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Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Join us for Ep. 349C, where Alden Jones talks about EDGE OF THE WORLD: AN ANTHOLOGY OF QUEER TRAVEL WRITING, an inclusive LGBTQ+ travel anthology that explores what it means to be a queer person moving through the world. turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/05/08/t... aldenjones.bsky.social

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Cross & Crows Books @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This week's crop of new #queer titles for #gaymay tinyurl.com/5epc4hhz

Cover slide, blue text on pale teal background: GAY MAY (NEW RELEASES) with little bubbles of additional text: Recommended by your favourite queer bookstore! Sounds gay, I'm in! and a small clip art of an open book. A stylized rainbow with accents of white star shapes ripples across the bottom of the image.

On a teal background, cover art for six books: THIS BOOK IS A KNIFE by L. E. Fox, THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS by Ocean Vuong, THE VINYL DIARIES by Pete Crighton, ANOTHER WORD FOR LOVE by Carvell Wallace, TRANS HISTORY by Alex Combs and Andrew Eakett, ONE OF THE BOYS by Victoria Zeller
A stylized rainbow with accents of white star shapes ripples across the bottom of the image.

On a teal background, cover art for six books: AND INTRODUCING DEXTER GAINES by Mark B. Perry, FUEL by Rosie Stockton, WHEN LOVE GIVES YOU LEMONS by Steven Salvatore, BLADES OF FURRY by Emily Erdos & Deya Muniz, THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh, LOVE IN EXILE by SHON FAYE
A stylized rainbow with accents of white star shapes ripples across the bottom of the image.

Against a light teal background, cover art for six books: THE DUKE STEALS HEARTS & OTHER BODY PARTS by Elias Cold, BIG BUTCH ENERGY SYNERGY by Nina Chanel Abney, MOTHERLOVER by Lindsay Ishihiro, A FIX OF LIGHT by Kel Menton, and EDGE OF THE WORLD edited by Alden Jones
A stylized rainbow with accents of white star shapes ripples across the bottom of the image.

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I hope we'll be having more and more conversations about how to teach with critical reflection as AI comes for our minds. Thank you @breana13.bsky.social for having me on #TheFacultyLounge and for your crucial work 💙

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Andrew Ellis Evans @andrewellisevans.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Hey Brooklyn! I’ll be at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social on June 5th @ 7:30 pm, joining Alden Jones & Raluca Alba to discuss the new queer travel anthology “Edge of the World”. Come by, say hi & grab a book 📕! #nyc #books

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Lisbeth White (she/her) @earthmaven.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Screen-free Sunday’s ultra satisfying read….

Book cover: background color is rainbow-like moving from blue at the top to orange red at the bottom, with light clouds.
Title reads “Edge of The World” in bright green font. Subtitle reads “an anthology of queer travel writing”
Edited by Alden Jones

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Scott Heim @scottheim.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hey, New England-area readers... if any of these book tour dates are anywhere near you, you should absolutely go hear my friend ALDEN JONES chat about her book EDGE OF THE WORLD. She's an incredible person, teacher, writer, and editor.

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I spoke on @BAMRadioNetwork with some fellow educators about the state of reading and left surprisingly optimistic. If we make reading a social activity, will it become easier to turn off tech and sink into a book, like we used to?

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Sadness. NJ's The Star-Ledger to cease printing. A huge honor in my writing career was having the Star-Ledger, the paper thrown on the lawn of my childhood home, name Unaccompanied Minors one of the top 10 books of 2014. You'll always be home to me Star-Ledger...thank you for being true to Jersey.

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I need to know....how does one make Bluesky...fun?

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Clayton Becker @cnbecker14.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This was revealed to me in a vision

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

At the Newport MFA we read really good books in really beautiful places #Newport #NewportMFA #SalveReginaUniversity

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Killer review of Jerald Walker's new book MAGICALLY BLACK in @therumpus.net this month. While you're there, read the interview I did with him in 2017 about his masterpiece, THE WORLD IN FLAMES: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult! His childhood was bananas as it sounds.

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J.R. Bale @jrbale.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Testing Literary Bsky crowdsourcing! I'm teaching Art of Nonfiction in the spring. Students have increasingly been reading books from the past 15 years and I want to introduce more canonical works, nothing before 2010. So far: Woman Warrior, A Moveable Feast, The Fire Next Time. What else?

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Lurking Class @tokyosexgreg.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I actually think Democrats lost because of [insert personal political grievance]

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Amber 🦁 @sndlstudio.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

i think chappell roan should be an even meaner lesbian in 2025

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Well it's decided...no #AWP for me this year. Enjoy, friends!

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It's really something to have a middle school kid in the house telling me my way of using such words and phrases as "crash out" and "preppy" is high-key incorrect.

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The OG travel guides. Thank you Arthur Frommer. RIP

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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Now that we’re here, and the angry people are on X and the dancing people are on insta, and we’re all finding a place; wouldn’t it be nice if there was a peaceful garden somewhere, just for the sexy lady bot accounts, where they could finally rest.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/11/2024

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

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Melissa Ezarik @melissaezarik.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

For @insidehighered.bsky.social's Student Success news hub, we seek tips & program ideas for supporting students (in class, across campus, in career prep) from professors & admins. You send the info, we craft into a story, quoting you. www.insidehighered.com/about-studen... #edusky #highered

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

New teaching strategy: walks in the woods

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Liz oOooO ~Promaja~ OOoO Roderick @talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I put on my flannel and went in the front yard to chop wood. I thought it would bring the lesbians swarming in but instead it was just a bunch of dudes trying to tell me a better way to chop wood

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Chappell Roan has really tapped into something primal

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skye🔮🕯️ @skyehighe.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

pls go re-read all the books you hated in school. i swear once the frontal lobe has developed its a whole new story w/ a wildly different perspective. you owe it to yourself. go re-read animal farm, 1984, gatsby, night, mockingbird theyre great literaty works for a reason pls 💙📚

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I once wrote Children's Highlights a thank you letter (for what I don't remember) and they sent me a handwritten note in return, thanking me for thanking them. They also set me up with a pen pal - like they didn't have a program for this, I just asked if they could find me a pen pal - and they DID

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Dorothy Allison 💔 She was a lesbian feminist writer when we were a demographic no one wanted to hear from. She did it her way, all the way through. A profound influence.

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I wrote this profile of Nehanda Abiodun really fast and there are some tense issues I invite you to ignore. But I'm still proud of this piece from 2016, and I have been thinking a lot about Nehanda - an organizer of Columbia's 1968 protests - quite a lot lately panoramajournal.org/issues/issue...

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Firsts: An American Revolutionary in Cuba | Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature

If anything has shaken me fully free from childhood desires to see the world as a concrete-mould, comprehensible place, a planet where all questions have answers, it has been the time I’ve spent in Cu...

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

As someone who teaches college NF and has watched young men become more & more demoralized by a political atmosphere that repeatedly tells them there is no place for them, that their success is resented, that their voice is not needed, I feel certain that turning it back on them is not the solution

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aldenjones.bsky.social @aldenjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

I often tell my writing students you have to be willing to tease, even seduce, the reader!

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