Deborah Reed
Novelist. Berlin expat. Guest lecturer at Uni Freiburg. Previous owner of Cloud & Leaf Bookstore on the Oregon coast. Most recent novel, Pale Morning Light With Violet Swan-Mariner/HarperCollins. Music and books and poems and trees.
Deborahreedwriter.com
- If this were fiction, naming the murdered Pretti and Good would be too on the nose. But it is somehow true. And every time we speak their names more than one thing will resonate. 🥹
- Reposted by Deborah ReedFor many European governments, Donald Trump’s threat of punitive tariffs against anyone who tries to stop him taking Greenland was the final straw in their failing relationship with the U.S. Divorce, they believe, is now inevitable.
- Well. Well. “In 1943, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun travelled to Germany and met with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Norway, he sent his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a gesture of thanks for the meeting. Goebbels was honoured by the gift…” 🤔
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- Today in Berlin I spoke with a dental hygienist from Iran, a cab driver from Turkey, and a rug dealer from Afghanistan all in a language that was not our first, and we all said the exact same thing: Why and how and what do we do to live in a world where the people in power are trying to kill us?
- A shout-out to @brainchain.ca! Here lived the remarkable artist and human being, Käthe Kollwitz. A plaque at the site of her former home. “I agree that my art has purposes, I want to work in this time, in which people are so at a loss and in need of help” Käthe Kollwitz, diary entry 4. December 1922
- Reposted by Deborah Reed"I’m not mad at you." That's about all I can take today.
- This is excellent reporting. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting.
- Minding my head throughout 2025.
- Come on congress. Do your job!
- Reposted by Deborah Reedi’d die for her
- Reposted by Deborah ReedHow to stop waiting and start living – a jolt from Henry James www.themarginalian.org/2022/10/17/h...
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- Hope.
- Wonderful essay about a group of students giving up phones for a summer, and the enormous benefits — which I happened to witness myself when I spoke at their class! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
- Take a moment to catch your breath and be reminded of the beautiful and profound.
- Reposted by Deborah ReedThis, on Hannah Arendt and the perils of making her an icon rather than wrestling with what she thought and wrote, is very good.
- Reposted by Deborah ReedSee what stories caught our attention this week, including positive progress for mass transit in Serbia and a deposit return scheme that’s making waves. reasonstobecheerful.world/what-were-re...
- David Byrne offering up an art and humanity cleanse. 👏 An absolute delight.
- A terrible loss.
