seeing Elliott tonight & how I'm supposed to think about anything else....................
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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…
“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 🌈📚 💡📚💙
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...
my disinclination to join any professional org in my actual or amateur professions... it just STAYS getting borne out
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
it's so cool that they haven't destroyed my capacity for surprise yet
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
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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This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.
Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Lorca-inspired film ahoy???? 😍 www.festival-cannes.com/en/f/la-bola...
LA BOLA NEGRA - Festival de Cannes
'La bola negra' tells the interconnected stories of three men in three different eras. Three lives intimately linked by sexuality and desire, pain and inheritance, and one of Federico García Lorca´s ...
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I test-printed this zine & somehow my wonky printer produced a format that is basically a flipbook. if I can figure out how we did that, should we? instead of the standard booklet?
wrote a practice contrapuntal, please clap 😰
❤️ 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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WNBA Coach Cheryl Reeve Wore “Trans Kids Belong” While Beating Sophie Cunningham’s Team • The crowd was equally indignant, reportedly booing whenever Cunningham touched the ball.
WNBA Coach Cheryl Reeve Wore “Trans Kids Belong” While Beating Sophie Cunningham’s Team
The crowd was equally indignant, reportedly booing whenever Cunningham touched the ball.
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a new book to pair well* with American Scare *harrowingly
#LibFaves25 day 8: AMERICAN SCARE (Fieseler). please please please read this, even (especially) if you think you know everything about anti-Communism, the New South & how FL became what it is: bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
New Lesbian Historic Motif Project blog: How do we talk about historic figures in a way that finds the balance between erasure and misrepresentation? alpennia.com/blog/how-com...
How to Commemorate Anne Lister? | Alpennia
The final section of this collection of articles centered around Anne Lister concerns itself with modern engagement with her history and legacy, like this one which has as a jumping-off point the word...
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I despise Substack and have previously said I will never read it (and I don't). But I will break my rule just for this eally disturbing piece of writing by Neko Case, who was / is in a band, The New Pornographers, who were supported by The Frames in 2002. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...
IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?
This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.
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SO HERE IS YOUR SENTENCE. You may EITHER: choose one of the books listed above to read AND THEN REVIEW. OR. choose an overlooked book that YOU love and yell at me about it.
I'm starting to suspect that my tax dollars are going to munitions I'll never use, either
Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
come see me at my many appearances at NecronomiCon '26 next week!
Friday 14 8:00 (A People's History of the Mythos) Friday 14 9:30 (Theosophy and Weird Fiction) Friday 14 3:30 (Charles Fort and Weird Fiction) Saturday 15 3:30 (Exploring the Hyperborean Age) Sunday 16 8:00 (German Lit and the Origin of the Fantastique) Sunday 16 3:30 (French Fantastique)
Many MANY thanks to those who are popping in to grab A Murderous Business (ebook still on sale at the 'Zon! amzn.to/4fNzqpV )! I hope you like it 😊 And thanks if you're looking at any of my other books! ❤️ #Booksky #sale #historical #sapphic #mystery #crime