Laura Miller

Like a Burnished Throne, Like a Kick in the Head Biography at the limit: "Erotic Vagrancy" and "Dino"

Magnificent: agoodhardstare.substack.com/p/like-a-bur...

I'm a contract freelancer, but my title is books & culture columnist

I Dreamed of Building a Holzhausen. It Was Worth It. Building a holzhausen became my quest.

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Decent harvest from the best tree

Fourth squirrel down

If Any Writer Is Due for a Revival, It’s One of Literature’s Most Misunderstood Novelists Rebecca author Daphne du Maurier was dismissed as merely a “romantic” novelist.

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Squirrels must die

The rare times I visit this site, people always seem to be raging at each other, but let me tell you, you don't know rage until the squirrels steal all the peaches from your tree.

Why Is Everyone Convinced a Serial Killer Is Stalking New England? The collapsed boundary between fiction and fact prevails among the fans of true crime too.

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How Did the Author of Space Raptor Butt Invasion Become One of Our Best Mainstream Horror Writers? Lucky Day is weird, compelling—and very surprising, coming from the author of My Billionaire Triceratops Craves Gay Ass.

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Field dinner

The One Book That Explains Our Current Era Was Written 40 Years Ago NYT pundits and NBA writers alike can't stop recommending this four-decade-old book.

A great book recommendation from @lauramille.bsky.social writing for @slate.com : Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, published 40 years ago.

Postman writes about the transformation from a print culture to a television culture.
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UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...

You can donate here to the official website of the government of Ukraine if you want to do something about it besides post: u24.gov.ua

Detective Shows Are Great, but One Subgenre Is the Very Best From Mare of Easttown to Broadchurch to The Killing, these shows will hook any mystery lovers.

Your guide to sweater detectives slate.com/culture/2025...

Why Humans Can’t Get Enough of the End of the World Dorian Lynskey’s witty Everything Must Go explores the last human tale.

Why we love to imagine the end of the world: slate.com/culture/2025...

It’s Her First Novel Since Winning the Nobel Prize. It’s Despairingly Beautiful. Listen, the snow is falling in We Do Not Part.

On Han Kang's latest: slate.com/culture/2025...

David Lynch Was an Oracle No one ever was, or ever will be, like him.

My tribute to the one and only David Lynch slate.com/culture/2025...