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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking forward to our upcoming episode with Luke! This novel is a wild ride indeed #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I actually clicked through to read the thread

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just posted our episode where author Paige Lewis explains how their Simpsons obsession extended to naming their cat Jubjub, and how a single-page poem became an epic novel. A pretty great listen! #booksky www.thirdpersonlimited.com/episodes/epi...

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ed Park’s Three Tenses is a fascinating work that plays with the liminal area between memoir, fiction, both or neither. I wrote a whole page of notes, but unfortunately Ed’s people have not replied to our podcast guest invitation! Thanks @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for the ARC anyway

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of new Theranos backers. They’re all just out of frame

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

An excellent novel and a great episode of our podcast 😇 #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Blade

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Clearly, more people should start podcasting

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Fourth Novelist Now Confirmed with Explosive Logorrhea #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Novelist Afflicted With Explosive Logorrhea

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I don’t see why everyone is celebrating Sam Neill when he’s the one who cut out his own eyes, vivisected a crew member, and attempted to drive the ship into a bloody and horrifying hellscape

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Transcription raises interesting ideas about reality, memory, and recursive experience, and is also fun to read #booksky 🖋️📚

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Yes, what a mystery why the USMNT wants to play in LA and Seattle instead of Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Dallas, etc. (all over 90F + rain this week)

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Couldn’t get an ARC so I picked up @barfridmantell.bsky.social ‘s Honeysuckle at the library. Well worth the wait! A touching and complex take on an unfamiliar (to me) folk legend #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It would strain credulity more if a reality show washout outpolled a sitting city councilmember in the L.A. mayor’s race, not the other way round

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This great article on why Claude is not conscious, by author Ted Chiang, raises this point covered by Paul Carr’s novel The Confessions: that when we outsource decision making and even ethical reasoning to chatbots, we atrophy our moral reasoning. #booksky www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Glad we got the chance to talk with Nina and make fun of Wikipedia’s definition of post-colonial literature #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The statement that Instructure CEO Steve Daly posted about the Canvas hack came back as 100% AI-generated

We are highly confident this text was AI generated

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Posting this just so I can watch it again some time

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Thank you @sohopress.bsky.social for the ARC of the late James Sallis’ upcoming Backwater, which I dared to start reading in a sultry Seoul jazz bar. Looking forward to talking about this one on the podcast #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Ironically, there *is* social commentary in Project Hail Mary and The Martian; both are about technological solutionism and faith in science to solve the most intractable problems. Weir might not have intended it consciously, but in our current times, this is a position that can be debated #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

You can’t read alone if someone is standing right behind you, or if the broader social context implicates us all in a blah blah blah #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Donald Trump and his supporters have spoken specifically about their desire to harm fellow Americans, so feel free to capture them, Congressman

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Submit your recommendations for novels to send into space #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Traditional post-Xmas visit to Bart’s Books and the Krotona Institute of Theosophy library in Ojai #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The best “best books list” list lists the best books! #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Loved talked with Patricia and reading her stories more. And she has a collection out now! #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Watching the Bucked Up L.A. Bowl Hosted by Gronk Me (whispering): That’s Gronk

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Metallic Realms, an excellent meta spec-fic novel by @thelincoln.bsky.social , joins this year’s Best Books of 2025 #booksky

Cover of the novel Metallic Realms by Lincoln Michel

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This was a fun episode, and all the related stories are great. Send us your recommendations for story writers to interview! #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Another best book of 2025 is @joemungoreed.bsky.social ‘s Terrestrial History, a four-generation family epic that takes humans from a ruined Earth to Mars and back again, focusing on intimate moments of connection against a backdrop of climate disaster #booksky

Cover of the novel Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed, showing either Mars or the sun over some verdant cliffs

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Starting my list of 2025’s best books with Audition, a delightfully weird novel by @pipadam.bsky.social about a trio of giant humans shipped into space by an Earth government unwilling to make room for those who don’t fit 📚💙

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Third Person Limited @thirdpersonlimited.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

In Episode 12, @ambersparks.bsky.social talks about her chaotic first drafts.

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Love this story (not just for shouting out my old neighborhood) and looking forward to posting our episode with @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social soon 📚💙

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

We had a great conversation with Amber about her highly entertaining new novel 📚💙

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Guess the author! Winner gets a limited supply of temporary, fractional internet clout 📚💙

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

An intriguing premise is always better when you care about the characters, as in Grace Walker’s The Merge, a novel about consciousness, tech, and dystopia that flips the script on Apple TV’s comparatively upbeat Severance 📚💙

The cover image of the novel The Merge by Grace Walker, depicting a woman’s face with paint smears

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Jason’s novel is on Barnes and Noble’s Best Books of 2025 list, and our thoughts on book PR tactics are on Mason Stockstill’s Best Podcasts of 2025. “Riveting!” —Joyce Carol Oates 📚💙

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

How many Hamlets is too many? 📚💙

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

💥 A group founded by Stephen Miller filed a federal complaint in July against the 2025 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers for their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The team's website continues to display its commitment to DEI. Congratulations, Dodgers! #Dodgers #WorldSeries

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

We now join the 2026 World Series, already in progress

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Two months after our episode on the complicated claim that reading more literature will fix men’s problems, Bari Weiss introduced a new podcast on getting men to read more literature #booksky

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

There’s a reason Kiké Hernandez is a starter in the postseason #worldseries

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Mason @stockstill.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Great episode with Kyle (not pictured), everyone check out his novels #booksky

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Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

“A slippery narrative POV reminds us that storytelling — and hence life, the world, and everything in it — is a muddle of competing and conflicting interpretations.” A new piece by @stockstill.bsky.social of @thirdpersonlimited.bsky.social. pghrev.com/fluid-narrat...

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Fluid Narratives and the Culture Wars - Pittsburgh Review of Books

When we named our podcast Third Person Limited, it seemed like a just-cutesy-enough reference to a somewhat literary term: the specific point of view where

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