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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

She's a little much sometimes 🇵🇹

Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

And that, beloveds, is a full draft of my forthcoming memoir. 🫠 Bizarrely, it was New Year's 2018 when I finished my 1st draft of Home Baked. Here we are again. A pattern, an echo, a haunting. So much work ahead, but this mess will soon be strange and beautiful book.

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

The new year is off to a smashing start

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

My old man and the sea 🌊🇵🇹

A wee little man on a cliff in pretty light

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Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I do not remember what I said to this reporter, and I do not have a subscription to see what was quoted. But I suspect it’s the same one who asked “What are the silver linings about having to go completely online with the store for a while?” & I said, “None.” www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/16/o...

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Out of the ashes: Popular Oakland bookstore reopens after devastating fire

After a devastating fire destroyed East Bay Booksellers in July, it was the pandemic-era all over again for owner Brad Johnson. He set up shop in a cramped break room offered by a fellow bookseller…

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

My favorite birthday surprise has been learning that I'm turning 47, instead of 48,like I've been thinking for months. I'm aging backward

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Always choose the cheap edition. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 Moving house, so the one per day thing isn't happening. Who cares! 13/20

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 12/20

History Will Absolve Me by Fidel Castro in both Spanish and English

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If you need me, I'll be over here 🇵🇹

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small spider
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn't
And she scared me
And I smashed her

I don't think
I'm allowed

To kill something

Because I am

Frightened.

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Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Forthcoming-books starter pack is still growing--so many new books to look forward to! Please reply if your publisher is putting out a new title of yours in 2025 and you want to join us. We 💖 reposts too! go.bsky.app/3HKczok.

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Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Let’s start a fancy literary prize called Medicare for All.

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Anyone else LOVE moving house? Yeah, it's a hassle, but it gives you the chance to reflect on who you've been and decide what version of self you want to make in the new space

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 11/20

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

#ACAB Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 10/20

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This chapter is a slog. Slog slog sloggity-slog slog slog SLOG.

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I'm in a mood, and this is it. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 9/20

Cool 1970s cover of Sula by Toni Morrison

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Jack Monroe @jackmonroe.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Someone needs to invent some kind of online calculator whereby we Brits can put in our recent healthcare appointments/meds/experiences and it’ll calculate what it would cost on average in the USA. Just to hammer home how bloody lucky we are to have the NHS and how fiercely we need to protect it.

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Truly a book for our era. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 8/20

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 7/20

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 05/12/2024

Your daily reminder: indie bookstores rule, and this is the time of year they depend on to stay afloat. If you're buying holiday gifts for peeps, please support your local bookstore. (You can get signed/personalized copies of my books here: greenapplebooks.com/list/signed-.... They ship in USA.)

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Signed Charlie Jane Anders

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Are you fekking kidding me? Pantone's 2025 Color of the Year is Sidewalk Barf

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Meanwhile in America... "The proposed new policy will no longer reimburse anesthesia services for the complete duration of certain surgical procedures, opting instead for a partial coverage model..." Back to the 19th century we go! www.newsweek.com/doctors-rail...

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Doctors rail against insurer's new anesthesia time limits

The proposed policy will no longer reimburse anesthesia services for the complete duration of certain surgical procedures.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Early this morning, an autonomous group of New Yorkers reclaimed an F train car, replacing ads with signage reading “A MAN WAS LYNCHED HERE” and Jordan Neely’s name, as a jury deliberates over whether to convict Daniel Penny, Neely’s killer, with his death last May.

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Here's one that has stayed with me my entire life. 😂 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 6/20

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Has anyone else read this??? Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 5/20

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 03/12/2024

Here's your daily reminder that bookstores keep the love of reading alive — but they also keep neighborhoods beautiful. They are places to gather, to celebrate stories, to find community. Please do your holiday shopping at your local independent bookstore, if you are lucky enough to still have one.

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 4/20

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Proud of myself for arranging new internet and utilities services in Portuguese today. Phone calls are burly in a new language! And the bureaucracy here is... yeah 🇵🇹

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MatGost @matgost.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Earlier this year, I floated the idea of editing a "Quiet Horror" anthology. People seemed to love the idea. Well, it's happening... We open for submissions in the new year. I can't wait to read your stories. More details: matgost.substack.com/p/submission... Please share far and wide!!!

The Whispering Gallery
An Anthology of Quiet Horrors
Open call for submissions
We want your slow burners, your creeping dread, your atmospheric hauntings, your weird and your unsettling.
Mood over gore. Chills over spatter.
500-2,500 words

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 3/20

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Bevan Thomas @bevanthomas.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The fur-bearing trout of American tall tales is supposedly found in the Arkansas River and northern North America. Some say the trout evolved fur to survive frigid waters, but others say it was a result of four jugs of hair tonic spilled in the Arkansas River. #SundayFolklore #SwampSunday

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Jeremy Thomas Of 411Mania.com @jthomas411mania.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

December 1 is #WorldAIDSDay. It’s a day to remember the brilliant and wonderful generation of people we lost, and stand together to continue the fight against the disease. It’s easy to forget now how AIDS has stolen 32 million from us, and the governments didn’t care until people made them care.

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I'm enjoying the flood of book covers in my feed, so I'll pitch in. Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Booksky💙📚 1/20

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Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies @assayjournal.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

It's #SubmissionSaturday again bitches! Brush the Thanksgiving crumbs off your clothes and send us your amazing #nonfiction pedagogy, analysis, or whatever else you have up your sleeve!

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Just remember what Leonard says - it's the cracks that let the light in 😉

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Trying to make some exceptionally weird material stick today. Wish me luck

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Amy ☀️ @amygrier.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

We now have 80 resilient memoirists writing about toxic families, abuse, and estrangement! Room for more if you're writing on those topics, whether you write books, essays, flash, micro, whatever length. #memoir #memoirists #writingcommunity #CPTSD #trauma #survivor #estrangement go.bsky.app/MG3fqTH

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Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

There's a bot impersonating Elena Ferrante and "sharing stories that inspire." This is funny on several levels

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