Obviously this is excellent, detailed, and in many ways pretty terrifying - essential reading for anyone with even a passing concern for literature, thought, learning etc. I would only add that there is an even broader crisis here around attention. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

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Restacking this one post, but if you click onto it you’ll get a run-down of all the short fiction published so far this year at 3:AM: twenty-odd stories in total. More to come in the second half of the year!

Daniel Davis Wood@danieldaviswood.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New short fiction at 3:AM Magazine kicked off again this week with a gem from Max Steiner, ‘One Good Look Is What You’re Worth’: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/one-good.... Dark nostalgia (is that a thing?) and kind of a run-on voice that pulls against the wordlessness of the kid at the centre of the piece

New short fiction at 3:AM Magazine kicked off again this week with a gem from Max Steiner, ‘One Good Look Is What You’re Worth’: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/one-good.... Dark nostalgia (is that a thing?) and kind of a run-on voice that pulls against the wordlessness of the kid at the centre of the piece

Thanks, @beyondthezero.bsky.social, for having @danieldaviswood.bsky.social and I on to talk about past and future favorites.

Bristol Vaudrin and Daniel Davis Wood | Beyond The Zero Podcast

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Loved this chat @beyondzero.bsky.social, in particular @danieldaviswood.bsky.social’s top 5 (Heti/Pawson/Lutz/Biles/N Turner if you want a shortcut!) On Nicholas Turner: “NOBODY else could have written the sentences in this book…his similes are out-of-this-world” www.patreon.com/posts/bristo...

Good thread on that thing everyone’s raging about

Canongate@canongate.co.uk · 2y ago

What's interesting about this trend for book marketing AI companies—who secure £Xmil in seed funding, get a write-up in the Bookseller, and will now wither away, leaving only a slime trail of AI generated goop across the surface of culture—is mainly what it says about capital’s engagement with books

“The world betrays everyone—the key is how we react to that. ... We fight our temperaments for decades and maybe we don’t let go until it’s in our interest, but what if our interests become passionless?” — @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social in Q&A Mark de Silva: markdesilva.substack.com/p/souls-of-g...

Souls of Grit

A Conversation with Greg Gerke

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For a dissenting view of Everett's James (as well as a positive notice of Harvey's Orbital), see Tom LeClair's piece in Open Letters Review: openlettersreview.com/posts/orbita...

Orbital by Samantha Harvey & James by Percival Everett: — Open Letters Review

Critic Tom LeClair reflects on two major prize-noticed new novels

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Camilla Grudova, ladies and gentlemen:

First snow alongside the Tweed.

I'd be interested to hear about the best book you read during 2024 that you have not seen widely reviewed or praised, that has gone under the radar. A work that deserves more attention. Newspapers and mags have their end of year round ups coming out and they rarely surprise. Please surprise me.

One of my favorite online literary contexts, always beautifully and invisibly curated

Daniel Davis Wood@danieldaviswood.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'd usually leave this until year's end, but now seems like a good time for it. So here's a look back at short fiction at 3:AM in 2024: one shout-out per day until they're done, with notes on why I went for each piece. First up, J. Billings' 'Automatism': danieldaviswood.substack.com/p/3am-fictio...

I'd usually leave this until year's end, but now seems like a good time for it. So here's a look back at short fiction at 3:AM in 2024: one shout-out per day until they're done, with notes on why I went for each piece. First up, J. Billings' 'Automatism': danieldaviswood.substack.com/p/3am-fictio...

An influx of mutuals from that other site on here feels like a freshening breeze. Hopefully more will follow. For sure the old place is beyond hope now. Might as well give this one a go.