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Patrick Cottrell

@patrickcottrell.bsky.social

writer mostly here for basketball https://patrick-cottrell.com/

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Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In my newsletter I delight in two new books that feature three women finding each other and having adventures. I also vent about AI once more, and how ugly AI-generated art is. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

The Maris Review, vol 108

This week's theme is mighty triumvirates and/or friend throuples What I read this week My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Deborah Levy No one does it like Deborah Levy on a sentenc...

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Kristen Martin@kwistent.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The South Korean gov't has recently begun to investigate its role in fraudulent adoptions. For @thebaffler.com, I reviewed a new book about how a messianic quest to “save” Korean children created the intercountry adoption industry and is bound up with a familicide: thebaffler.com/latest/god-s...

God Save the Children | Kristen Martin

Harry and Bertha Holt were called by God to “save” multiracial Korean children—many of whom did not need saving.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I've spent the last 8 years of my professional book critic career focusing my efforts on YA books by and about queer/trans and BIPOC experiences, and I have also noticed the decrease in these stories being published. It's incredibly dispiriting, as a queer Black adult and as a high school librarian.

Freedom to Read Project@freedomreadproject.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What happens when publishers begin avoiding LGBTQ+ stories before a book is ever challenged? This article explores how years of censorship efforts are creating a chilling effect across the publishing industry, making it harder for queer voices & stories to reach readers bookriot.com/queer-books-...

Who Even Reads@whoevenreads.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For your early weekend reading, check out Elisabeth's review of @patrickcottrell.bsky.social's fantastic novel Afternoon Hours of a Hermit!! You know it's important because we used two exclamation marks!! Do it‼️🍎 #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/a-double-exc...

Review: Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by Patrick Cottrell | Who Even Reads

The other reviews and accounts of this novel I read before reading the book itself, which rightly suggested a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the proceedings, did nothing to prepare me for the sever...

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Wyatt Bonikowski@wbonikowski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Patrick Cottrell’s Afternoon Hours of a Hermit is compelling from beginning to end, so funny and weird and terribly sad and really just wonderful work. I want to read it again because there’s so much to think about, but first I want to go back and read his first novel, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace.

Kailee Pedersen@kaileepedersen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I wanted to start AANHPI Heritage Month by sharing the works of some fellow AAPI adoptee authors. Our literature, like our identities as adoptees, is complex, vibrant, and rich with possibility. Consider reading an AAPI adoptee author today. 💖🥚

AAPI Adoptee Books The Language of Blood by Jane Jeong Trenka, Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses, Woman of Interest by Tracy O'Neill, Heart Eater by Sun Yung Shin, Paper Pavilion by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung, Scar and Flower by Lee Herrick, Monstrous by Sarah Myers, I Would Meet You Anywhere by Susan Kiyo Ito, You'll Never Believe Me by Kari Ferrell, First Love Language by Stefany Valentine, How to Bury the Dead by Ansley MoonAAPI Adoptee Books Adoption Fantasies by Kimberly D. McKee, The Violence of Love by Kit W. Myers, Cleave by Tiana Nobile, Reprieve by James Han Mattson, Season of Dares by Leah Silveius, Made in Korea by Jeremy Holt, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patrick Cottrell, Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater by Sam Roxas-Chua, Famous Adopted People by Alice Stephens, Before We Remember We Dream by Bryan Thao Worra, Hour of the Ox by Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Everyone Hates Kelsie Miller by Meredith Ireland
Green Apple Books on the Park@booksonthepark.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Happy Pub Day to @patrickcottrell.bsky.social's Afternoon Hours of a Hermit (@eccobooks.bsky.social)! Cottrell joins us next month with Rita Bullwinkel and R.O. Kwon. RSVP here: greenapplebooks.com/event/2026-0...

9th Ave: Patrick Cottrell with Rita Bullwinkel and R.O. Kwon

Welcome to our new website! We're excited to see you. *** RETURNING USERS WILL NEED TO RESET THEIR PASSWORD FOR THIS NEW SITE. CLICK HERE TO RESET YOUR PASSWORD.***

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Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I reviewed Lio Min’s debut Beating Heart Baby, a queer YA romance set in perhaps the most intense high school marching band in Los Angeles.

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

Mattilda B Sycamore@mbsycamore.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Here I am laughing in joy during the beautiful book launch for TERRY DACTYL at the Seattle Art Museum, thank you all!!!! And, get ready for my upcoming events in New York, DC, Baltimore, and Portland, please spread the word, and let's continue this magic 💕💕💕

Purple lighting as Mattilda laughs with her head back behind the lectern, address made of so many layers of fabric, pink, and blue polka dots, ruffles and knots. Photo by OscarMATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE ON TOUR WITH TERRY DACTYL 10/25 SEATTLE ART MUSEUM BOOKS SOLD BY ELLIOTT BAY BOOK CO. 11/19 THE STRAND NEW YORK, NY WITH ALEXANDER CHEE 12/1 POLITICS & PROSE WASHINGTON, D.C. WITH JENNIFER NATALYA FINK 12/3 GREEDY READS Remington BALTIMORE, MD WITH JEANNIE VANASCO 1/13 POWELL'S BOOKS on Hawthorne PORTLAND, OR WITH LENI ZUMAS MASKS GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Dorothy, a publishing project@dorothyproject.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Amazing review of THE ENDLESS WEEK in The Washington Post today! "It’s rare to encounter a book as feral and lovely as THE ENDLESS WEEK, one equally fluent in the comedy and the horror of the world — and the word." www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Review | ‘The Endless Week’ is an unusually feral and lovely novel

In Laura Vazquez’s deeply strange book, a chronically online teenage poet goes on a quest to find his mother.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 12mo ago

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact “And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Dear Madam Secretary, I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters. I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education. As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples: • MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%. • We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law. The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that tree marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation. Sincerely, Sally Kornbluth CC Ms. May Mailman Mr. Vincent Haley