Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧
@charliejane.bsky.social
Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Tor Books, 2025), about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book.
SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
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I'm so grateful for recent responses to Lessons in Magic and Disaster!!!
First, bookseller Rowan Julian with @novelneighbor.bsky.social in St Louis calls Lessons "a firecracker of a book" and "one of my favorites of 2025" in an utterly wonderful shelf-talker.
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First, bookseller Rowan Julian with @novelneighbor.bsky.social in St Louis calls Lessons "a firecracker of a book" and "one of my favorites of 2025" in an utterly wonderful shelf-talker.
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Just realized that Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social could be described as a forest feminization story
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Just realized that Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social could be described as a forest feminization story
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if dems are going to do whatever their corporate donors want, then don't bother texting us for money anymore
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
if dems are going to do whatever their corporate donors want, then don't bother texting us for money anymore
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👇 THIS has totally backfired. I'm not sure which Senator did what now, but it makes me want to see the entire Dem caucus primary'd. I don't trust a single damned one of them
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
👇 THIS has totally backfired. I'm not sure which Senator did what now, but it makes me want to see the entire Dem caucus primary'd. I don't trust a single damned one of them
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
thinking back to when eric cantor got knocked out in a primary in 2014
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They shut down the government for nothing. Literally nothing.
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
They shut down the government for nothing. Literally nothing.
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If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
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Tim Kaine is a chump who believes Republican promises.
Call him and yell at him if he's your senator.
Phone numbers here: www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/offi...
Call him and yell at him if he's your senator.
Phone numbers here: www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/offi...
Sen. Tim Kaine statement "on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care"
bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sund...
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Tim Kaine is a chump who believes Republican promises.
Call him and yell at him if he's your senator.
Phone numbers here: www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/offi...
Call him and yell at him if he's your senator.
Phone numbers here: www.kaine.senate.gov/contact/offi...
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Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
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Before the ACA, I couldn't get insurance as a freelancer at all, bc I'm a type 1 diabetic, so "pre-existing conditions." It was absolute shit on my health, scavenging for insulin & test strips, constantly in life or death debates about being able to go to the doctor. I had no primary care.
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Before the ACA, I couldn't get insurance as a freelancer at all, bc I'm a type 1 diabetic, so "pre-existing conditions." It was absolute shit on my health, scavenging for insulin & test strips, constantly in life or death debates about being able to go to the doctor. I had no primary care.
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I made a mixtape of cover versions and samples of "Funkin For Jamaica" by Tom Browne a couple years ago and I'm happy to report it still slaps
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I made a mixtape of cover versions and samples of "Funkin For Jamaica" by Tom Browne a couple years ago and I'm happy to report it still slaps
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Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.
USDA orders states to stop paying full SNAP benefits and "immediately undo" steps taken to issue them for November. Follow live updates.
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.
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It is really funny the NY Times has a reporter whose "beat" is college campus cancel culture shit. That's like having a reporter reporting on WWE storylines
He responded to a comment with a nakedly biased take on what's been occurring for the past decade or so on college campuses!
November 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It is really funny the NY Times has a reporter whose "beat" is college campus cancel culture shit. That's like having a reporter reporting on WWE storylines
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
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The smartest thing a politician can do in 2026 is to come up with a bold plan for shoring up and EXPANDING public libraries. Call it Project 2050. It's a way to reintroduce the grammar of commoning and the commons to a new generation in a way they can easily grasp. Such low hanging fruit.
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The smartest thing a politician can do in 2026 is to come up with a bold plan for shoring up and EXPANDING public libraries. Call it Project 2050. It's a way to reintroduce the grammar of commoning and the commons to a new generation in a way they can easily grasp. Such low hanging fruit.
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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I recently read your book Never Say You Can't Survive, and it's so good. I had it out from the library, then I bought one copy for me and one for my sister-in-law. Thank you so much for writing it. It feels incredibly relevant today ....
November 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I recently read your book Never Say You Can't Survive, and it's so good. I had it out from the library, then I bought one copy for me and one for my sister-in-law. Thank you so much for writing it. It feels incredibly relevant today ....
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I bought airplane wifi so I could tell you that @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE EVERLASTING is a perfect goddamn book, also if you can see her on tour you absolutely should
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I bought airplane wifi so I could tell you that @alixeharrow.bsky.social’s THE EVERLASTING is a perfect goddamn book, also if you can see her on tour you absolutely should
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I'm gonna be in Brooklyn TOMORROW reading from Lessons in Magic and Disaster!
MONDAY, 8PM: Join us at the Franklin Park Reading Series, when we’ll be hosting Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor and stellar authors @charliejane.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Sam Munson, @missjenchoi.bsky.social, and Laura Venita Green! #FreeAdmission 618 St. Johns Place, Crown Heights, BK
November 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I'm gonna be in Brooklyn TOMORROW reading from Lessons in Magic and Disaster!
Speaking of things that are giving me hope and life right now, this book feels so much more essential than when I first heard it was happening. I feel so grateful that this exists.
STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Speaking of things that are giving me hope and life right now, this book feels so much more essential than when I first heard it was happening. I feel so grateful that this exists.
The premise of my writing advice book Never Say You Can't Survive continues to be incredibly true. The world is unspeakably horrific but writing a silly new novel is bringing me so much comfort and brightness
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The premise of my writing advice book Never Say You Can't Survive continues to be incredibly true. The world is unspeakably horrific but writing a silly new novel is bringing me so much comfort and brightness
Stop2End is my fav new dance crew but politicians need to stop shouting them out at the end of every single spam text , it's starting to look desperate
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Stop2End is my fav new dance crew but politicians need to stop shouting them out at the end of every single spam text , it's starting to look desperate
I hate it when trade paperbacks or hardcovers of comics runs don't have a number on the spine to let me know which volume this is. I almost bought a TPB yesterday but needed to wait until I double checked whether I still had it bc I wasn't sure which volume it was
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I hate it when trade paperbacks or hardcovers of comics runs don't have a number on the spine to let me know which volume this is. I almost bought a TPB yesterday but needed to wait until I double checked whether I still had it bc I wasn't sure which volume it was