Darlings! Thank you for all the support. Truly means the world to me. I'm super proud of Offerings for Ordinary Gods ( @clashbooks.bsky.social ). If you're my friend & see it out in the wild, fling me a photo! I love a good shelfie! If you love it, review it somewhere online, ok? **jazz hands**

Ali Trotta@alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 2w ago

This comes out…tomorrow?? Holy hell. So grateful to @clashbooks.bsky.social for being wonderful! I’m so in love with @katelanfoisy.bsky.social’s gorgeous art & grateful to @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social for being 18 kinds of fab! So excited for y’all to read it!! Thank you for all the support. XO

Doug Latino and I talk REAL LIFE COMIX: Only In New York anthology with the fine folks at Prana. FOC = 8/10 for 9/9 comix shop release! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR7v...

Dean Haspiel & Doug Latino on Real Life Comix | The Final Cut

YouTube video by Prana: Direct Market Solutions

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New #newsletter! Links, a new #podcast, BIRDY!, a photoessay about hiking a (small) mountain & going back to school, & more, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

Undefeated

A new podcast to kick off The Hampshire Tapes, my trip up a mountain and back to school, lots of links, some coquettish BIRDY! and more

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This is out now, available worldwide! Inkwood Books (NJ) and The Head and the Hand (Philly) have signed stock! Any indie bookstore can order you a copy! It's at all the big box stores, too: Amazon, B&N, Walmart, etc. Ask your library! And if you loved it, leave a review (Goodreads, etc.)!!

Ali Trotta@alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 2w ago

This comes out…tomorrow?? Holy hell. So grateful to @clashbooks.bsky.social for being wonderful! I’m so in love with @katelanfoisy.bsky.social’s gorgeous art & grateful to @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social for being 18 kinds of fab! So excited for y’all to read it!! Thank you for all the support. XO

New #podcast! @hommestead.bsky.social / #HalsteadYork kicks off my new series, THE HAMPSHIRE TAPES, where we'll hear stories from grads, professors, staff, & other folks connected to my soon-to-be-departed alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social! GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...

Episode 686 – Halstead York

Virtual Memories Show 686: Halstead York “The core Hampshire experience was figuring out how to do things for myself and figuring out how to excite other people about what I wanted to do.&#82…

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Here’s a SECOND poetry reading from Offerings for Ordinary Gods (originally appeared in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social & was edited by the incredible @omgjulia.bsky.social). My collection is available worldwide! If you loved it, review it! #PoetsOfInstagram #Poetry #SFF #AliTrotta #WritersOfInstagram

hey kids it's a quick look at the news www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Headline news 2026

A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

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Whatever you do don’t take me to The Island from The Prisoner! I’d hate to live in a cool rent free apartment full of bold late 60s modern furniture haha noooo a bubble don’t chase me haha

Some great new reaction images to use when people are obtuse on BlueSky.

While I was busy at csssa, this episode of Eating the Fantastic dropped! @scottedelman and I discuss ALTERATIONS @runningwildpressllc and THE COLLECTIVE @writlargeprojects , the sticky business of curating author letters We recorded this stokercon_official back in June! pod.link/1083737796

Eating the Fantastic

Listen to Eating the Fantastic wherever you get your podcasts!

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Update: FUCK YEAH

Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show@vmspod.bsky.social · 4d ago

Away we go

Away we go

Looking over my travel notes, it seems this is my 27th hotel night of the year (+a couple of overnight flights), and I haven't hit fall trade show season yet. 🤯

Brand new at @flaminghydra.com : in the latest in a series of interviews with writer Alan Moore, we talk about rock and roll, magic, and Joe Meek in his novel I HEAR A NEW WORLD.

Crouching in the long grass

Alan Moore on the invention of history, interviewed by Zach Rabiroff

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“A Letter is a joy of Earth- It is denied the Gods-“

4 pix: left Birdy behind, sat in a lot of traffic, stopped in Northampton, made it to my cute little inn in Amherst

CLIENT: Do you want to fly home from Detroit on the 2:52pm or the 5:01 ? GiL: **opts for latter, so as to visit JOHN K KING used book Mecca before going to airport** www.johnkingbooksdetroit.com

John K. King Downtown | Used & Rare Books

John King's Downtown flagship store. Over 1 million books in stock. 4 Floors of used & rare titles to browse. Michigan's largest used & rare bookstore since 1965.

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I spent the entire pandemic talking to front line workers who were watching people die of COVID every day. None of these healthcare workers are ever going to be OK again. The thought that some people-who know better-are pretending it didn’t happen is horrifying www.betweenusandcatastrophe.com

Who wants a video of me reading a poem from launch? You’re in luck! This is a new poem—“Medusa Writes Her Own Story.” Links to buy here: www.alitrotta.com/recent-works

I mail out a postcard every day, and you should take up the habit, too: www.economist.com/britain/2026...

The world is entering a post-postcard era

This means fewer ghastly pictures of sunsets. More ghastly Instagram

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Anyone I should record with in Amherst/Northampton this weekend?

UPDATE: called oncology because I hadn't received a confirmation text/call/email, and my appointment had somehow disappeared, so we rescheduled for next week.

Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show@vmspod.bsky.social · last wk.

My week: WH meeting yesterday, oncology check-in tomorrow, and weekend trip to see my alma mater one last time before it shuts down & (presumably) gets bulldozed.

Absolutely thrilled and honored. My self-published comic book, CHEST FACE, was nominated for a Ringo Award for 'Best Short Story.' Comix creators can vote now. ringoawards.com Hallelujah Baltimore Comicon!

Once again, happy Mother Dreyer's birthday. ❤️

The First-Withouts

[a birthday remembrance]

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My week: WH meeting yesterday, oncology check-in tomorrow, and weekend trip to see my alma mater one last time before it shuts down & (presumably) gets bulldozed.

Did I say #podcast? I meant #newsletter!

Gil Roth & his Virtual Memories Show@vmspod.bsky.social · last wk.

New #podcast semi-courtesy of @amtrak.com internet, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

New #podcast semi-courtesy of @amtrak.com internet, so GO READ: buttondown.com/vmspod/archi...

Shave and a Haircut

We've got a new podcast w/Sarah Minor, lots of links to check out, incl. decadence-without-pleasure, BIRDY! in golden light, a bunch of Instax, a little commonplacery, a view of the West Wing, my long...

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GO READ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson

Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation

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New #podcast: @sarahceniaminor.bsky.social joins the show to talk about her amazing new book from @yalepress.bsky.social, CAROUSEL: AN ESSAY ON SEEING, so GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...

Episode 685 – Sarah Minor

Virtual Memories Show 685: Sarah Minor “The panorama is a metaphor for the type of looking or the type of dizziness that early audiences felt. . . . It was like people in the 19th century wer…

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