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Miriam Gershow

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Writer w FOMO. CLOSER (Regal House). SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). www.miriamgershow.com 📚💙 Wrangling “100 Notable Small Press Books 2025” into existence. #100smallpress

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · Jun 3

Ahhhhhh CLOSER is @bookshop.org STAFF PICK on pub day! A joy! A delight!

Support your local indie and buy CLOSER from bookshop. bookshop.org/p/books/clos...

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 23h

How to be an informed, pro-library, anti-book ban voter in upcoming fall elections (if you have them) and well into the future.

Don't just celebrate banned books. Don't just read banned books. VOTE to support the democratic institutions creating access to them.

bookriot.com/library-elec...

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

bookriot.com

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 10h

I NEVER have fomo for AWP. This news, however…

Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 11h

So sharp and sad and funny. Pitch perfect @kathyfish.bsky.social.

Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 1d

Parenting while Gen X is a
trip bc I was a feral roaming
kid of the 70s & 80s & now I tell my teen things like “you can skip classes if you have all your work done & you let me know before school does” & he sends me texts like this one & it’s so quaint & cute, I can barely stand it.

Screen shot of texts:

Teen: We have one of the stupid study hall advisory things and I’m caught up on everything so I’m going to Safeway

Me: Ok. Thanks for telling me.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 2d

No you don't!!

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Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social · 5d

Reading and reviewing for the #100smallpress project was a thrill. I already knew small presses were publishing interesting, adventurous, important books, but this project solidified that. Watch for the list of 100 Notable Small Press Books on Dec 1st in Lithub.

image announcing the 100 Notable Small Press Books will be published in Lithub on December 1

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 2d

Oregon

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 2d

Let us forget the elaborate scam part (a zillion episode HBO docuseries) and wax nostalgic on the peely little pieces.

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Caitlin Annette Johnson @caitlinannette.bsky.social · 2d

PERSUASION x SUCCESSION but make it LESBIAN.
Annie: black sheep hidden away for a decade, now her Senator Dad's newest prop. Freddie: her dreaded ex and the campaign's progressive savior. Politics meets second chances. And Annie just might meet herself in the process.
#DVPit #A #CR #OWN #LGBT #DIS

Promotional image for "Lesbian Persuasion" featuring a bird in a classical painting with an ornate gold frame containing a book excerpt.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 2d

The kid and I regularly get nostalgic for those pre-Covid Monopoly tiles.

Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 2d

Protect Dolly at all costs.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 2d

Remember when I vowed not to spend money on new books during sabbatical? Ahahahahahah.

All it means is I have a sky high stack of well-intentioned library books alongside my sky high stack of new books in dueling tbr piles.

$81 and counting currently in my cart at @bookshop.org

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 2d

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 2d

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 2d

❤️❤️❤️

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 5d

Adorable abode!

Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 5d

the way all of msm and other social apps are doo-doodelee-dooing through a fascist onslaught makes my bsky feed increasingly urgent & increasingly terrifying

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Brandonomicon Ex Mortis (Brandon Seifert) @brandonseifert.info · 5d

I actually live in Portland, and there are no actual socialists in charge here, @nytimes.com. I'd say "do better," but you don't seem to be interested in that. 🥲

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

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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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 5d

Fifty-seven more sleeps before #100smallpress drops Dec. 1 on LitHub! I read some marvelous books for this project, spearheaded by @miriamgershow.bsky.social. Looking forward to the full list!

The #100notablesmallpressbooks list is coming Dec. 1, 2025.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 6d

i hope the democrats see that there is no working with these people. it really does need to be pens down. file court cases, lie down in the street, but theres no getting back to the business of washington or whatever. it's all on fire, act accordingly

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Amalia Gladhart @amaliag.bsky.social · 6d

Watch for #100smallpress Dec. 1 on LitHub. I read some terrific books this year, look forward to seeing the full list. @miriamgershow.bsky.social

Graphic of a stack of books, spines out, announcing the December 1st release of 2025 100 Notable Small Press Books list.

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Librarian Emeritus @librarianemeritus.bsky.social · 9d

Finishing up work for Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress and looking back on some of the picture books I read, including There Doesn’t Have to be a Reason by MC Kasper @catalystpress.bsky.social (animal facts + body positivity = cute story).

Image of children's picture book titled There Doesn't Have to be a Reason by MC Kasper. A cartoon bear is sitting on the ground facing away so the bear's back and tail are shown. The bear's head is turned and it is looking over its shoulder towards the viewer with a small smile. The bear is also waving its left paw. The smile and the wave make the bear seem friendly.

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