Ideas on life, writing and the writer’s life.
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I’m grateful for this reader’s @amazon review of my book.
Browse, preview and buy my book on @AppleBooks: books.apple.com/us/book/long…
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My book of short stories debuted last year in Amazon’s top 50 of literary short stories. Buy on Amazon—even better for you and for me if you buy the @AppleBooks version—or direct from yours truly: books.apple.com/us/book/long…
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My first fiction—a short story about a married woman and man in love with one another in dystopia, “A Deal With God”—was accepted for publication two years ago.
It’s available to read in my book (Long Run: Short Stories, Volume One available on @AppleBooks and Amazon) and listen to me read aloud on my podcast.
Watch and listen to my first interview on “A Deal With God”. shortstoriesbyscottholleran.…
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On my book, Long Run:
“I loved this collection; each story surprised me with its imaginative atmosphere, character development and revelations. Animating each chapter is a yearning for human relationships and the survival of that desire when confronted by corrupting bureaucracy and a societal breakdown of the individual. Scott Holleran invites you, through suspense-filled situations, to imagine how you would continue to trust others and take a chance on life. Despite betrayals and aggressive, seemingly insurmountable obstacles, would you fight for truth, love, yourself, and ultimately, freedom? Would you take that chance?”
—Marney Elliott
Buy “Long Run”: shortstoriesbyscottholleran.…
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Read the first bylined review of my first book. It’s critical, it’s objective and it’s rational. Encouragement is its own reward.
Book Review: Long Run: Short Stories, Volume One: open.substack.com/pub/themos…
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Browse, preview, buy, read and review my book of 16 previously published short stories dramatizing how to go the distance: books.apple.com/us/book/long…
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From @WSJFreeEx via @WSJOpinion: If we’re learning lessons from the pandemic, one of the clearest is that credentialed elites would often rather be wrong than disobeyed, writes @MattHennessey
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Our beloved Lisa Ampleman is moving into a leadership role with our sister press, Acre Books. We're so excited for everything she will do for the press and can't wait to see what comes next for her. But...that means we're looking for a new Managing Editor! Application in thread.
ALT CR logo in russet and headline, "We're Hiring." Post continues, "Managing Editor (full-time hybrid). Join us at The Cincinnati Review, a top-tier literary journal based in the English Department at University of Cincinnati."
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Easily one of my top five films of all time. I can't tell you how many times I've watched this film and it's never not interesting.
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Everyone always asks what I do with all the vegetables I grow. I share them with my family, but I also love sharing the bounties with friends, colleagues, and my hardworking crew here at the farm. I also provide fruits, vegetables, and eggs for photography and video shoots. And, of course, all my birds get vegetables too. See what’s growing now on today’s themarthablog.com.
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Moslems with box cutters waged the worst attack on the American mainland in history. An Islamic assassin’s knife destroyed the sight of an artist targeted by an ayatollah for “blasphemy” by the infidel. Yet @POTUS prattles on about nukes like these savages won’t besiege New York City with a missile, blades or a new band of savages in cotton knit shirts.
Any deal with Iran is a defeat for America and, for all intents and purposes—unless Trump flip-flops again and unequivocally rejects the swamp’s pacifist-religious influence—the end of Trump’s presidency.
Our 45th and 47th president will be a lame duck and Republicans will likely be trounced in a historic mid-term election landslide defeat.
Most pressing, the United States of America will be in grave, clear and imminent danger.
Your attention please @Citadel @LTGHRMcMaster @HooverInst @SusieWiles47 @TheStudyofWar @GordonGChang @DeptofWar @elonmusk @WestPoint_USMA @marklevinshow @pmarca @SecWar @gen_jackkeane @DrNeilStone @SecRubio @VMI1839 @GenFlynn @VDHanson @Flight93NPS @OfficialAlamo
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“When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him."
—President Roosevelt, September 11, 1941 fireside chat
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Get to feeling light, deep and free.
Read or preview @Autonomia2021’s monthly book review:
scottholleran.substack.com/p…
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Being a blissfully unbothered optimist who brushes everything off predicts better health nearly a decade later.
Ripped apart by your boss? Thank them for the feedback and forget it by dinner.
Made a mistake? Useful data.
Bad day? What bad day?
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Autonomia (@Autonomia2021): where a freethinker can rest, refill and live free: scottholleran.substack.com/s…
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Buying books and reading books are two different hobbies. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.
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“In case of doubt, attack. The enemy is just as ignorant of the situation as you are, and perhaps more so. Instead of waiting to see what might develop, attack constantly, vigorously, and viciously. If you're standing around trying to figure out what is happening or what the enemy is up to, you are making one hell of a good target out of yourself and your men. Never let up. Never stop. Always attack. When the enemy is defending himself against your assault, he doesn't have the time to plan an offensive against you. If you were a boxer and your opponent were on the ropes, you wouldn't stop and let him rest, would you? When you get him on the ropes, keep punching. Beat the hell out of him until he's out for the count. “L’audace, l’audace, toujours, l’audace.”
—General George Patton
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“It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory. Many misinformed, ignorant, and ill-educated people believe that some new or magic weapon can always be used to win battles and wars. The same thought followed the development of dynamite, the Gatling gun, gunpowder, the bow and arrow, and even the much ballyhooed atom bomb. I fear that future leaders will be lulled into a false sense of security. By thinking that weapons like the A-bomb are so magical that we will never again have to fight a war. It's just this type of illogical pacifistic idiocy that will cause us to be pecked to death by ducks. It's this type of thinking that makes ignorant people believe that success in war may be attained by the use of some wonderful invention, rather than by hard fighting and superior leadership. War is an art, and as such is not susceptible to explanation by fixed formulas.”
—General George Patton