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Library worker & writer. Floridian in upstate NY. Codex. Work in Ancillary Review, Bloodletter, Malarkey & more. HAUNT / OLOGY out now from Bottlecap. THE MERMAID'S PURSE forthcoming from NineStar. find all the details here: deeholloway.carrd.co

Aside from the knock to the ever-dwindling music journalism ecosystem, I just think about what this all means for smaller and mid-tier bands. If you're not already huge, who is going to cover your album? Who is going to post about your tour? Who is going to…

Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 3h ago

“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”

🐎🐍 New interview 🐍🐎 I chat to the wittily erudite murder horse maven @omersarae.bsky.social about her new sequel The Harpy Knight, out now from @titanbooks.bsky.social: - Why it's even darker - The new monsters - The slow burn of her poly thruple - Her favorite historical battle And much more!

INTERVIEW: with author Sara Omer

After chatting with Sara Omer last year upon the publication of her debut dark epic fantasy The Gryphon King, we caught up with her again to discuss its sequel

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Would you like a PDF advance copy of this to pitch a review of it somewhere or to review it on Storygraph/Goodreads? I would love to send you one! DM me your email address, or email lee@sheerspite.ca. 💌 #BookSky 🌈📚 💡📚💙

sheer spite press@sheerspite.bsky.social · 3mo ago

table of contents reveal for The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?, forthcoming via @fernpub.bsky.social! what even is friendship?? what nefarious forces are making it so hard to connect? and how are people building friendlier worlds nonetheless?? bookshop.org/a/122679/978...

Preface: Friendship Is Worth the Struggle
When Friendship Breaks Your Heart 
Friendship Is Hard Because Everything Is Hard  
Despite It All, We Come Through for Each Other 
What Are Some Ways You’ve Cared for Your Friends? 

Part 1: What Is Friendship? / 

1 Do We Even Know What Friendship Is? 
Different Friendships in Different Contexts 
2 Casual Sex, Serious Friendships, and Life Outside the Couple
Infatuation plus Attachment 
Never “Just” Friends  
Making Friendship Legible
The Price of Ambiguity
3 Weaving Networks of Friendship
The Danger of Dyads
Why We Let Our Friends Down 
4 The Families We Choose 
Chosen Family Hits the Mainstream 
AIDS and Queer Family  
Chosen Family as an Ideal 
How Do the Friendships in Your Life Become Deeper and Stronger?
Part 2: Why Is Friendship So Hard? / 
5 The Ideology of Coupledom
Unbundling Marriage 
Coupledom Doesn’t Benefit Everyone Equally  
What Else Is Out There Beyond Coupledom?

Sèphera Girón: so i hear some of you writers don't like ai Girón: well, i'm tired of all you writers not liking ai! Girón: and i'm gonna let you all know it! Girón: i'm mad as hell! Girón: put that in the newspaper! Girón: or better yet Girón: put it in the HWA newsletter!

august 2026 offering is up: tarot workshops, what's inspiring me now + musings on the the World "What would it be like to experience liberation here, now, in this perfectly imperfect moment? In my perfectly imperfect body-heart-mind? In the midst of this beautiful terrible world? How would I know?"

August 2026: limits + liberation

Our relationship with life seems to be in crisis today. Everything that appears as a limit, incapacity, illness, old age, suffering, vulnerability, tends to be seen primarily as a defect to be correct...

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can't believe people are still trying to convince me Will Stancil is a real person & not a cardboard standie that came with when they launched Bluesky

We have tried FOR YEARS to work with you. Pubs weren't interested (see fear mongering, trash talking, name calling, and lying) and now, people are starting to look for other ways around it. All they had to do was ask for a reasonable price and/or reasonable terms.

Dr. John's 1968 album "Gris-Gris" is a spellbinding work of musicological anthropology that connects Mother Africa, New Orleans' Congo Square and American rock and R&B, and David Toop's new book follows every last tributary to its source. Review in today's Watch List.

On Rock 'n' Roll Ghosts and Other Matters

David Toop's "Two-Headed Doctor" is a spellbinding genealogy of American music tied to one of the strangest, deepest records of the 1960s. Plus a few movie things.

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❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

Tor Bramble backs HM Wolfe after AI-detection claims over Daggermouth

Tor Bramble has backed HM Wolfe after the Atlantic reported that the author’s dystopian romance Daggermouth returned a 60% score in an analysis using the AI-detection tool Pangram.

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