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Clare Beams

@clarebeams.bsky.social
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writer (novels THE GARDEN, THE ILLNESS LESSON, and story collection WE SHOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED); faculty at the Randolph MFA and the University of Pittsburgh MFA

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 07/02/2026
Today's meeting of the #VelshiBannedBookClub features "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, which explores humans passively upholding authoritarian rule in exchange for mass-entertainment, tech, and comfort. Authors M.T. Anderson and @clarebeams.bsky.social join at 10 am ET to discuss. #Velshi
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 24/01/2026
Today's meeting of the #VelshiBannedBookClub features "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, which explores humans passively upholding authoritarian rule in exchange for mass-entertainment, tech, and comfort. Authors M.T. Anderson and @clarebeams.bsky.social join at noon ET to discuss. #Velshi
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Doubleday Books @doubledaybooks.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Absolutely in awe of @erinlmccoy.bsky.social's debut novel, UNDERLAKE. Thanks to @clarebeams.bsky.social, Susanna Kwan, and Ron Rash for the kind words. Preorder UNDERLAKE wherever books are sold: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804090...
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bijan (spooky version) @bijan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
oh shit i had totally forgotten what it felt like for something good to happen
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.
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Atlantic Books @atlanticbooks.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Ladies in Hating @alexandravasti.bsky.social The Art of Not Eating #JessicaHamel-Akré Hum @helencphillips.bsky.social The Garden @clarebeams.bsky.social @david-higham-books.bsky.social
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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Books I loved in waning daylight: 🌙Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez 🥀Literary Witches, Taisia Kitaiskaia & @katyhoran.bsky.social 🕳️Portalmania, @debbieurbanski.bsky.social 👾The Sky Didn’t Load Today, Rich Larson 📚The Illness Lesson, @clarebeams.bsky.social 🕌The White Mosque, Sofia Samatar
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
So excited I can finally share that First Love is a @lambdaliterary.org award finalist in bisexual nonfiction!!!
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Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
From “Snowy-white, Rosy-red, Will you?” by Clare Beams in Ecotone 37 🌕 “To look at them was to want to eat them, which was what I wanted to do to my delicious baby daughters too...” @clarebeams.bsky.social Read the full story + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/snow... ‎
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Snowy-white, Rosy-Red, Will You? - Ecotone
I had two baby girls at once and named them for the rose trees on either side of my front door. Snow-white, Rose-red. Their father had already left us,
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Thrilled to have a story in the beautiful new Moon issue of @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social , one of my forever favorites, in wonderful company! ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/snow...
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Snowy-white, Rosy-Red, Will You? - Ecotone
I had two baby girls at once and named them for the rose trees on either side of my front door. Snow-white, Rose-red. Their father had already left us,
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe
This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Pittsburgh! I get to talk to the brilliant Rachel Khong as part of the Greater Pittsburgh Book Festival on Saturday! Free (though pre-registrations get priority), 11:30am at the Carnegie Library-- join us?
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Headliner: Rachel Khong In conversation with Clare Beams
Rachel Khong will be at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books!
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I woke up depressed by the NEA news but also angry. They’re stifling the best that has been thought and done (in the sciences as well as the arts) to push a shallow alienated world of slop and brainrot and I will never stop hating them for that
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” 
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
How High We Go in the Dark doesn't have mushroom zombies or ruthless leaders of militias, but it still has lots of super sad times + bonus robot dog, telepathic pig, futuristic alternative funerary practices, space travel, and lots of 80s music. #booksky www.usatoday.com/story/entert...
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Obsessed with 'The Last of Us' Season 2? Try these 8 post-apocalyptic, zombie books
Post-apocalyptic survival, bioweapons and touching bonds at the end of the world. These adrenaline-packed books read like "The Last of Us."
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
HOORAY!!!! Enormous congratulations!!!!!
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
THIS IS SO WONDERFUL!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Hooray hooray hooray!!!!!
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Thank you so so much!!!
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thank you!!! ❤️
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Loved finding THE GARDEN here, in excellent company!
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
SO excited to get to do a group paperback launch with superstars @crystalhanak.bsky.social , @iamlisako.bsky.social , and Xochitl Gonzalez on April 15 at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn! www.lizsbookbar.com/events/23127...
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On the Joys of Literary Community
Black-owned independent bookstore and wine bar in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
THE GARDEN is out in paperback (cheaper! lighter!) on April 8th! Hearing from this novel's readers over the past year has meant the absolute world to me.
Paperback copy of THE GARDEN by Clare Beams against a leafy background.Back of the paperback of THE GARDEN by Clare Beams against a leafy background.
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Rita Chang-Eppig (she/they) @rchetypes.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Re-upping this!
Yellow lettering on red background. Text reads: One Story Beginner Fiction Workshop with Rita Chang-Eppig. Apr 3 - May 15. Register today at www.one-story.com
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Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I will be at #AWP2025 talking weird fiction with @cleoqian.bsky.social @lenavalencia.bsky.social @crsutton.bsky.social and Anjali Sachdeva! "Unaplogetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction" - Fri March 28 12:10-1:25 pm Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two
Flyer for AWP 2025 panel: Los Angeles AWP Panel: Unapologetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction with Anjali Sachdeva, Cleo Qian, Chelsea Sutton & Lena Valencia (Friday, 12:10 p.m. – 1:25 p.m. PT, Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two)
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A recent bright spot: I have a short story about the surrealities of parenthood in the new issue of @mcsweeneys.net . Very grateful to Rita Bullwinkel and everyone at McSweeney's for giving "Playspace" such a beautiful home.
The cover of McSweeney's #77, featuring art by Claire Boyle.The first page of "Playspace," by Clare Beams. There is a pinwheel above the title. The first sentence reads "We, the parents, mostly the mothers, had been coming to the Playspace for a long time."
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William Alexander @willalex.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Practice imagining that the world could be otherwise.
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So, here it is: the revealing of The Cover.
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WESA @wesa.fm · 21/02/2025
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
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The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
ACIP—the external CDC advisory committee for US vaccine policy—is not meeting next week, as scheduled. This is a big deal; Americans rely on up-to-date information about eff. and safety of vaccines to make evidence-based decisions. We don’t know motivation, but this is why I’m getting nervous…
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Omg, y'all.
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sarah thankam mathews @smathewss.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
i wrote a new newsletter. it's about shifting political realities, the imperative of collective meaning-making, and NPC smathewss.substack.com/p/how-it-is?...
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how it is
trying to write a few true and simple things about the present time
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far
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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Ok who out there has already started writing a book called American Rasputin: How Elon Musk Took Control of the Federal Government
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This will be played as an attack on universities and research and rightly so—it is—but someone on this list might save your life or that of someone you know if they could keep working. Many will die who didn’t need to if the cuts stand.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/02/2025
The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:
The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of:

malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique

treatment for cholera in Bangladesh

a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi

tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa

nutritional support for children in Ethiopia

early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia

ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan

an mRNA vaccine technology for H.I.V. in South Africa
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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund. www.arts.gov/news/press-r...
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Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities
The National Endowment for the Arts is updating its FY 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Chal...
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 05/02/2025
Tons of news headlines on Trump wanting to "take over" Gaza, that its people would have to "relocate" so the US will have an “ownership position," but somehow not one of them saying EXPLICITLY THAT THIS IS ILLEGAL AND A WAR CRIME.
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Does Chuck Schumer know he is the highest ranking democrat in the senate?
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at CDCGuidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
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Clare Beams @clarebeams.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
If you can go, go. 5pm today. Last night's cutoff of federal funding by 47 doesn't just mess with the recipients, it violates the Constitution and seizes powers that belong to Congress. It's a dictatorial attempt at consolidation of power in the presidency. www.mobilize.us/climateactio...
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WHITE HOUSE RALLY · VizEvents
The White House has just frozen federal funding, a move that could halt payments within days to states and households relying on essential programs like SNAP food aid, housing assistance, education, h...
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
exclusive striptease reveal of my long-awaited new one, WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU. out september 23rd — here’s the link to preorder! bit.ly/4agbMPu
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Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
happy publication day to Nancy Reddy’s THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH, which weaves together a beautifully written memoir of new motherhood with an interrogation of the bad science about the impossible standards we set for moms—& an invitation for us all to imagine better! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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The Good Mother Myth
Timely and thought-provoking, Nancy Reddy unpacks and debunks the bad ideas that have for too long defined what it means to be a "good" mom.When Nancy Reddy ...
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