Not understanding but falling anyway into the dream of another's making is one of the most exhilarating experiences you can have. I'm sad for those who deny themselves such experiences by refusing to dip even a second into strangeness/mystery when, say, reading a poem or watching a film.

They're kidnapping people. They're killing people. Men in orange construction vests with assault rifles. No uniforms, no ID. Throwing people into unmarked vans. Disappearing them.

Glad this is being reported because I feel like we all knew it was happening but no one was admitting it openly yet. I fucking hate this so fucking much.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

Pre-orders are now open for Jonathan Wlodarski’s debut full-length collection, Love Letters to a Future Ice Age! https://sundress-publications.square.site/product/love-letters-to-a-future-ice-age-by-jonathan-wlodarski-preorder-/BVZAZP5HLV7NOGWIWBE7AUTE?cs=true&cst=custom

The rumors are true!!! My book LOVE LETTERS TO A FUTURE ICE AGE is available for preorder now!!! If you love climate fiction, fabulism, and weird stuff, give my collection a look! #booksky #readingsky #writersky #writingsky #storysky

Sundress Publications@sundresspub.bsky.social · 4d ago

Pre-orders are now open for Jonathan Wlodarski’s debut full-length collection, Love Letters to a Future Ice Age! https://sundress-publications.square.site/product/love-letters-to-a-future-ice-age-by-jonathan-wlodarski-preorder-/BVZAZP5HLV7NOGWIWBE7AUTE?cs=true&cst=custom

Me, giving up ever writing something popular: Strong desire hits me at 2 AM: a gay novel inspired by Light Years by James Salter and Mrs. Bridge.

Love to see THE SHIP OF DEATH on this list from Esquire magazine. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

10 New Horror Books We’re Reading This Halloween

Indulge in the season by cracking open a scary one.

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A winner I can get behind. 🥰 Anne Carson, 2026 Nobel Prize Winner!

congratulations to my close personal friend* Anne Carson on her richly deserved Nobel *the poet I begged for a selfie at the national Book Awards

Main Street by Sinclair Lewis would make an amazing HBO limited series.

Bookstagram is not going to make me hate East of Eden.

I got an actual real invitation to do something in my email. It was written by a human being!! But I am so paranoid now that I would not reply to their email. I went to their website and reached out from there. Everything is stupid, but there are still humans out there. 🥸

Over the weekend I was on a panel about AI in books and I said that publishers have always been so careful about fair use -- you can use maybe a line or two from a song but never any more -- and then the tech bros were like, we are entitled to all books. They belong to us now. Fuck you.

Social media almost ruined reading for me, but I've managed to turn things around: an essay.

Read @Gabino_Iglesias’ review of RED X by @daviddemchuk.com: “Demchuk wrote a horrendous, brutal novel, but one so important, and so dark, it should be required reading.”

Red X by David Demchuk: Review by Gabino Iglesias

Red X, David Demchuk (Hell’s Hundred 978-1-64129-847-6, $19.95, 224pp, tp) June 2026. Cover by Matthew Flute. As a book nerd, I read everything; prologues, intro­ductions, author’s notes, acknowled…

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I may be my parents youngest but I am also their eldest daughter

There is a kind of illiteracy which focuses solely on images, metaphor, and symbolism. Even many people who read are not able to accept these things, visualize them, or see their use in a story. They just go "huh??" and get mad at the writer.

my latest conspiracy just dropped!! read the whole thing in the @newyorker.com 🥬

I’m Starting to Suspect That the F.D.A. Is Just Trying to Get Me to Cook

This morning, the agency urged me to immediately discard my store-bought rotisserie chicken and instead braise a lamb shank in a classic mirepoix.

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I was watching one of those Gen Z reacts to whatever album videos on YouTube and the guy tried reading a paragraph from Rolling Stone and he couldn't read very simple, common words you would learn in 7th or 8th grade. It made me very sad.

bluestemmagazine.com/sp2023/richa... This time of year, I remember I wrote this story about the devil and his boyfriend. I think it has nice autumn vibes. 😈🧔

The Devil and His Man — Bluestem Magazine

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bluestemmagazine.com/sp2023/richa... This time of year, I remember I wrote this story about the devil and his boyfriend. I think it has nice autumn vibes. 😈🧔

The Devil and His Man — Bluestem Magazine

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There is a kind of illiteracy which focuses solely on images, metaphor, and symbolism. Even many people who read are not able to accept these things, visualize them, or see their use in a story. They just go "huh??" and get mad at the writer.

Do you write with AI? No, I write with icy ambient, an unending interest in human cruelty, the desire for weird surprises, two beverages, and the promise of gay porn as a treat after.

@bleakhousing.bsky.social

God, I am just a mess lately.

I went up to the manager of a bookstore in a town near my home and asked if they'd carry my novel. Please clap.

Babe, do you wanna come over and open Pandora’s box?🙃

Autumn omens 2: Leaf scabbed puddles A praying mantis eating endangered bumblebees Squirrels leaping into traffic Someone saying the word Christmas A dead mouse under a red maple leaf shroud

Autumn omens 3: A person standing in an empty parking lot top heavy asters falling over smears of walnut juice remembering 90s witchcraft dabbling eating roots the word "fest"

Autumn Omens 4: Acorn candy, acorn jam, acorn slaw, acorn buttons, acorn hats for tree frogs. A bird watches YOU. Forgetting to go outside. Garden spiders among the dead coneflowers. Signing the dark one's book and kissing his "face behind." Cocteau Twins lyrics make sense.