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Celebrating 100 years of publishing great books. Here are some posts about them.

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Dr. Drew harvell @drewharvell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
INVERTEBRATE OF THE YEAR CONTEST! I love the immortal jelly pick. In my book about Spineless Superpowers (The Oceans Menagerie @vikingbooks.bsky.social and on Amazon), I chose Jellyfish Bioluminescence; Green fluorescent Protein won the 2008 Nobel prize for its immense value as a live cell tracker.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/07/2026
Congrats to @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social and Justine Larbalestier on The Mortons, their newest (and terrific!) novel. Scott and Justine have been my pals forever and singly and together they are two of my favorite writers. This is a fun one. Check it out! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/787326...
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The Mortons by Justine Larbalestier, Scott Westerfeld: 9798217059492 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“Slippery, sinister, and so much fun.” —Charlotte McConaghy, New York Times bestselling author of Wild Dark Shore Meet the Mortons: In this family, murder is currency—and business...
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Mary Roach called it "hilarious," Booklist called it "captivating," and Audubon magazine says it's "A delightful read that will make you think and feel." Order THE CREATURES' GUIDE TO CARING wherever you like to buy books: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329... 🧪
Book with a yellow cover featuring a photo of a male Northern flicker feeding his chick. Blue and red lettering reads "The Creatures' Guide to Caring: How Animal Parents Teach Us That Humans Were Born to Care." The author is Elizabeth Preston (me!)
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I super appreciate this thoughtful review of THE LONG GAME by @salazar.bsky.social in the @nytimes.com. He really got what I was trying to do with the story. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/b...
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Want to Truly Understand the World Cup? Check Out These Books.
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
*chuckles awkwardly* Well... um... want to understand why the United States men's national team is the way it is? I can offer a 300-page explainer: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722130...
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The Long Game by Leander Schaerlaeckens: 9780593653876 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
“Engrossing, insightful . . . [The Long Game] pulls no punches when describing the critiques and failures of the U.S. soccer system over the past few decades.” —Miguel Salazar, The New...
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"A delightful read that will make you think and feel." Thanks to Audubon magazine for including THE CREATURES' GUIDE TO CARING in this roundup of birdy books! www.audubon.org/magazine/add... 🧪
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Add These 6 Birdy Books to Your Summer Reading List
From deep dives into dinosaur life to a celebration of animal parenting, these recent releases for bookish bird-lovers are here just in time for summer vacation.
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
You can read more about poison frog parenting, and other science shenanigans, in my book! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329... 🧪
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The Creatures' Guide to Caring by Elizabeth Preston: 9780593657102 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A lively and revelatory journey through the evolution of caretaking on Earth, from animal parents to modern-day humans, making the case that caring for children and one another made us who we are Poi...
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Guess who's on @scifri.bsky.social this week?! www.sciencefriday.com/segments/par... 🧪
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Parenting tips from the animal kingdom
How poison dart frogs deal with their kids asking for snacks, and other parenting inspiration from the animal kingdom.
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Are these the animal kingdom's worst moms? Or doing their best, like all of us? By me for Nat Geo: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... For more animal parents who are inspiring, upsetting, and everything in between, check out my book! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329... 🧪
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These animal mothers expect other species to raise their young
Some birds and other animals are 'brood parasites' whose mothers leave their offspring with other species.
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
"Humans, Preston reminds us, have a tremendous capacity to care. If we are a little more like animals than we care to admit, right now would be a good time to double down on co-operating." Thank you @thetimes.com for this kind and extremely thoughtful book review! www.thetimes.com/culture/book... 🧪
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Are humans the best parents? Tips from the animal kingdom
In The Creatures’ Guide to Caring, Elizabeth Preston explores many different parenting styles, from hands-on monkey dads to matriarchal hyenas
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
By me!
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The second excerpt is now up at @defector.com. It's from a chapter on Bora Milutinovic, the mad scientist USMNT manager who had the impossible task of making sure a bunch of semi-pros didn't embarrass themselves at the 1994 World Cup. (Gift link, but you should subscribe to the excellent Defector.)
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When Team USA Needed To Get World Cup Ready, It Needed Boraball | Defector
The following is excerpted from The Long Game by Leander Schaerlaeckens, to be published on May 12, 2026 by Viking. It is available for purchase now. Velibor Milutinović, or Bora to both friend and fo...
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My book, THE LONG GAME: U.S. Men's Soccer and Its Savage, Four-Decade Journey to the Top, or Thereabouts, is out today by @vikingbooks.bsky.social. I found a ton of fresh stories. I think both hardcore fans and the USMNT-curious will like it. I'm really proud of the book and hope you'll read it.
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The Long Game by Leander Schaerlaeckens: 9780593653876 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The gripping account of the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026 For almost half a century,...
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Leander **BUY THE LONG GAME** Schaerlaeckens @leanderalphabet.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🚨🚨You can now pre-order my book, THE LONG GAME, on the United States men's national soccer team and its messy rise from total international irrelevance to, well, TBD!🚨🚨 I spoke to ~150 players/coaches/etc. and got fresh stories and unprecedented access! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722130...
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The Long Game by Leander Schaerlaeckens: 9780593653876 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The gripping account of the U.S. men’s national soccer team’s winding saga from obscurity to the global stage as they stand on the brink of a seminal World Cup in 2026. For almost half a century,...
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
THE THINKING MACHINE author Stephen Witt on the risks of AI:
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
We spy THE FROZEN PEOPLE by @ellygriffiths.bsky.social on this list!
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It's a BIG month for SFF-crossover stories! You can find a half-orc romance, a ravenous university faculty, and an ex who "happens" to "maybe" be the antichrist in this list of all 42 (!) SFF-adjacent books coming out July 2025! reactormag.com/new-sff-cros...
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All the New Horror, Romantasy, and Other SFF Crossover Books Arriving in July 2025 - Reactor
Monsters, assassins, sorceresses, at least one silent film star's malevolent ghost, and many others appear in July's 42 (!) new crossover titles.
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
THE FROZEN PEOPLE by @ellygriffiths.bsky.social is on sale TODAY! A historical fiction novel, gripping detective mystery, and time-travel story all wrapped into one, THE FROZEN PEOPLE is "a pleasure from finish to start." (@anthonyhorowitz.com) 🕰️✨ Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/44P6KIC
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Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The first 2026 debut book to land at Debutiful HQ is SCAVENGERS by Kathleen Boland! It arrived January 13th from @vikingbooks.bsky.social
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro @lauriestories.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
20 Books Coming in July via The New York Times Twisty summer thrillers, magical romances, a true story of a marriage pushed to the brink and more. The Aviator and the Showman @vikingbooks.bsky.social @nytimes.com
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Congratulations @mollyjongfast.bsky.social! HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 🎉🍾💫 Learn more about the book and start reading now 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp
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Dwyer Murphy @dwyermurphy.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
2 weeks until pub and a few places have said nice things about THE HOUSE ON BUZZARDS BAY and the good people @vikingbooks.bsky.social put those statements on a backdrop of murderous seagulls and osprey, for which I'm very grateful.
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Nothing keeps a village together like secrets. From the creator of Broadchurch @chrischibnall.bsky.social, DEATH AT THE WHITE HART is a brilliant new detective story following one man’s death and the secrets that unravel in a coastal English village. On sale now! 👉 bit.ly/4mV8RS6
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
I’m sorry to be that person but please please please buy my book or come to my reading or request at your local library. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
That dog, the one in the book died this weekend lithub.com/molly-jong-f...
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Molly Jong-Fast on Human Frailty and Unlearning Erica Jong’s Lessons
It was a week that felt like a year, one of those weeks that contained all the scary things you might spend your life worrying about, the things that might never happen. Our very elderly diabetic d…
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"[Jong-Fast] fights her way through the grief and rage with sharp self-awareness and a sense of humor that never deserts her." On sale today, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social's HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is one of Oprah Daily's Best Summer Reads! ☀️📚 Get your copy now 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The wait is over! Maggie Stiefvater's "mesmeric, original, and stunning" (Chris Whitaker) debut novel THE LISTENERS is on sale TODAY! Dive into this mesmerizing portrait of an irresistible heroine, an unlikely romance, and a hotel—and a world—in peril now 👉 bit.ly/3FGOJT1
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“Grief and rage coincide with comedy and uptown-literati charm" (New York Times) in @mollyjongfast.bsky.social's memoir HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER, on sale today! Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
“With propulsive humor and perspective on her annus horribilis, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social achieves the memoir’s transformative work of alchemy." Read @washingtonpost.com's review of HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER, on sale now! 👇
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Review | Molly Jong-Fast’s memoir about her famous mom is sad, dishy and relatable
In “How to Lose Your Mother,” Jong-Fast lays bare a terrible time in her life, when she put her mother, the writer Erica Jong, into a memory-care facility.
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"Roughly twenty hours after the Electra took off, it went down somewhere in the Pacific. The location is still unknown. The ocean has kept its secret." Read an excerpt of @lauriestories.bsky.social's THE AVIATOR AND THE SHOWMAN, on sale July 15! (via @newyorker.com)
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Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights
The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.
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Laurie Gwen Shapiro @lauriestories.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
My @newyorker.com excerpt of The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon just went up—and I’m thrilled to finally share it. June 9 print for magazine - @vikingbooks.bsky.social book out July 15 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Amelia Earhart’s Reckless Final Flights
The aviator’s publicity-mad husband, George Palmer Putnam, kept pushing her to risk her life for the sake of fame.
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"This raw, intimate memoir is a stunning portrait of difficult relationships and how we survive them." HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER by @mollyjongfast.bsky.social (on sale tomorrow) is one of PEOPLE's Best Nonfiction Books of Summer 2025! 👉 bit.ly/3ZFt0li
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
On sale tomorrow, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social's memoir HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER is "mesmerizing, intimate, wise, unputdownable... beautiful and painful at the same time, just like real life." (@annelamott.bsky.social) Learn more and preorder your copy now 👉 bit.ly/451tkyp
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Hamilton Cain @hamiltoncain.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Yet another literary jewel from the Emerald Isle! Here's my review of Donal Ryan's "Heart, Be at Peace" for @nytimes.com. Out next week from @vikingbooks.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/b...
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A Noirish Tale of an Irish Town on Edge, Told in 21 Voices
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
OMG OMGGGGG www.vulture.com/article/new-...
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
HOW TO LOSE YOUR MOTHER by @mollyjongfast.bsky.social (on sale June 3) was included in the @nytimes.com roundup of 21 Non-fiction Books Coming This Summer!
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21 Nonfiction Books Coming this Summer
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Here is a ten-minute sample of the audiobook edition of *Freedom Ship*, just published by @vikingbooks.bsky.social. It is narrated by my friend and former student Cornell Womack. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JRh...
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Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping… by Marcus Rediker · Audiobook preview
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
💖🥂 THE NAMES by Florence Knapp is a New York Times bestseller! 🥂💖 Thank you to all the folks who have read, loved, and shared their support for this "truly mesmerizing and profound" (@alisonespach.bsky.social) debut novel! Get your copy 👉 bit.ly/3SBQzaF
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Congratulations to Donal Ryan! 🎉 HEART, BE AT PEACE (on sale May 20) is a finalist for the 2025 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award! Learn more 👉 bit.ly/43nuuTp
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Congratulations to Ana Raquel Minian! ✨🎉 IN THE SHADOW OF LIBERTY is the WINNER of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction! Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4iXuG0e
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The first serial of my very personal memoir drops tomorrow on @vanityfair.com and I am super scared and freaked out. Anyway since I live online I thought I’d share.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Some personal news
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Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
💥🥊 HEADSHOT is a FINALIST for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! 🥊💥 Please join us in sending a MASSIVE congratulations to Rita Bullwinkel and her "brilliant" (@theatlantic.com) and "hard-punching novel." (@npr.org) ✨⁣ Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/421h7aU
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Pamela Dorman Books @pameladormanbooks.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
“Dazzling… THE NAMES is startlingly joyful and paced like a thriller… Knapp tirelessly and beautifully replicates not just loss and grief but endless rebirth and delight.” —@washingtonpost.com Read the full review 👉 wapo.st/4k8736k
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Review | In Florence Knapp’s dazzling debut, a name can change destiny
In “The Names,” three parallel storylines unfold based on what a mother decides to call her son.
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Pamela Dorman Books @pameladormanbooks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
📣 MAJOR BOOK CLUB NEWS 📣 THE NAMES by Florence Knapp is the #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick for May! Start reading this "truly gorgeous, heart-opening novel" (@annnapolitano.bsky.social) about fate, chance, and the choices we make now 👉 bit.ly/3FPeHDx
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"Old sport, it’s delightful.” 💚 Read @apnews.com's review of THE GATSBY GAMBIT by Claire Anderson-Wheeler, on sale now!
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Book Review: Claire Anderson-Wheeler pays homage to Fitzgerald with mystery ’The Gatsby Gambit'
Irish writer Claire Anderson-Wheeler does more than just adapt one of the American literary canon’s most famous works in “The Gatsby Gambit.” She inserts F.
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New York Post @nypost.com · 19/04/2025
The acid queen: Inside Rosemary Leary’s life of sex, free-thinking and lots of LSD
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The acid queen: Inside Rosemary Leary’s life of sex, free-thinking and lots of LSD
A new book describes the eclectic life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary.
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Viking Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Read an exclusive excerpt of THE ACID QUEEN by Susannah Cahalan, which tells the untold story of Rosemary Leary and her life with the high priest of LSD! via @rollingstone.com
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Inside Timothy Leary's Audacious Prison Escape
An exclusive excerpt of Acid Queen by Susannah Cahalan, which tells the untold story of Rosemary Leary and her life with the high priest of LSD
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Dr. Drew harvell @drewharvell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Thanks LitHub for publishing an extract of The #Octopus's Shape Shift from The #OceansMenagerie, just released on Earthday! See event schedule at DrewHarvell.com #marinelife #cephalopod #scuba @vikingbooks.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lite...
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DREW HARVELL – How can we bolster ocean health and biodiversity in the face of a changing climate?
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Dr. Drew harvell @drewharvell.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Love the write up for Ocean's Menagerie in Yale Climate Connections Top 12 Earth Month Books @vikingbooks.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/04/12-b...
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