Caroline Dohack

a tentacle rises ominously to announce an author panel titled Woo Woo Cthulhu at Unbound 2026

a portrait of journalist Leah Sottile and the cover to her latest book, "Blazing Eye Sees All"

a portrait of novelist Olivia Muenter and her latest book, "Little One"

a portrait of novelist Joshua Wheeler and his novel, "The High Heaven"

I am moderating this panel at Unbound Book Festival next month. It's gonna be a good one.

"Have the squirrels returned to Ripley County after Rackley and his mountain curs ate so many in the '80s?" is the topic du jour in the Dohack sisters + mom group chat.

The Office Siren by Katharine Tyndall The office siren: fills a plastic cup from the water cooler, sprinkles in salt from a shaker on her desk. With one webbed pinky she stirs in the granules. It still doesn't taste like the sea. ...

"The office siren: is definitely the one who brought fish for lunch, left it open in the shared fridge, though she will not admit it. Fish is far from her first choice. Her colleagues should be happy they’re not in the fridge, chopped into pieces, in a Tupperware with her name on it."

Relatable.

Yeah! And there's a lot less stop-and-go if your municipality has a nice trail system or you use side streets.

Pretty little six speeds like my city bike aren't so swift in terms of mph, but when you account for parking it takes me about as much time to pedal somewhere as it does to drive.

the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

I preserve so much of my peace by not having to chase down refunds for counterfeit products.

She could not understand why she wasn’t allowed to bring it into the house.

A tiny terrier proudly holds a disembodied deer's leg in her mouth. She is not letting go of that thing ever.

My mom's little dog, Abby, found herself a TREASURE.

The dog age math is a valid point, but taking a bird dog into a chicken yard right after a pheasant hunt is spectacularly dumb.

A screenshot from a Feb. 25, 2014 Facebook post reading, "Today's reporting adventure resulted in some minor bloodshed. Just my own, though, so that's OK.

One thing I miss about working for the ol' word factory is being invited to do things I might not have thought to try ... like Krav Maga.

A leashed German shepherd ponders a hopscotch court drawn in colorful chalk on the sidewalk

Oh, of course we did.

Two steps and a booty pop ahead of you.

I chortled all the way through.

Blissfully zon-free since 2019.

This is so good.

We've been very wrong about Stone Age women "Never assume" is a golden rule – especially when looking at 10,000-year-old human remains

It started with a seemingly innocuous assumption, an easily made logical leap: For a rather long time, archeologists who found burial sites with weapons or hunting gear inside would label the remains as male.

Fresh new piece:
www.broadhistory.com/weve-been-ve...

Yessssssssss.

I was/continue to be so excited about the five seconds Jonny Lang was in it that I don't remember anything else.

Princess Bianca's back in action. (I am not Princess Bianca. Princess Bianca is my bicycle.)

Heroic.

Trollicious.

Good insight from my friend @jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social of @stlpublicradio.bsky.social for media crews traveling to cover communities with whom they have no previous connection during periods of unrest.

Jason's own reporting during and after the protests in Ferguson was spectacular, btw.

I love when my translators have questions. The splendid Mikael Cabon in France needs to know if a river in Written on the Dark flows into the sea or into another river: his word choice will be different.

When translators are careful it is a gift to an author AND a reminder to protect them from AI.

Few things thrill a farm girl more than being prepared for the weather and/or apocalypse.

Oh, I think everyone who NEEDS to know does.

Went to the bank today and the man in front of me is asking if there's a way to keep his wife from seeing certain things. I straighten to full height — 5'9" in those boots — so when he turns around the first thing he sees is an ENORMOUS woman looking down on him with eyebrows of disgust.

In my mind's ear I can conjure the sound of 15+ recorders not quite hitting that high note in "Golden."

Why yes, I would very much like to play a board game involving supply-chain resilience, fair labor practices and marketing strategy. In fact, I would like an expansion pack with fun carbon reduction, water stewardship and ethical governance challenges.