Linda Perlman Fields
lperlmanfields.bsky.social
Linda Perlman Fields
@lperlmanfields.bsky.social
Writer, poet, journalist, Peabody winner, book lover; more at https://www.LindaPerlmanFields.com
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...
The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
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October 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
September 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
September 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
#Poets #poetry #writers

The Library of Congress has named Arthur Sze the new US Poet Laureate. Among other accolades, Sze won a National Book Award for “Sight Lines.” A resident of Santa Fe, he is the first Asian American to serve in the post and succeeds Ada Limón, who served for three years.
September 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
So sorry to hear that Robert Redford has passed away. I remember a wonderful phone interview I had with him while I was at CBS News, Radio. Not everyone was as gracious during those interviews.
September 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
#writers #readers #booksky 📚💙 An extraordinarily informative and funny session with Adriana Trigiani at the Milford Readers & Writers Fest!
September 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Justice Sotomayer in her dissent of decision Perdomo vs Noem:
“We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish and appears to work in a low-wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our Constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”
September 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
#authors #writers

Good news: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems.
September 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
#writers #editors #authors Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp intends to step down as soon as a replacement is found to lead “Simon Six”- a new imprint that will publish 6 books/year to any existing S&S imprint.
August 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
From the former US Labor Secretary:
Trump’s downfall open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Trump’s downfall
Fascist capitalism will do him in
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August 31, 2025 at 11:35 AM
#authors #booksky 💙 📚The nightmare continues: - it’s been reported that gift shops at national parks could soon remove books on slavery, the Civil War and native Americans because of a directive from the Interior Department.
August 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
#writers #readers #booksky 💙📚
PEN America reports 9 Florida counties have removed hundreds of books from public school classrooms & libraries before the start of the school year, afraid of law suits by the state’s attorney general & Board of Ed.
August 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
#writers #authors
The Authors Guild warns about scams involving podcast pitches to writers: “Red flags include overly effusive praise, vague podcast details with no specific show name … One goal includes setting up advance fee fraud schemes where authors are later asked to pay ‘production costs.’”
August 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
#Authors #WritingCommunity
US Senator Josh Hawley told a senate subcommittee, “Today’s hearing is about the largest intellectual property theft in American history… here’s the truth that nobody wants to admit: AI companies are training their models on stolen material.”
July 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
#readers #booklovers #booksky 💙📚 The Best Books of the Year (So Far) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/b...
The Best Books of the Year (So Far)
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July 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The BBC’s selection of a dozen best:
Https://bbc.in/3ZBeuLy
July 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Despite so many consecutive days of cold weather and constant rain in NE Pennsylvania, not to mention a spongy moth caterpillar outbreak, we do have some flowers blooming this spring.
May 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
#writingcommunity #authors #readers
In its annual “Freedom to Write “ index, Penn America reports “The number of writers jailed reached a new high in a wider range of countries, with at least 375 behind bars in 40 countries during 2024, compared to 339 in 2023.”
May 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
‘James’ Won the Pulitzer, but Not Without Complications
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May 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Distressing news: many small publishers and magazines have lost NEA funding under the Trump administration. Reports are that those affected include Hub City Press, Deep Vellum, Milkweed Editions, Electric Literature and Red Hen Press, among others.
May 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM