MattGallagher0's profile picture. Author of DAYBREAK + others. Personal views. "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."

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Author of DAYBREAK + others. Personal views. "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever."

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“Daybreak is a work of art, a gleaming, fanged nightmare of a book by a major American author who himself is an Army veteran … Gallagher’s writing captures how rich and strange my native country is while layering the monstrousness of the new war on top.” foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/25/a-t…


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It takes some kind of balls to even suggest this to the creator of The Wire:

OneChrisEdwards's tweet image. It takes some kind of balls to even suggest this to the creator of The Wire:

Some contemporary fiction writers have managed to do things in their lives beyond pontificating, it can be done, just saying, etcetera and so forth

"Write what you know" was good advice for novelists when most of them had been drafted, or hitchhiked across the country with drug-addled degenerates, or worked as a migrant rancher. It’s bad advice for people who mostly just know how to turn in homework assignments.



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Etan is a father of a beautiful two year old and I know he writes this from his heart as a loving father. Tonight I am in tears and just one thing: For Etan’s son and children of Gaza to grow up without ever knowing conflict or bombs again.

Children in Gaza celebrate ceasefire. We owe them more than the bombs to stop dropping. We owe them a life of security and joy and fulfillment. We cannot truly celebrate until this is the reality for all the children.



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BREAKING: Senior US official tells Axios, 'the war in Gaza is over'


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Exclusive | Parents of Americans who died fighting in Ukraine tell Trump: 'Freedom isn't just for Americans' nypost.com/2025/10/06/wor…


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Indiana Jones is a fantasy about being a professor with no admin duties


This Sunday afternoon in Indianapolis at the @VonnegutLibrary ... come on out if you're in the area

MattGallagher0's tweet image. This Sunday afternoon in Indianapolis at the @VonnegutLibrary ... come on out if you're in the area

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The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library (KVML), in partnership with the Literature of War Foundation, is proud to host a FREE dynamic panel discussion titled “The Body, The State, and The Sentence: Who Gets to Tell the Story?” as part of our annual Banned Books Week programming!

VonnegutLibrary's tweet image. The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library (KVML), in partnership with the Literature of War Foundation, is proud to host a FREE dynamic panel discussion titled “The Body, The State, and The Sentence: Who Gets to Tell the Story?” as part of our annual Banned Books Week programming!

Am evolving into my final form as this dad

MattGallagher0's tweet image. Am evolving into my final form as this dad

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At the obscenity trial for Howl, the deputy district attorney cross-examined the literary critic Mark Schorer:  “What are ‘angelheaded hipsters’?” Then he asked him to paraphrase the line, “With dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls.”

New episode! @Jacob__Siegel and @PhilKlay are joined by Amy Sohn, author of The Man Who Hated Women: Sex, Censorship, and Civil Liberties in the Gilded Age, to discuss the 1967 anti-war manifesto A Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority and Allen Ginsberg's 1956 poem Howl.



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Sorry to sound old but brainrot did not begin with ChatGPT. Short-form videos are addictive by design, and too much exposure will fry your concentration, curiosity and joy in living. You need to be ingesting long-form content: novels, movies, essays, educational books and videos.

there is a moral panic around short form video content imo



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because no one guessed you were stupid enough to require the information?

Why didn't anyone tell me JCO has no arms



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72 years ago, a 21-year-old U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant named Johnny Cash intercepted a coded Soviet message revealing Joseph Stalin’s death—the first time America learned of it.

historyinmemes's tweet image. 72 years ago, a 21-year-old U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant named Johnny Cash intercepted a coded Soviet message revealing Joseph Stalin’s death—the first time America learned of it.

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Donna Tartt / The Secret History Ivy Books

JMcNallyBooks's tweet image. Donna Tartt / The Secret History
Ivy Books

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Trump trash talks Russian war performance: “Russia has been fighting aimlessly for 3 1/2 years …making them look like a ‘paper tiger.’” Says Ukraine will win back its own territory, “and who knows, maybe even go further than that.”

lrozen's tweet image. Trump trash talks Russian war performance: “Russia has been fighting aimlessly for 3 1/2 years …making them look like a ‘paper tiger.’” Says Ukraine will win back its own territory, “and who knows, maybe even go further than that.”

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It seems Zelensky's meeting with Trump went very well... "I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form".

JimmySecUK's tweet image. It seems Zelensky's meeting with Trump went very well...

"I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form".

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Larry David continues to be vindicated

beyondreasdoubt's tweet image. Larry David continues to be vindicated

elmo speaking at a conference alongside a former member of al qaeda x.com/mideastXmidwes…

KFILE's tweet image. elmo speaking at a conference alongside a former member of al qaeda 

x.com/mideastXmidwes…


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sometimes an older writer will email me, and the prose is always so beautiful, but casual, and the tone earnest. i don't see that often in emails from younger writers, myself included. i think it comes from having grown up in a time when handwritten letters were more common.


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It is remarkable the extent to "every political/historical event that ever occurred anywhere that I did not personally approve of is the result of an evil conspiracy by an all-powerful U.S." is regarded as an enlightened and respectable opinion.

The US-backed regime change operation of... Australia. This person is a professor at Cambridge!

KareemRifai's tweet image. The US-backed regime change operation of... Australia.

This person is a professor at Cambridge!


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