*gently pushes towards books by T.J. Klune and F.T. Lukens and Marlon James*

After years of bipartisan warnings about TikTok’s potential national security risks, users may soon confront a different kind of threat, perhaps even worse: an algorithm “controlled by America.”

*gently pushes towards ARTEMIS FOWL and IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES*

*gently pushes towards Torrey Peters and Akwaeke Emezi and Robin Gow*

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hello, hudson valley! do you love kidlit as much as i do? then join me NEXT WEEK for a conversation with jon klassen!!! thursday, sept 25 @ 6:30 pm at morton memorial library in rhinecliff, ny: www.oblongbooks.com/event/jon-kl... ps: hmu if you're an educator! you get a discount!

*gently pushes towards THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING and THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN and, like, anything amy lukavics writes dear god one of her books still gives me nightmares*

*gently pushes towards THE ART THIEF and THE TALENTED MRS. MANDELBAUM and WHY FISH DON'T EXIST*

hannah gives SO much back to the bookselling community and the decline in sales that loyalty (which has a TREMENDOUS selection) is facing because of this silly administration drives me truly, tremendously bonkers. if you want to buy a book or start your christmas shopping, consider loyalty!!!

*gently pushes toward THE CURSE OF EELGRASS BOG and SCARLET MORNING*

if you want to learn a thing while you drive, i have a whole playlist of my favorite nonfiction audiobooks! libro.fm/playlists/ni...

*gently pushes towards THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING or THE MARS HOUSE*

BOOM! Studios is HIRING!!! We're looking for a talented, organized, and detail-oriented Assistant Editor with 1-2 years in editorial or a similar field! You will most likely be working directly with me on a variety of comic titles. Please visit the link to apply! bit.ly/42ooXLq #comicjobs

Are you a marginalized author (or the editor/agent/publicist of one) who has a trad pub YA or adult SFF/H book coming out Sept 2025 - March 2026? This book critic wants to know about it! Small press strongly encouraged. bookjockeyalex.com/contact/

man amazon will never post about physically devouring your new novel but you know who will??? indie booksellers 💕

Do *you* have an interesting, weird, funny, passionate, rambling, some combination of all or some or none of those things thought re: books that you want to share on the Lit Hub Podcast? Send me a voice note! Gmail it to me at thelithubpodcast! Treat it like a voicemail, say hi, say bye, etc!

this is a periodic reminder that powell's has been at war with its union, including decisions by ownership to try to remain non-political and censor staff picks—so maybe "slow portland recovery" isn't the underlying issue causing its financial struggles. (source: tinyurl.com/censorship-at-powells)

hello! i have now read @alixeharrow.bsky.social's THE EVERLASTING and all of you who yelled at me about how much i would love it were ABSOLUTELY correct! it is tremendous! delicious! omnomnom would physically eat the book if i could!!! anyway go pre-order the time travel knight book pls thank u

*gently pushes towards books by Sangu Mandanna*

*gently pushes towards FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS and WHY FISH DON'T EXIST and SISTER OUTSIDER and THE TALENTED MRS. MANDELBAUM*

hello! did you know misinformation regularly spreads on book internet? wild. 👀 anyway let's talk about how to spot it and who you can trust!!! give me your recs for trusted sources!!! instagram: www.instagram.com/nebrinkley/p... blog: www.nebrinkley.com/blog/bookish...

*gently pushes towards Jennifer Lynn Barnes and Maureen Johnson*

do you live near Kingston? do you want to be a bookseller? do you want to spend more time with me? if the answer to some or any of these questions is yes, now's your time. application form is live (and there's a link in there to the job description obvs): forms.gle/qoFAp6oiRP6n...

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

*gently pushes towards HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE*

If you live in NYC and you want to organize around public libraries, join NYC PLAN: nycplan.org - our next meeting is 9/21 at 2 pm in Brooklyn. If interested, email [email protected].

if you want to try romance with a light magical element, ashley poston's books will scratch the itch! if you want to try historical with the same fast-paced trope-heavy nature you can sometimes find in fantasy, pick up LUCKY RED! if you want lyrical mythology on the literary side, try POPISHO!

*gently pushes towards the Legends of Eli Monpress series* (also there are critical role novels!!! check those out too!!!)

*gently pushes towards any essay written by Audre Lorde*

Since the AI discourse is evergreen: You are losing far more than you gain with AI writing. You are losing your ability to create, to imagine. You are losing valuable skill experience that could improve your work down the line. You are losing community. You are losing marketing opportunities.

i hope this email doesn’t find you at all. i hope you got out. i hope you’re free

there is no hell hot enough for people who hate the homeless

please god i am not a believer but you can convert me to any religion you choose if you get publishing to give me back the mass market 🙏

GODKILLER by hannah kaner is one of the rare books i think is even better in audio. HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE is also ✨ stellar ✨ in audio. and i have a whole list of nonfiction audiobook recs: libro.fm/playlists/ni...

We're not in theoretical "they could come after sfw queer content LATER" territory anymore. It is being used to come after sfw queer content NOW. Spread this around, send the article to any and every news outlet/content creator you can think of. The alarms need to be sounded And KEEP CALLING

you can pry JUPITER ASCENDING from my cold dead hands

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...

*gently pushes towards the Legend of Eli Monpress books*

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

*gently pushes towards THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN*

*gently pushes towards books by Ashley Poston*

*gently pushes towards books by Alexandria Bellefleur*

hello! do YOU want to learn a thing? from a book that isn't too long? and also SLAPS on audio? i gotchu covered. libro.fm/playlists/ni...

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*gently pushes towards JANE EYRE and THE FIRE NEXT TIME and SISTER OUTSIDER and CARMILLA*

this is very good.

*gently pushes towards FISHING FOR THE LITTLE PIKE*

*gently pushes towards THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY*