Randy Hardwick
@randyontheglobe.bsky.social
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Retired educator, active writer. My husband and I are childless cat ladies with a Labrador.
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Beautiful Women Updates
about 2 months ago
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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Happy to see my latest review for Chicago Review of Books published this morning.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/15/f...
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Finding Joy After Grief: No Stars in Jefferson Park - Chicago Review of Books
No Stars in Jefferson Park, Maggie Andersen’s debut memoir scheduled to release in October, is at its core a Chicago story of working-class triumph in the face of adversity. It is a romantic story of ...
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/15/finding-joy-after-grief-no-stars-in-jefferson-park/
2 months ago
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David Hinchliffe Bradford
2 months ago
Terrific essay by
@garthgreenwell.bsky.social
on Giovanni's Room and why the best art is anything but consoling
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Enamored of the Abyss, by Garth Greenwell
On the place of affirmation in art
https://share.google/N1ipypQilELAQ6Z2C
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Randy Ray's review of Evenings and Weekends
4/5: A Big Cast of Characters in a Bigger Story A touching story about self-awareness and the timelessness of our human struggle of finding our own place. Setting all of that within the framework of ...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7917205892
3 months ago
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I asked AI about AI and cognitive decline…
3 months ago
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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣
3 months ago
Brilliant breakdown on the Jimmy Kimmel story 🔥🔥🔥 Thank you
@underthedesknews.bsky.social
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Congratulations to all of the semi-finalists, especially my pal Meg Jerit.
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4 months ago
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Our Black Earth
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Our Black Earth
Peter Newall
https://arcturusmag.com/2025/08/15/our-black-earth/
4 months ago
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Had my first literary review published today in Chicago Review of Books. Feeling great!
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/12/a...
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A Diversity of Horror in "Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories" - Chicago Review of Books
With Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories, Editor Michael W. Philips, Jr. has mined Chicago’s considerable pool of talented horror writers to curate an entertaining, if uneven, mosaic of the city. The met...
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/08/12/a-diversity-of-horror-in-red-line-chicago-horror-stories/
5 months ago
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Greg Zimmerman
6 months ago
@anandalima.bsky.social
's terrific book CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL is out in paperback this week. Have you read it yet? YOU SHOULD!!!
#books
#booksky
thenewdorkreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/craft-stor...
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Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, by Ananda Lima: Wow. Just Wow.
Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil(out today!) is unlike anything I've ever read.
https://thenewdorkreviewofbooks.substack.com/p/craft-stories-i-wrote-for-the-devil
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Ananda Lima
6 months ago
Thank you so much (and I love this review so much)
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Tucker Lieberman
7 months ago
Those of you using LinkedIn for desktop (not the phone app) please do me a favor (cw:
#homophobia
#transphobia
) — Start to write a post. Press the happy face to insert an emoji. Use the magnifying glass search box to type "surrender". 🤔
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Our Flag Is Not ‘Surrender’
Pride has a name. LinkedIn has a dollar to say it, but won’t.
https://medium.com/the-identity-current/our-flag-is-not-surrender-linkedin-pride-emoji-aa6dc06b79b5?sk=f04fd64bc061b49509b1c01291afbf65
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Chicago Review of Books
7 months ago
@jesskeller42.bsky.social
,
@storystudiochicago.bsky.social
's Executive Director) talks Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s story “Nocturnal Creatures” on the latest episode of the
@chicagowriterspod.bsky.social
. Check out the pod in the link below!
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/08/s...
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I am super excited to announce that I have been invited to StoryStudio’s 2025 StoryBoard Conference in August at The Newberry Library.
7 months ago
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sweet talk
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sweet talk
Caroline Fernandez
https://arcturusmag.com/2025/06/02/sweet-talk/
7 months ago
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Unaskable Questions in Heather Christle's "In the Rhododendrons"
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/04/28/u...
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Unaskable Questions in Heather Christle's "In the Rhododendrons" - Chicago Review of Books
“So we’re breaking into a National Trust property full of horny deer in the dark.” Anthony gives Jack a look.“It’s for poetry,” he says. Can a work of memoir also be a work of poetry? Yes, I’d argue—a...
https://chireviewofbooks.com/2025/04/28/unaskable-questions-in-heather-christles-in-the-rhododendrons/
8 months ago
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Julia Carrie Wong
8 months ago
The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law
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Birds of Gaza
arcturusmag.com/2024/01/24/b...
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Birds of Gaza
Hadeel Salameh
https://arcturusmag.com/2024/01/24/birds-of-gaza/
10 months ago
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Naomi Smith
12 months ago
Great letter in today's Guardian. What sort of free speech is prevented by factchecking, Zuck?
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Amber Jane 🇨🇦 she/they 🐸
about 1 year ago
Love this.
#abortion
#prochoice
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New to Bluesky. Feels much nicer here and hoping to meet new friends. Interests include writing and theatre. Based in Chicago.
about 1 year ago
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