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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 13/09/2026

I have completed the final proofread of my forthcoming novella 11 bookmarks. It will be available for pre-order towards the end of the month & publish in mid-October. I will post here when it's available, but you could subscribe to my bi-monthly newsletter for news: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorris

A book cover with 11 bookmarks in the top third where the 11 is light green and bookmarks is in white type and then WHM is in dark grey type towards the bottom of the cover which looks like ice with a bit of dirt and a couple of leaves embedded in it

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 12/09/2026

If you’re looking for hclib’s fleur jaeggy titles, I have them for the next 21 days, but I will return them, and then you can have them.

photo of The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy, which features a close up of a marble face shaded blue with drops that could be tears and I am the Brother of XX, which features a photo of a snow topped mountain peak with the hands of an analog clock over it

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 15/08/2026

Shout out to the people who made it possible for my local library to acquire Weak in Comparison to Dreams

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 06/08/2026

If you know Nathan Hubbard, please forward him this screenshot

A screenshot of the "playing next" queue of a music player that is filled solely with the track "No One Last Forever featuring David Cronenberg" fromo the Charli xcx album Music, Fashion, Film

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 04/08/2026

Cover reveal Ebook preorder towards the end of the month(ish) No print preorder b/c KDP doesn't work that way (sorry)

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 04/08/2026

Tried to order this new, but my order got canceled after four months, so I picked it up used

Cover of Dana Girgorcea’s book An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence, translated by Alta L Price; the cover features geometric shapes in red,
black, and yellow

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 31/07/2026

What to bring to your next SSPX party? “Dive into the mesmerizing world of inspiration with our captivating Member's Mark Inspiration 10" Double Layer Cake”

Photo of a product listing for a round cake with white frosting, yellow frosting scallops around the top and bottom, two piped yellow and one whit frosting roses and a large silver-ish cross

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 23/07/2026

Had to do it—there was a sale:

Photo of the first three books in Renee Gladman’s Ravicka series spread out on a table next to a copy of The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 18/07/2026

I've completed the first on-paper copyedit of my forthcoming novella 11 bookmarks. This is from the first page:

The following text on the page of book being held open: It was not just the color or the fact that something useful for something else had been sacrificed to create the bookmark, that annoyed Grant, but also the fact it had been left in the book. He always leafs through his books before returning them. It was, for him, a sort of civic duty like carrying out your trash with you after wilderness backpacking. A burden one removes from the librarians or the next patron who checks out the title.

There are editor's marks to remove the comma after bookmark, reverse backpacking and wilderness and insert 'in the' between them and to change the word 'title' to 'book'

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 15/07/2026

I know I sound like an old GenX dude going on about the third spaces we used to have. Butthe point is: these didn’t just disappear without intentional political and economic decisions to remove/deflate them. This is what teens and unhoused people face everywhere now:

A sign posted on a concrete pillar that says “No Loitering”

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 16/06/2026

Turkey breakfast sausage so not too greasy and Bay’s sourdough instead of those dry ass Thomas’s ones

A hand holding a homemade breakfast sausage, sharp cheddar, and fried egg sausage English muffin sandwich with a plate of potato chips in the background

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 09/06/2026

And so it continues, or intensifies, or something:

Photo of a copy of The Monroe Girls by Antoine Volodine; the cover features an illustration of three strange, hairy, humanoid figures each carrying three red more-human like figures and in the foreground a figure in a ghastly shade of green wearing a gas mask; the book is a library book and has taped on info to show that

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 22/05/2026

here we go!* *when my lunch break starts

A photo of a copy of The Inner Harbour by Antoine Volodine, which features an image of tall buildings next to a dock with boats and water superimposed over a black and white image of a woman’s face

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 21/04/2026

this is @megapolisomancy.bsky.social’s fault:

Photo of a hard bound book with a marine blue cover and green printing. The cover reads Narratology Introduction to the Theory of Narrative by Mieke Bal

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 16/04/2026

One of the many glories of Windows 11 [Dear Microsoft: if you are scraping bsky for brand sentiment analysis, make sure your tool is able to detect sarcasm. Oh, it can’t reliably detect sarcasm? How surprising!]

Screenshot of an operating pop up that reads Uninstall Copilot. And then on the next line says, There was an error uninstalling Copilot. Please try again later. And then below that is a large blue button labeled with OK.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 22/03/2026

Woah. I had no idea that Baen directly replaced Timescape:

Screenshot of LA Review of Books articles. The text is: Hartwell, though, had literary ambitions. He yearned to raise SF into mainstream respectability, and to this end, he published several genre titles of high literary quality: Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun (1980–83, 1987), Michael Bishop’s No Enemy but Time (1982), John M. Ford’s The Dragon Waiting (1983). But despite several novels winning major awards, including a National Book Award in 1983 for Lisa Golden’s The Red Magician, Hartwell’s imprint failed disastrously on the commercial level. In June 1983, he was fired, and Pocket replaced Timescape with Baen Books, a much more adventure-oriented SF line.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 20/03/2026

I have the day off today, so:

A screenshot of a text editor that uses dark yellow headline text against a cobalt blue background and has the following elements: Filename = ESSAY-WHM-The-Priest-the-City; H1 = The Priest & the City: Katherine Addison's Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy; H3 = DRAFT 1 {March 2026; words}

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 19/02/2026

Bsky people, you've either let me down or affirmed my trust in you

A screenshot of a Bluesky search for Emerald Fennell middlemarch that shows "no results found"

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 15/02/2026

I try to build my whole aesthetic ethos around something and express it in many various ways, and Elena Tonra just says it out loud in four words on stage at a BBC 6 concert:

A screen shot of Elena Tonra (of the band Daughter and her solo project Ed:RE) holding an electric guitar on stage for a BBC guitar concert, speaking into a mic, and the caption says "Strange fun-heartbroken fun."

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 13/02/2026

I’ve asked here and there for recs for romance novels set in the Gilded Age w/working class, artisan, activist, journalist main characters. Still no luck there, but I did find this:

A photo of a trade paperback copy of Still Life with Murder: A Nell Sweeney Mystery by P. B. Ryan, which features a cover that shows a table filled with grapes, nuts, a large wheel of cheese, and a long sharp knife with an ornamental handle

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 05/01/2026

Decided I needed some Cioran at hand:

Photo of a hand holding the book Anathemas and Admirations by E. M. Cioran, translates by Richard Howard

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 03/01/2026

I did doomscroll this morning but then decided to dip out and use another two tickets. Those were for Columbus, which I enjoyed but not as much as I thought I would. It's gorgeous, but I think the ending is supposed to be heartfelt whereas it feels more like a horror film to me.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 21/12/2025

The Gladmania continues in the Morris household:

Photo of the cover of the very short novel Morelia by Renee Gladman, which feature the title and author’s name in thin orchid type and an ink illustration of what looks like a series of tall buildings. The illustration is by Gladman.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 21/12/2025

the cat does sometimes decide she needs to stroll down the hallway where that pic was taken, but mostly she remains in the apartment

a gray tabby cat curled up against a well and next to a Monet art book

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 15/12/2025

The people (well, four people) have spoken and it was in the direction I was leaning anyway so:

Photo of the front cover of the hard bound version of Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison, which feature the title and author name set in white serif text against a marine blue background with a pattern of ornate gold details, including a car, like what you might see on the ceiling of an opera house

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 11/11/2025

Forgot to report back: they got me Also: you can watch Last and First Men for free if you have Kanopy access. Highly recommended. Deserved a Hugo nom.

A photo of the bluray case for Last and First Men. In addition to the title the case has the words: A film by Johann Johannsson, Narrated by Tilda Swinton. The case still has plastic shrink wrap on it so all you can see are the words a lot of light reflecting off a black background and a large glowing orange red plump comma-shaped ball

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 06/11/2025

I had time yesterday before my commuter bus showed up so I stopped by Minneapolis Central Library. Things escalated.

Photo of three books by Renee Gladman with library shelving stickers on them. The books are The Ravickians, Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge, and Morelia.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 29/10/2025

Wait. I think I haven’t read it and this is describing the book that I did read:

Screenshot of Librarything “Name Thar Book” post from January 13, 2021 that reads: czech(?) novel where man goes to country with strange language - A man boards a plane and accidentally ends up in a strange country. He is a linguist and a polyglot but cannot make heads or tails of the language. He is unable to communicate about anything with anyone, but has a series of misadventures and an odd romance.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 10/10/2025

If you scroll down and read the "unusual comfort reading" section of my latest newsletter, you'll understand why this Libby notification brings me mixed emotions: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...

A screenshot of a Libby app notification that shows the cover of We Do Not Part by Han Kang and the words "Your hold at MELSA: Twin Cities Metro eLibrary is ready to borrow."

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 22/09/2025

I made apple cider donut cake over the weekend. It’s very good—moist and dense but not stodgy. The perfect decadent breakfast. Don’t ask how much butter and sour cream is in it.

photo of a loaf-pan shaped cake on a white plate, the cake is browned around the edges and split down the top. It is coated with cinnamon sugar that has crusted in places.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 08/09/2025

A Sudden Wild Magic is out of print and used copies are outrageous: InterLibrary Loan to the rescue! Two things: 1. The cover is correct to the novel, but it needs to have more menacing elements to it to illustrate the dark whimsy of it. 2. Locus has lied to you--it's actually science fiction.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 22/08/2025

My one state fair treat before I get the bus out of here after my shift in the education building: a Kiwanis malt—half chocolate; half strawberry

A photo of a plastic cup filled with half chocolate and half strawberry malt

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 22/08/2025

My one state fair treat before I get the bus out of here after my shift in the education building: a Kiwanis malt—half chocolate; half strawberry

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 11/07/2025

When you aren't sure if this email is for the music side of you or the literary/cultural studies side of you:

Screenshot of part of an email inbox with a subject line that says "Against Compression" and an Inbox label

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