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✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
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📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com
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📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com
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🎧New Critical Friends! It was a real pleasure to convene this talk with Paul March-Russell of @sffoundation.bsky.social and Jacqueline Nyathi of @hararereview.bsky.social.
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
On the hopeful imagination: “We should have a much bigger perspective when we’re thinking about how to get to the future.” (JN)
Critical Friends Episode 17: On Imagining Hopefully
Dan Hartland is joined by Paul March-Russell and Jacqueline Nyathi to discuss speculative fiction’s approach to hope and optimism. Where has it gone? How do writers express it? And what are its pit…
strangehorizons.com
First(ish) time on a (books, definitely) podcast! (I’m really shy and talking is hard). But Dan and Paul were really great to chat with and this is a subject I’m apparently really passionate about 😆
Oh, and this was lovely
Join us on December 10th, 2025, for a virtual reading celebrating the winners of the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers! Learn more and register: pen.org/event/pen-da...
PEN/Dau Prize x Catapult: Reading from Best Debut Short Stories 2025
Ten winners of the 2025 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers will read selections from their award-winning stories.
pen.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Oh, and this was lovely
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A Real-Life Monster Movie - Reactor
Giant mindless monsters swarm the coasts, overwhelm fisheries, and defying all attempts to stop them...
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December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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The women-focused media and lifestyle company, headed by book club maven Reese Witherspoon, has teamed with luxury fashion brand Coach to launch Sunnie Reads, a community for Gen Z readers. Its inaugural pick will be announced in January.
Hello Sunshine to Host Gen Z–Focused Book Club
The women-focused media and lifestyle company, owned by book club maven Reese Witherspoon, has teamed with luxury fashion brand Coach to launch Sunnie Reads, a community for Gen Z readers. Its…
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December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The women-focused media and lifestyle company, headed by book club maven Reese Witherspoon, has teamed with luxury fashion brand Coach to launch Sunnie Reads, a community for Gen Z readers. Its inaugural pick will be announced in January.
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Not so long, long ago, in our very own galaxy:
"At Cambridge(...) Wole Soyinka, the future Nobel Prize laureate from Nigeria, had been denied a visiting appointment in the department the year I arrived, ostensibly because African literature was not English literature."
Henry Louis Gates @nybooks.com
"At Cambridge(...) Wole Soyinka, the future Nobel Prize laureate from Nigeria, had been denied a visiting appointment in the department the year I arrived, ostensibly because African literature was not English literature."
Henry Louis Gates @nybooks.com
Suddenly, Jamaica | Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Jamaica Kincaid’s commanding, irreverent work immerses her readers in a black world without explaining or defining its blackness. This seems to be a major departure in the history of African American ...
www.nybooks.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Westland Books invites submission for vol. 2
of the IF anthology of new Indian SFF. Closes March 1.
sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...
of the IF anthology of new Indian SFF. Closes March 1.
sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...
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January 1, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Westland Books invites submission for vol. 2
of the IF anthology of new Indian SFF. Closes March 1.
sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...
of the IF anthology of new Indian SFF. Closes March 1.
sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...
January 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
ICYMT:
For the Books of the Year issue at the WSJ, I've written about a trend that struck me in a lot of 2025 fiction--a revived interest in the art of the story. I sense that novelists are tired of ceding the role of the storyteller to advertisers and podcasters. (Gift link.) www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Fiction: The Year Novelists Reclaimed the Narrative
A lively plot in a literary novel? The worthy works of 2025 revel in storytelling.
www.wsj.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:33 PM
ICYMT:
2026 Angoulême Comics Festival cancelled amid calls for boycott www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
Next year's Angoulême Comics Festival cancelled amid calls for boycott
The cancellation of the upcoming festival was expected after a monthslong crisis over its governance. Authors and publishers pulled out of the event last month.
www.euronews.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:29 PM
2026 Angoulême Comics Festival cancelled amid calls for boycott www.euronews.com/culture/2025...
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A few other pieces that I was hoping would publish this year - my Jeffrey Ford essay, in particular - but I guess I'll go ahead and call it and say this is my 2025 summary. Go to doomsdayer.wordpress.com and follow some links to some criticism of weird fiction. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.
December 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A few other pieces that I was hoping would publish this year - my Jeffrey Ford essay, in particular - but I guess I'll go ahead and call it and say this is my 2025 summary. Go to doomsdayer.wordpress.com and follow some links to some criticism of weird fiction. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.
Over 100 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2025 - Chicago Review of Books
Over 100 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2025 - Chicago Review of Books
Here are the 2025 debuts by trans, nonbinary, and gender non-conforming authors you should know about.
chireviewofbooks.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Over 100 Notable Debuts by Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Non-Conforming Authors in 2025 - Chicago Review of Books
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On January 1, 1804, revolutionaries established the independent country of Haiti, the first nation to permanently ban slavery. As we begin a year engulfed by the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, it’s worth reading the Haitian Declaration of Independence in full. 🇭🇹
January 1, 2026 at 1:04 PM
On January 1, 1804, revolutionaries established the independent country of Haiti, the first nation to permanently ban slavery. As we begin a year engulfed by the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, it’s worth reading the Haitian Declaration of Independence in full. 🇭🇹
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The Shichifukujin journey in the Takarabune (宝船 'Treasure Ship') to the human realm for the first three days of New Year.
Placing an image of the Takarabune beneath your pillow on January 2nd is said to encourage dreams.
If you dream of the boat, the year will be a lucky one.
#Japan #NewYear #宝船
Placing an image of the Takarabune beneath your pillow on January 2nd is said to encourage dreams.
If you dream of the boat, the year will be a lucky one.
#Japan #NewYear #宝船
December 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
January 1, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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PLEASE SHARE: WoodPig Press is a new micro-press specialising in speculative fiction and non-fiction. We open to submissions on 5th January 2026. When we do, we're going to be doing things a bit differently... (thread)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
December 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
PLEASE SHARE: WoodPig Press is a new micro-press specialising in speculative fiction and non-fiction. We open to submissions on 5th January 2026. When we do, we're going to be doing things a bit differently... (thread)
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
#books #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
*shudder*
This looks so spectacularly bad and like such a bizarrely off-putting adaptation of the book that while I will probably not see the movie, I do look forward to all of the stories about the making of it that eventually come out. (and hey, more fodder for The Studio!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wL...
Animal Farm | Official Trailer | In Theaters May 1 | Angel
YouTube video by Angel
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January 1, 2026 at 3:08 PM
*shudder*
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Finally, Clarke's Bookshop in Long Street, Cape Town, and Obz Books in Lower Main Road, Observatory, Cape Town, also have copies of my zines.
For all of these stores, if they run out of stock you can ask for them to order more and they will contact me to drop off copies.
For all of these stores, if they run out of stock you can ask for them to order more and they will contact me to drop off copies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Finally, Clarke's Bookshop in Long Street, Cape Town, and Obz Books in Lower Main Road, Observatory, Cape Town, also have copies of my zines.
For all of these stores, if they run out of stock you can ask for them to order more and they will contact me to drop off copies.
For all of these stores, if they run out of stock you can ask for them to order more and they will contact me to drop off copies.
And in case you missed this news:
I’ve been sitting on this news for so long I can hardly believe it’s finally ‘out the bag’…
If you’ve read the trade press you may already have spotted that @twolinespress.com will be launching in the UK next April! In case you missed it, read here: www.thebookseller.com/news/two-lin...
If you’ve read the trade press you may already have spotted that @twolinespress.com will be launching in the UK next April! In case you missed it, read here: www.thebookseller.com/news/two-lin...
Two Lines Press brings translated fiction list to UK and Europe
Two Lines Press has announced that its books are now available in the UK and Europe, distributed by Turnaround Publishing Services.
www.thebookseller.com
January 1, 2026 at 2:58 PM
And in case you missed this news:
ICYMI
Book submissions for the George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in 18th-Century Scholarship are now open—Jan 15 deadline. If you published a peer reviewed book in 2024 or 25, please submit! $500 cash prize. RT’s appreciated 🙏🏼 asecs.org/resources/ol...
George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship – ASECS
asecs.org
January 1, 2026 at 2:53 PM
ICYMI
The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025 Longlists - National Book Critics Circle
www.bookcritics.org/awards/
www.bookcritics.org/awards/
The National Book Critics Circle Awards - National Book Critics Circle
Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism. In…
www.bookcritics.org
January 1, 2026 at 2:50 PM
The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2025 Longlists - National Book Critics Circle
www.bookcritics.org/awards/
www.bookcritics.org/awards/
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I know this is, sadly, the same for many of my fellow authors - great thread here from @kristiedegaris.bsky.social on how this all works for anyone who might not know why not all traditionally published authors are gazillionaire. Like Kristie, I hope my book "accumulates". bsky.app/profile/kris...
Just had my "unearned" royalty statements which means I've earned no money from my books in the past 6 months. BUT sold THOUSANDS of copies of "Why Don't Things Fall Up?" when discounted at "The Works". So, the book is good enough for people to buy when cheap, but not when full price.
Why Don’t Things Fall Up?
Why Don’t Things Fall Up? delivers what every adult and schoolchild deserves, but often doesn’t get: an authoritative and accessible account of the key ideas in science. The book is rooted in Alom’…
alomshaha.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I know this is, sadly, the same for many of my fellow authors - great thread here from @kristiedegaris.bsky.social on how this all works for anyone who might not know why not all traditionally published authors are gazillionaire. Like Kristie, I hope my book "accumulates". bsky.app/profile/kris...
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Just had my "unearned" royalty statements which means I've earned no money from my books in the past 6 months. BUT sold THOUSANDS of copies of "Why Don't Things Fall Up?" when discounted at "The Works". So, the book is good enough for people to buy when cheap, but not when full price.
Why Don’t Things Fall Up?
Why Don’t Things Fall Up? delivers what every adult and schoolchild deserves, but often doesn’t get: an authoritative and accessible account of the key ideas in science. The book is rooted in Alom’…
alomshaha.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Just had my "unearned" royalty statements which means I've earned no money from my books in the past 6 months. BUT sold THOUSANDS of copies of "Why Don't Things Fall Up?" when discounted at "The Works". So, the book is good enough for people to buy when cheap, but not when full price.
ICYMT
shoutout to Count Benyowsky, the 18th century con artist who convinced the french government to fund his conquest of madagascar and then paid the locals to pretend he was king if anybody stopped by. we used to have proper criminals
January 1, 2026 at 2:44 PM
ICYMT
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It is perilous to write about beauty, because it transports you to a boundlessness, and, looking over that borderline, your assumption that there must be something beyond it is no longer a mere hypothesis: magazine.tank.tv/issue-95/fea...
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
It is perilous to write about beauty, because it transports you to a boundlessness, and, looking over that borderline, your assumption that there must be something beyond it is no longer a mere hypothesis: magazine.tank.tv/issue-95/fea...