If you’re in line at 8PM, stay in line. You have the right to vote.
Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!)
@coletteshade.bsky.social
Author, Y2K: How the 2000's Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was). The NYT called me “lean, nimble, and profoundly depressing,” but I think I’m pretty fun. I have a black cat named Camus and I live in Ann Arbor.
Having just finished the book, this is so awful
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.
Just finished @brian-goldstone.bsky.social’s There Is No Place for Us, and I realized it deserves all the awards because not only does it have a really original and thorough methodology, but it truly tells a story, while most contemporary nonfiction has as much pathos as a napkin.
Nice profile of the brilliant Anton Jäger www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left
Anton Jäger has been lauded for his exceptional ability to make sense of these strange political times – and he’s only 32. The writer and academic explains why we’re living in an age of hyperpolitics
theguardian.com
Oodles of gratitude to my blurbers: @pappademas.bsky.social @coletteshade.bsky.social @nikostratis.com @andrewhickey.500songs.com @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @shelf-awareness.com and all the others, who aren't on Bsky!!!
"The Last Temptation of Beck" by Josephine Riesman
From the New York Times-bestselling author of "Ringmaster," Josephine Riesman, comes a stylish and shocking account of the life of the musician Beck.
beckbook.com
Our book is currently 20% off with free shipping direct from @harpercollins.bsky.social if you've been Muskism-curious www.harpercollins.com/products/mus...
When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...
The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year
“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.
wired.com
We've had more DMs from our new episode with @coletteshade.bsky.social on the Culture of the Recession than any other. Tune in for a deepdive into 2009: -Indiesleaze -Recession Pop -Stomp Clap -Bling Rap death -Obama-core -DIY Crafting -Grad School If you were alive in 2009, you gotta check it out
Maybe I should write a book about how my cat is perfect
***ANOTHER @beckbook.com BLURB HAS ARRIVED*** Thank you, @coletteshade.bsky.social!!!! PREORDER NOW: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-La...
As Sun Tzu said in his Art of War, “Tell your enemy all the stuff you’re gonna do ahead of time”
George Pearkes@peark.es · 2mo agoTrump announces the US is planning to invade Iran.
my main thought on Pride month, as someone who should basically be neither seen nor heard from on it, is that I have seen many times firsthand the raw deal that trans people get in media and publishing, and it needs to be everyone's job to fix that. It's real, material, and unacceptable
Read @coletteshade.bsky.social discuss this with @rahawahaile.bsky.social at @talkscratch.bsky.social, a publication devoted to these painful quandaries 😭😭😭 www.talkscratch.com/colette-shad...
Molly Templeton@mollytempleton.com · 2mo agowas just reading an interview with a writer who said, in essence, that they have a 2nd book idea but don't know if they'll write it bc they don't know if they'll make any money on it. and this made me blisteringly sad. everyone needs to eat & pay rent but I want to read the books ppl WANT to write!
And it didn’t used to be this way!!! OR you could like, “stoop” to taking a full-time professor job (which doesn’t exist anymore)
Maggie Mertens@maggiemertens.bsky.social · 2mo agoSorry to do this to you all, but did you know that writers w v successful books are just getting whole other careers now to pay the bills.... this week on @talkscratch.bsky.social @rahawahaile.bsky.social interviewed @coletteshade.bsky.social www.talkscratch.com/colette-shad...
I did a thing
Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.
My long interview with @coletteshade.bsky.social is up at Scratch this week, in which we discuss writing vs. writing careers, making ends meet under capitalism, and long-term planning from within short-sighted industries. It is an extremely candid conversation about art and money and aging.
Colette Shade on Y2K and the Limits of a Millennial Writing Career: The Scratch Interview
“In order to have a society — frankly, a democracy — we have to have these areas that are protected from the market.”
talkscratch.com
This guy published a book called DOW 36,000 just before the dot com bubble imploded
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoHassett: "As people are getting ready to get their oil refineries going back to full capacity there's just basically a gusher of oil that could come out. There are a lot of other great signs on inflation. As soon as we get energy prices back down, you could actually be looking at negative inflation"
This is interesting because it challenges two widely held political assumptions: 1) that people love it when everything at the supermarket is at least $8.99 and 2) that the easiest way to win voters over is to go on TV every day and say that you need to build a big event space or you'll die.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 3mo agotrump literally broke the scale of this graph on my data portal www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
I think I might need to leave this site.
We are the LARGEST union in trade publishing history, and we want better for our workers in order to make a sea change for creatives everywhere. Let's take a stand together against the existential threats to the arts, whether stagnating wages, the AI slop machine, and destructive layoffs.
Andy Wang@andywang.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter
The main thing that makes having children appealing to me is… telling them made up stories. This truly raises existential questions for me.
Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · 3mo ago"I am a terrible father and I am proud of it"
Come see me in LA on Saturday, April 18!! I’ll be at the @latimes.com book festival with Jeff Weiss, Misty Heggeness and Meg James talking about my book, the Y2K era, Britney, and more!
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM TELL THE IRANIANS ITS MY TURN TO USE THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 4mo agomods help
