Convincing you to read my novel with the first few sentences. (No clean break after first sentence, sorry!) Share yours if you want. KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST Why not a @bookshop.org link today? bookshop.org/p/books/kali...

Convincing you to *pre-order my *novella with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (And Side by Side They Wander, May '26: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...)

It's actually worse than this - Prescott tried to argue that the BBC had inappropriately hidden the fact that a Trans woman in pro wrestling had been part of storylines where she "won" trophies against other women - a fictional sport he treated as if it was real.

Darn, infinite forgiveness ruined my trolling of the too-cozy-with-Trump archbishop

Makes me think of MAO II where DeLillo is talking (in 1991) about how terrorists now occupy the space novelists once held. Novelists once dangerously influenced mass consciousness, now they don't, and terrorists have seized their role. Oates is from the last generation still trained to kill.

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

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Your seasonal reminder that I design t-shirts (and related products) for grumps, queers, and weirdos. Impress your relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner! Surprise Grandma with the perfect Hanukkah present! Support a queer, trans independent artist who's been job-hunting since April!

Someone pitch hanging out with me: therepublicofletters.substack.com/p/this-week-...

“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…” Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...

Someone told AI "Make piss Christ Chinese"

Beans for Beantown!

FRANKENSTEIN, Guillermo del Toro (2025)

It's funny that Musk is like "empathy will destroy society" and then cries when someone is mean to him

Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world. Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.

My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com

Remove the plot, add in a subtext about Victor Frankenstein loving milk!

Hearing great things about the new novel (checks notes) Middlemarch

"Something you might want to say? However jumbled, however confused?" When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself. And the answer is "No."

"Something you might want to say? However jumbled, however confused?" When Victor says this to the creature in the Netflix Frankenstein, this is screenwriter Guillermo del Toro addressing his own creation--the film itself. And the answer is "No."

Welcome to Target.

Not that anyone here needs to hear this, but for the record, in a democracy "people voted differently from the way I expected or hoped" does not constitute evidence of fraud, no matter how many pretty charts and graphs of "voting patterns" you make.

Greatest noir film

I’ve been trying to say this for a while, but I feel like no one is really listening to me who’s obsessively focused on the “groyper problem” at the expense of everything else. The issue with unhinged far-right streamers goes beyond Fuentes and the groypers. Things have been cooked for years.

Plus I only got FOUR DOLLARS AND ONE CENT from the Facebook privacy settlement

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I love people buying Kalivas! at indiepub or East Bay Booksellers as I either a. get more $ or b. to support a great bookstore (and sign copies), but these practices tank my Bookscan numbers, so why not @bookshop.org this week? 20% off (only) your 1st order here refer.bookshop.org/nicholasmama...

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

Look what's on sale: tinyurl.com/3s4cfss3

I love people buying Kalivas! at indiepub or East Bay Booksellers as I either a. get more $ or b. to support a great bookstore (and sign copies), but these practices tank my Bookscan numbers, so why not @bookshop.org this week? 20% off (only) your 1st order here refer.bookshop.org/nicholasmama...

Worth noting that Elon Musk is not a trillionaire, he *could become* a trillionaire if he carries out a number of impossible tasks within a timescale that is barely feasible. It's branding. He slipped from being #1 to #2 richest man in the world and he can't live with himself. This is his lollipop.

This is the origin point of white supremacists in my family, they started as share croppers and coal miners and one in particular is now dealing with this exact fucking thing- coal miners didn’t realize trump doesn’t support them, he supports owners of mines-

New Editor Pick up from Nick Mamatas: Airvalve Semilunar Astern!

Really? A book I translated, that I have dreamed of translating for some 15 years, was released today by a good publisher, an imprint of Hachette, and no one on BlueSky cares at all? Not even a little bit? #booksky #wheresthelove

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"Airvalve Semilunar Astern" is also one of my struggles with the ghost story. I love classic ghost stories, but can't write one for the simple reason that if ghosts were real they would be utterly ubiquitous and obvious and thus every human society would be radically different.

My Dinner with Andre. (I like indie comics and Wallace Shawn looks like a woebegone schlub cartoonist.)

This was the story that Barry Malzberg described as having a counterpoint reminiscent of Beethoven, and I don't know what that means but I understand it to be a compliment.

In today’s Editor Pick, the Ouija board gets an upgrade—and a body count. From the dusty patents of 1891 to a modern neural-network séance, this story drags the talking board into the digital afterlife. Airvalve Semilunar Astern by Nick Mamatas: read it for free on gavagai.com!

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

We're gonna throw so many sandwiches at ICE agents ...

Sorry for the THIRD quoteskeet of this but I listened a little more closely and the AI lyricist leads with a list of the places the hijacked planes hit and first item is "...a field"

Also, this should be the Superbowl halftime show. A laptop on a folding chair with two little external speakers.

Reeeguuuuuuulaaaaar peeeeeoooppplleeeee! But the real clue that this is AI is that the rhetorical flourish of the past 25 years has been to call those killed in the 9/11 attacks not "victims" but "heroes." AI missed this cultural norm entirely.