Next in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social: Makeshift, Sarah Campion's 1940 novel about the journey of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from 1919 through the Weimar republic, the rise of the Nazis, and her journey in search of a new home.

Josephine Johnson wrote Seven Houses: a Memoir of Time and Places (1973) when she was in her sixties. It’s a memoir constructed around the framework of the seven houses in which she had spent most of her life to that point. (Not all innovation in the memoir is recent.) neglectedbooks.com/?...

My accomplishment this week has been not dying in the heat dome.

Grateful to the Key West Literary Seminar for hosting me as their June writer in residence for my novel in progress. What a gift! (View from my KW studio)

H. L. Davis's Winds of Morning (1952) is a western in the same sense that Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It is a western: yes, there are cows and cowboys in Davis's book, but fundamentally, it's about how people come to ways of living in a land so much bigger than us. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Back in 2021, I read a 1966 novel about a young woman on a remote ranch in Nevada that had never been published in the US. Luckily, I tracked down its author, Joaquina Howles, and arrange to republish No More Giants with @bhousepress.bsky.social before she died last year. neglectedbooks.com/?...

A long and -- at times -- brutal week. But we continue to fight for democracy with hope and determination. Thank you to everyone who has offered kind words of support on this journey. More soon. Goodnight.😴

My interview earlier this evening on #BBC #WorldNewsAmerica about the closing window for averting dangerous planetary warming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7DU...

A milestone: the first electric aircraft has landed at JFK. "...the flight from the airport in East Hampton to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport took 45 minutes with a pilot and four people" and cost ... $8 worth of electricity.

My residency workspace at the Key West Literary Seminar. So grateful for this opportunity.

'Rising Tides' by contemporary US painter Samantha French #WomensArt

A plague a’ both houses!

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long, that nation will forget what it is and what it was." - Milan Kundera

Entrance to my residency cottage in Key West, with the generous support of the Key West Literary Seminar. So grateful for the opportunity.

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for. Kudos, Sir.🌦️

Remembering Marilyn Monroe on her birthday 🎂 📷 Ed Feingersh, 1955 “Her fame increases, & as it does so we see how far she depended on, and excelled in, photographs - not movies. She is funnier in stills, sexier, more mysterious & protected against being. ” - David Thomson

Feeling this

Climate memoirs are special. They’re how my storytelling journey began. @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social was the first writer to ask me for an endorsement. Melt ❤️ Literally 😭 Barbara’s story centers her Peruvian family & her time with an Andean glacier. I so enjoyed returning there through her words.

Thank you, Brianna, for featuring MELTED AWAY as this month's climate read. So honored!

Remembering Rachel Carson on her birthday 🎂 📷 Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life magazine, 1962 That was the year Carson published her classic book Silent Spring

ACOG is deeply disappointed by HHS’s move to drop COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in pregnancy. The science is clear: COVID-19 remains dangerous in pregnancy and vaccination protects both patients and newborns. The vaccine is safe and protects families. Read our full statement: buff.ly/OGue7sO

Me, too #BlueskyOriginal

This Memorial Day weekend, the best way to honor the soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice is to honor and protect the freedoms and the democracy they died for.

Today is #WorldDraculaDay because Bram Stoker's classic novel was first published #onthisday in 1897. It's also worth remembering that if Stoker hadn't come across the name Dracula in a book while researching in a LIBRARY the main character was going to be called Count Wampyr. 🧛‍♂️

The latest Covid surge is causing "pain described as a 'razor blade throat' - a sensation likened to swallowing shattered glass or razor blades." Seems mild greekcitytimes.com/2025/05/24/c...

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

My favorite road sign

"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM. All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed. There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..." www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

Bookish friends are great because you can be all "read this, it will absolutely crush your soul and tear your beating heart into a million little pieces and you will literally never recover from it" and they'll be like omg yaaaasssss

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When the IT guy takes over my computer remotely

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

The UK government is to double the number of globally leading universities whose graduates can apply for a “high potential individual” #visa, reports @jgro-the.bsky.social #AcademicSky #EduSky

👏🏽👏🏽 Free public health supplies are being provided at 51 kiosks throughout Los Angeles County. The supplies include COVID-19 rapid tests, Naloxone, condoms, etc www.latimes.com/california/s...

My exchange with someone at NSF today.

What a day to have studied Latin in Chicago.

The insurance companies know. Follow the $. “The health trajectory of increasingly younger adults has changed dramatically since COVID-19… More Americans in their 20s, 30s, & 40s are developing serious conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, & heart disease…” insurancenewsnet.com/innarticle/p...

Authors Guild webinars are SO good and helpful. On May 9, AG will be hosting Nonfiction Proposals: What Agents and Editors Want. It's free. Register here: authorsguild.org/event/nonfic.... @authorsguild.bsky.social #booksky

The America I love is being decimated -- the arts, literature, the sciences, freedom of expression. I urge Washington to reconsider this broad-scale dismantling of institutions that uplift humanity and our nation.

FYI. Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. www.savensf.com 🧪🌎🦑

"“As an individual, the more severe your primary disease, the more likely you are to get long COVID. It’s a dose dependent issue,” Professor Crabb says. This is why prevention efforts focus on reducing viral load." archive.md/C4PMM

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

Vaccine scientists and medical leaders are launching an unprecedented initiative to react to vaccine misinformation and scientifically unfounded vaccine decisions by the U.S. government, called the Vaccine Integrity Project (VIP). www.science.org/content/arti...

The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure

Introducing the "tree ring plot": a new way to visualize global surface temperatures. Each ring is a year, and each colored cell represents a day in global average temperatures (compared to a 1850-1900 preindustrial baseline).

They simply want to cancel an entire field of science because they don't like the answers it has come up with. It's like the burning of the library of Alexandria. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.” ― Brian Friel

Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishing—straight up, leaps thy apotheosis!