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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

From Tracy K. Smith's book, Wade in the Water. Published by @graywolfpress.bsky.social #poem #books #writing

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kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

AN ARCANE INHERITANCE, my Adult dark academia fantasy debut, comes out exactly 9 months from today! It's out for blurbs and so far I'm relieved by how people are reacting 💜 Don't forget to preorder so my publisher knows you're excited! bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...

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hey kamilah this book is SO GOOD. I loved your duology but you LEVELED UP WITH THIS, MA'AM

the character work was top notch. the story was gorgeous and compelling. the romance was HOT

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SECRET SOCIETIES
MEMORY MAGIC
FIRST-GEN IMMIGRANT PRESSURE
IVY LEAGUE GOTHIC
SPICE LEVEL: TWO CHILI PEPPERS
BEING BLACK IN EXCLUSIVE SPACES
COLLEGE IS A SPECIAL KIND OF HELL
"I HATE YOU SO MUCH I CAN'T F*CKING BREATHE"
"LOVING YOU IS AS EASY AS TAKING A BREATH"

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Fiona Creates 🔜 SCARF - Sheffield Comic Arts Fair - 22B @fionacreates.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It’s #sapphicSaturday again, more 18th Century lesbians who are just gals being pals.

a sketch of two women in 18th century clothing embracing each other. They’re totally just friends.

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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

SINNERS is an extraordinary fantastic lens through which to process (African-) American history. Aside from RING SHOUT by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, also check out this extraordinary novelette by Kai Ashante Wilson, "The Devil in America." reactormag.com/the-devil-in...

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The Devil in America - Reactor

Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them across centuries, out of slavery, and finally to the idyllic peace of the town of Rosetree. The shatteri...

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Supporters will gather at the US Supreme Court on April 22 to rally on behalf of authors whose books form the core of Mahmoud v. Taylor, a case brought by a group of Maryland parents against the Board of Education for the Montgomery County school district. pen.org/authors-spea...

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Authors Speak Up About Their Books Being Misrepresented in a Lawsuit Headed to the Supreme Court - PEN America

“They’re books about happiness and joy and sharing that happiness and joy with other people. They’re not preaching or coercing in any way.”

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 07/04/2025

Authors, any time you've deluded yourself into thinking there's a metric you can hit where you'll be happy and feel sufficient, just remember you can literally be one of the most well-paid and widely read of all time and still desperately crave validation and attn enough to become human garbage.

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Tried to get my dog to take a cute picture with me. This was the only usable one I got. 😂

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/01/2025

It’s very interesting watching people try to explain how bad it is for the Chinese government to have your information without referencing other places that have your information and the bad things those places are doing without being stopped or even gently chided.

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It has a cover! THE BEWITCHING is out July 15, 2025. Three women, three time periods, and a lot of witchcraft. Pre-order now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760756...

A creepy hand rising to reach a dead bird.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 29/11/2024

It’s #ReadPalestine Week! 🇵🇸📚

A stack of Haymarket Books on Palestine:
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
Light in Gaza
Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow
Rifqa
Boycott, Divestment Sanctions
A Little Piece of Ground
Uncivil Rites
The Battle for Justice in Palestine
On Edward Said
Culture and Resistance
Apartheid Israel
Israelis and Palestinians
Against Apartheid

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Lolo @loloverruled.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Good news for the CEO of UnitedHealthcare: there are no concerns about preexisting conditions in hell

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Mary Hicks @maryhicks.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery is officially here!! Order from @uncpress.bsky.social to receive 30 percent off! uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

So you know how you loved This Is How You Lose The Time War?* @amalelmohtar.com has a gorgeous-sounding new book out in the spring, & you can pre-order signed copies now. Ethereal and lyrical and full of heart, a family living on the edge of Faerie & two sisters with entwined fates. 1/2 #Booksky

A banner featuring the cover of Amal El-Mohtar's forthcoming hardback The River Has Roots. The cover features three pink to peach flowers, with a contemporary-feeling geometric river-like line twisting behind them. The caption reads "from award-winning author Amal El-Mohtar, a tale of two sisters who cannot be separated, even in death". Signed editions available to preorder, out 4.3.25

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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...

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Light in Gaza

Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Is a poem still a poem when you read it out loud? So a book is still a book, then, when you read it aloud? #Audiobooks and physical/e-books all tell the same stories, in the same way, with the same pacing and structure, with the same themes. It’s all still reading. #booksky

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Liz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If you really want to encounter a lot of views different from your own, go read some books. You don’t need right wing assholes screaming at you on social media for that. This can just be a place where you chill.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

ICYMI, my attempt at writing a Ghibli-esque story for adults (of all ages) in prose and set in my hometown Calcutta, a mythic realist tale about an extended family who may be extradimensional refugees. British Fantasy and Subjective Chaos Kind of Award winner, Locus Award nominee.

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I editorialized a little - not my four most recent reads but some of my most recent faves. #booksky

Africa Is Not a Country
Notes on a Bright Continent
Dipo Faloyin

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Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

THIS COVER. Out Aug 19,2025! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737414...

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Memes @organizermemes.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Liberals who hate leftists more than fascists and leftists who hate liberals more than fascists are both stupid and reactionary

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I’m finally finishing my Christmas decorating, so I think it’s time to finally start my holiday tbr. #booksky

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 22/11/2024

🙋‍♀️I consider abortion a good option, and a social good writ large! Pregnancy is not a punishment for contraceptive failure or contraceptive lack or contraceptive refusal. I am pro-abortion, period. Same as I'm pro-chemotherapy, pro-insulin, pro-root canal, pro-pap-smear.

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Han 💛 @hannahisoverthis.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I don’t know who needs to hear this but believing in human rights for all, truly means for all. Including people you don’t like

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I listen to audiobooks while I work and I have trouble following along with fiction, so I mostly listen to non-fiction. Here’s my four tho! #booksky

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Kosoko Jackson @kosokojackson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Agent. Vector. Environment. I'm so thrilled to put my public health degree to use with this book I've had in my heart for YEARS. If you love body horror,The WWITCH by Robert Eggers, cults (and gore) this atmospheric thriller is for you! Welcome to Millhaven, fellow traveler.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 21/11/2024

In the wake of the election, many people have asked me why tragic stories of abortion denial, some of which resulted in death, weren’t enough to swing the presidential race, often evoking the case of Savita Halappanavar in Ireland rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/11/21/a...

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Analysis: The Limits of a Tragic Story

Savita Halappanavar's death is widely seen as a catalyst for Ireland's abortion reform, but the truth is more nuanced—and offers important lessons for the U.S.

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Repost with one of your favorite reads of the year ✨ #booksky I read this back in April and I am still very emotional about these awful, wicked girls. 😭 @zoehanamikuta.bsky.social

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I got the first Google form response with feedback from one of my beta readers and I’m screaming. Another beta reader sent me a picture of her reading my manuscript on her kindle. It’s a wild feeling. #writersky

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My mom just sent me this pic of my grandparents. My grandma looks so happy! 😂 RIP ya’ll. 😭

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Ten FREE books to help you educate yourself on some of the most important conversations we should be having right now. Go support @haymarketbooks.bsky.social and grab all ten books!

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Bindery Books | Ten Free Books To Start the Revolution

If you are seeing this, the likelihood is that you care...

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thiiird person @thiiirdperson.com · 19/11/2024

many people have a leftism as pure as the driven snow, unsullied by praxis. and boy are they good at typing

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Uh oh, I stumped the Fable algorithm. 😂 #booksky

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Soon. #DeathoftheAuthor #RustedRobots Death, disability, ability, the complexity of culture, immigrants and the next generations, machines, AI, gun-ownership, creative writing, the space race, so much more. And at its heart, it is about the power of humanity’s greatest creation: STORYTELLING.

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Dune as a cinematic universe is way superior to Dune as a literary universe. I said what I said. #readinghottake

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I saw people posting fave author lists, so I figured I’d post mine. Not an exhaustive list, I add new faves everyday! - P. Djèlí Clark - Tamsyn Muir - Vaishnavi Patel - Catherynne M. Valente - Isabel Cañas - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I have never thought of nonfiction as comfort reading, but the only books I have been able to read since November 5th are nonfiction. Having true stories that uplift resistance & push back on white supremacy are really giving me life right now. I have a few more lined up before the end of the month

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Bri🖤 @bri-i.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Latest book haul. In my house, we don’t call it CRT. We call it history, and we learn about the things that define us as people.

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5hahem @5hahem.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

it’s so weird that so many people have such strong feelings about me, meanwhile i’m just a girl

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C.M. Flowers @cmflowers.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My dog is a gorgeous sunbathing model and I can’t think of a better first post for this account.

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