I was looking up Lydia Millet's A Children's Bible on @wikipedia.org for reasons that are unimportant, but I just had to share this line under "Development and Writing," which I find totally hilarious, not the line itself but just the fact that it's there: "Millet enjoyed writing the book."

Learn to ode.

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

Minneapolis residents are risking their lives so that the world can see what is actually happening to their city, Charlie Warzel reports.

Check out some of the exciting books by the proudly independent Canadian publishers of the Literary Press Group as you consider your selections for the spring 2026 edition of The Bookseller's List! @indiebookstores.ca Discover them all in our CataList catalogue: bnccatalist.ca/viewcatalogu...

Very grateful that @themockler.bsky.social invited me to answer a few questions for her "I've Been Meaning to Ask You" series. If you don't already subscribe to her newsletter, Send My Love to Anyone, you should sign up! sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/its-tough-...

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

@thegrindto.bsky.social lists The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social as one of their most anticipated books for spring 2026, calling it "a beautiful exploration of family, climate change and loss." www.thegrindmag.ca/eight-new-no...

Thank you to @merliterary.bsky.social for including The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social & The Tinder Sonnets by @jenniferlovegrove.bsky.social on the MER Bookself list for January 2026. merliterary.com/2026/01/20/m...

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

This is Liam Ramos. The five year old that ICE took from a Minneapolis school and sent BY HIMSELF WITHOUT HIS FAMILY to a detention facility in Texas. There are monsters among us and they are wearing masks, carrying guns, and work for the US government.

The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social is included in the 2026 Spring Fiction Preview from @quillandquire.bsky.social.

So grateful to see THE FALL-DOWN EFFECT included on this incredible list. Thank you, Phill & @thegrindto.bsky.social! Gosh, I wish I could just pause time to read, read, read!

The Most Anticipated Spring 2026 Fiction Preview is here from @49thshelf.bsky.social and we're thrilled to see three of our forthcoming novels on in the list, including titles from Michael Eddy, @lizjohnston.bsky.social & @dnandi.bsky.social. 49thshelf.com/Blog/2026/01...

The Fall-Down Effecty, the eagerly anticipated debut novel by @lizjohnston.bsky.social, explores protest, climate change, and fractured family relationships. It will be released on April 21. bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

Some of the awesome books on The 49th Shelf’s Spring Fiction Preview! 📚 You can request review copies of all of them through us. www.riverstreetwriting.com/join-river-s... Not shown here (cover reveal pending!) but still on the list is David Ly’s Not All Dragons! #litfic #books

@quillandquire.bsky.social lists The Fall-Down Effect by @lizjohnston.bsky.social in their spring fiction preview. Exploring protest, climate change & fractured family relationships, this debut asks what we really owe people in our lives when we're fighting for a greater cause. tinyurl.com/3fdcreu5

So excited that The Fall-Down Effect has been included in Quill & Quire's Spring Preview! You can check out some info about the novel here: bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

i’ve never felt this patriotic in my life

“Grief became a meditative and sustaining energy throughout the writing of this book and in my life.” Isabella Wang reflects on grief, illness, and writing her second poetry collection NOVEMBER NOVEMBER (@nightwoodeditions.bsky.social) alllitup.ca/under-the-co...

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

This seems like something you’d be sentenced to…like for a crime. Not something you’d ever want. 😬

I'm deeply, deeply grateful to have received this beautiful blurb for THE FALL-DOWN EFFECT from Madeleine Thien, whose work I've long cherished. My debut novel comes out April 21 and is available for pre-order: shoplocal.bookmanager.com/isbn/9781771...

I don't care if she didn't follow directions; I don't care if she was disrespectful; I don't care if she was noncompliant; I don't care if she spit in his face, called him ugly, and smacked his mom - "immediate execution by the state" was not warranted; jfc, this isn't complicated.

“A soldier with a gun and a conductor with a baton: both men who derived power from pointing sticks at women.” What a first line, from Zilla Jones’s The World So Wide. Glad to be diving into this one now.

OpenAI is now facing a total of 8 wrongful death lawsuits from grieving families....who claim that ChatGPT, in particular, the GPT-4o version, drove their loved ones to suicide. Soelberg’s complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public

There's no legal difference between kidnapping Maduro and kidnapping Mark Carney.

"What must be made manifest, confronted, spoken in these catastrophic times includes the rejection of that which is manufactured as consent and the offering in its place of another set of understandings and imaginings of the given world and the made world." Dr. Christina Sharpe

Natalie Shapero, from Stay Dead

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

I have no words left.

Grateful for the good books I read in 2025. www.instagram.com/p/DS2334VDs_...

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is threatening a victim of sexual assault for speaking about her sexual assault. There is a petition to pressure the orchestra into retreating from their truly shameful position: www.change.org/p/esther-hwa...

Christmas concert on the Red Pheasant Reserve (acrylic on canvas): “Sometimes, people say I have painted too many winter scenes, but nobody says the Group of Seven painted too many landscapes.” - Allen Sapp (Cree) Gonnor Collection

UPDATE I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss. Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

If we value human-written books—and I believe most readers still do—we must value the work of human translators. This idea of putting a "human touch" on AI outputs is garbage and nothing close to what readers and writers deserve. Certainly translators don't deserve this attack on their livelihoods.

Wait, what? 🫨

Why *is the Canadian government using British spelling though? Most of the time, to Canadian readers, it just looks unfamiliar. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

We are currently OPEN until Jan. 31, 2026 for Issue 34 journal submissions! www.thetemzreview.com/submissions....

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction

You heard it here first: Jacob Elordi tells @beccamford.bsky.social he'd rather kiss on the beach than talk about AI vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-jacob-elordi-euphoria-interview

Seems like people are condemned to relearn this every day: LLM AIs will always have output errors (“hallucinations“). That’s just the nature of the beast. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

NDP says Ontario report on intimate partner violence partly AI-generated, includes non-existent sources www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

"I fell in love with the idea that the mysterious thing you look for your whole life will eventually eat you alive." - Laurie Anderson explaining her attraction to Moby-Dick

Ah, age-based social media bans. The abstinence education of digital literacy.

Do we really have guaranteed rights and freedoms in this country if rouge premiers can suspend them at will, multiple times a month even, with, apparently, zero repercussions? www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

“…six years after leading body camera maker Axon Enterprise, Inc. said police use of facial recognition technology posed serious ethical concerns, the pilot project — switched on last week— is raising alarms far beyond Edmonton, the continent’s northernmost city of more than 1 million people.”