Oh my god the NAIBA gossip is coming in.

WE HAVE REAL CAMPS YOU CAN BE OUTRAGED ABOUT

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

can someone explain the wisdom of my car dealership sending me endless promotional emails for new cars when I'm locked into a lease that they wouldn't let me break without penalty? Just in case I need an extra car?

It's truly a crime that butter tarts aren't sold in this country.

I haven't been on here in a minute but I'm seeing people equating pulping books with burning them and um........

Lord, a new cory doctorow audiobook (smartly) shitting on AI is such a gift.

Troy Jackson being within the margin of error with collins on day 0 really shows how fed up mainers are with collins AND how unremarkable platner was lol

the mentalist the correspondents' dinner has in place of the comedian to protect trump's feelings is bombing. if you were wondering

Being a publisher in the south in 2026 means that at any given time during the summer months, 3-5 of my authors are in some kind of worrying extreme weather situation.

Can't wait for the inevitable Oscar bait film that comes from this story in 5-10 years. www.reuters.com/sports/russi...

Russian head of FIDE suspends activity over EU sanctions

Arkady Dvorkovich, the Russian president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), said on Friday he was suspending his activity with the organisation ​after being placed on the latest European Un...

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really makes you think

Someone get me in a room with MacKenzie Scott’s folks and I’ll deliver my impassioned / well-constructed argument that it’s a moral imperative that she give $20 million to a new distributor specifically for nonprofit and small presses in order to offset her ex’s dismantling of the book industry.

News in the pub lunch this am for @hubcitypress.bsky.social and some bffs!

I always find it strange that people don't geolocate sundown towns as predominantly existing in the Midwest and West like they do when they talk about Jim Crow in the South. The fact that California had the most sundown towns never seems relevant?

cannot overstate how hard I threw my phone across the room when I tried to watch this trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ho...

Whalefall | Official Teaser | In Theaters October 16

YouTube video by 20th Century Studios

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Every single July/August of the Trump era seems worse than the last. There's something about half the country being on fire and the other half flooding, elections looming, political speech always seems to veer more violent. Just an awful time of year.

I love being in THE ARTS because sometimes you meet someone you really vibe with and then they go to europe for four weeks in the summer and it's like....oh.

try to battle through the insane pop-ups on the site for gems like, "Guests, including 'five shamans from across the world' and the Yale Whiffenpoofs acapella group, all joined in."

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3w ago

I have been forced to read and witness this. And now you must, too. www.townandcountrymag.com/the-scene/we...

The book girlies of threads did not like this post! I am a good literary citizen but my one boundary is that Entangled is the Shein of publishing and I will say it with my full chest.

Meg Reid 🦦@megireid.bsky.social · 3w ago

Entangled crashing the new Yarros to land before the SJM is PEAK petty girl publishing behavior.

We know a portion of americans are okay with total government corruption, ongoing war, stubbornly high gas and food prices but will they support all those things.....while shitting themselves?? we'll see, I guess.

so...uh..can anyone get the NEA portal to work today?

Entangled crashing the new Yarros to land before the SJM is PEAK petty girl publishing behavior.

That's it, we're in a Veep episode.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

Breaking News: The House voted overwhelmingly to make daylight saving time permanent, but the bill faces an uncertain fate in the Senate.

i like this guy so much

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"

"Being alive, after all, is simultaneously a personal and collective act. Our individual survival depends on our ability to work and thrive together." cc: @jenbenka.bsky.social / @literaryartsfund.bsky.social time.com/article/2026...

In Defense of Reading Books

Reading literature is a force of good for our health and communities, writes Jen Benka.

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20 years ago we used to have Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs and now we have Johnny Diarrhea, Bob Diarrhea and Steve Diarrhea.

PSA: I am in search of a new agency to handle our audio and subsidiary rights. Obviously a small volume of books per year, but I do think we've had great success with audio in the past and always have commercial-leaning projects that we keep audio rights for. If that's you or your agency, lmk?!

most of us would also struggle morally with committing war crimes. others, not so much!

Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · 3w ago

No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

I know Susan Collins is pro-ICE, but you’d think she’d at least care enough to put out a statement when a victim is gunned down by ICE agents in her own backyard. Her silence today speaks volumes. For shame.