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Molly McGhee
@mollymcghee.com
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Reader. Novelist. Fiction nerd. Pro-worker. Anti-billionaire. I teach at Columbia. Online for two decades.
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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 19h
y'all, this book is the one if you love magic, revolution, and words—imagine Miyazaki & Russell Hoban & the Bread and Puppet Theater all hanging out together
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Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 19h
1) bookshop.org is offering free shipping today
2) The Naming Song is just out in paperback
3) bookshop.org sells many other excellent books, some with trains, some without
4) I was driving alongside a train for a minute yesterday and it was awesome
5) Thank you

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Check out The Naming Song - <p><b>A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro.</b><br><br>“<i>The Naming Song</i> understands the fundamental magic of langu...
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 14d
Becoming is unbecoming
A skeleton holding a heart mirror surrounded by hand lettering which reads "becoming is unbecoming." by artist Halsey Berryman
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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 17d
Stefan Fatsis on the current state of American lexicography www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Is This the End of the Dictionary?
Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 16d
I hope my nana has an amazing rapture tomorrow. She's been preparing for about eighty years.
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 16d
oh this? this is my comfort juvenilia
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Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social · 18d
Where will I be going next week?

Cleveland?
Yup, Tuesday (and most other days)

Chicago?
Yes! Wednesday at Exile in Bookville!

Detroit?
Sure, on Thursday at Next Chapter Books!

Kansas City?
Absolutely, with my Kansas City baby
at Rainy Day Books on Friday!

Will you come to see me?
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18d
today is the last day to apply to be a 2026 Periplus Fellow! application closes at 11:59pm EST
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · Aug 21
Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2026 class of fellows! Apply by 9/20: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) here: bit.ly/periplusfaq
PERIPLUS: An FAQ
PERIPLUS: AN FAQ Updated August 2025 Hi! Thanks for your interest in Periplus, a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color. We're glad you’re here. Rea...
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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 18d
A scene from the Star Wars film, The Last Jedi. A white man, Kylo Ren, is shouting, More.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 20d
Just saw the dress rehearsal for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay opera. It is truly stunning. A magnum opus. And if you can see it you should.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21d
In other news, I have sold a story, "In An Antique Land," to Reactor, formerly known as Tor dot com. It's creepy and about a dude and some ruins.
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 21d
I miss him.
david lynch smoking outside, behind him is a neon sign.
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 22d
opening up my personal pocket void to scream into so I don’t disturb the neighbors
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 22d
american political factions right now
rod serling with caption over top we will not end the nightmare we'll only explain it
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 22d
postcard from 1910
post card: I shall pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now, let me not defer it, or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · 24d
David Lynch being in the #Emmys in memoriam broke something in me. He embodies so much of the medium’s potential that it’s almost impossible to think about him in the past tense.
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 24d
wow ! when you do please post photos !
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 24d
Just learned about Tove Jansson's illustrations for the Swedish edition of The Hobbit. Extremely cute. lithub.com/take-a-look-...
Take a look at Tove Jansson’s illustrations for a Swedish edition of The Hobbit.
The public knows Tove Jansson, Finnish writer and illustrator, primarily as the creator of Moomins—but in her later life, she purposefully distanced herself herself from the Moomin universe. When s…
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 25d
Ok who’s going to the Brooklyn Book Fest next week? I somehow magically get to be a panel with Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social and Christine Li, moderated by @tobiascarroll.bsky.social - I truly do think it’s a gonna be a banger if you’re around! brooklynbookfestival.org/event/if-the...
If These Walls Could Talk - Brooklyn Book Festival
What happens behind closed doors can never be learned – unless someone inside screams loud enough to be heard. In the first novel of Stephen Graham Jones’ dual publication of The Babysitter Lives/ Kil...
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · 25d
wish I was going to be in Boston for the Kathryn Davis Symposium led by @kellylink.bsky.social at @portersqbooks.bsky.social this Thursday!
Kathryn Davis Symposium with Kelly Link
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28d
this by @davidklion.bsky.social is excellent www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
Disgruntled NYT journalist to ‘anti-woke’ power grab: how far can Bari Weiss go?
After leaving the New York Times, she turned her Substack into a unshakeable pro-Israel voice. Now as Paramount eyes acquisition of her company, Weiss is poised to become Trump’s ally among media elit...
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · Sep 8
It does !
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · Sep 7
Stood in line for an hour to get into the new horror bookstore / cafe in Brooklyn—The Twisted Spine. Worth checking out!
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · Sep 2
I love this essay: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction — Ursula K Le Guin theanarchistlibrary.org/mirror/u/uk/...
This theory not only explains larger areas of theoretical obscurity and avoids large areas of theoretical nonsense (inhabited largely by tigers, foxes, and other highly territorial mammals); it also grounds me, personally, in human culture in a way I never felt grounded before. So long as culture was explained as originating from and elaborating upon the use of long, hard objects for sticking, bashing, and killing, I never thought I had, or wanted, any particular share in it. ("What Freud mistook for her lack of civilization is a woman's lack of loyalty to civilization," Lilian Smith observed.) The society, the civilization they were talking about, these theoreticians, was evidently theirs; they owned it, they liked it; they were human, fully human, bashing, sticking, thrusting, killing. Wanting to be human too, I sought for evidence that I was; but if that's what it took to make a weapon and kill with it, then evidently I was either extremely defective as a human being or not a human at all.
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Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com · Sep 2
happy new semester to all the educators who celebrate
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Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · Aug 25
Currently listening to this, at the recommendation of @mollymcghee.com... sorcerers.bandcamp.com/album/other-...
Other Worlds And Habitats, by The Sorcerers
8 track album
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