Justine O-S 🪞
@justineodashs.bsky.social
writer! MA. folklorist, hobby baker, באָבעלע. repro funder, covered in cat hair. AN AMERICAN GIRL ANTHOLOGY out now wherever books are sold 📓 📍New Jersey (now), Los Angeles (then) https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/An-American-Girl-Anthology
We are in @literaryhub.bsky.social this week talking about the new ~adult~ Samantha book and the limits of pedantic nostalgia 🎀 lithub.com/rebranding-s...
Rebranding Samantha: Reflections on the First “Grown Up” American Girl Book
We had several things on our 40th anniversary of American Girl wishlist: The relaunch of Grin Pins; a new historical doll with a more contemporary history (we have consistently suggested something …
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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
Very exciting mail en route for those who have already pre-ordered LABZIK 🐾 Never fear--the offer is still warm! Preorder and you, too, can receive something special by post from one very clever pup. sunypress.edu/Books/L/Labzik
We are in @literaryhub.bsky.social this week talking about the new ~adult~ Samantha book and the limits of pedantic nostalgia 🎀 lithub.com/rebranding-s...
Rebranding Samantha: Reflections on the First “Grown Up” American Girl Book
We had several things on our 40th anniversary of American Girl wishlist: The relaunch of Grin Pins; a new historical doll with a more contemporary history (we have consistently suggested something …
lithub.com
Speaking of #BannedBooksWeek, Alex Haley, a Playboy contributor, shocked the nation with his seminal work about slavery. Then his book was banned. "I want white folks of conscience to grapple with their need for Black gratitude."
How "Roots" Got Caught in the Culture Wars
Darnell Moore and Brittany Cooper in conversation on Alex Haley's book ban, voting rights, and racial justice.
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To better understand why more adults are playing with toys, Diego Lasarte heads to Build-A-Bear. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Why Adults Are Playing with Toys
After decades of depending on customers who had to beg their parents for pocket money—and who would eventually grow up—the toy industry has found a savior in “kid-ults.”
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"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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When you imagine the lifecycle arc of your book, you inevitably (and secretly) hope + pray + divine that Kyle Maclachlan eventually crosses its path. This weekend, it happened 📍Green Apple Books, San Francisco cc: @kchysmith.bsky.social 💖
When you imagine the lifecycle arc of your book, you inevitably (and secretly) hope + pray + divine that Kyle Maclachlan eventually crosses its path. This weekend, it happened 📍Green Apple Books, San Francisco cc: @kchysmith.bsky.social 💖
This is a technology entirely grounded in artifice with no native ability to tell whether the representations it creates are correct and yet this same technology is framed as a breakthrough in telling us the hidden truth about our family’s very real histories
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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An astounding 71 per cent of Americans oppose data-center construction in their areas. 69 per cent are “concerned” about the A.I.’s role in society. A.I. makes “the world uglier” and enables “cognitive offloading,” one skeptic says. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/S79vdc
The Humanism Driving the Anti-A.I. Movement
At the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington, D.C., attendees talked less about jobs and policy, and more about their philosophy of life.
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October is the time to feed the swine with acorns. #MedievalCalendar BnF MS Latin 1173; Horae ad usum Parisiensem (Heures de Charles d'Angoulême); 15th century; f.5v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
Great cover of Woody Guthrie's "Deportee" by Margo Price, featuring Joan Baez and the Memphis Mariachis: My father's own father, he waded that river They took all the money he made in his life It's six hundred miles to the Mexico border And they chased them like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves
Margo Price - Deportee ft. Joan Baez & Memphis Mariachi (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Margo Price
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Judith and Holofernes with extra gore, but a lovely colour scheme BL Egerton 1895; Old Testament (volume 1), Genesis to Ruth, with prologues; 1465 CE; Germany, S. (Regensburg); f.143r @blmedieval.bsky.social
I’m grateful to Miriam for many real and important reasons but among them is her willingness to let me stage my Coconut dog (don’t forget I’m still hawking An American Girl Anthology!!!) alongside Sukkot ephemera 🌿
Miriam Udel@miriamudel.bsky.social · 2w agoLabzik never had a lulav—until now! My intrepid publicist @justineodashs.bksy.social is preparing for Sukkot and couldn’t resist bringing Labzik into the process—though this is not *quite* in line with the religiocultural sphere of Chaver-Paver’s original stories, he looks pretty cute 🌿
Sukkot 2026 begins at sundown on 25th September. Here is a depiction of a Sukkah from 14th century Italy, at the end of the Sukkot liturgy. BL Add 26968; Forli Siddur; 1383 CE; Italy, Central (Romagna, Forli); f.316v @blmedieval.bsky.social
The next girlhood moment is just getting started 🎀 www.vogue.com/article/new-...
New York City’s Fall Exhibition Calendar Is Reaching Peak Girlhood
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I was thrilled to compose a short reflection for @publisherswkly.bsky.social in honor of #WorldKitLitMonth2026--about Minnesota, teaching children to become engaged, compassionate citizens, and the joys (and challenges) of translating across both languages and generations.
however you observed Yom Kippur, I hope it was meaningful (and that you also have babka waiting for you) 📯
Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, “Partita,” wrestles with the questions that have fuelled her whole career: who is art for, what makes it good, and what can it actually accomplish? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Barbara Kingsolver Believes the Novel Can Do
One of the country’s most popular novelists writes what she calls socially engaged fiction. In Barbara Kingsolver’s new book, she considers the role of art—and who it’s for.
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however you observed Yom Kippur, I hope it was meaningful (and that you also have babka waiting for you) 📯
blocking out literally all other facts of the match to celebrate two goals from tottenham + bananas foster french toast!!!
Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out all other possibilities. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...
The Unsettling Ambiguity of Early Pregnancy
Binary tests offer an illusion of certainty, but pregnancy is a nonlinear experience, and confirming one is a process of slowly ruling out all other possibilities.
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