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Emma Sloley

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Writer, gadabout, author of a novel I think you'll like -- THE ISLAND OF LAST THINGS -- out August 12, 2025. Preorder: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-island-of-last-things-emma-sloley/K4KD2ktViQqEW3A8?ean=9781250329257&next=t&digital=t

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Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · Jan 16

I have a new novel coming out this summer, and I may be a little biased but I think the cover is an absolute knockout. The design is by the singular Keith Hayes and the beautiful art is by José David Morales. (ARCS are available if any reviewers or book people would like an early read 😊)

A book cover with a yellow background featuring a black jaguar and a pale hand, titled THE ISLAND OF LAST THINGS by Emma Sloley.

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David M. Bennett MD (FAAOS, FPOSNA, DABOS) @davembmd.bsky.social · 5h

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long time. @aptshadow.bsky.social @abraham.bsky.social

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Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 6h

omg, Moomins!! 😍🥰

Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 6h

Tired of our current dystopia and looking to escape into a different one?! You can get my novel, The Island of Last Things, about two women zookeepers working on Alcatraz Island at the world's last zoo, with free shipping at @bookshop.org today! 🐊 #booksky 💙📚
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The Island of Last Things: A Novel

A Novel

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 6h

Bookshop's free shipping sale ends today! Support indie bookstores and get cool books.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Bookshop has free shipping today and tomorrow! It's a great time to pick up my latest, Wearing The Lion! (But only if you want to see Heracles adopting every monster in Ancient Greece.)

Wearing the Lion

Check out Wearing the Lion - <b>"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. <i>Wearing the Lion</i> establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantas...

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Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 7h

Saw One Battle After Another last night without knowing much about it and loved it so much - it's kinetic and exhausting and deranged like all PT Anderson films but also profound and oddly moving

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 8h

What a gift — for authors, journal editors, publishers... — to be read so thoughtfully and generously!

Something about a Short Story, Long story

I hope you don't mind me repeating myself here, but I always save Short Story, Long work for when I am somewhere waiting. In pedicure chairs, or restaurants queues, or airports. I do that because they deserve - and reward - undivided attention. I enjoy reading them best in liminal spaces, because they ground me, and entertain me, and keep me company, and often fill me with the kind of joy that can only come from good storytelling. Amber Sparks' story is the best (and most recent) example - I wound up reading it in a hospital waiting room, where the reckoning with mortality and time hit a bit harder than it otherwise would have. I looked up from my phone and realized that every last person in the waiting room would have some version of that reckoning - were maybe preparing to go through that reckoning sooner than they knew - and felt the divide between us collapse. If we're lucky, we'll have something interesting to look back on - good, bad, ugly, let it be interesting, and uniquely ours.

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BookTrib @booktrib.bsky.social · 2d

Ready to fight back against censorship? Check out the full article for Laura's inspired list of book recs: booktrib.com/2025/10/06/d...

Defending the Right to Read What We Want | BookTrib.

Book banning has been a part of American culture for a long time. Back in 1851, for instance, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was banned and even burned for depicting the horrors of…

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

You know what I’m prime for? Supporting independent bookstores over billionaires this week (and always) 💜

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Robert Fieseler @wordbobby.bsky.social · 4d

My latest and greatest for @salon.com. What we’re facing? Honey, it was all in Cabaret. www.salon.com/2025/10/04/a...

Anti-queer fascism is coming around again

Queer joy dazzles until Brownshirts storm the stage — honey, it was all in

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Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 1d

Cabaret has been on my mind lately b/c it appears in a novel I'm writing & I loved this piece, especially this part: "Few queer generations in human history have ever been born, lived and died with the same set of rights. Why would that dynamic suddenly amend itself for America’s sake?" 💔

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Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 2d

oh I think it's a great movie - it was just hard to watch 😅

Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 2d

It's so nice to still be getting reviews for my book almost two months after it came out - and such a lovely one, too! #booksky💙📚

EcoLit Books @ecolit.bsky.social · 2d

We are pleased to share a book review from our newest contributor France Pauli:

The Island of Last Things by @emmasloley.bsky.social
#booksky #bookreview

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Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 2d

oh my goodness, thank you so much for this beautiful review!! 🥹💙

Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 2d

I had a visceral reaction to the film having lived through the bush/cheney years, especially the ending...I know it wasn't trying to valorize him but it somehow did

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 6d

As many times as I've read this, I only just noticed the last paragraph which on top of everything else nails the current right wing churn of AI "art".

Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. It’s an amusing game. Try it at the next big party you go to.

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mr potato @tweetpotato314.bsky.social · 12d

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

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Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 11d

I'm on Insta! @emmasloley

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Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 15d

Mad you have to do a bunch of non-book-writing work as an author? Yeah, we all are. But you still have to do it even if you don't get "paid" to do so.

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That's What the Book Sales Are For

Ok, don't be mad at me. I'm going to talk about something today and I think it's going to hurt some feelings out there. Or bring up uncomfortable feelings about work, worth, value, capitalism, and art...

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Amy Sherman @andcleverness.bsky.social · 15d

one thing about Kate's book WRITE THROUGH IT that I thought was really useful framing was the chapter on self-promotion where she talks about what kind of marketing the publisher is good at (trade reviews, bookstores & libraries) vs. what kind the author is good at (readers, your writing community)

Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 15d

Mad you have to do a bunch of non-book-writing work as an author? Yeah, we all are. But you still have to do it even if you don't get "paid" to do so.

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That's What the Book Sales Are For

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 19d

I have a new story in Craft Literary, “Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk Into the Woods”, about the people & places that haunt us. would be so thrilled for you to read this one 👻 🌲 🤍 www.craftliterary.com/2025/09/19/t...

Two Old Friends and a Ghost Walk into the Woods by Anna Vangala Jones - CRAFT

We’d agreed to never come back to this place yet here we are. The wind whispers through the trees and unsettles our hair, trying to remind us to leave. Why would we return to these woods? “I don’t car...

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Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social · 19d

wow, congratulations!! 🎊💙

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Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social · 19d

I wrote a craft essay for @literaryhub.bsky.social about solo road-tripping and creativity.

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Karen Palmer on Writing in Motion

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. I took a road trip recently, a 2,500-mile roundtrip drive between Los Angeles and Grand Lake, Colorado, where I was due to…

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 21d

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

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