Bestselling author of The Desert & the Sea (2018); Too Much of Nothing, a novel about LA; and Sweetness & Blood, a surf travelogue. Host of Radio Free Mike.
Joined December 2011
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Stig's a world-renowned expert on violent groups in Somalia -- both pirates & al-Shabaab -- and his opinion means a lot.
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Highest turnout in over 50 years
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Dylan's band right now is clear & simmering
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When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/1…
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Stig's a world-renowned expert on violent groups in Somalia -- both pirates & al-Shabaab -- and his opinion means a lot.
theguardian.com/news/ng-inte…
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Three Democratic female candidates for Congress have been hit by cars over the past few days. Peltola, a woman running for Congress in TN, and a woman running for Congress in OH.
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“The threat of deportation,” writes Alice Driver, “makes undocumented minors in the workforce more afraid than ever to report abuses.” go.nybooks.com/4yMnEUS
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Is this a good time to mention that Cheesecake Factory looks like that because the founders are from a small sect of white Sufis
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Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva pulled off a dramatic comeback on Sunday as he clinched a re-election victory, but his rival Flavio Bolsonaro refused to accept the loss and said he would seek to annul the vote
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This is absolutely nuts and only hitting German papers so far: leaked emails show that seven politicians from Germany's far-right AfD travelled to Syria to meet with Assad regime officials... facilitated by Hezbollah AND Russian intelligence.
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For those of you who thought the visit from a Bedford Borough Council official to investigate our daughter Zoe’s (age 12) pretend teddy bear cafe was too ridiculous to be real, here is the arrival of official. This is totally legit. She really did show up at our property to investigate the illegal teddy bears having their coffee🧸🧸☕️☕️
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Around 1500, Hieronymus Bosch painted sheet music on a sinner's bare butt in hell. 500 years later, someone transcribed and performed it. Now you can hear the original butt song from hell.
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really? what a narrow view! Anderson did in fact write sympathetically & convincingly about girls & women; even Hemingway has a story from an adolescent girl's perspective, "Up in Michigan," that is a knockout; not to mention D.H. Lawrence, Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Hardy & (not least) Shakespeare.
if men can't write about women, women presumably can't write about men.
educated people can't write about lesser-educated people, Black writers can't write about brown people, people from Maine can't write about people from Vermont, no one can write about anyone except the sickly face in the mirror.
There was a time when Secretaries of State could spell
