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kukuwa. @kukuwa.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

popped out in the neighborhood this weekend with exclusive, early copies of BACKSTITCH by Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili, a multigenerational debut novel that centers around the disappearance of a young girl during Brooklyn’s Labor Day Weekend. Forthcoming February 2027 @flatironbooks.bsky.social 🇭🇹🇬🇾🇻🇨🇵🇦

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you receive an email from “me“ in which I refer to myself by my full work title and include a photo of myself in the signature block, it’s from an AI scammer. You can safely delete and ignore.

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🎉Seek Immediate Shelter🎉

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

PSA: I am in search of a new agency to handle our audio and subsidiary rights. Obviously a small volume of books per year, but I do think we've had great success with audio in the past and always have commercial-leaning projects that we keep audio rights for. If that's you or your agency, lmk?!

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This book is so, so good. The detail and specificity is overwhelming and gorgeous, and it builds to the best possible kind of ending, which is one that I wasn’t sitting there anticipating but as soon as it happened, I knew it was the only possible ending. It’s just a great, great book.

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Pool House

AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • NAMED A MUST READ BOOK FOR SUMMER BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, W MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORK POST, LITHUB, BOOKRIOT, AND MORE...

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Sarah’s book is jaw-dropping, and Meta has been pulling this clown shit for over a year. As the article points out, it’s clearly a personal vendetta rather than good crisis comms. Too bad the Streisand Effect exists!

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Proud of the brave and brilliant @namimun.bsky.social for sharing her story, one all of us need to read ❤️

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Daniel A. Olivas @danielolivas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs. Unlike prior years, when individual parents filed challenges, the 2025 bans were largely orchestrated by organized conservative groups and government officials, the ALA found. www.latimes.com/world-nation... #bookbans

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Book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs

The American Library Assn. says book bans and attempted bans remain at record highs

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

My grandfather was a steamfitter who grew up in an orphanage but could recite Shakespeare and knew opera. The arts and culture can and should be for everyone.

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Reading about these guys who are exactly my age, I would like to express my gratitude for my undistinguished high school for setting me up for a life of pleasant surprise.

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

As anyone who knows me well is aware, Sean McDonald’s support and belief in me changed my life. I can’t wait to see what he does next, and I know it will be amazing.

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Sent to the school counselor for crying too much after the Challenger explosion as a first grader. Watched last night’s launch with my current first grader, who gasped in awe. Better than therapy!

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

this is an insult to angst

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

New essay about alloparenting, religion, & daycare. There's a strange energy swirling around motherhood in far-right circles, asserting the primacy of mothers as the only possible "natural" caregivers, but this ignores our evolution as cooperative breeders. darbysaxbe.substack.com/p/daycare-is...

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Daycare is not evil

Why motherhood isn't a solo project

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

“No, no, I can steal from other people, but I don’t want you stealing from ME.”

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Dancer in the Dark was the only time I’ve ever felt traumatized walking out of a movie theater.

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

For this and so many other reasons, I’m incredibly proud that we’re publishing @darbysaxbe.bsky.social’s book about fatherhood this year @flatironbooks.bsky.social!

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This is a goofy and childish thing to say, but, the good news is that it has occasioned this absolutely terrific essay!

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I’m heartbroken to hear about the end of the books section in the Washington Post. I can’t even begin to express how much their coverage has meant to the books and authors I’ve published over the past 25 years.

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erin morgenstern @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Favorite books I read in 2025: Lolly Willowes - Sylvia Townsend Warner The River Has Roots- @amalelmohtar.com The God of the Woods - Liz Moore Wild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy The Everlasting - @alixeharrow.bsky.social The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - @sgj.bsky.social

A stack of the aforementioned books on a desk in front of a window, with a silver tabby cat sitting very politely next to them.

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Top 1% of DeBarge listener? i’ll take it.

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Anyone have any good tips for making kittens not destroy a (fake) Christmas tree? Asking for me!

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I just finished reading “Careless People” and for as much as we wonder why folks are still on the former Twitter, why the ever loving fuck is ANYONE on Facebook

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

For the @latimes.com, I wrote about @emmasloley.bsky.social's wonderful new book, "The Island of Last Things," which was beautiful, bittersweet, bleak, and hopeful, somehow all at the same time: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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Review: Alcatraz is home to the last remaining zoo in Emma Sloley’s resilient ‘The Island of Last Things’

Alcatraz zookeepers refuse to give up even as species are dying in Emma Sloley's 'The Island of Last Things,' a resilient novel set in the future.

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BookPage @readbookpage.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Two actors find themselves way over their heads in Alexis Soloski’s and Dan Fesperman’s excellent thrillers. @flatironbooks.bsky.social www.bookpage.com/?p=217857

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 03/08/2025

SO thrilled with this rave review of Alexis Soloski’s marvelous new thriller FLASHOUT:

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A Drama Teacher on the Run From a Lurid Past and a Risky Present

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Not to brag, but tonight when we sat down to dinner, my child sighed and said, “Mom, you order the best pizza.”

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julie khaner @juliekhaner.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

people should read “Careless People"

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.

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Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training

Anthropic didn’t break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books.

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Bethanne Patrick @thebookmaven.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Everyone, please stop what you're doing and read CARELESS PEOPLE. Facebook messing around with global diplomacy and human rights should be a warning about Big AI wearing a mask of geniality and happy progress.

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Didn’t think grown men in fleece vests were such a thing outside of Billions until I became a Metro North commuter.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

But “mars isn’t even mid” just cracked me up

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Careless People is one of the best books of the year so far. Have you read it yet?: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/b...

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The Best Books of the Year (So Far)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/05/2025

This is WAY funnier if you’ve read Careless People

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The way I just shrieked opening my mail.

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Skylar Baker-Jordan @skylarjordan.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This piece is worth reading. It discusses the meaninglessness of the term "middle class" and how the "comfort class," which can be read as the "elites" MAGA folks are railing against fundamentally misunderstands its own classism. Made me reconsider my own position www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get

People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.

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Natalie Keller Reinert @nataliekreinert.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

this is a jump out of reality for me

main Books page of People magazine, with a picture of me

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

My review of WILD DARK SHORE by Charlotte McConaghy is in today’s New York Times Book Review! A fantastic novel.

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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Husband taught our kindergartner to say “get the Led out” and now it’s like I’m in the car with two AOR DJs.

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

If you need a story where the good guys win, look to Leigh Bardugo’s “The Familiar,” recommended by Public Streets section editor Abigail Struhl. “Despite improbable feats of magic, the history feels all too real: war, colonialism, the Inquisition.”

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On Our Nightstands: March 2025

A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month.

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