Deanne Stillman

Keep this in mind with the upcoming #Ohio vote for governor. Not to mention the Senate race and all of the others. Can the Buckeye State come to its senses and climb out of the abyss? #journalismsky #writersky

Kickoff event at the Twentynine Palms Book Festival, at which I'll be talking about my book Desert Reckoning, a Spur and LA Press Club Award winner, a Southwest Book of the Year, based on a Rolling Stone piece, and an amazon editors pick. #booksky #truecrimesky #authorsky #mojavesky

Let’s Talk with Deanne Stillman About Her True Crime Book Twentynine Palms "A strange and brilliant story by an important American writer." - Hunter S. Thompson #booksky #authorsky #truecrimesky #mojave #joshuatree leannebythesea.substack.com/p/announceme...

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 www.instagram.com/p/DeR3wwIAt-...

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. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/twentynine...

Maybe see you there? Spur Award winner. LA Press Club Award, best nonfiction. Amazon editors pick. Based on a Rolling Stone piece. #booksky #authorsky #mojavesky #desertsky @hachetteus.bsky.social

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 web.archive.org/web/20171027...

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. #booksky #authorsky #desertsky pioneertowngazette.com/events/deann...

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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 gwarlingo.com/2012/on-the-...

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. www.golden-state.org/marilyn-monr... #filmsky #film #moviesky #movies

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

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...

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...

There was NO PROTECTION for #wildhorses until she stood up and spoke out : enjoy this story of Velma "Wild Horse Annie" Johnston & the review of HORSE GIRL renonr.com/2026/08/27/w... # books Thank you @deanne5.bsky.social @ellenhopkins.bsky.social @mollygloss.bsky.social #horses

[Exit Queen.]

Beautiful video released by the family of Dolly Parton

#stoptheroundups #wildhorses #cowboynation @literarysky.bsky.social #booksky

I love this!

#wildhorses #america #thewildwest #wildhorsesky #booksky #authorsky #journalistsky

"The horses that survived helped the Spanish launch their conquest. But unlike the conquistadors, the horses were not newcomers: After 1000s of years, they were coming home, linked through DNA to Ice Age horses found on this continent." @highcountrynews.org #booksky www.hcn.org/wotr/were-st...

For those who haven't yet read Mustang but would like to take a peek, here's an excerpt published on @terrainorg.bsky.social thx to Simmons Buntin, shortly after my book came out, now updated. "The stallion’s voice was not loud, but filled the universe." #booksky www.terrain.org/2009/nonfict...

Morning Sunshine on the Acequia…

"They were shipped back to Europe in tin cans." See .36, from my Mustang intvw with Voice of America, re the history & plight of wild horses, Oct 20, 2009. Where are the tin cans going now? At the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum, site of Ice Age horse fossils. #booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfF...

My book Mustang, published in 2008, an LAT "best of the year," praised by Tony Hillerman, was the first to report about the US govt selling off wild horses to slaughter. Sadly, this has been going on under every President post-Nixon. #booksky #authorsky #wildhorsesky www.amazon.com/Mustang-Dean...

Since Mustang came out years ago, I've called for a moratorium on roundups of #wildhorses bc some end up en route to slaughter (see yesterday's @nytimes.com). Pix here by Bristol Mac Donald from an OG rally to STOP this (circa 09/10) w/me, Neda DeMayo, Wendie Malick, & Petrine Mitchum. #booksky

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 rarebirdbooks.bandcamp.com/album/mustan...

In the Angel City Press archive at the LA Public Library. #booksky #authorsky #literarysky #libraries #twentyninepalms acp.lapl.org/authors/dean...

Re the Virginia Giuffre case files, here's my @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social piece re my book Twentynine Palms, its 25th anniversary, and the daily breaking accts of sexual violence. "If anyone had listened to Tammy, Mandi and Rosie would be alive." #booksky washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/15/a...

Whether it’s Pete Hegseth overseeing missile depletion, food shortages, and sailor suicide attempts or Lloyd Austin being Black, both secretaries of defense have angered portions of the electorate.

My adaptation of "Antigone" is screening on 8/19 in the Sarajevo Film Festival, directed by Goran Gajic, starring Mira Furlan ("Babylon 5"). It's a restored recording of our original stage production at the Hudson Guild Theatre, praised in the LAT. #filmfestivalsky tickets.sff.ba/films/3264#f...

On 8/19 my adaptation of "Antigone" screens at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Directed by Goran Gajic and starring the late Mira Furlan ("Babylon 5"). Wrote this at Goran's request years ago; it was first produced at the Hudson Theatre in LA. RIP Mira. #filmfestivalsky tickets.sff.ba/films/3264#f...

Re Fauci on the grill: during Covid, masks became a proxy war for "Don't tread on me." "And now, that thing we all learned in third grade – 'It’s a free country; I can do what I want' – has become 'Why do I have to wear a mask?'” From early lockdown: #journalismsky publicseminar.org/essays/is-am...

Blood Brothers joins this Goodreads list of Best Nonfiction Books, Western US History, which also includes Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, and Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer #booksky #authorsky www.goodreads.com/list/show/14...

Phos-Chek is pretty, right? "Two tons of water had been dropped. High winds had disrupted the site. 'By the time the time the ATF arrived, it was like looking at a cremated body and trying to make a case for murder.'" My latest on the #palisadesfire. #journalismsky lareported.org/mistrial-by-...

New piece at @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social about Twentynine Palms, its 25th anniversary, and the news of sexual violence that breaks every day, from Virginia Giuffre and beyond. "If anyone had listened to Tammy, Mandi and Rosie would be alive." #booksky washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/15/a...