Modern Folklore Press
@modernfolklore.bsky.social
Independent Publisher specializing in fiction of a fantastical, fabulist, speculative nature, and in poetry.
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Food banks rely on millions of volunteers to ensure families have access to nutritious food. 💚
There is a role for everyone. Find your local food bank and join the movement to end hunger.
📍: http://bit.ly/31sPLxq | #EndHunger
There is a role for everyone. Find your local food bank and join the movement to end hunger.
📍: http://bit.ly/31sPLxq | #EndHunger
November 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Food banks rely on millions of volunteers to ensure families have access to nutritious food. 💚
There is a role for everyone. Find your local food bank and join the movement to end hunger.
📍: http://bit.ly/31sPLxq | #EndHunger
There is a role for everyone. Find your local food bank and join the movement to end hunger.
📍: http://bit.ly/31sPLxq | #EndHunger
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Happy Friday! In order to continue fighting on behalf of all books, all authors, & all readers Authors Against Book Bans is fundraising. No donation is too small & all are tax deductible!
Donate - Authors Against Book Bans
Thank you for donating to Authors Against Book Bans. Your donation directly supports the freedom to read by powering our work with our partner organizations, bringing the author muscle to the fight to...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Happy Friday! In order to continue fighting on behalf of all books, all authors, & all readers Authors Against Book Bans is fundraising. No donation is too small & all are tax deductible!
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Sitewide sale this weekend. Buy 2 books and save 20%, 3 for 30%, or 4 or more and get 40% off. $75 for free shipping within the US.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sitewide sale this weekend. Buy 2 books and save 20%, 3 for 30%, or 4 or more and get 40% off. $75 for free shipping within the US.
www.nyrb.com
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
- Aldous Huxley
Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)
- Aldous Huxley
Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
- Aldous Huxley
Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)
- Aldous Huxley
Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)
“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh
― Vincent Willem van Gogh
November 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh
― Vincent Willem van Gogh
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This is awesome!
I made a free printable bookmark you can use for any banned books week (or before or after!) displays, books, etc., that gives people *action items* for defending the right to read.
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A Free Printable Bookmark About Book Censorship
Print these free bookmarks to help engage your friends, family, and community in the fight against book bans.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
This is awesome!
Train Dreams: "I read this in a single evening. I was pulled in by the hardscrabble life of Robert Grainer, and could see similarities with my grandfather’s. A great way to spend an afternoon or evening."
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Train Dreams
Train Dreams is a novella by Denis Johnson. Highly recommended.
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September 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Train Dreams: "I read this in a single evening. I was pulled in by the hardscrabble life of Robert Grainer, and could see similarities with my grandfather’s. A great way to spend an afternoon or evening."
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And then a good list of poetry books worth your time. New, recent, and older.
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April 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
And then a good list of poetry books worth your time. New, recent, and older.
orionmagazine.org/article/28-p...
orionmagazine.org/article/28-p...
A couple of book lists for the weekend bolstering of TBR piles. First, a list of books coming out between now and June:
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The Great Spring 2025 Book Preview
It’s been a painfully long winter here in New York City, but the glinting promise of spring—and spring books—has bolstered me through these cold, hard months. Here you’ll find just over 100 titles tha...
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April 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A couple of book lists for the weekend bolstering of TBR piles. First, a list of books coming out between now and June:
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Dead Trees are much livelier than most think. I, however, am certain all trees have been holding an Entmoot for centuries, and once they decide whose side we're on...
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The teeming life of dead trees
Rotting logs turn out to be vital to forest biodiversity and recycling organic matter
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April 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Dead Trees are much livelier than most think. I, however, am certain all trees have been holding an Entmoot for centuries, and once they decide whose side we're on...
knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
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Woke up to my poem, "The One" in the latest Lorelei Signal this morning. The art by Lee Ann Barlow is exactly what I pictured. Thanks to Carol Hightshoe for seeing something in the poem.
www.loreleisignal.com/the-one
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July 7, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Woke up to my poem, "The One" in the latest Lorelei Signal this morning. The art by Lee Ann Barlow is exactly what I pictured. Thanks to Carol Hightshoe for seeing something in the poem.
www.loreleisignal.com/the-one
www.loreleisignal.com/the-one
A social media challenge I can encourage. Love seeing slightly older and much older books showing up in the feed
Challenge: Choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 2/20
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookSky 💙📚
May 25, 2024 at 4:27 PM
A social media challenge I can encourage. Love seeing slightly older and much older books showing up in the feed
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Recent books added to the TBR. Each recommended by favorite authors: Gabriel García Márquez was floored by Pedro Parma, and Italo Calvino called That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana the greatest Italian novel.
May 25, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Recent books added to the TBR. Each recommended by favorite authors: Gabriel García Márquez was floored by Pedro Parma, and Italo Calvino called That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana the greatest Italian novel.
That time of the week - our suggested book of the week is Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson.
The uncanny, unsettling surprises of the universe visit us where we live.
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The uncanny, unsettling surprises of the universe visit us where we live.
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Suggestion of the Week- Normal Rules Don’t Apply: Stories
Normal Rules Don’t Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson Literary Fiction | Speculative | Stories This collection of eleven fabulous interconnected stories includes a queen who makes one too many p…
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May 24, 2024 at 2:31 AM
That time of the week - our suggested book of the week is Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson.
The uncanny, unsettling surprises of the universe visit us where we live.
modernfolklorepress.com/2024/05/23/s...
The uncanny, unsettling surprises of the universe visit us where we live.
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In time for weekend reading, our book suggestion of the week is Catherine Barnett's Solutions for the Problem of Bodies.
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Suggestion of the Week: Solutions for the Problems of Bodies in Space: Poems
Solutions for the Problems of Bodies in Space: Poems by Catherine Barnett Poetry Barnett’s poems are full of grace at our bewilderments. She surprises with meditations and elegies that are so very …
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May 17, 2024 at 8:49 PM
In time for weekend reading, our book suggestion of the week is Catherine Barnett's Solutions for the Problem of Bodies.
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Three book suggestions for May. Something new, something less new (but connected to something so new it doesn't exist yet) and something older but revised and restored. #booksky #literaturesky modernfolklorepress.com/2024/05/10/t...
Three Books To Read In May
Happy May! We’re changing up how we do our TBR suggestions. Each month we’ll suggest one recent release, one from a few years ago, and one on the more classic end of the spectrum. (There’s no such …
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May 10, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Three book suggestions for May. Something new, something less new (but connected to something so new it doesn't exist yet) and something older but revised and restored. #booksky #literaturesky modernfolklorepress.com/2024/05/10/t...
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Our story today is one of choices, grief, and growth. And, of course, flowers. "What You Sow" by @hschofieldfic.bsky.social :
"Your earliest memory is of your mother’s brush as she yanks it through the tangle of Kentucky bluegrass carpeting your head."
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"Your earliest memory is of your mother’s brush as she yanks it through the tangle of Kentucky bluegrass carpeting your head."
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What You Sow - Small Wonders
Your earliest memory is of your mother's brush as she yanks it through the tangle of Kentucky bluegrass carpeting your head.
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May 10, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Our story today is one of choices, grief, and growth. And, of course, flowers. "What You Sow" by @hschofieldfic.bsky.social :
"Your earliest memory is of your mother’s brush as she yanks it through the tangle of Kentucky bluegrass carpeting your head."
smallwondersmag.com/piece/what-y...
"Your earliest memory is of your mother’s brush as she yanks it through the tangle of Kentucky bluegrass carpeting your head."
smallwondersmag.com/piece/what-y...
Several weeks ago we suggested Yiyun Li's book, Wednesday's Child. Reposting since this is a 2024 Pulitzer finalist. Such an outstanding collection.
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For Your TBR - Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li
Staff favorite, Yiyun Li returns with a new collection of short stories.
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May 10, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Several weeks ago we suggested Yiyun Li's book, Wednesday's Child. Reposting since this is a 2024 Pulitzer finalist. Such an outstanding collection.
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Creativity refuses to work according to timetables. Writing slow is sometimes the only way a book makes it into the world.
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The Virtue of Slow Writers
The slow writer embraces the protracted and unpredictable timeline, seeing it not as fraught or frustrating but an opportunity for openness and discovery.
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March 30, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Creativity refuses to work according to timetables. Writing slow is sometimes the only way a book makes it into the world.
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We are very excited to share that @aijiang.bsky.social‘s novelette, I AM AI, which we published last June, is a finalist for the Hugo Award!
Congrats, Ai!
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Congrats, Ai!
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March 29, 2024 at 3:45 PM
We are very excited to share that @aijiang.bsky.social‘s novelette, I AM AI, which we published last June, is a finalist for the Hugo Award!
Congrats, Ai!
shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/i-am...
Congrats, Ai!
shortwavepublishing.com/catalog/i-am...
Because of this book's effect on Gabriel García Márquez, I'm automatically curious about it. Another for my TBR.
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At Long Last, a Translation Worthy of 'Pedro Páramo'
The latest translation of 'Pedro Páramo' is a mystifying work, in the dual sense that it is confounding and that its language possesses an almost mystical quality.
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March 27, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Because of this book's effect on Gabriel García Márquez, I'm automatically curious about it. Another for my TBR.
themillions.com/2024/03/at-l...
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Catching up on our TBR suggestions. Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li was an automatic addition to the TBR pile.
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For Your TBR - Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li
Staff favorite, Yiyun Li returns with a new collection of short stories.
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March 27, 2024 at 12:34 AM
Catching up on our TBR suggestions. Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li was an automatic addition to the TBR pile.
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I wrote for Shepherd about my five favorite books where the real and unreal collide. The list contains Sofia Samatar, David Mitchell, Susanna Clarke, and Karen Russell, but there are many, many more...
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March 26, 2024 at 5:15 PM
I wrote for Shepherd about my five favorite books where the real and unreal collide. The list contains Sofia Samatar, David Mitchell, Susanna Clarke, and Karen Russell, but there are many, many more...
shepherd.com/best-books/f...
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“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin
― Ursula K. LeGuin
January 30, 2024 at 3:07 PM
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin
― Ursula K. LeGuin
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#Smallpress Some small press pals on #Bluesky with #award-eligible books you should check out, besides us: @neonhemlock.bsky.social, @atthisarts.com, @dancingstarpress.bsky.social, @tachyonpub.bsky.social, @stelliformpress.bsky.social, @lunapress.bsky.social
January 29, 2024 at 2:55 PM
#Smallpress Some small press pals on #Bluesky with #award-eligible books you should check out, besides us: @neonhemlock.bsky.social, @atthisarts.com, @dancingstarpress.bsky.social, @tachyonpub.bsky.social, @stelliformpress.bsky.social, @lunapress.bsky.social