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Katherine Packert Burke

@katpburke.bsky.social
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whole idiot. novelist. ALL US SAINTS out 5.19.26 from Bloomsbury

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hannah account @junglist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
TRAVELING SWALLOWING
DRAMAMINE

gangster bugs bunny
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“upsetting but horny and earnest” is exactly the vibe I was going for!!
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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
this sebastian castillo tweet is so load bearing. Lots of hit the back walls journalism out there lately
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Jess @jessicaesquire.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
ALL US SAINTS by @katpburke.bsky.social (and recommended by @emilystjams.bsky.social below!) is so good that I mentioned it TWICE on @darkertimes.bsky.social last week.
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
lovely review from Nic!!!
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
“Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat from fire, fire from heat around the corner”
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
wrote about how much I love the Silence of the Lambs novel for @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/revisiting-s...
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Revisiting "Silence of the Lambs" in the Age of Trans Backlash - Electric Literature
Thomas Harris’s 1988 novel tried to paint an irredeemable villain. Instead, it captured something real about trans experience
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 28/05/2026
I’ve picked up Hacks again and god damn this shit is funny and Ava sucks so bad I need her biblically
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Destiel
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
you heard Miss Syndrome everyone get more feral now!!!!
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
happy pub day to THEE book of the season!!!!
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joyce’s monster 🎃 @joycelaurie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
you wouldn’t know her she goes to another sexual subculture
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Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net · 21/05/2026
thus is a really good essay by @katpburke.bsky.social also more importantly CASSANDRA MENTIONED god that story is so so good
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In Anton Solomonik’s short story “Cassandra,” a trans man dresses up in women’s clothing and the trans girl he is with dresses up in men’s. “I really did have sexual fantasies about being a woman with a man,” he reports, “the fantasies were about being constrained, in every part of my life, in and out of the sex encounter, by imagined social norms for women.” I will never get past how amazing this story is. To take the—largely pre-/early transition—mode of disguising oneself as ones assigned gender and instead turn it camp (not girlmoding, but “girlmoding,” as Sontag would have it), turn it into fetish—is the kind of double turn that I only see in trans lit.
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
over on LitHub I write around, if not through, a question I keep asking
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
insanely smart review of All Us Saints from Grace Byron!!! thebaffler.com/latest/boy-g...
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Boy Girl Problems | Grace Byron
If you can’t be beautiful, be tortured. Or better yet, be the one who does the torturing.
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lou @wanlittlehusk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I have been tearing through this all weekend in a way that is EXTREMELY rare for me these days. Katherine is a genius
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The Licorice Kid @thelicoricekid.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I think it would be beautiful if they had Samus talk and she sounded like Lina Lamont from singin in the rain
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
All Us Saints is out today!! I am incredibly lucky to have gotten to publish such a weird book. I hope you all love it!
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
they’re sayin its transgender murder summer
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daria argento @mommywiseau.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
@astoehr.bsky.social & @katpburke.bsky.social
Katherine Packert Burke & Alice StoehrAgain, Harder
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
dirtied my hands and started a substack. the first post is about Ben Lerner. the second post will be about as few living writers as I can manage. find it here: ghostimage.substack.com/p/time-out-of-joint-on-ben-lerners
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Time Out of Joint: On Ben Lerner’s Transcription
Lord help us all, it’s time for some hauntology.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
here’s my final say on smoking which i’ll have you know i quit doing. if they would simply invent something else. something you could light on fire. and then suck on til you cough. but without the cancer. i would smoke it. i would smoke it all day long without stopping
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A l i c e @astoehr.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
do people know about the novel 'all us saints' by @katpburke.bsky.social coming out next month? i read it recently & it's sticking with me... i'd describe it as 'what if the plot of halloween happened to the royal tenenbaums?'
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lou @wanlittlehusk.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I have the second round of @catfitzpatrick.net galleys here...which of you Transsexual Publishing Luminaries did I miss last time
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Natalie @nataliesnotinit.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Thrilled to get to help kick off the local launch event for this great (and very upsetting lol) book, Minneapolis crew, turn out on May 19 😤🕯
An event graphic for the launch of ALL US SAINTS, With text that says "featuring author Katherine Packert Burke in conversation with Natalie Marlin," along with author images for both and the book cover, and info about the event being at 6 pm on 5/19 at Moon Palace Books
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
doing the Central Time equivalent of those “book tours” that are 80% NYC, midwesterners and Austinites come hang out ✨
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Lots of imprints don’t have a very strong brand identity but when I saw MCD I’d always know I was getting something good and kind of weird. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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FSG Closes its MCD Imprint, McDonald to Depart
The imprint was formed in 2016 by then FSG publisher and president Jonathan Galassi to publish experimental works. Under the direction of Sean McDonald, MCD published a range of bestselling and award-winning fiction and nonfiction titles.
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I’m trying to lock down more interviews for ALL US SAINTS—if you wanna have me on yr podcast, yr newsletter, yr internet magazine, etc, hit me up! I am a big sweetheart and very good at talking about my writing
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Hal Schrieve - writer and librarian ze/hir @halschrieve.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
www.gopressgirl.ink/vivians-ghost if you hate anti trans journalists may i recommend my comic where one meets a ghost and suffers
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Go Press Girl! - Vivian's Ghost
Originally serialized online from 2022-2023, Vivian's Ghost follows the intersecting lives of three transmasc teens, Collin, Vivian, and Andrew, and how the aftermath of their friendship haunts them y...
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 17/02/2026
good news everyone: jazz graphics are WAY up
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
[incredibly weary sigh] All Us Saints (2026)
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
...if you're a trans person who speaks out about how horrible Newsom is on trans issues, you get *flooded* with ppl telling you to "vote blue no matter who". to which I say: fuck you! would you vote for a politician who says he wants to roll back your rights? www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...
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Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom
We have seen this song and dance before.
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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Whew!!! heat's off, gals / time to get weird
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
locking the fuck in
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
what’s, uh what’s going on here
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
kind of incredible that I wrote a book where a castle falls on JK Rowling during a fictional apocalypse and if anything I was way too kind and generous about her motivations
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
loveeed listening to Jamie talk about the novel that is personally responsible for every time I have ever used the phrase “swimming-pool light”
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
making veggie dogs out of just tofu and seasoning which is the kind of thing they’re always making in Dykes to Watch Out For
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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Having to take a medicine daily: a drumbeat in the symphony of life; a moment of self-care. Having to take a medicine monthly: a beautiful ritual; an encounter with the moon goddess. Having to take a medicine weekly: A horrifying reminder that time is passing too fast and that one day I will die.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Neil Gaiman should never be readmitted to polite society. A man with that much money and power, actively putting up a smokescreen of progressivism to conceal his predation, can never be trusted.
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Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
everyone doing legal observation knows that their plates are getting run, their faces are getting scanned, etc. opsec is about protecting 1) the people ICE is trying to abduct and 2) the channels used to coordinate that protection
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I’m trying to help this immigrant family who’s been inside for over a month due to increased ICE presence in our community. Rent and bills are due tomorrow (Feb. 1) so we are really hoping to support them. Let’s make this family happy & prevent their displacement. ❤️ Venmo: @ gretagretagreta
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@gretagretagreta
 
VENMO
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Musidora in Les Vampires
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
@katpburke.bsky.social on the power of many (and believing that we’ll win).
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Letter From Minnesota: We Are Going to Win
Each morning, I get a Signal message counting up how many days our city has been occupied. It bears information, reminders for new members. There are estimated to be 80,000 of us in the city. The h…
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
One of the hardest things to explain to people who aren’t here is the very real feeling that we are in a war against the federal government. Not only are we occupied by unaccountable armed, masked paramilitaries, but we are constantly aware our neighbors might be abducted in the blink of an eye.
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pilot @pilotv.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
i get the sentiment and i'm glad people are ready to mobilize and i love my city but man, i hate quotes like this. as if minnesota didn't burn down a precinct in 2020 while new yorkers spent a loooot of time marching in circles while following grifters with megaphones
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Manticker The Seventy @manticker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"When one fed attempted to blow off the crowd by visibly watching basketball highlights on his phone, a protester shouted “You’re watching ads, you broke bitch! Kill yourself!” The federal agent returned to his room shortly thereafter." crimethinc.com/2026/01/27/t...
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The Noise Demonstrations Keeping ICE Agents Awake at Their Hotels
Participants in the noise demonstrations targeting hotels that house federal agents in the Twin Cities recount their experiences and explain how this tactic might be employed elsewhere.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It's the end of the month. Lots of folks haven't been able to work all month because of ICE. They will be evicted in a few days. @governorwalz.mn.gov could stop this right now.
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