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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 6d

That compliment is extra lovely coming from someone whose work I so respect and admire. Thank you, Susan.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 6d

“Suspense is know only to mortals, and its agent and messenger is time.” —Eudora Welty, Some Notes on Time

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 7d

Happy birthday!

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Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 8d

If you are interested in a signed copy of She's Under Here, please consider ordering from Diesel Bookstore (@dieselbookstore). They were so wonderful to me at the reading—as they are to all authors, and to readers—and it would be great to support them.

dieselbookstore.com/book/9781643...

She's Under Here: A Memoir (Signed)

dieselbookstore.com

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 9d

It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word!

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi

The front covers of The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam held up side by side in front of a tree whose leaves are beginning to turn from green to brown.

This picture shows the spines for The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam stacked on top of each other and held up in front of a small tree on a sunny day.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 10d

And here's an older one: fracturedlit.com/necrotic/

Necrotic | Fractured

“You’re an alchemist,” he said, “turning mud to gold.”

fracturedlit.com

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 10d

In the fissures of novel writing, I've been writing small stories set on the Gulf Coast, each tenuously linked to a Neruda love sonnet. Here's one just published: monkeybicycle.net/tender-fire/

Tender Fire

monkeybicycle.net

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks, Monkeybicycle, for giving this small fiction a perfect home: monkeybicycle.net/tender-fire/

Tender Fire

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 12d

This art is free.

Photo of box with cards and small objects behind glass reflecting a yellow house. A pink handwritten note reads, “Take a piece, leave a piece! This art is free!’

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 14d

Family of detained journalist Mario Guevara calls for his release after deportation order

"His place is with his family and his community, not behind bars or facing deportation," Katherine Guevara, Mario's daughter, said.

#FREEMARIO NOW!

Family of detained journalist Mario Guevara calls for his release after deportation order

The future of an El Salvadorian journalist arrested in Georgia remains uncertain as he waits for a ruling on his deportation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks, Monkeybicycle, for giving this small fiction a perfect home: monkeybicycle.net/tender-fire/

Tender Fire

monkeybicycle.net

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 13d

Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye sold just 2,000 copies in its first year. Today, it’s a number many authors can’t recover from. Writer @tajjaisen.bsky.social examines how the publishing industry’s sales track can make or break careers before they even begin: thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-i...

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 14d

Might be time to fill your water containers and find your candles, if you live near me. (I just wrote a postcard for Wigleaf about hurricane--and other kinds--of preparedness, September being September.)

Amy Hayes @tangentsafari.bsky.social · 14d

Mike down in Florida is not an official source, but I have not seen him be very wrong. He’s is often the first to warn.

Spaghetti tracks for Invest 94, soon to be named Imelda. Some of the lines go right over York County, SC.

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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 16d

New Novel releases TOMORROW!
See me this week in Cleveland, Chicago,
Detroit and Kansas City~~! Watch me sign
a book just for you with my own hands!

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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 17d

THE SUMMER HOUSE by Masashi Matsuie, translated by Margaret Mitsutani (Other Press). Reviewed by Mia Carroll. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

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Nicola Griffith @nicolaz.bsky.social · 18d

This is a nifty write up of both sets of novels—go read GENERATION LOSS!—plus an interview with me about why Aud, with her “slivers of strangeness” is a “unique character who could enliven a book in any genre”. Quite right!

The badass return of crime novels by Nicola Griffith and Elizabeth Hand

Griffith’s Aud Torvingen novels and Hand’s Cass Neary series are back in new editions and they’re terrific.

www.dailybulletin.com

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 22d

Kaveh Akbar reads at University of South Carolina Thursday, 6 pm. Details here: sc.edu/about/office...

Join us for the Fall Literary Festival 2025

Great writers, readers and friends will gather for two author visits in September for the University of South Carolina Fall Literary Festival.

sc.edu

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 21d

It's increasingly clear that the book I've wrestled (off and on) for ten years exists to make me write other things and will never itself be finished. It's responsible for my forthcoming novel and several stories, and now I've started a new book just to avoid working on it more.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 22d

My visiting grandparents took little-kid me to The Sting while my mom was at work. It was my first non-animated movie and one of the few films I saw before I was 25. And so my favorite movie for years. RIP to both super handsomes.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 22d

And if you're in Columbia, SC, there's also a cool reading at All Good Books this Friday, 6 pm: Nathan Dixon, Chris Tonelli, @samuelamadon.bsky.social. Info here: allgoodbooks.com/events/31878...

Reading with Nathan Dixon, Chris Tonelli, + Samuel Amadon | All Good Books

Five Points Independent New Bookstore. Columbia, SC.

allgoodbooks.com

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 22d

Kaveh Akbar reads at University of South Carolina Thursday, 6 pm. Details here: sc.edu/about/office...

Join us for the Fall Literary Festival 2025

Great writers, readers and friends will gather for two author visits in September for the University of South Carolina Fall Literary Festival.

sc.edu

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 22d

I'm sorry to hear of Dan Wickett's death. Here's a good thread to know more about him.

Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 22d

I'm so sorry to hear of Dan Wickett's passing. We worked together for years at Dzanc Books, and I'm so grateful for all he did for me there and elsewhere. He was a great friend, a brilliant reader, a true advocate for writers. He loved books like no one else. I miss him already, and always will.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 23d

Titus Andronicus, of all things.

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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social · 23d

The park across the street from my house is having free Shakespeare across a couple of weekends soon. Holding on to nice things.

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