Mark your calendars or drop a silver dollar in the swamp so the chronotoads whisper a reminder to you while you sleep.
“The past is a new organ which ensues from the language that is taught to the newborn. When combined with the written page, it opens up a new space we call history.” — Pascal Quignard, The Fount of Time (tr. Chris Turner)
Interested in interviewing me about my upcoming book, Every Galaxy a Circle? I can talk about writing speculative fiction, why short stories are the best, monsters, baking, outer space, and more. Wow what an interviewer's dream!
Looking for an online writing class in the new year? I'm offering three! More info and sign up in this thread. First off: a flash fiction weekend
Flash Royale January Edition
If you’ve ever played video games, you may have heard the term Battle Royale. It refers to a type of game that features a large number of players who play with the goal of being the last player standi...
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At least we can all agree which was the MVC (Most Valuable Cleat) in the series, right?
Feel like people aren't making enough of the fact that there's a greater than zero chance this World Series never ends.
I’ve always been fascinated by miniatures, and I really appreciate @literaryhub.bsky.social for letting me go long and weird on tiny things, from murder dollhouses to shrinking people to the worlds of Wes Anderson lithub.com/on-the-art-a...
On the Art (and Artifice) of the Miniature
The Kitchen It starts here: in the kitchen. Not a full-size kitchen, of course, but rather a miniature replica of a kitchen, a tiny kitchen with a tiny table where two tiny dolls sit, blank-eyed an…
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Italo Calvino was born 102 years ago today. He was a writer of delights, a fighter of fascism, and possessor of a mind always curious and subtle. Although he died in 1985, he was so far ahead of his times that his work feels like a map of our Invisible Cities and a guide to our Crossed Destinies.
Happy pub days live here--can't wait to read Amber Sparks's new novel!
Amber Sparks@ambersparks.bsky.social · 12mo agoMy book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...
THE POEMS: a novella >> available from Barnes&Noble www.erratumpress.com/the-poems @questionstruck.bsky.social
I'm looking forward to participating in "Open Books, Open Minds" this Thursday, sponsored by @slj.com, @libraryjournal.bsky.social, and @thehornbook.bsky.social! You can find out more about this free virtual event here: www.libraryjournal.com/event/Open-B...
<i>SLJ</i> & <i>LJ</i> Open Books Open Minds 2025
We are excited to bring back the successful virtual event Open Books, Open Minds A Celebration of Reading & Literacy. A co-production of SLJ, LJ, and The Horn Book, this day-long event will convene au...
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The ASU Worldbuilding Initiative returns this Wednesday with "Cones and Caution: The Precarity of Signaling the Future"! How might the meaning of language or symbols change over time? Is it possible to exactly express ourselves across great spans of time? (Free and open to the public! Livestreamed!)
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If you need to leave a message for the people of the future, what you want to say might not be as important as how you say it, and where, and using what medium. How might the meaning of written langua...
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Boston-area folks, I am so excited to host a conversation with my dear friend @ambersparks.bsky.social about her new novel HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE at @harvardbookstore.bsky.social on October 16. I hope you'll join us! www.harvard.com/event/amber-...
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Today’s sickening parade and the cuts to the NEA may not seem related, but they’re both about silencing dissent. If you’re feeling helpless, please join me on Subst*ck; I wrote about the literary organizations that lost their funding, ones we can support right now. open.substack.com/pub/rebeccam...
The eponymous Space invaders--were they invaders from space or invaders of space?
Thursday, 5/29 at 7 PM, I'll be at Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH with THE @timhorvath.bsky.social! waterstreetbooks.com/event/2025-0...
Kurt Baumeister, author of Twilight of the Gods, in conversation with Tim Horvath
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Can't wait to talk about Twilight of the Gods with Kurt!
Kurt Baumeister@kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · last yr.Hey! Tour's winding down. Just a few more events to promote then I'll make myself scarce. My next event is at Water Street Bookstore with @timhorvath.bsky.social in Exeter, NH. Please come out on Thursday, May 29th from 7-8 PM to hear me and Tim chop it up. waterstreetbooks.com/event/2025-0...
Hey all, if you’re looking for something fun to do next Saturday, I’m teaching one of my favorite workshops, where we look at art and learn how to get better at using art as a prompt - and the myriad possibilities of ekphrasis beyond describing the painting writingworkshops.com/products/the...?
The Ecstatic Ekphrastic: The Art of Using Art as Prompt
We’ll use exercises and prompts to turn artworks into creative fiction and as flashes of light to get you out of a dark rut. Join us at WritingWorkshops.com.
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Updated schedule for TWILIGHT OF THE GODS tour. Note the inclusion of events in Santa Fe at Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse with @jamesreich.bsky.social and @rankoutsider.bsky.social, The New School with Joseph Salvatore, and Water Street Bookstore with @timhorvath.bsky.social. Also, AWP.
Call for Submissions! We have room in Issue 9 for more creative nonfiction! If you've got an essay burning a hole in your pocket, we have asbestos pockets! This extension is only open for two weeks (ending on April Fools is timing, not a cheap joke!) outlooksprings.submittable.com/submit/32359...
Outlook Springs - OS 9 Nonfiction Extended Call!
We love creative nonfiction in all its forms and variations. Send us your memoirs. Send us your Montaigne-esque ramblings. Send us your travel narratives, your lyrical essays, your personal essays, ...
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So it turns out that people do like reading the classics. So long as they are chopped up, regurgitated, and repackaged as AI.
Gareth Southwell@garethsouthwell.bsky.social · 2y agoThe new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
His understanding of terroir is no better than his understanding of tariffs, huh?
So, like, there's a plot twist in the Bayeux Tapestry we don't know about? www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
Bayeux Tapestry Fragment Found in Northern German Archive
The Schutzstaffel had ordered the remeasurement of the Bayeux Tapestry by a team of German scientists in 1941.
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Fave genres: 5. Reality show where planet has to choose between its eighteen moons. 4. Antique shop clown trivet comes alive at night and appraises wares. 3. "What Chunnel am I thinking of?" 2. Child has the ability to reunite estranged bands, real and imaginary. 1. Oulipean spy thriller
Matt Bell@mdbell79.bsky.social · 2y agoFavorite genres: 5. Houses that are bigger on the inside than on the outside 4. Doppelgängers! 3. Primitive or ancient society that turns out to actually be in the far future 2. Bears! 1. Man wanders difficult landscape, perhaps losing mind instead of dealing appropriately with his emotions
Weird how mixed nuts are not trail mix but throw in a handful of raisins and suddenly the hiking boots are lacing themselves up.