Daegan Miller
@daeganmiller.bsky.social
Essayist and Critic. For all the beautiful radiant things. Book: *This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent* http://bit.ly/2HYSaSK | Essays: http://bit.ly/2Gn3EPM
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The World is Alive; or, How Robert Macfarlane Came to Trust His Senses
“While writing about landscape often begins in the aesthetic, it must always end in the ethical.” –Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks * There is a sentence 256 pages into Robert Macfarlane’s newest book,…
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I spent the spring reading through Robert Macfarlane's catalog to understand his remarkable new book, *Is a River Alive?* @literaryhub.bsky.social let me go long on the book that I think Macfarlane has spent his entire life writing toward. #nature #writing #booksky
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Publishing job:
We are looking for an acquisitions coordinator at @oupress.bsky.social to support our acquisitions editors and authors!
It's a good entry point for a career in book publishing.
The position is on-site in Norman.
Questions? andrewb@ou.edu
Apply here:
ou.taleo.net/careersectio...
We are looking for an acquisitions coordinator at @oupress.bsky.social to support our acquisitions editors and authors!
It's a good entry point for a career in book publishing.
The position is on-site in Norman.
Questions? andrewb@ou.edu
Apply here:
ou.taleo.net/careersectio...
Acquisitions Coordinator
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ou.taleo.net
February 10, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Publishing job:
We are looking for an acquisitions coordinator at @oupress.bsky.social to support our acquisitions editors and authors!
It's a good entry point for a career in book publishing.
The position is on-site in Norman.
Questions? andrewb@ou.edu
Apply here:
ou.taleo.net/careersectio...
We are looking for an acquisitions coordinator at @oupress.bsky.social to support our acquisitions editors and authors!
It's a good entry point for a career in book publishing.
The position is on-site in Norman.
Questions? andrewb@ou.edu
Apply here:
ou.taleo.net/careersectio...
Just in time for Bandcamp Friday!
New record! It's been five years since I recorded Music for Four Guitars and it's time for a new jam — proud to present the latest four guitars LP, "Music in Continuous Motion," up for preorder today and shipping next month.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Just in time for Bandcamp Friday!
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Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.
February 4, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.
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journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
February 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
Just did something I should have done a LONG time ago--joined @literaryhub.bsky.social. Take those Amazon dollars and spend them at indie books stores and the places that still support literature, culture, and real thinking. lithub.com
Literary Hub
The best of the literary web
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February 4, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Just did something I should have done a LONG time ago--joined @literaryhub.bsky.social. Take those Amazon dollars and spend them at indie books stores and the places that still support literature, culture, and real thinking. lithub.com
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I am trying to build this with The Rumpus! I hope we can fill some of this gaping void in criticism as we relaunch.
February 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I am trying to build this with The Rumpus! I hope we can fill some of this gaping void in criticism as we relaunch.
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If you are a person who cares about books, you’re different from Jeff Bezos. Now would be a good day to stop shopping from Amazon, permanently.
February 4, 2026 at 3:38 PM
If you are a person who cares about books, you’re different from Jeff Bezos. Now would be a good day to stop shopping from Amazon, permanently.
Book notes taken while driving
February 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Book notes taken while driving
David Naimon x Milkweed? This is the best literary news I’ve seen since forever.
Excited to share the 1st episode of my new partnership with @milkweededitions.bsky.social, with the remarkable Sangu Iyer, about her memoir Governing Bodies: A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed
Audio👂🌱: milkweed.org/between-the-...
@literaryanimal.bsky.social @whitingfoundation.bsky.social
Audio👂🌱: milkweed.org/between-the-...
@literaryanimal.bsky.social @whitingfoundation.bsky.social
Sangamithra Iyer : Governing Bodies : A Memoir, A Confluence, A Watershed | Milkweed Editions
“When I tell you a story about my body, I cannot separate it from a story about water. And a story about water is also a story about family. And a story about family is rooted in the earth…,” opens Sa...
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January 28, 2026 at 10:58 PM
David Naimon x Milkweed? This is the best literary news I’ve seen since forever.
Thank you so much to the @catapultbooks.bsky.social team!
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Congratulations to @joannapocock.bsky.social for being named a @bookcritics.bsky.social Award finalist for her memoir GREYHOUND! 👏 📚
Check out the full list: buff.ly/89i3wHV
Check out the full list: buff.ly/89i3wHV
January 26, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.
January 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.
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Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
January 25, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum.
Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum.
ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.
This was a weird, extraordinary read. I like books that teach you how to read them.
January 25, 2026 at 3:34 PM
This was a weird, extraordinary read. I like books that teach you how to read them.
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Blood on the snow in Minneapolis. Abolishing ICE is the *compromise*
January 24, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Blood on the snow in Minneapolis. Abolishing ICE is the *compromise*
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It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.
January 24, 2026 at 7:26 PM
It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.
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I can't believe "asking Donald Trump to stop" is still the strategy
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
I can't believe "asking Donald Trump to stop" is still the strategy
In a disappointing, if unsurprising, turn, it sounds like Paul Kingsnorth has gone the full blood, soil, & Christianity route to eco redemption. See this remarkably patient review by MD Usher in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/paul...
Ascetic Ghosts in the Machine | Los Angeles Review of Books
M. D. Usher on Paul Kingsnorth’s impassioned and flawed new manifesto against the pervasiveness of technology in modern life.
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January 24, 2026 at 6:18 PM
In a disappointing, if unsurprising, turn, it sounds like Paul Kingsnorth has gone the full blood, soil, & Christianity route to eco redemption. See this remarkably patient review by MD Usher in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/paul...
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"just lie back and take it"
An administration with a rapist mentality.
An administration with a rapist mentality.
JD Vance: "I'm headed to Minneapolis where we're gonna talk with ICE agents and local officials about how we turn down the chaos. My simple piece of advice to them is going to be if you want to turn down the chaos in Minneapolis, stop fighting immigration enforcement."
January 22, 2026 at 3:39 PM
"just lie back and take it"
An administration with a rapist mentality.
An administration with a rapist mentality.
This is such a smart and punchy review by @triofrancos.bsky.social in @thebaffler.com on history, the history of "energy transitions," and fossil capitalism. Check it out: thebaffler.com/latest/gimme...
Gimme More | Thea Riofrancos
The notion of any single “energy transition” masks the more complicated process of accumulation that undergirds capitalism.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:37 PM
This is such a smart and punchy review by @triofrancos.bsky.social in @thebaffler.com on history, the history of "energy transitions," and fossil capitalism. Check it out: thebaffler.com/latest/gimme...
This was an excellent, and sobering, read. Def check it out and congrats to The Baffler for publishing.
When the AI slop summer reading list dropped last year I knew I had to write about making book lists. Thanks to @thebaffler.com for letting me go long with bewildered nostalgia & regret on 20 years of Internet book culture & how we made the slop book list inevitable. thebaffler.com/after-the-fa...
List and Shout | Lydia Kiesling
The labor involved in making lists was as close to the opposite of a transcendent reading experience as a disillusioned culture worker could get.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:29 PM
This was an excellent, and sobering, read. Def check it out and congrats to The Baffler for publishing.
New for me! (I was lucky to go to grad school w/Peter Staudenmaier. And if the books aren’t enough, how great that AK press throws in rad sticker!)
January 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
New for me! (I was lucky to go to grad school w/Peter Staudenmaier. And if the books aren’t enough, how great that AK press throws in rad sticker!)
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Apparently but unsurprisingly the druids are on our side
I can't believe that this has been an option the entire time
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
*sets up school for raccoons against racism*
January 15, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Apparently but unsurprisingly the druids are on our side
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Climate Journalism ain't what it used to be ... as a 10-year-old time capsule I opened on New Year's Eve revealed.
Here's my inaugural column for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social, which I'll be writing monthly
www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
Here's my inaugural column for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social, which I'll be writing monthly
www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
A Time Capsule Reveals the Urgent Tone of Climate Journalism in the 2010s
What a 10-year-old time capsule reveals about the state of climate reporting.
www.earthisland.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Climate Journalism ain't what it used to be ... as a 10-year-old time capsule I opened on New Year's Eve revealed.
Here's my inaugural column for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social, which I'll be writing monthly
www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
Here's my inaugural column for @earthislandjournal.bsky.social, which I'll be writing monthly
www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
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I will be giving a free public lecture on Tuesday, February 24th at 6:30 pm as a part of Hofstra University's Science Night Live series.
The title of my talk is, "Ancient Trees Bring New Knowledge in Our Rapidly Changing World"
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The title of my talk is, "Ancient Trees Bring New Knowledge in Our Rapidly Changing World"
news.hofstra.edu/event/scienc...
January 14, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I will be giving a free public lecture on Tuesday, February 24th at 6:30 pm as a part of Hofstra University's Science Night Live series.
The title of my talk is, "Ancient Trees Bring New Knowledge in Our Rapidly Changing World"
news.hofstra.edu/event/scienc...
The title of my talk is, "Ancient Trees Bring New Knowledge in Our Rapidly Changing World"
news.hofstra.edu/event/scienc...