JD Vance And The White Trashing Of America A guest post by Deanne Stillman

Here you go, @ellinst.bsky.social. Thx for asking. authorsfordemocracy.substack.com/p/jd-vance-a...

What is wrong with JD Vance? I looked into it for @lincolnsquare.media before the 24 election and then the piece was reprinted at Authors for Democracy, thx to @aimeeliu.bsky.social. @housedemocrats.bsky.social

"Stillman writes a dust-devil tale of murder, madness, and the military, soaked in white-hot passion and razor-sharp insights...not since Raymond Carver has anyone dared the high-wire act of writing the low-life and carried it off with such ease." - Lucian K. Truscott, author of Dress Gray #booksky

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I guess that visit from Vance didn't work out. #freddiemercury #queen #hungary
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DESERT RECKONING YouTube video by Deanne Stillman

New trailer for Desert Reckoning with a mystery #SoCal metal band. Book is a modern western re a manhunt for a hermit who killed a cop. Fathers & sons, America's obsession with guns, who lives in the desert & why. Amazon editors pick/LA Press Club Award. #booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_S...

#booksky #mojave @tomteicholzonart.bsky.social

Not an Officer and Not a Gentleman: The 25th Anniversary of Deanne Stillman’s Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave. Like Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, or Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song, Deanne Stillman’s Twentynine Palms: A True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave (Angel City Press) is a searing and h...

"It is hard to believe that such a gripping story with such memorable characters, plot twists, and a long-in-coming resolution, has not made it to the screen as a film or a limited series. If ever the time was right to make it, it is now." #booksky #mojave tomteicholz.substack.com/p/not-an-off...

Mustang by Deanne Stillman, by Deanne Stillman 10 track album

Yes! This is why I wrote Mustang, which has had a big impact in the public sphere. But mgmt of #wildhorses needs an overhaul. Anyone want to know the full story? Listen to the audio edition of my book, esp Anjelica Huston reading the intro. @booksky.club
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Here's my playlist for Twentynine Palms thx to @largeheartedboy.bsky.social. It includes #foreigner, #vanhalen, #blueoystercult, and #robertplant. largeheartedboy.com/2026/04/01/d...

You might have read the Angel City Press edition which came out in 08. The first one, from William Morrow, came out in 01.

"Like In Cold Blood, or The Executioner’s Song, Twentynine Palms is a searing work of narrative nonfiction took Stillman a decade to report and write. It's as haunting and relevant as ever, in a time when assault is front page news." @booksky.bsky.social
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As the 250th birthday of #America approaches, there's this from the Brooklyn Public Library. "If you're interested in Paper Trails, you may also like Blood Brothers."
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If you are concerned about the terrible #burro killings in Riverside CA, check out my book Mustang, which talks about these assaults. There's a history of this that goes back for decades. Same for #wildhorses; book was an LAT "best of the year," praised by Tony Hillerman. @booksky.bsky.social

Memoir Monday Roundup 3/23/26 So many great personal essays. PLUS: Scroll down to the bottom for so many great workshops, calls for submissions, and a conference....

On the 25th anni of my book Twentynine Palms, @saribotton.bsky.social links to my LAT piece about walking away bc emotional toll. But the desert came and got me in Venice. A muscle car with Joshua Tree plates skidded to a halt; a battered woman was thrown out. memoirland.substack.com/p/memoir-mon...

Twentynine Palms: LAT "best of year", praised by Hunter Thompson, turns 25. Here's launch on BookTV. I talk about why I wrote it ("felt like I was struck by lightning") & why it took 10 years ("I move slow, like the desert, where it takes place"). @booksky.bsky.social
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U2 - Song Of The Future (Lyric Video) YouTube video by U2

Right now: from #U2, "Song of the Future," about Sarina Esmailzadeh, the Iranian schoolgirl who was beaten to death during the schoolgirl uprising protesting the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini, arrested and killed for not wearing a hijab.
#iran #iranrevolution #u2 #Bono
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Introduction by Anjelica Huston, by Deanne Stillman from the album Mustang by Deanne Stillman

For the 25th anniversary of Twentynine Palms, here's Anjelica Huston narrating the intro to Mustang. The two books are connected, as you can hear (.37 +, but hope you'll start at the top). It's a great honor of my literary life that Anjelica recorded this.
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Blood Brothers by Deanne Stillman YouTube video by 29pbf Authors

New trailer for Blood Brothers - a "best book of the year" sez True West Magazine and the millions and "best new history," according to Barnes & Noble. Winner of Ohioana Book Award.
@booksky.club @simonandschuster.bsky.social
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Don't let Trump tell you what happened in the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Read my account in Blood Brothers, and all about the Native American victory in that cataclysmic event, the one from which this country has yet to recover. @booksky.club #littlebighorn #sittingbull #custer #crazyhorse

JD Vance And The White Trashing Of America A guest post by Deanne Stillman

Vance has steered Ohio along with the US into an iceberg, and it's not Greenland. Where's he coming from? This may interest you; wrote it before the 16 election, about an overlooked line in his memoir regarding a cousin who started America's most famous family feud.
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My year as a fire nomad Yearning for home, finding love instead

My Year as a Fire Nomad: new piece for LA Reported, in which I talk about fleeing the Palisades Fire, frequent moves while awaiting smoke remediation on my home, and becoming caught up in the kind of fire that has no source other than the Great Mystery.
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Today's the 135th anniversary of #WoundedKnee. I recently wrote about Pete Hegseth's cancellation of the medals review for soldiers who took part in that massacre of Native Americans. Also: Buffalo Bill's lost film about it in book excerpt. @booksky.bsky.social
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"Deanne Stillman takes us on a journey as full of desolation and grandeur as the desert itself." - @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Spur Award. LA Press Club Award. Southwest Book of the Year. Raves Oregonian, Denver Post, Tucson Weekly. #greatgiftidea #booksky #truecrime #nonfiction #mojavedesert

DESERT RECKONING YouTube video by Deanne Stillman

"Looking across a desert panorama calms interior noise. The wide open space just shuts down the chatter. Then the impt stuff comes through. No static in the scenery. The eye can rest and therefore, the heart." - Psychology Today. See new trailer for Desert Reckoning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_S...

DESERT RECKONING YouTube video by Deanne Stillman

High-voltage new trailer for Desert Reckoning, a modern western re a manhunt for a hermit who killed a cop in the Mojave. Fathers & sons, America's obsession with guns, who lives in the desert & why, finding grace in the carnage. Spur Award best nonfiction. #booksky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_S...

This is a new podcast production of my play "Who Walks the Sands," monologues about fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and longing and desire. They are a mashup of the real and the imaginary. There's also an interview with me following the production. #theatresky
redcircle.com/shows/626558...

The same people who lost their minds over renovations to Cracker Barrel are totally fine with the White House getting bulldozed