William Auten

Fiction long and short.

[William Auten @williamauten]

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[William Auten @williamauten]

@theruralsouth A beautiful road.

[William Auten @williamauten]

@AleksandrG78133 Great stuff, man. Keep going.

[Matt Gaetz @mattgaetz]

This will be an interesting feature of litigation discovery. The @WNBA should preserve its records.....and its Y chromosomes...

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

The future does not have to be ugly.

We can choose a beautiful future.

[Free Black Thought @FreeBlckThought]

Do the blues reflect black suffering?

"My father's rich, my mama's good looking, and I can play the blues. I never suffered and don't intend to suffer."

—Miles Davis

[Charles Wing-Uexküll @CWingUexkull]

"if Appalachia was a third world nation for white people"

You'd get an economy roughly the size of Spain's, divided among half as many people, giving you a GDP per capita comparable to Finland or Canada.

Finance & manufacturing are the top industries (15.6% & 14.1% of regional GDP, respectively). Note the irrelevance of tourism (3% of GDP) compared to other 'third world nations.'

Appalachistan would have a slightly lower Gini coefficient (less income inequality) than the U.S. as a whole. The unemployment rate is ~4%, comparable to the rest of the U.S. & half of France's.

Counting associates degrees + bachelors, Appalachistan would have a tertiary educational attainment rate of 39%, higher than the EU.

Counting bachelor's degrees only (4 yrs in the U.S. vs. 3 yrs in the EU, so biased toward EU), Appalachistan's educational attainment is comparable to Germany (29% vs 30%).

[William Auten @williamauten]

“During Our Descent”, by @williamauten https://t.co/BWsfaVf2MB

[William Auten @williamauten]

"Senior Night" plus A Long Road Home and 1,000 Subscribers, by @williamauten https://t.co/vGqnIzUAJn

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

@hecubian_devil I think the fundamental disconnect here is that you wants politics to solve man's search for meaning and I want politics to deliver a prosperous, safe, free society in which everyone can go find meaning in something other than politics.

[William Auten @williamauten]

A Long Road Home – New Novel Now Available, by @williamauten https://t.co/i0tdY0NsXR

[William Auten @williamauten]

A Long Road Home – New Novel Available 19 June 2026, by @williamauten https://t.co/YK1X96TLcs

[Evans Wroten @Evans_Wroten]

Civil War historian, Shelby Foote, discusses a few of the grievances in the south that led to the Civil War. Foote worked with Ken Burns on his documentary 'The Civil War'. Many facts that led to the conflict are never taught in school, but are well documented.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This is actually kinda insane

In 1996, a 14-year-old kid watched Jaws and got obsessed with Quint’s WWII monologue.

He then began researching the 1945 sinking of the USS Indianapolis, interviewed around 150 survivors, and reviewed 800 documents. His research focused on the role of the ship’s captain, Charles B. McVay III, who had been court-martialed after the incident. He came to believe that Captain Charles Butler McVay III, who had been blamed for the tragedy, was innocent.

The 14-year-old, Hunter Scott, presented his findings to the United States Congress at age 14. In 2000, Congress passed a resolution clearing Captain McVay’s name, and the U.S. Navy later formally exonerated him.

[Jeremy Ryan Slate @JeremyRyanSlate]

🧵These are the accounts that @elonmusk should know about.

They're preserving Western culture through beauty, history, and aesthetics.

When we forget our history and lose a unified culture, we are lost.

These accounts are making sure we don't.

[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

Has there even been a more perfect marriage of smug elitism, contempt for commonsense morality, and masturbatory self-importance?

[William Auten @williamauten]

A Long Road Home – New Novel plus Goodreads Giveaway, by @williamauten https://t.co/iCO9BcDmlW

[William Auten @williamauten]

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[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Possibly the most important account on X right now. Well worth a follow.

If you want to study the great books of the Western canon with a wonderful group of people, see below.

[🪄PICTUREPLANE🌙 @pictureplane]

This guy was the singer of a pretty popular french indie band in the early 2000’s. Then he gave up music and moved to Taos, NM and now creates these insane paintings.