I'm so happy she's back!

We Have to Go Back... Or, Why You Should Come See Me at the Rewind Book Fest

Quick newsletter ahead of this weekend's Rewind Book Fair at the MN State Fairground Grandstand where I am tabling (#508) from 11 am to 5 pm Central Saturday and Sunday. Plus a little more on YFAFA with @johnlangan.bsky.social talking Salman Rushdie.

This is the culmination of SIXTEEN YEARS of dogged work by everyday Hungarians.

You think that felt hopeless sometimes? I'm sure it did.

👏 Don't 👏 give 👏 up 👏

Mexico’s Socialist President to Roll Out Universal Healthcare Mexico’s 120 million citizens will begin to enjoy free, universal access to healthcare from next year, following a decree by socialist president Claudia Sheinbaum.

I'm jealous too. Also jealous of Mexico. Hell, I've been jealous of a lot of other countries lately.
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went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

Powerful people in the US are working day and night to convince us that Trump is unstoppable and he’s never even cracked 50% at the polls. This can absolutely happen here.

Granted it would help if Democrats got on board instead of being in the way.

let the old man alone; never speak to him, whatever he says

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

RIP the lovely, kind Thomas Tessier, who was a great, great writer. His The Nightwalker, Finishing Touches, and Fog Heart are great novels; World of Hurt, his collected stories, for which I was honored to write the introduction, is full of terrific stuff.

Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye

🔥❤️🙌

Whether it's Trump threatening a nuclear war on Truth Social or Hillary Clinton sharing risotto recipes by email, both leaders made controversial use of digital communication.

Reposting this for obvious reasons. I have much more in common with any Iranian than I do with the American and Israeli pieces of shit trying to annihilate them. Any single Iranian life lost is an entire universe gone; more, a tragedy at a level I cannot personally fathom. This is all I can do.

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

Cover of John Langan’s MR. GAUNT and other uneasy encounters featuring a painting of a large skeleton

7. MR. GAUNT AND OTHER UNEASY ENCOUNTERS - @johnlangan.bsky.social

A stellar collection from one of my favorite authors. The story notes in the back are almost as enjoyable as the stories themselves.

Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: John Langan on Salman Rushdie

Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author is back today with @johnlangan.bsky.social on Salman Rushdie.

Read @patrickbarb.bsky.social's interview with John for free in Shortwave Magazine:

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Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: John Langan on Salman Rushdie - Shortwave Publishing John Langan is the author of two novels and six collections of stories. That previous sentence is a direct lift from the biography he provided me for this opening. As far as understatements go, it’s a...

When I read @johnlangan.bsky.social I come away inspired to write, create, & tell stories. So having John as a guest for YOUR FAVORITE AUTHOR’S FAVORITE AUTHOR was a no-brainer. Come learn about one of his favorites: Salman Rushdie. It’s a fun, charming, story-filled discussion—Langan all the way.

Child immigrant suffered alleged sexual abuse in federal custody, family says An immigrant family is grappling with the ordeal suffered by a 3-year-old girl who endured alleged sexual abuse while her father fought for five months for her release from federal custody

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Nightmare shit. A prisoner from the George Floyd Uprising has just disappeared from state DOC records after weeks of being held in solitary and having no access to communications.

🎈Happy birthday to @gemmafiles.bsky.social, writer of exquisitely Weird & Canadian folk horror brimming w horny fairies, cursed films, & determined women. Also a banger about archaeology & cursed grave goods. Celebrate accordingly by summoning an ancient god! Or just read a book. That seems safer.

I. The Burial of the Dead April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers. beginning lines of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot

www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/...
#April #poetry

from
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot

LEAVE TRANS KIDS ALONE YOU ABSOLUTE FREAKS

‘Bout sums it up.

I also have this thing I sometimes use to to brainstorm with and bounce ideas off.

It's called "writer friends" and "an editor" and I really recommend getting some of those rather than using a polluting plagiarism machine made by a technofascist ruling class that probably hates you.

Single Author Horror Fiction Collections to Devour A list of six superior, single author collections, from the last 10 years that I think deserve to be moved up to the top of your TBR pile.

Hero librarian Becky Spratford (@raforall.bsky.social) trumpets 6 quintessential horror collections, including books by @johnlangan.bsky.social, @brianevenson.bsky.social, and @premeemohamed.com!
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Objection: The Government Just Convicted Protesters of Terrorism The DOJ charged anti-ICE protesters under a terrorism statute written for al-Qaeda and ISIS. On Friday, a federal jury convicted them. The attorney general says this is just the beginning.

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And now, this.

hero(ine)

It warms my cold heart to see there's still interest in this old, unholy tome!

"David Courvelle, 56, pled guilty to sexually assaulting a Nicaraguan woman over the course of several months at a Louisiana ICE dletention facility. Prosecutors say he would bring the victim letters and piotures of her daughter, along with food and other gifts, which is against ICE rules. David is said to have hired lookouts while he raped the woman in a janitorial closet. Initially, David denied the accusations before confessing during an interview in September, He was released on a $10,000 bond and will be sentenced on April 10th where his charge carries a maximum of 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000."

ICE Officer admitted he raped a woman in custody for months

He did this in exchange for letting her see her daughter

We coulda had taco trucks everywhere.

Man driving a motor scooter with a dog in his lap and smoke from bombs rising in the sky behind them

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran.

(Photo by Pooria Hatami)