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Eden Robins
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Author of REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE & WHEN FRANNY STANDS UP & soon: DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY (as 1/2 of Birdie Horne) | http://monkeythumbs.com | Also: amateur deep-sea scientist and (former) crossing guard
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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Jun 18
Cannot tell you how unbelievable it feels to be on this shortlist, and in holy cow such amazing company!!!
ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Jun 18
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson
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dumplingmenace.bsky.social
every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:13 PM
edenrobins.bsky.social
I don't know if it's just due to delirium from being at the airport for 4 hours, but it appears a young kid is helping another young kid put on a giant inflatable dragon costume with no adults in sight
January 19, 2026 at 3:25 AM
edenrobins.bsky.social
Digging into the phenomenology of cheeseburgers is the sort of thing that keeps me coming back to the internet, despite everything
hels.bsky.social Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 14d
Sometimes someone writes to my intermittent @newyorker.com advice column and sets me up in a manner resembling Payton alley-ooping Kent www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
THE FOOD SCENE HELEN, HELP ME: ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF CHEESEBURGERS A New Yorker food critic answers questions about burger toppings, beef tallow, and the subjectivity of memory. By Helen Rosner January 18, 2026 How do you approach the sweetness of pickle relish on a cheeseburger? Does it complement or compete with ketchup? There was a legendary place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that used to do mustard, relish, and ketchup, and I can't for the life of me decide if I loved it, or if I just loved being there in the middle of the night eating it. — Brian K., N.Y. C. Honestly, I've never really considered pickle relish to be one of the hamburger's totemic toppings. Sliced pickle rounds, certainly; spears on the side, without a doubt. But relish, that finely chopped, neon-hued, marmalade-textured stuff? To me, that's a hot-dog thing-which I mention here not to issue judgment but rather to illustrate how distinct my own personal associations are from your own. Herein, I think, lies the answer to your real question, which is not actually about the sweetness of the relish. The question of what toppings make a burger great, while we're eating it, is both technical and trivial, having to do with the nature of the patty and the bun, the mood of the establishment serving it, the sensibilities of the person eating it, even the time of day or night or life. Regarding the substance of the burger itself, the same accoutrements that might show a slim, lacey-edged smash patty in its best light—a little slick of mustard, a few circles of raw onion, and a melty cap of American cheese, say-might be too flimsy against the brawny heft of a half-pound bar burger that can sustain degrees of sweetness, richness, and piquancy (your barbecue sauces, your secondary meats, your nontraditional cheeses) that would suffocate a smaller patty. But what you're really asking, I think, is what makes a burger great not as it's being eaten but as it lives on in memory. Or, more to the point, how can we know that our memories of happiness are true? I spend an inordinate portion of my professional life creeping around in my own psyche, untangling knots of nostalgia and pleasure and, god, so many emotions, not least self-love and self-loathing, all of them unavoidable colorants of any bite I take. I give myself the task of locating some sort of unassailable, uncontaminated truth: that this dish of dumplings, or that cocktail, or such-and-such restaurant is actually, inarguably, wonderful. It's impossible, of course, and more than a little absurd, but it's so irresistible, isn't it, to attempt to discharge the burden of our own experience? Was that burger you ate from the Tasty, in Harvard Square? I think it must have been, and it's been nearly thirty years since that perfect little sandwich shop closed forever. I imagine it was a simple construction: a bun, a patty, a slice of cheese, ketchup, mustard, relish. But you created it, just as much as the white-capped guy standing at the grill did. The mouth and brain and cascade of sensations were yours. There is no true burger per se, lurking behind your experience of it; it didn't become the burger you ate until you ate it. It's a ludicrous idea, this notion of an objective culinary truth, but it's even more ludicrous that we're so quick to doubt our own taste in pursuit of it. Just as I go looking for proof that my rapture— or, at times, misery—at a given meal has nothing at all to do with me, here you are wondering whether you should append an asterisk to your reminiscence of a long-ago cheeseburger, one that you could never eat again, even if the Tasty were still up and running. Why question a recollection of sweetness, even of the pickle variety? You did love the relish. And you love the person you see in your memory: a young man, awake in the middle of the night, a burger topped with relish in his hands.
January 19, 2026 at 12:37 AM
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First up, a book I read all the way back in January, and which came out in 2024. I am so glad it made the LeGuin shortlist, because until that point, I was distressed how little I'd seen it being discussed for how /interesting/ it is. It is Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins.
Cover of Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins
December 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Remember You Will Die by @edenrobins.bsky.social is an alternate history sci-fi told entirely in obituaries. I can't remember when I've read something so original while also taking big formal risks. A triumph.
Cover of "Remember You Will Die" by Eden Robins. Blurry background of a landscape image with the title in reversing typeface framing the forward version.
December 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
"Eligible to New York City-based artists with children under the age of three, awardees will receive a grant for $25,000 to be used for childcare expenses with the provider of their choice." www.artistsandmothers.org/grant - Applications due by Jan 2.
Grant — Artists and Mothers
www.artistsandmothers.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
edenrobins.bsky.social
Well! This was a nice surprise!! Remember You Will Die is Google Play's favorite sci-fi read of 2025! play.google.com/store/books/...
A screen grab from Google Play with the cover of Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins as "Our most outstanding sci-fi read of 2025" with the text review: "This book is a stunning achievement in fiction unlike any novel you've ever read before (seriously). This story is told through a series of obituaries that, when connected, create a masterpiece that covers themes of A.I., environmentalism, queer identity, and grief. If the unique form of storytelling isn't enough to hook you, the eccentric cast of characters will definitely do the trick."
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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paperalphabet.bsky.social
this is so real
runwithskizzers.bsky.social Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Jun 6
I love writing my manuscript, I get to use my two favorite letters together over and over
A muppet version of the letter "T" a muppet version of the letter "K"
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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kateheartfield.com
"There is nothing inherently liberatory in the imagination,but it must be made so." Please watch the Ursula K. Le Guin prize acceptance speech from @vajra.me and read his work, and support the Sameer Project.
2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation
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October 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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ursulakleguin.com
Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.
October 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ursulakleguin.com
On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT.

The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...
The eight books shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction are in a stack, with a note on top that reads "Prize winner announcement 10.21.25 9 am PDT." The books are North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher; Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins; The City in Glass by Nghi Vo; The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy; The West Passage by Jared Pechaček; Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera; Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston; and Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson.
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!
October 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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maryrobinettekowal.com
My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.
ddwardiswriting.bsky.social DD Ward ..."Sapphic Dr. DOOM" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · Oct 12
So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?
October 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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rlmartstudio.bsky.social
This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.
A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.
October 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
edenrobins.bsky.social
It remains an absolute thrill to be short-listed for this award. I'm making my way through the whole list and these books are IN-CRE-DI-BL-E
ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Oct 9
🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Remember You Will Die traces the lives of artists, activists, scientists, and more as they intersect with the existence of a yearning AI. Eden Robins weaves a polyphonic narrative that is intergenerational, art-filled, and subversive.
A photograph of Eden Robins' novel Remember You Will Die, which rests on a black metal shelf next to a small glass vase full of greenery: red berries, green and white flowers, and a shaggy sprig of foliage. “Profoundly mistrustful of her own legacy, Dante Pellegrino would have hated this belated obituary. But then again, such remembrances are not for the dead at all. They are for the living—the living now and the living to come. Remember us, we whisper into the ears of the future. Our mistakes have made you possible.” from Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins
October 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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We're gearing up for the 1-year anniversary of Remember You Will Die and the audiobook is 70% off until 11/1! Fill your ears with death, art, and weirdness for a temporarily reduced price here: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
The cover for the book Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins with the text "one year anniversary audiobook sale, 70% off until 11/1"
October 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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shipmanagency.bsky.social
Ireland! Please take me back! Allow those with Irish great grandparents to come back! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
mikeachim.bsky.social Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · Oct 6
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
October 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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kylethiessen.bsky.social
I don't know who this "Birdie Horne" is but she sounds very talented and attractive and like she knows a lot about being a crossing guard
edenrobins.bsky.social Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Oct 7
🛑It's COVER REVEAL TIME!!!!🛑

Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...
A book cover for the forthcoming comedy murder mystery Don't Cross Mo Ellery, by Birdie Horne.
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
edenrobins.bsky.social
🛑It's COVER REVEAL TIME!!!!🛑

Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...
A book cover for the forthcoming comedy murder mystery Don't Cross Mo Ellery, by Birdie Horne.
October 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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jonathanslaght.com
super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.
September 18, 2025 at 12:27 AM
edenrobins.bsky.social
On a winning reading streak this month:

Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social - languid, queer, gloriously strange

Rakesfall by @vajra.me - Allow me to be the 1st to say this book rules

In the middle of Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social - love it so much I brought it on vacation
August 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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edenrobins.bsky.social
It is I! A googly-eyed sock who believes our great power is that the future remains uncertain
ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Aug 22
Eden Robins (@edenrobins.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from Remember You Will Die, her novel in obituaries, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
August 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM