Jonny Diamond
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Editor of Lit Hub, writer, not-so-secretly Canadian.
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Prisonculture
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It's a shame more white men over 35 aren't yelling at them then. Get to work.
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Bill Corbett
4 days ago
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!
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Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub
Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fdwaG8r41k_1x3XOEVjNwyzfc2jWLIoOC2r5XsBBjE4/edit?tab=t.0
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Colin Dickey
3 days ago
Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?
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Support Calvary Food Shelf: Emergency Response Fundraiser on GiveMN
Help us respond to urgent community needs
https://www.givemn.org/story/wwca4g
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Ana Marie Cox
4 days ago
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
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Awful and evil. Her poor boy.
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Dr. Thrasher's The Overseer Class is now available for pre-order
17 days ago
My first out of the gate for 2026, at
@literaryhub.bsky.social
, on why it’s a GOOD thing that Mayor Mamdani can never be president
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Lit Hub
17 days ago
“Zohran Mamdani will never feel the need to use the NYPD to beat up protesters in the hopes it will impress a precinct captain in Des Moines.”
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Why It’s a Good Thing Zohran Mamdani Can Never Become President
Zohran Mamdan is now either the 111th or 112th mayor of the great City of New York, depending on how you count. Either way, it’s great that he’s finally taking over the Big Apple. And it’s even bet…
https://lithub.com/why-its-a-good-thing-zohran-mamdani-can-never-become-president/
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404 Media
27 days ago
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
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Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
https://www.404media.co/archivists-posted-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment-bari-weiss-killed/
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The difference between emigrated and immigrated has been lost. It’s over. (I see them used incorrectly now, in numerous books.) 😞
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Sandy Ernest Allen
about 1 month ago
Immense gratitude to my editor
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And if your name is MacKenzie Scott please consider getting in touch directly.
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AI slop is killing the internet. If you enjoy editorial by humans, for humans, please consider becoming a Lit Hub member (and/or donating!)
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It’s Harder and Harder to Be a Magazine on the Internet—Please Help
As we hurtle toward the end of a dismally eventful year (yes, we live in interesting times), those of us in what remains of America’s independent media are poring over budgets past, present, and fu…
https://lithub.com/its-harder-and-harder-to-be-a-magazine-on-the-internet-please-help/
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Nathan Deuel
about 1 month ago
One my fav places to write serious and rugged essays about the writing life and literature is the great
@lithub.com.web.brid.gy
and it's always a pleasure writing for
@jonnydiamond.bsky.social
and crew. Consider becoming a member! I know my mom did.
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Literary Hub
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Colin Dickey
about 1 month ago
Good morning, I have a new piece up at LitHub on Woolf's To the Lighthouse, her unacknowledged plague novel--a book about what happens after the end of the End of the World. This one took me a long time to put together. I hope you enjoy.
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The Far Side of Disaster: On Virginia Woolf’s Unacknowledged Plague Novel To the Lighthouse
It’s been five years since the End of the World, and yet here we still are. Increasingly, I’ve found myself trying to understand what it might mean to write past the apocalypse, and whether or not …
https://lithub.com/the-far-side-of-disaster-on-virginia-woolfs-unacknowledged-plague-novel-to-the-lighthouse/
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Benjamin Dreyer
about 1 month ago
This is a lovely essay about one of my favorite novels.
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Rob Spillman
about 2 months ago
@jonnydiamond.bsky.social
reading from Homage to Catalonia for
#falloffreedom
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Pulling a late night with the 14 year old (who’s way behind on a school project) and he just referenced the Kardashev Scale AND correctly named the singer of “Rhiannon.” I feel like this should count towards college admissions.
2 months ago
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Not the rhetoric of moral clarity! No!
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It was over once everyone started calling it the “homeland.” That’s some fascist shit my dudes.
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Gail Simone
2 months ago
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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Alt CDC (they/them)
2 months ago
Ok, yes, this is a public health–adjacent account -- but some of us are also literary nerds. And seeing Joyce Carol Oates roast Elon Musk on his own platform? Just what we needed on an otherwise sh**ty day.
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Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
https://lithub.com/elon-musk-gets-roasted-on-his-own-platform-by-joyce-carol-oates/
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Lit Hub
2 months ago
How did New Yorkers elect a democratic socialist as their mayor? We have a reading list for that.
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Want to understand the Zohran phenomenon? Here’s a mini reading list.
Have you thanked a bodega cat today? Remember, they won’t be getting raises under the new administration. For 51% of New York City bipeds, however, it’s a pretty great week. Zohran Mamd…
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I love this by Peter Coviello (former chair of Africana Studies at yes, Bowdoin). Very smart AND very funny.
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/
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God I hate these f*ckers so much
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Maris Kreizman
2 months ago
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount.
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When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
https://lithub.com/when-we-devalue-art-books-we-devalue-the-future/
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Lit Hub
2 months ago
In Myth America, edited by
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
and Julian E. Zelizer, Michael Kazin examines the far-reaching influence of socialism on American political thought.
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A Brief History of American Socialism
“America will never be a socialist country,” declared Donald Trump in his 2019 State of the Union Address, given to a joint session of Congress. The president clearly believed that fear of such a r…
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Lydia Kiesling
3 months ago
This is what she's posting rn fyi. Just pure racism!
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This really sucks; they were doing brave, important work. It seems like everyone with money and power right now has it at the expense of principled conviction.
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Proud to be on this list with an incredible group of writers and thinkers doing the right thing.
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300+ pledge to boycott the New York Times’ op-ed page over their anti-Palestinian bias.
Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until three demands have been met. The demands address the anti-Palestinia…
https://lithub.com/300-pledge-to-boycott-the-new-york-times-op-ed-page-over-their-anti-palestinian-bias/
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Lit Hub
3 months ago
What the fascist tech bros get wrong about Prometheus. (And yes, they do want to build a 450-foot statue on Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay).
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What the Fascist Tech Bros Get Wrong About Prometheus
Those crypto boys are at it again, this time proposing a giant, 450-foot-tall statue on of San Francisco Bay’s Alcatraz Island, according to local outlet KRON4. The statue would be of Prometheus, w…
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Catskill, NY.
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James Fallows
3 months ago
A day to stand up, and stand together.
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Stand Up, Stand Together.
Two guiding principles of the No Kings movement, and for Americans meeting this moment.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/stand-up-stand-together
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Brad Johnson
3 months ago
I just ordered a stack of Mark’s book to give away at the store.
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Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.
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Here’s Mark Bray beating the brakes of Dinesh D’Souza in 2017.
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Why We Should Pay Attention to Dinesh D’Souza’s Terrible Book About Fascism
Is Donald Trump a fascist? Did millions of Americans vote for an orange Mussolini? Well, recently the far-right commentator Dinesh D’Souza published a book intended not only to ease the consciences…
https://lithub.com/why-we-should-pay-attention-to-dinesh-dsouzas-terrible-book-about-fascism/
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I wrote about what we can all learn from the courage of Czech dissidents.
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How a 1977 Czech Writers’ Manifesto Applies to the Stark Realities of America in 2025
The wonderful Czech writer Ivan Klima died this past weekend at the age of 94. Klima lived a remarkable, principled life, having survived both the Nazi occupation of Prague (he spent three years in…
https://lithub.com/how-a-1977-czech-writers-manifesto-applies-to-the-stark-realities-of-america-in-2025/
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Incredible (and funny) story here from Philip Roth about visiting Ivan Klima in Prague.
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“He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague
From 1972 through 1977, I traveled to Prague every spring for a week or ten days to see a group of writers, journalists, historians, and professors there who were being persecuted by the Soviet-bac…
https://lithub.com/he-comes-for-the-girls-philip-roth-on-getting-kicked-out-of-prague/
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Kimberly Burns
3 months ago
Strongly recommend MY MERRY MORNINGS along with the titles
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includes here. I met Ivan Klima as a baby bookseller when he finally was allowed to travel. Life-changing for me: smoking cigarettes with him in the bookstore backroom.
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Ivan Klima, the best Czech novelist of his generation, has died.
One of the great Czech writers of the 20th century, Ivan Klima, died over the weekend at his home in Prague, at the age of 94. Klima lived an incredible, principled life, having survived both the N…
https://lithub.com/ivan-klima-the-best-czech-novelist-of-his-generation-has-died/
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Maris Kreizman
3 months ago
I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies.
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The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise
The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…
https://lithub.com/the-real-threat-to-free-speech-in-america-is-from-the-right-not-the-left-stop-pretending-otherwise/
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Did
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introduce Krasznahorkai to the American masses? (aka Philly alt weekly readers c. 2001)
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Is This the First-Ever English Language Review of László Krasznahorkai?
My love of Hungarian literature began in 1994, when my college girlfriend moved to Budapest to study music at the Liszt Academy and I followed her a few months later. We planned to stay for nine mo…
https://lithub.com/is-this-the-first-ever-english-language-review-of-laszlo-krasznahorkai/
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Between Pynchon and Krasznahorkai absolutely HUGE week for brodernism. I see you, and I salute you my dudes.
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Brittany K. Allen
3 months ago
Had a ball reporting on the midnight Shadow Ticket release party, over
@literaryhub.bsky.social
! 💃
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In Line With All the Pynchon Fans at the Midnight Release of Shadow Ticket
It’s 10:30pm on a Monday, and a line a dozen deep has formed outside Greenlight Books in Brooklyn. A dapper employee in suspenders and fedora comes out to give instructions—we’re to “say we know To…
https://lithub.com/in-line-with-all-the-pynchon-fans-at-the-midnight-release-of-shadow-ticket/
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
3 months ago
"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?" lately
@teenvogue.com
has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth 📍
www.teenvogue.com/news-politics
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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea
3 months ago
it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on
@literaryhub.bsky.social
I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out
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Andrew Ervin
4 months ago
“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.” My latest for LitHub:
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Tending to the Garden of American Democracy is Hard and Thankless Work
In Jerzy Kosinski’s 1971 novel Being There, a simple gardener named Chance is mistaken for a political guru and quickly wows the Washington D.C. power brokers and kingmakers. It’s a marvelous study…
https://lithub.com/tending-to-the-garden-of-american-democracy-is-hard-and-thankless-work/
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The Idiocracy presidency continues apace.
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Librarian leaves job after declining Melania Trump’s demand for a sword.
Today in headlines I never thought anyone would I’d write, the head of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library has resigned after a spat with Melania Trump over an original Eisenhower sword s…
https://lithub.com/librarian-leaves-job-after-declining-melania-trumps-demand-for-a-sword/
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The corruption is just so obvious (as it usually is in an incipient dictatorship)
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Ron DeSantis is about to “gift” Donald Trump a $200 million plot of land for his “library.”
Florida man and failed presidential candidate Ron DeSantis will vote today—along with the state’s attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner, all republicans—to approve …
https://lithub.com/ron-desantis-is-about-to-gift-donald-trump-a-200-million-plot-of-land-for-his-library/
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Karl Jacoby
4 months ago
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Nicole Chung
4 months ago
we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you:
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