Hope you all can listen to this podcast on 11/3 at noon with me and Leanne Phillips talking about my book Twentynine Palms, now having its 25th anniversary. "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer." - Hunter S. Thompson #booksky #mojavesky
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Join @deanne5.bsky.social on 11/13 at the TwentyNine Palms Book Festival for a conversation about her book, DESERT RECKONING, a true story of obsession, survival, and justice.

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Maybe see you there?
Spur Award winner. LA Press Club Award, best nonfiction. Amazon editors pick. Based on a Rolling Stone piece.
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9 yrs ago, 60 people were killed and 800 injured in Las Vegas. The incident was called the biggest mass shooting in our history. Actually that's Wounded Knee; 300 Lakota individuals were wiped out. I wrote about all of this for the @powells.bsky.social blog. #booksky
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Top 5 Desert Reads, acc to the Desert Sun, including my book Desert Reckoning, which is #1, with mention of Twentynine Palms. Speaking about both at the Twentynine Palms Book Festival on Nov 13 in Twentynine Palms, portal into Joshua Tree National Park. #booksky www.desertsun.com/story/desert...

Doubleheader Twentynine Palms Book Festival. Speaking about my book Desert Reckoning on the Desert Noir panel along with actor Christian Camargo on Nov 13 at 330, right before my Twentynine Palms convo. Book won the Spur & LA Press Club Awards. See/listen. #booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5_S...

Next call. Nov 13/5pm/Twentynine Palms Book Festival. My convo with Jardine Libaire about my book Twentynine Palms. "One of these days I might shut the whole thing down." That's the Mojave talking in my book. LA Times bestseller.
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Soon! I'll be in convo re my book Twentynine Palms on 9/13 at 5pm for its 25th anni at the Twentynine Palms Book Festival with novelist Jardine Libaire. This was an LAT "best book of the year" described by Hunter Thompson as "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer." #booksky

On 9/11 I was in NYC, on assignment for Rolling Stone, landing just before the planes hit the towers. I had picked that date to fly in because I had a premonition that something big was going to happen in Manhattan, and I might never see my mom again. #writersky www.truthdig.com/articles/911...

After 9/11 bin Laden said the states would not be united. Yrs later, Rep Gabby Giffords was wounded in a mass shooting; a little girl born on 9/11 killed. Shooter obsessed with 9/11. Wrote about it in my prose poem, Reflections in a D'Back's Eye, then a play. #writersky
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The story of why I wrote this award-winning short film and what happened in the aftermath is now at @goldenstateorg.bsky.social. Hint: Hef wasn't the only one who wanted to be buried near #MarilynMonroe. Piece links to film.
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New @goldenstateorg.bsky.social piece about Marilyn Monroe, her 100th birthday, auctions and the ongoing battle over her Brentwood house, and Hugh Hefner buying and now interred in an adjacent crypt at the Westwood Memorial Park and Mortuary. #marilynmonroesky
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Her house, her grave, her merchandising potential: In death as in life, everyone wants a piece of Marilyn Monroe without her say-so.

Deanne Stillman imagines a different reality for the icon, one where she escapes the "shackles of worship and control."

LINK: www.golden-state.org/marilyn-monr...

And see my book Mustang (08), which helped launch this entire convo. Tells the history of the wild horse in the West from the Ice Age through the early 21st century, when it's making its last stand. Praised Kirkus, LAT, NPR, Indian Country, Tony Hillerman. #booksky www.amazon.com/dp/054723791...

Trump's not alone in his war against wild horses. They haven't had a friend in the White House since Richard Nixon. You see, he had this childhood secret, and it involved a running horse. My latest piece from @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social. #booksky #authorsky washingtonmonthly.com/2026/08/28/r...

The NYT just published a piece about wild horses being siphoned out of govt mgmt and sold off for slaughter. I wrote about this in my book Mustang; listen to Anjelica Huston reading the intro, and Frances Fisher and Wendie Malick for much more. #booksky
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