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I share this because sometimes a jolt of pure rage is quite invigorating and it will cleanse out your lymphatic vessels … anyway here is a slopmonger selling a "translation" of WUTHERING HEIGHTS into "modern English" to make it "actually readable."

Wuthering Heights: In Modern English (The Actually Readable Classics)
by Emily Brontë (Author), Avery Frost (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS IN MODERN ENGLISH

Yes, it’s that book. The one everyone says you should read. The original toxic love story that spawned entire genres of dark romance.

Here’s the thing: Wuthering Heights is unhinged, devastating, and has been absolutely wrecking readers for 175 years. It’s a masterpiece.

The Victorian prose, though? That’s the part that makes it feel like homework.

This edition fixes that.

Same gothic moors. Same obsessive passion. Same “wait, did that just happen?” moments. Just in language that doesn’t require you to stop and decode every other sentence.

What’s different: The prose. That’s it.

No scenes cut. No plot watered down. No study guide summary. Every chapter, every character, every devastating moment, just written so you can actually experience why this book has been breaking hearts since 1847.

You get the full story without “hitherto,” “countenance,” and sentences that take three reads to figure out. You get Brontë’s genius without the barrier.

Still Wuthering Heights. Just readable.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

Updating my website and really enjoying the progression of the covers deeper into said skit

A screencap of my website's books page at https://vajra.me/books/, showing each of my novels in three columns: THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS, RAKESFALL, and HERO COME HOME.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 23/09/2026

lmao www.thedriftmag.com/turbo-charge...

When I encounter people who insist there is no escaping A.I. and they try to force me to discuss it, they often seem threatened by someone else’s personal refusal of the future to which they have, for some reason, dedicated themselves. Even as they mostly claim it will be dire, these same people also say we have to talk about A.I., use it, live in its world instead of our own. Jouissance always has some dirty part to it; turbo-charged nihilism isn’t mine. (My own death drive is 1.0.) People are at their worst, somehow, in a lot of these conversations. But meanwhile I have a question: if we use these new technologies to combine Jaron Lanier and Olga Tokarczuk into one wypipo dreadlocked Janus face, do they cancel each other out?

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 16/09/2026

the graun's acronym capitalization policy is infuriatingly imprecise tbh because I mean. people pronounce acronyms differently. I *guess* some people must say "VAT" as "vee aye tee" instead of "vat" if they're capitalizing it here but

abbreviations and acronyms
Do not use full points in abbreviations, or spaces between initials, including those in proper names: IMF, mph, eg, 4am, M&S, No 10, AN Wilson, WH Smith, etc.

Use all capitals if an abbreviation is pronounced as the individual letters (an initialism): BBC, CEO, US, VAT, etc; if it is an acronym (pronounced as a word) spell out with initial capital, eg Nasa, Nato, Unicef, unless it can be considered to have entered the language as an everyday word, such as awol, laser and, more recently, asbo, sim card and pin. Note that pdf and plc are lowercase.

If an abbreviation or acronym is to be used more than once in a piece, put it in brackets at first mention: so Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), seasonal affective disorder (Sad); alternatively, use the abbreviation with a brief description, eg the conservation charity the RSPB. Remember that our international online readership will not necessarily be aware of even well-known UK abbreviations.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 04/09/2026

fyi Polish readers: as of last week, Czarna Owca is the first (and so far only) non-English publisher to have translated editions of ALL my published books to date! Many thanks to the translators Wojciech Szypuła (SAINT) and Paweł Podmiotko (RAKESFALL) www.patreon.com/vajra/posts/...

Cover of THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS Polish edition from Czarna Owca. The title says ”Święty od papuzich drzwi”. The art is the same as the US/UK edition.

The Czarna Owca edition and Polish translation of RAKESFALL. The title is unchanged but there's new cover art, featuring an inset box of pink leaves against a background of green leaves.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 31/08/2026

@amalelmohtar.com congrats!!!!!!!!! also I thought you'd enjoy seeing this—took this photo in Beku Bookstore in Bengaluru just this morning!

A bookshelf labelled "Queer Fiction", from Beku Bookstore in Bengaluru, which includes Amal El-Mohtar's HUGO AWARD WINNING novella THE RIVER HAS ROOTS

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/08/2026

“We’re something new at an old address, which felt appropriate for a horror magazine. There is also one separate resource on the site: our guide to crypto casinos…”

About the name

This site lives at a domain whose letters used to stand for something else. We kept the letters and gave them a new meaning: The Third Alley.

If you came here looking for the press that used to be at this address, or for the magazines it published, we’re sorry, that press has moved on and its titles are published elsewhere by other people. We’re not them, we’re not connected to them, and none of their work appears here.

We’re something new at an old address, which felt appropriate for a horror magazine. There is also one separate resource on the site: our guide to crypto casinos, comparing eight sites by payout speed, KYC policy and bonus terms. It sits outside The Third Alley’s fiction and editorial coverage, but if that’s what brought you here, you can find it there.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 29/08/2026

my favourite Harry Clarke is his (1919 I think) illustration for Poe's “Morella” (1835) poemuseum.org/morella/

Harry Clarke illustration for Poe's "Morella". Shows the unnamed saturnine narrator leaning over the prone Morella, both richly and surreally adorned in patterns reminiscent of flowers, mushrooms, seashells, or roots, with a parade of human faces lost therein. The caption at the bottom reads "The earth grew dark, and its figures passed by me, like flitting shadows, and among them all I beheld only—Morella”

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 11/08/2026

If you can at all afford it, please sign up for a recurring donation, any amount no matter how low, so that they have a predictable budget to work with and can continue operations even if at a lower scale. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Crisis-level hunger

Latest analysis by the UN-backed global food security monitor IPC reveals that 1.4 million people, 67 per cent of Gaza’s population, are experiencing crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity, classified as IPC Phase 3 or above.

Although this represents a decrease from 1.6 million people, or 77 per cent of the population, at the end of last year, some 212,000 people remain in emergency conditions, or IPC Phase 4.

Many of them are living in areas near the Israeli-controlled “Yellow Line” where access to humanitarian aid and essential services remains especially difficult.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 08/08/2026

Here's a thread I posted myself in August of that year, for instance, several months before the Wordcraft paper was published. I had no special insight or access then as now: these are ordinary opinions for someone who'd been paying attention to the burgeoning slop problem since the twenty-teens.

Screenshot of twitter thread from 8:05 PM · Aug 31, 2022. Tweets read as follows:

fiction that reduces to over 90% trope manipulation will def be the first to be automated with an array of AI thing-generators, which might sound good at first to people who hate writing and only wish to Have Written/Published, but consider that authors are superfluous in this

my luddite opinion about AI thing-generators is that they are an abomination, not least because their product relies on vast bodies of training data and crowdsourced training from writers and artists who will never receive recognition, never mind compensation

(certainly nothing commensurate with future profits these technologies and their direct descendants will generate for their corporate owners: this is enclosure in action)

but also because the automations of "content generation" of all artistic low-hanging fruit that they presage means that many present and future artists lose spaces that were training grounds, income opportunities, ways to get a foot in the door

especially for people historically marginalized in this and every other sector, who have not had mass access to the ability to make art for money, and are kind of only just getting that access now

Visual art is going to be hit hard by this long before prose fiction—probably already happening—and I think it is probably time that writers begin thinking of AI thing-generators less as a cute toy and more as a labour rights issue and a burgeoning attack on artists' livelihoods

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 07/08/2026

enjoyed this conversation about Jerry Falade et al. but also clicked through to the linked NYT article from earlier this year, about Coral Hart, where I was particularly struck by this paragraph

A longtime romance novelist who has been published by Harlequin and Mills & Boon, Ms. Hart was always a fast writer. Working on her own, she released 10 to 12 books a year under five pen names, on top of ghostwriting. But with the help of A.I., Ms. Hart can publish books at an astonishing rate. Last year, she produced more than 200 romance novels in a range of subgenres, from dark mafia romances to sweet teen stories, and self-published them on Amazon. None were huge blockbusters, but collectively, they sold around 50,000 copies, earning Ms. Hart six figures.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 03/08/2026

like, to me optimus prime is a truck. *this* beautiful thing is a lorry

picture of a lorry, in this case an old-fashioned Sri Lankan truck. I don't really know how to describe it. It's colourful, has writing on it. the cab is open at the sides and the back is half-open. there's a metal railing on the roof where more stuff can be piled. They were (and still are, though less so as more modern trucks become widely available) common sights on South Asian streets.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 07/07/2026

don't mind me im literally on a beach

a single line of footprints on a sandy beach: it was then that I carried you

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 04/07/2026

😐 www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Oremus: Some of your posts on LinkedIn, as people have pointed out, are a very different style from your fiction. Which, of course, makes sense, right? I mean, fiction is a completely different mode of writing. But I wondered if maybe you used AI on the LinkedIn posts.

Nazir: No, no, no. I did research with AI. But in terms of the actual writing—I had grown accustomed to very technical and precise writing. I think that AI is a good tool for research— that’s the most value.

And on the same topic of that, what about the typewriter? When the typewriter was first invented, writers kicked hell and said, The thing is writing. You’re supposed to use a quill or your fountain pen. And there was a big hullabaloo. We passed that, and then next came new word processors. I can tell you word processors are machine assistants, because they can check the spelling, right? They can search, find and replace, suggest synonyms, et cetera. Modern-day word processing can do almost everything. Where’s the uproar? It settled down. Now I think the same thing will happen with AI.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 05/06/2026

😁 thank you!!! and also great thread lol. here is a complimentary picture of a former Sri Lankan president (pro-genocide, naturally; in fact, he was the acting defense minister during the genocide in 2009) doing yoga in a pro-genocide way

Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka 2015-2019, does yoga in a park. He is sort of stretched out in a superman-in-flight pose, I don't know the yoga word for it. The subtitle says "Ours is the only country in the world that has permanently"—it cuts off there but I assure you what came next was supremely racist

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/05/2026

yes ... ha ha ha ... YES! PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID, the debut novel by Violet Allen from @littlepuss.net. I'm so glad this came out before I left the US (if there is going to be a part two later I will have to figure that out)

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 01/05/2026

already deep into packing up books for my impending return to the tropics, but could not resist grabbing a copy of THIS YEAR by @themountaingoats.bsky.social

I'm holding up a hardcover copy of THIS YEAR: A Book of Days, 365 Songs Annotated by John Darnielle

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/04/2026

Also if you read Polish, the translation just came out! Photo from the Empik bookstore in Kraków by @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social

A copy of the Polish translation of THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS sitting face out on a bookstore shelf

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 02/04/2026

It went well, I think! The presentation was about the book I'm currently writing, as part of the fellowship I'm on, and I shall try and convert some of it to an essay/blog post. Will be working on this book for a while yet. (Pic courtesy of Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk)

A photo of me at a lectern at the New York Public Library. I am quite hairy.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 02/04/2026

This is happening tomorrow btw, at the Graham Center at Florida International University in Miami. I am zooming in and will apparently be inside one of those telepresence robot things, and hopefully they will let me drive it around and do a stage dive www.scienceandfiction.fiu.edu/confab-26

FIU's Science & Fiction Lab Presents: Fourth Annual Science & Fiction Confab (Book Signing to Follow)

(with)
Pedro Cabiya
Vajra Chandrasekera
Ana Menéndez
Ian Tregillis

Thursday, April 2, 1pm
FIU Graham Center 140 | SW 8th St. Miami

This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP: go.fiu.edu/confab-26
More info: scienceandfiction.fiu.edu/confab-26

US National Science Fiction
FIU Science & Fiction Lab

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/01/2026

This is the second (of two!) issue of the Deadlands for which I was guest editor for fiction! Stories by Alan Fisher, Marischa Pichette, Dmitri Akers, Jeremy Morris, Joe Koch, Aliya Whiteley, and Sadoeuphemist, and with another lovely, stark cover from @carlydraws.bsky.social

Cover art for Deadlands issue 41, Winter 2026. The cover art by Carly A-F shows a lone figure heading up a twisting path to a giant skull-shaped mountain under a cloudy, turbulent night sky. Author names on the cover are Suttee, Lee, Koch, Morris, lindsey, Akers, Whitely, Pichette, Fisher, Sadoeuphemist, Mani

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 16/01/2026

I will be one of the speakers/mentors at the Indian Ocean Writers’ Residency in Bentota, Sri Lanka from July 9‒15 2026. Applications close at the end of January—please do apply if you're interested, and share with anyone else who might be! vajra.me/2026/01/16/i...

Indian Ocean Writers’ Residency Call for Applications in Bentota, Sri Lanka from July 9‒15 2026. Partial or full scholarships are available. The residency is hosted by Tambapanni Academic Publishers, Colombo, in collaboration with the Max Weber Forum, New Delhi. With mentorship from Sri Lankan author Vajra Chandrasekera (winner of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction) and other Sri Lankan and international scholars and writers. The course director is Amal Chatterjee from the University of Oxford. The deadline for applications is January 31st 2026. For further information, visit www.tambapannipublishers.lk or email tapresidency@tambapannipublishers.lk

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 02/12/2025

From Hasini (ssmiggle85 on Instagram) who's been funnelling Venmo donations from the US to on-the-ground relief efforts in Sri Lanka. If you'd like to help out and Wise/direct bank transfers have been giving you trouble, please Venmo @sinjaya!

From Hasini (ssmiggle85 on Instagram):

CYCLONE RELIEF
Sri Lanka has been hit with the largest cyclone in recent history, with over 300 people who have passed away and over 300 people still missing. Over a million people's homes and livelihoods have been lost and they have been displaced.

I am fundraising from the US to send to Saritha Irugalbandara (Instagram @sarithairugal) and her team who are donating much needed medications, sanitary napkins, and diapers to most impacted communities.

1 USD = 308 LKR (to put it in perspective, the highest denomination bill we have in Sri Lanka is Rs. 5000 bill, which is close to USD $16) so your donations small and large really go a large way and can help multitudes of communities.

Please send any financial donations to my Venmo: @sinjaya. I am sending them via WISE, an international transfer app. For any more information feel free to DM me at ssmiggle85.

Would you like to help out? Venmo: @sinjaya

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 15/10/2025

This is the wonderful cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social for the October issue of The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com—for which I had the great pleasure of being the fiction guest editor!—with stories by Malena Salazar Maciá, Testimony Odey, Erin Ulm, Laila Amado, Jason Pearce, Kat Sedia, and Scott Payne

$The cover of The Deadlands Issue 40, Fall 2025. Subtitled "a journal of ends and beginnings". Author names on the cover are Maciá, Biscotti, Odey, Ross, Ulm, Wollin, Amado, Pearce, Lemberg, Sedia, Romano, and Payne. The cover art shows a fractured red sky, maze-like with golden fissures, surrounds a golden skull at the top of a long, golden path awaiting a lone figure.$

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 09/09/2025

Unfortunately the judge on the case seems very concerned with protecting Anthropic from future suits news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 23/08/2025

nightshade for writers: it's a simple technological fix

How do we become inedible to the machine? The visual artists, our beloved cousins, have more tools to poison their data against the colonizers of AI, but what’s there for those of us who work with only words? How do we become inedible to the machine? How do we poison it? Here is my answer: the machine will shake your tree and peel your oranges, but it can only eat the rind, so fill your vesicles with strange juices. The machine cannot understand even the fundamental cells of storytelling (metaphor &c.) much less the more complex organs and frames that we grow to support our stories—the reverse walpolitical manoeuvre, for instance, as a political-ethical-narratological exoskeleton—so it can only approximate the flavedo, and perhaps an albedo may be suggested as an accidental byproduct of a reader’s pareidolia, but beyond that there is only a hollow. Become more than the rind of yourself, and you’ll have employment yet for the rest of your days.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 01/08/2025

nutshellnails on insta did nail art for RAKESFALL—a book that has a whole extended Ramayana nail art bit!—and I appreciate this greatly! “If you like multiverses, reincarnations, alternate timelines, highly detailed, surrealist work—you'll love this like I did.” See www.instagram.com/p/DMzFmEcgk9e/

Snippet of one of the photos showing the RAKESFALL book cover nail art, with the hare's skull on the thumbnail.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 13/07/2025

There are a lot of ebooks included in the sale, so click through to find out what's available where you are: geni.us/Solarissale

All the 0.99 ebooks available on the Solaris #StillProud sale! Website exclusive, ends midnight 14th July 2025. DRM free. Titles available will vary by country. Books include NINEFOX GAMBIT, BLACK SUN, THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER, THE DEATH I GAVE HIM, IF FOUND RETURN TO HELL, THE WATER OUTLAWS, INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF, and more.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 13/07/2025

Last-minute shoppers, a reminder that this sale ends tomorrow! Get 0.99p DRM-free ebooks from the Solaris website at geni.us/Solarissale

Solaris #StillProud 0.99 ebook sale for my second novel RAKESFALL. Website exclusive, ends midnight 14th July 2025. DRM free. Titles available will vary by country.

Solaris #StillProud 0.99 ebook sale for my first novel THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS. Website exclusive, ends midnight 14th July 2025. DRM free. Titles available will vary by country.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 04/07/2025

Ebook sale! For the next ten days, Solaris is selling (giving away, really) an excellent selection of modern SFF titles at 0.99p in the UK, including both of my novels, THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS and RAKESFALL. See geni.us/Solarissale! Some titles are available outside the UK, too.

Promotional graphic from Solaris in rainbow colours, with the covers of my two novels THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS and RAKESFALL with a price tag icon saying 0.99. The text says: #StillProud 0.99 ebook sale! Website exclusive. Ends 23;59 14th July '25. DRM free. Titles available wiill vary by country.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21/06/2025

oh right the qt goes away when I block them myself lol. here, for your blocking needs

"AI is an opportunity disguised as a problem. AI helps with mechanics—research, structural suggestions, brainstorming — & I’m free to do the work only a human can do: finding emotional truth and making unexpected connections." ~ @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social
https://brevity.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/writing-with-ai/ posted by Brevity Magazine/editor Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 31/05/2025

getting a lot of boss baby vibes from this

Slobodan Praljak, war criminal, fatally poisons himself in court after being found guilty of war crimes.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/05/2025

Ebook sale for UK readers: you can get my second novel RAKESFALL (which just won the Otherwise (formerly Tiptree) Award and is currently nominated for the Nebula and the Locus award for Best Science Fiction novel) for less than One Currency Unit. geni.us/Solarissale

Award season ebook sale from Solaris! RAKESFALL by Vajra Chandrasekera for 0.99. Otherwise Award winner, Locus and Nebula nominee

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 15/02/2025

This is an interview with me adapted from the episode I did on the Tricycle podcast but I'm delighted to see the art they've made of my face, with this illustration by Scott Bakal tricycle.org/magazine/cha...

Art of me by Scott Bakal! A head, with thick hair and beard, wearing glasses, on a pink background with an overlay of green leaves.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 25/01/2025

booksky main character du jour is Dustin Kurtz, and do note that he has been the bookstore manager and lead buyer at the Literary Arts bookstore in Portland, Oregon, since last August. The parent org Literary Arts itself is a nonprofit that with "support writers" in their mission statement lol

A thread of posts by Dustin (@theunread.bsky.social), all on Jan 25:

(#, 9 hours ago, 207 quotes and 2 reposts) I’d stock a book written by AI. Insistence on the creative as an output only possible from the Special Human Mind is a type of ableism.

(#, 9 hours ago) Bulk of every publisher catalog is people recombining tropes to try to appeal to an imagined reader. AI text slop bricolage is arguably LESS of a debasement than what we already have.

(#, 9 hours ago) Literature is made in the reading. A book can be made of toilet paper and the smeary byproduct of GPUs designed to solve crypto math.

(#, 9 hours ago) Argue with me about this in Denver

(#5, 6 hours ago) This is getting some attention so it’s important I say this is my opinion, and not reflective of any stance or policies of my employer.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 07/01/2025

meanwhile, in my neighbourhood

Screencap of a news article. Headline is "Strange Theft in Nawala: Intruder Spends 30 Minutes Searching, Steals Only a Mango." A screencap of black and white security camera footage shows a man sneaking around a house (not yet holding a mango)

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 03/01/2025

this one's a writer www.instagram.com/lilysliterar...

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/12/2024

Very happy to see RAKESFALL among the holiday gift bookseller recs from Pegasus Books in Berkeley! They described it as an “eerie, multi-layered exploration of Sri Lankan history and mythology that defies description but made two of our top 10 lists this year.” localnewsmatters.org/2024/12/19/b...

Pic from @pegasusbooks on the gram. Bookshelf of holiday picks with a sign saying "Books Make Good Gifts" including my RAKESFALL, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME, Rivers Solomon's MODEL HOME, A SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE by Mariana Enriquez, and a bunch of others

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 10/12/2024

oooh and "Limner" just got a shoutout from Molly Templeton in the reviewer's choice best-of-2024 roundup at Reactor: “… fierce, sprawling, and inviting: You have to sit with this one and let all its shapes form in your brain. Your human brain.”

Molly Templeton's three picks for the Reactor best books of 2024 roundup are Andrea Hairston's ARCHANGELS OF FUNK, Kerstin Hall's ASUNDER, and the DEEP DREAM anthology—with a note saying “in particular Vajra Chandrasekera's “The Limner Wrings His Hands”

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