Amy Martin
@amymartin13.bsky.social
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Amy Martin
@amymartin13.bsky.social
· Jul 7
Took a holiday & missed some stellar news: congrats to @genni.bsky.social and all the contributors for winning this year’s Locus Award for Non-fiction!
www.youtube.com/live/OHC4BKH... (timestamp 29:08)
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"The hardest times to live through are the hardest times to write about."
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
Imagining the Truth
Nicole Walker expands the boundaries of creative nonfiction when facts can’t tell the whole story.
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org
October 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"The hardest times to live through are the hardest times to write about."
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️
writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...
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📖 Also of interest during #BannedBooksWeek: The Rhetoric of Manipulation by Robert Harvey
Explore how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-of-...
Explore how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-of-...
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📖 Also of interest during #BannedBooksWeek: The Rhetoric of Manipulation by Robert Harvey
Explore how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-of-...
Explore how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.
🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-of-...
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Woop! My next book, HOT TYPE, a cultural history of the Linotype and the arc of mass media, is available for preorder & 25% off at Waterstones, for my UK friends. (I'm still editing it!) It's a fascinating & epic tale. Preorders are much-appreciated: www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
October 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Woop! My next book, HOT TYPE, a cultural history of the Linotype and the arc of mass media, is available for preorder & 25% off at Waterstones, for my UK friends. (I'm still editing it!) It's a fascinating & epic tale. Preorders are much-appreciated: www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...
The book that just keeps winning! Congrats to @genni.bsky.social for yet another well deserved accolade. 🎉🥳👏🏼
'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' is the winner of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction! 🙌🎉
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!
🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
October 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The book that just keeps winning! Congrats to @genni.bsky.social for yet another well deserved accolade. 🎉🥳👏🏼
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Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
September 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.
Collective boycott.
Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.
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Hey look, a dead canary.
September 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Hey look, a dead canary.
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Next up: multistate organizations to mirror the functions of the former NIH, CDC, and FDA that can review newly developed vaccines and treatments.
Important: Gavin Newsom just announced that California, Oregon, Hawaii and Washington State released unified west coast vaccine recommendations expressly designed to counterprogram Trump/RFK's destruction of our public health system.
This will gain momentum in blue states (see thread below).
This will gain momentum in blue states (see thread below).
September 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Next up: multistate organizations to mirror the functions of the former NIH, CDC, and FDA that can review newly developed vaccines and treatments.
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The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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This study is one of the most important developments in extreme weather attribution science over the last two decades: deaths from Swiss heat waves traced back to specific firms like Exxon and Saudi Aramco. Don't miss Table S7 - it's going to change the way we fight fossil fuel companies.
And you can read it open-access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Refining methods for attributing health impacts to climate change: a heat-mortality case study in Zürich - Climatic Change
Heat-related deaths occur throughout the summer months, peak during heatwaves, and are affected by temperature and exposed populations’ sensitivities to meteorological conditions. Previous studies fou...
link.springer.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This study is one of the most important developments in extreme weather attribution science over the last two decades: deaths from Swiss heat waves traced back to specific firms like Exxon and Saudi Aramco. Don't miss Table S7 - it's going to change the way we fight fossil fuel companies.
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Frost: We need housing not handcuffs. We have a housing crisis in this country. Every time the rent goes up $100, homelessness goes up 9%… We shouldn’t be criminalizing homeless people for the failures of government
September 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Frost: We need housing not handcuffs. We have a housing crisis in this country. Every time the rent goes up $100, homelessness goes up 9%… We shouldn’t be criminalizing homeless people for the failures of government
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Start of the week reminder that the biggest public health story in America is that we’re building concentration camps
August 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Start of the week reminder that the biggest public health story in America is that we’re building concentration camps
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Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
August 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
So cool to have Suzanne Jill Levine featured on the 3% pod during #WomenInTranslation month!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Three Percent Podcast #201: Suzanne Jill Levine's
Podcast Episode · Three Percent Podcast · 08/18/2025 · 54m
podcasts.apple.com
August 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
So cool to have Suzanne Jill Levine featured on the 3% pod during #WomenInTranslation month!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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August 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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In this essay from 2015, Suzanne Jill Levine recalls a series of meetings with Pablo Neruda. Read it for #WITMonth, and don’t forget to pick up your copy of Levine’s book UNFAITHFUL: A TRANSLATOR’S MEMOIR: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
In this essay from 2015, Suzanne Jill Levine recalls a series of meetings with Pablo Neruda. Read it for #WITMonth, and don’t forget to pick up your copy of Levine’s book UNFAITHFUL: A TRANSLATOR’S MEMOIR: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations
www.nytimes.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
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if you want to have a nice and relaxing sunday, do not watch the new Hulu documentary on Hurricane Katrina. if you want to shake with rage and anger over the total failure of this nation's government and media establishment, watch the Hulu documentary on Katrina (this is a recommendation)
August 4, 2025 at 12:38 AM
if you want to have a nice and relaxing sunday, do not watch the new Hulu documentary on Hurricane Katrina. if you want to shake with rage and anger over the total failure of this nation's government and media establishment, watch the Hulu documentary on Katrina (this is a recommendation)
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NEW: Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign submitted faked and fraudulently obtained petition signatures in his effort to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent candidate, a Gothamist investigation has found.
gothamist.com/news/forged-...
gothamist.com/news/forged-...
Forged signatures found on Mayor Adams’ petitions to run as an independent
The Adams campaign said it is conducting a review after Gothamist found signatures that were fraudulently obtained or outright forged.
gothamist.com
August 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM
NEW: Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign submitted faked and fraudulently obtained petition signatures in his effort to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent candidate, a Gothamist investigation has found.
gothamist.com/news/forged-...
gothamist.com/news/forged-...
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ICE GOONS draw guns on humanitarian aid workers
July 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
ICE GOONS draw guns on humanitarian aid workers
I recently moved to Oregon coast from NYC & was expecting huge culture shock. It hasn’t set in yet, but I have been enjoying the quiet, cool weather and/on sunny days, & somehow less rain than NYC (where they’re having flood warnings?!). But let me check back in once the rainy season is here.
July 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I recently moved to Oregon coast from NYC & was expecting huge culture shock. It hasn’t set in yet, but I have been enjoying the quiet, cool weather and/on sunny days, & somehow less rain than NYC (where they’re having flood warnings?!). But let me check back in once the rainy season is here.
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New post in the Research Spotlight series on our blog!
B L Jayadev provides an overview of his research on addiction memoirs and the impact this literary form can have on scholars and practitioners.
💻 bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2025/07/beyo...
#AcademicSky #AcademiaSky #phdlife
B L Jayadev provides an overview of his research on addiction memoirs and the impact this literary form can have on scholars and practitioners.
💻 bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2025/07/beyo...
#AcademicSky #AcademiaSky #phdlife
July 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New post in the Research Spotlight series on our blog!
B L Jayadev provides an overview of his research on addiction memoirs and the impact this literary form can have on scholars and practitioners.
💻 bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2025/07/beyo...
#AcademicSky #AcademiaSky #phdlife
B L Jayadev provides an overview of his research on addiction memoirs and the impact this literary form can have on scholars and practitioners.
💻 bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2025/07/beyo...
#AcademicSky #AcademiaSky #phdlife
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'Song Lyrics and Literary History' is out now!
Paving new paths for the study of the history of literature, this study explores the intricate networks of one single poem across two centuries – the 'Vårvindar friska', a poem meant to be sung.
📗 bit.ly/40O9eEH
Paving new paths for the study of the history of literature, this study explores the intricate networks of one single poem across two centuries – the 'Vårvindar friska', a poem meant to be sung.
📗 bit.ly/40O9eEH
July 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
'Song Lyrics and Literary History' is out now!
Paving new paths for the study of the history of literature, this study explores the intricate networks of one single poem across two centuries – the 'Vårvindar friska', a poem meant to be sung.
📗 bit.ly/40O9eEH
Paving new paths for the study of the history of literature, this study explores the intricate networks of one single poem across two centuries – the 'Vårvindar friska', a poem meant to be sung.
📗 bit.ly/40O9eEH
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An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!
July 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!