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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 1d

Noted Santa Monica Asshat Still Speaking Even Though Everyone Hates Him

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

As Trump Moves Toward Autocracy, Top Aide Stephen Miller Is Way Ahead Of Him

Trump’s chief propagandist accuses opponents of “insurrection” and attempting a “coup” — while declaring Trump has “plenary authority.”

As Trump Moves Toward Autocracy, Top Aide Stephen Miller Is Way Ahead Of Him

The president’s chief propagandist accuses opponents of “insurrection” and attempting a “coup” — while declaring Trump has “plenary authority.”

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 1d

Really nice advance review of Guardians & Saints at Hey Rhody’s blog, plus details about the launch (so I can see you there)

heyrhody.com/stories/a-ni...

Thanks @heyrhody.bsky.social!

A Night of Stories and Spirits at Riffraff Bookstore & Bar - Hey Rhody Media Co.

History and heartache meet in the pages of Guardians & Saints , the new short story collection from Providence author Diane Josefowicz. Out October 21 from Cornerstone Press, the book explores …

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 3d

Love it.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Well, this is fun: Cards Against Humanity have released a new version where every joke on every card is explained, turning the game into an "Informational product" so it's 100% exempt from Trump's tarriffs: www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

All profits go to the American Library Association. 💥📚

Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs with an edition that explains all the jokes, says 'this holiday season… don’t give Donald Trump a f***ing cent'

For US customers only.

www.pcgamer.com

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · Nov 15

Reminder that while bookshop.org is amazing and you should be directing your online book sales there, I'll echo others and say that for small publishers, one of the most impactful things you can do is buy directly from our website, putting money in our bank account today for operations.

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D. Merrill @terebifunhouse.bsky.social · Aug 12

the interesting thing is that his copy came with a letter from the publisher that basically reads "Hi, this is a complimentary book we published for ABA 1986 while we look for a US publisher or distributor" which in one stroke clears up how and why this thing ever saw print.

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Brian Nicholson @briannicholson.bsky.social · Aug 24

Fantagraphics is having a sale because a major distributor declared bankruptcy and stole their books. If you press like on this post I will recommend you a book or artist I think you'll like based on my impression of your vibe. Reserving the right to recommend the same stuff multiple times

The Fantagraphics “We’ve Been Robbed” Sale - Fantagraphics Blog

A call to action! Fantagraphics is in a legal battle (as part of a coalition of a dozen other publishers) that is stressing our ability to publish the world’s greatest cartoonists, as we have done for...

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you are traveling overseas for a book fair or zine fest, figure out a plan for everything you don't sell. Trade with other publishers, pre-arrange for a store or distributor to take them, or give things to people you like. It's essential to keep things in other countries given the high shipping.

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Tim Walker @twalk.bsky.social · 5d

Raided my @bookshop.org wishlist:

—EDINBURGH and THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT by @alexanderchee.bsky.social b/c it's absurd I don't already own them.

—THE RIDDLE OF THE ROSETTA, coauthored by @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social — great background for a story I'm cooking up.

—The Pinckney memoir as a treat.

The cover of the novel EDINBURGH, by Alexander Chee.

The cover of the novel THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT, by Alexander Chee.

The cover of THE RIDDLE OF THE ROSETTA: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, by Jed Z. Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz.

The cover of COME BACK IN SEPTEMBER: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan, by Darryl Pinckney.

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 5d

Nice to see ROTR on your list. Enjoy!

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 5d

“Never before have we issued a joint public warning like this. But the profound, immediate and unprecedented threat that Kennedy’s policies and positions pose to the nation’s health cannot be ignored.”

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

wapo.st

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 5d

The neighbor’s cat left me a gift 🐭in the garden. Feeling special.

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 5d

Is that. The intern

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 5d

Welp

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d

The fucking hypocrisy of the Trump administration.

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you.

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 6d

Truly it has taken on a life of its own

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 6d

Your thoughts on « Welcome in »?

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Rebecca Bodenheimer @rmbodenheimer.bsky.social · 6d

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 6d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 6d

Virginia Woolf’s work of experimental fiction, The Life of Violet, publishes for the first time on October 7. Learn more about how volume editor Urmila Seshagiri discovered the draft typescript—and how it fits into the Woolf canon—in the @washingtonpost.com:

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 6d

PSA:

If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 6d

For the good of the country, Republican leaders need to start engaging in basic bipartisanship to end the Republican-created health care cost crisis and the widespread misery of this Trump shutdown.

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 6d

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

NPR @npr.org · 6d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 6d

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d

I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul.

“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 6d

The content I am here for

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 8d

"All public high schools and districts can register with The Atlantic to give their students, teachers, and administrators unlimited access to TheAtlantic.com while on campus at no cost: all articles, full magazine issues, podcasts and audio articles, Atlantic Games, and the complete archive."

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