night. We're bringing it home.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
saw Barry Lyndon yesterday at the Byrd (Richmond,VA), and although gorgeous,that may honestly be the most male movie I've ever seen- including the 3 hr runtime.
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John Lingan @johnlingan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"The steam drill didn’t want John Henry’s job. Carey Dupont and the Velvet Sundown don’t want mine. They’re just machines. It’s the human beings behind these machines who don’t care about the livelihoods of working people, much less the unfathomable power of music to connect human beings."
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Keep watching footage of these snakes. It feels biblical and fantastical.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Cat beagle.
Agatha taking a rest on a coffee table next to a dying plant and one of my neck tools. Sofa behind her, piano to her right.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Second, Rose Horowitch has written an essay which is decidedly about U.S. literacy. And that’s fine & good. The Atlantic has always been a decidedly nationalistic magazine. American deliteracy is a BIG DEAL! But the framing makes it seem like this is a stage of human development. It isn’t. 4/
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
yeah, this point needs to be reiterated. It takes so many forms. Just had a dude jack off in a row behind me as I reshelved books at the library. Young, well-dressed, good looking. By way of saying,we never know who. Still volunteering, but now on alert when a man is in the row behind me. It sucks.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My one brother has 4 boys, all at this Argentina vs Egypt match. Think im the only one pulling for Egypt.
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
just saw that Barry Lyndon (1975) is being shown at the Byrd. Putting on my calendar as seems like one to see on the big screen if you can.
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