One thing I really like in this book is that almost every male character sees himself as an "everyman," and much of the plot is them being horrified at what the other ones consider "everyman" behavior.

Fix your hearts or die

The venn diagram of "neither likes nor dislikes dinosaurs" and "favorite dinosaur: other" is 100% parents of young children, I have so much dinosaur knowledge.

straightforward, easy to explain, obviously sane, will eventually be the consensus position that everyone will pretend they were on the side of

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No better feeling than telling a friend that that cold email from a mega-outlet is, in fact, real. 🥰

new bucket list unlocked for my adhd craft friends:

Fascinating insights at #AIX26. Technically, United Airlines are the third largest streaming platform in the US. What people will watch on a plane thus drives studio production strategy far more than most people realise.

currently reading @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social's MUÑECA and HOT DIGGITY DAMN

Oh wow. Instant preorder.

Someone is trying to scam people using my name and job, so please be careful of any unexpected interactions. Note: this is happening with other editors as well.

You are going to make mistakes, and there are going to be disappointments. You need to figure out which mistakes and disappointments you can live with, and which ones you can't, and then organize your process accordingly. Also, never sign over IP or final control over the text.

I apologize for the oversight 😔

mass market > paper over board > trade paperback > one enormous accordion-folded length of paper inside a book-shaped box > set of zines tied up with string > hardcover

*takes breath* *gears up for deeply controversial opinion* Mansfield Park is more fun than Emma.

Many of you have heard that my editor Sean McDonald will no longer be working at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I wrote a little bit about my feelings at the end of an era.

Fresh Fiction has an excerpt from What We Are Seeking, in which our hero is learning to garden but one of the alien neighbors interrupts. blog.freshfiction.com/cameron-reed...

In this interview I talk about jellyfish, the myth of the barnacle goose, alien ecology, and what Deanna Troi has in common with St. Augustine.

if you don't like being called cis then grow tf up and transition Sheila

Also, the same people tend to write both! And it's nice to have an author's work all together.

BRING IT www.kickstarter.com/projects/ave...

"John Brown's Body" aka "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is also a short joke!

I hope people can restrain themselves from picking a villain in this story. The prize's publicity requirements are not intrinsically excessive; DeWitt's distress is clearly sincere. It seems like everyone was acting in good faith. Hopefully the prize is now re-examining its process / terms.

Pittsburgh's City Council voted unanimously this week to formally codify its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. This is bigger than a symbolic gesture, here's what it actually does and why it matters. 🧵

if you want to nitpick that, you'd be doing pedantasy

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

The idea of “process knowledge” crystallizes so much. It is what people mean—at the very least!—by “no such thing as unskilled labor.” That process knowledge is an acquired skill. It is why Wikipedia—which I love!—could never hold “the sum of all human knowledge.” It is essential and invisible.

every so often you'll see someone share THE book that got them into reading...FOR LIFE... and you think "huh. I hated that one so much I left it on the airplane" and I think that's beautiful.

I worked on the recall election back when no one gave a fuck. I’m glad to see where Wisconsin has gone over the past decade, but *this was all preventable*

Good morning! All day today my colleagues and I will be on STRIKE. You can help us send a message! Please do not visit ProPublica's website and tell management to give us a fair contract so we can get back to work: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

baby wake up new cameron reed just dropped

The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE. The vote was unanimous. 🎉🎉🎉

Folks outside of Georgia don't understand how remarkable this exchange — between a Black reporter and a white woman with her kid in Rome, Georgia, the anchor of Marjorie Taylor Greene's old district — is.

I am so excited to read this one 🥳

I've been waiting to press this book into people's hands for MONTHS and now I officially can

EMERGENCY RELEASE from Gen. Eaton.

The novel It destroyed its cage Yes YES The novel is out Published today: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

If posting with barbaric fervor about launching a genocide doesn’t warrant removal from office, then what would? This moment demands invoking the 25th Amendment. If Vance and the Cabinet want any redemption from history, this is their chance. (1/2)

I am going completely up the wall trying to find it, Google is misery now, does anybody remember the name of the hoax memoir written in the 19th century about a woman who survived a shipwreck in Australia only to be captured and SAd by the local tribe? It caused a retaliatory massacre.

ME. It's for ME.

He is welcome to redeem himself through his own actions anytime!

i believe in redemption, grace, restorative justice and second chances. but nobody is entitled to wealth, fame, or mass adoration—and if a path back to all that even exists for louis c.k., it ran in the opposite direction from putting on a tie and doing “trigger the libs” bits in saudi arabia

I love that German hits the nail on the head by using the term "hobbyless behaviour" to describe those effects. Painting flags on roundabouts? Hobbyless behaviour. Harassing immigrants? Hobbyless behaviour. Picketing drag brunches? Hobbyless behaviour.

Hey, have a seat. What I’m doing here is I’m looking for a copy of a decades-old book that contains a picture of the specific reconstruction-era cross stitch that inspired Michael Stipe to write Swan Swan H. How does this feel? Better than trying to ban books at schools where you don’t have kids?

Right. Shameless self promotion time. Please pre-order ANGEL COUNTRY! It's cosmic horror with a side of alternate history about a vengeful lady scientist out to reclaim her work and I desperately hope it does well enough for them to let me write another one. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Angel-...

Because writers shouldn't have to do all the work of #BookPromotion: I have three (3!) #Preorders dropping to my e-reader Tuesday, April 7!! #Booksky The Subtle Art of Folding Space, @johnchu.bsky.social What We Are Seeking, @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social The Edge of Space-Time, @chanda.blacksky.app