Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

Feast your ears on Transmission zero, and welcome The Night Ship into the world! Released today wherever you can grab it, and ready to be just about the strangest journey into the vast of night you'll ever go through. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...

Best review of my novella so far: "I was hoping for more heist shenanigans, what I got was philosophy." THAT'S RIGHT! Preorder here:

$2.99 Kindle deals now through 1/31, worldwide! Philip Ridley's IN THE EYES OF MR FURY is a brilliant magical realist LGBT epic, while Bernard Taylor's SWEETHEART SWEETHEART has been called one of the best horror novels ever written.

This is a great time to invest your money in independent publishers who make marginalized voices a priority. @valancourtbooks.bsky.social, @tenebrouspress.bsky.social, and @ghoulish.bsky.social, to name a few. 📚🩸

Edwin Dickinson, Composition with Still Life, 1933-37 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134987

Let me tell you: some of our countries aren’t where we left them. Jane Zwart, from her luminous collection ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST #smallpoemsunday

daily dose of green/fog, end of day light and fog, does not get much better than this ... #photography #nature #trees #canada #landscape #fujifilm #forest #rainforest #vancouver #rain #fog

It finally happened. Someone asked me where the poetry section was in the library!

As I read them, the terms of the prompt rule out LANs, USENET, many chat rooms, and many email discussion lists. So… probably the bulletin board run by a guy at my library school, early 2000s. Avatars, sig lines, dopey HTML jokes, ASCII art, all that.

Once wiped out in the wild, China’s milu (Pere David’s deer) has staged one of the world’s great wildlife recoveries. From just 39 animals reintroduced from British zoos in 1986, the herd at Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve is now 8,500. buff.ly/6JL2X2c #ShareGoodNewsToo

"Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention" "Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe “entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.”" apnews.com/article/ice-...

My first publication of 2026 is an essay. Read "Home is Where..." at Ergon: Greek/American* Arts and Letters, which is part of the "Voices of the Other Greek America" series. *There's some exhausting academic reason why it's not Greek-American or Greek American.

ARTISTS! It's a grim time so let's support each other! If you are open for private commissions post your work and your rates here! I want to boost you and get you some work! Anyone feel free to share this thread!

Hi hey my new book comes out on Jan 20, and she's real pretty, and there's a giveaway of ten of these shiny sprayed hardcovers on GR, otherwise you can ask your local bookstore for one and that would mean the world to me! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...

I am a research librarian. I do not use ChatGPT for research. I help people learn how to unfuck the work that they have fucked up by using inferior tools that serve up shit.

RVA friends and readers, I’m chatting with Con Lehane about his fantastic new historical crime novel, The Red Scare Murders at Fountain Bookstore, Inc. this Wednesday, 1/14 at 6:00 PM. Don’t miss it! Free registration below withfriends.co/event/269842...

if you need it on web: Settings > Content & Media > Autoplay media and GIFs (Off)

a lot of people traumatized themselves consuming a ton of horrific content over the years and they want to think that pain meant something or serves some greater purpose but it doesn’t and didn‘t. it just left you broken and shitty at performing your ostensible goal of liberation

I’m so excited to be in conversation with Anthony Award–winning author Olivia Blacke about her new mystery, Death at the Door—we’ll be talking all things mystery, hauntings, and ghostly crime solvers. 👻📚 RVA friends, swing by!

What can change the nature of a man?

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.

A book is not a fruit, it doesn't rot. It's meant to last a long time, to be found on a shelf somewhere, to be a surprise, a discovery or rediscovery. For the sake of the presses & distributors, awards, critics, the ecosystem of culture, the birth matters, but it's only the beginning, not the end

2026 not even a day old, and already I've grumbled my first "man, who slapped the THIS CAN BE LIKE TWITTER IF WE JUST TRY HARD ENOUGH banner on Bluesky?"

One of the most unforgettable images capturing the vibrant promise of the new year, by the great Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy: 7 A.M. (New Year's Morning), c. 1930 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Sharing this again because today may or may not be the last day. The October Film Haunt hardcover is 50% off at Barnes and Noble for an uncertain limited time!

Happy "This Is Your Last Chance To Help Us Meet Our Funding Goals!" Email Day to all who celebrate

Here's the thing about a dead republic--it's a lot of struggle, but you can get a new one. The French are on their 5th. For us, this may have been our 2nd republic that bit the dust (see the Civil War and aftermath). We should try to build a new one. Something to think about for a new year.

How I am walking into 2026.

I am the doctor with whom the great clown Pagliacci consulted during his long struggle with depression

Yesterday I ran errands and incidentally went thrifting. I was curious to see if I'd find any mass market paperbacks poetry collections. I did, if you count Shakespeare's plays, but otherwise no! Yes, bookstores, Abe, etc. exist, but I was mainly curious about poetry in the semi-wilderness.

I repost this on every platform when I see it

I am the doctor with whom the great clown Pagliacci consulted during his long struggle with depression

I have read this book and cosign! It IS a good book, and you, too, should read it, especially if you think about the climate, family, grief, and what makes for bonds between living creatures when the world is ending.

Grateful for the years of training in close reading that allowed me to discern that this post is not about the United States, where everything is fine

🧵 Important thread for writers. Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.

Shameless self-promotion at the end of the year: my second book of poetry, WE THE DESTROYERS, came out from @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social in your throat this year: riotinyourthroat.com/product/we-t... I am obviously biased but it's a pretty good book and you should read it!

I have read this book and cosign! It IS a good book, and you, too, should read it, especially if you think about the climate, family, grief, and what makes for bonds between living creatures when the world is ending.

Huh. I love Christie, but that IS a weird argument. Her coding of evil and disreputability is often fundamentally conservative! The corpse at the heart of THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY is a problem not merely because it's unexpected, but because it's a low-class corpse in the home of local gentry.

The October Film Haunt is 50% off at Barnes and Noble for a limited time! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-octobe...

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, passed alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found himself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

Beware the Yule Cat! In Icelandic folklore, Jólakötturinn, is a giant cat who prowls the longest winter nights, hunting those who didn’t receive new clothes before Christmas. So… here’s hoping socks are under the tree. 🧦🐈‍⬛ Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! #HappyHolidays #YuleCat #Jólakötturinn

"It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story." - Jerome K. Jerome

Do you, too, attempt to smuggle spondees in wherever possible? Help is available! Dr. Syntax’s Miracle Antilatinity Cure is available wherever finer elixirs are sold.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, passed alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found himself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, reckoned he got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt him and sivilize him and he can’t stand it. He been there before.