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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 · 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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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

If you don't understand my excitement about this then behold Exhibit A . . . me and my friend Marie at the San Francisco Ghost Tour dressed as "a ghost" (a sheet we picked up at a thrift shop in the Mission District and haphazardly cut holes into). We only fell once.

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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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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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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Apparently Zoetrope Virtual Studios is shutting down forever by mid month after 25 years. Like probably a lot of you, this site was a significant resource for me early on and where I found much needed literary community, advice, feedback etc. (esp. when I was living in Japan in the mid 00s).

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

When you forgot to plan ahead and now this is your carry on 😂

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

2500 words that came easily today . . . and upon a read through doesn't appear to be entirely dog shit. I'll take it. Pouring any negative energy and crap words into this doll head my mother in law got me (yes, she knows me haha). One day it will come to life via the power of thrown away ideas.

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

Okay . . . I'm ridiculous. I love this shirt:

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Wonderful time talking to book lovers at the Boozy Book Fest @ Cream & Amber bookstore yesterday!

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Got a bunch of stuff and happy to support our neighborhood bookstore that has wonderful displays like this:

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Next week at Moon Palace in Minneapolis! www.moonpalacebooks.com/events/19182...

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I was sifting through photos to clear up my computer and came across this wedding photo. For perhaps obvious reasons 🍆 this one did not make our official wedding album 🤣. We tried so hard to do the drawing with sparkler thing . . . but did not plan for how the string lights would transform.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It's 2025 and I still come across sub guidelines for lit journals and presses that simply say "No genre fiction" . . . and okay, fine, but maybe back that up a bit with some detail and rationale. The MFA/Lit ecosystem could learn from a submission guide like Clarkesworld.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A quick but energizing #AWP25 . . . Now just come to Minneapolis again, so I can host a (probably fabulist) offsite in my backyard in my comfy house pants and sequester myself upstairs while staring at revelry from up above.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

What a wonderful audience this morning and a fantastic discussion with some amazing writers 🤩

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

One of the most generous and kind people in the literary community. Tragic loss.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I'll be one of the featured authors at the spring Boozy Book Fair at Cream and Amber in Hopkins, MN (Twin Cities metro) with a bunch of awesome other writers (special shout out to Kawaii Strong Washburn who actually helped me kick off How High). Tickets here: creamandamber.com/product/spri...

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I’m packing super light for my quick #AWP25, but will plant these two signed UK copies of How High around the Los Angeles convention hall with associated photo hints later this week.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Kalahira’s maiden voyage in her new backpack. Unfortunately the journey today is to the vet for her usual vaccinations and not adventuring.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

LibGen supporters think they are siding w/ some intellectual property Robin Hood and sticking it to some corporation when they are also hurting authors (and then when they realize that? Also not giving a shit apparently). And it's definitely not just expensive textbooks or scholarly journals btw.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

To be fair, they aren't far off . . . but what I sign is closer to "not yet" without the roots.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Come on over and constellate with us. Also, who all is going to #AWP25? This is a very quick one for me. Roll in very late Thursday/early Friday morning and out by very early Sunday morning.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Look, I get that a lot of people don’t understand how publishing works and what is/is not typical . . . But I thought this observation was especially amusing 😂 Three whole rejections.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Just creepin’ on Fenris and taking photos as I continue a marathon session of workshop story critiquing.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Here’s a thing I’m doing at AWP Los Angeles. It’ll be a very quick one for me. In town after midnight Friday and already flying out very early Sunday morning.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My dog Fenris and my cat Kalahira apparently decided to switch beds 😂

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I’ve been practicing reconstructing several types of watch movements as my daily moment of relaxation. It’s quite meditative (but the goal is to also do basic service on some of my simpler watches). Anyway, there are now several dust sized screws and springs on the floor that I’ll never find 😂

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Ahh, just another day as a writer and creative writing prof. Just another day of raising red flags if someone were to monitor my browser activity.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Really looking forward to diving into this one. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Not sure why, but a good friend just mailed me a cardboard cut out of himself. No note. Just this. Might stick it in the window as neighbor surveillance 😂

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Like bronze, a nice pair of Birkenstocks sandals will develop a glorious and warm patina.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is the sanctimonious horse shit that corporations want from us. They want us to tear each other apart. If you can't entirely cut some corporation out of your life it isn't some moral stain on who you are as a human being. If you need me, I'll be personally delivering a medal to this person.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Fenris being dramatic when I told him he needed to wait like 20 minutes for dinner.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Our post Valentine’s Dinner entertainment is ep 1 of the new seasons of Yellow Jackets and every available episode of Love is Blind Minneapolis. Featuring here my rarely worn but lovely (and heavy) Giuliano Mazzuoli Manometro.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I was raised by my grandparents in Hawai’i during the 80s through early 90s, which meant grandma and grandpa wandering into surf shops to buy my “must have” clothes for the school year for their grandson who could barely swim and hated the beach.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Wonderful! Cheers from my Cherry Blossom Grand Seiko in snowy Minnesota.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Fenris has been enjoying the garden and book nook room, which was previously off limits to him in his rowdier puppy years.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The country is falling apart and I’m somehow distracting myself with childhood pop culture micro-traumas like feeling heartbroken for the girl squirrel in Disney’s animated The Sword and the Stone when she realized squirrel Arthur is actually a human boy.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Honored to be part of this fabulous selection panel for this year’s Ursula K. Le Guin Prize along with Kelly Link, Matt Bell, Indra Das, and Rebecca Roanhorse www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

We bought Fenris a kinda expensive furry blanket that has a waterproof liner, but he still insists on stealing and burrowing under Cole’s favorite Anthropologie throw. In his mind, dry clean only is a preferable platform for licking himself 😂

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The sight when you log into an email account for a job that you have for the first time in a couple of years because you don't "technically" work for the institution in any real sense. Bunch of these + one spam email masquerading as a receipt for a Justin Bieber album.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I’m SO psyched to gush about this amazing novel with my advanced fiction students at St. Olaf College. www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Liv...

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This used to be where I grew lettuce and herbs, but realized I was never going to eat that much salad ever.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Family time in the garden and book nook room, which was definitely a 2020 lockdown manifestation.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Fenris loves to cross frozen lakes. He periodically paws at the powder and stares at the ice as his little brain is processing what the hell is going on 😂

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