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Alyson Foster
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Novelist, editor, fiction addict. Author of GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT (film coming in 2025!) and HEART ATTACK WATCH. Opinions expressed here are my own, as far as I know.

https://god-is-an-astronaut.com
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'Snowdrift barn' by contemporary British painter Kate Evans #WomensArt ##December2nd #ArtAdvent 🎄
December 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Academic, critic, and prolific podcaster @ckunzelman.bsky.social joins for a far-ranging discussion about how cli-fi, sci-fi, and personal & political connections to the environment intersect in Ned Beauman's @clarkeaward.bsky.social-winning VENOMOUS LUMPSUCKER. Bonus hog sighting.
A Meal of Thorns 38- VENOMOUS LUMPSUCKER with Cameron Kunzelman
Academic, critic, and prolific podcaster Cameron Kunzelman joins for a far-ranging discussion about how climate fiction, science fiction, and personal and political connections to the environment i…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
December 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Just watched this the other day.

It’s part of a tiny, exclusive club—films that are actually as great as the books they are based on.
Anchored by a career-high performance from Joel Edgerton, this tale of a stoic railroad laborer who experiences love and tragedy is a modest modern masterpiece.

Review ↓
'Train Dreams' Is a Tribute to the Men Who Built America
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December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Tell me @ grok what is it I should plan to do with my one wild and precious life?
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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'Three Waratahs' (hand painted version) from the series of linocuts of Native Australian flowers by contemporary printmaker Rachel Newling #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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It's been an amazing run, and now here I am. The last stop on the book tour!

DC friends, would love to go out with a bang, hug you all, sign a few books, and celebrate the end of the semester! Please come if you're free? ❤

peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/first-...
Hannah Grieco for First Kicking, Then Not
A young woman transforms after an unspeakable loss. A recent divorcee discovers a new life. An aging mother fears losing everything she loves, while another abandons her children at Starbucks. Firs…
peoplesbooktakoma.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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This is cool
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Extremely annoying Copilot is going to finally be the thing that motivates me to fix my old-school typewriter.
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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a poem before sleep

(translated by Kenneth Rexroth)
November 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Yvor Winters, from The Magpie's Shadow (1922)
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“Calvin and Hobbes … asks important questions without simplistically resolving them, revels in its own absurdities, and is filled with a deep understanding of people, of our swirling contradictions and complexities and conundrums.”
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Truth
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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From 'After' (2006)
—Jane Hirshfield

#poetry #poem #booksky
November 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Okay, this is really cool.
This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation. The fungi contain melanin, which “absorbs radiation, which is then converted into usable energy, allowing it to grow in areas with intense radioactive exposure.” [forbes.com]
This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation—A Biologist Explains
Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of fields.
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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[Enter two other Senators with a Messenger.]

THIRD SENATOR
Thou hast painfully discover’d; are his files
As full as thy report?
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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People need to study the humanities, case study number one million.
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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From 'In My Own Dark Way' (1977)
—William J. Harris

#poetry #poem #booksky
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM