"The age of generative AI is not the moment when we need fewer linguists. It is the moment when the absence of linguists has suddenly become a public emergency, visible in every hallucinated citation, every plausible-sounding falsehood..." #langsky #linguistics #xl8 🌐

Lovely observations from Irina on exclusion and communities and love. (And how difficult but rewarding it is learning to not need to be the focus of attention but just to be part of the whole.) All of which she says much more eloquently.

One of these is being built in my back yard, and this is how I feel about it.

New on my blog today: #20BooksofSummer (more like 10): Berlin and Romania findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/2...

Maria Dahvana Headley’s Beowulf: A Translation for All of Us rebeccasreadingroom.ca/2026/06/09/m... @rebeccabudd.bsky.social

Look who caught up on his monthly reading posts! eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2026/06/09/w...

In the end, universities are chopping off their own arms and legs in a vain attempt to protect the heart. I’m afraid that the blood will still pump out of the wound and into the world, even more quickly now that limbs have been removed...

It was an honor to talk to Jeff and Rebecca at the Book Riot podcast, "Zero to Well Read". bookriot.com/listen/how-t...

IMPORTANT. An AI account is sending out phishing emails from “me”, inviting authors to participate in Backlisted episodes. 1. These aren’t from me. 2. We are on hiatus, so I am not asking anyone to be on the podcast. 3. If you receive one of these fake invitations, please inform me ASAP. >

Was going to watch the utterly absurd and funny Kung Fu Hustle tonight but after chatting for 2 hrs with OS on the phone and with a 4:30 wake-up call tomorrow... maybe just a little...

Review: The Human Stain by Philip Roth | Great American Novel Quest fictionfanblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/r...

The Nix by Nathan Hill - ghosts from the past and state of the nation bookaroundthecorner.com/2026/06/07/t...

Liar Liar (Liverpool Crime #1) by Luca Veste @LucaVeste @AvonBooksUK @LauraSherlock21 liveanddeadly.net/2026/06/08/l...

Just a couple more hours to go!

Tonight's film is Barking Dogs Never Bite, which was Bong Joon Ho's debut I believe. No animals were harmed in the making of it 😉

Want to dive into this year's Nebula Awards Finalists? Nebula Awards Showcase 61 is launching soon, filled with short stories, novelettes, and poems from our Nebula roster. Cherish the strength and diversity of these SFF tales with us - and support our work in community as you do! #61stNebulas

#NYRBWomen26 youtu.be/71X5UhYy6Wo?...

#6Degrees of Separation for June 2026: From The Post Office Girl to The Summer Skies #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2026/06/06/6...

I finally installed the spare part and had my first cup of coffee at home in more than a week! Life and dotk can begin now

#SixDegrees of Separation June 2026 findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/s...

No rest for the wicked! Today is all about cover design, writing blurbs and translations. And maybe finally fixing my coffee machine!

#sixinsix Six in Six: six categories, six #books Share your list now! wordsandpeace.com/2026/05/26/s...

There's a scammer contacting indie authors pretending to be me - everything is spelt wrong, but it's close enough that you might be fooled, although I really hope you won't be. I'm always just the one word! Take care. Thank you, @penumbraminemmward.bsky.social, for contacting me to let me know.

On Monday I’m talking about Rilke with Karen Leeder, a brilliant & generous translator and thinker. We’ll be talking about correspondences between poets and how generative they can be (I’m working on Tsvetaeva’s poems addressed to Rilke): www.hausfuerpoesie.org/en/program/i...

Out now from Other Press to start #PrideMonth on a welcome international note: PURE MEN, Prix Goncourt-winning Senegalese author MOHAMED MBOUGAR SARR's récit of homophobia's viciousness. Translator Lara Vergnaud works her magic again! 🌈📚 #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/06/pure...

Tonight's film is Y Tu Mama Tambien, a rewatch. I'd forgotten the political aspects of it! #filmsky

Get your slice of chilly noir this weekend at half-price! #Broken by Jon Atli Jonasson transl @graskeggur.bsky.social is a 'crime novel to relish - outstanding' www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVZFZ6Y7

Should be working hard but keep getting distracted by the sight of Kasper Mauser on the balcony

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Pub day for this beautiful book, launching at Hatchard's this evening - looking forward to enthusing about it to people

This Saturday at Lettretage I'll be talking with Madeleine Watts, Marcel Krueger and Sanders Bernstein @as part of our Immer Schon events, this time all about Sebald...

Politics vs the World’s Most Political Film Festival - Berlinale libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

WWW Wednesday 3rd June 2026: what am I reading? | #WWWWednesday #amreading #bookrecommendations #BookSky 💙📚 portobellobookblog.com/2026/06/03/w... via @portybelle.bsky.social

In The Spotlight: S.L. Beaumont's The Carlswick Affair margot-kin-berg.com/2026/06/02/i...

Letzte Amtshandlung vor der Nippon Connection: "Immer mehr Leser*innen fangen Fantasy-Buchserien erst an, wenn der letzte Teil erschienen ist. Wodurch die Chance sinken, dass dieser je erscheinen wird. Markus Mäurer hat sich diese Zwickmühle auf dem Buchmarkt genauer angesehen."

Review: See You in September by Charity Norman | Contemporary Fiction fictionfanblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/03/r...

#Bookreview: Lost in Mecca wildwritinglife.blogspot.com/2026/06/lost... #amreading #bookblogger #thriller

This month’s newsletter features “How I turn a weird idea into flash fiction” by OKD Fiction Reader Andre'a Victorian. News includes the many achievements of our staff and readers! Read the full newsletter at okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com/p/turn-your-...

My first book for #20 Books of Winter: anzlitlovers.com/2026/06/03/e...

"That sentence alone is enough to send indie Berliners of a certain age into a spell of Sebaldian melancholy so extreme it can only be resolved by a twenty-minute angry nap." Read @ajbwells.bsky.social's piece to find out what the sentence was! open.substack.com/pub/theaufla...

All the books I bought a month ago in Hay on Wye...

The best contemporary Spanish poet you should know #spain #spanishpoetry #spanishpoet #olvidogarciavaldés #asturias #poesia #poeta open.substack.com/pub/themadri...

My Reading Life: May 2026 May was the month in which I decided to part company with Angela Thirkell and her Barsetshire Chronicles series. I know she's much loved by readers for her humorous depiction of English village life between the wars. But they're not to my taste. There are thirty books in…

Are you a bookish sort of person? A bibliophile, if you will? Then you will love the Kepler's Literary Foundation newsletter! Check their amazing calendar of events. It takes a minute. WHADDAYA GOT TO LOSE #BookSky 📚 💙 www.keplers.org/newsletter

Back in 1940, Edmund Wilson wrote about "The Boys in the Back Room": William Saroyan; John O'Hara; James M. Cain; John Steinbeck; and Hans Otto Storm. Hans Otto who? you ask. Read on and learn about this remarkable writer. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Can't Believe I've STILL Not Read findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/t...

Day 2 of #NationalCrimeReadingMonth and it's time to be trapped in a very tall building with @radiomukhers.bsky.social www.thebooktrail.com/book-trails/... #pickupapageturner

20 Books Of Summer 2026 Reading Challenge Sign-Up #20BOS26 portobellobookblog.com/2026/06/02/2...

TCL’s #TopTenTuesday - No, I haven't, Actually - June 2, 2026. tcl-bookreviews.com/2026/06/02/t...