UK Bookclub choice today, March 20, 2026

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today in the US

Lincoln's birthday, by Steve Brodner

Elizabeth Burns, Minnesota writer, grad school buddy, wrote I LOVE WALT WHITMAN AND I LOVE MINNEAPOLIS www.thewesterlysun.com/lifestyle/fr...

Not at all funny. Truth is painful.

Back to funny/not funny cartoons

At holiday dinner, friends noticed Anna the dog and Annie the person dressed alike--unplanned, fyi

47th anniversary of Jonestown Massacre Podcast interview Black Jonestown documentary launch www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJfl... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuZq...

So happy today, 11/5/25, here in the USA.A year ago, a different story altogether. Wanted to share something beautiful and colorful: drawing by a neighbor's son, and my rug reproducing that joy.

THE JONESTOWN REPORT IS OUT! To read the rest of the opinion piece, see jonestown.sdsu.edu?page_id=132081

The Jonestown Report is out! To read the rest of the opinion piece, see jonestown.sdsu.edu?page_id=132081

First words on my new book jonestown.sdsu.edu?page_id=132088

Today on my UK publisher's website: inkspotpublishing.com/writer/kenny...

Latest UK interview wppelevate.com/issue-7/arti...

Supreme Court Rules that it no Longer Exists Borowitz Report ... funny/not funny

(The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump’s sweeping travel ban has proven totally unnecessary as the rest of the world has shown no interest in visiting what it deems to be a shithole country, travel experts confirmed on Thursday.

Part 2: shows.acast.com/american-his...

Author of PARADISE UNDONE: A NOVEL OF JONESTOWN (Inkspot 2023) speaks on American History Hits: Birth of Peoples Temple, part I. shows.acast.com/american-his... part 2 drops tomorrow

Birth of Jonestown: American History Podcast, part I. shows.acast.com/american-his...

For the last 21 years, I steeped myself in the alternate reality created by the Reverend Jim Jones, which culminated in the mass murder/suicide of Jonestown, Guyana, Nov. 18, 1978. Trump and Jones share many qualities. Read rest of my Trump/Jones blog here: inkspotpublishing.com/writer/jim-j...

"The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality. "Its most cherished virtue is loyalty to the Leader, who assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality."

Reading Hannah Arendt on the Origins of Totalitarianism Today this sentence stood out to me with glaring, terrifying accuracy, referring to the people being disappeared off our streets: “The similarities between this kind of terror and plain gangsterism are too obvious to be pointed out.” p 334

newest low: cartoon by Steve Brodner

New Interview on Jonestown with the Skeptic: www.skeptic.com/article/a-re...

Heroic Al Green: Rep. Al Green responded to the censure, saying: “And still I rise a proud, liberated Democrat, unbought, unbossed and unafraid.”

cartoon by Steve Brodner, 2/16/25

Researching my next Jonestown book, I came across this sentence from a new memoir: "A master at creating alternate realities, Jones continually fed his followers a steady diet of lies." from: JONESTOWN: An American Family Tragedy, H.J. Jones (no relation) Remind you of anyone?

At The Bookies, Denver, Nov. 30, 2024

Cult Vault Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown Podcast live www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzwY...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRBX... interview with WriterSanctuary 12/2324

Head's Up: youtube.com/WriterSanctu... Be sure to join us on After Hours on YouTube at 7 pm MTN time USA. Since this is a live interview, you’ll have the option to ask the author questions through chat. Afterwritersanctuary.com/an-evening-with-annie-dawid-on-after-hours/#more-12075

music.amazon.com.br/podcasts/894... Podcast International Book Show with Makonnen Sankofa, interview with author of Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown

Rocky Mountain Reader review of Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown 12/12/24

Latest podcast with Pigeonhole Books, an online club where readers access new books in installments. Free. youtube.com/watch?v=ZNSD... pic.x.com/3NdRWUS3be

Aspects of History, UK historical fiction site review of Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown by Ella Beales, a Historical Researcher, Archivist and Public Historian. aspectsofhistory.com/book_reviews...

Updated times and websites for Today, International Cult Awareness Day, Nov. 18, 2024

For the 46th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre, and a year in the world for Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown. See ad for broadcast times.

Blue sky in Westcliffe CO at 8000 feet after 3 days of snow

Today's interview from Aspects of History, a UK site devoted to Historical Fiction. Excerpt selected by the author. aspectsofhistory.com/author_inter...

Upcoming 46th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre. Nov. 18 is also National Cult Day. My novel, PARADISE UNDONE: A NOVEL OF JONESTOWN, marks a year in the world after its 20-year journey into being. Published by Inkspot Publishing in the UK, available worldwide in paper and electronic book.