Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold
@lytagold.bsky.social
writer, editor, sometime podcaster. DANGEROUS FICTIONS—about book bans, moral panics, & more—now available everywhere: https://bookshop.org/p/books/dangerous-fictions-the-fear-of-fantasy-and-the-invention-of-reality-lyta-gold/20737332?ean=9781593767709
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Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
November 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old in library; "These are children and I can't believe we are letting them read smut like Twilight!!!"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
Conservatives when it's a 15 year old sex trafficking victim; "Looks, these people are practically legal. Barely legal even"
listen he’s only a billionare hedge fund manager, math is hard!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
listen he’s only a billionare hedge fund manager, math is hard!!!
wait this is better bsky.app/profile/edsb...
I love the TikTok idea that Curtis Sliwa would be Night Mayor of New York
like at 9 pm he and his talking rat assistant man a folding card table at the Port Authority and hold court on important issues like the CHUDs, dance gangs, and why the Jets suck
like at 9 pm he and his talking rat assistant man a folding card table at the Port Authority and hold court on important issues like the CHUDs, dance gangs, and why the Jets suck
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
wait this is better bsky.app/profile/edsb...
Reposted by Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold
@lytagold.bsky.social wrote a fantastic piece that touches upon this a few years ago. They all “love” Tolkien, and none of them understand it (or, perhaps, want to Grokipedia-fy the received wisdom about it)
The Fake Nerd Boys of Silicon Valley
Managing Editor Lyta Gold on Star Trek, Silicon Valley’s lack of imagination, and the arrival of an unexpected future.
www.currentaffairs.org
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
@lytagold.bsky.social wrote a fantastic piece that touches upon this a few years ago. They all “love” Tolkien, and none of them understand it (or, perhaps, want to Grokipedia-fy the received wisdom about it)
I’ve written about this actually! www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/07... and more in-depth in my book www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738575...
Dangerous Fictions by Lyta Gold: 9781593768089 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power. Fic...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I’ve written about this actually! www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/07... and more in-depth in my book www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738575...
Dangerous Fictions is the book that Powell’s Books called “critically acclaimed” and Mars the cat called “adequate for cuddling”
October 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Dangerous Fictions is the book that Powell’s Books called “critically acclaimed” and Mars the cat called “adequate for cuddling”