Whitney Terrell

Novelist. Newest is The Good Lieutenant @fsgbooks. Prof. @UMKansasCity. Co-host fiction/non/fiction podcast @Lithub @fnftalk

[Whitney Terrell @Wsterrell]

The Good LT published a year ago today. Still grateful for this @charlesfinch review & all who got behind this book. https://t.co/RtJJEbe8yv

["Lou"ReedTyranny @nakedfoul]

Wrote about two of my favorite albums of 2026 so far, from Bill Orcutt and Tomeka Reid, for the big Spin midyear list.
https://t.co/xtvEvPgSNw

[Whitney Terrell @Wsterrell]

These used to be around $5 at Costco. Anybody else noticing the insane tomato prices?

[Whitney Terrell @Wsterrell]

@JoyceCarolOates I remember those days!

[Fiction/Non/Fiction @FnFtalk]

NEW EPISODE: Music critic Barry Walters joins co-hosts @Wsterrell and Christian Barter to discuss his new book, Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music 1969-2000.
@lithub
https://t.co/kgoYq4ZcLl

[Fiction/Non/Fiction @FnFtalk]

NEW EPISODE: Christian B. Miller joins co-hosts @Wsterrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to discuss his newest work of nonfiction, The Honesty Crisis: Preserving Our Most Treasured Virtue in an Increasingly Dishonest World.
@lithub
https://t.co/XysBWisXf9

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

"when you're 'charismatic' they let you get away with it."
FOX now in paperback this very day.
subtly more blood-splattered paperback cover than the original.

[Whitney Terrell @Wsterrell]

My AI story generating machine.

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

Well, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize).

"Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing.

A major milestone for AI, at any rate...

@GrantaMag

[Fiction/Non/Fiction @FnFtalk]

NEW EPISODE: Writer Rebecca Lehmann joins co-hosts @Wsterrell and @V_V_G to discuss her debut novel, The Beheading Game, a work of speculative historical fiction about Anne Boleyn's post-beheading quest for revenge.
@lithub
https://t.co/AK6fgfWNgV

[Whitney Terrell @Wsterrell]

@klseaboldt @Acyn Never a bad idea to quote Baldwin. Wonder if Cruz read him at Princeton?

[Fiction/Non/Fiction @FnFtalk]

NEW EPISODE: Veteran war correspondent and Kirkus Prize winner Scott Anderson joins co-hosts @Wsterrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley to discuss his new nonfiction book King of Kings, a history of the Iranian Revolution.
@lithub
https://t.co/8k5m4ImTLv

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Trump threatening Iran for weeks

[Whitney Terrell @Wsterrell]

Love it that the co-host of my fav sports talk show in KC is also the best political commentator in town. Put him on the op-ed page @KCStar! (Or on second thought just let him cook.)

[Kurtis Seaboldt 🏳️‍🌈 @klseaboldt]

Just over 10% of Americans live in poverty. About 14 million children don’t consistently get enough food to be healthy. Roughly 600,000 Americans go bankrupt every year because they can’t pay their medical bills. But we’re gonna chip in $1 billion for security for a ballroom none of us are ever gonna be in.

[Whitney Terrell @Wsterrell]

Jac smack! #royals

[Whitney Terrell @Wsterrell]

Bobby bomb and a Pasquatch double. #Royals rally!

[Whitney Terrell @Wsterrell]

@MoFarmer63 @TheFigen_ Can confirm

[Fiction/Non/Fiction @FnFtalk]

NEW EPISODE: Acclaimed novelist @liamcallanan joins co-hosts @V_V_G and @Wsterrell to discuss American-born Pope Leo XIV’s recent conflicts with the Trump administration.
@lithub
https://t.co/GLfYNLeeAt

[Fiction/Non/Fiction @FnFtalk]

Space guitar? 🎸 Or Guitastronaut? 👨🏻‍🚀 Listen to the entire interview w/ @Cmdr_Hadfield at the link in bio 🎧

[Whitney Terrell @Wsterrell]

💯💯💯

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

These trucks are ridiculously stupid. They have blind spots the size of Texas. They're inefficient, expensive, dumb luxury vehicles.

[Fiction/Non/Fiction @FnFtalk]

NEW EPISODE: Writer and scholar Caroline Bicks joins co-hosts Jennifer Maritza McCauley and @V_V_G to discuss her time in King’s archives, an experience which resulted in her new book Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King.
https://t.co/kHL7ZBLOqf
@lithub

[Whitney Terrell @Wsterrell]

New stadium will be on one of my longtime jogging/bike routes. Crazy to imagine this—but good!

[Kurtis Seaboldt 🏳️‍🌈 @klseaboldt]

Interesting that Our Lady of Sorrows Parish on the NW corner of 26th and Gillham will remain.

It will certainly be an artistic feature of the new stadium.