Mona Kanin, she/her/hers
@mskanin.bsky.social
I embrace careful thinkers and shapers.
I'm a book person in life and literary agent by day @GreatDogLiterary.com.
Queries by referral only please
The opposite of destruction? The Arts!
Opinions my own.
I'm a book person in life and literary agent by day @GreatDogLiterary.com.
Queries by referral only please
The opposite of destruction? The Arts!
Opinions my own.
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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@nytimes.com your smartest readers see right through you
This perfectly encapsulates the "performative neutrality" of which @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I accuse the New York Times--with respect to both climate and vaccines--in #ScienceUnderSiege. In fact, it goes beyond that, engaging in outright antiscience pandering:
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
November 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
@nytimes.com your smartest readers see right through you
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Local Boycott Target DC Coalition has been picketing the Target store in Columbia Heights for over six months straight urging consumers to spend their dollars elsewhere outside of Target. They are inviting folks in the area to join them on 11/29.
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Local Boycott Target DC Coalition has been picketing the Target store in Columbia Heights for over six months straight urging consumers to spend their dollars elsewhere outside of Target. They are inviting folks in the area to join them on 11/29.
Yes, beautiful, painful and essential to read:
This is achingly beautiful and almost too painful to read in places (but you still should). The cruelty of cancer, the longing to be with your children — and the twist of fate, being RFK Jr’s cousin as he unwinds U.S. health research.
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Yes, beautiful, painful and essential to read:
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This is achingly beautiful and almost too painful to read in places (but you still should). The cruelty of cancer, the longing to be with your children — and the twist of fate, being RFK Jr’s cousin as he unwinds U.S. health research.
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is achingly beautiful and almost too painful to read in places (but you still should). The cruelty of cancer, the longing to be with your children — and the twist of fate, being RFK Jr’s cousin as he unwinds U.S. health research.
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Next week, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=b...
November 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Next week, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com?utm_source=b...
yup! guess we couldn't expect anything else from Putin's puppet (I'm good at stating the obvious
Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
yup! guess we couldn't expect anything else from Putin's puppet (I'm good at stating the obvious
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The DNC would rather spend 2 million on consultants and pollsters to tell them they have a messaging problem,
than to invest half of that in actually fixing that problem by hiring talented permanent staff.
than to invest half of that in actually fixing that problem by hiring talented permanent staff.
November 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The DNC would rather spend 2 million on consultants and pollsters to tell them they have a messaging problem,
than to invest half of that in actually fixing that problem by hiring talented permanent staff.
than to invest half of that in actually fixing that problem by hiring talented permanent staff.
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Characterizing the American political landscape as composed of liberal centrists, postliberal leftists, & postliberal rightists is a pretty clear way to construct yourself a contentless, principle-free centrism
I don't think this is a correct description of America's party system.
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Characterizing the American political landscape as composed of liberal centrists, postliberal leftists, & postliberal rightists is a pretty clear way to construct yourself a contentless, principle-free centrism
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Plus, consider abandoning Condé Nast and Vogue after the firings at @teenvogue.com. And did you know that Bezos is funding the @metcostume.bsky.social Ball? What a nauseating failure of principle!
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Plus, consider abandoning Condé Nast and Vogue after the firings at @teenvogue.com. And did you know that Bezos is funding the @metcostume.bsky.social Ball? What a nauseating failure of principle!
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, ain't buying anything from Target, Home Depot, & Amazon--though they're on my shi*list all year round. Don't support corps that enable the regime by ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
app.sosha.ai
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, ain't buying anything from Target, Home Depot, & Amazon--though they're on my shi*list all year round. Don't support corps that enable the regime by ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, & chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫
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Congratulations to Daniel Nayeri, the winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Young People's Literature!
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Congratulations to Daniel Nayeri, the winner of the 2025 National Book Award for Young People's Literature!
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Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
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Transgender Awareness Week is more than recognition of how far we have come, but also a reminder to learn about and celebrate the community that too often gets minimized into political talking points.
GLAAD (@glaad.bsky.social)
"If there is one thing you can do in observance of Transgender Awareness Week this year, it is this: Take a moment to learn about transgender people—not the political talking points, not the…
bsky.app
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Transgender Awareness Week is more than recognition of how far we have come, but also a reminder to learn about and celebrate the community that too often gets minimized into political talking points.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
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Sharing this important question!
Is there a national organization organizing and supporting faculty at universities cross the US working to resist and fight back against university admin efforts to impose AI into pedagogy and research?
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Sharing this important question!
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NEW: Shakespeare in the Park just let next season’s cats out of the bag www.timeout.com/newyork/news...
Shakespeare in the Park just revealed its next summer season
Well-loved favorites are on the slate for 2026
www.timeout.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
NEW: Shakespeare in the Park just let next season’s cats out of the bag www.timeout.com/newyork/news...
Essential, of course.
“We've actually done some fossil fuel phaseouts in my country of Canada. It's a coal phaseout -- it's not the whole thing, but I think we can use it as a model for other jurisdictions ... It makes sense from a financial perspective, from a climate perspective, and of course, the health benefits."
To Keep the World Healthy, Fossil Fuels Must Go, Health Professionals Tell COP30
'The lungs of the world are in your hands, world leaders,' said one policy expert
www.medpagetoday.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Essential, of course.
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How great.
A call for submissions specifically for writers who are 15-21!!!
A call for submissions specifically for writers who are 15-21!!!
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
How great.
A call for submissions specifically for writers who are 15-21!!!
A call for submissions specifically for writers who are 15-21!!!
How great.
A call for submissions specifically for writers who are 15-21!!!
A call for submissions specifically for writers who are 15-21!!!
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
How great.
A call for submissions specifically for writers who are 15-21!!!
A call for submissions specifically for writers who are 15-21!!!
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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It’s that time of year again — Book Angel time @oblongbooks.bsky.social ! You can come into the store to choose books for the kids in our program — or you can donate online and the booksellers will shop on your behalf. 📕 👼 📚
oblongbooks.com/bookangel
oblongbooks.com/bookangel
Be a Book Angel!
Provide books for a child in need with our Book Angel program! The Book Angel Program will return in 2025! Stop by our Rhinebeck store and choose a
oblongbooks.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It’s that time of year again — Book Angel time @oblongbooks.bsky.social ! You can come into the store to choose books for the kids in our program — or you can donate online and the booksellers will shop on your behalf. 📕 👼 📚
oblongbooks.com/bookangel
oblongbooks.com/bookangel
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My urgent prescription for Democratic Party leaders, advocates, and voters after the Dem election sweep & the chaotic shutdown vote.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
NOW WHAT?
Part II - Real Talk for Voters, Advocates, & Dem Leaders in Congress
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
My urgent prescription for Democratic Party leaders, advocates, and voters after the Dem election sweep & the chaotic shutdown vote.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Get your whistle brigades, group chats & rapid response teams up & running. Also: Cameras up! Document everything & share widely. Video from Chicago incidents is now a key part of the federal court cases here.
Video from nickdelacanal on Instagram of CBP trespassing on private property and giving up after a few attempts to entrap landscapers.
November 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Get your whistle brigades, group chats & rapid response teams up & running. Also: Cameras up! Document everything & share widely. Video from Chicago incidents is now a key part of the federal court cases here.
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“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit: