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Miriam Gershow

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Writer w FOMO. CLOSER (Regal House). SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). www.miriamgershow.com 📚💙 Wrangling “100 Notable Small Press Books 2025” into existence. #100smallpress

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · Jun 3

Ahhhhhh CLOSER is @bookshop.org STAFF PICK on pub day! A joy! A delight!

Support your local indie and buy CLOSER from bookshop. bookshop.org/p/books/clos...

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 12h

No you don't!!

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Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social · 3d

Reading and reviewing for the #100smallpress project was a thrill. I already knew small presses were publishing interesting, adventurous, important books, but this project solidified that. Watch for the list of 100 Notable Small Press Books on Dec 1st in Lithub.

image announcing the 100 Notable Small Press Books will be published in Lithub on December 1

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 14h

Oregon

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 16h

Let us forget the elaborate scam part (a zillion episode HBO docuseries) and wax nostalgic on the peely little pieces.

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Caitlin Annette Johnson @caitlinannette.bsky.social · 17h

PERSUASION x SUCCESSION but make it LESBIAN.
Annie: black sheep hidden away for a decade, now her Senator Dad's newest prop. Freddie: her dreaded ex and the campaign's progressive savior. Politics meets second chances. And Annie just might meet herself in the process.
#DVPit #A #CR #OWN #LGBT #DIS

Promotional image for "Lesbian Persuasion" featuring a bird in a classical painting with an ornate gold frame containing a book excerpt.

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 17h

The kid and I regularly get nostalgic for those pre-Covid Monopoly tiles.

Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 17h

Protect Dolly at all costs.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 17h

Remember when I vowed not to spend money on new books during sabbatical? Ahahahahahah.

All it means is I have a sky high stack of well-intentioned library books alongside my sky high stack of new books in dueling tbr piles.

$81 and counting currently in my cart at @bookshop.org

Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 21h

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 21h

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 17h

❤️❤️❤️

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 3d

Adorable abode!

Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social · 3d

the way all of msm and other social apps are doo-doodelee-dooing through a fascist onslaught makes my bsky feed increasingly urgent & increasingly terrifying

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Brandonomicon Ex Mortis (Brandon Seifert) @brandonseifert.info · 3d

I actually live in Portland, and there are no actual socialists in charge here, @nytimes.com. I'd say "do better," but you don't seem to be interested in that. 🥲

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

www.nytimes.com

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social · 3d

Fifty-seven more sleeps before #100smallpress drops Dec. 1 on LitHub! I read some marvelous books for this project, spearheaded by @miriamgershow.bsky.social. Looking forward to the full list!

The #100notablesmallpressbooks list is coming Dec. 1, 2025.

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4d

i hope the democrats see that there is no working with these people. it really does need to be pens down. file court cases, lie down in the street, but theres no getting back to the business of washington or whatever. it's all on fire, act accordingly

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Amalia Gladhart @amaliag.bsky.social · 4d

Watch for #100smallpress Dec. 1 on LitHub. I read some terrific books this year, look forward to seeing the full list. @miriamgershow.bsky.social

Graphic of a stack of books, spines out, announcing the December 1st release of 2025 100 Notable Small Press Books list.

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Librarian Emeritus @librarianemeritus.bsky.social · 7d

Finishing up work for Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress and looking back on some of the picture books I read, including There Doesn’t Have to be a Reason by MC Kasper @catalystpress.bsky.social (animal facts + body positivity = cute story).

Image of children's picture book titled There Doesn't Have to be a Reason by MC Kasper. A cartoon bear is sitting on the ground facing away so the bear's back and tail are shown. The bear's head is turned and it is looking over its shoulder towards the viewer with a small smile. The bear is also waving its left paw. The smile and the wave make the bear seem friendly.

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Librarian Emeritus @librarianemeritus.bsky.social · 7d

Another book I read for the Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress project was Rus and Moose by Chuchu Wang from Restless Books. The illustrations are exuberant and wonderful, plus info about the life of a long haul trucker (and his friend who is a moose).

Image of the book cover for the children's picture book Rus and Moose by Chuchu Wang. An illustrated image looking out through the windshield of the cab of a big rig truck. In the left hand driver's seat is a man in a white t-shirt and sunglasses with short, black hair and pink skin and a stubbly beard who is holding the steering wheel. In the right hand passenger seat is a moose with a large head and wide eyes and a slight smile who is looking at the driver. Between the moose and the driver are the dials, knobs, buttons, and screens of the dashboard. Along the bottom edge are wildflowers and grass intruding into the mechanical environment and reminding the viewer of the moose's natural habitat (which is not usually a big rig).

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Librarian Emeritus @librarianemeritus.bsky.social · 7d

Yet another book I read for the Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress project was Good Morning, Space by Linda Bondestam translated from the Swedish by AA Prime from Restless Books. The illustrations tumble in a riot of color and action and space aliens with one very stubborn child.

Image of the cover of the children's picture book Good Morning, Space by Linda Bondestam translated from the Swedish by A. A. Prime. Most of the image depicts a room with a dark blue wall and floor. There is a window with the top half covered by a shade with a pattern of green diamonds. Through the bottom of the window we can see outer space with pinpoint stars and a pink planet with a blue ring around it. Two pink blob aliens are floating around the planet. Under the window on the floor is a digital clock that reads 04:05. In front of the window is a child with blue skin and shoulder length straight hair. The child is wearing sky blue pajamas covered with fluffy white clouds. The child is holding something up to their right eye to look out the window at the planet and the floating aliens. Peaking out from the left side of the child is a small green alien with yellow eyes on stalks above its head. On the right side of the room are two more aliens. One alien is a green blob with two antenna that have yellow stars on the ends. The other alien is a pink blob with yellow eyes on stalks.

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Librarian Emeritus @librarianemeritus.bsky.social · 7d

One more book I read for the Notable Small Press Books of 2025 #100smallpress project was Prisons Must Fall by Mariame Kaba and Jane Ball from @haymarketbooks.org with striking illustrations utilizing strong colors on dark backgrounds.

Image of the cover of the children's picture book Prisons Must Fall by Mariame Kaba and Jane Ball, illustrated by Olly Costello, and published by Haymarket Books. The title, Prisons Must Fall appears in orange against a black night sky studded with white dots to indicate stars. Six ribbon streamers in bright colors wave up from the ground into the black sky. At the bottom of the image is the top of a gray stone wall. There are four simplified human figures on the wall. One figure, dressed in yellow, sits on the left end of the wall and leans back supported by their arm. To the right of that figure is a figure dressed in orange supported by a walking cane in one hand and holding aloft a tambourine. To the right of that figure is a figure dressed in green raising one arm and one leg as if dancing. And on the right end of the wall is a figure dressed in pink with their hair in a pony tail who is also raising one arm and one leg as if dancing.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 5d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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no one sees me anyway @dhighl5184.bsky.social · 6d

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