"The increase in book bans...signals the throes of a ruling class and administration working against its citizens instead of protecting our right to read." Read Veronica I. Arreola's feature on book banning at the link below. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/08/13/b...

Banning Books is Dangerous, No Matter How Cute It Is - Chicago Review of Books

Banning a children’s board book comes off as frivolous, innocuous, and even preposterous, when, in fact, it is a clear indication of how threatened the powers that be are to free thought. When I was a...

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"It could happen like this To someone you know I am not saying it will I am saying it could" #SealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social 13/31 #TodaysPoem #poetry by C.D. Wright from Rising, Falling, Hovering (2008 @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social) www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/rising...

Good morning/afternoon/middle of the night We are live binge reading over on the Haystack. Come one, come all. Stay as long or little as you wish. We will be following the Malawi match from 10am because your Host at this virtual Library of Brothel can multitask... open.substack.com/live-stream/...

LIVE NOW: Binge Reading Live on Proustian Weds with Anakana Schofield

Anakana Schofield on Substack

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Was pretty sure this was months away but it's rushed up! And I'll be rushing up to Edinburgh next Thurs to be in conversation with the amazing Sasha de Buyl about BAD LANGUAGE @edbookfest.bsky.social Thurs 20 Aug, 7.15 pm Venue B Book now! www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/so-ma...

So Mayer: Bad Language | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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“To write a decent story is such a huge and unlikely accomplishment that we shouldn’t care how long it takes.” —George Saunders

George Saunders, The Art of Fiction No. 245

My first meeting with George Saunders took place in his home of ten years, a ranch house in the Catskills. The house stood on fifteen acres of hilly woods, crisscrossed by narrow paths that he…

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“Beauty and danger can exist together.” A generous and thought-provoking interview on atomic bomb literature with @erikakobayashiek.bsky.social by our poetry editor @sohinibasak.bsky.social (tr. @brianbergstrom.bsky.social ), live now on our website: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

As nearly 100 large wildfires burn across the U.S., the nation’s firefighting system is shifting crews and equipment among some of the country’s most dangerous fires while officials contend with heavy demand for resources and the threat of new blazes.

Nearly 100 large wildfires strain firefighting resources across the U.S.

More than 30,000 personnel are battling 94 large fires across the country as officials shift crews and equipment to the most dangerous places.

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NEW: I had the pleasure of profiling Paulina Borsook, whose book Cyberselfish, about the early tech industry, is a great key to understanding why it’s so bad today. For her trouble, Borsook has had a very weird and bad 25 years, something she calls “a curse.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A Tech Prophet Finally Gets Her Second Coming

In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.

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Despite hundreds of deaths in the 2021 heat dome, many B.C. municipalities allow landlords to ban air conditioners. As cities and towns move to prohibit such bans, local politicians say the province must ensure tenants' "right to cool" via @sobittersosweet.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/bc-renters-e...

B.C. renters remain vulnerable to extreme heat | The Narwhal

With little action from the B.C. government, some municipalities are rolling out their own ‘right to cool’ policies to help protect renters from extreme heat

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The federal government provided false information in their attempt to prosecute an independent journalist. trib.al/nCK7E85

Cory Doctorow on how big tech circumvents the rules. lithub.com/how-american...

How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

The death of competition spells doom for regulation. Competition is an essential component of effective regulation, for two reasons: First, competition keeps the companies within a sector from all …

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In SUBLUNARY, @lisarichter.bsky.social draws together the sudden death of a father, the climate emergency, urban pastoralism, Jewish folk traditions, love, desire, and societal breakdown with Richter's characteristic mix of dreamlike fabulism, humour, and pathos. https://bit.ly/4wSWlI3 #Poetry

César Alvarez joins Democracy Now! to discuss their new musical, "The Potluck." It tells the story of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, when Klansmen and American Nazis opened fire on an antiracist demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina, killing five members of the Communist Workers’ Party

“The Potluck”: Musical Explores Trauma of 1979 Greensboro KKK Massacre of 5 Antiracist Activists

Composer and playwright César Alvarez joins Democracy Now! to discuss their new musical, The Potluck. It tells the story of the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, when Klansmen and American Nazis opened fire o...

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Last weekend, the Bradley Creek wildfire exploded in size, prompting the sudden evacuation of the Okanagan Indian Band reserve. kelsie kilawna shares her experience in the midst of evacuation. Co-published with our friends at @indiginews.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/bc-okanagan-...

What it was like to flee the Bradley Creek wildfire | The Narwhal

A celebration of three generations became a race to evacuate as a wildfire swept toward the Okanagan Indian Band, revealing the strength of syilx teachings on grief and belonging

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⚡️ Russia hits another Ukrainian publisher warehouse as attacks on book industry mount.

Russia hits another Ukrainian publisher warehouse as attacks on book industry mount

The strike sparked a fire at the publishing house’s warehouse, engulfing around 10,000 square meters (108,000 square feet), Kharkiv Oblast Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram. One man was report...

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Maybe because someone recently suggested to me that I should consider beekeeping instead of writing, I found this article about skills of the past very interesting reading. aeon.co/essays/the-r... (Article rec'd via Sam Baker's The Shift newsletter)

Looking to add to your TBR? Pretending to not look and not add to your TBR? @bookjotter.bsky.social's regular wind-ups will help... and not help. Winding Up the Week #475 bookjotter.com/2026/07/04/w... #Reading #Publishing #Books

Winding Up the Week #475

This week I focus on books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Alice in Wonderland …

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Click here for Q&Q's look at forthcoming Short Fiction, Graphic Novels, and Poetry titles from Fall 2026. https://bit.ly/3TiLGqJ

In the second of three preview instalments, Q&Q takes a look at forthcoming novels. https://bit.ly/4h5cjcx

Animal narrators in fiction have a long history, but they seem to be having a contemporary moment. Rachel Vorona Cote on Paul Yoon's "Etna" and the instructive journey of a very good boy:

When the Narrator Is a Very Good Boy

A new novel helps explain why so many storytellers enlist animal narrators to explore humanity.

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Yes, I've fallen behind, but @bookjotter.bsky.social's regularly wind-up of bookish links is a great way to catch up with news about #reading and #writing and #publishing that you might have missed along the way. /passeslemonadeandbiscuits Winding Up the Week #478 bookjotter.com/2026/07/25/w...

Winding Up the Week #478

This week’s round up moves from recently read and reviewed books to notable pieces of literary writing across the blogosphere, alongside a handful of anniversaries worth marking (including the birt…

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New on the blog today, WOMEN WRITERS IN TRANSLATION - some book recommendations for #WITMonth. Featuring books by Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann), Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle) and more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/w...

Women Writers in Translation – some book recommendations for #WITMonth

As many of you know, August is #WITMonth (Women in Translation), a celebration of books by women writers, initially written in languages other than English and then translated for English-speaking …

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Five Coming-of-Age Novels I’ve Read alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/07/five... #MondayBlogs

Five Coming-of-Age Novels I’ve Read - A Life in Books

Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.

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ICYMI I wrote about the latest release in the long overdue Rosalind Belben revival. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social “I fall awake and think, I want to go home”: Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben roughghosts.com/2026/07/27/i...

“I fall awake and think, I want to go home”: Is Beauty Good by Rosalind Belben

I think, it doesn’t matter where I am, whether calm or with nerves shot to pieces, in the mountains, in towns, sleeping well or sleeping badly, it doesn’t matter, I am quite lost, wherever I am. I …

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For the afternoon crowd, some entertaining GA crime from Galileo Publishing.

Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings@kaggsy59.bsky.social · 2w ago

Classic crime round up – part 2! #20BOS26 Books 19 + 20 #GalileoPublishing kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/c...

The bookish enthusiasm always overflows with our @silentbookclub.bsky.social group - and heck, we just goooo with the floooow! Check out what we're reading and talking about here, including another also overflowing combined book list: bookgagabooks.ca/2026/07/26/w...

Between this, Tilbury, and Woodfibre LNG (expanding up to 3x) they are planning to turn all these waters into an industrial zone, sacrificed to the oil economy cult.

Mike@brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘Industrial sacrifice zone’: the plan to bring oil supertankers to the mouth of the Fraser River: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-pipe...

"I feel like an outsider when it comes to autofiction, but I don’t feel completely alien to it either. While “autobiographical novel” is a somewhat dated term, “fiction” is easy to apply, basically accurate, but still somehow inadequate."

minor literature[s]@minorliteratures.bsky.social · 3w ago

“[W]riting protects us from the inevitable moment when the eraser wipes the blackboard clean”: An Interview with Patrick Autréaux — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/07/28/w...

This is TOMORROW, so don't forget to register today! I posted the wrong URL to register earlier: it's www.screenwritingwebinar.com

Tananarive Due - The Reformatory@tananarivedue.bsky.social · 3w ago

Even if you’ve never written a script, we invite you to our FREE HOUR-LONG WEBINAR, “WRITING YOUR SCRIPT!” With decades of writing and screenwriting experience, Steve and I are teaching a TOTALLY FREE hourlong class (followed by Q&A!) on story, writing, and screenwriting. 7/29 5p PT / 8p ET

Hey, Here in my hands are the two illustrated books that I made, that changed my life and you're probably part of it.Thank you! 🙏🏼🙌🏽.. One was released in 2025, and the other just recently. Help me reach 1000+ readers each. They're free with a tip option. 📖👉🏽 Iranzye.gumroad.com Cheers, mate🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🤙🏽