We are restocked and ready for the week. 📚💪🏻🧊

The best retelling of King Lear ever. 📚💙📚

On 5 February 1968: BBC began filming for the "Tolkien in Oxford" documentary, later broadcast in March. In this clip, he talks about his invented languages, writing Tengwar (with mistakes!), and others enjoying the languages. #Tolkien #lotr #BookSky

#BookSky, this impacts not just writers but also readers.

The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...

Happy Black History Month to my melanated friends & readers! May you find joy & peace & rest among the madness that is the 21st century. You deserve it all! ❤️💚🖤

Catherine O’Hara and Rob Reiner are gonna make one hell of a comedy wherever they are.

Good morning to all of the new folks who followed me over from BookTok. I haven’t been active on Bluesky very much, but I will be ramping up my activity here over the coming weeks. 📚💪🏻🧊

On the Northside weekends this month starting tomorrow! Go forth and browse books and gifts, buy from this (and other) indie small business always. 💵🛍🎁

Excited to share the City Books pop-up vendor schedule for December. Saturdays & Sundays 11-2:30! 📚💙❄️

Suspected snowy conditions in Pittsburgh. Dormont, Potomac Ave & side streets. Black Toyota 4Runner with blacked-out windows. 3:15 pm, Tues 7/22.

Please share widely. The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted >>> www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you have considered applying to the CBWR, or have applied in the past and not been selected, this remote, 1-hour information sesh is the opportunity to learn more about the process—from proposal best practices to how we evaluate project proposals. Registration link: lnkd.in/e_PiJ2bz

At a time of increasing White Supremacy noise, it's more important than ever to amplify - and read - writers of colour. Great titles here to choose from⬇️

If you have considered applying to the CBWR, or have applied in the past and not been selected, this remote, 1-hour information sesh is the opportunity to learn more about the process—from proposal best practices to how we evaluate project proposals. Registration link: lnkd.in/e_PiJ2bz

More people need to point out more loudly that Abebooks *is* Amazon, every time I see it mentioned other people seem to be finding out for the first time.

Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

the 2005 tour was a prime exhibit of just how durable some of Springsteen's songs could be, no matter how he decided he was going to reconfigure them. This week's RADIO NOWHERE digs into the most recent official archive release:

Loads of #literary #magazines are coming to Bluesky, here is a great list to follow! PLEASE SHARE TO HELP THEM LEAVE TWITTER! #litmags #writer #writingcommunity go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

🌹 FEMINISM IS REVOLUTIONARY!🌹 40% off feminist books until March 15th With titles from bell hooks, Françoise Vergès, Tithi Bhattacharya, Sophie K Rosa & more! www.plutobooks.com/feminism-is-...

The fact that many Americans cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.

My wife shared this today. She is the best. #poetry

A brand new podcast called The Life of Letters launches today and Lucy from our Archive is the guest speaker on Episode 4! 🎧 All the episodes are available right now or you can listen to them all at: lauraletterslife.com/the-life-of-...

Me: Wow, February sure was rough. TS Eliot: Well, actually… Me, whispering: Please don’t… TS Eliot: …April is the cruelest month.

My mentor and dear friend @roxanegay.bsky.social recently joined me here at Harvard Medical School for an incredible event. We both read new work and then had a wide-ranging discussion about the creative life, politics and culture. I’m delighted to be able to share the video now:

If seeing the news that mules are delivering supplies into Appalachia is surprising you, check out the WPA Book Women, who used mules and pack horses to deliver books to remote citizens, increasing literacy rates and providing jobs. Appalachia's always had a special relationship with these animals.

@hidingintheburg.bsky.social Sorry I missed you today!

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Good reporting out about Pittsburgh and the potential effects of indirect cost cuts. www.publicsource.org/research-fun... 1/2

Calling themselves #AltGov, the network has developed a visible, public-facing presence in recent weeks through Bluesky accounts.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

If your member of Congress won't hold a town hall, hold one without them

i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.

THIS IS HOW YOU STAND UP: EEOC admin judge Karen Ortiz resisted an order to hand over all LGBT cases for “review” and told colleagues to resist too. She knows she’ll likely to be fired. “I can exist on cornflakes and community if it means that my soul is intact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

They want 1939 Germany, Let’s give them 1789 France.

If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

Turns out Bond really did die at the end of the last movie… ( 🙏 @newyorker.com)

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

The Communist Manifesto was published on this day in 1848. To celebrate, we've created a list of books on Marx and other key Marxists texts. Save up to 40% on these select titles - including preorders for Kevin B. Anderson's upcoming book, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads.

Well now.

My essay collection, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist, is on the shortlist for The WCoNA Best Book of the Year Award. 🌟 Congrats to the other authors on the list: Laura Jackson, Michael Lockett, and Torli Bush 🌟 @univnebpress.bsky.social

Calling Arnold Slick from Turtle Crick (to make sure he’s ok) 😢