Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 43mI'm impressed that @evehrlich.bsky.social, whom I've been editing and joking with for so long he's more a friend than a client (albeit a friend who pays me, so let's say a frient), got blurbs for his new novel, The Adventures of Brightthinking McCoy, from the Big Three: ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. 040
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15/07/2025This account of the relationship between the last two Jews in Taliban Afghanistan is incredible 461585223
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 13hNot sure why they thought it needed a sequel, but at least it has a better title than the original, TERMINAL: The Queen's Feeling a Bit Under the Weather 0121
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Really, they should call those little pouches sucking tobacco. 090
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I first began to realize I wasn't like the other boys when I found myself drawn to Thing One while remaining completely indifferent to Thing Two. 2193
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Having the book club meet here for our Piranesi discussion. 0130
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkAnne Charnock @annecharnock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I’ll be talking about ALSTON MOOR at the historic @housmansbookshop.bsky.social. What’s more, I will be in conversation with the amazing @sannewman.bsky.social RSVP for this free event: housmans.com/event/book-l... @unamccormack.bsky.social @goldsf.bsky.social @sarahsuch.bsky.social 01411
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026US/UK language variation I hadn't noticed before Jeffrey Archer died: "on oath" and "under oath." 030
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My weight can fluctuate a lot, sometimes as much as fifty or a hundred pounds, and I understand that it isn't healthy, and that's why people who care about me find it upsetting, but it's still hurtful when they run away screaming if they happen to be talking to me when it happens. 1201
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The high road is still there, but nobody uses it anymore, ever since the low road was expanded into a superhighway. 1111
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I feel like there were once TV commercials with a kick line of feminized Rockette Raisinets, but that was back when I was tripping a lot, so I can't be completely sure. 110
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkPaul Witcover @paulwitcover.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Always a tough wait when a new book is being shopped around! Meanwhile, here's my last one! "Lincolnstein is audacious, ambitious, heartfelt, determined to make us see the grotesquerie of inequality and feel the hard demands of love." So says @kkoja.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/49hchp5w 121
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They must know how long it's going to take before we give up and just click Consent when we want to read something, who will get worn down when, because we're contributing to the science of petty annoyances whether we consent or "manage our preferences" by clicking reject dozens of times. 161
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Time traveler comes back to warn us from later today. 0162
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkAnthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I am taking some time off social media to finish reading this pile of books. @howardm.bsky.social Mittelmark especially stares admonishingly from the pile. See you in the funny papers. 271
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New printing process. It's still experimental. They told me it would increase sales 000
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you open up a picture by clicking it, underneath it is the alt text, which is meant to be a description of the image for anyone who would have trouble seeing it. People put other things in there, sometimes. Amusing commentary. You can write a much longer alt text than the actual text. 040
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Otoh, without capital punishment, we would never get to say "botched execution." 0102
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkDaisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Delighted that my translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Our City that Year is in this excellent long list from @womenintranslation.bsky.social ! 🧿 5238
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I have nothing funny to add. I am just saying that these ads exist. Witnessing. 150
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkMichael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026From my series 100 Years Ago Today: Real People Tell Their Real Stories. #1: Doorman 212032
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkHoward Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Very pleased to see that Shroud was shortlisted for year's best Adrian Tchaikovsky novel. 0102
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Very pleased to see that Shroud was shortlisted for year's best Adrian Tchaikovsky novel. 0102
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkCaustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I did this one a while ago: an Apple Store where Something Horrible Happened 2152
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Always shaken up a little when writer types have skills in the physical world. Still wake up surprised every morning since learning @nickarvin.bsky.social is an engineer five or ten years ago. Anyway, very cool. 150
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026An email from an author asking me about working with her on the novel she's writing went into spam yesterday, and there was nothing spammy about it. Maybe coincidence, but might be all the AI spam directed at writers and editors now has gmail overcorrecting. Check your spam, writers and editors. 1142
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thanks. Listening now. Seems pretty innocuous, which I guess is required for that level of popularity. I don't hate it, but I don't think I need to ever hear it again. 000
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkElizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026To mark the occasion of the first piece of AI scammy spam about "Seven Stories About Tammy." www.biblioasis.com/shop/fiction...biblioasis.comSeven Stories About Tammy - BiblioasisThe first in a new short stories series from Biblioasis. Morris Harkin brings his new girlfriend Tammy to meet his family. She is not who they expected and they do not like her. 0115
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026No. This is the future Orwell warned about, Michael Palin encountering recycled chicken in the Philippines, forever. 010
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkDavid Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I was asked about my favourites… mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-writer...mathewlyons.substack.comThe writer’s bookshelf: David BenedictEight questions about writers, books, and reading… 1132
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Thanks. It's an honor just to be on the list. I'm glad you enjoyed it. 000
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Another Lesson in Seduction®, boys. Pay attention. Her: Do you have any children? Me: None...that I know of. <brow waggle> The breakdown: "None" tells her I am unencumbered, and free to begin a family with her. "that I know of" = I have had sex before <brow waggle> = and I know what that is 2191
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026They've appropriated all the funding earmarked for bread and used it to double down on circuses. 25918
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkMathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026And then my Engelsberg Ideas review of How England Began, a study of the country between the retreat of Rome c410 & the arrival of the Augustinian mission nearly two centuries later, and what it says about the construction of cultural and political identities mathewlyons.substack.com/p/review-how...mathewlyons.substack.comReview: How England Began by Nicholas HighamA compelling account of the British experience under Roman and Anglo-Saxon rule 162
Reposted by Howard Mittelmarkbuy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026One of the dumber lies of the past few days is the claim that when straight people in some community or business say or do foolish things, it doesn't make the news. Here's an example of one such story I helped launch INTO the news: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooks_S...en.wikipedia.orgCooks Source infringement controversy - Wikipedia 192
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Me, when somebody proposes going out to hear the London Philharmonic perform Britten's War Requiem tonight: You know, we have recordings of that now. 1141
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Shortlisted for 2026 Best Thread about a Lesser-Known Melville Novel. 1134
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I am the Lorax, I speak for the data centers. 0182
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I find that immediately appealing, which concerns me. 010
Reposted by Howard MittelmarkSaraKateW @sarakatew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@sannewman.bsky.social what a dream! 31108
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just want to state that I did not do this, despite having threatened to. 010
