'Trees' - by Japanese artist Soichiro Tomioka (1922–1994) who loved to paint snowy landscapes #trees #art

"The authors’ collective voice⎯a marvel of craft, this one cohesive voice from two writers⎯blends David Attenborough’s pathos with Carl Sagan’s awe and a dash of Werner Herzog’s bleakness." A book review of The Sound Atlas by @michaelavieser.bsky.social and I over at @hippocampusmag.bsky.social

"Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen have produced an informative and romantic gazetteer of the sounds that resonate in our souls...The Sound Atlas makes a too rarely considered case for a quieter kind of ecology, within which essential sounds can have broadcasting bandwidth." #bookreview #soundatlas

Thanks to Chris Berdik, author of Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World―and How We Can Take It Back, for this lovely review of The Sound Atlas: #bookreview #soundatlas #soundstories

Delighted to have The Sound Atlas by @michaelavieser.bsky.social and I be reviewed in @nature.com's latest Books in Brief: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Some of the best selling designs from The Minimal Animal Project over the past year, available in apparel! www.redbubble.com/people/iyuen... #animalart #minimaldesigns #sciart

A few of my favourite books this year, from writers I very much admire: ✨ Skin by Catherine Bush ✨ Endling by Maria Reva ✨ The Way Around by Nicholas Triolo ✨ Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn #books2025 #shortstories #travelwriting #naturewriting #metafiction

@michaelavieser.bsky.social and I had such a lovely chat with Sam Hankin, owner of the Wellington Square Bookshop and host of The Avid Reader. You can watch and listen to our conversation about The Sound Atlas below!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... "What would it mean to build, farm and move across the planet with kinship, not conquest, as our organizing principle? What would a different world – one that works with nature, and not against it – look like?"

"Virginia Woolf believed that style in writing all comes down to rhythm, that once you find it, there are no wrong words." #shortreads #creativenonfiction #flashprose #onwriting

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.

The writer's ritual: @michaelavieser.bsky.social unboxes our author copies of The Sound Atlas, in full hardcover glory! Out now in the UK via @reaktionbooks.bsky.social and in Nov via @uchicagopress.bsky.social #soundstories #deeplistening #armchairtraveler

lithub.com/how-one-snai... "What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, too, features a last-of-its-kind snail?"

Thanks to Dr. Miranda Melcher for chatting with us about The Sound Atlas! Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-sound-at... or wherever you get your podcast!

Thanks to @seventydys.bsky.social for picking up our odd little book that took us on such unexpected adventures! 🙏🔊👂

Happy for the honourable mention for my Italo Calvino inspired short story titled "Tales from Coral Country"! 🪸🪸🪸

Next stop in The Sound Atlas: San Francisco, with detours in Baden-Baden, Germany, the Aeolian Islands, Sicily, and Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts—all in an attempt to trace the history of the Aeolian harp, an ancient instrument that is played solely by the wind...

The first chapter & stop of The Sound Atlas is, believe it or not, New Jersey. There, in 1964, at the Holmdel Horn Antennae, began the saga of two radio astronomers accidentally tuning into a background radiation that originated from the Big Bang, changing the science of cosmology forever...

Thanks to Kyoichi Tsuzuki, renowned photojournalist and author of TOYKO STYLE & ROADSIDE JAPAN, for this heartfelt blurb for THE SOUND ATLAS, coming out next week! Preorder your copy here: shorturl.at/kKNn3 #soundscape #soundstories #newbook @michaelavieser.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is coming round again and the shortlist is stunning. See the whole shortlist here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-... and there will be an exhibition of all of them at Royal Museums Greenwich after the winner is announced.

Destabilize the system, cultivate your humanity, eschew narrow definitions of efficiency. Roam in a wildflower meadow for no reason. Give gifts with no expectation. Write an imperfect paragraph that no one else, let alone the grand fascimile machines, could write.

UK friends and readers, you can get 25% off the preorder of THE SOUND ATLAS at @waterstones.bsky.social using the code SUMMER25. Offer is exclusive to the Waterstones website & app and ends on 7/31: Link at www.waterstones.com/book/the-sou... @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #WPreorder #soundatlas 🌏👂🎶

"Offering distance and difference in vantage, the post-post-apocalyptic allows the imaginary lens to recenter its focus on a freed moment in time, along with its sovereign, mutable future.” A new essay up at @publicbooks.bsky.social for a new series edited by @mw-m.bsky.social: shorturl.at/WdMDg

Anxiety about the future is nothing new. As @mw-m.bsky.social writes, “Rejecting future’s seeming inevitability has defined thought and practice around the world, likely for the whole of human history.” Our new series “No Future”: A Lexicon, begins today:

“I wanted to reposition a place that is so often seen as a periphery. For people living in the Arctic, these are their homelands, so of course for them the region is the center of the world, in the sense that it’s the place where your imagination operates from.”

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

For #WorldEnvironmentDay today, “A Bestiary of Loss” — images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories, from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...

“I’ve been on this crusade against metaphor for years,” Yiyun Li tells Manjula Martin in this conversation. “I think metaphors are not helpful when you are writing about things that are very hard to tackle.” For garden lovers, metaphor haters, and those learning to accept grief.

In Norway, herrings are losing their elders and their knowledge of migration routes. The solution? Change harvesting practices to encourage a population boom and help the fish recover their collective memory.

I share a memory from the cult-classic Earthbound as a videogame that showcases the magic of mushrooms in the latest issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social #mushrooms #fungi

Always nice to have a full list of birdcalls in Merlin within a minute. 🐦

A short review of a rich and fascinating new book from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social by @ekostories.bsky.social and Michaela Vieser

First proof for The Sound Atla I co-wrote with @michaelavieser.bsky.social is here! Final version is coming out this fall. Let me know if you are interested in reviewing it.

"I won't give up. I won't. I'll fight harder." Dr. Jane always says what we need to hear. 💚 When she was asked how she keeps going, even when times are tough and the world feels bleak, she doubled down with her inspiring message. Watch this video for her answer. 📹: Queen Elizabeth Theatre

Four front-facing creatures from The Minimal Animal Project. More here: rb.gy/mz064a #animalart #sciart

It's Earth Day 🌍, and I'm happy to share this conversation I had with curator Mary Woodbury over at Dragonfly: An Exploration of Eco-Fiction, as part of a spotlight on the works of Hayao Miyazaki: dragonfly.eco/isaac-yuen-o... #earthday #ecofiction #hayaomiyazaki #ghibli #nausicaa #totoro #mononoke

🎧 Weekend listening: An Elementals special series from The Becoming Nature #podcast with host Carina Lyall. Out now— Episode 1: Fire 🔥 feat. Rina Garcia Chua & @ekostories.bsky.social and Episode 2: Water 🌊 feat. Hannah Close & Lyanda Fern Lynn Haupt. Listen: www.carinalyall.com/en/en-becomi... 🎙️

An old essay of mine on The Legend of Zelda videogame series, published over at Newfound, a nonprofit publisher whose celebrated work "investigates how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding." newfound.org/archives/vol... #zelda #nintendo #hyrule #creativenonfiction #essay

On the first anniversary of Utter, Earth's publication, I had the pleasure of chatting with writer and interviewer Constance Malloy over at her website, The Burning Hearth.🙏🔥🌍

It's your last chance to nominate books for this year's prize! Nominations close at midnight PDT. Books must be published between April 1 and December 31, 204; further eligibility details are on the nomination form: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

"Melancholy, far from being defeatist, is itself a kind of political resistance, a way of pushing back against the machinations of fascism by preserving the past against erasure."

"The name mahi-mahi comes from the Hawaiian language and means 'very strong', through the process of reduplication." ~Wikipedia definition.

Thank you @chenoweth.bsky.social and company.

Excited to share this conversation on fire I had with Carina Lyall and Rina Garcia Chua over at Becoming Nature, a podcast hosted by Lyall reflecting on "nature and the unfolding of life in the modern world."

Hello! If you're at #AWP25, drop by Booth 631 to chat with writers and poets who have appeared in TLR: Thurs., 10:30 - 11:30: Rebecca Foust (poetry) Thurs., 1:00 - 2:00: Marcus Spiegel (fiction) Fri., 1:00 - 2:00: Vaughn Watson (nonfiction) tahomaliteraryreview.com/issues/issue...

Keep swimming. Be brave in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles. Find strength in the vision of a new future birthed from each deed of courage. Keep swimming. Keep fighting.

Four posters for the animal protection organization "World Wildlife Fund", 1986-1990 Designed by Tom Eckersley. Scanned from HQ- High Quality, Heft 26 2/1993 designreviewed.com/artefacts/hq... #tomeckersley #posterdesign #wwf #animalillustration

A week from today! Join us on 3/27 at 12:30pm with the @museumforartinwood.bsky.social! We're hosting a discussion moderated by @michaelemann.bsky.social with artists and their action and creativity in the face of climate change. Register at the link below! museumforartinwood.org/event/71120/

Cover reveal for the English edition of THE SOUND ATLAS, co-written with @michaelavieser.bsky.social & published via @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Fall 2025! 👉 Pre-orders now available: UK: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-sou... US: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...