Hello! 👋 I'm hoping to raise money for two Bay Area cat rescues. If you post a screenshot of you donating at least $20, I will answer a style-related question for you. But first, let me tell you about the rescues, why they're worthy of your support, and hopefully get you to adopt a cat. 🧵

my heart can't take it, you have to adopt them, otherwise I have to upend my whole life to make sure they stay together

chicago! ‘tis ONE WEEK until i read & converse in person (6/18) at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social with @makecommon.bsky.social ! if you would like to attend, the info’s below: pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/50470

ARCs are in for our two Fall titles, both slender novels, both brilliant: Denise Rose Hansen's BLUE SUNSET and Brais Lamela's WHAT REMAINS (trans. by Jacob Rogers)! Out on October 6, 2026!

Ignoring how problematic the Met Gala is and looking icily at Harper's saying that Madonna's dress was inspired by a "little-known Surrealist" painter. That would be Leonora Carrington... The Temptation of St. Anthony (1945) www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

May is Short Story Month! Here, then, for your reading pleasure, is a short story from Amina Cain's collection CREATURE, which we published in 2013. It is called "Delicately Feeling." @aminamemorycain.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Introducing AFTERNOON HOURS OF A HERMIT, the much-anticipated second novel from Patrick Cottrell, publishing in the UK and Europe on 22 September 2026. ‘a novel of genius’ @aminamemorycain.bsky.social Preorder now: uk.bookshop.org/a/1044/97819...

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

Evander James Reyes interviews Patrick Cottrell about his new novel, "The Afternoon Hours of a Hermit." They talk about Milwaukee as noir, metafictional doubling, frustration as the mechanics of plot, and more! buff.ly/1VoMLhX

Happy pub day to @patrickcottrell.bsky.social & his genius novel Afternoon Hours of a Hermit, out w/ @eccobooks.bsky.social. A book that looks deep into the void & is also funny, about the unknown, (mis)perception, dead names & the dead, writing, investigation & the history of the novel itself.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

"Extracting personal details from her requires persistence." Thessaly La Force profiles Gwendoline Riley for the NYT. Riley's new book, The Palm House, is out now.

The Center for the Art of Translation is excited to announce the public phase of our $17M capital campaign to build a permanent literary and cultural center in downtown San Francisco steps from the Transamerica Pyramid. 🌁

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

We lost our dear, dear Trout on Friday 💔 He was the sweetest cat I've ever known, not a mean bone in his body, utterly loving. He also loved catnip, lying in the sun on the back deck, accompanying me when I did yardwork, and cuddling with us at night. We love you so much, Trout. Forever.

Targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime.

BREAKING: An investigation found that the Department of Defense has sent out outdated statements about the number of troops wounded or killed in Iran, appearing to engage in a “casualty cover-up." trib.al/0BdA1lY

Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis”

3,267 No Kings protests planned today. 95% of Americans live within 1 mile of a protest. Likely to be the largest concurrent protest in American history. We’re going to beat these fascists.

Travelers in the U.S. have been flooding us with messages concerned about ICE at airports, questioning or mistaking other agencies for ICE. Here is a quick guide. 🧵 By @eltragon.bsky.social

California: Stay safe and support your community by reporting any potential abuse by Donald Trump's federal agents ⬇️

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

you wanna radicalize everyone in the admirals club? ok bet.

A blockade that causes a national power grid to collapse would be a crime against humanity. www.cnn.com/2026/03/16/a...

34 years ago my first book came out and changed my life — today is PUB DAY for the reissue, with a new afterword! Thank you, little book, and thank you @fsgbooks.bsky.social

“So one thing a good protest song can do it to take that rage we’re all feeling and give it a voice—a voice external to us, singing from a place outside ourselves, from a place where we can put some of the anger so it doesn’t entirely consume us.”

While dropping off his kids, federal agents detained an Afghan refugee who served alongside U.S. special forces. He died less than 24 hours later. This is the 43rd death in ICE custody since Trump retook office. We need accountability and justice for all those who’ve died under their watch.

The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026

I love this book. Might have to reread it in honour of its tenth birthday.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

“ ‘Curtis is definitely a murderer,’ he said. ‘No question about it.’ ” From “Curtis” by Patrick Cottrell in our new Spring issue.

The bland obsequiousness of AI has really become a hallmark of its style and the easiest tell for me. Far more so than any em dash use or whatever, it's just the ubiquitous adjectives about how great the subject matter is, like one of Trump's cabinet members giving him a summary.

Thrilled to announce we have a new editor heading our way, to replace the wonderful Dredhëza: Ben Oldfield, currently at the Wylie Agency, will be joining us at the end of this month. We're so excited to see how he helps shape the list: www.thebookseller.com/news/daunt-b...

An excellent listen!! ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social joined @mookse.bsky.social & @bibliopaul.bsky.social to talk about my favorite type of book, unclassifiable ones. What are your favorite books that blend genres? open.spotify.com/episode/6Uwh...

I ❤️ Daunt so much, what they publish and who they are as readers and as people. It's as good as it gets! Feel lucky beyond measure to get to publish books with them myself.

Congratulations to Laura Vazquez and Alex Niemi! THE ENDLESS WEEK makes the @usrofc.bsky.social prize shortlist alongside these excellent other books & writers/translators & presses.

Every Amina Cain book is an event for me.

I wrote another novel & I'm so very happy to be working with Milo Walls at @fsgbooks.bsky.social on it, to be publishing again with @marigoldatkey.bsky.social at @dauntbookspub.bsky.social & with Michael Heyward at @textpublishing.bsky.social. Thank you Mel Flashman! Thank you Devon Mazzone!

Hey, @lataco.bsky.social is raising money to launch an investigative news unit; their current priorities involve looking into "less lethal" weapons used on protesters and more thorough documentation of ICE kidnapping. Chip in here: givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...

Look at her face as Raskin goes on. She knows what she's done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztgu...

if ICE is taking your photograph, seems like one of the best things you can do in the moment is tuck your chin and look down. maybe that's intuitive but the tech does seem to be really weak at that angle, fwiw.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

🌱 Another shade in the garden.

🌱 Laelia anceps - weird LA winter.

Fatima Bhutto is on the @theguardian.com's podcast with @nosheeniqbal.bsky.social, on surviving an abusive relationship while in the public eye. We publish her memoir THE HOUR OF THE WOLF on 26 Feb: www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...