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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.

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Catherine Nichols @catherinenichols.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Very happy to be quoted in the New Yorker review of the new Odyssey movie!

"In an essay in Aeon, Catherine Nichols noted that 'neither Achilles nor Hector stands for values that the other side cannot abide."

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Very happy to finally be able to share the news that my next novel, REVEAL!, will be published by @quirkbooks.bsky.social in Spring 2028. It is a fun, wild, weird book. Incredibly grateful to my agent @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social for making this happen.

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Category: Fiction: Mystery/Crime June 22, 2026
REVEAL! By Tom McAllister
Imprint: Quirk Books
Author of HOW TO BE SAFE Tom McAllister's REVEAL!, a humorous locked island murder-mystery narrated by an unborn baby, who somehow gives us a tour of a gender-reveal party from hell with dancing whales, a poisoned nepo influencer, and a husband and wife catering team who are in over their heads, to Randall Lotowycz at Quirk Books, in a nice deal, for publication in spring 2028, by Tommy Dean while at Rosecliff Literary (world).

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hey Bluesky! The first excerpt of my book is out! In the New Yorker! Read all about how the religious right fought to keep The Last Temptation of Christ from being released, and how the battle helped them refine the tactics they still use today. www.newyorker.com/preview/arti...

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When the Religious Right Came for Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese’s 1988 film “The Last Temptation of Christ” spurred a bitter battle between Universal and a coalition of Christians who denounced it as sacrilegious. Today’s culture wars follow the te...

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Come chat with me and help diversify publishing! Bid on a 30-min AMA zoom call with me (we can talk books, writing, or whatever your heart desires, within reason) & proceeds benefit @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social, which does great work diversifying publishing. Auction ends MONDAY, 5/11! 👇

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Help We Need Diverse Books spread the word about Let's Diversify Publishing!

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Catherine Nichols @catherinenichols.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I love this video version of my essay "The Good Guy/Bad Guy Myth" --many thanks to Tamur Qutab and Namir Khaliq for their work!

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Catherine Nichols @catherinenichols.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I can't recommend this book highly enough--so many things I half remember from when they happened + their full context and importance.

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Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Ahoy, Bluesky! Edward Carey is teaching an online course on Fairytales as Inspiration. He's taught fairytales to writers for two decades, at both the Iowa Writers Workshop & UT Austin, & knows everything about their joys & shadows. www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

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Master Class: Fairytales as Inspiration with Edward Carey — The Shipman Agency

1 Session: Sunday, March 8 11:00am-2:00pm ET Edward Carey How to reignite your imagination, sharpen your fiction, and give yourself permission to be braver and stranger in your writing through the ...

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Autumn House Press @autumnhouse.org · 24/02/2026

Cover reveal! 🦜 We’re thrilled to share the cover of our 2025 Autumn House Fiction Prize winner, OBJECTS OF DESIRE by Adam O’Fallon Price, selected by Alexandra Kleeman. Coming October 2026. Preorders open soon. DM us for a galley. #Coverreveal #Shortstory #Fiction @adamoprice.bsky.social

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

You know, if you preordered my new book right now, you'll forget you did it by the time the book comes out in June, and then it will be like you bought yourself a surprise present! What could be better???? www.bloomsbury.com/us/perfect-m...

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The Perfect Moment

The prize-winning author of The Method reveals the forgotten origins of America's culture wars-a story of late 20th century art vs. censorship, brimming with in…

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Drawing on Hume to rethink Right and Left: "Landholder vs stockholder" @catherinenichols.bsky.social @aeon.co (Plus- Pascal's "Provential Letters") Sorting the Whigs from the Tories: roughlydaily.com/2026/01/23/s...

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AOP @adamoprice.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Do yourself a solid and read my friend @clnichols6 on Hume and Marx, and the roots of our conception of politics as left/right. Catherine is one of the smartest thinkers I know, and this is the product of months of work and years of thoughtful analysis

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Marina Benjamin @marinabenjamin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

A dazzling essay from a young American writer, on why Hume is better than Marx at explaining the landholder/stockholder divide and why Right and Left don't always neatly align with class. Read it. Share it. It will change the way you think. aeon.co/essays/why-h...

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Why Hume is better at explaining modern capitalism than Marx | Aeon Essays

In 1752, David Hume discerned that wealth was becoming untethered from land. Here lies the origin of our political divisions

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Brooklynites: with SNAP benefits expiring as of today, here are two ways you can help feed neighbors: donate to CHiPS, the food pantry/ women's shelter in Park Slope: www.chipsonline.org. Or leave food in the community fridge on 6th Street between 4th and 5th avenues, next to the Postmark Cafe.

Photo of the exterior of the Postmark Cafe in Brooklyn, with a community fridge standing outside the door, covered in flyers.

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Beyond thrilled to share that I'm writing my next book, AT HOME IN THE STARS. It's about the human expansion into space and space as a human environment. Think Carl Sagan meets Robert Macfarlane. 🪐✨🧑‍🚀🌱 If you want updates / news when the book is (someday) out: jaimealyse.behiiv.com

On a background image of stars and dust from the Hubble telescope, this text (a book deal announcement): "Science/Technology. Best American Science and Nature Writing series editor and author of the LA Times Book Prize finalist The Possibility of Life Jaime Green's AT HOME IN THE STARS a narrative journey into the promise and peril of our future in space and what it might mean from a scientific, philosophical, and cultural lens to expand into the cosmos, again to John Glynn at Hanover Square Press by Caroline Eisenmann at Francis Goldin Literary Agency. (World)."

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I cannot recommend @andreapitzer.bsky.social's work highly enough. Clear, motivating, and genuinely useful. If you're feeling demoralized with the state of our country, listen to her.

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This year, I started what has been my actual dream job, teaching in an incredible MFA program at Rutgers-Camden. Last month, our funding was unilaterally pulled, threatening the MFA's very existence. Please consider signing this letter in support of saving our program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Save Full Funding for Rutgers-Camden's MFA in Creative Writing

We're writing to share an update about the MFA program at Rutgers-Camden and a related request for you, on behalf of our current students. Unfortunately, recent university-wide budget cuts have resul...

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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

New book is out in 3 weeks and I've got some events planned. Hope to see some of you at some of these places

Details on small book tour for IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE, which, rather than me typing out every bit here I'll just redirect you to tom.mcallister.ws/events for all the info

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 28/02/2025

ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time. S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.* short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵 legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

A month out from 3/11 pub day. If you’re looking for a book about New York City, the art world, and state-sanctioned violence, smash that preorder button. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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The Man Nobody Killed

The first comprehensive book about Michael Stewart, the young Black artist and model who was the victim of a fatal assault by police in 1983, from Elon Green...

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

While preordering BUZZ KILL, you'll want to get HARD GIRLS as well so you're all ready to read the sequel when it arrives.

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Big Q: What’s a science book that changed how you think about the world?

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · 01/01/2024

Happy New Year! We are OPEN for electronic submissions, through January. Send us your fiction, poetry, essay, comics, and translations. We pay between $100 and $500 depending on length. epoch.submittable.com/submit

The bird of thanks, appreciating your submission

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Heyyyyy the ebook of THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE is $3.99 today only, across retailers! It's a best book of the year according to the Washington Post, Esquire, Scientific American, and my mom <3

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

I wrote about Jezebel and the terrifying state of women’s media. www.thehandbasket.co/p/rip-jezebe...

Spanfeller added, “Unfortunately, our business model and the audiences we serve across our network did not align with Jezebel's.”

In other words: Women are tricky! But my from my view, if you’re unable to sell ads on a beloved 16-year-old feminist website with great name recognition during a time when women’s rights are under an unprecedented threat, that says a whole lot more about your business acumen than it does about the quality and importance of the site’s journalism.

Women’s voices have always been considered niche, disposable, fringe, despite us making up more than half the population. Our needs represent the majority, but that isn’t reflected in current media ownership and leadership. And that’s why we find ourselves falling through a glass pothole. We are worse off now than when Jezebel was founded in 2007.

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Catherine Nichols @catherinenichols.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

After reporting on the Armenian genocide, Zabel Yesayan wrote My Soul in Exile (1922), an enigmatic, joyful book about art and love. Sally Foreman and Catherine Nichols discuss it: lithub.com/sally-forema...

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Sally Foreman on Zabel Yesayan

Welcome to Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books. Combining literary analysis with an in-depth look at historical context, host Catherine Nichols chooses one book for each year of the 20th century, and…

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

November 21! Catch me and the great Zoe Kazan in conversation to celebrate the paperback release of THE METHOD! Admission is free but reservations are strongly encouraged: www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...

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Great Place Books @greatplacebooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Folks, we've got LOSING MUSIC author @johncotter.bsky.social teaching memoir! Register today! greatplacebooks.com/memoir

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

attn audiobook freaks, THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE is on big sale today: $2.99 as Audible's Daily Deal, and $12.99 at Libro.fm if you prefer to get your books from there. I recorded it myself and am pretty damn proud of the result. www.audible.com/pd/The-Possi... libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

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The Possibility of Life

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. “Every page of this book makes our shared universe feel larger and more interesting than ever before, a true gift of fascinating science and engrossing st...

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Great Place Books @greatplacebooks.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

Have you registered for the virtual launch of BLOCKS WORLD? Emma Catherine Perry will be in conversation with Elisa Gabbert! Register here: bit.ly/tybgpb

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

4/23/24. Mark your calendars…or preorder it now, forget you did, and get a surprise in the mail eight and a half months from now www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/72…

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Catherine Nichols @catherinenichols.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

Is there a reason no one ever attributes the Trolley Problem to Philippa Foot, the way there’s Plato’s cave or Descartes’s Cogito? Is it because “Foot” doesn’t sound like a name?

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