Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books Bad Land by Corinna Chong (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social) & River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation, ed. Nuzhat Abbas (@tracepress.bsky.social & contribs @mailbykite.bsky.social @wordsweaver.bsky.social @rahat.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

since this week I've been working on an essay that is spilling out of my brain in a good but also very long way. my writer mutuals can possibly guess what it's about. I'm currently workshopping some pieces that I've already written over on Patreon. you should check it out, if you're into that.

For those who are looking for free from baking recipes, I highly recommend Katarina Cermelj's 'The Elements of Baking'. We've made lots from this book & every one turns out perfectly with not too much faff. Including these gluten free, vegan cinammon rolls that I made today with my daughter.

I'm working my way through a dual biography of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, and I'm newly fascinated by both women! (And if anyone has a recommendation for a biography of Claire Clairmont, do let me know!)

these worlds often feature material inequalities, but production is imagined as a flow that you can tap into rather than an exploitation process you must organize. it's feudalism without peasants.

politically, the biggest problem with a lot of SF/F worlds is that they erase the working class. they may imagine political conflicts, they may feature oppressed or lumpen characters, but production seems to just happen without being a central contradiction in society.

your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens

It turns out a factory worker in Yiwu had accidentally stitched the mouth upside down and given this little New Year horse an unhappy face. This went viral, now everybody wants one. Unknowingly, that worker had expressed how a lot of people have been feeling, with one masterstroke. Kukuma's cute.

The elusive firefox of Lapland is the source of the Northern Lights. This Finnish creature, a winter fox who burns black at day but shines a multitude of colors at night, is often sought by hunters, but rarely ever found. #FolkloreSunday 🖼️: rinkula

My in-laws gave me a book voucher for Christmas and I'm very happy with the resulting haul. Mostly non-fiction but I couldn't resist the title and premise of Shy Trans Banshee!

the computer used to have its own room

To get more young people to read, it’s best to treat the activity not as a public duty but as a vice, Adam Kirsch argues.

Very good overview on the (mis-)readings of Fanons indebtedness to Lacan:

Great interview 👇

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This is an object lesson for all writers. If you put a sea shanty in your story, and then later offer to read said story for a podcast, you WILL BE EXPECTED TO SING and it might take thirty-seven takes in the @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social storage closet studio hoping no one else is in the building

What a time for this book to be published in the UK for the first time. Written in 1989, Parsipur was imprisoned in Iran for daring to write about the desirous internal lives of her five fictional women - including Munis, who dies not once, but twice, before being born again…

My primera publicación del año es para los de habla hispana. Mi cuento “A World Unto Myself” publicado en 2023 en Apex Magazine ha sido traducido por escritor Argentino Cezary Novek y ahora aparece en @latuercaandante.bsky.social como “Un mundo en mi mismo.” rb.gy/pw2v5n

My first publication of the year is for Spanish-speakers. My story “A World Unto Myself” published in 2023 in Apex Magazine has been translated by Argentinian author Cezary Novek and now appears in La Tuerca Andante as “Un mundo en mi mismo.”

what are the words for ’solidarity’ in your language and how do they differ, semiotically from ‘solidarity’? Especially interested in non-euro languages

Kobo Abe grew up in Japan's Manchurian colonies, and so never felt fully Japanese. Nevertheless, he become one of Japan's most iconic 20th century writers, playwrights, and directors. He also patronized the rise of Japanese sci-fi. He is probably best known for the novel The Woman in the Dunes.

A reminder that backstory of Mutiny on the Bounty (playing now on TCM) was to collect breadfruit samples to plant on Jamaica, where the British hoped to use it as a cheap foodstuff to feed enslaved Africans whose deadly labor on sugar plantations was critical to the the wealth of the UK.

www.yahoo.com/news/article... The old Vodun festival, celebrated on January 10, has given way to Vodun Days, a 3-day festival of dancing, mask parades and traditional ceremonies in the coastal city just west of capital Cotonou, also known for its role in the Atlantic slave trade of bygone centuries.

★ Hugo award winner S.L. Huang stuns in this philosophical sci-fi exploration of linguistics and lost civilizations. This packs an impressive punch. @tordotcom buff.ly/kxZalSL

I don't subscribe to your paper, is there a way I can sponsor a current subscriber to cancel

Trying to decide if I'd get up from my deathbed to kick my brother or feel comforted

According to a Flemish folktale, a rich, greedy farmer who stole from his farmhands was condemned to haunt this world in the shape of a duck after his death. Sometimes he appeared as a dog that bullied the non-ghost animals. Eventually, the ghost was banished to a woodshed. #PhantomsFriday

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and her family are mourning the loss of her 21-month-old son, Nkanu Nnamdi, who died earlier this week following a brief illness. www.complex.com/pop-culture/...

Family of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie accuses hospital of negligence over son's death

Filho da escritora Chimamanda morre aos 1 ano e 9 meses: “Devastada”: A escritora Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie confirmou à BBC que um de seus filhos gêmeos, Nkanu Nnamdi, morreu na quarta-feira (7), aos 1 ano e 9 meses de idade. Em comunicado, a família da autora declarou estar “devastada… #revistafórum

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reveals her one-year-old son has died after a short illness

we were now in that enchanted calm which they say lurks at the heart of every commotion

ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author Bongani Sibanda, ZamaShort #9 ‘Everyone is a Robot until Proven Otherwise’. More in the thread ---⬇ #AfricanSFF #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙

"By framing layoffs as a technological pivot, companies can present themselves as forward-thinking innovators rather than businesses struggling with cyclical downturns."

if you've been digging my writing so far, it would be a tremendous help to me right now while I'm waiting for some other payments to come through if you tossed a coin to your [poet/game designer]

People keep saying they hate Soylent Green, but have they actually tried it?

This was great … though my ISP had an outage 45min before start time, which is why I ended up Zooming in from my car, parked in my cousin’s yard borrowing her WiFi! 😅

I'm so excited to read this. I think in markdown now because of #Obsidianmd, you see.

www.humblebundle.com/books/fierce... @kateelliottsff.bsky.social @seananmcguire.bsky.social @cheriepriest.com & more! This is a good bundle

Hey you guys should listen to this podcast episode about women who make a public (aka not at home) career out of telling other women to be homemakers pod.fo/e/3747a6

Reading Scotland’s Witches 20 Jan, 6–7:30 German time (5–6:30 GMT) Free online Dr Cordula Lemke looks at witchcraft in Scottish literature, & how Geillis Duncan – one of the first Scottish witches to die – is remembered in literature & popular culture today www.scotland.uni-mainz.de/reading-scot...

still pond, 3.57pm

Nearly 50 authors, commentators, and academics have dropped out of this year’s Adelaide Festival in Australia after the Festival announced that they were canceling an appearance by Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah over “cultural sensitivity” concerns.

★ Claude M. Steele delivers a captivating follow-up to that volume’s groundbreaking scholarship on the psychology of stereotypes. It adds up to an elegant, concise, and moving suggestion that a little kindness would go a very long way. @LiverightPub buff.ly/X4ybdnz

At least eight states have deeply concerning anti-library, anti-literature bills on the docket for their legislative sessions so far. Here's what they are and what you can and should do at this point about them–whether or not you live in these states. *WE* save us. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.

"The narration is realist, but this does not detract from the estrangement that it provokes. The narrative proceeds through loops, repetitions, interjections" www.seizethepress.com/2025/03/29/w...

"In societies designed to punish women down to the level of language, these novels suggest that protesting innocence is not a viable defense." Irene Katz Connelly argues a new approach to witch hysteria: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/witch-panic-olga-ravn-irene-sola-review-irene-katz-connelly/

Wikipedia making a really depressing statement about manhood in its entry on alexithymia, or the inability to process and describe emotions.

I feel like Audible doesn't understand how progress works. Or encouragement. Am I supposed to "keep it up" not starting the book?