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Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social · 5h

"Succeeds as a didactic exploration of ideas, but falters in its characterizations." @yfbpodcast.bsky.social's review of “Ply” by Hernan Diaz (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/09/16/p...

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The Novel of Ideas: Ply by Hernan Diaz - Chicago Review of Books

Our review of Hernan Diaz’s new book, "Ply."

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 5h

The Khumalo Tales Kickstarter launches tomorrow, Thursday, Oct 1. "In a world of stories where We Must Get To the Action, Claybourne not only shows us how rich the dialogue and moments in between can be, but how they can be just as full of tension as any chase scene!" Stand ready.

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Family and Community in ZZ Claybourne’s “The Air in My House Tastes Like Sugar” (GigaNotoSaurus, March, 2020)

Y’all, I read this awesome story, and I want to tell you about it. It’s about a mother and daughter who are witches, tired of having to move from town to town to hide their identities. …

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Rockets on Tyne @rocketsontyne.bsky.social · 7h

What is Rockets on Tyne, you ask? Why, it's a day of SF events taking place on 26 November as part of this year's Books on Tyne festival! Details and tickets here and in the following thread: booksontyne.co.uk

Flyer for Rockets on Tyne, the SF&Fantasy day at the Books on Tyne festival, 26 November 2026. Featuring Adrian Tchaikovsky, Emma Newman, Francis Hardinge, Grace Curtis, and small presses The Braag and Carnyx Press.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 5h

"I try to feel for its radiations, where they might land on my skin. Hers are the delayed rays of a star." Vanessa Holyoak on the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: lareviewofbooks.org/article/theresa…

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Generous Opacities | Los Angeles Review of Books

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s wide-ranging art practice is on display in a traveling retrospective.

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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 6h

Agita Magazine opens for submissions on October 17 for issue 3: ekphrasis. Ekphrasis is the verbal representation of a work of visual art. Weird fiction is a verbal representation of the world, in order to unsettle it. Send us stories at the intersection. Guidelines at agitamag.com/submissions

A black circle. On the outside it says "agita 3" and "agitamag.com." On the inside it says "Ekphrasis, February 1, 2027, submissions open Oct. 17 to Nov. 17, Guest editor Zachary Gillan."

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Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social · 5h

Meet the selection panel for Originators, the Women’s Prize Trust’s mentorship and development program, presented by CHANEL: Chair A.M. Homes is joined by Virginia Evans, @sugi.bsky.social, @tayari.bsky.social and Nicole Krauss. Learn more at womensprize.com/originators/

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 5h

Read a tender sonnet sequence by Palestinian American poet and @miznaarabart.bsky.social editor, @intifadabatata.bsky.social, now on our website. buff.ly/Hv2K4vM

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 6h

It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 8h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social · 17h

Delicious stories inside! @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social

Author Erin Brown smiling and holding up a copy of the anthology Forged in FIYAH

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 5h

Watching the waves rolling in against a spectacular piece of the North Antrim coastline. County Antrim, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 8h

Hey everyone, I currently have availability for freelance writing, researching, and/or teaching work between now and the end of the calendar year. Please see this document for further details, and share with anyone else who you think might be interested.

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AVAILABILITY FOR WORK

Hello everyone, This is just a notice to say I'm available for freelance paid work in the following areas until the end of 2026: WRITING: Whether for academic or public-facing audiences, in the areas ...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 7h

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 6h

I've updated the September Table of Contents list over on Transfer Orbit. It's a rundown of a ton of SF/F stories that have been released this past month: www.andrewliptak.com/table-of-con...

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Table of Contents, September 2026

A new crop of stories to start the fall off with

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 11h

It's new Hurley story day! For a buck you get 120+ pieces of short, weird fiction you can read instead of doom scrolling. Join the 1000+ other folks who think that's a GREAT idea www.patreon.com/kameronhurley

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Kameron Hurley — creating Short Stories

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For the 2nd time, I finally read a book by an author I've long enjoyed on Bsky and it was so fun! This time it was The Shamshine Blind by @pazsays.bsky.social. A future-noir crime tale with interesting pigment-based world building. Clearly I should trust that fun moots write good books. #booksky

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Save 30% on #NewBook "Enter the Lion," by John P. Homiak, Giulia Bonacci, and Jahlani A. Niaah, which assembles a vital archive of the history of Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie I state visit to Kingston, Jamaica in 1966. buff.ly/69p9RiK

Cover of Enter the Lion: The 1966 State Visit of Emperor Haile Selassie I to the Caribbean by John P. Homiak, Giulia Bonacci, and Jahlani A. Niaah. Cover features a green, orange, and red gradient imposed on a historical photo of a crowd with signs surrounded by military. The title is bold and white, with the subtitle bottom-center in white and yellow. The authors' names are in yellow across the top of the cover.

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 10h

In Cairo, ‘A Renewed Appetite for Egyptian and Arab Literature’ Over at CairoScene, Hassan Tarek reports on book-buying trends in Cairo, with a focus on sales at the Diwan bookstore chain.... arablit.org/2026/09/30/in-cairo-a-r…

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In Cairo, ‘A Renewed Appetite for Egyptian and Arab Literature’

Over at CairoScene, Hassan Tarek reports on book-buying trends in Cairo, with a focus on sales at the Diwan bookstore chain.

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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 17h

These digital lynchings of exclusively Black writers have become unbearable. This has to stop.

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kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 17h

just 6 more days! wow! today's koothu number is what we refer to as puberty function i'm not kidding. ngl, i wish my novel launch could be like this, barring the whole puberty thing of course www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoth...

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YouTube video by Track Musics India

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kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 17h

please pre-order! or buy my other books! 🙏

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 25/09/2026

Everything is a grift. Specifically, a right-wing one.

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 17h

I see the French-speaking world wants its own Arday moment 😔

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The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Deadline extended until 7 October! The Events Planning Committee seeks proposals for sessions centered on the tools and methodologies of bibliographical work, to take place during BSA’s Annual Meeting in January 2027 View the full CfP and submission instructions: 🔗https://bit.ly/cfp-tools-trade-27

Promotional graphic announcing a 7 October deadline and a call for proposals titled “Tools of the Trade at the 2027 Annual Meeting,” with a black-and-white meeting photograph. White text on a copper background.

Copper text on a white background, with more details about submitting a proposal including a link to learn more and a deadline of 7 October

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Aww, look, Ex Partum is on the SFINCS read list! So is @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social’s Hornytown Chutzpah @ @authorizedmusings.bsky.social’s Between the Blood and the Sun. Fly, my pretties, fly! www.sfincscompetition.com/post/accepte...

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Accepted SFINCS4 Submissions!

Here you can find the accepted SFINCS4 author submissions!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My responses are 1) if you really believe a tech company isn't accessing your data anyway, I have a bridge to sell you; and 2) where did they get that data? They claim "approximately 1 million documents comprised of public and licensed human-written text," but I want deets.

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 29/09/2026

Breaking News: Katie Espiner has been named chief executive of Hachette UK as the current CEO, David Shelley, becomes executive chair of Hachette UK and Hachette Book Group. Shelley also takes up a new role as global advisor to the CEO and deputy CEO of Hachette Livre. 👇

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Katie Espiner made CEO of Hachette UK as David Shelley becomes executive chair

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 29/09/2026

Anyway dyk the prolific @genni.bsky.social has at least 3 books out in 2026! Black Dingo: Short Stories (October, Flame Tree Collections); Crimson in Quietus (September, @meerkatpress.bsky.social); and Muntu (May, @badhandbooks.bsky.social).

Covers of the three books mentioned in the post. Black Dingo is mostly green with gold concentric circles; Crimson in Quietus has a Black woman in futuristic clothing and with long curly hair in the foreground, looking to her right; Muntu is stark red and black with either flames or smoke and two hands in silhouette on either side.

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 29/09/2026

I think I may need to read The Library Cosmic again 🤔

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

A true master

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"'Ply' moves beyond both classical physics and realist fiction to point toward the possibility of transcending capitalism itself." M. Keith Booker reviews Hernan Diaz's third novel, "Ply": lareviewofbooks.org/article/hernan-…

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can now check out my short story collection WHO LOST, I FOUND at Charleston County Public Library! These are stories like the South itself: beautiful, dangerous, haunting. “Royce’s lyrical prose invites readers into the lives of Southern conjure women, haints, sentient houses... #booksky

The cover of Eden Royce's short story collection Who Lost, I Found featuring An older, gray-haired Black woman is tenderly lifting the body of a younger, Black woman out of an open grave set deep in a forest on a moonlight night.

Close up of cover for WHO LOST, I FOUND - An older, gray-haired Black woman is tenderly lifting the body of a younger, Black woman
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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 29/09/2026

#worldkidlitmonth Takuji Ichikawa (1962- ) has dreamed of being a novelist since he was in grade school. A highly successfully writer in Japan, Ichikawa asked himself what a novel should look like in an age of bleak environmental news, staggering global inequality, and growing authoritarianism.

A color photograph of Takuji Ichikawa, a thin Japanese man with medium-length, curly hair, rectangular glasses, and a salt-and-pepper goatee, posing in front of a background of trees and other plants.

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Mercedes Crisóstomo @mercrisostomo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am so grateful to Marral Shamshiri for inviting me to write this piece for @historyworkshop.org.uk and its Radical Horizons series. The piece forms part of my broader research on women in radical politics in twentieth-century Latin America.

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As the academic year begins, I’m happy to report it’s been a very productive summer. Yesterday I finished a very intense round of edits for my next book, my most ambitious to date. I can’t wait to share it — out next June 💫

World war zero—how colonial wars made our world printed out

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fact that we have the perfect gravity to keep books from floating away ought to amaze y'all.

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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In the 1860s, chess player Howard Staunton produced a photo-facsimile of Shakespeare's First Folio. It was one of the earliest attempts to use new technology to reproduce an old book. @folger.edu has Staunton’s proof sheets. I looked at them last week. If you like media/books/history, they're fun.

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“How on earth came the t turned into s?!!!!”

On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 29/09/2026

How can processes of political formation shape transformative politics? Mercedes Crisóstomo discusses the experiences of Peru's militante women from past to present.

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Political Formation and Politicisation in Turbulent Times

How can processes of political formation shape transformative politics? Mercedes Crisóstomo discusses the experiences of Peru's militante women from past to present.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @handle.invalid · 28/09/2026

September has been a GANGBUSTERS month for new fiction. So many incredible books by major authors as well as newcomers. Here are three books I absolutely adored this month. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

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My Favorite Books of September!

Hi! ICYMI I’m going to be in Australia in a week and a half. I’ll be at the Brisbane Writers Festival and the Canberra Writers Festival, and doing events in...

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