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Justin Seitz @justinseitz.bsky.social · 6d

Come get a tiny bit weird! With a mention to @leilataylor.bsky.social 's awesome book Sick Houses!

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For the Weekend Warriors, Weirdos & Whackjobs - Issue #98

Cloudy with a chance of curious

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

Jane Goodall died on Wednesday at 91 after a life spent revolutionizing the study of primates and then bringing her global fame to the cause of conservation.

Here are snapshots from her life and career.

Jane Goodall: A Life in Pictures

The primatologist gained scientific acclaim for her work with chimpanzees and then later used her fame to champion conservation.

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Leila Taylor @leilataylor.bsky.social · 11d

Also I got a cat! Introducing Miss Purrleen Mouse aka Mousie. She's really into this bag from Marshall'shjgewo(
Ko9p0... that was her walking across my laptop. As I was saying she really loves this bag.

Grey cat with yellow eyes poking her head out of a red shopping bag.

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Leila Taylor @leilataylor.bsky.social · 11d

So excited to be reading with some excellent company at @rallyreading.bsky.social‬ This Thursday at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn.

Book covers: "In Open Contempt" by Irvin Weathersby Jr., "Sick Houses" by Leila Taylor, and "Defiant Acts" by James Stewart III. Rally Reading Series. Pete's Candy Store, Oct.2nd, 7pm

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 13d

Dears! We have an amazing lineup of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION tour stops starting next week! We begin @astoriabookshop.bsky.social on release day, 9/30 with the inimitable @leilataylor.bsky.social! RSVP here, NYC! 🖤
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AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes, in conversation w/ Leila Taylor | Astoria Bookshop

Books of all kinds for readers of all ages, located in central Astoria, Queens. Established 2013.

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 22d

9/30! Launch Day! Join us at the lovely @astoriabookshop.bsky.social where we'll be in conversation with one of our favorite authors, @leilataylor.bsky.social, so you can get AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC signed at the same time as Leila's latest, SICK HOUSES, which makes an amazing pairing:
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Astoria Bookshop @astoriabookshop.bsky.social · 22d

Coming up:
9/18: @lisaspringer.bsky.social
9/21: @ariekaplan.bsky.social
9/24: Hidden Gems book club
9/29: @megjoneswall.bsky.social
9/30 am: @nicoleharoutunian.bsky.social with Barrie Miskin
9/30 pm: @leannareneehieber.bsky.social & @andreajanes.bsky.social
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Upcoming Events at the Astoria Bookshop 📚

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Eternal Clarkness: Sanity's Requiem @justinofclark.bsky.social · 29d

A tragedy has occurred today.

Please, let us mourn one of our best, taken from us too soon.

Maru the Box-Loving Cat, Once the Most Viewed Animal on YouTube, Dies at 18

Maru the cat, a Scottish Fold feline, died at the age of 18 following a decline in health and a cancer diagnosis. The feline is famous for squeezing into boxes, antics that were documented in popular ...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · Sep 9

Fifteenth-century handwriting as seen in The History of Ink (1860), a book including beautiful samples of penmanship from 1500 BC to 1834 AD: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-history-of-ink-including-its-etymology-chemistry-and-bibliography-1860

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Leila Taylor @leilataylor.bsky.social · Sep 8

I never thought I’d see his name and Drexcyia in the same sentence but apparently even imagining a world where the slave trade never happened is un-American.

Trump criticises Smithsonian over Drexciya-inspired Afrofuturism exhibition

The White House listed the exhibition as an example of "anti-American propaganda" for its depiction of an Afrofuturist utopia populated by the descendants of slaves

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Leila Taylor @leilataylor.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s opening day at Twisted Spine, NYC’s first horror bookstore, and the line is all the way down the block! Faith in humanity restored. 🖤📚🦇

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Justin Seitz @justinseitz.bsky.social · Aug 10

@leilataylor.bsky.social Sick Houses is so freaking insightful, witty, cutting, deeply researched and I cannot put it down. I love this book!

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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · Aug 9

Starting Wednesday season 2 reminded me (bc I do think an aesthetically amazing show that didn’t have bad politics is possible, but probably not with Tim Burton) of @leilataylor.bsky.social’s amazing book, “Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609185...

Darkly by Leila Taylor: 9781912248544 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats unde...

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg @shelaghrowanlegg.bsky.social · Aug 11

recently announced: THE FILMS OF LARRY FESSENDEN VOLUME 1, from @vinsyn.bsky.social , featuring some incredible exras, including an audio comentary on HABIT with me and the amazing @leilataylor.bsky.social . Now available to preorder! vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

The Films of Larry Fessenden: Volume 1 - Habit & No Telling

2025 Subscribers: This is included in your subscription package. This special limited edition 4-disc, 2 x 4K UHD/2 x Blu-ray, set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + dual slipcover combo (designed

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · Jul 30

My latest @bookriot.bsky.social post is live, in which I talk about @leilataylor.bsky.social's magnificent book Sick Houses: Haunted Homes & The Architecture of Dread.

Add this book to your TBR asap!

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The Vibes Are Off: Horror and Foreboding Architecture

We've all come across a room, house, or building that gave off bad vibes. This book is a fascinating look about the architecture of dread.

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Alex Land @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social · Jul 19

If you’ve ever wanted to read a book about a Palestinian haunted house that fights back against its occupiers—and the three generations of Palestinian women who are connected to it—then be on the lookout for Deena Helm’s debut!

Coming to you in Sept 2026 from Tor Nightfire! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

A deal announcement for OUR CUT OF SALT by Deena Helm

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Leila Taylor @leilataylor.bsky.social · Jul 17

Check out this fantastic interview with @nkjemisin.bsky.social on the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social podcast Borrowed & Returned!

N.K. Jemisin on Truth, Education, and Speculation

Podcast Episode · Borrowed & Returned · S9, E2 Bonus · 21m

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Jul 15

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it"
@hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food

Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

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Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · Jul 4

“It is the Fourth of July and it is summer in America, goddammit.

It is summer in America and everywhere you look you see people in denial. You are waiting for someone to turn the boat around.”

- @eccantwell.bsky.social

Jaws (1975): It’s Only An Island If You Look At It From The Water

It is summer in America and everywhere you look you see people in denial. You are waiting for someone to turn the boat around.

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Dominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · Jul 4

Published today in the UK!
(a couple of months later here in the US)
. . .
Notable perhaps - given the date today, and the headlines - that it includes a chapter discussing how we are all being ghosted by our so-called elected representatives and civic leaders.

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

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION launches 9/30 via @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social!
9/30 night, @andreajanes.bsky.social & yours truly talk with the amazing @leilataylor.bsky.social at @astoriabookshop.bsky.social!
See you there, NYC!
Let's sign spooky books together! 🖤

From the authors of A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN comes AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes. The book cover features a teal background with a central haunted house (typical Gothic, mansard roof, eerily lit interior, surrounded by encroaching mist and overgrowing forest.) The text is in white script and the subtitle in a rich goldenrod yellow that mirrors the filigree detailing and quatrefoil corner pieces of gothic detailing around the edges.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Jul 2

Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT

Old cartoons of black people being used as alligator bait

"Seems like a good time to mention that white supremacists have had a long standing fixation with alligators eating Black and Brown people. This isn't new and it's not about 'illegal immigration.'"

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Leila Taylor @leilataylor.bsky.social · Jun 30

There’s a reason I say I was technically born in Ohio but I’m not “from” there.

Shane💀Blackheart (they/them) @shaneblackheart.com · Jun 27

A very scary bill just passed in Ohio for transgender folks. No one but local LGBTQ+ orgs are talking about it.

First, Ohio is only recognizing sex assigned at birth, male or female. You can get in trouble for stating otherwise on documents, I imagine. I may need to change my state ID back. 1/5

Sec. 9.05. (A) As used in the Revised Code:
(1) "Boy" means a juvenile human male.
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(2) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large
reproductive cell.
(3) "Gender identity" means an individual's internal and subjective sense of self,
disconnected from biological reality and sex and existing on an infinite continuum, that does not
provide a meaningful basis for identification and cannot be recognized as a replacement for sex.
(4) "Girl" means a juvenile human female.
(5) "Male" means an individual belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small
reproductive cell.
(6) "Man" means an adult human male.
(7) "Sex" means the biological indication of male and female, including sex chromosomes,
naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present
at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender.
(8) "Woman" means an adult human female.
(B) It is the policy of the state of Ohio to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes
are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jun 25

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · Jun 23

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 100 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

Andry José Hernández Romero & a makeup client.

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Society for the Study of the American Gothic @ssag.bsky.social · Jun 23

CFP: Call For Proposals: Gothic Blackness: Exploring Ethnogothic, New Black Gothic, and Afro-Gothic Themes in Literature, Film, and Culture

Special Issue of American Gothic Studies
Guest Editor: Dr. DeAnna Daniels, University of Arizona
Proposals due 8/15/25, with essays due 2/1/26

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