There are now 3 full chapters (that's 106 pages!!) of completely free-to-read KEEPING TIME, the queer, slow burn between two former friends and now current bandmates who - for better or worse - fall in love. #KeepingTime #webcomics 🎸 keepingtimecomic.com

There’s been some discussion about “authors should try to write solution stories,” and ”people want to read hope and optimism right now” and I get it, I want to *read* happy things too right now myself! but its just not in me right now to write that. (1/)

I was saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton. (See thread below.) One of the best American writers of his generation. Most recently at Rolling Stone, but at every outlet where his byline appeared, he had that very rare gift for literary eloquence that read like ordinary speech.

I kinda fucking loved CUCKOO (the 2024 movie)?? Really fun and scary and intriguing and kept me guessing and surprised me with a lot of heart (and a fucking awesome monster)

SPECULATIVE EROTICS is here! This anthology hits like a goddamn brick to the dome, every single piece. MASSIVE thanks to everyone featured in this issue. I'll be posting some of the choicest cuts over the next couple weeks. www.godscrueljokelit.com/5-speculativ...

Czesław Miłosz

The number of protests she blessed with these words, the number of meetings we closed or opened with this prayer!! I am so grateful for her. Rest in power Assata Shakur. You lived and you died free.

My latest newsletter is about J.J. Abrams' "Mystery Box" TED Talk, in which he claimed "mystery is more important than knowledge." Our politics are all Mystery Box now. It's all rabbit holes and conspiracy theories, all the way down. The Mystery Box ate our world. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

I've always been the one on the outside looking in So I made the interior of me As prismatic as it might be So that when I look inward I see all the cool things that Decorate me.

I told you guys

Hey white people! All that smoke you had for Disney and ABC and shit? Send that same smoke to the Black folks who lost their jobs for the same damn reason.

Artists! Post your hot men art! 🔥 Sure! Here's a couple. I need to draw more!

if i'm a real writer than WHY CAN'T I FUCKING SPELL CINAMMON CINNAMON CINNONYM CNNCHNSMMSMCM

So much to be angry about with AI scammers, but I gotta point out my #1 most-hated tell for AI-generated slop: the sentence construction "[thing] doesn't just [mediocre thing] - it [hyperbole]." Here, it's "They don't just skim - they devour..." I see it everywhere now. And every time, I shiver.

I have a big request. My baby cousin, 15, is in hospital, non-responsive. I'd like to see her one last time & am trying to fly across the ocean *tomorrow* to make this happen. It would cost about £2500 or £3300 dollars. If you're able to contribute, this is my paypal: paypal.me/riversandfam

This is tonight, NYC! After a last minute location change caused by the tragic loss of Bluestockings, I'll be at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space with two writers I love, Su J. Sokol & Rich Larson, to talk about the role of speculative fiction in social justice organizing (and other fun stuff)!

You're telling me that when the majority of books under attack are books by and about BIPOC and queer identities, and that this present wave of bans is an attempt to erase marginalized representation entirely, that ALA chose to theme Banned Books Week around George Orwell's 1984?

Me and @maryrobinettekowal.com are hitting the road to talk about RED STAR HUSTLE / APPREHENSION - come through, it'll be a frickin DELIGHT. With events virtually and in NYC, Decatur GA, Washington DC, Houston, Portland OR, Boulder, and San Diego!! samjmiller.com/red-star-hus...

The people who invented and produced a 5000 bomb strong nuclear capable arsenal, as a deterrent they say, will tell you they can't invent and produce a house that's affordable.

NYC!! I AM HERE!! 09/23, come celebrate BOOK RELEASE DAY with me at Club Cumming!! 8pm, no cover, a series of incredible performers -- we are going to have the BEST time. See you sooooooon

Gonna just say, if it's this easy to protest against the monolith that is Disney. Then there is no excuse for people to be clinging to Harry Potter. Like, if the needle can be moved against Disney, people can make it move against JK Rowling. Stop the flow of money into her accounts,

Come through, NYC!! This Thursday at Bluestockings Books I'll be sitting down with two writers I love, Su J. Sokol and Rich Larson, to talk about the role of speculative fiction in social justice organizing (and other fun stuff)! bsky.app/profile/cycl... withfriends.co/event/266950...

Lenin Riefenstahl had a scheduled visit to Hollywood, but the Nazis did Kristallnacht the week befofe her trip, so everyone boycotted her EXCEPT WALT, who gave her a whole day long tour of his studio (although he wouldn't show her new work because the projectionists might realize what was happening)

Is it just me or are there WAYyyyyyyYYY more mosquitoes in NYC this year? Like we needed another Plague or Apocalypse Bingo Card check.

Martyrs are the fuel that powers any Death Cult. Just ask Horst Wessel, or the millions murdered to the tune of a song he wrote. This week on my newsletter - finding joy and safety in a world controlled by a Death Cult. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/death-cult-d...

Reading through this digitally right now - just finished MRK’s novel and am onto @sentencebender.bsky.social’s! Both are highlights of what I’ve been reading lately and honestly I like that they’re in conversation with each other

The 1st episode of the new pod-miniseries I'm hosting at @issuesinst.bsky.social is out now! I talk with spec-fic writer & anthropologist of tech @boriscrito.bsky.social about the slow disaster of data centers, the rapid disasters of hurricanes in the Caribbean & the ways we envision the future:

I've got a story, Unforgettable, in Volume 4 - LIMBO - of @clubchicxulub.bsky.social that I'm super excited to see published! clubchicxulub.com/club-chicxul...

Ahhhh the North American ARCs for Enchanting the Fae Queen are here, & they are GORGEOUS. I love @wingbuffet.bsky.social's perfect cover art, @lesleyaworrell.bsky.social 's cover design, &all the perfect details of page layout inside (with huge thanks to my wonderful editor @erikatsang.bsky.social)!

Just in case I haven't shouted gleefully about it enough lately, @sentencebender.bsky.social and I have a Saga Double coming out on October 21. You can preorder now from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Red-St...

These dispatches from @sentencebender.bsky.social are among the things keeping me going these days. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/death-cult-d...

🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/

nobody wants video essays anymore. all the money’s in illuminated manuscripts these days. you can write any manuscript at all – a terrible one! it doesn’t matter! some startup will still jump in your emails begging to partner with you and get it illuminated

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

Running to bluesky to see @theferocity.bsky.social's take on Project Runway s22 e08 👀👀👀👀👀

It's been one month since A GAME IN YELLOW released! 💛 But this year also marks 130 years of THE KING IN YELLOW. There have been many stories inspired by it, and it was a pleasure of many kinds to play with this wonderful cursed book myself. May we be telling stories of Carcosa for 130 years more.

I have to be a little self-indulgent here. "Apeiron" is one of my favorite stories. It is the clearest expression of an idea I've been obsessing about for decades. I'm so honored @lightspeedmagazine.com accepted it for their September issue. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/apei...

Born on this day in 1961, Happy Birthday, VIRGINIA MADSEN! 🎉

wow LORD OF THE RINGS: WAR OF THE ROHIRRIM was so much better than it has any business being! It looked incredible and the story consistently surprised me. Highly recommend.

I love Sam’s writing and insights! Such a treat to get his essays in addition to his wonderful fiction.

@sentencebender.bsky.social This is such a delight! I can’t wait to read it with my crew @cosmicmariner17.bsky.social and pick your brain about it! Also I stole this from FB because Zucks hates embeds.

What are the connections you see, that no one else does? What weird insights do you have, based on who you are? THAT is where your next big storytelling breakthrough is waiting. This week, I go into greater detail on HOW to make that happen. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/your-big-sto...

the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

Time is a flat circle

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

TAKE A WORKSHOP WITH ME - I SCARE KIDS, AND YOU CAN TOO! Tuesday, 7 October 2025 This is part of AUTUMN FRIGHTS, a 6-week online horror writing school that runs from September 16th - October 21st via Google Meet on Tuesdays 6:30pm - 8:30pm UK time. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/autumn-fri...

the jellyfish is back with important news: the tpb of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM is coming out in november, and b&n is having their preorder sale for members!

This view is so widespread and so infuriating and it will be fascinating to watch the crash-out spread as the office-worker job evaporates and huge swathes of the workforce are un-gently reminded that they are, and have always been, working class.