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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 2h

Oliver Sacks doesn't seem real. What do you mean if I'd been born a bit eariler, there's a chance my neurologist could have been a neurodivergent muscle bear who rode a motorcycle and wrote both compassionate case studies of his patients and breezily funny anecdotes about the time he had the DTs

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 3h

I think the hype is real! Have you read any of her previous work? I’d love to get my hands on some of her poetry.

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Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 6h

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 3h

How has Olga Ravn written not one (The Employees) but two (The Wax Child) of my favourite 21st century reads? She is so talented. I had passed on My Work but I might pick it up! #booksky #translatedliterature

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Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social · 1d

“Welcome to the Club” focuses on a woman in crisis, as she tries to drown herself, fails, and returns home to prepare lunch for her family. Putting on dry clothes & hiding the suicide notes, she views her surroundings with an eerie sense of unreality, until a neighbour makes a disquieting remark.

GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES by Samanta Schweblin.

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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social · 1d

A story in Helen McClory's collection, "Lore," creeped me out so much I still remembered it years after I read it. It's in her wonderful collection, MAYHEM & DEATH. It's available at 404 Ink if you're in the UK.
@helenmcclory.bsky.social @404ink.bsky.social

Mayhem & Death - Helen McClory — 404 Ink

‘A writer completely unafraid’ - Ali Smith | ‘Shiny dark licorice mind candy’ - Margaret Atwood

www.404ink.com

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 16h

I love it when poets write novels.

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Yessssss

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 1d

New Mieko Kawakami novel coming next year: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/735249...

Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami | Penguin Random House Canada

Rising star Mieko Kawakami reaches new heights in this pacy, thrilling novel, a Japanese Breaking Bad, in which a group of friends fight for freedom, independence, and survival in Tokyo of the 1990s, ...

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 1d

“I think I love her with that part of me that is never illuminated.” Olga Ravn, The Wax Child

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Heather J. "Witchy" Wood🧙‍♀️ @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 1d

Hamilton Review of Books: 30 Halloween reads🎃 #CanLit
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The Grimoire: 30 Spine-tingling Titles for Halloween 2025, Part 2 — Hamilton Review of Books

In Part 2 of this year’s roundup of spine-tingling titles for Halloween 2025, we bring you anthropological vampires, family demons, cannibalism, witchcraft, persecution, science gone wrong, bunnies, a...

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 1d

Yessssss

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deb the jovial ♐♃ @sunoppositemoon.blacksky.app · 1d

I don't really fangirl over anyone, but Hayley Williams definitely crossed into some new portal with her new album. This is her performing "True Believer" and look what she has on her electric piano. youtu.be/sNNYei__joU...

Hayley Williams: True Believer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 2d

I translate books from Korean into English. I was shortlisted for and later judged the International Booker Prize. I have thirteen (?) books scheduled to be published over the next three years.

Next up is CAPITALISTS MUST STARVE by Park Seolyeon, for which I am touring the UK later this month.

A stack of copies for Capitalists Must Starve at a bookstore

Catch
Park Seolyeon and Anton Hur on their North-South
UK tour!
A TATED ANS PRESE
Capitalists
Must
Starve
A NONEL.
Scolycon
18/10
→ Wimbledon Book
Festival, London

25/10
→ Mount Florida Books,
Glasgow
19/10
→ ESEA Lit Fest at Cheltenham
Literature Festival's
VOICEBOX

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→ Breakfast meet-and-greet at Lighthouse, Edinburgh
→ with In Other Words

21/10 → Launch party
at Roundtable Books, London

27/10
at Tills Bookshop, Edinburgh
→ House of Books
22/10
→ Juno Bookshop, Sheffield

& Friends, Manchester
24/10
→ Topping & Company
Booksellers, Edinburgh

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 2d

Tickets to the Blue Jays ALCS games are now starting at around $700 resale, so I guess I'll be tunnelling my way in via right field like some sort of baseball-loving mole

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LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favourite books I’ve read this year and already has an impact on my politics.
“Not only does Canada have a colonial history, it has a colonial present. Perhaps there is still time to prevent Canada from having a colonial future.”- @shipster.bsky.social.

LiamMcIntosh He/Him 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @liammci.bsky.social · 23d

#NowReading: By @shipster.bsky.social. Admittedly I’ve been meaning to read this for a while but have been intimidated by the possibility of me being not smart enough.

Book: Canada in the World: Settler Colonialism and the Colonial Imagination by Tyler Shipley.

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 2d

Amal El-Mohtar has a short story collection coming out next year, Seasons of Glass and Iron, that I’m really looking forward to!

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 2d

It’s such a wonderful, special novella.

Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 2d

Ever read something and fall into dark despair because you will never ever ever be able to write something like that?

In related news I just finished up Amal El-Mohtar's THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, available from Barnes & Noble and other retailers:

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-river-...

The River Has Roots|Hardcover

AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARYREADS PICK!The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to th...

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 2d

October is the best month. 👻

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Granite Man @granitedhuine.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not antisocial, I’m selectively social and the selection process is now closed.

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being told you’re significantly less charming than Megan McCain.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 3d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 3d

A haunted house but it’s just someone saying “Let’s go around the room and share one fun fact about ourselves.”

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 3d

After the sad demise of Dead Reckonings the team at @whatsleepsbeneath.com were kind enough to offer some of my older reviews a new home. I’ve just noticed that this one for the excellent Women’s Weird is now up on the site!

www.whatsleepsbeneath.com/archive/wome...

@melissae.bsky.social #weird

[Book Review] ‘Women’s Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890–1940’

Think of weird fiction and, probably without even realizing it, you will think of one thing: men. Whether it’s H. P. Lovecraft’s tentacled monstrosities, the decadent necromancies of Clark Ashton Smit...

www.whatsleepsbeneath.com

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 3d

I LOVED Weapons. I thought I’d fallen out of love with horror movies.

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 4d

I am ready for Halloween.

A t shirt with a graphic of a black cat sitting on a pumpkin

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 4d

I read both Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This and Saeed Teebi’s You Will Not Kill Our Imagination this year and I don’t know how you can’t be transformed after reading those books. I really don’t. I want to send them to my elected representatives. Free Palestine.

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