I wrote my final book review column for the Washington Post a while back. (I didn't know it was the last one of course.) I was worried it might not even run since the book section is ending, but thanks to the heroic efforts of editor Jacob Brogan, here it is: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/0...

And if any editors out there want to give this book a paper home in N. America or elsewhere beyond S. Asia, well, you know what to do. THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR won a British Fantasy Award, a Subjective Chaos Kind of Award, & was nominated for the Locus Awards.

THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR limited ed N. American hardcover is officially out of print, & no longer available. My BFA-winning book about a family of interreal refugees in 90s/00s Calcutta is still available as an ebook, & a paperback in S. Asia. Shares appreciated, reads even more so:

I love that for millennia people have been making stuff look like cute animals just because they can. It’s a beautiful thing.

Charlie Jane joyfully talked about a huge range of books for WaPo, and now yet another outlet celebrating diversity and curiosity in fiction is lost. Definitely sub to her newsletter, because it's a great read every time.

If memory serves, Mary Shelley’s parents wouldn’t consume sugar unless they could confirmed that it was made without slave labor. Her work is absolutely an abolitionist text. #Frankenstein

Chicago, this August. Applications due March 27. Come write and celebrate writing with me. Apply by March 27: www.storystudiochicago.org/storyboard-c... @storystudiochicago.bsky.social

I interviewed an expert on what's happening with connectivity in Iran: The longest blackout in Iran's history. Thousands dead. Documentation of war crimes dependent on Starlink. A regime that uses AI's ubiquity to undermine the credibility of evidence. www.theverge.com/policy/87184...

Angela Mi Young Hur has a new book coming out, about fairy tales, and I've only just heard about it? I have been distracted. Adding to my TBR now.

“Doctors Without Borders says it will provide Israeli authorities with the personal details of some of its Palestinian and international staff” Israel has killed 1,700 health workers including 15 employees of MSF www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...

I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

Working with @angelahur.bsky.social has been a wonder and excited to bring THE LOOM TREE out into the world this summer! @erewhonbooks.bsky.social #AuntieEditor

AMAZING NEWS!!

I wrote an adult literary fantasy for my kids & all of us children of borderless fairy tales & cross-cultural myth, about preserving our stories & histories & passing them on, defying those who seek to deny, diminish or erase us. @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social

www.salon.com/2026/01/24/d... by @mctelevision.bsky.social "...too beautiful & weird for the mainstream..." "Jareth is an illusionist as beguiling & seductive as he is sinister, caressing bubbles & gravity-defiant glass spheres with liquid grace..." (mentions 🎶 "As the World Falls Down" 🎶 !)

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

I'm incredibly pleased to able to talk about this at last. Art by Rovina Cai! Will be available to order here in a few days, and the book is already printed. No wait!

I admit, it feels very weird to be advertising for clients with everything that is going on here, but bills must still be paid. I have openings in my editing calendar. I do mainly developmental editing on novels and novellas. More info here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing Always happy to answer qs!

Goodreads, @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social, and I are back at it with another giveaway of 100 Advance Reader Copies of my debut gothic novel THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS. Enter now through 2/9 at the link in comments (US Entrants only). #TheCurseOfHesterGardens #TamikaThompson @erewhonbooks.bsky.social

The nursing subreddit, which has half a million weekly visitors, just approved changing their icon to a professional photo of Alex Pretti.

"As of Saturday evening, the family said they had still not heard from anyone at a federal law enforcement agency about their son’s death."

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...

Solar Music https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20014

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

And this doesn't even include the children dying of cold, and from disease, and now from rat bites. Our governments are evil, and a disgrace.

Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning. I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.

Thank you to everyone who stood up, who stands up, who will stand up, who will never cease standing up. We cannot accept this any longer.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

They shot an undocumented man here on a busy street in the middle of the day. They put “5 shots, 7 holes” (agents bragging words) in a Latina woman. Lied about the reasons. Charged her with attacking them then dropped it all. There wasn’t enough outrage.

Bravest motherfuckers you've ever seen. They just saw a neighbor get murdered and still out there. Maybe let's see some local officials with the power to arrest show as much backbone as these voters PAYING YOUR FUCKING SALARY

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult apnews.com/article/fake...

Michelle Huneven is a wonderful novelist. I think she's also maybe a little bit underrated. It's potentially awkward to have a conversation with someone about that but I think we had a great one, about long careers and publishing's vagaries, for @bombmag.bsky.social: bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

For this New Year's piece @hanhonymous.bsky.social merges a highly personal examination of a history most of us don't know about with a concise musical analysis of an ABBA song most of us don't know about. A fascinating read for sure: www.salon.com/2025/12/31/a...

Great statement from The Cookers.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Tomorrow is Bluestockings's last day open! If you've been holding off and have a chance to go, NYC, now's your last chance!

I’m thrilled that Dick Van Dyke made it to 100 years old, and I also find it hilarious that he’s apparently too old to play with LEGO. Him specifically.😆

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There never seems to be a good time for anything online lately so I'm just going to throw this out here now: I am looking for more work! I don't mean writing (though that too, sure!), but in the vein of the work I do for the Le Guin Foundation: organizational, practical, assistant-y, bookish work.