Excited to announce The Human Costume (On Selfhood, Alienation, and the Body We Borrow). Edited with my bud, @roychristopher.com , and coming out through Anti-OedipusPress. Slated for a 2027 release 🙌
Roy Christopher
@roychristopher.com
I marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan: author, artist, poet, ph.d. Books include DEAD PRECEDENTS, BOOGIE DOWN PREDICTIONS, POST-SELF, and THE MEDIUM PICTURE: http://roychristopher.com/books Free newsletter: http://roychristopher.substack.com
We’ve all heard and had so many conversations about and with LLMs lately... Leif Weatherby (@leifw.bsky.social) does some deep work on and thinking about these models in his new book 'Language Machines' (from @uminnpress.bsky.social). 💙📚 #booksky #ai #llms wellredbear.com/leif-weather...
During the “Voices from the Classroom” panel at the 3rd annual Literary Indulgence Book Festival, I read a bit from from Chapter 4: Time of the Signs of THE MEDIUM PICTURE. This section is called “Nomads and Monads.” It's about the affordances of different screens. 💙📚 #booksky youtu.be/Ti1j8oCMflg
THE MEDIUM PICTURE reading at the Literary Indulgence Book Festival
YouTube video by Roy Christopher
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I interviewed rhetorical scholar Bryan J. McCann about his latest, 'The Bundy Archive', is the first book-length academic work on Ted Bundy. 💙📚 #booksky wellredbear.com/bryan-j-mcca...
I can't believe I didn't do this earlier... POST-SELF Godflesh face shirts are now available: www.stickermule.com/roychristoph...
The 8th issue of my zine “The Unexplained” came out sometime during the second half of 1988... It’s evident with this issue that I’d learned a bit more about cameras and copy machines. I remember being very proud of it. roychristopher.com/the-unexplai...
Broken Fingers and Book Talks: The Latest in Both: roychristopher.substack.com/p/broken-fin... 💙📚 #booksky
Broken Fingers and Book Talks
It's a cruel summer...
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Hey! My books THE MEDIUM PICTURE (@ugapress.bsky.social) and POST-SELF (@repeaterbooks.bsky.social) are now available everywhere! 💙📚 #booksky roychristopher.com/books/
I was recently on The Arpichelago on Stegi.Radio (@onassisstegi.bsky.social) out of Athens, Greece to talk about my book POST-SELF! 💙📚 #booksky Check it out: stegi.radio/show/the-arc...
I interviewed my old rival Peter Relic about his new book, 'BUST A MOVE': the greatest untold story in hip-hop. roychristopher.substack.com/p/peter-reli... 💙📚 #booksky
SAVE THE DATE: Join me on July 18th at the 3rd Annual Literary Indulgence Book Festival! Let’s talk media, music, books, stories, and everything in between. I'll be at table 14, and I’d love to see you there! #JaxReads #LiteraryIndulgence #LiteraryIndulgence2026 #LitIndulge2026 💙📚 #booksky
Collected by Chris Kelso available now! From the hallucinatory margins of Scottish fiction comes a career-defining retrospective of collected short stories. "Visceral, rotten, funny, mind-expanding," says Chris McQueer. paperback and digital formats. www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/coll...
Knowing more about the cognition of creativity is like knowing how a car engine works: It doesn’t make you a better driver. Finding the creative Edge is a far more personal quest. roychristopher.substack.com/p/glimpsing-...
Glimpsing Infinity
Finding that creative edge
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I am Roy Christopher. I'm REwriting my book 'The Grand Allusion'. It's going slowly. roychristopher.com/the-grand-al... 💙📚 #booksky
The Grand Allusion – Roy Christopher
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Weeknight Writers@weeknightwriters.bsky.social · last mo.Hello #WeeknightWriters! Come on in, introduce yourself and your WIP, and let us know how your writing week is going (or not going, that's valid too)
I interviewed my old rival Peter Relic about his new book, 'BUST A MOVE': the greatest untold story in hip-hop. roychristopher.substack.com/p/peter-reli... 💙📚 #booksky
Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author #OctaviaEButler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚 #Booksky Have you read her work? www.librarything.com/author/butle...
I’ve been slowly, quietly compiling an anthology of my zines, and this was one I didn’t have a copy of myself. FrontWheel Drive #46 was a ten-year anniversary issue of sorts. It came out sometime in 1996, a decade after my first zine in July of 1986: roychristopher.com/front-wheel-... 💙📚 #booksky
My Author Talk at the UNF Library on April 14: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3L... 💙📚 #booksky
Roy Christopher: UNF Library Author Talk
YouTube video by Roy Christopher
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THE MEDIUM PICTURE won an International Impact Book Award and is currently a WHOPPING 75%-OFF ($7.54!) here: www.amazon.com/Medium-Pictu... 💙📚 #booksky (Not entirely sure what this award means, but I'll take it!)
THE MEDIUM PICTURE won an International Impact Book Award and is currently a WHOPPING 75%-OFF ($7.54!) here: www.amazon.com/Medium-Pictu... 💙📚 #booksky (Not entirely sure what this award means, but I'll take it!)
The great British satirist Steve Aylett’s (@steveaylett.bsky.social) latest novel 'The Book Lovers' was recently released in the US by Anti-Oedipus Press. After 22 years, we reconvened to have the following exchange: roychristopher.substack.com/p/steve-ayle... 💙📚 #booksky #fiction #satire
Steve Aylett: Vernacular Homicide
The great satirist returns with his novel 'The Book Lovers'.
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Afterword, by David Markson by [Name of Author] (@incastellated.bsky.social, 2025) is an odd little book at best... I cornered the consciousness behind the lack of author of Afterword (no, it’s not AI) and asked a few questions. 💙📚 #booksky wellredbear.com/afterword-an...
My dude @rusirius.bsky.social interviewed me for Mindplex Magazine! A wide ranging discussion that also digs into my two newest books: magazine.mindplex.ai/post/aging-b... 💙📚 #booksky
Aging BMX and Skateboarding Zine Kid Brings The Mediated Pain
In this wide-ranging interview, Roy Christopher explores media evolution, post-human desire, punk resistance and why the urge to transcend the body may end in annihilation.
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SAVE THE DATE: Join me on July 18th at the 3rd Annual Literary Indulgence Book Festival! Let’s talk media, music, books, stories, and everything in between. I'll be at table 14, and I’d love to see you there! #JaxReads #LiteraryIndulgence #LiteraryIndulgence2026 #LitIndulge2026 💙📚 #booksky
One of the perks of being a writer is being asked by people you like to write about stuff you like. Another one is when people you like write about your stuff. Here are a few recent instances of both: roychristopher.substack.com/p/moving-at-... 💙📚 #booksky
Moving at the Velocity of Reciprocity
Some recent blurbs and mentions
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THE MEDIUM PICTURE did not win a Pulitzer Prize today, but it is on sale for a whopping 60%-off on Amazon for whatever reason, making it about $12! Get yours: www.amazon.com/Medium-Pictu... 💙📚 #booksky
Where the technology is supposed to help us, augmenting our efforts, we let it do the work for us, forgoing our own labor for the work of the machine. 💙📚 #booksky #ai #singularity roychristopher.substack.com/p/the-soft-s...
The Soft Singularity
We're already there.
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