Suzanne Uttaro Samuels
@susamuels.bsky.social
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Historical novelist, essayist, lawyer, hiker, nature-lover, dog and cat mom
The Wedding Dress and the Seeds of the Pomegranate: on how Persephone and Demeter are teaching me to let my daughter go.
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The Wedding Dress and the Seeds of the Pomegranate
Legacy and Transformation—holding on, letting go, and the heart of my upcoming novel
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Even When the World Closes In, You Can Still Begin
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Even When the World Closes In, You Can Still Begin
A Mantle and Two Lines
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5 months ago
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Should I Write Fiction While the World Is Burning?
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Should I Write Fiction While the World Is Burning?
Writing Through the Chaos
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6 months ago
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Between Sicily and the Sea: My Journey to Seeds of the Pomegranate
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Between Sicily and the Sea: My Journey to Seeds of the Pomegranate
A few months from now, I’ll be standing in a bookstore, or at a festival, or on a Zoom square, reading from the book I’ve spent the better part of the last fifteen years writing.
https://open.substack.com/pub/suzannesamuels/p/between-sicily-and-the-sea-my-journey?r=1cyj40&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
7 months ago
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🇺🇸 “SĂ, se puede”: Helping Immigrants Become Citizens — A Conversation with Heidi
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🇺🇸 “SĂ, se puede”: Helping Immigrants Become Citizens — A Conversation with Heidi
“Some things are HARD, and they take a ton of courage. But sĂ, se puede. It can be done.”
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8 months ago
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My Father's Ledger
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My Father's Ledger
What Congress Doesn't Understand About Illness and Work
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8 months ago
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What Garibaldi Taught Me at Saturday's Protest
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What Garibaldi Taught Me at Saturday's Protest
When democracy is under threat, history reminds us: resistance matters.
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8 months ago
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So excited to be part of this wonderful anthology. Thank you, Coffee Pot Book Club for making Feisty Deeds this week's read!
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8 months ago
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What if Buddha was Wrong?
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What if Buddha was Wrong?
Inner Peace and Expectation
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9 months ago
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The Art of the Deal? Or Justice as Fairness
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The Art of the Deal? Or Justice as Fairness
Two Opposing Views of the Persephone Myth
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9 months ago
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Out of the Underworld
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Out of the Underworld
Reaching Out to Each Other in an Unrecognizable World
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9 months ago
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Another beautiful book with clear resonance for today's confusing world Book Review: The End and the Beginning
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Book Review: The End and the Beginning
Brilliant novel set in Germany in the final days of World War II
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10 months ago
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Linda Holmes
10 months ago
Very recently, I was talking to people about the lack of a good outlet for ebooks, and I cannot tell you how utterly delighted I am by this news. It’s awfully nice to be utterly delighted about ANYTHING at the moment.
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Bookshop.org US
Explore digital books on Bookshop.org
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A good way to get away from Amazon
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10 months ago
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If You Zoom Out Far Enough, You Can't See The People ...
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If You Zoom Out Far Enough, You Can't See The People ...
Trump's Executive Orders and All the Colors of the Rainbow
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10 months ago
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this: Sometimes the moral arc of the universe does not bend in a direction that comforts us. Sometimes it bends in ways we don't expect and there are people who fall off in the process.
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11 months ago
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pickle_back
11 months ago
#octaviabutler
#parableofthesower
#booksky
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In the Persephone Days
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In the Persephone Days
Finding beauty, justice and fairness in the bleakest days
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11 months ago
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Family secrets and story writing
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Family secrets and story writing
How a trip to Sicily unlocked a long-held family secret
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11 months ago
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Welcome to IN A FLASH Lit Mag & Submission Guidelines!
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Welcome to IN A FLASH Lit Mag & Submission Guidelines!
Hi, We’re The Flashies, and We Want To Publish Your Work.
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11 months ago
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Free Skate at the Civic Center Happy New Year's Eve! I hope you consider subscribing to my newsletter through substack if you enjoy it.
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Free Skate at the Civic Center
Round and round we go
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11 months ago
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Letting a story take shape
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Letting a story take shape
(Or: about Thanksgiving Notebook, an as-yet-unfinished essay...)
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12 months ago
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Book Review: Dispossessed by Desiree Zamorano
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Brian Tyler Cohen
about 1 year ago
Just a reminder that in 2020, Dr. Oz suggested that opening schools during COVID would "only cost us 2-3% in terms of total mortality," and that "any life is a life lost but... that might be a tradeoff some folks would consider."
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