Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Missing from the book piracy debate is any mention of predatory academic publishing conglomerates like Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, De Gruyter Brill et al: all of which are massively profitable and don't pay anyone (authors, peer-reviewers) who made the bulk of their money extorting libraries

Now is not the time to ask your trans friends if they are okay. Now is the time to send your trans friends care packages, find them jobs, and ask your doctor about a HRT prescription you don't actually need.

A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany. We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.

Oh, looks like pre-orders are up for Yuko Ohnari and Koshiro Hata's The Voice of the Snow (tr. me) 👦🏻 ❄️ Coming Sept. 22! www.abramsbooks.com/product/voic...

A publisher just told me it will cost them $112 to mail me (from USA to Spain) my 6 complimentary titles of a book I translated. 😢 Whereas checking an extra suitcase (23 kg of books!) is usually just €50-$100 depending on airline. So always makes $ sense to buy lots & schlepp. #booksky #amreading

Mostly due to my budget i don't buy things when they come out. Then if i forget about them it's often a sign that it wasn't for me and i was just caught up in the hype, or that somebody i like was reading it. I do put things on a tbr list though.

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You can't develop your own taste as a reader unless you read widely. Otherwise, you're just inheriting the tastes of others (teachers, booksellers, etc.). Reading stuff & deciding you don't like it is as important in cultivating personal taste as only reading books you love. #booksky #amreading

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You need to read Judith Katz! Her RUNNING FIRECELY TOWARD A HIGH THIN SOUND is like a lesbian, magical realist I. B. Singer novel. (Her 2nd novel, THE ESCAPE ARTIST, also brilliant! Historical & realist but "feels" right to genre readers.) And Ellen Galford's THE DYKE & THE DYBBUK is great fun.

¡Atención, amigues escritores!

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It’s @tkingfisher.com doing a By the Book! Yay. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

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Using Canvas agentic AI to do your work for you signals that your work is worth less than it was prior to that act. The idea that this will, long term, free faculty time is belied by every single thing we know about the history of labor automation. It either puts you out of work, or you work more.

#kidlit #worldkidlit #xl8 #scbwi #booksky

Troubled Lands is a landmark book—the first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of 33 stories by 18 Mexican & Cuban writers, edited by Ricardo Wilson II. Now available (19 May UK pub). Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #LangstonHughes #Literature

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The Subtle Art of Folding Space comes out April 7th. Preorder now! From today to Thursday @barnesandnoble.com members get 25% off with the code PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-subtle...

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He writes 8 solid hours a day five days a week and has a staff of 35. Someone cleans his house, makes his meals, handles his admin, and does his laundry. One cannot compare oneself to Sanderson levels of output 😆

Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg! Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Somebody said millennials usually use their laptops (instead of smartphones) for major purchases, including booking flights. I can’t stop thinking about this.

this applies to abusers too. you don't have to claim you never liked Gaiman's work or that you could tell. that doesn't help, and it just makes it easier for people to hide

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Look, I moderated a Harry Potter Livejournal community. I wrote a lot of Harry Potter fanfic (including a story about a major character being trans). I met a lot of my best friends because of Harry Potter. If I can give that shit up because the author is ACTIVELY WORKING TO KILL PEOPLE, so can you.

Here @theguardian.com hides the fact that IOC is mandating sex testing of all women athletes. This policy is not a trans ban: it is a ban against sex variance in women's sports. Nothing like this is done to men. Sex testing normalizes medical abuse. It's not just unfair. It is evil.

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Terrible for trans women, terrible for cis women, terrible for intersex people. Transphobia makes the world a worse place for everyone, even transphobes.

I loved this novel.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Good morning with good news: US solar generation in January 2026 surged 15%, compared to January 2025. January solar in 2026 is up 69% over 2024! All RE rose 11%, generating 25% of US electricity in January. Coal FELL 12.8% & gas was down 3.4% in January! electrek.co/2026/03/25/e... #energysky

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Turns out that when every Somali case I have in court suddenly got expedited and reassigned to a new judge, it wasn't just me! The DOJ has officially denied that there is an expedited "Somali Docket," but now the public data refutes their denial. Here are the highlights: 🧵 bklg.org/blog/somali-...

NEW: The FBI went down to Georgia, looking for some ballots to seize. Now, in an Atlanta courtroom tomorrow morning, the government must defend a search warrant built on recycled fraud claims & glaring omissions. My primer on Fulton County’s battle for ballots: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/fult...

I’ll read my friends’ books because they’re sexy. Otherwise, the best books can be found by simply walking amongst the shelves and picking out something that grabs you, regardless of the accolades.

It takes some effort to find the right books for you. I'm not often disappointed in what I read because I've curated my own reading experience over decades. I knows what I likes.

I think a lot of folks get mad at books they don't like because they actually haven't had a hand in deciding what to read. They read what they're told to read by book tok or whatever books are getting attention and press due to a nice marketing budget. So they believe these books should please them

This is so vital. AI — like the internet — benefits when we refuse to consider its materiality.

THERE ARE SO MANY GREAT AUTHORS AND SO MANY GOOD BOOKS READ ANOTHER GODDAMN BOOK I BEG OF YOU

Hey, librarian here. If you find out a favorite author is a monster, don't separate the art from the author just give it the fuck up and stop supporting the monster.