no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

I now believe it's real.

We're working on it 👀

I’m gonna release a bullshit not-peer-reviewed survey that claims “human adults think about squid more than any other animal”, but my sampling was just asking people at the cephalopod conference. Maybe they’ll write me up in the independent lmao.

I’m gonna release a bullshit not-peer-reviewed survey that claims “human adults think about squid more than any other animal”, but my sampling was just asking people at the cephalopod conference. Maybe they’ll write me up in the independent lmao.

Translations are very much acts of creation, especially when it comes to translating a book that is itself about language

In this bonus episode we chat with @parasynthetic.bsky.social about how he translated Because Internet into Spanish

You may have learned about synonyms & homonyms in school. But do you know about contronyms, hypernyms, eponyms, backronyms, retronyms, demonyms, razzonyms, phantonyms...

In our latests bonus ep we get enthusiastic about our favourite words ending in nym!

You have to read much more slowly during peak hours, of course.

If you, like me, are currently sitting at home on your phone, you can also google "name of your library" + "book purchase request" and you'll probably get a nice convenient webform to fill out

(I now have the book request form for my library bookmarked 😅)

brb asking my publisher for an edition of Because Internet that makes the dialup screech as you open it, like a novelty birthday card, and gradually heats up the longer you read it

So apparently, when you write a book for @riverheadbooks that becomes a bestseller, they make a single-copy print run leather-bound version just for you?

l am stunned and honoured.

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