Schweblin is a modern great

Austin folks: here’s a great resource on contacting our local ABC affiliate advertisers to holler at them about the ongoing capitulation to fascism forwrd-atx.beehiiv.com/p/standards-...

Jesus H. Christ

NEWS --> Anna Gomez, the lone Dem on the FCC, tells me the Trump admin's pressure to oust Jimmy Kimmel may be unlawful as well as unconstitutional. FCC chair Brendan Carr may be committing censorship in violation of federal law. That and much more in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

I love Hero too

The great Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam has a new book coming out. Love this man and his search, struggle, kindness, and integrity so much. Gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/a...

Who wants new Huldra House cover art? :D There'll be a full blog post about these tomorrow - which is incidentally when these reprints will be live, available free as an intro to the series. Because Titan and Serpent is back! With a collection of these and a bunch of new stories out Fall 2026.

I'm helping my friends launch this awesome dark fantasy anthology! The Kickstarter just went live today. If you like dark fantasy with a touch of horror please consider supporting them! It's an awesome book by an awesome group of writers! Thanks all! www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

But there IS a button at archive.ph that lets you get around that annoying paywall to actually read the article

Reposting the story! I didn't give it enough attention when it first came out. It is definitely a departure from my usual writing! thelitnerds.com/2025/05/27/a...

It was weirdly fitting that the Charlie Kirk murder blended into the 9/11 anniversary as once again Americans were told to “watch what they say” The hypocritical censorship around a “free speech hero.” My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

I strongly recommend this stunning short story anthology - Roots of My Fears edited by Gemma Amor www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/9/...

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I hope I have given fidelity, and that everyone viscerally understands: You will have to come through me.

my favorite line has been “i don’t condone what happened to charlie kirk, but charlie kirk condoned what happened to charlie kirk.”

pivoting so hard they reverse the fucking earth like in superman

Thank you both so much! I'm excited about your novel, Gretchen — congrats!!!

The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.

Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site. Standards editor: [email protected] Journalists who wrote the article: [email protected] [email protected] Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.

So now that it’s confirmed that none of the messages on the bullets were pro-trans, maybe we should have a national conversation about how multiple newspapers repeated a lie about us on their front pages hours after doubts had already been cast over it?

Thank u to all the friends who came out today & special thanks to @tammykomoff.bsky.social for her excellent moderation and presence. We had a blast chatting abt the book, King, and SF in general

Far-right political activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead on September 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University. Here's what you need to know about the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA's background and views Content warning: This story refers to a viral, violent video of a shooting.

“Nobody should be killed for their political beliefs” vs “every child in Gaza is potentially a terrorist” is a fun contrast

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

🚨 A powerful, painful, and beautiful lesson is taught by this Native American elder in 2 and a half minutes. Rise up! ✊🏼

Orlando friends: today is the day! Maybe I’ll see some of u there?

Very kind. The mosque in Sheikhupura is real…and so are its inhabitants (I’m told).

I have a really dark story called LAAL ANDHI in this

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

September 19th! Join me on Instagram live to celebrate @cybergodwrites.bsky.social’s poetry release Songs of Enough: An Inferno All My Own! Details below.

Americans continue to mistakenly believe that ICE is being funded heavily with billions of dollars for deportation purposes While the REAL purpose is to have a tremendous federal force hostile to citizens & beholden to no one but the president when 2028 rolls around

It is as if our government has decided that there is no crime in the country worth pursuing other than immigration enforcement.

Keep in mind that organized academic workers, not administrators, accomplished this.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Links from @amalelmohtar.com’s newsletter to help the people of Gaza. Gaza Soup Kitchen: www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-... *** The Butterfly Effect Project: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... *** And @mommunism.bsky.social’d whole timeline.

Orlando/FL friends: I’m doing a book signing & talk for the new THE STAND antho ed by @cgolden.bsky.social & @briankeene.bsky.social with Eugie Foster Award finalist @tammykomoff.bsky.social at White Rose Books in Kissimmee, FL this Thursday Hope to see some of u there!

Out in the USA!

I have a story called LAAL ANDHI in this collection. An earlier version of Laal Andhi was one of two horror stories I wrote in the male hostel at Aga Khan Medical College as an eighteen-year-old, and published in an Urdu pulp digest called DARR that is still going strong after 25 years.

"You’re a bird in heaven, my dear." A Palestinian father mourns his child and 8-month-pregnant wife killed in an Israeli air attack on Gaza City.

I have a story called LAAL ANDHI in this collection. An earlier version of Laal Andhi was one of two horror stories I wrote in the male hostel at Aga Khan Medical College as an eighteen-year-old, and published in an Urdu pulp digest called DARR that is still going strong after 25 years.

This story, originally published by Pública in Portuguese, has been translated by @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social into English so you can get that perspective - take a look and support multilingual independent journalism with a donation: globalvoices.org/donate/

Whether or not this is true, Donald Trump committed murder, and gave the military an order to commit murder, which they followed. This just makes it even more horrifying, but whether migrants or drug-runners (or both), it was cold-blooded murder of 11 people.

Welcome to OTHERSIDE, a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers! This October, we’ll be fundraising on Kickstarter. Until then, you can join us on our Patreon! We’ll open for submissions in January 2026. See thread for details! 🪐🗡️ (1/5)

I highly recommend @theintercept.com @zeteo.com and @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social for anyone interested in uncensored ground reality of global, especially American politics

Hind Rajab.

Looking for your next horror read? Here are four September 2025 indie and small press releases you won't want to miss. 🩸 📚 @amandaheadlee.bsky.social @annieneugebauer.bsky.social @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @diannalgunn.bsky.social

HONEYEATER, a haunted subtropical tale, is out NOW in the USA! (16 September in Australia) Order now through your favourite bookstore or: USA: torpublishinggroup.com/honeyeater/ Australia: panmacmillan.com.au/9781761562303/