Seasons of Glass & Iron by Amal El-Mohtar: Review by Gary K. Wolfe Seasons of Glass & Iron, Amal El-Mohtar (Tor­dotcom 978-1-250-34100-6, $24.99, 208pp, hc) March 2026. Like Mills, Amal El-Mohtar was discovered by many readers with her multiple award-winning n…

“With SEASONS OF GLASS & IRON, it becomes clear that the bulk of El-Mohtar’s fiction and poetry is in love with these older traditions...” @garykwolfe reviews new work from Amal El-Mohtar

What's to judge???

I pretty much agree. I eat meat, but I never buy beef, and it's toward the bottom of the meats I would choose when eating out. It's fine, I just like other kinds of meat better, and I don't really get why people love steak and burgers so much.

I don't think I'm getting those sorts of e-mails, precisely, but ick.

Congratulations, that's amazing! And your story sounds great!

"Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens."

Ursula K. Le Guin

I felt a kinship with Le Guin, reading that.

The Minnesota State Capitol building against a brilliant blue sky. In the foreground is a Minnesota state flag held by someone in the crowd.

I went to the No Kings rally today in St. Paul (SAINT PAUL, THE CAPITOL OF MINNESOTA, NOT MINNEAPOLIS, FOR FUCK'S SAKE PEOPLE) and thought I would share some photos of my favorite signs.

Oh, my gosh, congratulations, Canaan! We'll be practically neighbors! In the grand scheme of things, haha.

We bombed Iran?! | I need to pay that bill | Kansas antitrans ID law!! | Don’t forget Hugo noms | do we still have Venezuela’s president? | *an email re: book promotion* | I can’t pay this bill | cutting funds to MN?? | I need to check on my friends | timeline fights about doomerism | taxes | REPEAT

Had been thinking of you. Happy milestone anniversary!

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

Oh, no, that sounds rough. I hope you get some answers soon!

A square image consisting of white text on a solid, midnight teal background. The text reads: 2025 Awards Eligibility Eleanor Glewwe Novelette "Limue's Alphabet" (10,000 words) The Future Fire - Sept. 2025 Short Story "The Otter Woman's Daughter" (5,000 words) Cast of Wonders - Feb. 2025 "A Cup of Forgetting" (4,960 words) Fantasy Magazine Dec. 2025

And now that my last story of the year is out, I can post my first ever awards eligibility post!

Story links are on my blog: eleanorglewwe.com/2025/12/19/2...

Avoiding unintended consequences: science of reading policies may harm deaf children Abstract. Many U.S. policies inspired by the Science of Reading rest on two assumptions: (1) skilled reading always involves automatic mapping between writ

The title of this new article by >30 deaf and hearing authors says it all "Avoiding unintended consequences: Science of reading policies have potential to harm deaf children" doi.org/10.1093/jdsa...

Also me 😂

Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the medía has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation.

Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Oh, I missed this! Congratulations!

an aerial shot of a frozen lake with luminary that spells out MN is greater than ice with a heart that has spirals which is a hmong symbol! The words are surrounded by a circle of people

Lake Phalen last night. East Side Pride!!! Including a Hmong heart. 💛

Minnesotans on Lake Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Calhoun) in Minneapolis. Jan. 30, 2026.

📷: WCCO-TV

"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

A group, one of many, holding candles in honor of a community member executed by an unaccountable paramilitary invasion force

This is Minneapolis.

Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.

A photo of the 1/23 protest in downtown Minneapolis, including a sign showing Renee Good's last known words, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you."

🧵ICE has been in my state for over a month. Yesterday, my family and folks from all over the Twin Cities gathered by the thousands in sub-zero conditions to march and to say in no uncertain terms that we don't want ICE here, that we want ICE to leave. 1/5

Oh, I love that one!

Wow. He really spoke in front of the *old* Minnesota flag.

How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota I’m going to assume that if you’re reading this, you more or less understand the situation in Minnesota and I don’t have to explain it to you! That said, I do have a section of lo…

ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!

naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

I just read about this in Le Monde, complete with video, and then I come over to Bluesky and it's like the second thing I see 😂

Argh! Glad you got some of your afternoon back, but sorry for the aggravation and expense.

Oh, nooo, so sorry!

Oh, wow, this sounds *amazing*!