*gently pushes toward LEGENDBORN and THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI and THE RIVER HAS ROOTS*

did you know that most independent booksellers do not get healthcare through their jobs and navigate insurance markets on their own? do you know most independent booksellers don't make a lot of money? anyway for no particular reason here's a reminder to donate to BINC: bincfoundation.org

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

As we approach the season of giving, I wanted to share the incredible work of the Binc Foundation, a critical safety net for the book industry. 🧡 Binc helps booksellers and bookstore owners in times of need. They keep bookstores open and help them rebuild. A worthy cause, indeed.

*gently pushes towards THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN to be paired with the Dishonored soundtrack*

*gently pushes towards THE TALENTED MRS. MANDELBAUM and SISTER OUTSIDER and WHY FISH DON'T EXIST* also i have a playlist of my favorite short nonfic audiobooks!!! libro.fm/playlists/ni...

Super excited that we're hiring a senior writer to join @wired.com's culture team! If you're obsessed with internet culture and like our vibe, apply! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

BIG BREAKING: Democrat Zohran Mamdani is elected Mayor of New York City, in the largest turnout vote since 1969. He becomes the first Muslim and immigrant mayor of New York City, and the first Muslim to be elected of a major U.S. city.

Teen Vogue has been incredible for years but it was just now starting to get mainstream notice. There’s no VC threatening corporate governance mandating infinite group. This is privately owned. They just slashed their only property with a *growing* audience…because Wintour thinks it’s tacky?

*gently pushes towards the Legend of Eli Monpress series*

Teen Vogue possesses more integrity and professionalism than NYT and WaPo combined.

I was fighting fascism with the power of love and kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. proteanmag.com/2025/11/01/w...

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

*gently pushes towards THE EVERLASTING and SCARLET MORNING*

Send a letter to your City Council members to demand increased and STABLE funding for our NYC Public Libraries. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

It's not too late to register for tomorrow's town hall, "Book Bans and the Art of Protecting Authors," with guests @angiethomas.bsky.social, Jas Perry, and @philomena.bsky.social! www.publishingprofessionalsagainstbookbans.com/events

Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:

*gently pushes towards LUCKY RED and A LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS*

*gently pushes towards THE TALENTED MRS. MANDELBAUM*

Got to lean back with my pal Ryan Chapman for this week's @literaryhub.bsky.social podcast ep in a long chat about the Booker Prize shortlist: lithub.com/the-lit-hub-... (plus, a fitting call-in from @nebrinkley.bsky.social, who is always correct, on a love for mass market paperbacks)

This news is so intriguing! The prize will be focused on books published for children ages 8-12. It will be judged initially by 3 adults who come up with a shortlist, then 3 children will join the judging. Huge financial award to author, plus 30K copies of the honored books will be given to kids.

Publishers de-prioritizing children's books is just crappy, but it's also shortsighted financially: 1. Kidlit is recession-proof! Parents will always need to buy books for kids. 2. If you're not fostering the next generation of readers, then you won't have a consumer base 10-20 years from now.

do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you! forms.gle/KxLNwVDVbbRS...

*gently pushes towards THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING and WOODWORM and JANE STEELE, which is admittedly a little less recent but i love so much that i can't help it*

the money you used to give to the New York Times and Washington Post should be going to ProPublica

hello hiya i have a playlist of @libro.fm of my favorite short nonfiction audiobooks with excellent narrators if you want to learn a thing! updated just this week with some recent listens. libro.fm/playlists/ni...

It's actually remarkably easy to not ever use ChatGPT.

Now, more than ever, you have to be a weird little pervert who makes art of questionable quality. You need to be driven crazy by the flesh. Because, as we all learned from Cronenberg's The Fly, the computers are not made crazy by the flesh. They can't do it like us.

*gently pushes towards DRAGONS IN A BAG and THE WILD ROBOT and IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES and SKUNK & BADGER*

*gently pushes towards THE WILD ROBOT, IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES, ARTEMIS FOWL and THE GIRL & THE ROBOT*

KOSA just got a bunch of new cosponsors so, y'all, kindly tell them to knock it the fuck off. Make this bill unpassable for the sake of keeping the open internet, enough of this censorship BS and "protect the children" excuses. #savespeech #KOSA #stopkosa www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

Hey, Massachusetts! Help tell our legislators they should pass An Act Regarding Free Expression to protect libraries, schools, and authors from book bans by sending them a postcard! Instructions on how to do this and where to get postcards here: www.massfreedomtoread.org/act @massaabb.bsky.social

In addition to short fiction, also open to poetry aimed at a middle grade and YA readership.

Jeff Bezos might have built a spaceship, but indie bookstores build and nurture whole communities and that is *way* more impressive and valuable.

Because while fighting each other might feel good in the moment, it: - Exhausts you - Exhausts the other party - Which (arguably) chips away at our ability to unify - And that's the last thing we need right now. There are a lot of things Dems need to be doing, and fighting each other isn't it.

Or am I doing this because I want to feel a certain way? Are there better things I can be doing to help save the republic? Are there candidates I can support? Can I call my reps? Can I stop book bans in my local community? Can I inform myself further - e.g. on Vought?

And that's why I'm going to ask all of you right now, especially for those of you that are also on Threads, too: Before you respond on social media over something you see which causes you to feel a certain way: ask yourself - will responding that way help at all?

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

We’re thrilled to announce that on October 28th at 4 PM ET, PPABB will present its first event, a virtual town hall, Book Bans and the Art of Protecting Authors. (More in this thread) We’d love for you to join us. Register in advance for the webinar at this link: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

there is a moment like this in sophie jordan's historical romance novel THE DUKE EFFECT that made me laugh so hard that i still remember it despite reading the book four years ago. i can't remember the names of people i met yesterday but i can tell you about that scene!

I am once again begging big 5 publishers to invest in rebuilding book media by starting their own newspapers/journals/magazines. That plus helping keep indie bookstores open would do so goddamn much for the industry

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

I will never stop banging this drum -- publishers (honestly anyone distributing creative work rn), need to try something new! bring back the atrophied part of their marketing brains that involves something other than "post through it"