Now available in paperback at your favorite indie bookstore. Squirrel not included. #ThirdEar #book #listening

A writing workshop! Whether you're looking for inspiration or a fun time with other writers or both, we invite you to join us as we celebrate the first anniversary of TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME by fellow Betty author Janis Hubschman. Free to attend, registration required. Link to register below.

Thanks so much for reading, Eva! I'm glad to hear it resonated. Have you read Victoria Lomasko's The Last Soviet Artist? I found it really interesting—thought you might, too!

Dear @kristinaten.bsky.social, your essay was so meaningful and hit me really hard on multiple levels. I didn't know about the region you mentioned in Georgia, but I know that there have been and is still a fairly large Armenian population, which is my background. Thank you for sharing 💜

I love this essay so much!!

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To all who celebrate, Shana tovah. May the coming year be better, sweeter, and more peaceful than this one. Admittedly, the bar's set very low, but hope dies last.

"Looking [on NetGalley] for a light weekend read, I ... hit on Becoming Felicity. What a wonderful surprise! ... there is so much here to be enjoyed [it] enters the realm of literature. Jan Stites is an author I will look for again." -- Anne Preorder: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/becoming-f... #booksky

An excellent article! #literarytranslators

Cover reveal: From coyote to… COYOTELAND, coming May 2026! I can’t stop staring at this electrifying cover by the talented Claire Sullivan. 🙏 Pls consider pre-ordering from your favorite independent bookstore or requesting from the library! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I'm Cynthia. I write feminist/queer horror. If you liked "Promising Young Woman," you might like this flash piece from May: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/a-gi... If you liked Carrie, you'd almost definitely like this here essay from January: nighttidemag.com/2025/01/31/m...

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond (My Parents' Marriage: A Novel") praises Alison Hart's THE IN-BETWEEN SKY: "Weaving Native and African American spiritual thought into an immediately immersive multi-generational family saga, Hart ushers us into a world of complicated betweens." bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Zimbabwean writer Petina Gappah: Out of Darkness | Documentary | Al Jazeera www.aljazeera.com/video/my-zim...

By @kevinschaul.bsky.social & @nitasha.bsky.social Gift link: wapo.st/3KeqLR0

Grateful & thrilled to share this gorgeous #cover designed by @nlcaputo.bsky.social for my #poetry collection, GRAVITY. It includes stunning interior #artwork by Lola Fraknoi & a new introduction from yours truly. Spring #publication means #pre-orders are happening now. Thanks for your support!

This is not reporting. It is stenography as the mouthpiece of the state.

A wise taught me years ago to read literature from the countries I am in. I am about to end my writing trip in Ethiopia and just finished this great book.

Helped judge the coveted CCN awards again this year. Always a fascinating and inspiring experience! Congrats to everyone who shared their best works of journalism! Extra congrats to the winners. But really, we're all winners when thousands of journalists take such pride in their public service.

I’ve never been into house remodels, but this touch up in southern Ethiopia got my attention.

This is a gorgeous, thoughtful essay by @kristinaten.bsky.social (with incredible accompanying photos) that stays with you. 🖤

Kris distilled the essence of nostalgia and search for identity in this emotional essay and it's no different than her collection.

An essay by @kristinaten.bsky.social, whose short story collection, Tell Me Yours, I'll Tell You Mine, is out later this year. @olgaz.bsky.social

On nostalgia and more by @kristinaten.bsky.social "The acquisition of the hundred-plus children’s books from my mom’s basement wasn’t exactly in keeping with this plan. So naturally I loaded them up [...] and set them up that day." puncturedlines.com/2025/09/16/w... @olgaz.bsky.social

I am so proud of this team and so tired go read our first 10 stories!! or you never get to complain about Bay Area media again!! I do make the rules thanks

So excited this story is out today! Learn about the invisible world of microbes, nature's chemists, and how we might work with them to address climate change. Microbes live in ice, they help make it rain, support tremendous ocean ecosystems that capture carbon, and much more.

"Pseudomonas and other microbes are released into the atmosphere from plants along with water vapor. The theory: rainfall these microbes induce benefits the plants, a bioprecipitation cycle." Such a cool story by @bourzac.bsky.social @quantamagazine.bsky.social www.quantamagazine.org/microbes-als...

we at @coyotemedia.org intend to do “alt-weekly-style” journalism. But what does that mean? Called up some writer heroes to ask. Thank you for yappin w/ me @annkpowers.bsky.social @tromano.bsky.social @supermarke.bsky.social & Brontez who is too punk for BlueSky www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-talk...

If you liked this story, don't miss featured plant pathologist @dbszane.bsky.social's incredible redo of Kansas' hit. Her epic version, from the point of view of the ice-nucleating bacteria, "We are more than dust in the wind" is followed by all the science! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FERU...

Yay! @bourzac.bsky.social 's reporting is so comprehensive and well-written! The section on how microbes contribute to rain is so wild! (I had no idea!!)

Just noticed that we have a plaque to Yukio Mishima in the Castro in San Francisco! @drdavidvernon.bsky.social So nice to see him honored among the queer heroes!

At last, the book. Please come to my chat with the wonderful Helen Benedict on October 8 at 6. The Francis Kite Club.

I commented! I hope you will too. Comment as if our voices still matter!

In which I very publicly thank @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social for blurbing my upcoming book Muñeca, because Cina is the hardest working woman in horror and still squeezed in the time. I am a very lucky human.

Welcome @monkeelino.bsky.social and @cmburlinson.bsky.social to #bookbirds #Bluesky 📚🐦💙📚🐦💙📚🐦💙📚🐦💙📚🐦💙📚🐦💙📚🐦💙

Join this epic group read and don't forget about my visual guide! theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/a...

Hello, new followers. I'm Cynthia. I write stories about: a horny pansexual vampire working the night shift at a blood bank, a witch who makes custom nightmares during the COINTELPRO era; a radical activist pulled back to the dark days of his youth, etc. More here: cynthiasaysboo.wordpress.com

It's #SchattenfrohSeptember but not too late to order your books and join the read! It's a read at your own pace. Let's read #Schattenfroh together! #Lentz25 www.instagram.com/reel/DOa_jIr...

This brief and moving piece, by Patrick Bringley, about a painting by Bruegel the Elder made my day. (Bringley wrote a whole book that I may just have to read.) www.metmuseum.org/perspectives...

@yelenafurman.bsky.social I hope you don't miss this massive Alla Pugacheva interview. It exploded my Russian-language socials. I'm just starting it myself, but people say it's amazing. youtu.be/D6rFxVPz7UI?...

I haven't submitted anything to anyone since June 2nd! It feels like I'm losing at my favorite game :))

reinforcing my scandinavian obsession. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Next Saturday!!

Came for the hacking - stayed for the community. 📺🎶🔥 Come join us for Resident Electronic Music - a recurring electronic music open mic every fourth Thursday of the month. 272 Capp Str 8-10pm. www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Residen...

Boseys ❤️

I've been an active Wikipedia editor for 9 years, and it's an incredible source of pride. The current attacks, worldwide, on our work are disheartening, but they also bring out great overviews of what we do and why it matters www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

My book came out 6 years ago -- thank you WTAW Press for taking a chance on this collection. It made my world so much bigger and helped me meet so many wonderful people and find community. Huge hugs to all my readers -- forever grateful.

My book is available for pre-order from @nupress.bsky.social. 25% discount with code NUP2025 at nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014884... Only a few more weeks until it comes out!

ooh glad to have you here @scottlambridis.bsky.social ! @bourzac.bsky.social is here too. Ben?

Huge thank you to Susanna Baird and the team at Five Minutes. The journal's premise is to describe 5 minutes of your life in 100 words, and the piece was inspired by the event described in the first sentence that happened recently, yet again. I have more such stories, but they exceed 100 words.

Dear readers, we urgently need your help. Without at least 15,000 regular supporters, Meduza as you know it will cease to exist. But if you come through, you know we’ll keep working for you. Please, read our full statement here: meduza.io/en/feature/2...