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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
a quote to pull you in, “Researching this book required a form of historical combat. Archives exist not as neutral repositories but rather battlegrounds where evidence can be buried alive.”
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Unassuming Local Guy @bionicslingshot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MY FORTUNE COOKIE: “You will soon experience a great transformation.” MY BRAIN:
An illustration depicting Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” featuring a human-sized bug on its back in a small bed in a sparsely-decorated bedroom.
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Tara Calishain @researchbuzz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I will always appreciate how the Digital Underground specifically invited Samoans to do the Humpty Hump.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Many professional class whites seem to have decided that the moral of Nikole Hannah-Jones' NYT piece is that she was wrong to care about the education of disadvantaged Black kids in the first place and nothing can be done.
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My brain has put me on high alert, I’ve had a frozen vegan pizza and am hoping that watching Call the Midwife under a blanket helps
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Among those at the NYC protest against Netanyahu, risking arrest: — Darializa Avila Chevalier, Chris Rabb, Adam Hamawy, Chi Osse, Emily Gallagher — Hannah Einbinder, Elliot Page, Susan Sarandon — Caleb Hearon, Mary Beth Barone — Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker — Chelsea Manning
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Toni Morrison poem "The Dead of September 11" —— Some have God's words or songs of comfort for the bereaved.… I would like to speak directly to the dead… Speaking to the broken and the dead is too difficult for a mouth full of blood … the dead are free, absolute; they cannot be seduced by blitz. …
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THE DEAD OF SEPTEMBER II | Vanity Fair
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Things are different but ok. Perennial truth.
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm bummed that Bold Fork Books is closing, I went there for @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social's DC event for No Meat Required and was so impressed by their expansive non-cookbook food writing selection www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...
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Bold Fork Books, Washington, D.C., Closing
Bold Fork Books, a culinary bookstore in Washington, D.C., will close at the end of September, City Cast DC reported."This has been
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james folta @jamesfolta.com · 03/09/2026
The yoda olives meme

after translating the odyssey while standing in front of refrigerator in 2017

2026... going back for more the odyssey
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
my worlds delightfully collide, the La Cuenta newsletter, who are @beaconpress.bsky.social authors interview NYIC (where I volunteer) president Murad Awawdeh lacuenta.substack.com/p/family-pre...
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Family Preparedness with Murad Awawdeh
A conversation with Murad Awawdeh President and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition, on family preparedness and how to handle hard conversations with our kids.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
i can't tell you what Rocky Horror alone meant to me as a young queer freak
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has issued a call for donations in the place of flowers. lithub.com/in-lieu-of-f...
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In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is accepting donations.
The queen is dead, long live the queen! Dolly Parton—perhaps the most universally beloved American—died at 80 yesterday. She went peacefully, surrounded by family. Known as a formidable singer-song…
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry now too WHY
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Imagining myself spending a few transformative days with Gillian Anderson and endless candy (I have finally seen Camp Miasma)
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I watched the Club Kid trailer so now I’m listening to Thoroghfare on loop with misty eyes while I do some meeting notes
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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I'm finally allowed to reveal the cover for my book! This is Love Never Dies: Romance in Horror Movies. It's coming from @beaconpress on September 29. Isn't it beautiful? Dan McCarthy is the artist and Louis Roe is the designer.
The cover of my book Love Never Dies. A black background with a bright red cameo in the centre that holds two skeletons facing each other. Their mouths are open and it looks like the dialogue coming out of their mouths is in the form of white daisies. The cameo is surrounded by decorations featuring film reels, popcorn buckets, and bones. The title Love Never Dies is at the top and my name is at the bottom.
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Summer is bad. I guess I went too hard cleaning and now I need to lay down at 3pm
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is a really helpful deep dive and also explains how and why the price of my beloved canned seltzer has been going up little by little. www.budgetbytes.com/the-almost-t...
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🍅 From Tomatoes to Beans: Why Groceries Cost More & How to Save
Why are groceries getting more expensive? Explore how tariffs affect food prices and find strategies to stretch your grocery budget further.
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
When the bartender at the gay bar decides to just play anime soundtracks
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Once again rereading Box Office Poison, a graphic novel I’ve had in my life since high school
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Talitha L. LeFlouria’s SEARCHING FOR JANE CROW goes on sale tomorrow and it’s in @literaryhub.bsky.social’s August nonfiction roundup! 🤩 buff.ly/9E6Y4K8
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10 Great Nonfiction Titles to Read This August
From the hard, hard courts of professional tennis to the mean screens of social media to the life and times of an iconic indie rock songwriter, this month has something for everyone. * Matthew Futt…
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
today's Glacial Errata @colindickey.com is the most "relevant to my interests" email I've opened in a long long time. glacialerrata.beehiiv.com/p/glacia-err...
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Glacia Errata, No. 82
Five Things for the Week of August 3, 2026.
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My most Carrie Bradshaw thought of late is that maybe the relationship anyone is in the longest is the one that they deserve, in a neutral face value way
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🥸 @hooburrito.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Hi folks, please share this around for my good friend and loved one Eli. He is currently facing housing insecurity.
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Donate to Help Eli Stay Housed and Secure a Job, organized by Ian Murray
Howdy! My name is Ian Murray, and I'm making a Go Fund Me on behalf of my friend an… Ian Murray needs your support for Help Eli Stay Housed and Secure a Job
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 07/07/2026
The Jacob Riis Bathhouse will soon become the Rockaway Ocean Club, a member's club, hotel, + suite of bars and restaurants. But not everyone at the People's Beach is excited about their new neighbors. Follow us inside the club—and down the rabbit hole. hellgatenyc.com/the-rockaway...
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Sunday cooking/week prep: beet juice, pickled red onions, 3 bean salad, chilaquiles for dinner
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
5 Severe Weather Alerts
Special Weather Statement
Air Quality Alert
Extreme Heat Warning
Severe Thunderstorm Watch
Air Quality Alert
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It’s death heat hot outside. I’ve never felt anything quite like it. Also, the fascists are marching down public streets on the 250th. So basically too much is happening outside for me to be out there.
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MJW @wilsonmj.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I just went to Taco Bell. I got two chalupas and a small drink. It was $18. This it's what people mean when they talk about the economy feeling bad right now. Everything is expensive. Cheap things are no longer cheap. You can't leave your house without spending $50.
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 4th in a heatwave, I’m inside with all the blinds closed, the AC on, watching a bear try to catch fish on the national park livestream
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Sunday summerish cooking/prep: buffalo tofu for salads, beet juice, blueberry chia seed pudding
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I.C.E. maintains a strict dress code for people seeking to visit their loved ones caged at Delaney Hall. It’s clear the strict rule is useful pretext to deny visitors entry. #ICE #DHS
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/05/2026
Immigration camps are not untouchable federal abstractions, they depend on a lot of local infrastructure. It is up to us, neighbors, community members, and we have the actual power to shut them down.
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ICE Camps Are Not Untouchable. Here’s How Communities Can Push Back
“You can do something. It is within reach. You can have an effect,” says journalist John Washington.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.
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ICE agents pepper spray protesters, N.J. senator in clash outside Delaney Hall in Newark
“It’s sad, it’s a sad day," says pepper-sprayed senator.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Thursday in Brooklyn, there will be dinner & a walkthrough of The Warehouse exhibit at the Bedford Public Library. The exhibit is inspired by Vic Liu’s book The Warehouse: A Visual Primer on Incarceration (co-written w/James Kilgore), & was created in collaboration w/our cofounder Mariame Kaba.
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Welcome Home Dinner & Exhibition Walk-through with Welcome Home Community | Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn Public Library's Welcome Home community hosts a dinner and exhibition walkthrough focused on life after incarceration, community support, and the ongoing work of re-entry.
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CNN @cnn.com · 22/05/2026
Consumer sentiment sinks to all-time low, with Americans feeling worse now than they did during wars, 9/11, the Great Recession and Covid-19 pandemic. cnn.it/4a2sliS
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Christian A. Coleman @colemanthe2nd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
So psyched for you on your publication day, @kpc.bsky.social! 🙌🏽 If y’all wondered what quantum physics have to do with queerness, this is the book. ⚛️ This kind of intersectionality is my jam. And for the metal heads and makeup mavens, there’s something in here for y’all, too. 😉
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...
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Donate to #FreeBlackMamas
With your generous support we are able to continue to bail out community members, provide life-changing supportive services and resource groups who are organizing to transform the criminal justice sys...
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 10/05/2026
The perfect gift for your mother this Mother’s Day? A subscription to Hell Gate. Survery after survey has found that mothers love us! hellgatenyc.com/gift-subscri...
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Give a Gift Subscription
Give the gift of New York City's favorite worker-owned, journalist-run news outlet. FYI: In the "start date" box, pick the date you want us to email the gift sub to the recipient, and feel free to in...
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 01/05/2026
Happy May Day! Our office is closed today; we’ll see you in the streets!
Anthropomorphic bread and roses walking hand in hand, holding aloft a banner that reads "We Want it All" 
The bottom says: Haymarket Books, Est. 2001, Chicago IL
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The labor guys have good music taste, been a long time since I heard 2Pac before stepping off
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“When I meet new people, when they discover I wrote a book, when they ask what it’s about, I don’t know how to tell them.” @madelinevosch.bsky.social on writing a memoir about suicide.
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I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You About My Book
I wrote a book about trying to kill myself, about surviving after, about how long I searched for the words to tell the story. When I meet new people, when they discover I wrote a book, when they as…
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The 20 new books out today include titles by Tom Perrotta, Jordan Harper, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more!
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Tom Perrotta, Jordan Harper, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and more: 20 new books out today!
We’re rounding out the month with a final dose of great literature: stupendous works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry all abound. Tom Perrotta’s new novel, Ghost Town, is out today, a…
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 28/04/2026
Radical bookstores don’t just sell books. In Chicago, Baltimore, and beyond, they host book clubs, training sessions, meetings, jail support work, and organizing that can shape entire movements. New from @leftiecowboy.bsky.social
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Radical Booksellers Do More Than Just Retail
Bookstores fight for communities through activism, despite backlash.
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Bev @lolbev.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
87 degrees in April means the lord can just take me now I can’t concentrate
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Many of you have heard that my editor Sean McDonald will no longer be working at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I wrote a little bit about my feelings at the end of an era.
I'm sure many people have seen the Publisher's Weekly article about my editor, Sean McDonald, leaving Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and his imprint, MCD Books, being shuttered. I have a lot of feelings about this, including gratitude for ten years of stability with one editor. Before Sean, I had a trilogy where each novel was taken by a different publishing company. It sold well enough that I was still in the game, but I never had anything approaching a settled situation. I never had any assurance from book to book that I could relax or get comfortable or feel settled.
Sean's offer for Annihilation and the rest of the Southern Reach trilogy was extraordinary. It fused a deep love of the literary with a savvy understanding of the world beyond the words in the novel. He had the vision to put the three Southern Reach novels out in the same year, creating a PR sensation to go along with a startlement of mostly rave reviews--a positive feedback loop that landed Authority and Acceptance on the bestseller lists in trade paperback. {Ultimately, the series has gone on to sell well over a million copies in the US alone, and been translated into over 37 languages.)
He further had the vision to slap an X on an omnibus hardcover just before the holidays, as a perfect gift book. It was as immaculate a synergy of the storytelling and the marketing and PR expression of that storytelling as I have ever seen or had ever experienced as the author in question. He also slipped the manuscript of Annihilation to a producer at a lunch, which led to the Annihilation movie and eventually led to Annihilation making the NYT bestseller list for the first time.When he got his own imprint at FSG, MCD Books, my novel Borne was the first published as an MCD book. It didn't make the bestseller list in hardcover, but got rare trifecta of rave reviews in the NY Times, LA Times, and Washington Post in the same weekend. The trade paperback edition is in a fourteenth printing.
After the Annihilation movie came out, I strove to write the least commercial idea I had, first, to kind of wash away the Hollywood experience. That novel was Dead Astronauts, accompanied by The Strange Bird. I sent Dead Astronauts to Sean with an email note that I knew the novel was unexpected and very strange and I appreciated him reading it, but I did not expect him to publish it. I absolved him any obligation. But within a couple of months, He replied that he liked it very much and he did want to publish it, and he saw a clear path to publishing it. The trade paperback is still in print and Dead Astronauts earned out the advance, despite being formally experimental.
When Hummingbird Salamander tanked at the beginning of the pandemic (only to rise again in trade paperback), Sean didn't bat an eye about it, just moved on and endeavored to reprint my entire backlist at FSG. As of this writing, City of Saints & Madmen is in an eighth printing, and the others, Shriek, Finch, and Veniss Underground, are all in print and selling steadily. 
FSG itself--from the art department to the PR and marketing teams, the other editorial staff, and the foreign language rights division--has always felt like a place where everyone passionately loved books and while no company is perfect, I certainly have felt it was and is an oasis in an increasingly inconsistent publishing world.
I'm very sad that Sean is leaving FSG. I know he will land on his feet, as they say, and do more great things elsewhere. I really owe him a lot and FSG a lot. I'm very fortunate, very blessed, and I also know from 45 years of a book life that everything has its place and has it season. 
It's good to celebrate what you had and how wonderful it was to have it, rather than to dwell on the fact that it has ended. Eleven books in eleven years, with a twelfth on the way is a thing to treasure.
Sean changed the trajectory of my career, and we fought many a long, arduous campaign during book launches often quixotic and against the grain of the popular in the moment. I have a lot of joy and love in my heart for all of those times and all of those opportunities. It's been a great run. I've learned a lot and had such adventures.
My career isn't over and my association with FSG isn't over, either--among other things, I have a novel under contract with them--but it does feel like the end of an era, for me. 
Honor the past but don't live there, the saying goes. But, you'll forgive me, I hope, if I live there for just a bit longer.
Thanks for reading.
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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 09/04/2026
I agree 100% with Maris here, I don’t feel a personal connection to many imprints but I really believed in what Sean and his team were doing at MCD and this feels like a repudiation of a lot of the parts of publishing I care about
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