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Jeff VanderMeer

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NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Absolution. Repped by Joe Veltre at Gersh. Gigs: The Tuesday Agency. he/him

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 12

Just a reminder: The tenth anniversary editions of the original Southern Reach trilogy are still out in the wild, selling well. NYT bestsellers and on a lot of best-of-decade or this century lists. With new intros by Karen Joy Fowler, NK Jemisin, and Helen MacDonald. Buy from you favorite indie.

Southern Reach covers with morphed boar, rabbit, and owl, art by Pablo Delcan.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h

around portland loll love this city

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 7h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Olivia Portlander 🐙🧡🍋🐊🦋☂️ @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social · 9h

Wonderful panel discussion about the work of Katherine Dunn. With @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, Omar El Akkad, and Crystal Willer at Literary Arts Bookstore.

From left Jeff VanderMeer, Omar El Akkad, and Crystal Willer seated in front of a wall of books.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10h

Tonight!

Olivia Portlander 🐙🧡🍋🐊🦋☂️ @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social · 19h

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Near Flesh: A Celebration of Katherine Dunn

Join us in welcoming Omar El Akkad, Jeff VanderMeer, and Crystal Willer for a conversation on the work of Katherine Dunn, celebrating the posthumous release of her short story collection

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12h

Posted to the Southern Reach Reddit...

Southern Reach told me Area X keep eatinh his expeditions so I asked how many expeditions he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new expeditions afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding expeditions to Area X and then his daughter started crying.

(adapting a tweet about coyotes eating cats)

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 12h

This might not be the, um, best time to resurrect this initiative, but am ready to greenlight this once I get the pigs, or similar animal that can scarf jiggly. Swimming pool could be a large enough private one. Have leads on public ones.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21d

Okay, so, Portland...I need an abandoned indoor pool and someone to make really large multicolored jellos from molds that look like creatures if you smashed them on the floor of the abandoned swimming pool... and then someone with some trained pet pigs to devour the remains while being photographed.

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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social · 13h

thought to myself “what if there was smaller skeleton trapped inside a larger skeleton, that would be pretty spooky” and then realized i was describing a pregnancy

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 15h

Ok, this is just funny.

isportlandburning.com

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

isportlandburning.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 13h

Not all news organizations have been granted the same access to the ICE facility and the people who work there.

Feds grant ICE building access to conservative media, influencers, ignore local Portland press

Not all news organizations have been granted the same access to the ICE facility and the people who work there.

www.oregonlive.com

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Just a note that there will be a call for submissions for readers to submit photos of themselves in front of lighthouses for the Southern Reach coffee table book, but please don't be preemptive as the guidelines for what's needed will be precise. For example, poor Lowry here got it wrong. No masks.

man in wielder's mask standing in front of weird pillars, muscular torso naked.

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Olivia Portlander 🐙🧡🍋🐊🦋☂️ @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social · 1d

Hired some local muscle to enforce the "no soliciting" rule.

A big fucking orb weaver with a web spun across the upper left quadrant of a front door entryway. A sign on the door says, "no soliciting."

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 15h

Noem appears to have arrived? Not sure how long we’ll be blocked from the street outside ICE processing facility. I can say unequivocally she did not witness anything she claims is happening at this facility, as she entered the facility…

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18h

Very disorienting to me how this story I wrote in 2017 keeps rising and falling in terms of its topicality and whether it feels like weak tea or vaguely accurate. And whether it matters. For me personally, it's like waves of alternate reality keep disrupting. www.slate.com/articles/new...

collage with trump as golden statue, some meat and heart mixed in with US flag and other elements.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Portland... such a hard-scrabble hellscape there's hardly time to look out for wasps and put up signs so everybody can get along... let alone hand draw the wasp amid all the chaos...

CAUTION in all caps on a sign with a hand-drawn illo of a wasp, attached to a piece of wood carefully positioned inside an orange caution cone.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20h

I thought Eddington did a good job of navigating physical and digital spaces while also creating complicated granularity about how "nonfictional" narrative becomes distorted and ruptured. Also, *not* a comedy nor a satire, in my opinion. Whatever that says about the here and now.

montage of main actors in orange fire colors, including Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Austin Butler, Pedro Pascal, Luke Grimes

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20h

amazing how hard you have to fight to establish the objective reality of one city block these days

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Eighteen of the legendary writer’s short stories are brought together for the first time.

Katherine Dunn story collection showcases joys, frustrations of late Portland author’s work

Eighteen of the legendary writer’s short stories are brought together for the first time.

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 23h

If you're in Austin, please join us tonight at Alienated Majesty Books for a launch celebration, where we'll be screening a short film and I'll be in conversation with climate activist Alexia Leclercq and anthropologist Craig Campbell: alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/34023...

Paperback Release & Eco-Panel: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS by Christopher Brown | Alienated Majesty Books

Home of the leastsellers in Austin, Texas. Small presses, poetry, comics, translated works, and titles you can't find elsewhere.

alienatedmajestybooks.com

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

yes, asap

Justin Demsky @justindemsky.bsky.social · 1d

Oh God, I need to find a lighthouse

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

my 2017 t-word attempt seems quaint now i guess... share.google/ifEMXRm1j2SJ...

The Trump Story Project: A Joke Becomes a Theme Park Becomes Something Worse

In the Trump Story Project, we’re presenting a series of short stories from contemporary writers, compiled by Ben H. Winters, imagining America’s futur ...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

I bet! The original context is an avant garde dance piece. This is my nephew, Pioneer Winter, who runs a dance group in Miami. He's letting me repurpose it.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

yep mask is just a conceit for the bit

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Met a dog named Sprightly today at the gardens.

a terrier type with brown soft upright ears and cute round eyes

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

santa claus to puritan?!

Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

Tragic news from Canada where the Canadian Supreme Court has gone from the official dress on the left to the one on the right

Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in bright red wooly gowns, with a beige trim. It looks sort of like a Santa robe

The Canadian Supreme court. Everyone is dressed in black gowns with a bright white kravat, and two thin red vertical lines on the side of the robe

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

oh don't like wasps? here's your moment of calm if you like nutria 2/3

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

no expedition wore jeans

Andy Zeigert @zeigert.com · 1d

I run by this @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social -esque tableau every couple days, wondering why these people were sent on a one-way expedition to central oregon, and what they found when they peered through the holes in the fence.

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