What are you going to read this week? Celebrate spring with Cameron Reed's new novel "What We Are Seeking," a planetary settler tale with brilliant ecosystem worldbuilding, plausibly alien intelligences, and satisfyingly complex queer families of the future. So good. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
This book is incredible. Read it immediately.
Right??? That is a MAN right there
But did you tell them you have been nominated today for another Hugo? In case it makes them take you off hold faster?
Family! Mothers as protagonists, siblings as rivals, siblings against the world, found family, etc
well that is a NICE hugo awards finalist line-up, I must say
YESSSSSSSS CONGRATSSS
YES YES YESSSS
tell that to the bus full of River fans I rode for ten minutes on Sunday, all men on their way to the soccer stadium, all grinning and offering seats to the five-year-old in his brand-new jersey
this is one of my favorite things about Argentina???? The grandpas who would stop their day to babytalk into the stroller??? The middle-aged dry cleaner who came out of his store to explain what they mechanism that was fascinating my toddler through the window was for??? What is wrong with people
🚨🚨🚨 ALERT ALERT WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON PAPERBACK DAY, ALERT ALERT ALERT 🚨🚨🚨
✔️ World building
✔️ Le Guin adjacent
✔️ Weirdest most interesting "parent/child" (they're both the parent and the child!) relationship in contemporary literature
✔️ Pretty gay
✔️ Beautiful look at a world where multiple intelligences are possible AND fight messily for the freedom and decency of all
"a cabbage for starmer" has a kind of "a canticle for liebowitz" or "flowers for algernon" ring to it
a photo taken far too close for comfort of a plate of sliced beef (boiled to a reddish-gray) with a slimy gray tuna-and-anchovy-flavored-sauce poured over it. somebody "garnished" this monstrosity with crumbled hardboiled eggs, sad capers, and five flecks of parsley.
I'm sorry, WHAT
(pictured: the Argentine dish "vitel tone"—the local adaptation of the piedmontese vitel tonato—boiled beef with tuna-flavored mayonnaise)
and I thought the peaches-and-cream-cheese sushi that's common here in Buenos Aires was a nasty idea
"'Chinese' peaches & shrimp in mayo sauce" is a phrase that will haunt my nightmares
sounded like avoiding canned foods, highly processed foods, and plastic packaging is highest impact, with more fruit/veggie adding additional benefit
“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”
Hey, friends, I need your help for a fellow indie author:
We're looking for someone who can provide a sensitivity read for a Mexican American character. The author wants general support in how the character and his family are portrayed in this contemporary romance. Paid, of course.
Thank you!
This sounds like a shockingly healthy and grounded choice, I think I want to steal it (also since my Modern Love essay did, as far as I can tell, next to jack squat for the novel it was supposed to promote—well—it all seems like a lot for no guarantee of return)
………….when is your essay on essay-writing publishing or have I missed it already
Two copies of Evan Morgan Williams' new story collection, THE DIVIDE, on a dark stained desktop.
RED ALERT! I bought a copy of @pahoehoe.bsky.social's new story collection, "The Divide," to give away, because great writers at small presses need more publicity. Want it? I"ll send it to the first person to promote a new book by another writer in the replies.
#writinglife
#notTHATevanwilliams
I’ve really enjoyed 4/20, the Bluesky holiday where everyone reveals their deranged relationship with airports
DO ITTTTT
I, for one, am reading your book and know (based on what I've read, without even looking at the comment) that they are WRONG
After I see it, I will let you know if you should put it back on your list!
coming soon to a skeet near you!
he was NOT lying about the weird
Movie website for "Taxidermia" (Taxidermy), a Hungarian film directed by György Palfi from 2006
Taxidermy
