“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

I really like how Casey Cep has the “Weird, twisted Americana” beat at The New Yorker.

Being passively evil is so last decade. This is evil on purpose, baby.

I know people have ten million things to say about Severance, but I just want one of those ORTBO hats

new blue micro NF www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2025/02...

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

Valzhyna Mort: “Real writing, I believe, starts with distance.”

[tentatively] crying laughing throwing up

into which type of hell have we fallen?

backed out if AWP v last minute but hope you all find nice cushioned chairs to sit upon and have a rest.

This is incredibly bad— a CDC website clone but w fake and misleading health advice (especially about vaccines), brought to you by the NGO formerly run by the current HHS secretary.

YES.

My favorite genres are: 5. author did research for 12 years to write a tight 275 pages that make you gasp a lot 4. teen girls are people too! 3. something sinister is happening in book world as an allegory for the real world 2. sentences like wisps 1. a gal has a thought while doing the dishes

the amount of mealy-mouthed people crawling out of the woodwork to imply mahmoud khalil doesn’t deserve our full-throated support is evidence of the conditions that allowed him to be disappeared in the first place.

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Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

cry-laughing on a monday vis a vis: "We are in the era of the post-literate writer." blgtylr.substack.com/p/story-basi...

Naomi Kanakia: "The people who understand th[e] process [of selling a literary novel] generally don't talk about it, because part of being a successful literary commodity is the illusion that you are sui generis and have some unique voice that you'd never allow the system to dilute." SCREAMING ❗‼️

in this economy, I need a car honk sound that’s gently like “hey little buddy, just letting you know the light is green; no worries!” the one-size-fits-all “Fck You” sound is entirely too loud.

Murderer.

“My faith in the reader is profound.” love love this interview with forever-buyer Paul Yamazaki. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/02...

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One thing that genAI boosters aren't prepared (or frankly equipped) to handle is how the right-wing tech CEO set are going to shift the models toward right-wing outputs. There will be a concerted effort to make these intentional propaganda machines.

My feed should be flooded with the stories of laid off federal workers.

would read the book on this. 💅🏼

huh, it’s almost as if…

Spending some time considering the mettle of your average senator versus, say, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.

Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it

god bless @tupelopress.bsky.social

for my mom: seeking an anti-fascist newsletter by an independent journalist or several that aggregates news weekly or daily. any suggestions? #journalism #journalismsky

I love High Country News so much. talk about a paper doing its job.

newsletter rec of the day—to keep things bite size and to keep forward motion manageable/possible

Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.

Is it really so hard to write “Trump issues illegal order shuttering most of USAID”? American democracy will die in plain sight with bad headlines.

I’m sorry what.

so grateful for this desk view—fluid, unbounded prose from Lidia Yuknavitch & head-down, hard-working local publishing from Belt. @beltpublishing.bsky.social @lidiamiles.bsky.social @riverheadbooks.bsky.social

Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.” www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...

genuinely wondering why “the new criticism” is just absolutely trashing books. because unless a book is actively doing harm to people, why utilize a platform to pull negative attention in an already flooded media landscape?

Aurora, the beautiful. ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

The cocktail of mediocrity and evil is such a bad combination.

just noting that today my inbox got three (3) more newsletters about book blurbs, and like… don’t we think maybe this S&S blurb thing is a big distraction from the many S&S book deals with and distro of alt right people, which might feel really relevant (again) rn otherwise?

call a coup a coup

today I decided I get “Read a Poem” breaks between work tasks so 💅🏼 #mentalhealth

1. Find a functioning light bulb in a busy work area. 2. Strike the light bulb with a private-sector-manufactured hammer or other hard object. 3. Note any employee who pauses work at the noise or gets distracted. Refer them for Justice Department investigation....

lady gaga hobbling with two canes in that abracadabra premiere WHY 😵‍💫

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

What do you do when you don't want to cook dinner but you still "Gotta Eat"? Discover the cookbook that gives you some answers—and two other bite-sized book recs—in the January "What We're Reading" column! https://www.thecommononline.org/what-were-reading-january-2025/ @aftongray.bsky.social

favorite read of the week, a song on why writing work matters in the midst of tragedy from @annasplat.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...

only blurbs from your mom from now on www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...