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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · 12d

I've enjoyed (and reviewed) Fan Mail, essays and articles by Jason Guriel, new from Vehicule Press. #amreading

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Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe and Mourn, Jason Guriel

There’s a reason I’ve revisited Citizen Kane (including the commentary by Peter Bogdanovitch), listened to the 1966 recording of “River Deep, Mountain High,” and enjoyed a cartoon mashup of Godzill…

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · 12d

I've enjoyed (and reviewed) Fan Mail, essays and articles by Jason Guriel, new from Vehicule Press. #amreading

boydwords.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/f...

Fan Mail: A Guide to What We Love, Loathe and Mourn, Jason Guriel

There’s a reason I’ve revisited Citizen Kane (including the commentary by Peter Bogdanovitch), listened to the 1966 recording of “River Deep, Mountain High,” and enjoyed a cartoon mashup of Godzill…

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Aug 31

Seems I've never mentioned it here: Army of the Brave and Accidental is a modern retelling of The Odyssey reviewed as "timely, original, and profound." #amwriting #novels

cc: @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social

army of the brave and accidental cover with ship at sea

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Aug 29

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new."

Murphy (opening line), Samuel Beckett.

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · Aug 6

Tonight, join Ira Wells, author of ON BOOK BANNING, and several members of Authors Against Book Bans for a lively and timely discussion on censorship and defending the right to read.
This is a free virtual event, hosted by Porter Square Books. Register here: portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

VIRTUAL: Defending the Right to Read: A Conversation with Ira Wells, author of On Book Banning, and Authors Against Book Bans members Fin Leary, Padma Venkatraman, and Josh Cook

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Aug 6

They keep asserting they're going to put AI in everything, including critical, dangerous systems. Meanwhile, AI is like, "sure, eat those yard mushrooms, the word strawberry has 88 Rs, I'm Mecha Hitler, here's Taylor Swift naked when you didn't even ask for it and she has eleven fingers lol"

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Aug 4

I think Michael Giacchino is the best in the business:

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps Main Theme Extended Version (From "The Fantastic Four: First Steps"

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Jul 26

Possibly "ridiculous," given its use now for everything people don't like.

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Jul 16

The HIdden Life of Trees should be required reading.

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Men who cut down Britain's famed Sycamore Gap tree sentenced to more than 4 years in prison | CBC News

Two British men who felled the beloved Sycamore Gap tree that had stood nearly 150 years were sentenced Tuesday to four years and three months in prison, minus time served.

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Jul 15

Going to take a break from not writing any more poetry and go back to not writing any more short fiction.

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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · Jul 9

We at the Review mourn the loss of Fanny Howe (1940-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/YtQzXpd

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Jul 6

"Memory is always more true to the present mind than to the past, always more true to itself than to anything else."

-- Robert Olmstead, Stay Here with Me.

#amreading

Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Jul 1

Of all the terms invented by #SF writers I've seen, I think driving around in a "quibble," is my favourite (from Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick).

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BuriedInPrint @buriedinprint.bsky.social · Jun 25

My #reading friend, Anne, has been into one of the newer books in the Field Notes series from @biblioasis.bsky.social

And I know there are a lot of people here who also want to know more about #bookbanning and #censorship:

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On Book Banning by Ira Wells

Book review and summary of On Book Banning by Ira Wells, published by Biblioasis in 2025. Review by Anne Logan.

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Jun 3

A horror novel set in PEI? Sure, why not. I've reviewed Lowfield by Mark Sampson here:

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Lowfield by Mark Sampson

I have to admit, I didn’t have reading a horror novel set in PEI on my list of things to do for 2025, but I enjoyed Lowfield by Mark Sampson. Riley Fuller is a traumatized officer on leave when he …

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Jun 3

A horror novel set in PEI? Sure, why not. I've reviewed Lowfield by Mark Sampson here:

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Lowfield by Mark Sampson

I have to admit, I didn’t have reading a horror novel set in PEI on my list of things to do for 2025, but I enjoyed Lowfield by Mark Sampson. Riley Fuller is a traumatized officer on leave when he …

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · May 26

"The people who used to ask, “Is it news?” now seem to be asking, “Will it stimulate?” And the change is felt, high and low, throughout the culture."

-- George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone #quote

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · May 17

"Behind what happens
there is that stillness, the wings that wait
the things to try, the wondering, the music."

-- William Stafford #poetry #amreading

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · May 8

I don't know why there's often a new Pope around when there's going to be a new Bond, but someone else can figure that out. 🤪

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Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social · Feb 23

I don't promote my writing very often (ironically because I'm usually busy writing in my spare time), but I'd like to feature my two novels today, THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIENCE and most recently RADIOLAND.

Both are mind-bendy urban literary fiction with generous doses of dark spec blended in.

My two novels laying on nicely art-directed industrial flooring.

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · May 6

"The sublime is the first book to pick the lock of your memory / using nothing more than its words."

-- Chris Banks, Alternator (2023) #poetry #amreading

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · May 6

Just an FYI that is not the right Alex Boyd.

Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Apr 30

"I can't afford to hate people. I haven't got that kind of time."

Ikiru (to live) by Akira Kurosawa is a great film. I'm only sorry I took this long to watch it. Roger Ebert apparently watched it every five years or so. #film

a black and white photo of a man kneeling in front of a fence

ALT: a black and white photo of a man kneeling in front of a fence

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Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social · Apr 9

"I like genre fiction for the same reason I like black-and-white film, stylized dialogue, animation, the paintings of Marc Chagall or ballet: things feel more real if they’re obviously a little fake."

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The Soul Should Not Be Handled | The Point Magazine

This is the first column in a four-part series by B.D. McClay on speculative fiction.

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