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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 15h

She once pulled out a folding ashtray to collect our cigarette ashes while we were outside a restaurant in San Diego. She was so fun that evening.

Two-thirds God, One-third Man @shawnaldridge.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to Rumiko Takahashi. Prob my favorite mangaka.

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 16h

Ooh, that's good Shakespeare, that.

Petepeterepeat @petepeterepeat.bsky.social · 1d

Cry Ribbit and let slip the frogs of war

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 1d

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 16h

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship truthout.org/audio/holdin...

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

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CHARIOT Marketing Solutions @chariotmarketing.bsky.social · 21h

Good morning, commuters of Morristown New Jersey! Now through [marketing] you can know about helpful safe 100% fiction PERSONA. Obtain at littlepuss.net/persona-pre-order

Happy trails! We’re with you, every step of the way

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 20h

Interior image from, 'It's Time to Lend a Hand,' ISBN 9781772275797.

Three people and a dog are picking berries by the sea.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

This is hilarious

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

I read this and yeah, give it a read. Uff.

LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 1d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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pilot @pilotv.bsky.social · 1d

someone has to let NBA players know how much more interesting they'd be if they started dating each other

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

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Communiqué: 4 National Book Award Finalists, Top Comics, and Dark Academia

+ sweetly spooky stories and a Schattenfroh readers' guide Header image from Vampires at Sea by Lindsay Merbaum (Creature Publishing, October 2025). Hot News This Week October 9, 2025 Four titles from...

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

I was in Selfridges long ago and over the PA they announced a book signing. People said, 'Ooh!' and then they said it was Jeffrey Archer and people groaned. I was a loud American tourist at the time so just cracked up...loudly.

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

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CMYK Books: Ancient & Modern Rome, Ghanaian Funeral Culture, The American South

+ A Look at HBCUs, Family Resilience, and A Cult Classic Re-Issued The October issue begins with Trope Rome, the latest in Trope’s City Edition series, focusing on the history of one of the world’s mo...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Wahey!
Nova Scotia House shortlisted.
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Nova Scotia House

The Goldsmiths Prize was established in 2013 to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the University and to reward fiction that breaks the mould or opens up new possibilities for ...

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

These two are sooooo good and are great beyond Halloween!

PGC Books @pgcbooks.bsky.social · 1d

This week's slightly spooky newsletter for booksellers is all about new picture books for Halloween...

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The Grumpy Ghost Upstairs by Mamiko Shiotani
Floris 9781782509264
Hardcover Picture Book
3-6 years
36 pages

A grumpy little ghost makes a new friend in this wryly funny, spooky-but-cute picture book with striking illustrations

The Slightly Spooky Tale of Fox and Mole by Cecilia Heikkila
Floris 9781782509530 | Hardcover Picture Book
4-7 years
44 pages

Fox and Mole find a spooky story spilling into their lives in this autumnal tale for older picture-book readers.

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

I remember a high school teacher was big on it, so, yeah?

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

My grandmother told me how her school had a farewell assembly for the Japanese American students going to the camps, and how she just cried the whole time as her best friend was going.

Shit.

Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2d

My dog is going to be a baseball widow for a while longer. The sighs are almost as loud as my running around the house cheering.

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2d

Ramen thinks you have food for him.

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2d

I've wanted that house since Kindergarten.

Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 3d

Vincent Prices head superimposed over the titular house from the movie house and haunted hill. Text reads "there will be food and drink and ghosts"

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2d

Wahey!

Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 2d

🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to Omar Khalifah and translator Barbara Romaine on being shortlisted for the 2025 National Translation Awards!!! #ALTA @littranslate.bsky.social

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Strand Bookstore @strandbookstore.bsky.social · 2d

Charco Press is one of our absolute favorite indie presses, focused on publishing new translations of literature from Latin America. Enjoy some of our favorites from this small press, with one liners written by our ever witty book buyer, Cristin.
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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2d

There is a lot of good new stuff out there, too, and from folks who have bills to pay!

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2d

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‘Somerset saved my sanity’: Don McCullin at 90 – in pictures

Don McCullin spent decades photographing war and carnage across the globe – then he retrained his lens on the Somerset countryside. As he turns 90, a new book celebrates his gorgeous still lifes and l...

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2d

‘Hey, the lady in that photo looks like…’
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Concerns about noise, trash, safety at bar and grill – MyNortheaster.com

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