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Author: IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, AFTERWORD, THE TRANSLATOR, THE PAINTING; HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES; Lover of lemons, dogs, snails. Instructor: Stanford Continuing Studies website: ninaschuyler.com Stunning Sentences: ninaschuyler.substack.com

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · Jul 2

Pub day for IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD! Today! Nine connected stories unfold, bringing together an unforgettable cast of dreamers, escapists, activists, and artists, creating a kaleidoscopic view of the climate crisis. Winner of the Prism Prize for Climate Literature and the W.S. Porter Prize.

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 5d

At low enough pH levels, corals and shells can begin to dissolve. These effects could destabilize entire ecosystems and devastate many commercially valuable species, such as oysters.

ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 5d

Carbon dioxide concentrations reached a record global high of 422.7 parts per million (ppm) last year. Much of that carbon dioxide gets absorbed by the ocean, increasing its acidity, which can have profound impacts on marine ecosystems.

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 5d

As of 2025, humans have pushed Earth past another planetary boundary: Levels of ocean acidification have exceeded a critical threshold, becoming the seventh out of nine boundaries crossed. Source: Scientific American (more in comments)

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you for reading it! I'm sorry you were that mother. I was trapped for about five minutes, but imagination is a wonderful thing.

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 7d

Thrilled my story, "Tunnel," appears in the 9th Anniversary issue of Ghost Parachute! Thank you @brettpribble.bsky.social What a fabulous issue, bursting with amazing stories!

Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social · 7d

Read "Tunnel" written by @ninaschuyler.bsky.social and illustrated by @amymarques.bsky.social.

"Halfway through the Glory Tunnel, traffic stopped, as if someone cast a terrible spell."

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Tunnel — Ghost Parachute

Halfway through the Glory Tunnel, traffic stopped, as if someone cast a terrible spell. George had been singing nicely in his car seat, a little thing about sand and bones and monsters. I was one of t...

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Marcy Gall @marcygall.bsky.social · 11d

Just to be clear - release the Epstein files.

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 11d

For Virginia Woolf fans, good news!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published

A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you, Star!

ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you, Matt!

ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 24d

I'm thrilled that my novel/short story collection, In This Ravishing World, has won the 2025 PEN Oakland – Josephine Miles Literary Award! Immensely grateful!

It's a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and won the W.S. Porter Prize and the Prism Prize for Climate Literature!

cover of my book In This Ravishing World

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you so much for your kind words!

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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 29d

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · 29d

Save the wild. Say no to the rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule. The deadline for submitting public comments is Friday, September 19, 2025. Here's the link to comment:
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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here's the link to submit a public comment to oppose the rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule, which, if passed, would open up almost 45 million acres of federal forest and wildlands.

Please submit a comment to protect the wilderness.
www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · Sep 8

The proposed deal marks the first settlement in a string of lawsuits against tech companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta Platforms, over their use of copyrighted material to train generative AI systems.
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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle author class action

Anthropic told a San Francisco federal judge on Friday that it has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the artificial intelligence company of using their books to train its AI chatbot Claude without permission.

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · Sep 6

Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website. If you think you're book was devoured by Anthropic's LLM, make sure the law firm has your contact info.

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Home | Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic PBC

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · Sep 5

Writers!
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What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild

Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · Aug 27

The enormous value of writing: The settlement comes after Anthropic warned both the district court and an appeals court that the class’ potential pursuit of hundreds of billions of dollars in statutory damages.
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Anthropic Settles Major AI Copyright Suit Brought by Authors (3)

Anthropic PBC told a pair of courts in July that a judge’s order approving class-action status for authors’ copyright lawsuit over millions of pirated books put “inordinate pressure” on the company to...

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Aug 26

We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to [email protected] by Tuesday, September 2nd!

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Aug 22

Check this shit!

Earlier today, ICE tried to break into private property in Lynwood, California — no judicial warrant, no authority. Acting like thugs, not federal agents.

Spoiler alert: Lynwood does not play. This trio of goons got sent packing.

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thank you, Ben Alan at Reader's House, for your thoughtful questions about my short story collection, In This Ravishing World and my novel, Afterword, and writing, sentences, and teaching!
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Nina Schuyler Explores Climate, Language and the Intimacies of AI - Reader's House

PHOTO: Acclaimed author Nina Schuyler, winner of multiple literary awards, known for her evocative prose and groundbreaking explorations of language and climate fiction. Crafting Fiction With Depth Vi...

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thank you for your generous words, Robert!

ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · Aug 13

So kind! Thank you!

ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · Aug 13

Immensely grateful! My short story collection, In This Ravishing World, has been shortlisted for the Northern California Book Award! Originally published by Regal House Publishing, which chose it as the winner of the W.S. Porter Prize. Thank you!

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ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you! So kind!