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* The right to read is not political #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomToRead Unrepentant bibliophile - I post and re-post items of bookish interest. Reader. Writer. Researcher. Retired. Hopeful, human, humane, hippie. No automatic follow back. www.kncbooks.com
The law, which doesn’t bother defining what constitutes "inappropriate", does go to painstaking lengths in defining what is meant by “distributed.” This includes simply having the book sitting on a shelf. #FreedomToRead #libraries #librarians
EveryLibrary@everylibrary.bsky.social · 2d agoHistory has shown that arresting librarians and booksellers has never led to greater freedom or liberty. Yet here we are...
AUGUST EVENTS in the alt text (George Pelecanos, Tim Sullivan, Olesya Lyuzna, and more)
If the divine bird of providence poops on your manuscript it means your ideas are [insert colloquial term for excrement]. Everybody's a critic nowadays.
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 2d agoFollow me for bad bird poop jokes of the Holy Spirit …
Congratulations! You have been validated by the Bluesky Anal Retentive contingent.
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 2d agoAnd the promised 10 blocks have been reached.
“Marion’s annual WNC Bigfoot Festival is all about the legendary creature that may or may not wander the Northeast US and Marion’s surroundings. This fun festival includes Bigfoot-themed food and souvenirs …” www.nctripping.com/things-to-do...
25+ Things to Do in NC in August (The Best Events)
For our rundown of things to do in North Carolina in August, we’ve got plenty of foodie fun, family-friendly festivals, and watery celebrations for you.
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Author Profile: Jim Thompson "... the brooding image of pulp writers from the ‘40s and ‘50s usually resembled a haunting Edward Hopper painting of doomed loners sloughed at a rickety desk inside a dimly lit room knocking out stories for a penny a word." @magonzales.bsky.social - always evocative 📖
Michael A. Gonzales@magonzales.bsky.social · 3d agoIn 1984 writer Barry Gifford created Black Lizard Press. Featuring covers by Kirwan, the Black Lizard line reprinted the novels of forgotten authors Charles Willeford, Peter Rabe, Jim Thompson and David Goodis, enticing a new generation of crime fiction fans. crimereads.com/kubrick-jim-...
Last few hours to get your hands on 'Human Software' on Kindle for free
Richard W. Bown is 📝 editing@bownie.bsky.social · 4d ago"Human Software" is where the Phoenix Project meets Local Hero. Available for free on Kindle this weekend. "When corporate wants you gone, who does the dirty work?" www.amazon.com/Human-Softwa... #booksky #freebook #indieauthor #ai
Thanks to Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social for this thorough, even-handed thread on this issue. Good coverage of the many factors at play here. 😎👍
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4d agoThe problem of manipulation is on the table. Stealing the current books, buying the old books, and cooperating with large archives and collections and libraries, like in Oxford, is part of the same agenda. It is about controlling the information of the future. That’s what is really on the table.
Book Review: "H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction" by H. P. Lovecraft, edited by S. T. Joshi A book can truly be the gift that keeps on giving. I do love short stories, Lovecraftian ones included. I think it's time for a re-read 📖 💙📚 kncbooks.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-...
The Craftwork of H.P. Lovecraft
Book Review: H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction by H. P. Lovecraft, edited by S. T. Joshi
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"Do literary awards sometimes spotlight books that feel artistically dense rather than reader-friendly?" Yes. Ideally, neither should be sacrificed for the sake of the other. #FreedomToRead
Booktasters@booktasters.bsky.social · 4d agoIs it just me, or do literary awards sometimes spotlight books that feel artistically dense rather than reader-friendly? I wonder if the gap between what's acclaimed and what's delightful is wider than we admit. What’s your take?
I'm always up for short stories 📖 Author Profile: Marcel Aymé (courtesy of Neglected Books) 💙📚 #FreedomToRead #libraries
Neglected Books@neglectedbooks.com · 4d agoAcross Paris (1950) contains some of Marcel Aymé's finest short stories, some of which have left an indelible mark on French culture. Yet among most English readers, his name means nothing, when it should be as familiar and appreciated as Queneau's or Simenon's. neglectedbooks.com/?...
It adds an interesting twist if you read across genre.
Matterist Books@matteristbooks.bsky.social · 4d agoSometimes, when you read two novels at the same time, you get a third one.
The destruction of physical media, which serves as a reference point of comparison, enables control of the narrative. Is that really what it said, or is this slop? What if you can no longer "look it up"? The (printed) word matters. #FreedomToRead #libraries
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 4d ago"Wider adoption". Of what, exactly? This is the largest vaporware project I ever witnessed in three decades writing software. And I've seen some doozies. Tulips indeed.
Hal Duncan@halduncan.com · 4d ago“Look, you burgermeisters have to tax your townsfolk to buy these fancy bulbs I’ve invested in—it’s just one gazillion guilders per bulb, yeah?—or this whole Dutch tulip bulb industry will be in trouble!”
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Writers with a manuscript! Today is the last day of @sarabandebooks.bsky.social 's Open Submission Period. Poetry, short fiction, hybrid, and nonfiction manuscripts; translation proposals, get them in before midnight! sarabandebooks.submittable.com/submit
Sarabande Books Submission Manager
Sarabande Books is an award-winning independent literary press headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Established in 1994 to champion poetry, fiction, and essay, we are committed to creating lasting e...
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Reposting both to share the eloquence of Amanda Jones and in support of my Librarian colleagues and friends (I work in Circ and we feel the effects, downstream).
That Librarian: Amanda Jones@librarianjones.com · 6d ago“The human toll on our profession has been devastating. Librarians are being stalked, harassed, fired, and driven from their careers.” publishingperspectives.com/2026/07/cens...
Book Review: "American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda" by Ru Marshall "Castaneda’s supposedly nonfiction books — chronicling his encounters with a Mexican shaman who allegedly taught Castaneda his mystical ways — were all fantasy novels, plagiarism his favorite tool."
Washington Independent Review of Books@wirobooks.bsky.social · 5d agoThe 1970s hustler claimed he’d been sent by a shaman. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/a... @orbooks.bsky.social @rumarshall.bsky.social #booksky #americantrickster #carloscastaneda #cult #conman #shaman
"'Before Disability' is a literary, legal, and cultural history of the relationship between disability, race, and citizenship. It shows how disability helped to shape US citizenship and, in turn, how the formation of US citizenship shaped disability."
Lauren Klein@laurenfklein.bsky.social · last wk.@sarialtschuler.bsky.social's BEFORE DISABILITY, which looks to the era before disability was pathologized (and racialized) to show how disability once represented the promise of US citizenship, out now with @pennpress.bsky.social: www.pennpress.org/978151282951... 2/
This link details how this was specifically engineered for the court to approve. And managing the information to the public to minimize blowback. I find the arguments specious, to say the least. #FreedomToRead #indiebookstores 💙📚 isbndb.com/blog/print-b...
The Receipt is the New License: Print Books Sourcing for AI Training - ISBNDB Blog
In 2025, a federal judge handed down one of the most consequential copyright rulings in AI history. Anthropic (Claude AI) had purchased and physically
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
The abbey presented as the center of civic activity on the town square. Note the town pump, the knots of citizens playing, working, discussing ... with the abbey at the heart of it all. Symbolic, no? Location, location, location ⛪
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · last wk.For reference, the three playing kids of the 1680s were having fun in front of St. Stephen's Abbey, Augsburg.
Somewhere between a sloth and an aardvark.
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · last wk.Meet "The unknown animal", in German: Das unbekante Thier. Never to be seen in Europe before, says the advertising print of the 1820s also. To me it looks like a bear, but this is not the main point of this starting 🧵, follow me along for wild animals being imported to Europe ...
The origin of the phrase, "put your thinking cap on"
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · last wk.Good morning, fellow urinoscopists. By holding a urine bottle in 1508, examining the urine, checking the colour, etc., he's reminding you from the past to stay healthy, and have a balanced diet. And wear a thinking hat to impress the audiences. #urine #histmed
It seems unlikely that another book like Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey will ever be published. Strachey and Frances Partridge knew each other for 70 years, at their best and worst, and Partridge tells Julia's story with intelligence, love, humor — and exasperation. neglectedbooks.com?p=5621
The complete list of Toni Morrison’s books ... just because. Toni Morrison was arguably one of the greatest American writers of her time. She published eleven novels, seven children’s books, nine nonfiction books, two short stories, and three plays. #FreedomToRead www.biblio.com/reading-nook...
I found "Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writer's Guide" (edited by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call. Plume, 2007.) to be helpful, though tipped towards news journalism. From the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.
Writing About Writing About Writing@writingabtwriting.bsky.social · last wk.September is coming... Fight the looming dread with these nonfiction writing manuals I wish I'd been assigned for today's #writingabtwriting. #writingcommunity 💙📚 #gradschool
The FCC's new proposals could gut the #ERate program, an critical support for broadband in libraries and schools in every state and territory. We can't stay silent in this face of these proposals. Use your voice and take action. Tell Congress to #SaveOurERate: action.ala.org/campaign/saveourerate/
Seeking Crime Fiction Inspiration from The Odyssey crimereads.com/seeking-crim...
Seeking Crime Fiction Inspiration From The Odyssey
“All great literature is one of two stories,” according to the quote usually attributed to Leo Tolstoy. “A man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” Where the journey is concerned, perhap…
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"Libraries aren't just for reading. They are a community hub providing necessary resources." Nina Bargiel, The Crone Zone.
