Monday's Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: THE FIRST BAD MAN by Miranda July #booksky 💙📚 #books #design #bookcovers

An Astonishing Graph. For most of human history, around 50% of children used to die before they reached the end of puberty. In 2020, that number is 4.3%. (It’s 0.3% in countries like Japan & Norway.) [kottke.org]

Not every gator reminds me of VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series but this one did. Check out the link for a wonderful assortment of sculptures included in @beautifulbizarre.net ’s sculpture art prize. beautifulbizarreartprize.art/2025-sculptu...

Just found these socks in my sock drawer…

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

The dog and I came upon this cute lawn decoration which then became a kind of metaphor for social media where we’re often shown only one side of a story or image…

Covers for all 45 nominated books for the 2025 Republic of Consciousness Prize, United States and Canada List here: www.goodreads.com/list/show/24... Prize site here: www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com Longlist coming in late January... #booksky💙📚 #books #smallpresses #literature #fiction

These four will help me complete my book challenges! Historical fiction, contemporary fiction for the final countdown 🥳🎉 What do you have cooking for #ThursdayBookChat? Reading plan for 2026? 📚💙

Federal funding for libraries and museums has been reinstated nine months after the Trump administration first sought to eliminate the agency that provides that money.

A couple of Seidel quotes... #booksky 💙📚 #books #poetry #quotes #writing

@indivisibler1c.bsky.social Food Drive —Donations Needed

These are the best book covers of 2025 (as chosen by some of the industry’s best cover designers).

Just imagine that if we had this sort of replication in the ‘80s (Cabbage Patch Kids -> Garbage Pail Kids -> Sgorbians) what kind of derivative proliferation of slop AI will provide as it simply copies itself with minor variations ad infinitum! networkcultures.org/geert/2025/0...

Partway into the graphic novel memoir Come Home, Indio by comic book artist Jim Terry. This child of alcoholics is about to have his first beer...😔What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙

I email myself relevant links to my work email from my phone. Then, a moment later, I get a notification that I got a new email. And I eagerly check my work email genuinely wondering who just sent me an email.

The Best Book Covers of 2025 continues with round 3! The voting has been neck and neck so far. Every vote counts! ⚡ 💡 📚 Cast your votes now in our Instagram stories and on our website!

I always feel like a bad person for despising Jacquie Lawson e-cards. There I said it. (My lips curl back and I bare my teeth when someone sends me one. It's possible I growl, as well... )

Either I made this too hard, nobody saw it, or nobody cared. 🤣 Answers to be revealed next week…

Rt 1. Neighbors, we've made is so easy to donate to our weekly food drive. Drop off non-perishables ANYTIME on a porch or at a business near you! www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

Quite interesting project (see further below for the OP)

#pantone #coloroftheyear #design

Monday's Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: TARGET IN THE NIGHT by Ricardo Piglia #booksky 💙📚 #bookcovers #books #design

electricliterature.com/help-us-choo... #booksky 💙📚 #books #bookcovers #design

Krasznahorkai Nobel Prize Speech www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

Tobi’s reaction to the #Ravens performance so far vs the Steelers…

What author-run, not-for-profit, subversive press doesn't deserve more attention? ( Thank you 😘 ) www.instagram.com/fictioncolle... x.com/FCtwo

Maybe because it doesn't usually snow this early around here, but I've never noticed this effect where the sidewalk is too warm for the snow to stick, but the fallen leaves are the right temp.

Sometimes you read a short piece and it just hits like a punch in the gut. Wow. "You Start with Three Languages" by Rae Delane (via the @graywolfpress.bsky.social Lab site) graywolflab.org/2025/11/21/y... #literature #writing #booksky 💙📚

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books. Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons

For January Romance book group, just picked up library hold of The Perks of Loving a Wall flower by Erica Ridley. This one involves daring disguises and an old manuscript. 🧐 What do you have cooking this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙

All the Dorothies are on sale during @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social's sitewide sale for the next (checks watch) 36 hours! 📚🎁 Go: www.nyrb.com/collections/...

The Vega is a rare and beautiful gift in this world... www.youtube.com/watch?v=05AH...

Typography Puzzle (Theme: Publishing) Be the first to identify each origin for all 9 pieces & win a book-related prize. #booksky 💙 📚 #books #publishing #typography #typogphiles #design #puzzles

Post your favourite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answer only.

One dedicated judge (@eyesonindie.bsky.social) for the 2025 US/Canada Republic of Consciousness (@usrofc.bsky.social) Small Press Prize is posting one short video for every nominee this year! #booksky 💙📚 #books #smallpresses www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t7L...

@amayna60.bsky.social Elsie Silver—Yes/No/Meh?

Cold but fun bike ride to the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens.

A wonderful review by Cory Oldweiler but allow me to share the all-too-prescient first paragraph. #booksky 💙📚 #books #reviews #zeitgeist

My unbroken #ThursdayBookChat posts stretch back to April 2020, so here’s The Scapegoat by Sara Davis, added to my groaning TBR from back book review issues! Mysterious doings and shadowy fringe academics… 📚💙

your moment of calm: a golden-crowned sparrow contemplating the world...

Never got excited for Thanksgiving. Was I progressive at an early age? Uh... nope. Just thought the food was lame and I didn't get to see all my cousins like at the other holidays. bookshop.org/lists/recomm...

Monday's Multiple Book Cover Design Thread: THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE by Louise Erdrich #booksky 💙📚 #books #design

Some seasonal “changing-of-the-guard” photos I snapped while walking the dog this week.

Showing this cat puppet things it has never seen at the library. #library #cat #puppet

Liked the author’s debut The Truth According to Ember, so next up will be Love Is A War Song by Danica Nava. What are you reading or looking forward to this #ThursdayBookChat? 📚💙

Didn't get around to posting my normal multiple book cover design thread this week, so here's an interesting look at the evolving design process for these three Beckett books. #booksky 💙📚 #books #design www.faber.co.uk/journal/book...

My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...