Nisi Shawl
@nisishawl.bsky.social
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Writer editor singer songer. I'm just another part of you.
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Clarion West
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Celebrate the publication of Vonda N. McIntyre’s final novel this July in Seattle! On July 16, we'll host a live reading and conversation with
@nisishawl.bsky.social
and Theo Downes-Le Guin. More info here:
www.clarionwest.org/event/vonda-...
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Sonny Rollins
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It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2
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Steve Lieber
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Time for a POP-UP-FUNDRAISER! I sketched Captain America & Bucky on a blank variant. The drawing is yours FREE if you make a $300 (or more) donation to the Trans Law center
transgenderlawcenter.org/donate/
DM me to make sure it’s still available and we’ll make arrangements. (Cont)
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Oh hey, I missed this list promoting the Everfair series:
reactormag.com/backlist-bon...
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Backlist Bonanza: 5 Books That Deserve an Adaptation - Reactor
Have you ever read a book and thought to yourself “this would make a great movie”?
https://reactormag.com/backlist-bonanza-5-books-that-deserve-an-adaptation/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSBY6NleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFYOVhxS1kwS3VIbml4MXVLc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjoFUhwNKAFFlLIu4eXkjWt_62MLUZA9V7mZ_ruwNg-IP404Ib7vZl-tPZiY_aem_oN75YtIsq2vJrZRtf4y8dw
7 days ago
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Sudden longing for petoskeys. My stone-loving oldest niece is going to mail me some for my altars.
8 days ago
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Wake for my friend
@piperjdrake.bsky.social
today. We were so fortunate to have had her here.
9 days ago
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Wishing for someone I could rest on with the absolute assurance of support guaranteed by this song:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpcg...
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Stratospheric
YouTube video by Treble Makers - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpcgsqXghbQ
9 days ago
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What must my neighbor think of me. Dressed all in white and stopping to cast kibble to the birds, hobbling along on two walking sticks, I shout across the street at him: "Tell your dog the crows taste awful!" Hours later I wonder: Does he think I've tried eating them and that's how I know?
10 days ago
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Have a link to watch our panel on
@vondanmcintyre.bsky.social
's last novel The Curve of the World, with me, Debbie Notkin, and
@timmi.bsky.social
talking and singing. Okay, only one of us sings in this:
youtu.be/q9TYaaDKqJU
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The Curve of the World Virtual Launch Event
YouTube video by Clarion West
https://youtu.be/q9TYaaDKqJU
12 days ago
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Watching people a decade or more younger than me suddenly discover that they are old. Age is so entertaining.
13 days ago
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"As long as there is capitalism, artists will find a way to make loopholes within it." - Erik Keevan, draft MFA statement
15 days ago
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Elizabeth Bear
15 days ago
I'm reading this right now. The legendary Vonda McIntyre's final novel, edited by
@nisishawl.bsky.social
, out from Aqueduct Press. A feminist Minoan alternate history. Stunning. Sci-fi author's last novel links ancient Minoans and Pacific Northwest
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Seven years after her death, sci-fi pioneer’s last novel bridges Minoan and Pacific Northwest history
Clarion West celebrates posthumous publication of 'The Curve of the World,' a different kind of Odyssey by Seattle author Vonda N. McIntyre.
https://share.google/Q0fSTMO2U69rUkcze
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Thinking about The Curve of the World as a sort of reverse heist movie, where the gang gets together to put something back instead of taking it....Heroine's Journey a la
@gailcarriger.bsky.social
maybe?
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Hang out online with me and
@timmi.bsky.social
and Debbie Notkin as we sink into the beautiful New Minoan milieu of The Curve of the World,
@vondanmcintyre.bsky.social
's fine and final novel. Soon! Free!
www.clarionwest.org/event/the-cu...
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The Curve of the World Virtual Launch Event
The Curve of the World, Vonda N. McIntyre’s Last Book, Reading & Discussion with Nisi Shawl, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Debbie Notkin The Curve of the World is Vonda N. McIntyre’s final novel.
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/the-curve-of-the-world-virtual-launch-event/
16 days ago
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
17 days ago
Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes
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Article on
@vondanmcintyre.bsky.social
's last novel The Curve of the World at
@geekwire.com
with link embed to associated podcast
www.geekwire.com/2026/after-d...
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Seven years after her death, sci-fi pioneer’s last novel bridges Minoan and Pacific Northwest history
Clarion West celebrates posthumous publication of 'The Curve of the World,' a different kind of Odyssey by Seattle author Vonda N. McIntyre.
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/after-death-last-novel-bridges-minoan-pacific-northwest-history/
17 days ago
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Do the folks putting out these FBI action thriller investigation series not realize they're streaming comedy gold? I'm screaming with laughter as Agent NicePecs climbs out of his ostensibly dead wife's bed and flops into the arms of the sleeping replacement shiksa.
17 days ago
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More
@vondanmcintyre.bsky.social
love: A review from Cheryl Morgan
www.salonfutura.net/2026/03/the-...
one up at Strange Horizons
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
one from a podcaster who interviewed me about the book
cosmiclog.com/2026/05/15/l...
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The Curve of the World
Vonda McIntyre’s final novel befor eher death has been prepared for publication by her friends. It will be releasd by Aqueduct later this year. Cheryl got an advance peek.
https://www.salonfutura.net/2026/03/the-curve-of-the-world/
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It's here!
@vondanmcintyre.bsky.social
's final novel gets a starred review from PW: "A gentle elegiac tone pervades this stunning posthumous historical fantasy...Iakinthu, a former bull dancer, must take her adopted son to meet his birth mother in a faraway land no Minoan has ever visited."
17 days ago
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I spent a large part of my teenage years believing trees were immortal.
18 days ago
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Soon Curve of the World launches:
@vondanmcintyre.bsky.social
's final novel of Minoan adventures with mummies and kraken. I'll be singing excerpt-appropriate Joni Mitchell. That's Saturday May 16, free and online:
www.clarionwest.org/event/the-cu...
Also starring
@timmi.bsky.social
+ Debbie Notkin!
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The Curve of the World Virtual Launch Event
The Curve of the World, Vonda N. McIntyre’s Last Book, Reading & Discussion with Nisi Shawl, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Debbie Notkin The Curve of the World is Vonda N. McIntyre’s final novel.
https://www.clarionwest.org/event/the-curve-of-the-world-virtual-launch-event/
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Crows are soo smart! Yesterday hardly any water in the tupperware, so it tipped over when Grace perched on its rim. Today before hopping on she was pecking at it with her beak, kicking it, making sure it was safe.
21 days ago
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Honor and Grace are drinking fresh water from my tupperware with Minnie sitting just ten feet away! They make little croaks of satisfaction and she pointedly turns her back.
22 days ago
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Found the essay on the slop Gentileschi! It's a FB post by Ng Yi-Sheng:
www.facebook.com/ng.yisheng.9...
If anyone is in direct contact with Yi-Sheng and can put us in touch, please do so.
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https://www.facebook.com/ng.yisheng.9/posts/10109023693078532/
22 days ago
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Looking for an essay I read online then promptly lost: a comparison of the actual Orazio Gentileschi painting of "Diana the Huntress" with an AI slop version. Can you help me find it? It was accompanied by illos and the slop is so wrong: style, pose, assumed gaze. Where'd it go?
22 days ago
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Hey
@boingboing.net
you just published my new favorite headline: "Spider's mouth infected by Kyle Rittenhouse"
24 days ago
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Nisi Shawl
Clarion West
24 days ago
The final novel of phenomenal author and Clarion West Founder, Vonda N. McIntyre, will be released on May 15. Join us for the virtual release party with
@nisishawl.bsky.social
@timmi.bsky.social
and Debbie Notkin by RSVPing here:
bit.ly/3R20fO9
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Hmm. Article on the Madwoman Trope in literature doesn't mention The Yellow Wallpaper. Why not?
25 days ago
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Hope is back, drinking from the water container I just refilled and hopping to and fro on the balcony railing as she consumes the Meow Mix Tender Centers I am offering. Hope is a crow
25 days ago
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Tiptree--who was he or she? Documentary bout to make the festive rounds and I hear I am in it. But also, like, some known guys such as Samuel R. Delany and cool biographer
@julie-phillips.com
. Check out what's up with it at
jedsamer.com/tip-alli/
26 days ago
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Researching a cemetery and saw this grim hymn to the realities of the fertility some want enforced: "Infant mortality rates within the United States did not vary much, hovering around 25%, meaning a quarter of all infants either were stillborn or did not reach adulthood and in some cases childhood."
28 days ago
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So calming to have food in the house.
28 days ago
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Lily and Bridget have new clothes! Custom outfits by
@kristin52.bsky.social
and Meghan made to order (I added the scarf and pearls). Ready to hang out with other fun dollpeople.
29 days ago
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#BruceSterling
30 days ago
*Did anybody ever write sci-fi about "mifepristone," yeah, way back in, like, 1992
medium.com/@bruces/are-...
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“Are You For 86?” by Bruce Sterling (1992)
*In the American Civil Cold War, what comes around, goes around.
https://medium.com/@bruces/are-you-for-86-by-bruce-sterling-1992-1224c33a1d98
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Two crows, my neighbors, just drank from the water I put out for them. Honor and Grace, I name them. Thank you for receiving.
about 1 month ago
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Nisi Shawl
Vonda N. McIntyre
about 1 month ago
Upcoming Book Launch Events for The Curve of the World: May 16 at 11AM PT: Virtual Book Launch with
@nisishawl.bsky.social
, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Debbie Notkin July 16 at 7PM PT: Reading and discussion with
@nisishawl.bsky.social
and
@theoactually.bsky.social
at Elliott Bay Book Company!
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Here is what I think of as our longterm hope: intergenerational cultural transmission. So share those recipes and song lyrics and cryptic references to Mary Hartman and avail yourself of texting abbreviations and fresh Raye recordings. Get busy!
about 1 month ago
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We will make a new law.
about 1 month ago
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This is the song and it's all I want my writing to do to you:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYg_...
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Infant Eyes (Remastered1998/Rudy Van Gelder Edition)
YouTube video by Wayne Shorter - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYg_3pQN-LU
about 1 month ago
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To the melody of "Infant Eyes" by Wayne Shorter: Oh what is this I see?/The world and all around/A place where I can be/At once both lost and found For when I lose my way/Another way I find/So who am I to say/What Heaven has in mind? There may be another verse or a bridge to come.
about 1 month ago
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I was thinking how arrogant I would have to be to draft lyrics to Wayne Shorter's song "Infant Eyes." Then I drafted them. Next post.
about 1 month ago
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In my
@hugohouse.bsky.social
class last night a student proclaimed they were a better writer after listening to my lecture and doing our writing exercise! Which is *the whole point!*
about 1 month ago
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The Indignataries
about 1 month ago
Writing fiction? Don’t “write what you know.“ Write towards what you want to discover and then you’ll learn what you should know.
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Dude at a Disability-focused bookstore is looking for author contacts and title recs: Patrick Antenucci is the name and he's co-owner of Nightlight Books. Are you an author of disability-forward fiction--especially spec fic? DM me and I'll give you Patrick's email address. (And please reskeet.)
about 1 month ago
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Artists are here to stay. Get used to us. Join us.
about 1 month ago
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Every day is a struggle, but I promise I am going to make it through.
about 1 month ago
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And I have blocked
@why.bsky.team
back. Smells like Teen Spirit.
about 1 month ago
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I swear on a stack of cats that there's a popular new cosmetic out called Wonder Snatch!
about 1 month ago
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Did you know Black Beats existed? My Aunt Cookie was one, playing bongos and carving abstract sculptures. Also Alene Lee, who Kerouac kissed and told about in The Subterraneans. My take is in The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox:
rosariumpublishing.com/novels/novel...
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The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox
https://rosariumpublishing.com/novels/novels/the-day-and-night-books-of-mardou-fox.html
about 1 month ago
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Mar Hicks
about 1 month ago
“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...
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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live
Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/18/google-starts-scanning-all-your-photos-as-new-update-goes-live/
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