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Kyle Winkler @bleakhousing.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I'm out of my work meeting! I'm posting some other blurbs from writers that took time out of their hectic lives to read THE SHIP OF DEATH. Thank you @sequoian.bsky.social!

"Every turn of the page is a creepy as fuck critical success D20 roll. Winkler warmed my nerd heart while draining its blood." --Sequoia Nagamatsu

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Made beet linguine from scratch + cashew risotto w/ giant scallops and wrote 8 letters of rec -- tomorrow? I have a full day date with Lego after ripping open the present I know I'm getting.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Def excited to hear that this Downton Abbey Lego set got the green light for later in 2026 . . . and I'm def putting the Mr. Bates minifig in the drawer to replicate his multiple season legal troubles. And then throwing Anna in the drawer. And practicing my Maggie Smith voice. 😂

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Driving mouse I caught to the wealthier Minneapolis lake neighborhood. You can't live with me, but I can maybe give you a better life with the 1% 😂

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Ever wonder how bookstores decide what books to stock out of the "Fifty thousand new books a year [published] in the United States"*? A bookstore buyer explains: * 50k is just traditionally published books countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-...

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Interview: Fisher the Bookseller Explains How Bookstores Decide Which Books to Sell

The ins and outs of how books are bought and sold in bookstores

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Twin Cities folks! Reminder that its one of the big book events of the year tomorrow and this conversation in particular looks like fire 🔥 . . . already armed with both of these books for some fresh author ink.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

If you blame migrants collectively for the horrible actions of a few but do not hold white people collectively responsible when white people commit heinous crimes, that's racism. Just saying.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 21/10/2025

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover

Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 17/10/2025

On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT. The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...

The eight books shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction are in a stack, with a note on top that reads "Prize winner announcement 10.21.25 9 am PDT." The books are North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher; Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins; The City in Glass by Nghi Vo; The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy; The West Passage by Jared Pechaček; Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera; Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston; and Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 09/10/2025

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Remember You Will Die traces the lives of artists, activists, scientists, and more as they intersect with the existence of a yearning AI. Eden Robins weaves a polyphonic narrative that is intergenerational, art-filled, and subversive.

A photograph of Eden Robins' novel Remember You Will Die, which rests on a black metal shelf next to a small glass vase full of greenery: red berries, green and white flowers, and a shaggy sprig of foliage.

“Profoundly mistrustful of her own legacy, Dante Pellegrino would have hated this belated obituary. But then again, such remembrances are not for the dead at all. They are for the living—the living now and the living to come. Remember us, we whisper into the ears of the future. Our mistakes have made you possible.” from Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 25/09/2025

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Nghi Vo’s latest novel, The City in Glass, is a story about deeply understanding and loving a place, and about the difficult, necessary, meaningful work required to rebuild when one’s world is irrevocably broken.

A copy of The City in Glass by Nghi Vo sits on a black shelf next to a small vase holding four brightly colored flowers. One of them is an orange very close to the orange of the flames on the book cover, which depicts an archway with two statues, behind which a city is in flames.

“She had been given nothing. She had taken it, and it was hers to neglect and destroy if she so chose. Her family had learned that much from watching the humans that swarmed the world, that love could be a destructive thing. The angels understood love as destruction. She had chosen a different way to love Azril, and this destruction had nothing to do with her.” from The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 02/10/2025

Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me) introduces his second novel, Rakesfall, which is is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

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Vajra Chandrasekera reads from Rakesfall

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

When a faculty member at another institution mentions that one of your short stories was important to them when they were an undergraduate . . . guess I'm gonna turn into dust now?

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/09/2025

I cannot tell you how much the “Thank you for your attention to this matter” thing drives me around the freaking bend.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Doing laps in the Mall of America with the seniors with zero crowds is actually kind of lovely 😂

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Really fascinated at how much the evolution of criticism and how much the communities in which a writer rises (not to mention privilege and certain "badges" for entry in certain spheres) influences how much we see certain writers as SFF or something else, which is of course not just an either/or.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Schedule today of this 40-something writer/professor: Writing + morning coffee —> Reading Tin House workshop stories -> Downton Abbey movie (we’ve been rewatching the series in prep) —> MFA mentee zoom —> Department service prep —> Prob workshop stories —> MN Lake exercise + reading

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

If we lived in a world that made any sense, this would be the definitive end of ChatGPT and everything like it

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I guess it's #nationaldogday, so here are just a few shots of Fenris. He had a rough start as a puppy (abandoned in the snow in South Dakota and some of his litter mates didn't make it) + lots of training/classes during Covid lockdown (and prob some abandonment issues since he was a Covid puppy).

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Delighted to reveal the cover for my forthcoming book from @jacklegpress.bsky.social with huge thanks to amazing editor @fulmerford.com

The cover for Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N. Clark. The cover features abstract planets in waves of pinks, purples, and greens

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/08/2025

I understand an argument has been made about why to stay on the former Twitter. Here is my counterargument: It's a miserable fucking place run by a fascist catering to fascists, and I've been much happier not being on it, so there

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Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Looks like I'll definitely be at #AWP26 in Baltimore in March! Three panels accepted, one that I'll be moderating (Speculating the Machine), with some of my favorite writers. Keep us on your radar if you're going to AWP and want to talk dystopias, AI, & teaching genre fiction!

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I'm really just looking out my window and not spying on people at my Little Free Library. The one symptom of having an LFL is that you suddenly seem like a creeper every time you glance outside 😂 . . . on the plus side? I live in a neighborhood of avid readers.

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Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

"It is okay to decide not to write about something. You are not more brave for suffering." ~ Carmen Maria Machado

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 14/08/2025

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 Layered with history, culture, and folklore, Nalo Hopkinson’s novel about griot-in-training Veycosi is a lush, adventurous feast of possibility and wit.

A copy of Blackheart Man, by Nalo Hopkinson, sits on a black shelf against a white wall next to a vase holding a spray of greenery and berries.

“Books get stolen. Get lost. Get burned. When Ymisen came to the lands of Ilife forebears to wage war ’pon them and take them into slavery, they first burned the books. So much knowledge lost! But the song of this book going to live down the generations of the chantwell line that have it memorized. Each person in the line have a different piece of it; melody, harmony, diagrams. Each will pass it down to their generations. It will last forever.” from Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 08/08/2025

Nghi Vo (@nghivo.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from her novel The City in Glass, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

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Nghi Vo reads from City in Glass.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

When you’re impromptu dining at the airport before a family reunion Airbnb check-in and you get an email that you earned out one of your foreign publisher advances. Okay, I guess this wine and lava cake is on Poland 😂

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 17/07/2025

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 Revolutionary-minded and dizzyingly intricate, Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall defies narrative expectations as it considers history, power, perspective, resistance, and the “dread scale” of myth and nightmare.

A copy of Rakesfall—the hot pink cover of which depicts a skull surrounded by flowers and vines—sits on a black surface against a white wall. A small pot next to it contains a vine-like plant, which is draped across the top of the book. The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Shortlist medal is in the upper right corner of the photo.

"We put on a play for ourselves, we ghosts, we people, we devils, with our superstitions like solidity, objects, time, or justice. We live in confusion, we swim in it. But the world is not a river to swim in; it is a glacial ocean, always whole, already complete." —Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

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pulp.aadl.org @pulp.aadl.org · 21/07/2025

Dr. Ursula Whitcher's "North Continent Ribbon" was nominated for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. We spoke to the Ann Arbor author and mathematician about her debut book of sci-fi tales. pulp.aadl.org/node/644386 @yarntheory.bsky.social @neonhemlock.bsky.social @ursulakleguin.com

North Continent Ribbon book cover on the left; Dr. Ursula Whitcher author photo on the right.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 25/07/2025

Margaret Killjoy (@margaret.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from The Sapling Cage, her coming-of-age fantasy, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

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Jennifer Pullen @jpullen19.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I'm thrilled to officially announce that my debut novel, Once Upon A Burning World, is coming out from the excellent Meerkat Press in 2027! #fantasynovel #fiction #novels #fantasy #debutnovel

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

So wonderful to meet one of the creators of this constellation character map for How High We Go in the Dark! I've known about this for a while, but still absolutely bowled over by their incredibly close/nuanced reading and the creativity of this map. Bookographic and busybusyreading on Insta!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/07/2025

The white students who are struggling to make ends meet are not struggling because Black and immigrant students got into our university. They are struggling because of a shitty social safety net & high tuition because people like Andreesen don't pay sufficient taxes/the state doesn't pay its share.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Next week in Seattle at Elliot Bay Books! If you’re in the area you should drop by! Aram’s debut is a tender and complex exploration of the collision of grief, generational trauma, and cultural identity. I cried, I underlined so many damn lines.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

just found out that if you write, you will have written. big if true

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 08/07/2025

tbh I kind of think the increased use of language like "consume" and "content" about art and the experiencing of it is part of what led us to this shit timeline where everything seems disposable and people are happy to let a delusional robot do their writing for them

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 02/07/2025

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 Warm, hopeful, funky, and wise, Andrea Hairston’s Archangels of Funk depicts an art- and community-filled vision of how we might live in a semi-apocalyptic future.

A copy of Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston, photographed next to a small purple orchid, sitting on a dark flat surface against a white background.

“Nerves meant you cared, meant you’d have the energy to surprise yourself onstage. Who told her that, Miz Redwood? Cinnamon shook off jitters about evil shit going down beyond the Amphitheatre. Nothing to do for that right now. They’d worry about saving the world after the show.” —Archangels of Funk, by Andrea Hairston

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This bill starves school children to pay billionaires. Closes hospitals to pay billionaires. Kicks the elderly out of nursing homes to pay billionaires. Explodes energy prices to pay billionaires. Steals trillions of dollars from our future to pay billionaires.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Saw a young guy get his fishing line caught in the fishing line of a young woman and they were working to get untangled on a mostly desolate beach. While I can’t assume anything, I also felt like I was watching the opening of a Hallmark Movie perhaps called “Gone Fishing”🎣 💗

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents. www.startribune.com/what-should-...

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Opinion: College students, go ahead and major in what you love

"The lesson here is simple: Major in what you love, not what you think will get you a job," David M. Perry writes.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/06/2025

The correlation between "initial box office success" and "artistically successful" is not always high. This was less of a problem in the past when ancillary revenue streams (home video, cable) were at full strength. In this streaming era, there's less financial wiggle room.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I was on a panel on the "writer life" and the notion of "emerging writer" came up, which . . . you know does any one really arrive? Sure, there are markers of certain "gets" and "wins" but the thing about writing is that every new project makes you feel like you're emerging. I do hate the term . . .

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