Garcia: They are, on one hand, putting names of survivors in these documents that are not redacted. And in these same documents, they're taking extra time and being extra careful to redact the names of the coconspirators

What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

I don’t have anything festive for the holiday, so here’s another birch painting I did in 2024. Fog Through The Trees 9”x12” Acrylic on Gesso Board Sold #art #landscape #acrylic #painting #trees #nature #blueskyart

Soon, he will discover the man o’war so excitedly named.

What would the world have done without Bill & Hillary to demonize for decades? Acres of newsprint in the NY Times alone. All those tremulously spiteful columns by Maureen Dowd.

“Radical left”?—his polls are dropping into the low 30’s. This is crediting the “radical left” with a popularity they’ve never even fantasized.

So true! But maybe Schopenhauer had a deeper grasp of the world as will—blind instinct ruling humankind ; & only that will is strong enough to continue to propagate the species if there is conscious choice involved.

This appears to be true. Just as a person “who has everything” may take their own life confounding everyone around them who have failed to perceive the deep clinical depression that is kept hidden from view or may in fact have been unconscious.

For like the first time ever, the majority of my Blackwoods are together on the same shelf.

The way our current press works is: GOP are given unlimited credulity. Every statement they make is seen as truth and the Dems need to address it. While Dems are given none of that.

Here's another curiosity: Arthur Machen's copy of The Collected Poems of A. E. Waite.

As a woman she would have been required to have a total makeover including blonde hair & weight loss as she should surely have known. T***p makes no secret of being a full-fledged sexist from the Golden Age of Sexism. Mere toadying isn’t enough—too much competition.

what is touching about this story is that the young lovers truly loved each other in a way not permissible for the time, but not out of a wish to be rebellious. destroyed by the racism of the society & gutter journalism fanning racist flames.

those "good old days" half the US laments.... a nightmare for many.

A Revelation Tore Apart Her Fairy-Tale Marriage, and Shocked the Nation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...

A Revelation Tore Apart Her Fairy-Tale Marriage, and Shocked the Nation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...

It has at least a couple of scenes that wouldn't fly today. It is slow, but I like it.

Time is running out for you to purchase your 101% All-Human-Hair Toupee styled by Zanche--"One Size Fits All Heads." Christmas discount special--$1,100.99. perfect gift for "the man who has everything except hair."

#SundaySentence Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus cannot know that we have failed to see it. Mudwoman ~ @joycecaroloates.bsky.social

joyce look at critter!!

Quina altra novel·lassa d @joycecaroloates.bsky.social. Intel·ligent, addictiva, colpidora i valenta. Oates construeix un gran personatge i baixa al fang per tractar temes escabrosos. Sens dubte, de les millors lectures d’aquest any. #Fox a #LleonardMuntaner, traduïda per @nuriabusquet.bsky.social.

"If I drove up this five-hundred-foot driveway, I would have a difficult time turning around, should I have to leave the house in a hurry." #ghostadvent Night 19: The Return by the one, the only, the legendary @joycecaroloates.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2023...

heartbreaking to learn of the death of Mark Mirsky, longtime editor of Fiction Magazine, much-beloved professor at City College, friend to many writers & poets. a genuinely kind man, a true mensch, witty & erudite in conversation as well as in his remarkable prose. we will miss Mark terribly....

(I am not proud of myself for losing patience so soon with "1900"--the long, inane dinner table scenes were exasperating; "good" peasants tiresome; great Burt Lancaster so wasted with a poor script.) (intermittently fast-forwarded through the five hours.)

I did see this bloated, ponderous, boring film -- in a theater. At the time, I gave it more credit than it deserved because of my considerable investment of time spent viewing it. I must say, however, that there are scenes and images from it which I have never forgotten for their profound beauty

new Substack post. (yes, it should be "JCO & me," precisely speaking, but the force of the pronoun "I" is needed, or so it had seemed to me at the time of the composition.)

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

"Having a president fire all the scientists, doctors, economists, PhDs, and replacing them with loyalists and people who don't know anything is actually NOT in America's best interest." – Ketanji Brown Jackson

"JCO" and I open.substack.com/pub/joycecar...

having so much admired Bertolucci's "The Conformist"--which the director made in his late 20's (!)--I was nonplussed at how disappointing his "1900" is; has anyone ever seen all five hours of this excruciatingly long, slow, annoyingly antic & whimsical saga? should have checked reviews beforehand.

advanced fiction workshop, Rutgers/New Brunswick fall 2025. quite a gathering of talent(s)! (missing two writers in the photo.)

You go girl! Your relentless love of and investment in teaching, and of teaching writers in particular -- of transmitting your passion for and attention to the art of story-telling and the importance of paying attention (Attention must be paid) to the words that go into it -- is inspiring.

"What was there about girls, about women, that one could fall into thoughts of them the way one fell into their arms, surrendering everything, suffocating, plunging to a warm, feathery death?" - from "Them," by @joycecaroloates.bsky.social Model: Ardis #women #beauty #photography #portraits #ardis

previous winners of FIFI Peace Prize ?

🤪 Plot twist: FIFA just invented a “Peace Prize” and handed it to Donald Trump at the World Cup draw. The man under fire for lethal boat strikes and threats toward Venezuela is now their poster boy for peace. Satire is officially out of a job.

can anyone suggest a summer writing session that includes a course in YA fantasy fiction? preferably a workshop taught by a published YA writer and/or a YA editor. thank you for helpful suggestions!

#Hamlet Drawing by my father Carl Köhler (1919-2006)

advanced fiction workshop, Rutgers/New Brunswick fall 2025. quite a gathering of talent(s)! (missing two writers in the photo.)

yes, never forget. MTG harassing young survivors of the Parkland shooting was genuinely shocking, as bad as her longtime cult leader T***p.

Yep. That’s what I took from this. Not willing to take accountability means she hasn’t changed an ounce.

She chased after a school shooting survivor screaming that it was a hoax. She dished it out- now she can STFU & take it.

Time is running out for you to purchase your 101% All-Human-Hair Toupee styled by Zanche--"One Size Fits All Heads." Christmas discount special--$1,100.99. perfect gift for "the man who has everything except hair."

remarkable child actors in alternative-reality vision of William Shakespeare's life as a young married husband in "Hamnet." strong performance by Jessie Buckley & Vermeer-like interiors beautifully photographed. even the plague, striking one child but sparing the other, is poetically rendered.

He was amazing—and he loved cats! I found this: He dedicated his solo album Mr. Bad Guy to his cats and all cat lovers. His song "Delilah" was also a tribute to his favorite cat, whom he affectionately called his "little princess"