J. Robert Lennon
@jrobertlennon.com
Recent books include CRITICAL HITS (with Carmen Maria Machado), HARD GIRLS, BUZZ KILL, SUBDIVISION, LET ME THINK. Lits in English prof at a regime collaborator institution. EPOCH editor.
Elden Ring is the UNDERWORLD to Bloodborne’s WHITE NOISE
I love this parking lot on campus where snow mysteriously appears at random times even in the middle of summer 
This guy is one of our most important living short story writers, btw. Lessons to be learned here. Much to think about
J. Robert Lennon@jrobertlennon.com · yesterdayFor the first time, I floated down Romania's largest river. They called me...Da Noob
For the first time, I floated down Romania's largest river. They called me...Da Noob
Here you go: the official cover reveal for my new novel Forty Million Summers, due next May. Maybe I should be jaded after forty years in the business, but I have to say I’m especially proud of this big, far-ranging book and pleased that it found such a good home.
Forty Million Summers - Tachyon Publications
“I can’t think of another science fiction writer who understands the strengths of the genre so well.” —The New York Times An inexplicable ecological disaster is rapidly making the Earth uninhabitable...
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@lauralippman.bsky.social I picked up Jim Thompson’s The Getaway on a whim and was delighted to see your intro! The back half of that book is truly bizarre and fascinating, a real descent into hell, thanks for easing me into it
30 hours of sewing so far... lots and lots of French knots but some of the grass areas are now being filled too! If you didn't see the first post, this is an aerial embroidery inspired by moorlands. At this point I still can't estimate how long it'll take in full but I'm not half way yet 😊🌱
Volume 73, Number 2, our fall issue, is out! Subscribers and contributors should be receiving their copies soon; click through to buy a print copy for ten bucks or a PDF for seven. www.epochliterary.com/shop
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You're not supposed to admit you're struggling. But we r - and I know for a fact we're not alone. The grassroots is dying - it needs U to keep it alive. Buy something from a small label/press. Tell ppl about it who don't often support such things. Explain to them why it's so important. PLS SHARE.
Not out of the realm of possibilities that Balloons has the connections to arrange a beating by himself. Who knows what secrets lie under the roller rink?
Better than advertised!! They are really trying. The kids loved it. I bought an insane tee shirt. Balloons took me aside and told me I need to beat up my dad
J. Robert Lennon@jrobertlennon.com · 2w agoVisiting mom and dad. Tomorrow we’ll take the kids to the little amusement park our family has worked at and visited for five generations. It had fallen on hard times, so I asked dad how it’s doing. He shook his head. “Not so hot. Balloons the Clown is a partner. It’s second rate.”
Maine Dems, your choices are a logger, a fisherman, a mailman, and a fireman, says I, Richard Scarry, Maine Democratic Party Chair
George R.R. Martin Hands Agent Unsolicited, 4,000-Page Manuscript Titled ‘Tuba Man, Scuba Man’
George R.R. Martin Hands Agent Unsolicited, 4,000-Page Manuscript Titled ‘Tuba Man, Scuba Man’
SANTA FE, NM—Grunting with exertion as he hauled the weighty volume out of his satchel, author George R.R. Martin was seen Tuesday handing his agent an unsolicited, 4,000-page manuscript titled “Tuba ...
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Visiting mom and dad. Tomorrow we’ll take the kids to the little amusement park our family has worked at and visited for five generations. It had fallen on hard times, so I asked dad how it’s doing. He shook his head. “Not so hot. Balloons the Clown is a partner. It’s second rate.”
Horrified just now when an ambulance pulled up at our elderly neighbor’s house but it turns out the driver had just got off his shift and is checking out the estate sale next door
It’s a shame that @adamoprice.bsky.social is willfully missing out on Dillon Carmichael’s “Big Truck” but this is otherwise terrific
Solved Genres
On horror movies, country music, and short stories
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out in beautiful western NY where it's cold www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbHg...
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It should have been $150,000 per title. It should have put Anthropic out of business and made me and other authors financially secure enough to keep writing and keep creating and keep fighting. We’re getting a token gesture. Anthropic won here. They pay a pittance (for them) and can do it again.
Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 2w agoNew #WriterBeware blog post: the Anthropic class action copyright settlement has been approved. Top takeaways from the judge's ruling, who's the biggest winner, and when claimants might (or might not) see the money writerbeware.blog/2026/07/23/a...
Big thanks to @jrobertlennon.com for the tip: Ann Leckie’s THE RAVEN TOWER is a hoot—lots of palace intrigue, marvelous worldbuilding, gorgeous writing, fickle gods including the narrator, an immortal sentient stone whose bestie is a cloud of mosquitoes
The Doors have enduring appeal bc they represent the four personality archetypes of Male Hair: Flaxen Deceiver, Cowlicked Fool, Balding Goodfellow, and Great-Haired Psychopath
psa the correct time and place to ponder which donut you want is not right now in front of the bin containing my favorite one, but at your house twenty minutes ago
a couple of decades ago ww norton was supposed to publish my novel about woman who, unable to conceive a child, starts a doll company; in the process of cancelling the finished book they had a lawyer inform me that I needed to change it to a chocolate company. "Everybody loves chocolate" I was told
Azure Emerald Empire@azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 2w ago
The Italian Comedians (ft. Pierrot the Clown), by Antoine Watteau, 1720, 📸 by @mullanphoto
