Literary Thicction
@literarythicction.bsky.social
i just really love books
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CLEAR UR CALENDARS BITCHEZZ
Nobody cares yet but me but next year’s 1000 Words of Summer will be May 30-June 12.
December 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
CLEAR UR CALENDARS BITCHEZZ
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Time is a flat circle.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Time is a flat circle.
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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More National Book Award-winning writers need to spend the later portion of their careers picking one billionaire and just absolutely going to town.
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
More National Book Award-winning writers need to spend the later portion of their careers picking one billionaire and just absolutely going to town.
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This might be the best email I’ve ever received.
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
This might be the best email I’ve ever received.
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I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
October 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
a second road has diverged in a yellow wood
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
a second road has diverged in a yellow wood
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As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
September 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
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Here's what you need to do. You need to go to patreon.com/scumbelievable, you need to subscribe, and you need, need, to read Gretchen Felker-Martin's @scumbelievable.bksy.com's obituary for Charlie Kirk. It's the best thing she's ever written.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Here's what you need to do. You need to go to patreon.com/scumbelievable, you need to subscribe, and you need, need, to read Gretchen Felker-Martin's @scumbelievable.bksy.com's obituary for Charlie Kirk. It's the best thing she's ever written.
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It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.
August 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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To weigh in on the cultural discussions of the day, I think books are generally good
August 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
To weigh in on the cultural discussions of the day, I think books are generally good
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Just to add to the chorus in my own voice, the banning of @scumbelievable.bsky.social is a travesty. Gretchen Felker-Martin is an acclaimed author and critic whose only seeming violation has been posting fundraisers for people starving to death in Gaza. Return her to the platform now.
August 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just to add to the chorus in my own voice, the banning of @scumbelievable.bsky.social is a travesty. Gretchen Felker-Martin is an acclaimed author and critic whose only seeming violation has been posting fundraisers for people starving to death in Gaza. Return her to the platform now.
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Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
A Thread.
July 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
A Thread.
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The existence of Mavis Gallant implies the existence of Mavis Goofus
June 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The existence of Mavis Gallant implies the existence of Mavis Goofus
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Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4
June 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4
I know this is just how appendices are structured but the opinion ending with Uncle Bobby’s Wedding in its entirety did almost make my cry
In her dissent from today's decision—Mahmoud v. Taylor—Justice Sotomayor says that the court's holding "threatens the very essence of public education," and that its "reverberations" will be felt "for generations." This is a very heartfelt and mournful dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I know this is just how appendices are structured but the opinion ending with Uncle Bobby’s Wedding in its entirety did almost make my cry
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so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is
June 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is
started calling this the “twitter-brained preemptive defense crouch” a couple years back and now I can’t stop seeing it everywhere…feels so insulting as a reader even (especially!) when your politics are broadly aligned with the author’s
I dunno if it is woke or anti-woke, but this trend in art is annoying as hell. You cannot write worrying about your worst, stupidest reader without annoying all of your best readers.
I genuinely think this particular aesthetic trend (Good Art Is Didactic And Also Assumes You Are Very Stupid) is a non-trivial source of anti-woke backlash, like unironically. It is really really annoying, and I think it has provided wedges by which anti-wokes can radicalise nerds.
June 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
started calling this the “twitter-brained preemptive defense crouch” a couple years back and now I can’t stop seeing it everywhere…feels so insulting as a reader even (especially!) when your politics are broadly aligned with the author’s
gonna start calling myself a community organizer bc I got 100 people to join a group chat to do #1000WordsOfSummer together hehe
May 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
gonna start calling myself a community organizer bc I got 100 people to join a group chat to do #1000WordsOfSummer together hehe
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then die.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
then die.