Mike O’Connell

@moconnell.bsky.social

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Author of Startling Figures: Encounters with American Catholic Fiction/ editor of Conversations with George Saunders/ co-editor of The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies. Fellow at the Jesuit Media Lab.

Boardwalk by Third Sister Lake in Ann Arbor, MI
Shea Serrano’s beautiful new book Expensive Basketball, plus an old Shea “shoot your shot” bookmark
Norm Macdonald on SNL playing Burt Reynolds in an absurdly large hat
Ann Arbor No Kings protest with No Faux King Way sign prominently displayed
Hawk of some sort, gliding low over the grass
A glass of champagne raised in front of a TV showing Mo Salah beaming while wearing a Champions 24/25 Liverpool shirt
George Saunders’s short story collection “Liberation Day”
Zach Lowe Podcast is back baby
A picture of the (very beautiful to look upon) yellow cover of John Green’s new book “Everything is Tuberculosis”
An official Guinness/ Notre Dame t shirt, showing the Guinness Toucan mascot sporting a golden Notre Dame football helmet, with the words “Game Time. Guinness Time.” under it
The cover of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, featuring a blue sky and clouds
Jaden Greathouse racing for a TD, going past a sad Penn State player sitting on the twenty yard line
Pic of George Saunders’s novel Lincoln in the Bardo
Video of a turtle laying an egg. Taken in Ann Arbor, MI
Bookshelf pic
John Darnielle and Co, with a Bleed Out banner at the back of the stage