Toni Morrison wrote that “all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was”. Morrison was talking about writing and the Mississippi, but she could easily have been talking about the creeks that flow through 'Honeyeater'. satpa.pe/Zo0OpGR

Massachusetts/Boston folks: One week from today, next Tuesday 9/30 at 7 pm, I’ll be at @portersqbooks.bsky.social in Cambridge to talk about how YOU can fight book banning and advocate for the passage of a Freedom to Read bill in MA. Please join us! portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

Happy publication day to @hollyblack.bsky.social & Thief of Night!

Found this on doorstep the other day. Gave it a wide berth. Looked back & it was gone. Now I keep seeing it at the edge of vision. Every day a little more terrified.

⚡️Flash Sale!⚡️ To celebrate the publication of our newest book - The Strange House by Raymond Briggs - we are offering a 20% discount across manderleypress.com, until 23rd Sept, at 23.59. Simply add this discount code at checkout! FLASHSALE20 #booksky #flashsale

I asked some of my colleagues from The Verge about books that changed their lives. I got some interesting answers. www.theverge.com/tech/774085/...

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Dammit, should have cancelled Hulu on the 24th. But I wanted to cancel before the rapture, so—

Over on the Other Place I would occasionally put this thread together, most recently during lockdown, four years ago in fact, and I realised I'd not done it here. So, bear with, and feel free to mute as this is an epic (genuinely, I’m not sure we won’t reach hitherto non-invoked thread limits tbh).

This is a nifty write up of both sets of novels—go read GENERATION LOSS!—plus an interview with me about why Aud, with her “slivers of strangeness” is a “unique character who could enliven a book in any genre”. Quite right!

Kiva is an easy way to make a real difference in someone's life. Will you join me in helping Colletah in Machakos, Kenya, to pursue their dream? www.kiva.org/invitedby/ga...

"It would be cool if we were a stadium band, but we also love the little cult following we have at the moment... that already feels like a crazy amount of people." INTERVIEW: Scottish sunshine pop duo The Cords ☀️ www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interv... @skepwax.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.com

So, THIS is happening "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment. (tk u @robin.berjon.com)

Every leaf a dream

If you live in MA, the e-bike voucher lottery signup is now. Buying an e-bike (well actually two) & shedding a car was the best thing our family ever did. >10000 miles of nearly carbon-free travel, with a battery 1/300 or less the size of a car’s. Every time you ride an e-bike you vote NO on DF

Dear Indivisible Easthampton and #Easthampton community. Please take the time to listen Leah: "We have faced the fear and decided that it will not win. That is what we are doing here together. The way out is together."

🎉 Happy book birthday to JOURNEY OF THE HUMPBACKS! 🐋 From author @julianadelaurel.bsky.social, illustrator Dipacho, and translated from Spanish by @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social. #whales #STEAM #worldkidlit #newbooks

Am curious/hoping if the late night hosts tonight will just replay Jimmy Kimmel's bit.

if the democratic party were led by van hollen instead of chuck schumer or hakeem jeffries right now democratic party approval rating would fly through the roof

Hello #BookSky Tomorrow is now today!!! Can't make it into Boston? Good news, because we're broadcasting it on that series of tubes known as The Internet. Register for our crowdcast below!

Karina Villa out there terrified but still confronting ICE and these people can't get up off their knees, the contrast is extraordinary. www.nbcchicago.com/immigration/...

Go on, dump Hulu/Disney & subscribe to some excellent independent sf&f magazines on Weightless — all ebooks are DRM-free (i.e. you own them) and besides all the magazines they also have books like this:

The Way We Live Now

It's #WeirdBookWednesday AND our Kathryn Davis symposium is tomorrow! It will be a great introduction to her work. The symposium will feature 4 essays about her books AND she'll be in conversation with @kellylink.bsky.social Here's a thread of a few of her books to get you psyched!

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People of New York! I will be coming to your town for a special Halloween Celebration of Peter Straub at Books Are Magic! Other panelists include Nat Cassidy, Kelly Link and Emma Straub! This is a ticketed event, space limited. www.booksaremagic.net/events/35684...

in the spirit of "WTF Lets Do This"... wtf lets do this ⚡ this Wed (17th) 7pm EST, join me for a virtual, one-time generative fiction workshop called WereReaders ... as in, "where are folks reading these days?" & "why does that matter?" & horror stuff :) if you wanna join, that's awesome! +

Watch Brian Eno's Together For Palestine benefit w/ Damon Albarn, Portishead, Sampha, Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry, Paul Weller & more www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-brian-...

New York - a major collection of writers are coming together this Saturday September 21 for VOICES FOR GAZA at the Town Hall. Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi and Seema Jilani will all be in conversation with John Freeman, featuring Aasif Mandvi.

This fall brings not just one but two exhibitions about Ursula and her work. In Portland, A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 31st at Oregon Contemporary. In London, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens October 10th at the AA Gallery.

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Semi-regular reminder that you limit your potential reach on bluesky when you don't include alt-text on your images. If you can't or won't for reasons, this is just to let you know there is a pretty dedicated core of people on here who won't repost anything without alt-text as much as we'd like to.

Here is a little guy that somebody made, and a wonderful poem about making little guys.

My Le Tigre Tour Diary is included here, with pamphlets by Hannah Black, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Minh Nguyen. It is free (print and digital). cookiejar.artswriters.org/volumes/cook...

Catch up on @zenaldehyde.bsky.social in this Tatler interview about her latest romance. I enjoyed listening to The Friendzone Experiment, I expect I'll enjoy Behind Frenemy Lines, too.

The knee bone’s connected to the mailing ballots

24 hours later still struggling with this one

I can’t believe it happened again I am the luckiest girl in Philadelphia

Birds and War: @pflugu.bsky.social reviews MOONS SONGS: THE COLLECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER, edited by Matthew Cheney (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social)

if you will keep putting your ghosts into your spoons, Adrian, this will happen!

if you can get the vaccine get the fucking vaccine

Who is making my wife mad? Fess up, you're in trouble! I'll get off this couch and make your life miserable! Just one more minute, I'm about to get up and I;m not going to make any more typose eitehr! Right, getting up now!

Butterfly stonecrop v. popular

Mandelson has how been sacked as UK embassador to the US (but this was good ⬇️)

Please enjoy this video of a hungry and fastidious honey bee in a sunflower. It was windy, so things get a little shaky at times.

GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for “advanced research and development” at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.

Take some advice from someone who has seen this play many, many times before: this is the same old predatory publishing model, not some innovative step forward. “We deduct our expenses before—“ No, that’s where you can stop reading, everything else is now irrelevant.

Cuomo and Adams, six hundred tickets for "friends" in each hand, "Uh, what??"

if you can't handle me at my couchbound confusedness then sorry I forgot what you don't deserve me at

Time for supernatural shenanigans from authors I know from other genres! I'm a fan of @valerievaldes.bsky.social 's SF (a pile of cats tumbling in zero g is a good way to sell me a book FWIW) and am looking forward the witchy romance pen-name! (Courtesy @lovestruckbooks.bsky.social )