Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c.
@gavingrant.bsky.social
Gavin J. Grant. He/him. Born: 323ppm. Peely-wally vegan Scottish immigrant. Equality? I like it. BLM. Antifascist. Trans rights=human rights. Long covid 12/21, meh. Tired. Wears masks, asks you to, too. smallbeerpress.com (closed) & LCRW. bookmoonbooks.com
Pinned
These brighter ones went up last February and have proved popular. Thanks to everyone who bought them (and donated) we've sold 199 and raised $2,121 for Safe Place International
www.bonfire.com/read-books-p...
www.bonfire.com/read-books-p...
Went to ICFA, an sff conference in Orlando for the first time 20+ years ago. Brian Aldiss was there — woah, I’d loved some of his books as a kid. Horrid old man. Serial groper. Ruined con for many young women who did not return. Con took action but sloooowly as he’d been going, the fucker, for years
A thread about Isaac Asimov that is true for the way serial abusers are handled in all fields:
"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?
February 8, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Went to ICFA, an sff conference in Orlando for the first time 20+ years ago. Brian Aldiss was there — woah, I’d loved some of his books as a kid. Horrid old man. Serial groper. Ruined con for many young women who did not return. Con took action but sloooowly as he’d been going, the fucker, for years
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BKMN will be closed Friday Jan. 30th in support of the Minneapolis general strike.
Lots of stores closing tomorrow:
www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
Publishing for Minnesota fundraising auction:
www.32auctions.com/organization...
Lots of stores closing tomorrow:
www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
Publishing for Minnesota fundraising auction:
www.32auctions.com/organization...
Publishing for Minnesota
Silent auction 'Publishing for Minnesota' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:59 PM
BKMN will be closed Friday Jan. 30th in support of the Minneapolis general strike.
Lots of stores closing tomorrow:
www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
Publishing for Minnesota fundraising auction:
www.32auctions.com/organization...
Lots of stores closing tomorrow:
www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...
Publishing for Minnesota fundraising auction:
www.32auctions.com/organization...
Senator: it is long past time to reform this masked militia. It is time for abolishment and trials.
January 27, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Senator: it is long past time to reform this masked militia. It is time for abolishment and trials.
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I’ve been calling to stop DHS and ICE funding since Renee Good was murdered. Americans are watching in outrage while their neighbors are murdered on tv and cities get taken over. Senators have the power to do something about it. We need to stop funding DHS now.
January 24, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I’ve been calling to stop DHS and ICE funding since Renee Good was murdered. Americans are watching in outrage while their neighbors are murdered on tv and cities get taken over. Senators have the power to do something about it. We need to stop funding DHS now.
I don't know — it's from the page below. It does have a weird credit but I figured it was probably bad site code rather than anything else. Could be wrong!
"Demonstrators march in Tblisi, Georgia, on January 10,2026. © 2024 Sebastien Canaud/NurPhoto via AP Photo"
www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...
"Demonstrators march in Tblisi, Georgia, on January 10,2026. © 2024 Sebastien Canaud/NurPhoto via AP Photo"
www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...
January 23, 2026 at 10:43 PM
I don't know — it's from the page below. It does have a weird credit but I figured it was probably bad site code rather than anything else. Could be wrong!
"Demonstrators march in Tblisi, Georgia, on January 10,2026. © 2024 Sebastien Canaud/NurPhoto via AP Photo"
www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...
"Demonstrators march in Tblisi, Georgia, on January 10,2026. © 2024 Sebastien Canaud/NurPhoto via AP Photo"
www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...
Protests against authoritarian regimes
1) today at the Minneapolis airport, USA
2) Tblisi, Georgia, Jan. 10, 2026
1) today at the Minneapolis airport, USA
2) Tblisi, Georgia, Jan. 10, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Protests against authoritarian regimes
1) today at the Minneapolis airport, USA
2) Tblisi, Georgia, Jan. 10, 2026
1) today at the Minneapolis airport, USA
2) Tblisi, Georgia, Jan. 10, 2026
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Cookies at the bookstore
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Cookies at the bookstore
cold
just to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 9:58 PM
cold
Scotland qualified for the first time in 28 years so: they should definitely boycott
Top football official calls for World Cup boycott over Trump Greenland demands
Top football official calls for World Cup boycott over Trump Greenland demands
Top football official calls for World Cup boycott over Trump Greenland demands
www.independent.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Scotland qualified for the first time in 28 years so: they should definitely boycott
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Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
January 23, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.
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— Israel kills 3 journalists, including CBS contributor
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
Bari Weiss’s CBS News Won’t Even Condemn Israel for Killing a CBS Contributor
Instead, the network’s new top anchor Tony Dokoupil peddles Israel’s talking points about it killing a Palestinian journalist. A CBS source calls it a ‘disgrace.’
zeteo.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:42 PM
— Israel kills 3 journalists, including CBS contributor
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
— AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
— CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
Oh would I like that! You should see the condition of my Virago edition — I think I'd given away all my good copies. It's the same plates as the F&F edition, amazing. But don't send if it's £££! Maybe the publisher can or I can order it :)
January 23, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Oh would I like that! You should see the condition of my Virago edition — I think I'd given away all my good copies. It's the same plates as the F&F edition, amazing. But don't send if it's £££! Maybe the publisher can or I can order it :)
Me too! I could not remember how we'd gotten the text — group of volunteers . . . scanned by Paradise Copies . . . then came across an rtf file you'd emailed — amazing! — and then this which I had to post.
January 23, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Me too! I could not remember how we'd gotten the text — group of volunteers . . . scanned by Paradise Copies . . . then came across an rtf file you'd emailed — amazing! — and then this which I had to post.
LMK what you think — I know by now it's not for everyone. I re-read it these past couple of days and it's sui generis. There are a couple of slower parts but mostly I just sail through it. I'll just go off an make my Halla Forever t-shirt or something.
January 23, 2026 at 6:19 PM
LMK what you think — I know by now it's not for everyone. I re-read it these past couple of days and it's sui generis. There are a couple of slower parts but mostly I just sail through it. I'll just go off an make my Halla Forever t-shirt or something.
I was looking up something about Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light & came across this 2005 piece @jedediahberry.bsky.social wrote for the Small Beer newsletter.
Cannot wait to get the beautiful new UK edition—looking forward to reading Samantha Shannon's intro.
smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...
Cannot wait to get the beautiful new UK edition—looking forward to reading Samantha Shannon's intro.
smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...
January 23, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I was looking up something about Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light & came across this 2005 piece @jedediahberry.bsky.social wrote for the Small Beer newsletter.
Cannot wait to get the beautiful new UK edition—looking forward to reading Samantha Shannon's intro.
smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...
Cannot wait to get the beautiful new UK edition—looking forward to reading Samantha Shannon's intro.
smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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ICE detained a five-year-old child and used him as bait in Minnesota.
Let that sink in.
This is sick. No more funding for Trump’s ICE thugs.
Let that sink in.
This is sick. No more funding for Trump’s ICE thugs.
January 22, 2026 at 5:31 PM
ICE detained a five-year-old child and used him as bait in Minnesota.
Let that sink in.
This is sick. No more funding for Trump’s ICE thugs.
Let that sink in.
This is sick. No more funding for Trump’s ICE thugs.
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Oh my goodness! One of my favorite stories; I’ve been wishing I could reprint it for many years. Glad to see it’ll be available!
Researchers K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin document the discovery of a family unable to conceive of gender...
Next week. "CONGENITAL AGENESIS OF GENDER IDEATION by K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin" by @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social!
Art by Reiko Murakami
Edited by @pnh.nielsenhayden.com
Next week. "CONGENITAL AGENESIS OF GENDER IDEATION by K. N. Sirsi and Sandra Botkin" by @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social!
Art by Reiko Murakami
Edited by @pnh.nielsenhayden.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Oh my goodness! One of my favorite stories; I’ve been wishing I could reprint it for many years. Glad to see it’ll be available!
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...the best in fact..! Joan Aiken was once celebrated as 'the greatest children's writer you have probably never read...'
But it's not too late, and she wrote for adults too ..
But it's not too late, and she wrote for adults too ..
January 22, 2026 at 11:59 AM
...the best in fact..! Joan Aiken was once celebrated as 'the greatest children's writer you have probably never read...'
But it's not too late, and she wrote for adults too ..
But it's not too late, and she wrote for adults too ..
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1. Cities and states should outlaw Amazon’s latest assault on small businesses — an AI tool that scrapes their websites and creates listings of their products within the Amazon app without their consent. It’s causing huge, costly problems. This can and should be banned.
January 22, 2026 at 1:23 PM
1. Cities and states should outlaw Amazon’s latest assault on small businesses — an AI tool that scrapes their websites and creates listings of their products within the Amazon app without their consent. It’s causing huge, costly problems. This can and should be banned.
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Here it is: Block by Frozen Block is a short, interactive poem I made in Twine as a vessel for ... all the stuff roiling around in my head as everyone here is fighting for our neighbors in big ways and small.
adeniro.itch.io/block-by-fro...
adeniro.itch.io/block-by-fro...
Block by Frozen Block by Anya Johanna DeNiro
an interactive poem from Saint Paul, Minnesota, January 2026
adeniro.itch.io
January 19, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Here it is: Block by Frozen Block is a short, interactive poem I made in Twine as a vessel for ... all the stuff roiling around in my head as everyone here is fighting for our neighbors in big ways and small.
adeniro.itch.io/block-by-fro...
adeniro.itch.io/block-by-fro...
!!! indeed!!!
January 22, 2026 at 12:47 AM
!!! indeed!!!
Such good news! A new home for Greer Gilman’s Moonwise and Cloud & Ashes and then, even better, a fabulous new novel, Lightwards:
We have some big news: Lanternfish Press will reissue the first 2 volumes of Greer Gilman's landmark Cloudish trilogy and publish the first edition of the concluding novel LIGHTWARDS, starting in Spring-Summer 2027.
Read more: lanternfishpress.com/news/gilman-...
Read more: lanternfishpress.com/news/gilman-...
Lanternfish Press acquires 2 reissues, 1 original work in Greer Gilman's Cloudish trilogy — Lanternfish Press
Lanternfish Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of Greer Gilman’s Cloudish Triptych, which will include the reissue of Moonwise and Cloud & Ashes and the original publication of the n...
lanternfishpress.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Such good news! A new home for Greer Gilman’s Moonwise and Cloud & Ashes and then, even better, a fabulous new novel, Lightwards:
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After a not-so-brief hiatus, we've re-opened submissions to our #WorkingTitles series, our digital e-book collection of works longer than can fit in our print journal. For a full set of guidelines, check out massreview.org/new-submissi...
Submissions - The Massachusetts Review Submission Guidelines Submissions
The Massachusetts Review 2025 – 2026 Submissions Period is now open. If you have submitted to us online, please check that your spam filters do not block our email. You can add massrev@external.umass...
massreview.org
January 21, 2026 at 4:48 PM
After a not-so-brief hiatus, we've re-opened submissions to our #WorkingTitles series, our digital e-book collection of works longer than can fit in our print journal. For a full set of guidelines, check out massreview.org/new-submissi...
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Curious what kinds of work we publish as Working Titles? Purchase a few from @weightlessbooks.bsky.social (They're only $1.99!!) weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...
Massachusetts Review Inc. – Weightless Books
weightlessbooks.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Curious what kinds of work we publish as Working Titles? Purchase a few from @weightlessbooks.bsky.social (They're only $1.99!!) weightlessbooks.com/category/pub...