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Kurt Baumeister
@kurtbaumeister.bsky.social
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Novels: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS (EARLY '25) + PAX AMERICANA (both Stalking Horse) Ed: 7.13 Books SRQ: Vol. 1 Brooklyn Words: Google Me: He/Him TNBCC
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Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social · Oct 11
My books in Powell's. TWILIGHT OF THE GODS now a staff pick from the incomparable Gigi Little! And thanks to Kevin Sampsell as well for stocking my books. Tagging my publisher. @jamesreich.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social
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grandiloquentwords.bsky.social
Our 2026 wall and desk calendars are available to order!
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Pre-order Grandiloquent Word of the Day 2026 Calendars on BackerKit
Grandiloquent words with definitions & pronunciations, vintage illustrations, daily holidays, and celestial details!
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November 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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erikaswyler.bsky.social
WHACK JOB, by Rachel McCarthy James and THE POISONER'S HANDBOOK by Deborah Blum
nikkimcr.bsky.social Nikki McCann Ramírez @nikkimcr.bsky.social · 22h
Prompt: if you had to performatively display two books that you wanted the NYT writer profiling you about your career ending scandal to notice, what would they be?
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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ambersparks.bsky.social
This review! “Happy people really don’t live here. Sorrow floats above them like the cemetery ghosts, unmoored and occasionally angry, everything framed within a madcap murder mystery…Sparks is a clever writer who has, by melding conventions from several genres, created a perfect hybrid”
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
And, again, if you have remote leads in writing, editing, marketing, teaching, publishing... I'd be very grateful!
pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 4d
Job hunting is definitely making me irritable. Just saw a job posting for 40k a year and asking for 15 years of fairly niche experience.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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erikaswyler.bsky.social
Convincing you to read WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON by *also* sharing two paragraphs instead of one sentence. Because I'm a giver.
Share yours.
In the center of an arid and cracked stretch of land, cradled by rock spires and hills long ago blasted for stone, the system known as Parallax breathes with wires in their walls, their pulse an ambient current, a tranquil electromagnetic field. They had begun not as a great expanse, but as a spark that grew with the city's population, as their walls went up. They grew as did trees, from root and branch, burgeoning. Parallax is not separate from the city of Bulwark's residents and has never considered themself to be—the system does not question function or purpose, and they are secure in their reason for existence. They ensure the lives of their residents are bettered. They are their residents. They are the city.
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
This is out in January and still would be grateful if anyone wants to pitch a review or interview for it!
pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · Sep 22
I know everything is trash but books are still good. My book is up for pre-order and id be grateful if you want to read it 🥺 will link to a few places in thread
The cover of Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N. Clark.
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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grandiloquentwords.bsky.social
Vibe Check - Which one are you today?
A grid with nine squares, each square displaying a different word with a corresponding cat. Square one = Multiloquous Square two = Languorous Square three = Sanguine Square four = Pernicious Square five = Surfeited Square six = Gobsmacked Square seven = Feral Square eight = Jubilant Square nine = Nihilistic
November 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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gigilittle.bsky.social
I'm having coffee and listening to the opening of my book being read on the Books to the Ceiling podcast. It's surreal to listen to someone I don't know reading it aloud. And giving it her own noir-y twist! Thank you to Teresa Trent and Books to the Ceiling. If you'd like to listen: wp.me/pnaIT-dpu
Who Killed One the Gun - Books to the Ceiling: The Author Blog of Teresa Trent
Who Killed One the Gun, a cozy noir mystery by Gigi Little is featured on Books to the Ceiling.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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taracampbell.bsky.social
For the Monday morning crowd

And thanks for the love, everyone! ❤️

#bottlecappress #amwriting #book #books #writing #smallpress #chapbook #chapbooks #independent #diy #poetrycommunity #poem #poems #poetrycollection #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #newbooks
taracampbell.bsky.social Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social · 12d
So, folks, I have a New Thing out
It's a #poetry chapbook called "All the Wayward Angels: Dream Sestinas" thru Bottlecap Press & it's got
keys & stars
prophecies & sobbing candles
ghosts & fox gods
oracles & barn skeletons
beasts & floods
and of course wayward angels

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All the Wayward Angels: Dream Sestinas, by Tara Campbell
Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Within these pages lies a world in which stars snarl, candles sob, and foxes build temples to their unfathomable gods. Have you ever wanted to foll...
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November 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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danchaon.bsky.social
Houston! Austin! LA! SF! Miami! So many exciting chances to touch hands!

Here's my November Tour Card!!!!
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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bradlisti.bsky.social
Tomorrow it'll be Jonathan Lethem on the podcast. His latest book, A DIFFERENT KIND OF TENSION: NEW AND SELECTED STORIES (Ecco), was the October book club pick. We last talked back in—I think it was 2013. So it's been a minute. And great to catch up.

🎧 Available wherever you get your shows.
November 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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erikaswyler.bsky.social
While I cannot vouch for either the lecture or the lecturer being distinguished, I can vouch for the Worldbuilding Initiative being one of the most hopeful things I've come across in quite some time.
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Fall 2025 Worldbuilding Distinguished Lecture with Erika Swyler
YouTube video by Humanities Institute
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October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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vol1brooklyn.bsky.social
In our weekend reading: an interview with Ruyan Meng, nonfiction from Amber Sparks, and more. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/25/w...
Weekend Bites: Ruyan Meng Interviewed, Amber Sparks on Miniatures, Adrian Van Young Fiction, and More
In our weekend reading: an interview with Ruyan Meng, nonfiction from Amber Sparks, and more.
www.vol1brooklyn.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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carolineleavitt.bsky.social
How Reframing My Anxiety Made Me Less Anxious | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/runs...
How Reframing My Anxiety Made Me Less Anxious
Personal Perspective: I've always been anxious, but a friend's description of me showed me how to reframe my worrying to have a happier, richer life.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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housleydave.bsky.social
Yo writer types @barrelhouse.bsky.social is open for submissions for THE DIRTY ISSUE, an online issue being produced by @mikeingram.bsky.social's Writers at Work class at Temple University. Send us/them your dirty (not in that way) lil stories poems essays! www.barrelhousemag.com/submission-i...
Barrelhouse is open for submissions for our next online issue, The Dirty Issue
October 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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writesloud.bsky.social
New SpotLIT up at @wcp.bsky.social, featuring @ambersparks.bsky.social and her brand new novel!

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Spot LIT: A Novel Haunting
D.C.'s Amber Sparks on her debut novel Happy People Don’t Live Here. Plus new releases, readings and, one Rare Book Collecting Festival.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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gigilittle.bsky.social
Looking forward to being on KBOO Radio today to talk about my book and old-time radio and other fun things with host @kenjones.bsky.social! 10:30 to 11:30am PT – live online at kboo.fm/ and on-air at 90.7 FM. It'll be archived after the broadcast here: kboo.org/.../129941-g....
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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chillsatwillpod.bsky.social
In an Ep305 clip, @lesbrains.bsky.social‬⁩ talks about the power of renaming, as her book so brilliantly interrogates colonial land grabs and revisionist and erased histories.

Buy Poppy State @timberpress.bsky.social‬⁩: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/myria...

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October 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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bookcritics.bsky.social
NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about surreal takes on London from the likes of Alan Moore, Helen Oyeyemi, Iain Sinclair, and Steve Aylett for Speculative Insight:
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October 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Because I am working on The Novel I am rethinking about this part of it which was published by @therumpus.net about this time last year
Rumpus Original Fiction: Obliquity - The Rumpus
Andrea tells me her hallucinations are getting worse, more frequent, more frightening, though she doesn’t elaborate on how.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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bookcritics.bsky.social
NBCC member Carol Iaciofano Aucoin reviewed two mystery novels, Olivia Blacke's "Death at the Door" and Tom Ryan's "We Had a Hunch," for WBUR's Arts & Culture:
Two new mystery novels to read in October
Olivia Blacke’s "Death at the Door" is a Boston-set cozy mystery featuring a human-ghost duo teaming up to solve a murder. Tom Ryan’s "We Had a Hunch" sees teen detectives reunite 25 years later to…
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October 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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bookcritics.bsky.social
NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about some translated books for Words Without Borders:
The Watchlist: September 2025 - Words Without Borders
This International Translation Day, Tobias Carroll recommends poetry by Afghan women, fiction from Croatia and Mozambique, and more.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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bradlisti.bsky.social
Great talk w Amber Sparks coming up tomorrow. She returns to the show for the first time in 13 years, celebrating the publication of her debut novel, HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE (Liveright).

Stay tuned...
October 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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bookcritics.bsky.social
NCC member Kurt Baumeister interviewed Amber Sparks for The Brooklyn Rail:
AMBER SPARKS with Kurt Baumeister | The Brooklyn Rail
There’s a level of eccentricity to Amber Sparks’s work that might in someone else’s hands come off as self-indulgence. What Sparks does though is to exhaustively research her off-beat topics and…
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October 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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bookcritics.bsky.social
NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed Simon Toyne’s "The Black Highway" for BookTrib:
Murder Surfaces Where the Thames Runs Dark | BookTrib.
English author Simon Toyne is not as well known on this side of the pond but deserves the full attention of any reader who devours taut, puzzling, edge-of-your-seat thrillers with complex plots. His…
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October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM