The War on Cars 🤝 The War on Fascists

The ARCs are here!! “Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy” coming out Tor Books in March 2026 from me and @bluejo.bsky.social

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

"Michaelina Wautier: the female Flemish artist now seen as an old master"

Amsterdam friends, I'm joining up with Nina Siegal (The Diary Keepers) to discuss banned books, Oct 8 at the American Book Center. Nina will talk about Orwell and the current media landscape. I'll talk about Le Guin's activism. Hope to see you there. abc.nl/events/event...

We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference! 📍Online via Zoom 🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026 ⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025 See our website for full details 👇 voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project

You can now pre-order The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin, edited by @suchmayer.bsky.social and Sarah Shin, directly from our site - use the code AUTUMNPREORDER at check-out for 10% off (applies to all our forthcoming books) www.silverpress.org/collections/...

Contributors Federico Campagna, Bhanu Kapil, @unamccormack.bsky.social, Nisha Ramayya and Marilyn Strathern will join editors @suchmayer.bsky.social and Sarah Shin on 10 October. Book free tix for the book launch, 4-6pm at the Architectural Association: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-word-f...

Glasgow, we're bringing the forest to you! 🍃 4 Nov: celebrate @silver-press.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin titles THE WORD FOR WORLD & SPACE CRONE w @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social, Phil Crockett-Thomas (Abolition Science Fiction!), Matthew Sangster & me in convo. www.waterstones.com/events/a-cel...

Le Guin stuff! The opening in London is also the book launch for "The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin," ed. @suchmayer.bsky.social and Sarah Shin, with contributions by @unamccormack.bsky.social and @davidnaimon.bsky.social among others.

Now with Gloria Wekker too ❤️‍🔥

Summer 2026

Can we be clear? When you create a hostile environment, the environment is not hostile to only one group. The environment is hostile to everybody. And this is a political choice.

Out today in book stores...maybe (some) comic shops tomorrow. Bread And Wine in which Samuel R Delany relates with the help of artist Mia Wolff the story of how he found love in a very unlikely place. Thoughts to come soonish in a review. @fantagraphics.bsky.social

Three more images from the new Croatian edition of The Wind's Twelve Quarters, which includes an illustration by a different artist for each story in the collection. "Darkness Box" art by Franka Tretinjak "Nine Lives" art by Laura Martinović "Things" art by Melisa Gračić

A book that means a huge amount to me. So glad we got to do this.

Quite possibly my actual favorite Le Guin fiction. She jimmies the door of truth open with a knife.

Last chance to help bring Seahorses to life — a powerful collection of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive pregnancy stories celebrating resilience, family, and joy. Back the project here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3...

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there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

"The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it's to imagine what is possible." --bell hooks, outside Theater Bellevue, Amsterdam

Meanwhile, we had to chase this large mom & her two cubs away from our chicken coop.

"She knew about a world that was unequal and was afraid of those who lived on the margins. ... It was these early experiences that made her ask questions about who had power and why." Biographer Susana M. Morris on Octavia E. Butler lithub.com/exploring-oc...

Here's me on Positive Obsession, Susana M. Morris's illuminating new bio of Octavia E. Butler. 4columns.org/columns-4/cr...

Happy Publication Day to Susana M. Morris! Her biography on Ms. Butler, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, officially releases today! Congrats! #octaviabutler #parableofthesower

University of Oregon is attacking its faculty and the right to tenure. Help them fight back by signing here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fi...

What a way to end my work day: arranging for law enforcement to pick up a potato chip bag stuffed with cash.

Bruh. This is so. . . 😭

While Ursula Le Guin was writing The Left Hand of Darkness, she told her editor, Terry Carr, that she was working on a novel about "sex, snow, and treason."

I just signed the open letter & joined the campaign. Access to the written archives was vital to the book I’m completing about BBC Broadcasting House.

Fairytale Characters, Children’s Stamps, Netherlands, 1968. Designed by Ootje Oxenaar designreviewed.com/artefacts/fa... #illustration #fairytale #stamps

Translated Hugo would be wonderful!

It’s live! My new zine “How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe” is available in NYC and a Philly editions!! You can download and print both from here: drive.google.com/drive/folder... **Be sure to set your printer settings to print the zine at 100%!**

Universities are not run by the professors. They are run by boards of managers composed of people from finance and real estate who last saw a university when they were legacy admission undergraduates paying someone else to write their essays. They agree with the anti-intellectual agenda.

Louise Bourgeois made I do (2010) as a fundraising edition for Freedom To Marry, part of the movement to secure marriage equality in the US. She died three weeks before its release. greg.org/archive/2025...

The best college class I ever took was a summer course at UNH. Four nights a week, two hours a night, for 4 weeks, Michael DePorte led us through Ulysses as a matter of pure fun. It didn't make me a better taxpayer, but it made me a better human. If you don't value that, what else is there?

I just discovered a very guy-ish comedy YouTube thing in which the guest offered the host a ten-book reading list. When he introduced mine, host guy made a face like something died in the fridge. Guest guy said, "Well, I liked it." You can't please everybody.

This podcast series within a series is fantabulous! Between The Covers podcast host @davidnaimon.bsky.social chats with the likes of @mariadahvana.bsky.social and Kim Stanley Robinson about how they learned from and with Ursula K. Le Guin. #sff 💙📚 #writing

I loved doing this interview with @davidnaimon.bsky.social! Such a joy to talk about methods of translation and Le Guin.

Announcing our Autumn 2025 publishing 💫 SEPTEMBER 🌖 SO FAR SO GOOD BY URSULA K. LE GUIN | a collection of poems, completed shortly before her death in 2018, reflecting on the soul, mortality and the mysteries beyond. www.silverpress.org/collections/...

OCTOBER 🌕 THE WORD FOR WORLD: THE MAPS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN | presenting the magical world of Le Guin’s maps, co-publishing with AA Publications, to coincide with an exhibition at the Architectural Association, London, opening on 10 October. www.silverpress.org/collections/...

It's a nice name for a cat.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

It's time for the Tachyon 30th Anniversary Bundle! buff.ly/YY09ZxU Get award winning fiction and support @eff.org @humblebundle.com #tachyon30 #humblebundle #eff

CATS ON FILM (kindle or paperback) "possibly the greatest book ever" "one of the finest pieces of specialist film scholarship published in recent years” “Bonus: includes My Day by Jones, AKA Alien from the cat's PoV. Fun!” www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1978038747

This week, you can get the ebook of The Terraformers for just $2.99 wherever ebooks are sold -- including indie bookseller platform Bookshop.org, along with the usual places. If you can't wait for Automatic Noodle, this will tide you over!

Everything is connected to @ursulakleguin.com: she said Tom Lehrer performing in the math dept revue, when she was at Radcliffe and he was a Harvard grad student, was the funniest thing she'd ever heard. She also used to sing "Fight Fiercely, Harvard" in the car. RIP.

Learning about Portland racist & conspiracy theorist Walter Huss has been an interesting minor part of Le Guin research for me.