Someone asked me to comment on the anniversary of Jan 6. I will consider having comments on it….should it ever end. We are very much still reaching for the nadir of this reclamation. No time yet for historicizing it. Still trying to survive it.

‘Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.’ ~ Arundhati Roy #SundaySentence

….a story can be beautiful not because of the way it ends. But because of the way it’s written. ― Alison Espach, The Wedding People #SundaySentence #2 Loving this book so much! Totally unexpected st

My first #sundaysentence for 2026 made me laugh out loud. It's from Wrongful, by the wonderful @leeupton.bsky.social: "Only once before in her life had Geneva ever attended a poetry reading, and it was like being scolded by someone with hiccups."

Wal*ing without a big toe was harder than he imagined. “Door to Damnation” by Lara Messersmith-Galvin in Winter 2025 Chthonic Matter Quarterly #SundaySentence

A gift membership to Electric Literature makes the perfect last minute gift for your favorite writer in your life! 🎁

“You don’t want to be touching me,” I said. “I’m stronger than I look” BIGGEST LITTLE GIRL by Jodi Angel #sundaysentence

Such a great book, I do all I can to spread the news on it; were I wealthy I would commission her to write a series of sea tales based on Captain Boomer and Doctor Bunger of Moby Dick, she would rival Patrick O’Brian I have no doubt!

Hosts rarely knew when they were being encroached upon, of course. It was a linchpin of the parasitic relationship. LANDFALLS by Naomi J. Williams @naomijwilliams.bsky.social #SundaySentence

Girls – normal human girls – people could contend with; they were weak and small. And dogs too could be trained. But girls who became dogs, or who let the world believe they were dogs, were either powerful or mad: both monstrous possibilities. #SundaySentence cluster The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis

We made a perfect pair for hunting. “Fabulous Beasts” from ALL THE FABULOUS BEASTS by Priya Sharma #sundaysentence

“Love is visible—it paints the air between two people a different color, and everyone can see it.” Alison Espach in The Wedding People #SundaySentence

“A great novel, a truly great one, not only captures a particular fictional experience, it alters and intensifies the way you experience your own life while you’re reading it.” —Lily King in Heart the Lover #sundaysentence

#SundaySentence (s) But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. Cat’s Eye ~Margaret Atwood

But it was too late and maybe it had been too late from the beginning. Everything beyond his sight mere abstraction— memory, history, perhaps even love—and the time for such things had ended. THE ANIMALS by Christian Kiefer #sundaysentence #rereadingfortheholidays (which i invented just now)

The result is that we largely end up going to writers of color to learn the specific, and go to white writers to feel the universal. HOW TO READ NOW by Elaine Castillo #sundaysentence

What better way to honor Omar and this book than to divest from your bank sponsors that invest in and profit from the destruction of Palestine? And to celebrate him by making a statement as such.

We belied our identities as wild and filled our lungs and bellies with poison, yes sir, we smoked anything to try to see You, dear Father, as if we weren’t also skipping school, fighting barefisted, firing guns, dear Lord, but our crimes were necessary. THE DEVIL IS A SOUTHPAW #sundaysentence

Our Lady of the Grain is an amazing story within a truly fantastic anthology. Highly recommend.

The history of a nation is more than names and places, dates and events—it’s a flow of capital and blood over time, currents of euphoria and fear, victory and grief that bring a country to its present borders. #SundaySentence THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER @chris-arnold.bsky.social

"She knew she wasn't the same kind of bad mother that her own mother had been, but of course the menu of bad mothers is an endless and varied one." Amber Sparks, Happy People Don't Live Here #SundaySentence

"Nobody thinks of the present as the future past." Martyr! By Kaveh Akbar #SundaySentence

Sally forth! Not angels or mercenaries, Cherrise thought. We walk to work like kindergarteners holding a rope. SACRAMENT by Susan Straight #sundaysentence

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Struggling with creativity and focus, I come back to Natalie Goldberg’s foundation for my #SundaySentence : “If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.” #Booksky ✍🏼📚

I found myself praying that the book will be taught more and more in California, where a quarter of the people living in the state were born outside America, and nearly half of all children have one parent who is an immigrant. CALIFORNIA REWRITTEN by John Freeman #sundaysentence @heydaybooks.com

From family letters to poetry and journalism, 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝙍𝙚𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣 author John Freeman traces the origins of his writing life and the call to share extraordinary journeys through words.

Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them. Love is loss of self, loss of other, and faith in the death of loss. BETWEEN TWO FIRES by Christopher Buehlman #sundaysentence

“The three o’clock bell is big over the harbor, flakes of bronze dropping slow to the water, bell in her mouth, bell in her scabbard.” ~Leni Zumas, ‘Red Clocks’ #sundaysentence

“In those days you fell in and out of love with writers quicker than Byron did…” Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope #sundaysentence

“There is no doubt that creative work is itself done under a compulsion often indistinguishable from a purely clinical obsession.” — Ernest Becker #sundaysentence

“A writer’s best work, “ he said, “comes entirely from himself.” Max Perkins #SundaySentence

#Readers, what's the best sentence you read this week? Share at #SundaySentence! Mine was an easy pick--but also hard since there were so many to choose from in HOPE IN THE DARK by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision.

Obsession is the only way I know how to relate to anything that moves me. “Ulysses of Ladykind” from GOBLIN MODE by Caroline Hagood @carolinehagood.bsky.social #SundaySentence

I also want to stop everything and read this right now, another NBA finalist.

October is the month to read folk horror of the quiet kind. Harrowfield isn't just available to purchase via mybook.to/Harrowfield, it's also on Kindle Unlimited. And if you've read it, I'd love it if you leave a review. ❤ www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

The story I have within is the saddest I have ever written. As a reader, I love Chthonic Matter. I am proud of this. chthonicmatter.wordpress.com

There is something addictive about people who put their lives on display.

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I was a weapon in the war. I am one. THE ANTIDOTE by Karen Russell #SundaySentence

Bring back art nouveau you cowards

“. . . one must break with one’s past to embrace one’s future. It is never an easy thing to do. It is one of the distinguishing characteristics between survivors and victims. Letting go of what was, to survive what is.” DARKFEVER by @karenmariemoning.bsky.social #sundaysentence

“As the smoke spiraled out her nostrils, she took the cigarette from between her lips and squeezed the glowing end between her dead fingertips.” S.A. Cosby, King of Ashes #SundaySentence

The thing about being first-generation college was that no one we knew had any idea what the hell we were supposed to be doing there other than taking some classes and hoping they added up to a grand theory of our lives. #SundaySentence from the brilliant The Payback by Kashana Cauley.

Now we were in a different story with a more violent plot and a worse end than we’d thought. MERCY by Joan Silber. #Sundaysentence

He was perceptive only when he sensed that other people might be judging him. SWALLOWS by Natsuo Kirino #sundaysentence

Lauren Morrow’s debut novel “Little Movements” explores being a Black artist in a space not built with you in mind, and the toll of constantly having to prove your value. (@cherrylousy.bsky.social)

Frost Zone Stories Book 2, including terrific stories by @jennyhart2001.bsky.social @dianedooley.bsky.social @malcolmtimperley.bsky.social @camdenscorner.bsky.social Nick Young, Michael Penncavage, Kay Hanifen, D Thomas Minton, @kenfoxe.bsky.social Ann Wuehler and @maureenow.bsky.social

I’m in this.

Illinois, you elected a real one.