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Gwynne Garfinkle
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My short fiction collection SINKING, SINGING is available from Aqueduct Press. Work published in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Escape Pod, and Uncanny. she/her. gwynnegarfinkle.com
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Gwynne Garfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · Oct 21
Hello to the new folks following me! I write novels, stories, and poetry (mostly speculative). My collection of short fiction, SINKING, SINGING, came out at the beginning of October. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/10/sink...
Sinking, Singing by Gwynne Garfinkle
I'm pleased to announce the release of Gwynne Garfinkle's wonderful new collection, Sinking, Singing. Aqueduct Press is publishing i...
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i have a book about the Death of Mountains visiting a middling hill in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's a short little book, and on sale from my publisher (@lethepress.bsky.social)!
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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My books SINKING, SINGING and CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME are in stock at The Last Bookstore Studio City! They make great stocking stuffers. (Okay, they might be a little big for a stocking, but still.)
Purple paperback of SINKING, SINGING by Gwynne Garfinkle (with paperback of GG's CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME peeking out from behind it) on a bookstore display table.
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Dorothea Lasky Is Reading Now, and Next
The poet Bernadette Mayer’s Memory is capacious in its scope. Mayer, the iconic poet perhaps best known for her poem tracing midwinter day in a volume of that title, took a roll of film for each da…
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November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I'm still thinking about this beautiful, heartbreaking essay by @amalelmohtar.com after reading it yesterday.
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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A new poem from me as part of The Vertigo Project, Greetings from Innerspace: with love and exasperation to the people of Earth: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Only on itch.io - sale on A Place of Refuge! Buy the three novellas for $2 each, 11/28/25 03:00 AM EDT - 12/4/25 01:00 AM EDT.

Former rebel guerillas find their lost beloved friend and escape fascism. Also there's banter and pastries. #cozy #hopepunk #sapphic #spaceopera.

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Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by Victoria Janssen
A bundle by Victoria Janssen, $5.99 for Finding Refuge: A Place of Refuge, Part One, Accepting Refuge: A Place of Refuge, Part Two, Embracing Refuge: A Place of Refuge, Part Three
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November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I had a book come out this year that you can vote for! The Island of Dreams is a dark YA fantasy inspired by Peter Pan that focuses on disability and ageism and our assumptions about whose dreams are eligible for paradise and a chosen path to the good place.
Image of novel cover, The Island of Dreams with text that announce awards eligibility for YA novel
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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stephanieburgis.bsky.social
I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!

Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

#romancelandia
Three paperback advance reading copies of Enchanting the Fae Queen are piled in a cardboard box. The illustrated cover for Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sitting perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Vines of leaves sweep magically out from the tree around her to draw him towards her. The tagline reads: All’s fae in love and war.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
gwynnega.bsky.social
I walked to Trader Joe's, which wasn't as chaotic as I'd feared, and they played Aretha's "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)." I was wearing my Let's Go to the Bookstore t-shirt, and the cashier and I discussed our favorite Los Angeles bookshops.
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com

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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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New poem with The Vertigo Project! Club Planet Vertigo, wishing the world was playing a song that was easier to dance to: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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David Lynch in beard and sunglasses saying "I hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects"
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
gwynnega.bsky.social
My top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: The Beatles (39), The Clash (11), The Pretenders (10).
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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marissalingen.bsky.social
New story with The Vertigo Project! Advice for Wormhole Travelers: a little help for when you find yourself in another, weirder world! vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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stinaleicht.bsky.social
i always follow up with, “this is what public libraries are for, ppl. and libraries pay authors."
rowennam.bsky.social Rowenna Miller @rowennam.bsky.social · 2d
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”

Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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rblemberg.bsky.social
We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now.

"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
rbtownsend.bsky.social Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 3d
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. JAMES B. COMEY, JR., Defendant. Criminal No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT ECF NO. 60) On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice. IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA NORFOLK DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. LETITIA A. JAMES, Criminal No. 2:25-cr-00122-JK W Defendant. OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT (ECE NO. 22) On October 9, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just two weeks before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging New York Attorney General Letitia James with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. Ms. James now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Ms. James that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Ms. James's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
gwynnega.bsky.social
Cable guide description of Atom Age Vampire (1960): "A reptilian professor restores a scarred singer's beauty with serum from the dead." I don't see how the movie can surpass that synopsis.
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Poetrye, theatre, storyes, daunse, art, scholarlye researche about literature, historye, and language -- all of these thinges mattir more now, not less.
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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reposting this because this is what saved my life post-covid.
erictopol.bsky.social Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 3d
We've enrolled more than 700 participants (of 1,000 planned) in 3 weeks to a randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid
scripps.edu Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 5d
Founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, @erictopol.bsky.social, and Julia Moore Vogel, co–principal investigator of the Long COVID Treatment Trial, were featured in @wired.com, sharing insights on a nationwide study testing GLP-1s for long COVID.
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Peter Lorre knows what’s up with this trash.
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
gwynnega.bsky.social
Watching episodes of The Doctors from 1974 is making me crave an olive rotary phone.
November 23, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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rblemberg.bsky.social
Hi folks! Odd timing, but what is time. I wanted to say a few words about @bogiperson.bsky.social 's new book, Song of Spores. The launch was somewhat swallowed by the News Cycle, alas...

Usual disclaimer: the author is my spouse, I love them, etc.

This book is awesome!
bogiperson.bsky.social Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES out NOW! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 21d
My brand new book Song of Spores is just $4.99 on the Kindle!

A fun space opera adventure that's also very trans, queer and intersex (like me). So um, *now* might be a good time to pick it up!

Spread the word! Costs less than an iced matcha latte 😆

amzn.to/47ES674 (Associate link)
The cover of Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, with art by Galen Dara and design by Scott Gable. It has a strange organic spaceship-like creature in a sphere of... things, and the color scheme has a lot of blues, purples and oranges.
November 23, 2025 at 2:29 AM