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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For the NYT I wrote about Ed Sheeran, the fantasy of political neutrality and the politics of self-interest www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...

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Opinion | Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and Why Politics Is So Hard for Celebrities

Celebrities use the facade of neutrality as shelter, as a place to take refuge.

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Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Public libraries are fighting book bans, funding cuts, political interference, and harassment of librarians. Meanwhile, publishers are worried that libraries are lending too many ebooks. This week’s newsletter: Read the Room. roncharles.substack.com/p/libraries-...

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Libraries Are Not the Problem

A new publishing-industry study takes aim at ebook lending just as public libraries are fighting for their lives.

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Starting Scott Hawkins’ BLACKTAIL on pub day. Excited to dig in!

BLACKTAIL by Scott Hawkins placed on. Red leather bag

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm watching the Hugo Awards livestream and Ursula "Queen of Weird Animal Facts" Vernon may be the best emcee of all time. Of any awards show. They should have her do the Oscars 😂😍

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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I loved this book and still think about it often. Put it on a personalized reading list for a library patron recently, too.

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Michael Swanwick @michaelswanwick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I came home from Amherst last night, appropriately exhausted. So here, a day late, is my post about Jane Yolen's memorial. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-me...

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A Memorial For Jane Yolen--With Heartfelt Memories And Dancing Bears

. A memorial was held for Jane Yolen in Amherst at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art. Which was appropriate...

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I gasped when this ARC arrived. I adored Chad Harbach’s THE ART OF FIELDING. The follow-up novel THE BRIGHTNESS, also featuring Pella and set at Westish College, will be out in October. Character-driven fiction at its best.

The Brightness by Chad Harbach, forthcoming novel that will be published in October 2026

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026

Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

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Harper Zacharias @harperzacharias.com · 30/06/2026

The guardian really stands out (among all the reporting I’ve read, at least) as an outlet that has worked hard to report on the impacts faced by Epstein and his associates’ victims and their loved ones

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“AI in libraries” should be “what can you tell us about corporate profit-driven control of search and retrieval” instead of “when are librarians going to get on board.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Finished WOODWORKING @emilystjams.bsky.social with a full heart and tears in my eyes. What a lovely story about solidarity among trans women and unlikely friendship. Reminded me of a trans femme version of the little known film “My First Mister.” So much humor and heart in this debut. ADORED.

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 26/06/2026

Ahhh! My favorite librarian talking about my book as part of an adult summer reading program on TV is like my own personal bingo situation 🥰

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hello hello and welcome to the shortlist announcement thread for the #2026IgnyteAwards, recognizing outstanding contributions to SFFH and its community in 2025! We are grateful to be supported this year by sponsors @bcsmagazine.bsky.social , @edmontonin2030.bsky.social, & @laworldcon.bsky.social

The 2026 Ignyte Awards, sponsored by Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the Edmonton in 2030 Worldcon Bid, and LA Worldcon 2026

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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ted Chiang is brilliant. He takes the question of AI consciousness to its logical conclusion—really a must-read, right down to the last word: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.  

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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 31/05/2026

Locus Magazine held its annual conference this weekend and announced this year's winners of its awards! Congratulations to this year's winners: www.andrewliptak.com/locus-award-...

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Here are the winners of the 2026 Locus Awards

Some of the best writing from 2025

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

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

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“Read every day—it is a practice that dignifies humans. Become a great reader of books and it will help you with reality, and you’ll more easily grasp the truth of things and that will set you up for life.”—Susie Boyt

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“Take good care of your friendships, nurture them and they’ll strengthen you. Don’t turn frowning at the defects of other people into a hobby, delicious though it may be; it poisons you.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“Sometimes your hold more strength when people don’t know what you think or feel, so be very careful whom you confide in. People can run with your difficulties when you least expect it, distort them, relish them even, and before you know it they’re not yours any more.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“Don’t make your appearance your primary concern. It will zap your creativity.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

you’re in the right, because it so easily gets in the way of what you want and need. Become an expert at shrugging most of life off and free yourself for what really interests you. Hone your focus.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“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

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Youth Lagoon @youthlagoon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

But who gets empaneled matters because books that don’t get championed don’t get considered. So thrilled for @kraus_author and Thrilled for @danielkraus.com & for the horror community. May we see more of these doors open for fellow genre authors & books.

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Lovely Ursula Le Guin. ❤️

A pedagogy that relies on the "Cliff Notes" sort of thing travesties the study of literature. To reduce the aesthetic value of a narrative to the ideas it expresses, to its "meaning," is a drastic impoverishment. The map is not the landscape.

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“As we become more clearly aware of forces that pattern our lives, we acquire a certain power to resist or modify these forces. Hence the importance of an understanding of the concept of cultural conditioning.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“Literature fosters the kind of imagination needed in a democracy—the ability to participate in the needs and aspirations of other personalities and to envision the effect of our actions on their lives.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

should the reader be denied this? An earlier comment is relevant here: The criterion for discriminating between helpful and harmful kinds of escape is that escape through literature should not leave the reader less able than before to cope with reality.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“It is sometimes argued that the teacher’s condemnation of cheap escape fiction is merely an expression of professional snobbery. If this ‘trash’ gives pleasures and momentary release from the pressures or permits the compensation, at least in fantasy, for personal lacks and frustrations, why

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“The stilted academic approach to good literature in the schools may contribute to the student’s feeling that he can get little personal enjoyment from it, so that he turns to a type of writing about which there hangs no academic aura.”

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“The reading of a book, it is true, has sometimes changed a person’s entire life. When that occurs, the book has undoubtedly come as a culminating experience that crystallizes a long, subconscious development.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“The Victorian critic often seemed to believe that the mere reading about particular actions in a book would in itself lead to the performance of the same actions in life.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“This latter consideration should allay the typical fear that literary works may incite youth touching all sorts of untried modes of behavior. This view is based on the unrealistic idea of the social effects of literature that is usually associated with Victorian moralism.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“As the history of literature reminds us, writers have set forth scathing revelations of the life about them or have created attractive images of alternative ways of life.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“Literature offers a release from the provincialism of time and space. ..More than ever it is essential that the individual be liberated from the provincialism of his own particular family, community, or even national background.”

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Misha (she/her) @ahsimlibrarian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“Books are a means of getting outside the limited cultural group into which the individual is born. They are, in a sense, elements of societies distant in time and space made personally available to the reader.”

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