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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 11h

If you scroll down and read the "unusual comfort reading" section of my latest newsletter, you'll understand why this Libby notification brings me mixed emotions:

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A screenshot of a Libby app notification that shows the cover of We Do Not Part by Han Kang and the words "Your hold at MELSA: Twin Cities Metro eLibrary is ready to borrow."

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 11h

If you scroll down and read the "unusual comfort reading" section of my latest newsletter, you'll understand why this Libby notification brings me mixed emotions:

buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 11h

An excellent decision!

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 13h

I'm happy for you, but also my condolences if you ever need to move?

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 17h

yep, this and when there are wolves again are making strong cases for me to read sooner rather than later

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 20h

New blog post: on Jordan Prosser's delightfully gonzo debut novel Big Time, which crosses Almost Famous with 1984 and a drug that can make you see the future, and asks: what power does art have during times of fascism? wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2025/10/rece...

Recent Reading: <i>Big Time</i> by Jordan Prosser

There's something almost irresistibly appealing about the musical biopic. It combines melodrama and genuine accomplishment. It conveys profo...

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 1d

"They followed the other car east along the shore past Juan-les-Pins, where the skeleton of the new Casino was rising. It was past four and under a blue-gray sky the first fishing boats were creaking out into a glaucous sea."

A photo of a copy of the 2000 Penguin Classics edition of Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The cover is a black and white photographic portrait of Baba Beaton by Cecil Beaton.

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 2d

I read an advance copy of this today, and it's really great

The #gothic studies you have been waiting for

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Excellent

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

_Heirs, heiresses, princes, and princesses all feature in October's 22 new romantasy titles._

apparently my agitating* for romance that focuses on pairings who both come from a working class/artisan/creative class/activist background isn't going so well

*mentioning it on bsky from time to time

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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 1d

Took me a while to get through this episode (two hours!), but this is a great set of interviews with some of the people behind the current incarnation of SH (including Gautam)

Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 6d

For @strangehorizons.bsky.social 25th anniversary, I spoke about my (almost) decade at the magazine, its anarchic nature, changes in the genre space, editing SFF non-fiction, and how the extractivism special issue came to be imagined (starts at 1 hr 24 mins):

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Celebrating 25 Years with The Strange Horizons Editorial Collective

In this special episode of Strange Horizons at 25, Senior Podcast Editor Kat Kourbeti and Editor Michael Ireland welcome current members of the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective for a series of…

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

I had the exact same experience.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

valid!

the key is the creamy with the crunch

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

The more difficult question but probably the way to answer this is what’s the difference between a short novel and a novella. For example, The Great Gatsby is a short novel and Billy Budd is a novella.

I’d have to think more about why that’s the case.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

The answer to that is outside the scope of what can be accomplished in a bsky conversation and is somewhat answered in the link to the newsletter edition (or at least that’s a good starting point).

And, ofc, it’s a fuzzy set.

One answer I have is if polyphony is present, it’s a novel.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

If I’m seeing pepitas and goat cheese, then that’s a winning combination.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 2d

Yes, I published a collection of short stories last week.

But I also wrote about the format of Jameson’s Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory.

Scroll down to the third item: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...

my story collection, unusual comfort reading, jameson

WHM's new story collection plus thoughts on Han Kang and M. John Harrison and a first look at Mimesis, Expression, Construction.

buttondown.com

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 2d

I looked it up online after watching the episode, and the way it was described for us Yankees was as a sort of granola bar, and I feel like that’s not doing justice to what we saw at all.

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 2d

Yes, I published a collection of short stories last week.

But I also wrote about the format of Jameson’s Mimesis, Expression, Construction: Fredric Jameson's Seminar on Aesthetic Theory.

Scroll down to the third item: buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...

my story collection, unusual comfort reading, jameson

WHM's new story collection plus thoughts on Han Kang and M. John Harrison and a first look at Mimesis, Expression, Construction.

buttondown.com

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 2d

I was so confused!

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 2d

Understood!

If you get into woodworking, then you can justify the sharp-edged tools and also go down the stains and polish path.

A good, no-risk* hobby is healthy for folks.

* meaning you have no prestige or potential for money bound up in it (so not writing [me] or photography/writing [you])

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 2d

It could be worse: it could be synths (like me—although I keep things fairly contained) or model trains (cool but endless and takes up so much space) or pewter figurines or something. Pocket knives and multitools are cool, useful, and not that expensive.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 2d

My daughter is a bit older than Mike’s kids, but this characterizes her and her friends as well.

She has an Instagram where she follows a handful of artists and musicians, but that’s it. Everything else is closed settings, including shared Pinterest boards (rather than using Tumblr).

Mike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 2d

However, despite the fact that they do not use social media in a "social" sense, all of my kids are highly social online with their peers. It's just that they socialize in closed settings like Discord, group texts, FaceTime groups, and gaming voice chats.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 2d

I prefer not to

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 2d

Same!