This story is such a bummer, and to quote from @gabino.bsky.social’s great post: “I truly feel that BOOKS THAT DON’T FUCKING EXIST shouldn’t get more coverage than books that exist and were written by humans and everything.” Using AI this way is beyond pathetic.

This piece is wonderful, as always, though I did keep hearing “spooklight” in Mater’s voice - anyone else remember that Cars short where he sees the ghostlight out on Rt 66?

Saw and loved Sinners, can’t stop thinking about it, and about Ryan Coogler’s brilliant deal to retain final cut rights and own the film again in 25 years. Love seeing artists have control over their work!

Reality jumps the shark again.

Supported my local library by buying books at their book sale today. So many good options, I don’t know which to read first! Guess I’ll add them to my already giant to-read pile…. #libraries #booksky

“It’s the most extraordinary attack on voting rights in American history,” Wilentz said. “This is an attempt to destroy American democracy as we know it. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

@sgj.bsky.social’s The Buffalo Hunter Hunter hits hard right from the epigraph. Those who don’t know history…. #amreading #horrorlit

This whole thread about Rick Steves’s recent speech is great. Looking forward to watching the whole thing.

One of my favorite signs from Baltimore this morning #handsoff

Yup. My mom called to check something and was told her wait time was 112 minutes. She gave up.

Who else has read Dominic Nolan’s Vine Street so we can talk about how perfect the ending is? #booksky

I’ve been deep in editing mode for two weeks, and it feels like a constant hangover when I reenter real life.

Gen X, finally roused from its ideological torpor, gathers outside the White House. the police are called, the fire hoses are turned on them but they start drinking it and only get stronger

FFS. We need a new term for this because AI “creative writing” is nothing but a kaleidoscope of regurgitation. I have no interest in writing without a human soul behind it.

Zahn McClarnon finds new depths to Joe Leaphorn in a career-highlight performance that elevates the best season of ‘Dark Winds’ to date.

Just got a 1920s-style haircut to fit in with our political reality.

Re Zelensky at the WH, yet again, feminists and trauma/abuse- informed thinkers are years ahead of political analysts. There is no acceptable affect, no way to charm an abuser, and no “deal” other than playing very very dead that would change how Trump and his flying monkey Vance behaved.

Support bunnies and economic boycotts and the artist who combined them!

The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

This Baltimore saltbox is not playing, and I love it.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Whenever I see his illustrations, I remember watching Masterpiece Mystery with my grammy. Such style!

This story is insane, and we’re all about to be living it.

Today I hit 60K words in my new manuscript while avoiding the news. Then I read the news and my head exploded, so guess the editing’s going to take a while.

For @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about the fear of speaking up against Trump and Musk's fascism, especially if you receive any kind of federal funding, and that it is our job as writers and editors to reclaim their banned words and ideas to fight back for those who can't.

that’s right.

Instead of reading the news for the rest of today, I’m just going to look at this.

Grateful that I can watch the protest unfold at the Treasury, make baked ziti, and listen to Sleater-Kinney at the same time because everything is insane in this timeline, but at least I have Bluesky.

Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

This thread gives me some hope, which I really need right now.

Now seems like a good time to reread Gregory Pardlo’s brilliant memoir Air Traffic, in large part about his father, a labor organizer and air traffic controller whose life was upended by the 1981 air traffic controllers strike, something I knew nothing about before this book.

Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine search.app/gLKPBELL2weQ...

More library books because why not and because I love #libraries. Mostly horror thanks to our current moment and recs from @amandagw.bsky.social and @talkscaredpod.bsky.social. #booksky

THE MAD HATTER’S PROJECT follows Mary, a Manhattan Project physicist, across alternate realties. Themes of creativity, power, and the ultimate ambition: to imitate the Divine, emerge—exploring the complex relationship between choice, consequence, the universes we create within us. #2025Pit #LF #A

FOURTH WING x TALES OF A MONSTROUS HEART THE QUEEN IS RISING #Q #A #RM #2025pit -See pitch below -Agent’s Guide in comments

EVERY SUMMER AFTER + HAPPY PLACE Jasper's life in NYC is falling apart. Returning to the Quebec Laurentians for her sister's wedding, she is reunited with her favorite ex, Brett. She broke his heart. She wants him back. He doesn't trust her. Maybe she shouldn't trust him either. #2025Pit #A #CR

TREASURE PLANET X STARFIELD When Jak finds an ancient wrist computer with his new friend Eris—a tech prodigy—he couldn't have guessed it would tear him from his home on a pirate space station to an interstellar quest for answers about his dad's legacy, old mysteries & himself. #2025Pit #YA #SF #M

THE PRIMARY SOURCE follows Lydia Struan, a History grad student and black-sheep of an old-money family, who is investigating the century-old unsolved murder of Stanford University co-founder, Jane Stanford, when she accidentally summons the ghost of her prime suspect. #HF #SPF #M #2025Pit

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard. #2025Pit #Q #YA #SF #LGBTQ

KINSHIP, 84k, #A #H #T w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan’s reunion with her long lost brother is complicated when he kills his lover. Luckily, Megan’s prepared for this. Subversion of gothic tropes + send up of true crime culture. #2025Pit

#2025Pit #A #LF Cindy’s life is already a mess when she goes viral for a video of her fighting an attacker during yoga class. Easy to turn her new fame into wellness influencer stardom, right? Not when her closest allies are scheming to make that fame their own. The Glow x Aesthetica

WhiteSmoke xThis Wretched Valley & TheMaryShelleyClub 1 blue eye. 1 brown. The🗝️is in their blood—& the blood of other Founding Family descendants. The 🗝️& the danger. Morgan’s fast, but can she outrun the force plaguing her new mountain home before her family falls prey to it? #YA #H #SF #R #2025Pit

This made me laugh (is doomlaughing a thing now, like doomscrolling), but it’s not satire because I’ve talked to people in tech who seem to believe exactly this.

At jury duty today, I saw a couple other jurors with physical books (Saul Bellow short stories and Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution), and it made me sad that most people don’t carry books anymore because it means I can’t be nosy about what they’re reading. #booksky

Not feeling great so I’m rewatching 30 Rock and they just did a joke about Trump being eaten by a lion on the International Space Station and I cried.

Ignoring the news to read Bunny and it’s got me flashing back to workshops past (though I was never in a program quite like what she describes).

Is Trump suggesting state owned media? I can’t stress how dangerous this is. I’m also concerned no one will care because they’ll get to keep their TikTok

Love seeing proof that the world still needs editors like me 😑

I just listened to an old NPR interview with Jimmy Carter about his book of poetry. He read a couple poems and I thought how I’d rather have those poems run the country than the incoming administration.

The trend lines are bad for the free press. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...