#booksky for #humor 📚💙 Obituary: Mr. Brilliant, “history’s only full-time, professional, published epigrammist”, has died, aged 91. He wrote 10,000 epigrams - www.ashleighbrilliant.com/catalog.html - none longer than 17 words, & printed them on postcards, T-shirts, mugs & more. bit.ly/3WlqQFn

#booksky for #booklovers 📚💙 The Thriller Writer Who Took on a Tech Giant: Andrea Bartz was disturbed to learn that AI giant Anthropic had used her novels to train chatbots. So she sued, and helped win the largest copyright settlement ($1.5 billion) in history. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #booklovers 🖋️📚💙 “He’s gone to the well so many times for the same themes, and the same types of antiheroes, that he scrapes a bit of bottom.” Shadow Ticket follows a dancing private eye on the madcap hunt for a missing cheese. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/b...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #essays #activism #booklovers 📚💙 A thoughtful, reflective essay-review: On Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs, and James Baldwin's fierce attachments. Essay by Harmony Holiday. www.bookforum.com/print/3202/m...

#booksky for #feminism #science #womenwriters #primatology 📚💙 Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91. Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s were hailed as “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” bit.ly/46PqQSL

#booksky highly recommended for #history #nonfiction #booklovers 📚💙 “Bold in conception, magisterial in its command of vast swathes of evidence and brimming with clever ideas, it is a formidable accomplishment.” literaryreview.co.uk/hold-the-fro... Or archive link archive.is/f7DHa

#booksky for #sciencefiction #feministfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 New Scientist Book Club discusses: Why is Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed so popular 50 years on? www.newscientist.com/video/249796...

#booksky highly recommended for #history #nonfiction #biographies #bookprizes #booklovers 📚💙 Awards: Freedom, Independence and Choice: Finalists for the Prestigious 2025 Cundill History Prize Announced. www.cundillprize.com/news/freedom...

#booksky highly recommended for #poetry 📚💙 Obituary: Tony Harrison, acclaimed, radical & award-winning poet & dramatist, dies aged 88. Known for his outspoken politics, the author was acclaimed for work not only in poetry but also theatre, opera, film, TV. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

#booksky highly recommended for #popmusic #autobiographies #booklovers 📚💙 Cat on the Road to Findout by Yusuf/Cat Stevens – fame, faith and charity: The enigmatic singer-songwriter on pop stardom, becoming a Muslim and returning to the stage decades later. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

#booksky highly recommended for #nonfiction #history #biographies 📚💙 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 Shortlist Announced. Subjects inc. “Formidable female novelists, ghastly literary men, a faith-shaken poet, eunuchs, pirates, horny wolves, & international terrorists.” bit.ly/4nIGB5a

#booksky for #nonfiction #science #supernatural #history #booklovers 📚💙 Free ebook via link below from the great University of Chicago Press. The New Prometheans: Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siècle by Courtenay Raia. press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEb...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #ThomasPynchon #booklovers 📚💙 The Essential Thomas Pynchon. Essay by A. O. Scott. www.nytimes.com/article/thom...

Whether you crave a comfort read or (like our EIC @mbwwelch.bsky.social) something unsettling and all-around spooky come the start of October, this year brings us plenty of new books to look forward to! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/01/1...

"Instead of being weird, complicated, conflicted creatures, wouldn’t it be nice to be fused into an organic, loving collective!" fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #biographies 📚💙 Muriel Spark: An innovative, clever biography by Frances Wilson captures her character & often eerie writings, including 22 great novels, short stories, author studies, essays & more. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/b...

"Absurdism is associated very strongly with modernism, which was kind of growing up around the same time, but it’s not the same thing." fivebooks.com/best-books/a...

#booksky for #literaryfiction 📚💙 Essay-review: Andrew Katzenstein on Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, Shadow Ticket — brisker than his other work; it’s full of his usual vaudevillian sensibility & addresses his favorite theme: how to live freely under powerful systems of control. archive.is/DaP1B

#booksky highly recommended for #memoirs #womenwriters #womenintranslation 📚💙 Interview: Neige Sinno, author of the acclaimed memoir Sad Tiger*, on "form, memory, and the paradoxes of testimony" (*EN version by Natasha Lehrer, award-winning translator). yalereview.org/article/shak...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #essays #booklovers 📚💙 Essay: David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About these Eight Things. The author, who committed suicide in 2008, is more timely now than ever before—for the worst possible reasons. By Ted Gioia, author. www.honest-broker.com/p/david-fost...

And here is October Brown,” my favorite story from “Rattlebone.” mcnallyeditions.substack.com/p/october-br...

A great feminist critique of the #manosphere #sexism #misogyny 📚💙 Essay-review by Emily Witt on: Extremism and Radicalisation in the Manosphere: Beta Uprising by Deniese Kennedy-Kollar. & Clown World: Four Years inside Andrew Tate’s Manosphere by Jamie Tahsin and Matt Shea. bit.ly/46p8BVu

#authoritarianism #TrumpLies #politics #Trump Essay: The Tyranny of Lies by Roger Berkowitz, renowned Hannah Arendt scholar. medium.com/amor-mundi/t...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #crimefiction 📚💙 Sui generis novelist J. Robert Lennon (Mailman, Hard Girls) on three novels by Elmore Leonard, one of America's great crime writers, & newly republished as Penguin Modern Classics. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... Or archive link: archive.is/oZH5j

#booksky for #literaryfiction 🖋️📚💙 Essay-review: Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America. Shadow Ticket, his first book in 12 years, unfolds its conspiracies in Depression-era Milwaukee & beyond, landing in a moment when reality matches fiction. By Kathryn Schulz archive.is/7KsjN

Excited to share my new story in takahē and read the other contributions. Weekend reading sorted! #booksky #litfic #pukapuka

#booksky for #classicfiction #literaryfiction #Janeites #womenwriters #JaneAusten 📚💙 The NYT Book Club Podcast: On Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. open.spotify.com/episode/3Ycl...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #essays #booklovers 📚💙 Essay: Diet Coke and a Game of Chess: The Radical Work of Eve Babitz and Joan Didion. Novelist Nikki Darling pays homage to two women authors forever associated with Los Angeles. lareviewofbooks.org/article/diet...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #booklovers 📚💙 Essay: The Life and Death of the Suburban Novel by Adelle Waldman. archive.is/joFI5

#Trump #Authoritarianism Comey indictment shows how Trump has taken a radical turn - even by his own [fascist, dictatorial] standards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #ModernClassics 🖋️📚💙 Introducing A Shorter Ulysses. Anticipating the publication of A Shorter Ulysses based on Joyce's classic, @anthonyburgess.bsky.social visits the Anthony Burgess archive to look at his manuscript for the edition. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyb...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters 🖋️📚💙 Review on this first page & a profile below. Being Dead Has Its Perks: Amie Barrodale’s dazzlingly strange, funny debut novel, Trip, is about a mother in the afterlife & a son adrift in the South Atlantic. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #essays #booklovers 📚💙 (1) Where to start with: Milan Kundera. The Czech writer didn’t only leave us The Unbearable Lightness of Being, he wrote a series of playful, philosophical books examining relationships, sex and mortality. www.theguardian.com/books/articl...

#booksky for #booklovers 📚💙 Classic interview: Milan Kundera (1929-2023), the renowned, award-winning novelist (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting), and essayist-critic (The Curtain, The Art of the Novel Testaments Betrayed). literaryreview.co.uk/interview-mi...

#booksky for #literaryfiction #BookerPrize #booklovers 📚💙 Introducing the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist. The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist has been revealed. Find out which six books are in the running for the world's most popular award for a single work of fiction. open.substack.com/pub/thebooke...

#cyberscams #AIscams #scams With scammers getting faster & more sophisticated, it's vital to establish a codeword with your close friends & family. Ideally, send them this video & then have a face-to-face conversation to settle on a word you can remember. 1/2 youtube.com/shorts/3jTje...

#RFKJr #vaccines #AntiVaccineScams #healthcare Brief, clear, evidence-based critique: The Real Story Behind RFK Jr's anti-vaccine scams. youtube.com/shorts/P69Mc...

#Trump #Corruption Justice Department closed probe into Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, for accepting bag of cash [but is he still dodgy as 💩?]. www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/p...

Cannot recommend Soldiers and Kings enough. If you, like me, can’t differentiate between human smuggling and human trafficking, Read. This. Book. It is nothing like you imagine.

#booksky highly recommended for #biography #history #fiction & #nonfiction 📚💙 Fantastic new paperbacks published in Sept, inc. on Emmett Till, fiction by Rumaan Alam, books on human smuggling, Loser Trump, a Gilded Age crim-millionaire, the Scopes trial, book banning & more. wapo.st/3IzkOO6

#booksky for #historicalfiction #epicfiction #booklovers 📚💙 For his new bloody epic, Ken Follett went back in time. Way, way back. The author of the global bestseller, The Pillars of the Earth (and many others) imagines the creation of Stonehenge in Circle of Days. wapo.st/3Is4puX

#booksky for #literaryfiction #womenwriters 📚💙 Obituary: Maxine Clair, who has died at 86, worked at a D.C. hospital before becoming a writer. She won acclaim for Rattlebone, her story collection about a Black community in the 1950s, which was hailed as a perfectly formed classic. wapo.st/4pyrsox

#Trump #Dictatorship Even for a president who has shattered the norms of maintaining distance from the Justice Dept, Mr. Trump’s shamelessly public & explicit orders to Ms. Bondi were a blatant breach of prosecutorial protocols that echo the days following the Watergate scandal. bit.ly/4mv7Q23

#Trump #Corruption Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation into #TomHoman for Accepting Bag of Cash. Mr. Homan came under scrutiny after he was said to be recorded last year taking $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

#booksky for #Janeites #JaneAusten #biography #nonfiction #booklovers 📚💙 The Best Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Books. anhistorianabouttown.com/jane-austen-...

#booksky for ##booksales #booklovers 📚💙 Explore the Princeton Classics. 30% off epub/pdf editions with code PUP30. Includes some of the most enduring classics ever published—works by leading scholars & writers that have made a lasting impact on intellectual life around the world. bit.ly/42GNHyH

“The three waves of translated bestsellers suggest that, despite the persistently low share of published translations in the US, when available resources come together to bring international works to market, readers are eagerly standing by.”

#booksky highly recommended for #literaryfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Kiran Desai’s Return Is a Transcendent Triumph. With vivid characters across several continents, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny traces a romance that challenges tradition & loss. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/b...

#booksky for #shortstories #horrorfiction #womenwriters #booklovers 📚💙 Joyce Carol Oates on a Mesmerizing New Story Collection. The Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin explores the ambiguities and ironies of domestic life in a new collection. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/b...

#Trump #healthcare #cancer #politics How the [Moronic & Amoral] Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System. The system, which has helped save millions of lives, is under threat in one of its most productive moments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...