Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Music Feature: Which Side? A Protest Music Teach-out; How Music Meets the Moment artsfuse.org/324708/music...

Book Review: Clea Simon’s “The Butterfly Trap” — Double Trouble artsfuse.org/308216/book-...

NBCC member @cleasimon.bsky.social’s "The Butterfly Trap" was reviewed by @matthansonaf.bsky.social at The Arts Fuse, who found it “engaging,” noting, "Simon’s keen eye for the way in which her characters willfully deceive themselves is on point.”

Book Review: “The Hadacol Boogie” –James Lee Burke’s Bayou Ballad of Blood and Redemption artsfuse.org/324006/book-... #booksky @erinfaye.bsky.social

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Kristi Noem must resign. And if she won’t, she must be held accountable and impeached by Congress.

Book Review: Olga Tokarczuk’s “House of Day, House of Night” — A Demanding But Rewarding Reverie artsfuse.org/323458/book-... #booksky

For those who need a break: my new #cat #cozy is "Irresistible." ingridking.com/2026/01/22/r... @booksky.club #booksky #selfcare

A U.S. citizen, an ICU nurse at a VA hospital, was murdered today. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Wow, this was a wild and heartbreaking ride! Book Review: Cancelling Equality — Julia Ioffe’s Personal and Political History of Russian Women #Booksky @theartsfuse.bsky.social artsfuse.org/319899/book-...

Now also available in paperback! (You can also pre-order #Witch #Cat #5, THE CAT'S EYE CHARM, out next month.) #booksky #cozies #mysteries amzn.to/47zb66R

Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney

What do you think of these covers? (My #Witch #Cats of Cambridge #cozy #mystery series, now reissued – and a pre-order link for the upcoming THE CAT'S EYE CHARM amzn.to/4ntD4a8. @shawnrsimmons.bsky.social @BookSky

A new #Witch #Cat? Why, yes! Pre-order THE CAT'S EYE CHARM now or catch up on the first four #cozy #mysteries now - on sale for #Halloween. #BookSky

Just in time for #Halloween, Level Best #Books has re-issued my #Witch #Cats of Cambridge cozy mystery series -- and all four books are on sale! (New book coming in December.) www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY6ZCTK... #Booksky @shawnrsimmons.bsky.social

HISTORICAL FICTION ALERT! Book Review: “Lion Hearts” — Dan Jones Brings His Essex Dogs Saga to a Stirring Close artsfuse.org/318406/book-... #BookSky

Book Review: “Book of I” — A Gem of a Novel artsfuse.org/315812/book-... #BookSky

And... yes, we all hate the big corps, but for us mid-list (i.e., not bestselling) authors, they're a lifeline. And the big A has my THE BUTTERFLY TRAP on sale right now. (I checked and Bookshop doesn't, sigh.) #Booksky www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Tr...

Did I mention how g-d proud I am that E.Jean Carroll blurbed my HOLD ME DOWN? "A flat-out, stoked-up, red-alert blistering justice-gets-done story that you can't put down." — E. Jean Carroll, author of NOT MY TYPE @ejeancarroll.bsky.social cleasimon.com/books/hold-m...

Oh wait - you should see the cover! Love love LOVE this brave and broiling memoir! Go @ejeancarroll.bsky.social ! artsfuse.org/312914/book-...

Have I mentioned here how much I totally adored E.Jean Carroll's "Not My Type"? I laughed out loud several times - and cheered throughout. #BookSky artsfuse.org/312914/book-... @ejeancarroll.bsky.social

Lucas Schaefer's debut novel "The Slip" is wildly ambitious and in many ways truly impressive but ... ah... I have reservations. #Booksky artsfuse.org/313643/book-...

Well, this is nice! 75% OFF To Conjure a Killer #cozymystery url:https://www.audiobooks.com/promotions/promotedBook/775753/to-conjure-a-killer?refId=198319

I've signed on! Will you?

THE BUTTERFLY TRAP Now in the Harvard Bookstore @harvardbookstore.bsky.social Select Seventy! #booksky

@matthansonaf.bsky.social on Clea Simon's engaging novel "The Butterfly Trap": The all-too-human propensity for not only telling yourself what you want to hear but taking what you see at face value drives the narrative action. artsfuse.org/308216/book-...

Thank you, @booker.senate.gov !! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Hey Wisconsin! While Brad Schimel tried to overturn the #AffordableCareAct, Susan Crawford has spent her career fighting to protect healthcare for everyday Wisconsinites. Make your plan to vote for Judge Crawford by April 1st to protect your care. #CrawfordForCourt #StopShadySchimel #BadBrad

This is not sufficient! @massago.bsky.social and Gov. Healey must act! @govmaurahealey.bsky.social

@massago.bsky.social Please sue to free Rumeysa Ozturk, the @humanitiestufts.bsky.social Tufts grad student whose only crime was co-authoring an op ed! She has been removed to La. over a judge's orders - these are Gestapo tactics! #FreeRumeysa

Mystery fans, a fantastic online auction to raise money for Trans Rights has kicked off. My donation is pictured but there are plenty of other great ones from way more famous people. Check it out! www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...

Name that cat! Get your ms critiqued. Pick up a signed Charlaine Harris/Walter Mosley/Ann Cleeve – or maybe a diamond pendant? These and more than 200 other items up for auction now to support trans rights! (Yes, my offering includes a cat/character name) #booksky www.32auctions.com/writers4tran...

Yes, fuck Trump. (Evergreen post.) But also fuck every institution & individual caving in & kissing his enormous orange ass.

I never thought the leopard would MY face!

“Many do not have transportation or they are homebound or in the hospital and don’t have access or simply don’t know how to use the internet... What happens to them? What happens to the person who can’t do it online and now their local office has closed?” www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Here’s the Author’s Guild Website and the specific page you, dear author, need. It contains all the information about the Class Action Lawsuit as well as steps you can take right now to protect your work. authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...

Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

Thank you so much, Ryan, Mike, and @mysteriousbookshop.com ! What a blast!

"This book plays with the reader's mind in crazy ways.” – Henry Santoro @wgbh.org @severnhouse.bsky.social #booksky #suspense www.wgbh.org/culture/book...

The Social Security Admin isn’t just retirement payments. It’s the disability insurance YOU pay into in case YOU become disabled and unable to work. It’s supplemental income for disabled and elderly people who have less than $2k in assets and cannot be gainfully employed. That’s what he’s gutting

👇🏽An organic and entirely appropriate reaction to the obscene gaslighting

Mets has stolen all of mine as well. Reading AI fiction is reading the dredge from all our books thrown out a blender.

This idiot is lying. Just ask the seditionists who were pardoned. Just ask the First Felon. This admin is a long con job.

ARIZONA — Bernie on the Oligarchy: “From the bottom of my heart, I am convinced they can be defeated.”

AOC, @aoc.bsky.social, making the case for free speech alongside universal healthcare is so KEY for the left, because it's time progressives reclaimed the mantle of fighting for free speech from the faux free speech warriors of the right.

Amen. 🇺🇸 They want you to believe this is radical. It isn’t.

Sanders: We are not a poor country! There is no excuse on God’s earth for people to have to choose between food and the medicine they need to stay alive.