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Aarthi Vadde @aarthivadde.bsky.social · Mar 21

Novel Dialogue (the official podcast of SNS) is back with Season 9: TECH. We have a great lineup of novelists and critics ready to help you make sense of these senseless times. @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social, @rosecasey.bsky.social, @lizmiller.bsky.social, @vauhinivara.bsky.social, and more!

A poster listing the dates and guests on the podcast, including Ken Liu, Rose Casey, Lauren Beukes, Andrew Pepper, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Miller, Fernanda Trias, Heather Cleary, Vauhini Vara, Aarthi Vadde, Alvaro Enrigue and Maia Gil'Adi

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Dec 19

“People never really run away from anything.”

A white cat peeks out from behind a lamp in front of a shelf of colorful books.

A film still from Hitchcock’s Psycho in which Norman Bates peeks out from a window.

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Nov 25

Perfection! Also hearing it every day chez moi…

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Nov 25

It’s a great day to make new friends 😹

A tabby cat stands on his hind legs to look at a white British short hair who is sitting on a table and hissing.

Close up of the hissing cat with her eyes closed, ears back, and mouth open.

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Nov 17

Hooray hooray for YOU! Also I don’t think self-promotion is cringey, but don’t get me started on the humble brag…

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Nov 16

I got to write about things I like: Freud, 80s computers, and @katemarshall.bsky.social's treatment of genre. Plus one I dislike: academic trend.

Check out the whole "interlocutions" cluster, also featuring @ericafretwell.bsky.social and Thomas Constantinesco.

academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

Lost and Found: Alien as Object, Unconscious as Method

Abstract. In a little-known essay, Freud defines “transience value” as “scarcity value in time.” This essay draws upon this strange formulation to explore

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Nov 16

I was so happy to find you!! It’s not a social medium if it doesn’t have Claus 💕

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Nov 15

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Nov 15

Happy to see everyone here!! I’m very bad at clever content so please enjoy my cat in his new donut bed.

A smug looking tabby sitting in a large, very fluffy, white, circular cat bed.

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Nov 14

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Dec 24

Congrats!! 🥳 I’m very excited to read this!

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Dec 12

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Oct 10

Absolutely f*cking tremendous essay. Thank you for writing this.

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Oct 10

I would hit the sauna/spa at either Titus Thermen or Taunus Therme!

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Oct 10

Aliens and aliens and aliens!!! @katemarshall.bsky.social 👾💜👾

A tabby cat sits on the floor with a green alien toy and a copy of Kate Marshall’s book, Novels by Aliens.

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Oct 9

Trudee says “five out of five smells”

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Oct 9

It’s here!!! Big fiction for big gurls, by @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social.

A lorge tuxedo cat sniffs the book BIG FICTION by Dan Sinykin

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Oct 3

Today in research and writing:

A still from the 1984 movie, Electric Dreams. A PC is in the foreground with LOVE written repeatedly across its monitor screen.

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Oct 3

For this Monday? More like

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Sep 25

Oh no, poor you! Feel better soon 🍲

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Sep 25

I am so excited to read this!! Have you come across this book? I think it could be helpful, if mostly just for the way it lays out the contours of ambivalence in Freud and Lacan. www.routledge.com/Psychoanalys...

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Sep 25

@jshelat1.bsky.social would say candy corn is also good in March 🤮

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Sep 25

T-minus five days until submissions are due. Come teach @mitchrmurray.bsky.social and me about the 👻👻👻 in the contemporary!
www.acla.org/forgotten-fo...

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Sep 21

WE'RE BACK! And this season we're weeeeird. Look out for a special drop later today, featuring the brilliant @katemarshall.bsky.social! 👀👽

Poster featuring the season six lineup for the Novel Dialogue podcast

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Sarah Wasserman @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social · Sep 20

Cross-posting non-sh*t news from the sh*t place:
It's a beautiful day to pre-order some books!
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @alexandermanshel.bsky.social @pdabashi.bsky.social @katemarshall.bsky.social

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