There was a time (2017-2018) where a HUGE part of my job was formatting a LIST of LISTS into something that could be used for marketing channels. People used to say, about our books, "Oh, I've seen that on a lot of lists." anyway, loved this piece lol

Woah!! Big congrats to Austyn Wohlers on being long listed for the Republic of Consciousness Prize! Hugely deserved. Go get a copy of HOTHOUSE BLOOM today. www.republicofconsciousnessprize-usa.com/news

Just realized the Olympics are going to gut the best 3 weeks of the year, when football is done, basketball hasn't become all consuming, and baseball hasn't started yet: HOCKEY TIME ie the only time I can walk into a bar in SC and they might have a hockey game on.

you know, I'm kind of surprised the rest of the world is letting us compete in the olympics this year

I can't think of a company that has squandered the last bit of my goodwill harder than Intuit, which, every 6 months unveils a more cluttered, less useful "AI-driven banking" tool that clutters the interface, changes my workflow, and doesn't actually work.

/2 3. ICE and the Trump Administration will label any form of protest as chaos. Dude, they are CALLING YOU A TERRORIST FOR SPEECH ASSERTING THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE YOU GOVERN. 4. The situation is absolutely not symmetrical. “Both sides” are not causing this.

glad someone leaked this to pw

I can't believe the party that sacrificed tens of thousands of children's lives in the last two decades, to protect the 2nd ammendment and their right to defend themselves from government tyranny, has absolutely NOTHING to say when a tyrannical government is killing citizens in the streets.

oh no if this goes through we'll lose good sheriffs (this is a joke, there no good sheriffs in SC) abcnews4.com/news/local/p...

I'm sorry, delta main basic now doesn't even get you MILES? (I know there are bigger enemies out there than the airlines but god I hate the airlines)

Tapping the sign in light of that DHS statement. bsky.app/profile/megi...

The conspiratorial stuff from the resist Dems of threads has gone up exponentially in the last few days. Pretty freaky over there.

Look, I've really wanted to read Lost Lambs but kind of less after this? You met your editor at a PARTY? How fresh! Also, a "huge accolade"?

Jamelle Bouie was in the ICE closet making agents and I saw one of the agents and the agent looked at me

Just calling it rn that trump will likely send ICE to Maine because there is also a Somali population that the MAGA people are unendingly obsessed with. Just keep in mind the population is extremely small (5k people) and concentrated in one county. It'll be very telling to see how Collins responds.

Y'all, the times are far too dire for protest music to be this bad, we gotta do better.

A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue — the same one the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights A suspect has been arrested, authorities say

Not a great start that I've cried during the anthem at the bell centre every game for the past month

Perfect Friday for rainy day reading. 🌧️

Getting mentally prepared to cry over all the skating programs coming up in a month.

This also explains why there haven't been whistleblowers or other leaks from insiders.

check out the contrast in congressional responses to the situation sitting right next to each other on the skyline

Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

It's so frustrating to watch all these cases and know they'll take ages to work their way through the system, and meanwhile the admin pulls a different kind of funding to a different state (Minnesota) for political reasons and it all starts over again? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

I find it interesting that America treats "health care costs" as a kind of uncontrollable atmospheric force, instead of a service that absolutely could cost less in a sane country.

god ice sucks (get it?)

Writers and publishing folks! Tell me your favorite book designers! [Big bonus points if they are hireable because I'm looking and, while we all love janet hansen and rodrigo corral, I probably can't afford to hire janet or rodrigo] I'll go first: Sarah Schulte, Emily Mahon, Na Kim, Grace Han.

I've been thinking about this last point a lot bc I live in a red state and, though there absolutely is some ICE presence, it's so obvious this force is being used to invade and occupy blue cities.

it's that kind of night www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CfF...

My brain can't handle the rhetorical whiplash of the same people celebrating the deaths of capitol police and calling them the instigators of Jan 6 riot to saying "the ice agent had to defend himself after she didn't comply with his order" in 24 hours

funny how the people who most strongly embrace the 2nd amendment now find themselves in full political alignment with the well-armed militia that it was supposed to protect them from hmmm

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

why is this giving

each day I wonder, is THIS the event that catapults us into the full authoritarian / robo-cop universe that is clearly coming?

and just to be clear, we just a few days ago, forcefully removed the president of another country because he was a brutal dictator who "commanded murderous gangs to terrorize their population"?

that video is horrifying

I'll be really interested to see how journalists approach the one-year anniversary of the NEA falling apart over the next few months, because I'd be interested to hear how other nonprofit literary presses are feeling one year on. (I have my own thoughts and have talked to presses I'm friends with.)

Nothing makes me feel great about my career outlook like repeatedly visiting the only major canadian job board for publishing and finding it.......empty.

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My sister was in surgery until after lunchtime five years ago and we decided not to tell her anything had happened until she was fully awake. I swear she still doesn't fully "get" what happened on Jan 6 lol

Anyone heard anything lately from the "the political parties are all the same" crowd? While we'll never actually know what the harris/walz admin would have looked like, I think it's safe to assume they wouldn't have invaded Venezuela.

I spent six hours in the miami airport yesterday (ie the cruise capital of the world) and I was blown way by how many people look at their phones the entire time they are walking in large crowds and how often they just stop suddenly with no awareness of who might be behind them?? boggling behavior.

with the exception of tampa bay (boo), what the upside down universe is going on in the NHL's Atlantic division??!!

0% surprised to log into our investment page this am and see that markets like war

In a strange twist of fate, I need a dozen or so people to order Ritz of the Bayou (exciting new HC edition coming from @hubcitypress.bsky.social in april!) to push out the insanely priced $777 hardcover first edition that Amazon says can't be usurped in the SEO. Or you can buy the $777 version.

we used to really put our backs into making book jackets

basically the same for the south, incl appalachian witches (cc @katearden.bsky.social)

For example, we have a trans literature in North America thanks to Topside, Metonymy, Arsenal Pulp, Little Puss, Semiotexte and Nightboat. The big-5 are downstream beneficiaries.

This huge Europa hit, a Deep Vellum book making Obama's book list...I can't help feeling like publishing's woes could open up an opportunity for readers to understand that independent press books (by US authors and in translation) are not only vital literature but also...as good, as big 5 books?