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Ursula K. Le Guin — 2026 Prize for Fiction

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without downloading any new pics, what’s it like being in a relationship with you? the answer is an unholy fusion of these two energies, as I’m sure @isaac-fellman.bsky.social will attest

Cap (Ratshag by night)@ratshag.bsky.social · 2w ago

Without downloading any new pics, what’s it like being in a relationship with you?

This one really hits.

Lex Vaughn@lex.vaughn.theneedling.com · 3w ago

"And now, as I and many other authors sit down to work on our books, we’re faced with the expectation that we will be able to prove that our work isn’t AI. Fuck that. AI needs to prove it isn’t me."

It's always the right time for "There Will Come Soft Rains," but today is REALLY the right time for "There Will Come Soft Rains"

Lisa DeBruine@debruine.bsky.social · last mo.

Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...

the other thing about the prisoner is that (with all this idiotic talk of second screen tv) you can engage with it on any level. glance up every ten minutes to see the most perfect context-free image possible, or pin your eyelids open and eat a bottle of adderall

The Prisoner being on Criterion has been an ecstatic cultural moment for me

Tricia Lockwood@tricialockwood.bsky.social · last mo.

the prisoner is a show about a heterosexual warrior defeating heterosexuality at every turn

I've been revisiting the Fallout universe for both my agonies and sins. I finished Fallout 4 (via one titanic final crash at the end of the main questline). Now for New Vegas: I downloaded 81 mods, then 3 more to fix the bugs they caused, ranging from "glitchy music" to "sorry, everybody bald."

I've just been astonished by how good this goddamn vampire show is. They spent two seasons doing this masterful slow build to a personal tragedy and then were like, "from now on the show is a maniacal rockumentary with a ranting self-destructive narrator. We saw Velvet Goldmine 10,001 times."

Waverly@waverlysm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

we've been watching THE VAMPIRE LESTAT and i am in absolute awe of what a hard stylistic pivot the show has taken from "the show previously titled INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE". we're only three episodes deep into this season, i feel unqualified to comment on its success, but WHAT a fucking big swing

Told Waverly, "Henry II and Thomas Becket were the original Posh and Becks" and waited for applause which was not forthcoming

THIS IS THE BOOK I RECOMMENDED ON THE QUEER HISTORY PANEL TODAY YOU HAVE TO READ IT

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

picked up NOTES FROM A REGICIDE off this list and it absolutely whips. the story of two revolutionaries in the distant future, as told by their son. I've cried twice, and a third time from envy

In case you missed it, this is the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

Here’s the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

The Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation has announced the shortlist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which annually awards $25,000 to the author of a book who best represents the legendary wri…

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I could not be prouder to be nominated for the Le Guin. To be acknowledged as part of her tradition is an honor.

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 2mo ago

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Final day!

Isaac Fellman@isaac-fellman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Notes from a Regicide is $2.99 in all ebook formats through the 26th. Celebrate Pride with a whole family of hot messes raving about oil painting! All the streets in New York are canals in the future, so they can't march; you have to do it for them. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Notes from a Regicide is $2.99 in all ebook formats through the 26th. Celebrate Pride with a whole family of hot messes raving about oil painting! All the streets in New York are canals in the future, so they can't march; you have to do it for them. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Notes from a Regicide

Winner of the Nautilus Silver Award!Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and Amazon!A Finalist for the Locus Award!A Finalist for the...

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Notes from a Regicide is $2.99 in all ebook formats through the 26th. Celebrate Pride with a whole family of hot messes raving about oil painting! All the streets in New York are canals in the future, so they can't march; you have to do it for them. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Notes from a Regicide

Winner of the Nautilus Silver Award!Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and Amazon!A Finalist for the Locus Award!A Finalist for the...

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By the way, you can get the ebook for Notes From a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social, one of my top books from last year, for $3 on Bookshop today, and it's DRM free so you can read it on any device.

Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · 3mo ago

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

do not cite the deep magic to me!!

TOMORROW AT THE STUD...come see trans writers read about anything other than transition. I'll probably be reading the opening of Translunar, my astronaut book out in 2027. It's one of the chapters about hot jets, but transition MAY be mentioned, despite my heroine's best efforts to stanch the flow.

it is my birthday today! if you might plausibly have bought me a drink if we were in the same locality, please consider sending that money to the Transgender Law Center instead: transgenderlawcenter.org

Home - Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Since 2002 we’ve been organizing, assisting, informing and em...

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What are you doing Sunday night 6/14 at 6:30? Want to hang out with amazing trans writers in San Francisco? Me too! Come to @theworldsgreatestwriter.com's incredible literary series Text Change at The Stud to see me and four other awe-inspiring trans writers talk about everything except transition.

gladly agreed to blurb A.K. Larkwood's The Seventh Banisher, a fantasy novel I can only describe as "Nancy Mitford's Danganronpa"

an outright lie unless they’re arguing that spellcheck is AI. If you’re using MS Word there’s probably now untoggleable AI assistant but I’ve published four books without MS Word. I copy edit over the phone from a printout if I have to. I don’t want to speed my workflow. I’d rather be good

Jonathan Bernstein@jonbern.bsky.social · 3mo ago

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

People of the Bay Area! I’m hosting a new reading series called Text Change, in which five trans writers are invited to read work on any topic other than transition! The first show is at The Stud on June 14th at 6:30! (flyer designed by @cara.city)

The day of prophecy has commenced! Out today!

Plastic, Prism, Void: Part One

Part One

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My cat opened the post window and typed this. I think she's trying to reach my agent

Isaac Fellman@isaac-fellman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

k8

k8

Just remembered tomorrow is Mother's Day. Listen: this book is about a mom

Isaac Fellman@isaac-fellman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I feel like I've high-key established I don't have a lot of followers in Sacramento, BUT IF THAT HAS CHANGED SOMEHOW, I'm joining the Capital Books book club tomorrow at 2 to talk about Notes from a Regicide. It'll be a cute, low-key time!

I feel like I've high-key established I don't have a lot of followers in Sacramento, BUT IF THAT HAS CHANGED SOMEHOW, I'm joining the Capital Books book club tomorrow at 2 to talk about Notes from a Regicide. It'll be a cute, low-key time!

My cosmic punishment for failing to read PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID when Violet sent me the MS -- for the usual no-good "behind on all my friends' MSS" reason -- is that I've fucked up my attempts to preorder it so repeatedly and gratuitously as to verge on the supernatural.

George Smiley in the fourth chapter of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy:

JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am losing my mind. I am in such a state. who tf is Lacan. what is he saying. why. WHO. IS. LACAN. how MANY of these fuckers ARE THERE