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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 1d

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 1d

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.blacksky.app · 1d

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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 2d

you will doubtless be delighted to learn that the Le Guin goat-calling charm from a Wizard of Earthsea ("Noth hierth malk man/hiolk han merth han!" may be a livestock counting-rhyme.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan...

Yan tan tethera - Wikipedia

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 2d

On Spec has long deserved recognition for best semiprozine at the Hugo Awards, but has never even made the ballot because it's Canadian and most Hugo voters are U.S.-based.

2026 will be your final opportunity to nominate an institution that has been an incubator for so much talent.

On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 2d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 4d

A new small press? iN tHiS eCoN0mY / p01i+icAL m0M3nt?!?

YES. We need new homes for new stories. Even now. Especially now.

I love and trust the people behind Homeward Books, and I hope you will join me in backing them.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

Homeward Books: The home for books without a home

Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.

www.kickstarter.com

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Jarrett J. Krosoczka @studiojjk.bsky.social · 3d

So much gratitude.

I’m beyond honored to be the inaugural recipient of the Massachusetts Graphic Novel Award.

Thank you, Mass Center for the Book & Boston Comic Arts Foundation, for all the passionate and hard work.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

I have English family and when I try to explain America they always look--understandably--wildly confused. Like I am exaggerating for effect. I would look the same way. Living here is a constant exercise in bending your concept of reality. Or attempting to resist that bend.

Juliette Rihl @julietterihl.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t usually cover breaking news, but this story is truly wild.

A pastor in central PA brought an AR-15 to church and pointed it at people during his sermon. Gun safety experts and internet commentators are, predictably, not happy!

(Paywall free link below)

www.pennlive.com/news/2025/10...

Dauphin County pastor under fire for pointing assault-style rifle during sermon

In a move experts called a serious safety violation, he pointed the unloaded weapon at churchgoers, while asking for a 'violent action of faith.'

www.pennlive.com

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 2d

Love to see our neighbor and friend Lexi over at High Five in today's Shelf Awareness!

Bookseller Moment: New Book Tuesday & Anti-Prime Day

Posted on Instagram earlier this week by High Five Books, Florence, Mass.: "Today's New Book Tuesday falls on Prime Day, which sure is

www.shelf-awareness.com

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 3d

Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Tommy Orange

Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.

www.macfound.org

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 3d

government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 3d

media of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires

Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 4d

There are no national newspapers or broadcast networks doing straight journalism anymore

The Washington Post & CBS News are now pure billionaire propaganda, and everyone else is sliding down that path

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

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It’s Alive! Barker @kellylink.bsky.social · 4d

Why would I want to give money to Columbia when they just pass it on to the Trump administration? Would be happy to give back my degree, though.

Top of an envelope from Columbia Gift Planning which I have copyedited to more accurately read “Grift Planning”

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 3d

economy of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 4d

1) bookshop.org is offering free shipping today
2) The Naming Song is just out in paperback
3) bookshop.org sells many other excellent books, some with trains, some without
4) I was driving alongside a train for a minute yesterday and it was awesome
5) Thank you

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Naming Song

Check out The Naming Song - A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro. “The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of langu...

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 4d

Carol Emshwiller's great, weird, gentle novel Carmen Dog is always worth re-upping. Consortium are celebrating their 40th anniversary with mini interviews and Lise Solomon's & Bob Harrison's (new to me!) recs are doggone amazing.
Now I get to close 3 tabs, phew.
smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...

Screenshot from Lise's interview with 5 books and covers (titles and authors below):

What are 5 Consortium titles you love and why?

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli (Coffee House Press)
This short book about Valeria Luiselli’s work translating for immigrant children will make you sob on the BART train.

Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller (Small Beer Press)
After learning that former rep Bob Harrison named his dog Carmen for this book, I knew it would be a great read. So true!

I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita (Coffee House Press)
Epic, brilliant blend of real and imagined history of SF Chinatown.

Blue Marlin by Lee Smith (Blair)
I’m not from the South but the family dynamics and life seen through a young teen’s eyes is so perceptive and universal.

Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello (Sarabande Books)
Learned a lot and laughed a ton, damn she is funny.

Kevin Huizenga pencil sketch for the cover — a stage with many people, a dog-headed woman, some more animals, all signing, with some trees and buildings behind and the silhouettes of an audience in front.

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 4d

Ack, so sorry to hear it! Seems like few the processors are coming off well recently. Fingers crossed it all goes ok.

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John Breen’s Body @acab.dad · 5d

This is the image and the alt text that got Link permabanned from Bluesky servers

A reply with an image; alt text reads: 'Charlie Kirk sitting in a white T-shirt that says
"Freedom." A negative consequence follows!

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social · 7d

TOMORROW!

Tachyon 30th Anniversary shindig 12-5 PM #SanFrancisco Public Library.main branch

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

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Readings from @joerlansdale.bsky.social and @samtasticbooks.com

Food! Giveaways! Door Prizes! And other surprises!

#sfpl #tachyon30

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 8d

In other words, I keep telling it hoping to ward others from it and am happy to be used as an example to scare someone into getting vaxxed or masking, etc etc

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 8d

I could not get a review or response to that book, ah well. Gray insisted we use his page design, I love the art, although the typography was fun, too. We got to visit him which was a surreal treat. His books are dark and cutting but playful, too. He was having a lot of fun.

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Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 25d

Schattenfroh aside, there remain so many experimental works by small presses that fly under the radar. E.G: Old Men in Love by the great Alasdair Gray. Pub'd by Small Beer & prob. the most beautiful contemporary book object I own. & it totally disappeared. Other Examples?

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 8d

Always reading, always hoping!

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 8d

Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched
With a woeful agony,
Which forced me to begin my tale;
And then it left me free.

Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns;
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.

I pass, like night, from land to land

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 8d

Benicio recommends:

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 13d

a few small beers

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