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Amal El-Mohtar

@amalelmohtar.com

Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com

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A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21h ago

Haven't watched yet, but as it has a new season let's bring over to Bluesky my cast list for Lord of the Rings using the cast of S1-3 of Ted Lasso. Let's start with an easy one: Aragorn. No fucking second breakfasts for any fucking hobbits or any other fucking muppets with this Aragorn.

Bret Goldstein as Roy Kent glares to the side.
Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · yesterday

shelia was always so kind and supportive to me when i was just starting out, and i know i'm not even close to the only person with a similar story. kicking in what we can is absolutely the least we can do for her and her family during a really difficult situation

Clarkesworld@clarkesworldmagazine.com · 6d ago

Ok folks, Sheila and her family need our help. You might know her as the editor of Asimov’s, but she's also a good friend and one of the best people in the field. If you can, please... www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 3d ago

hey, friends. i rejoined tiktok like a dork so i could post this video asking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for a moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools. if you're on tiktok, could you go over there and like/share this bad boy? hoping to beat the algo and get it seen! thank you!!!

Hey, I made a video for @zohran_k_mamdani! Please, @nycmayor, don't let the billionaires get their hands on our kids! Give us a full 2 year "A.i." moratorium for the schools - for students and teacher...

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Robby Raschke@rtr.tombob.com · 3d ago

Some of the stories in @amalelmohtar.com 's collection Seasons of Glass & Iron gave me goosebumps, which rarely happens to me with the written word (much more likely with music). They also gave me the most vivid dreams in a while. Can very highly recommend!

NickPheas@nickpheas.bsky.social · 4d ago

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Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · 2w ago

So deeply moved to see this news on my brief emergence from retreat — I’m honoured & thrilled to see THE RIVER HAS ROOTS is a finalist for the World Fantasy Award! Congratulations to everyone else on the ballot! & now back to the woods!

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Helen Rosner@hels.bsky.social · 2w ago

btw the intro to my @newyorkermag interview with Antonio Banderas today is also secretly my capsule review of the new Anthony Bourdain bio-pic, “Tony,” which is way better than I was worried it would be

I saw "Tony," the new bio-pic about Anthony Bourdain, earlier this summer, at a private screening attended largely by people in the world of hospitality and food media, many of whom, myself included, knew the real Bourdain. Food people are normally a raucous, emotive bunch, but there was a tightness in the air as folks arrived and took their seats. Pretty much everyone in the room admitted, in murmurs and whispers, that we were nervous about the film—that it would be superficial, or dehumanizingly hagiographic, or else just sort of clunkily bad, in the way that bio-pics often are, relying overmuch on a viewer's knowledge of who the movie's subject was and would become. But the director of "Tony," Matt Johnson, wisely constrains his story—loosely based on a few early chapters of "Kitchen Confidential," with its narrative arc fairly fictionalized—to one mid-seventies summer. We follow a college-age Bourdain as he bums around Provincetown, trying to be a writer and working his first kitchen job, and the result turns out to be a sharp, intelligent film. ('It's a bildungsroman," a nerdily angelic, beautifully stupid young Tony explains to a panel of white-haired professors in the movie's opening scene, petitioning for funding for a novel he plans to write. It sure is, kid.)The movie-which comes out August 7th—is a star turn for Dominic Sessa, who plays the young Tony with adenoidal swagger. But the most extraordinary thing on the screen is Antonio Banderas, who delivers an astonishing, devastating performance as the proprietor of the restaurant where Bourdain finds work, and on whose porch Tony ends up sleeping for the summer. Chef-the character is nameless, and seemingly unknowable—is a mentor and a foil to Tony, his lined face and graying beard highlighting Tony's youth, his composure framing Tony's jittery ambition. Chef is unbothered by his kitchen staff fighting, yelling, stealing, and openly doing drugs, but he draws the line at any blasphemous utterance of the Lord's name, and he makes Tony join him at church every week as a condition of his ongoing residence in Chef's hammock. Banderas has been, for well over thirty years now, one of our most bombastic, most movie-star movie stars, whether he's brandishing a period-accurate rapier or succumbing to Almodovarian psychodrama. In the very human-scale role of Chef, all that glamour and pageantry seethes just beneath the skin. The movie doesn't shy away from letting Tony make mistakes—at times, the character edges toward outright villainy—and Banderas animates Chef with a contrasting moral clarity whose force feels almost physical.
Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 2w ago

Chatgpt ys the opposite of educacioun. It ys rustinge and dulling our skilles, draininge the knowledge from ower heades lyke sap from trees, makinge us clayme pieces of writinge as our owne when thei are the plagiarism spoor of a nastye heart-free machyne.