The Book News Isn't All Bad - Reactor Some bookish headlines can be dire — but it’s important to note the good stuff, too.

Tonic for the doom scrolling writers (and readers).
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For an act of resistance to the tyranny of algorithms, try the Marginalian newsletter—undistracted notes on the search for meaning, free, ad-free, AI-free, fully human since 2006, made of feeling and time: themarginalian.org/newsletter

This is your reminder to schedule your colonoscopy if you are 45 or older. If you're high risk, earlier! My mom died of colon cancer in February, and it was terrible. She didn't go in for a colonoscopy ever, and it would have been caught a lot earlier if she had.

Daywork by Jessica Fisher is still settling on me...

My Father’s Lottery by Anne Panning My Father’s Lottery He sits in the Buick under buggy streetlights. Scratch-offs shed silver dust onto his jeans as if they’re molting. Later, he’ll stuff dollar winners in his underwear drawer wher…

My Father’s Lottery by Anne Panning in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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ONE ART’s May 2026 Reading ONE ART’s May 2026 Reading Date: Sunday, May 3Time: 2pm EasternFeatured Poets: Phyllis Cole-Dai, Karly Randolph Pitman, Ellen RowlandDuration: 1.5 hours Tickets are FREE!(donations appreciated) &gt…

ONE ART’s May 2026 Reading

Date: Sunday, May 3
Time: 2pm Eastern
Featured Poets: Phyllis Cole-Dai, Karly Randolph Pitman, Ellen Rowland
Duration: 1.5 hours

Tickets are FREE!

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A person in a kitchen wears a white apron and holds meal trays. The individual smiles towards the camera. The Feeding America logo featuring an orange wheat stalk is visible in the foreground.

This April, we're honoring the volunteers who fuel the movement to end hunger. 🧡 From food sorting to distribution, your time and dedication change lives every day. Thank you for showing up.

Find a food bank near you: FeedingAmerica.org/Find | #NationalVolunteerMonth

Ghosts of the American East by Jerry Wemple Ghosts of the American East Market Street’s broad and unbothered sidewalks were meant for those who traversed here long ago. Not now. The A&P closed decades back. Jeweler, corner drugstore, and…

Ghosts of the American East by Jerry Wemple in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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A small gray lizard clings to an almond tree in the sun.

ah moving house brain... what is the combo to that safe? What might be in it? Where is the backup key? Some place safe...

Meanwhile, the lizards don't care.

Merch from John M Davis Merch from John M Davis

Youse guys, I’ve moved beyond music making to become a merch monger! If you like my album covers enough to wear them on your thorax, you’ve come to the right place!

Plus we’ll have some items showcasing my acerbic wit.

Ok, back to my weird, moody, bullshit, peace!

johnmdavis.bandcamp.com/merch/

I've got some unexpected space in my editing calendar for April, so if you have a manuscript you'd like to make someone else's problem for a bit, please feel free to reach out: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing

Peter Milton's "October Piece" print of family in autumn on leaf-strewn lawn beneath trees and in front of row houses. Steam train approaching.

For no reason except that I love "October Piece" by Peter Milton.
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New Views by Audrey Hackett New Views Red willow like licorice whips at my window. Dried hydrangeas nodding and shaking yes, no. A yard of snow satin-topped and sloping. Big focal-point maple armed with openness. And beyond p…

New Views by Audrey Hackett in ONE ART: a journal of poetry

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ONE ART’s April 2026 Reading for National Poetry Month! ONE ART’s April 2026 Reading for National Poetry Month! Date: Sunday, April 12Time: 2pm EasternFeatured Poets: Barbara Crooker, Molly Fisk, Donna Hilbert, Erin Murphy Tickets are FREE!(donati…

ONE ART’s April 2026 Reading for National Poetry Month!

Date: Sunday, April 12
Time: 2pm Eastern
Featured Poets: Barbara Crooker, Molly Fisk, Donna Hilbert, Erin Murphy

Tickets are FREE!
(donations appreciated)

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Text of the poem, "We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky. And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough. I was in my bed, around my bed America was falling: invisible house by invisible house by invisible house. I took a chair outside and watched the sun. In the sixth month of a disastrous reign in the house of money in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us) lived happily during the war.

So often lately, too often, I'm reminded of this poem by Ilya Kaminsky:
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Your moment of discovery and consideration...
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The softness of the first one hits hard...

As someone whose guilty pleasure is craft books on writing, I can relate.

On this Trans Day of Visibility, I would just like to say that trans rights are human rights and that celebrating the trans community as a part of all communities enriches every one of us.

When even coffee fails to wake me, a notice of acceptance in my email will.

The way I wrote that (on only one coffee of my own) makes it sound like 'maybe' she has a keen eye and experience. There is no maybe. She does, she really does.

Kat actually must have the right amount of coffee, and a keen eye, and experience to help make your novel or novella better.

This. I’m not scared of AI. I am scared of AI bros’ sociopathic vision of the future.

The Fisher King, by John M Davis 7 track album

Now that Bluesky displays a proper embed for Bandcamp links 🥳🥳,
here’s some shameless self promotion!

The Fisher King blends piano and string quintet with electronic textures and field recordings for an album of loss, solastalgia, and hope.

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“Why do you want to shit on entire swathes of human endeavor and wreck the planet while you’re doing it? Why are you so determined to be awful and amoral? Everything about your priorities is messed up, and you should all be heartily ashamed, abashed and embarrassed.”

The Fisher King, by John M Davis 7 track album

Welp, once again it is #BandcampFriday where artists get to keep 100% of the proceeds from their sales!

I’ll be plugging other folks’ music today but I’ll start with ‘The Fisher King’. Released in January, it’s my electro-orchestral vision of hope.

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That other recent work probably has its place too. Moods are not always to be trusted in the judgement of creative things.

Close up of white petaled almond tree blossoms.

There's not an abundance of living, growing things here, but there is always something. Almond blossoms blossoming are among my favorites.

I was brought up on Shunn and thus live by the name | title | page# in my header. Even draft number, and date. Like you suggest, others may never print anything. But I do and everything printed has a header with enough information to be considered Metadata.

Writers I've read 5 or more short stories by, published in last decade?

Yiyun Li
William Trevor (last collection)
John Crowley
Jonathan Lethem
Ed Park
Steven Millhauser
Sophia Samatar
Elizabeth McCracken
Anna Kavan
Leonora Carrington

The last two were recent editions of newly collected work.