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Sequoia Nagamatsu

@sequoian.bsky.social

Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu@sequoian.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Def excited to hear that this Downton Abbey Lego set got the green light for later in 2026 . . . and I'm def putting the Mr. Bates minifig in the drawer to replicate his multiple season legal troubles. And then throwing Anna in the drawer. And practicing my Maggie Smith voice. 😂

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Sequoia Nagamatsu@sequoian.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Twin Cities folks! Reminder that its one of the big book events of the year tomorrow and this conversation in particular looks like fire 🔥 . . . already armed with both of these books for some fresh author ink.

William Alexander@willalex.bsky.social · 10mo ago

People of Minneapolis and Saint Paul! Join us at the Twin Cities Book Festival on Saturday, where the great @ambersparks.bsky.social and myself will chat about finding family in speculative fiction: twincitiesbookfestival.com/william-alex...

Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · 10mo ago

If you blame migrants collectively for the horrible actions of a few but do not hold white people collectively responsible when white people commit heinous crimes, that's racism. Just saying.

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 10mo ago

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the coverVajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.
Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 11mo ago

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Remember You Will Die traces the lives of artists, activists, scientists, and more as they intersect with the existence of a yearning AI. Eden Robins weaves a polyphonic narrative that is intergenerational, art-filled, and subversive.

A photograph of Eden Robins' novel Remember You Will Die, which rests on a black metal shelf next to a small glass vase full of greenery: red berries, green and white flowers, and a shaggy sprig of foliage.“Profoundly mistrustful of her own legacy, Dante Pellegrino would have hated this belated obituary. But then again, such remembrances are not for the dead at all. They are for the living—the living now and the living to come. Remember us, we whisper into the ears of the future. Our mistakes have made you possible.” from Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins
Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 11mo ago

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Nghi Vo’s latest novel, The City in Glass, is a story about deeply understanding and loving a place, and about the difficult, necessary, meaningful work required to rebuild when one’s world is irrevocably broken.

A copy of The City in Glass by Nghi Vo sits on a black shelf next to a small vase holding four brightly colored flowers. One of them is an orange very close to the orange of the flames on the book cover, which depicts an archway with two statues, behind which a city is in flames.“She had been given nothing. She had taken it, and it was hers to neglect and destroy if she so chose. Her family had learned that much from watching the humans that swarmed the world, that love could be a destructive thing. The angels understood love as destruction. She had chosen a different way to love Azril, and this destruction had nothing to do with her.” from The City in Glass by Nghi Vo
Sequoia Nagamatsu@sequoian.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Schedule today of this 40-something writer/professor: Writing + morning coffee —> Reading Tin House workshop stories -> Downton Abbey movie (we’ve been rewatching the series in prep) —> MFA mentee zoom —> Department service prep —> Prob workshop stories —> MN Lake exercise + reading

NPR@npr.org · 12mo ago

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale takes place in 1930 and is much better than the last Downton movie. Creator Julian Fellowes cuts back on the convoluted plotting and zeroes in on emotional dynamics.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

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Sequoia Nagamatsu@sequoian.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I guess it's #nationaldogday, so here are just a few shots of Fenris. He had a rough start as a puppy (abandoned in the snow in South Dakota and some of his litter mates didn't make it) + lots of training/classes during Covid lockdown (and prob some abandonment issues since he was a Covid puppy).

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John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last yr.

I understand an argument has been made about why to stay on the former Twitter. Here is my counterargument: It's a miserable fucking place run by a fascist catering to fascists, and I've been much happier not being on it, so there

Joy Deva Baglio@joybaglio.bsky.social · last yr.

Looks like I'll definitely be at #AWP26 in Baltimore in March! Three panels accepted, one that I'll be moderating (Speculating the Machine), with some of my favorite writers. Keep us on your radar if you're going to AWP and want to talk dystopias, AI, & teaching genre fiction!

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Sequoia Nagamatsu@sequoian.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm really just looking out my window and not spying on people at my Little Free Library. The one symptom of having an LFL is that you suddenly seem like a creeper every time you glance outside 😂 . . . on the plus side? I live in a neighborhood of avid readers.

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · last yr.

🌟Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction🌟 Layered with history, culture, and folklore, Nalo Hopkinson’s novel about griot-in-training Veycosi is a lush, adventurous feast of possibility and wit.

A copy of Blackheart Man, by Nalo Hopkinson, sits on a black shelf against a white wall next to a vase holding a spray of greenery and berries. “Books get stolen. Get lost. Get burned. When Ymisen came to the lands of Ilife forebears to wage war ’pon them and take them into slavery, they first burned the books. So much knowledge lost! But the song of this book going to live down the generations of the chantwell line that have it memorized. Each person in the line have a different piece of it; melody, harmony, diagrams. Each will pass it down to their generations. It will last forever.” from Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson