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Emma Sloley

@emmasloley.bsky.social
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Writer, gadabout, author of a novel I think you'll like called THE ISLAND OF LAST THINGS. Buy it here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-island-of-…

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Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The paperback of my novel The Island of Last Things comes out on August 11, and you can preorder it at Barnes & Noble for 25% off! ($13.49) It's about the world's last zoo, where two women keepers form a rare bond and hatch a deadly plan 🐊 #booksky 💙📚 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-island...
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The Island of Last Things: A Novel
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Jacob Thomas Austin @jacobthomasaustin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
About to enter the black-orange-brown phase of my 2026 reading list. @stephenking.bsky.social @emmasloley.bsky.social @1000vultures.bsky.social #booksky
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 12/07/2026
T2 foster parents meme:

"Are my Republican Senators okay?"

"Lindsey, how was your trip to Ukraine?"

"Oh, it was great.
I just spent 20 minutes talking about it with Mitch McConnell!"

"Your Republican Senators are dead."
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A great NYC story- and this guy sounds like a real character (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...
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Too Many Books? (Gift Article)
Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apartment.
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Looking for recommendations for novels that are immersive explorations of fantastical or futuristic cities, or city-like things! The Diamond Age by Stephenson is a great sci-fi example. The West Gate by Pechaček and City of Stairs by Bennett are great fantasy examples.
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bradley babendir @therealbradbabs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
disclosure day review round-up part two is out!! takes from me, maren kelsey, @mtzero.bsky.social, @adamfpetty.bsky.social, sarah healy, and jeremy zeitlin!
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Disclosure Day Review Round Up (Part 2)
Newsletter recipients!
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Brosephine Wires, Perennial Soup-Lover @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Favorite queer short stories recommendations?
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Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans is the 2026 winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction. Congratulations Virginia! @michaeljbooks.bsky.social
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Bryan Graham @bryanagraham.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Lauren and I went to Rikers Island to watch Game 1 of the NBA finals.
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八瀬🌻🎸 @slumflower.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Remember when writers didn’t use AI and instead just stole their wife’s work and claimed it as their own?
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swadeshine☀️ @swadeshine.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Inside us there are two wolves and we should really be aiming for zero wolves.
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Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
CAPE FEAR is nuts! OFFICE ROMANCE is kinda good?? Here is this week’s recommendations column www.premiereparty.com/p/a-nasty-tr...
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A Nasty Trip to ‘Cape Fear’
Plus, JLo’s actually pretty good romcom.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
a proper veterinary practice has 2 doctors who are 85 and 29, one kinda goth lady, the gently autistic guy with unusual pets, horse girl with a 150lb Rottweiler, the front desk lady is Dana from The Pitt, no one know what Ryan does
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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 29/05/2026
Reminder: indie writers, hit me up if you want to do a book reading or signing @eveninghouse.bsky.social Big time writers? You’re also welcome of course lol We’re a physically small and cozy shop in downtown Buffalo with a dedicated community and we’d love to give you and your book a spotlight 🫡
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 28/05/2026
I won a regional Murrow award today for best continuing coverage for my series of stories last year on data centers in Kentucky. If you're so inclined to spend an hour reading them they're here:
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MURROW AWARDS- Joe Sonka
MURROW AWARDS- Joe Sonka Continuing Coverage This is a series of stories throughout the year tracing and analyzing the impact of new state tax incentives designed to lure energy-intensive data cente...
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Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
My tribute to Mary Shelley, Everina coming soon. Thank you to everyone who made this one possible, my agent and my fabulous editor. Thank you so very much for letting me tell this story 🖤⚡️
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Deal Report
EVERINA
By Cynthia Pelayo
Imprint: Union Square & Co
Bram Stoker Award-winner Cynthia Pelayo's EVERINA, a novella reworking of FRANKENSTEIN, inspired by Mary Shelley's experience as a grieving mother the same year she began writing the classic horror story, to Mika Kasuga at Union Square & Co, in an exclusive submission, by Lane Heymont at The Tobias Literary Agency (world).
Fiction: Horror
May 28, 2026
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Looking for the books of the summer? We've got 'em! Thank you to @hamiltoncain.bsky.social, @daneetsteffens.bsky.social, @cvbell.bsky.social, Chris Vognar & Marion Winik for your stellar contributions. In print on Sunday in the @bostonglobe.com! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/27/a...
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Your summer reading guide featuring 75 books to keep you reading all season long - The Boston Globe
Our annual summer reading guide, just for you.
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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
After spending the last week moving words and phrases and sentences and paragraphs around, copying and pasting, mixing and matching, moving everything everything around again, and again, and again... have resolved to next time just put the words in the right order in the first place. 🤓
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
SCHWEEN ROAST, featuring music from: Jackson Perkins, Perkins Jackson, Ivar Mectin, Trav, Trav-Trav, Travis von Travis, Brumpo Tungus, Gwot Moab, Torrrrrrrv!
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The new teaser trailer for “Primetime,” A24’s upcoming film that stars Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen of “To Catch a Predator,” is out
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T. K. Rex @tkrex.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Tonight in San Francisco! I’m reading at The Sycamore with: Vincent Chu Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social Kimberly Gomes Leigh Lucas Preeti Vangani @preetivangani.bsky.social Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social Lauren C. Johnson @laurencjohnson.bsky.social It’s gonna be amazing. You will like it
Promo graphic for the info in the post. May 26, 7pm, theme is “The New Era”
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Tab Hunter says hi
A big ginger tabby cat is showing off his pretty pawsA big ginger tabby cat is looking at youA big ginger tabby cat is looking smug
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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
For my very first piece for @bloomberg.com, I wrote about reality TV, new books about it, and my theory that we are still watching it in the age of influencers because it's a fundementally social endeavor (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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There Have Always Been Good Reasons to Watch Reality TV
Several new books argue that unscripted TV serves a social function: It helps us make sense of the world by constructing and deconstructing human drama.
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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
if a dog looks at me weird it will ruin the rest of my day, like what the hell man. what kind of evil secretly lurks inside of me that made that happen
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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
can you imagine a blue sky user that’s a ghost? just reply-guying every post with “wow ok well some of us are dead”
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
This beautiful Minoan gold bee is decorated with the most minute filigree work. It almost defies belief especially as the pendant is only around 15mm high. 🕰️1,700-1,350BC 🏛️BM 📷 my own
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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
please share this call with your human friends, human students, human neighbors, human writing groups
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 20/05/2026
Hope you're following along with the election feed, as I am, to keep up with live-posted results from many local reporters across six states! (Please let me know if you have any critiques of the feed itself.) FEED LINK: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 19/05/2026
I'll be live-bleating the Kentucky primary election returns tonight, only on @bsky.app. Check in soon after 6pm. #kysen #kyga26 #ky4
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Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Deep Vellum Music & Literature Festival has its headliners! Join Hanif Abdurraqib, Jamila Woods, and so many other great artists this July 10th-12th in beautiful Dallas. Tickets available now: www.deepvellum.org/festival
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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The new issue of The Kenyon Review is here! Follow the link to read: Jessie Cato’s remarkable piece on the nonlinearity of grief, “Through the Mirror,” the winning entry of the 2025 Kenyon Review Nonfiction Contest judged by Lucy Ives. This cover features Launch Pads (2021) by Ivan David Ng.
The new Kenyon Review cover
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Wil Eelsing @wileelsing.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Dune Cat Budget Version
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
gonna be sporting and give tim a five minute head start
Sign reads “TAKE ONLY PHOTOS, LEAVE ONLY FOOTPRINTS, KILL ONLY TIM, PLEASE STAY ON THE TRAILS”
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Say a group of friends is making their own Top 100 Best Novels List. Your friends ask you for your recommendations. What are the first three books that come to mind? No overthinking. Share the first three greats that hit you.
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Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
We close for submissions tonight at midnight!
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BookTrib @booktrib.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
NEW MESSAGE: our newest book recs + top content for the week 💬 Happy Friday, #booksky! We’re highlighting the thought-provoking articles that graced our website this week, plus the new + upcoming releases that have us checking our phones for purchase confirmations 👀
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Recently, for *obvious reasons*, I've been thinking about what it means when anxiety and sadness are caused not by individual predispositions, but by the state of the world itself. This led me to early 19th-c. France and the notion of "mal du siècle" (sickness of the century) aeon.co/essays/young...
Gen Z but two centuries ago
A generation of young people with ‘full hearts in an empty world’ sought hope in the face of insurmountable malaise
By Emily Herring

On a painting of young 19th-century men looking drunk and sad around a table with cigarettes and drinks
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.
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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 12/05/2026
Lithub has an excerpt of my book, which is out today! lithub.com/how-middle-m...
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How Middle Management Made the Modern World
Late nineteenth-century American machine shop foreman Frederick Winslow Taylor had a problem: his friends didn’t like him. Rather like Samuel Bentham a century earlier, he began his career in a fac…
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The Virologist 🇳🇱🤙 @thevirologist.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
thanks to all the garbage reporting surrounding the hantavirus outbreak, what is known vs. what is speculated in the story has become blurred. 3 possibilities: 1. Passengers may have been exposed before boarding. 2. Limited onboard human transmission 3. Ongoing efficient respiratory spread
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E.A. Noble|Sapphic Lead SFFH. @authoreanoble.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Y'all busy? Because I would LOVE it if y'all can and hear me read from my debut novel. There will be giveaways and goodies and new to you authors. Oh, and it's completely free. Just register at the this link - share.google/WwbyEMz0QMNk... #SWSWQR
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 09/05/2026
Author, bookseller, and publisher friends: Please keep posting your positive stories about selling books through Bluesky, and I'll package them up and show them to publishers so that we can get more book publishers and even more authors and book conversation here!
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 09/05/2026
Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.
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Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com · 04/05/2026
Guys, ANGEL DOWN won the Pulitzer Prize. Let’s get nuts.
Graphic with the book on it
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
AMAZING, AMAZING NEWS!! ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting 🎉🎉🎉
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ProPublica and The Connecticut Mirror Win Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
The award, for uncovering predatory state towing practices, marks ProPublica’s 9th Pulitzer; two additional investigations were named finalists.
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NPR @npr.org · 04/05/2026
Award winners include authors Daniel Kraus, Jill Lepore and Yiyun Li, opinion writer M. Gessen and staffers and contributors at The Washington Post, Reuters and AP. n.pr/4f7k5S2
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Here are the 2026 Pulitzer Prize winners
Award winners include authors Daniel Kraus, Jill Lepore and Yiyun Li, opinion writer M. Gessen and staffers and contributors at The Washington Post, Reuters and AP.
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