Susan Fox
@susanfoxwrites.bsky.social
Reader, writer. Former bookseller. Upstate NYer by way of NYC and Colorado. Susanfoxwrites.com
In the thousands in Albany!
April 6, 2025 at 1:12 AM
In the thousands in Albany!
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Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"Every dictator gets rid of the artist first... They burn the books and execute the artist first... Art might do something. It's dangerous."—Toni Morrison
March 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"Every dictator gets rid of the artist first... They burn the books and execute the artist first... Art might do something. It's dangerous."—Toni Morrison
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If you can, please show up at one of these rallies today! You don't have to be a scientist. But if you believe vaccines, cancer research, climate change, etc. matter--please go! 👇
SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING!
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎
March 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
If you can, please show up at one of these rallies today! You don't have to be a scientist. But if you believe vaccines, cancer research, climate change, etc. matter--please go! 👇
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I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
Roxane Gay Books & The Audacity Submission Manager
THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book ...
gay.submittable.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.
Lots of alternatives for book buying:
Kobo for e-readers and e-books.
Indie stores offer shipping and/or
Bookshop.org, also for e-books now.
Libro.fm for audiobooks.
Kobo for e-readers and e-books.
Indie stores offer shipping and/or
Bookshop.org, also for e-books now.
Libro.fm for audiobooks.
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.
Bookshop.org
March 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Lots of alternatives for book buying:
Kobo for e-readers and e-books.
Indie stores offer shipping and/or
Bookshop.org, also for e-books now.
Libro.fm for audiobooks.
Kobo for e-readers and e-books.
Indie stores offer shipping and/or
Bookshop.org, also for e-books now.
Libro.fm for audiobooks.
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Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
February 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.
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Just a reminder that the "don't buy stuff" action for tomorrow Fri 2/28 refers to corporations. Feel free to celebrate the day by shopping at your local indie bookstore and/or other small local shops. They will appreciate your business! #Booksky #ShopLocal #IndieBookstores
February 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Just a reminder that the "don't buy stuff" action for tomorrow Fri 2/28 refers to corporations. Feel free to celebrate the day by shopping at your local indie bookstore and/or other small local shops. They will appreciate your business! #Booksky #ShopLocal #IndieBookstores
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Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors.
I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.
I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.
February 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors.
I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.
I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.
"Wintery mix" is my least favorite phrase in the English language.
February 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"Wintery mix" is my least favorite phrase in the English language.
A novel you get to live in for a while.
February 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A novel you get to live in for a while.
Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books to Customers www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books
Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books to Customers www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...
January 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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January 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Post 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
1/20
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
1/20
January 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Post 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
1/20
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#Books
1/20
Collecting winter poems, "Snow in New York," May Swenson
January 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Collecting winter poems, "Snow in New York," May Swenson
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