Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Why must it always be so hard to write a book? 1323
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 07/09/2025When everyone else disappoints you there’s always dogs 070
Reposted by Matthew SalessesDeepDive @deepdive.audio · 21/08/2025In this clip from 'How to Write a Novel,' the debut course from DeepDive, @salesses.bsky.social— acclaimed author of the novel 'The Sense of Wonder' — talks about the necessity of specificity in characterization. 📲 Stream it online or via DeepDive app for iOS + Android. ➡️ www.deepdive.audio 051
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Noticed the kids bathroom didn’t have toilet paper today and it turns out my 8yo has been wiping his butt with his clean clothes 😣 150
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 28/06/2025The growing trend of “maybe life is just a video game” narratives is fascinating 120
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Writing is always such an act of faith, to think what you start will actually go somewhere and that you’ll be able to make some sense of yourself. 0212
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Academics is how we try to catch up intellectually to our own self-hatred 061
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 16/05/2025It happened to me: I just tried to swipe a physical book to turn the page. 270
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 12/05/2025If someone who asks what America is like just tell them about the msg scare of the 90s, when this country was so afraid of Asians people didn’t want their food to taste better. 0368
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Are you angry with your kid for doing something bad or are you angry with your kid because you can't stand the blow to your own authority? 191
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 25/04/2025What are your favorite novels about “bad” people? 300
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 14/04/2025It actually makes me feel sick to type out the number of Korean adoptees 041
Reposted by Matthew Salesses5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I am looking for work in writing , events coordination , program work and operations. If you have admin tasks chances are I can do em and improve em. More info here rui-zhong.mailchimpsites.comrui-zhong.mailchimpsites.comHome 21913
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Going through my office bookshelf and thinking, why didn’t I read this, then finding marginalia in my handwriting 1150
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Advertising is what you call gaslighting that makes money 1173
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 15/03/20254 people should be the maximum for any reading 090
Reposted by Matthew SalessesShannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Thrilled that WHEN WE BECOME OURS, the book that I wanted and needed as a young transracial adoptee, is a MN Book Award finalist in the new anthology category! 🙌🏽🙌🏽 Co-edited with the marvelous @nicolechung.bsky.social and featuring so many 🔥🔥🔥adoptee authors. Congratulations to all the finalists. 76111
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 26/01/2025When an author you love turns out to be scum, instead of despairing you could take it as an opportunity to discover new authors. 31045
Reposted by Matthew SalessesMike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 25/12/2024For the final #ChannelOpenPod of 2024, I reached out to a bunch of past guests to check in with them about where they are, who they’re thinking of, and how they’re thinking about their work right now. www.keepthechannelopen.com/episodes/202...keepthechannelopen.comEpisode 157: Checking In — Keep the Channel OpenIn the wake of this year’s election, I found myself feeling a lot of things, but most of all that what sustains us through difficult times is always relationships and community. So I reached out to so... 1217
Reposted by Matthew SalessesMike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 20/12/2024This is really difficult because I read a lot of good books this year, and I suspect my answer would change from day to day or even minute to minute depending on my state of mind. But right now I’m going to go with @salesses.bsky.social’s The Sense of Wonder. 371
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 19/10/2024Show me your pet and what they’re named after 1160
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 12/09/2024Is it not enough that math tortured me as a kid that now it has to torture me because I have a kid? 080
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 28/08/2024My thanks to whatever genius thought to put a slice of Kraft cheese in Shin ramyun 120
Reposted by Matthew SalessesMelissa Hung @melissahung.bsky.social · 16/08/2024Koda Farms, known for Kokuho Rose rice (which I love) will close after almost a century. Keisaburo Koda, the Rice King of California, started the farm in 1927 but the family lost almost everything during WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans. nyti.ms/3AnEd05nyti.msCalifornia’s Rice Royalty Is Stepping DownKoda Farms, a family-run rice business revered by chefs, ends a century-long tradition. 3118
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 04/03/2024It’s my birthday and one-year wedding anniversary and I’d love it if you got my book for someone in your life who watches either basketball or kdrama, even if they don’t usually read much www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/matth...hachettebookgroup.comThe Sense of WonderFrom the author of PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear and Craft in the Real World comes a "a smart, very meta take"&#... 4184
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 02/03/2024Finished @kellylink.bsky.social’s Book of Love and I just want more 250
Reposted by Matthew SalessesWilly De Backer BE @art4theark.bsky.social · 28/02/2024'climate fiction set in the future presents us with possibilities we might use to know and contest the present reality' - excellent essay @salesses.bsky.social lithub.com/matthew-sale...lithub.comMatthew Salesses on the Possibilities of Climate FictionA version of this first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. 1. The metaverse is hot right now. Not only for Marvel (or Everything, Everywhere, All at Once), but in books… 012
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 26/02/2024Once more for the weekday crowd: I wrote a craft essay about the role of climate fiction when it is too late for warnings t.co/yranf54zGDt.coMatthew Salesses on the Possibilities of Climate FictionA version of this first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. 1. The metaverse is hot right now. Not only for Marvel (or Everything, Everywhere, All at Once), but in books… 091
Reposted by Matthew SalessesMatthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 23/02/2024What is the point of climate fiction-as-warning when climate change is already here and unavoidable? I wrote about clifi and what kind of stories might help us as we face the end of what we know how to story. “Craft at the End of the World”t.coMatthew Salesses on the Possibilities of Climate FictionA version of this first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. 1. The metaverse is hot right now. Not only for Marvel (or Everything, Everywhere, All at Once), but in books… 14617
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 23/02/2024What is the point of climate fiction-as-warning when climate change is already here and unavoidable? I wrote about clifi and what kind of stories might help us as we face the end of what we know how to story. “Craft at the End of the World”t.coMatthew Salesses on the Possibilities of Climate FictionA version of this first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. 1. The metaverse is hot right now. Not only for Marvel (or Everything, Everywhere, All at Once), but in books… 14617
Reposted by Matthew SalessesMatt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I'll be in conversation with Ted Chiang this Thursday at the Humanities Institute as part of a free public lecture and discussion. Join us in person in Tempe or watch from home via ASU livestream!asuevents.asu.eduExhalation and Other Worlds with Ted Chiang - Humanities Institute Distinguished Lecture | ASU EventsLeading science fiction writer Ted Chiang visits Humanities Institute as the 2024 Distinguished Lecturer, in conversation with Matt Bell, Director of The ASU Worldbuilding Initiative. How do we unders... 062
Reposted by Matthew SalessesTobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Hello #AWP24! I'll be signing books today at the Astrophil Press table (845) at 1:15 and at the 7.13 Books table (1109) at 2:00. 002
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 08/02/2024Awp, like most everything else, gets weirder as you get older 190
Reposted by Matthew SalessesMartha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 31/01/2024I am very tired of very many things. 0204
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 25/01/2024Maybe the point of life is to get so tired you embrace death 050
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 19/01/2024I don’t know what I’m tired of but I know I’m tired of it. 020
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 19/01/2024A good ability to have is to know what you’re getting when you’re getting it. Surprisingly rare. 100
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · 14/01/2024Adam Phillips looks kind of like Neil Gaiman and I’m somehow comforted by this 010
