Rob Donnelly

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…

Tasmania has a history of corruption. CON includes the story of a petty despot in the Huon and the struggle of two poor free men for justice. #politas #history #australia #auslit

CON is more than a story of surviving. It is a story of choice, reinvention, rousing hope, and risk. CON is out now at select bookstores and online. #tasmania #auslit #books #politas

Grab a copy of CON online or at select bookstores. It might just change the way you view Tasmania. #auslit #books #historicalfiction #colonisation

Long before the Hanging Gardens Precinct, in Hobart, there was the Bath Arms pub with Radford’s Circus out the back. Tassie had a significant place in the early history of popular entertainment in Australia. #auslit #tasmania

For more information about the book go to robdonnellyauthor.com

Exploring what remains of the Jerusalem and Jericho probation stations in southern Tasmania. CON is available online and at select bookstores. #tasmania #AusLit #books #convicts

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. —Adrienne Rich, “Natural Resources,” 1977

"We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start" | Must read piece in The @Guardian by @Penn's @COFinkelstein: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Please read this statement from the parents of VA ICU nurse Alexander Pretti, who was murdered yesterday by Border Patrol agents.

Old Empires Crumble. The Voice of the Exiled Rises. CON on sale now through Amazon, all major online sellers, and select bookstores. #auslit #books #HistoricalFiction #tasmania

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. - Hannah Arendt

In 1945, Solzhenitsyn was a decorated Soviet officer who made a small, private joke about Stalin in a letter. The state opened it, read it, and treated it as a crime. Within weeks he was arrested and stripped of rank. He was fed into the camps, and sentenced to eight years in the Gulag. The camps were designed to teach one lesson: say nothing, remember nothing, become nothing. He shoveled frozen concrete until his hands split and bled. Years later, Solzhenitsyn would write, “Bless you, prison, for having been in my life.” It sounds insane until you understand what he meant. Prison showed him the truth of the regime in its purest form. After his release, the punishment did not end. He lived under constant surveillance, moving from place to place, knowing that writing a single page could mean death. So he did not write. He memorized. Whole chapters of The Gulag Archipelago lived only in his head. Friends hid scraps of text. Wives memorized passages. For years the book existed only in human memory, as fragile and dangerous as a secret prayer. When it was finally published, it did not argue that Soviet communism had gone too far. It showed that this was exactly where it led. Solzhenitsyn had learned that systems built on lies survive only if people agree to repeat them, and that the simplest refusal… to stop saying what you know is false… is the first and most dangerous act of resistance.

Some people struggle with the idea of 2 simultaneous truths. The massacre at Bondi was a heinous crime & we stand together with the loved ones & communities. The massacre at Gaza is a heinous crime & has been declared unlawful by the UN. We must also stand with the people of Gaza

Sane and humane advocacy that I support.

CON - an historical novel set in Ireland, Tasmania, and Gold Rush Victoria - is out on 1 November. Go to robdonnellyauthor.com to find out more. #auslit #writinglife #books