See ya June 18 Seattle. 🩵

I just wanna know who got into Sewanee but Twitter is all gone and maybe also so is online announcement making?

Today is the pub day for TERRY DACTYL!!! Watch out, world...🎉🎉🎉🎉 A huge thank-you to @katieleeellison.bsky.social for a *beautiful* conversation in @thestranger.com, what a great way to welcome this book into the world... Get ready for trouble...💚💜💚💜💚💜💚

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Newest Novel Traces Queer Survival From the AIDS Crisis to 2020 Seattle

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore takes long and meandering walks through Capitol Hill most days. From the height of summer to the depths of winter, if the sun is out, she’s soaking in it. On these walks du...

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Nisi Shawl is one of my favorite writers, a queer elder & a BIPOC icon. I hate that the state of publishing is such that the book of their dreams would struggle to find a home, but I love that we as a community can come together to make it happen!! Give/boost as you're able? 🙏 gofund.me/3a52097a

Donate to Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!, organized by Eileen Gunn

Nisi Shawl, a wise and wonderful writer of science fiction and fantasy, had a… Eileen Gunn needs your support for Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!

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Latest @thestranger.com with Chloe Caldwell about TRYING out of @graywolfpress.bsky.social. I did ask about the mention of the beauty brand Ilia in the book, yes. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

Chloé Caldwell Refuses Tidy Endings in 'Trying'

Trying is out August 5 on Graywolf Press.

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Thanks for including Mother of Methadone on Bloomberg's top reads for July! It comes out tomorrow, wherever you buy books 🧡 @bloomberg.com @beaconpress.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Best Movies, TV, Music, Books, Theater and Art Arriving in July

We’re about to hit peak summer, which means long days to dig into a great book or two (helpfully provided below), prestigious European festivals you can dip into on your travels, and some fantastic TV...

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I wanna see tears people!!! (In the best way). Go give $5 if you can. Repost if you can’t , or if you can!

Palmetto State Abortion Fund@psabortionfund.bsky.social · last yr.

If I wake up and we’re at 10k I will cry. This community is everything. 🫶 donorbox.org/legal-fees

I need everyone to see this. And for my friends outside the United States, please see how people here are standing up every day against this. We are fighting.

Lauren McKenzie@themckenziest.gay · last yr.

Now ICE is breaking into hospitals to kidnap patients and assault staff

Lawrence Burney is the friend who is always turning you on to the best music, artists, and books before anyone else. He's put months worth of cool shit into these pages. Sample the riches on offer in this interview with @katieleeellison.bsky.social about NO SENSE IN WISHING, then try and not buy it

Lawrence Burney Shines a Light on Us All Through His Debut Essay Collection, 'No Sense in Wishing'

With his collection of new essays, culture critic Lawrence Burney holds his own among living legends like Hanif Abdurraqib and Kiese Laymon.

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The latest interview, this time with Lawrence Burney about his new essay collection, NO SENSE IN WISHING, is live @thestranger.com. A cut not in the final: "It would be difficult for me to come out of the African tradition and lineage..." 1/3 www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

Lawrence Burney Shines a Light on Us All Through His Debut Essay Collection, 'No Sense in Wishing'

With his collection of new essays, culture critic Lawrence Burney holds his own among living legends like Hanif Abdurraqib and Kiese Laymon.

thestranger.com

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them! A Thread.

The news is very very very bad today.

This is great campaign messaging. No wonder the establishment is so shook.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · last yr.

On Friday night, we walked the length of Manhattan, from Inwood Hill to Battery Park. New Yorkers deserve a Mayor they can see, hear, even yell at. The city is in the streets.

And here's a round up of every interview I've done with @thestranger.com so far, including Daniel Tam-Claiborne, Melissa Febos, Vivian Blaxell, Lidia Yuknavitch, Freda Epum, and more 💕, as well as some personal updates. open.substack.com/pub/katielee...

My friend April said

I'm not publicizing my Stranger interviews enough.

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I should share these here too, yes. @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

Melissa Febos’s Books Reliably Bring Me to my Knees at Least Once

I suppose I’m in the middle of a kind of midlife crisis, both parents dead, on the brink of what I believe will be marriage, fairly new to my own queerness, working a variety of wonderful and weird jo...

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We're pleased to announce that the inimitable @katieleeellison.bsky.social is joining our team as a contributing editor! Katie is an amazing writer herself and runs the fab Nonfiction for No Reason reading series. Here's an essay she published with us a few years back: mosslit.com/katie-lee-el...

Working a 9-5 is so lonely.

"A straight man's greatest fear is being understood." - Cole Escola 🙏

For federal workers who have been laid off:

Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · last yr.

Slate is offering free access to @slate.com Plus for federal workers who have been laid off. Slate has work advice columns (including from me), financial advice columns, and great news and legal coverage of this sociopathic administration. slate.com/fed-plus <7/n>

When I heard myself make that lady clip clop walking down the street.

✫✫LVN✫✫@urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · last yr.

When did you know you were an adult fr*? For me, it was when I started loving sourdough bread. *Fun answers only, please.

Is that book “genius” or is it just dense and bitchy?

Thank you @littlepuss.net for bringing me to @vivianblaxell.bsky.social. New interview @thestranger.com just in time for her release of WORTHY OF THE EVENT. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

Vivian Blaxell Worries She'll Disappoint You

On page 230 of her new book, Worthy of the Event, Vivian Blaxell writes, “steer clear of Suicides.” To that I say, whoopsie daisy! My life has been rife with ’em. Still, this book gripped me and stole...

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Recently finished @melissabroder.bsky.social's Death Valley so all I sing all-day long is Sh-Boom. Anyone else?

Editing jobs at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social!

Erin Keane@erinkeane.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey there. We're hiring for several new full-time, remote, US-based editorial roles at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social — writers on the culture and science/health desks, an opinion editor, and an audience producer. I'll make a little thread, but here's the main link: www.salon.com/about/hiring

I really loved this conversation. Please read this @thestranger.com, then read @lidiamiles.bsky.social READING THE WAVES. www.thestranger.com/books/2025/0...

Let's go! Donations to NFNR with comment "LA FIRES" gets you on the list. There are stairs at the venue. See you soon! @fredaepum.bsky.social @porochista.bsky.social @arielabergriger.bsky.social @nicoleshawanjunior.bsky.social

Tonight! 100 tickets sold, let's sell 100 more for people who need care, for community, because we're what we've got.

Katie Lee Ellison @katieleeellison.bsky.social · last yr.

See you Thursday bbs! Let's raise dollars for #abortion! www.siff.net/cinema/in-th...

I see a lot of you sharing writing about abortion that isn't rooted in original reporting, so I made a starter pack to help! go.bsky.app/83DhXzb

in the second installment of my new column at @thestranger.com, I wrote about how PNB's latest rep is challenging old gender norms in ballet. it was so beautiful and I would like to see more of this! www.thestranger.com/girly-pop/20...

Waking Ballet Up from Its 100-Year Nap

What I loved most about Pacific Northwest Ballet's run of The Sleeping Beauty was how it subtly but meaningfully challenged ballet&#8217;s often-rigid gender binary&#8212;something classical ballet co...

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