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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 4h

I think I have said this here before but one of the many things about this campaign that gives me hope is the focus on history. Also, behold the absolute demolishing of any notion that trans rights and the rights of the working class are somehow opposed or even distinct.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 21h

❤️❤️❤️❤️

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 22h

Thanks boss 🫡🍻🤘

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 22h

Thanks homie ❤️🍻🫂

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 22h

It’s a Fall Friday, my dudes. Grateful to be walking through the October Country.

Friendly reminder I’ve got two books that are still good. Haven’t rotted out yet, still very much in season

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

Oh, I haven't thought about this one in a long while, but it's so special

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

Congrats, bud 🍻🍻🍻

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 1d

This store is pure magic, and so are the incredible talents who run it! What a wonderful place to be!! 😍 We even had a ghost in attendance; a lovely (but empty) rocking chair began to rock of its own accord! Definitely visit this *spirited* store!

Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE event and book signing tonight. Leanna is a force of nature, making dark history come alive through a passionate understanding and appreciation of the gothic tradition. Thank you Leanna & thank you to everyone who took part tonight ❤️

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

John Carpenter’s Mystic Pizza

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

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

John Carpenter’s Lawrence of Arabia

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

Leanna is wonderful and you should buy her & Andrea’s book yesterday because it’s fascinating and fun in equal measure. Genre study, folklore & history retelling, personal essay, ghost stories and tour guides all in one

Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for the INCREDIBLE event and book signing tonight. Leanna is a force of nature, making dark history come alive through a passionate understanding and appreciation of the gothic tradition. Thank you Leanna & thank you to everyone who took part tonight ❤️

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

Reposting for the afternoon people, the middle-day-walkers: I got a newsletter now and a little story to go with it, check it out

John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

I've decided I'm gonna give a newsletter a proper go again on Buttondown as I try to structure my life around consistent literary work + the store. To celebrate I've got a new flash fiction story about men who make TikTok skits about their exes not appreciating them:
buttondown.com/chrostek/arc...

Tokyo Drifting Into Your Inbox (With A Fun Little Short Story At The End As A Treat)

What’s good, pals? I’ve decided to do a newsletter. Like all things with me, it will be sporadic, unorganized, likely infrequent but full of grit and...

buttondown.com

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

LATHE OF HEAVEN is in my DNA, I don't know if FEAST could have come out of me without it. Le Guin forever

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 2d

Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it.

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

the children (me) yearn for the mines (developing new habits that enable a rich, full life)

John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

I've decided I'm gonna give a newsletter a proper go again on Buttondown as I try to structure my life around consistent literary work + the store. To celebrate I've got a new flash fiction story about men who make TikTok skits about their exes not appreciating them:
buttondown.com/chrostek/arc...

Tokyo Drifting Into Your Inbox (With A Fun Little Short Story At The End As A Treat)

What’s good, pals? I’ve decided to do a newsletter. Like all things with me, it will be sporadic, unorganized, likely infrequent but full of grit and...

buttondown.com

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

oh absolutely

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

okay what if we gave them large extendable solar panel wings so they looked like metal cherubim sailing across the highways, that'd be sick

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

yearn for a future where we can primarily use tiny electric buggies to zip around in like they do elsewhere

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

"The poet must not avert his eyes"
-Werner Herzog

real ones love dogshit and divinity

Werner Herzog's bizarre love for WrestleMania

Werner Herzog's not exactly the first guy you'd associate with an interest in pro-wrestling, yet he's spoken of his bizarre love for WrestleMania a few times.

faroutmagazine.co.uk

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2d

Dearest Buffalo, NY! Tonight!
Let's talk Gothic tropes and Ghost Stories! They have A LOT in common and I have THOUGHTS for you!
(and my own personal ghost stories to share)
Let's go!!! 👻

Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 4d

REMINDER:
This Thursday night in Downtown Buffalo, we've got a book signing & literary chat with @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC! Come hang out, grab a book and set your October up right with gothic history & good vibes:
eveninghousebooks.com/event/leanna...

Leanna Renee Hieber Book Signing & Author Talk - Evening House Books

Come hear from haunted NYC guide and historian Leanna Renee Hieber, who will be discussing her latest nonfiction title, AMERICA’S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION. […]

eveninghousebooks.com

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Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.social · 2d

GET IN, LOSER! We are sinking under the accumulated weight of centuries of misrule over Central Europe that has produced a mindset both cravenly supplicant and splenetically hostile.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

The author was announced as winner at a ceremony in Stockholm • Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’ The Nobel prize in literature for 2025 has been awarded to Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, the Swedish Academy has announced. The Academy cited the 71-year-old’s “compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. Continue reading...

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

We saw!! Between that and their big focus on North Sun and We Were Green and Trembling Amanda's been pre-selecting a lot of winners this year :D

Thanks for always being so sweet, Teresa, this put a big smile on both our faces

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 3d

As a writer, I don’t consider myself in competition with anyone outside of a hypothetical variant of me that lives in my head and is a better writer than me and is a fucking asshole about it

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 3d

Window Boy is really something special, had the same reaction lol

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 3d

It is very rad that bookshop is doing free shipping, and hell, you can pick up FEAST for 15 bucks if you've been hungry for this odd ass book:
bookshop.org/p/books/feas...

Feast of the Pale Leviathan

Check out Feast of the Pale Leviathan - <p>A man falls asleep on a river raft tube and drifts out to sea, where he is found and devoured by a titan of unbelievable size. But rather than death, what Ow...

bookshop.org

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