So sad to hear about Piper J. Drake’s passing. She was an effervescent person and I was so honored to know her.

“There is so much in life that doesn’t matter, so many things that hold you back, hem you in and throw you off the scent of what’s important. Don’t get too bogged down in things that don’t count or things you cannot influence, and specifically don’t worry too much about making sure others know

@raforall.bsky.social @tuphlos.bsky.social @yikesyaika.bsky.social @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social

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A note for the modern world. Love you all so much.

It is notable that a horror author won a Pulitzer even though other horror novels have won because authors & books branded as genre rarely get considered. Much thanks is also due to Victor LaValle & Rebecca Makkai. We don’t get to know what happens in those spaces & conversations.

Enormous congratulations to this year’s Winner & Finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Daniel Kraus - ANGEL DOWN (W) Katie Kitamaura - AUDITION (F) Torrey Peters - STAG DANCE (F) It was enormous honor to serve on this year’s jury & highlight such ambitious, amazing books. Read all three!

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The right railing against activist judges is exactly what they wanted for themselves. Watching this retrograde Supreme Court strip rights and protections from marginalized communities and entrench wealth and power is so gross.

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I mean what does it say about you when the Voting Rights Act is your enemy? It says everything, says a thousand things about democracy, and says one word: racists.

Lovely Ursula Le Guin. ❤️

I am sorry to hear about CJ Cherryh's retirement but I hope she enjoys the down time. Merchanter's Luck was one of my favorite books in high school, and a big part of the reason I loved The Expanse so much, it felt like going back to that world of scrappy merchanters in space caught up in big events

Honeycrisp Hernia

Some great quotes in this thread.

Pre-orders for IV: The Sounder at Heart magazine are now live. They are $10 until May 1, at which point we need to finalize the order. They’ll be $15 after that. www.sounderatheart.com/2026/04/pre-...

Sad to hear Hampshire is closing. Marlboro College, my own alma mater, closed its campus in Vermont and moved the program to Emerson after the pandemic. It was a seismic decision for alums.

Reading an old bound library copy of Louise M. Rosenblatt’s 1938 LITERATURE AS EXPLORATION. Primarily about teaching literature it is also about reading and provides excellent insight into how and why we all read a different book.

I love the genre of essay that comes when a writer writes about when and how a particular book found them and how it changed them. Here's my old friend and colleague Peter Orner on Absalom, Absalom!

Locus needs your help! Donate what you can this morning to help them make their deadline. They are such a vital resource for science fiction and fantasy writers, reviewers, publishers and fans.

Norwescon panel But is it a Romantasy? @amandacherry.bsky.social @kendareblake.bsky.social

HR 7661, the Federal book banning bill, is unfortunately still alive. Please call your reps and say NO ON HR 7661! You can read the bill's full text here and see if your Congressperson is one of the 19 co-sponsors: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Norwescon @tkingfisher.com & @inktofilm.bsky.social

Norwescon panels on authenticity and myth

HOPEFUL MONSTERS is one of my favorite novels and much of it and Mosley’s other writing was a reckoning with having a fascist father.

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Just read LOST LAMBS by Madeline Cash, a quirky debut about an imploding family. The overall tone reminded me of Barbara Gowdy’s MR. SANDMAN, a novel I always meant to read that is hard to find these days. Anyone read both? Curious if I am correct about this read-alike hunch!

This.

I think about this a lot.

Site's been down for a couple of days due to a maintenance snafu but it's back up and we're about 50% of the way to the awards funding goal! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

Wait, Friday March 13th? Didn't we already have a Friday the 13th? I looked over the calendar year and there's a Friday the 13th in November as well. It's numbers and stuff, it could be nothing. It could also be everything: Make what you will of it.

Love Molly’s Mark as Read columns for @reactorsff.bsky.social The divide between so-called “literary” & genre works persists, sadly. Book round up pages forget & ignore SFFH often. It doesn’t help that book reviewers are being cut—we are losing champions of all kinds of books.

A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

I am loving PageBound and see why others love StoryGraph (still doesn't display accounts with a lot of books read in an easy to browse way for my purposes), but I remain on Goodreads for a number of reasons. A major reason being some of the prolific reviews by authors themselves.

Incredible to attend the @nicolaz.bsky.social reading and Q&A at Third Place Books last night - thanks for the invite, @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social 🥰 Wonderful discussion around queerness in literature, inspiration and what it means to take over someone's senses through story

Lara Elena Donnelly - No Such Thing As Duty (Neon Helmock) W Somerset Maugham as intelligence agent + vampire story. It gets in a way a lot of modern vampire fiction doesn't why vampires are both sexy and scary and how the two are linked. Does exactly what it intends in perfect novella length form.

Such sad news for the library community. So appreciative of Ettarh’s voice and work.

New pod is out featuring my convo(s) with @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social and Donna Seaman, and a note from @booklistaudio.bsky.social! Listen now! Or later!

The nurses are pissed

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

notice something: there were 50k out there yesterday and there were no incidents. ICE was not there. ICE is back today and this happens. guess who the problem is

once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street

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It's our last episode! We're so grateful to everyone who's listened to us for the past 7 years. We're using this occasion to talk about the state of science fiction and fantasy in the 21st century — and what has shaped the stories we've loved. www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/20...

If you like post-modern lit, do I have a recommendation for you! LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) is a work of genius. Hazel Jane Plante creates a world, a world within it, and vivid characters in both. It's one of the best things I've read in years. www.hazeljaneplante.com/little-blue

Amazon owns Goodreads, so yes your choice in reading tracker is political. Choose Pagebound instead, we’re 🌱 indie & self-funded 🧃 anti-AI & ad-free 🧙‍♀️ built by 2 women #booksky

Loved this piece

The paradox of reading (and writing) is that you go away from the world in order to come back to it closer than you were before. (It’s the same way that returning from a trip temporarily makes home more visible.) All good books provide this experience in some measure. Probably most good art.

I agree that we should frame reading as a pleasure and that reading is not necessarily a virtue. But why do we persist in allowing the framing that learning and expanding your thinking or even defending democracy can’t also be pleasurable and joyful?

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