Afton Gray Montgomery
@aftongray.bsky.social
sentences in Electric Lit, The Millions, The Common, Prairie Schooner, High Country News, Pleiades, etc. --> aftongraymontgomery.com 💫 at home in the Rocky Mountain West 🏔️ then: indie bookstore buyer; book marketing now: audiobooks acquisitions @ Spotify
who gave me the keys to the bluesky
Belt Publishing@beltpublishing.bsky.social · 8mo agoIf I were shopping for my tender cousin who knows about birds, I'd order: Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland The Great Black Swamp by Patrick Wensink Cat and Bird by Kyoko Mori Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary Acts Midwest Futures by Phil Christman
“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft
The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
I really like how Casey Cep has the “Weird, twisted Americana” beat at The New Yorker.
Being passively evil is so last decade. This is evil on purpose, baby.
Meg Reid 🦦@megireid.bsky.social · last yr.If you thought that the blue origin launch was crass, just wait until you hear that Amazon has unveiled a huge book sale that just so happens to run right through Independent Bookstore Day weekend. Despicable. Shop at an indie store or order on bookshop.org if you don't have a store near you!
I know people have ten million things to say about Severance, but I just want one of those ORTBO hats
new blue micro NF www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2025/02...
Alongside Blue by Afton Montgomery — The Normal School
I, alongside him, folded every napkin in the same direction. Nudged straight the faded carpet samples that made every cement step down to the basement a different frugal pattern and color. I wished ou...
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This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated. The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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Valzhyna Mort: “Real writing, I believe, starts with distance.”
[tentatively] crying laughing throwing up
Chise@sailorrooscout.bsky.social · last yr.THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️
backed out if AWP v last minute but hope you all find nice cushioned chairs to sit upon and have a rest.
This is incredibly bad— a CDC website clone but w fake and misleading health advice (especially about vaccines), brought to you by the NGO formerly run by the current HHS secretary.
E. Rosalie@erosalie.infoepi.com · last yr.🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...
My favorite genres are: 5. author did research for 12 years to write a tight 275 pages that make you gasp a lot 4. teen girls are people too! 3. something sinister is happening in book world as an allegory for the real world 2. sentences like wisps 1. a gal has a thought while doing the dishes
Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · last yr.My favorite genres are: 5. Deer Acting Weird 4. Loosely Typeset Short Story Stretched for Full Price 3. Novel Written by a Character in the Novel 2. Moon's Haunted 1. It's Always Dark Above the Arctic Circle and I'm Making That Everyone Else's Problem
the amount of mealy-mouthed people crawling out of the woodwork to imply mahmoud khalil doesn’t deserve our full-throated support is evidence of the conditions that allowed him to be disappeared in the first place.
Tried to google the word count of On the Road.
cry-laughing on a monday vis a vis: "We are in the era of the post-literate writer." blgtylr.substack.com/p/story-basi...
story basics # 1, openings
this is the beginning, etc etc
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Naomi Kanakia: "The people who understand th[e] process [of selling a literary novel] generally don't talk about it, because part of being a successful literary commodity is the illusion that you are sui generis and have some unique voice that you'd never allow the system to dilute." SCREAMING ❗‼️
in this economy, I need a car honk sound that’s gently like “hey little buddy, just letting you know the light is green; no worries!” the one-size-fits-all “Fck You” sound is entirely too loud.
“My faith in the reader is profound.” love love this interview with forever-buyer Paul Yamazaki. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/02...
Reading the Room: An Interview with Paul Yamazaki - The Paris Review
“The more bookstores you go into, the more you’ll realize how many different ways there are to be curious.”
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One thing that genAI boosters aren't prepared (or frankly equipped) to handle is how the right-wing tech CEO set are going to shift the models toward right-wing outputs. There will be a concerted effort to make these intentional propaganda machines.
My feed should be flooded with the stories of laid off federal workers.
Spending some time considering the mettle of your average senator versus, say, Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford.
Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · last yr.Gillibrand on WNYC today said one reason they're all falling in line is that they get death threats.
Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education Like you’re literally a tool without it
✨️The🌟Magic🌟Folf✨️@themagicfolf.bsky.social · last yr.A bunch of needs in labcoats: "If we comply with the fascists demands they'll surely let us keep up our research" Those same scientists months or years before: "Eh, I'll skip history class. I wanna be a scientists. Not a historian lol"
