Giving Victims Back Their Voice: “Bright Young Women” and “Anita de Monte Laughs Last” The true crime genre has exploded over the last decade. While these stories can be fascinating, the victims’ voices often get lost…

I wrote about Jessica Knoll’s “Bright Young Women,” Xochitl Gonzalez‘s “Anita de Monte Laughs Last,” true crime andAna Mendieta. 💜

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🖼 The Fall of the House of Usher, Arthur Rackham, 1935. Illustration of house set back behind a moat and pollarded trees, in the foreground, a man in a top hat rides by on a brown house as he looks up at the house, dark sky in background.

‘(A)nd at length found myself…within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was --but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.’ ~ Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher. #BookWormSat

LIT ANGELS #40: Bring Me His Head An Examination of Feminine Rage. Guest Edited by Melissa Pleckham.

If it’s feminine rage you seek, look no further than the latest issue of LIT ANGELS, founded by Francesca Lia Block and edited by Melissa Peckham. 🖤

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Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is rain and pronounced ah-gah-skee

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. "Ah-Gah-Skee"

Locked Gray / Linked Blue | Brain Mill Press

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Author Kem Joy Ukwu reads from her phone on stage in front of a neon yellow sign that says Newark Culture Club.

I got to see the wonderful author (and person!) Kem Joy Ukwu read at The Ghost Presents #LiteraryLibations, hosted by @maisycard.bsky.social - Kem’s “Locked Gray / Linked Blue” is fantastic, and I was thrilled she read one of my favorite stories. Highly recommend her book AND this event series! 🩶🩵

The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable.

The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back.

We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.

Why this NASA climate scientist wants you to stay angry “I don’t think we rebuild science without getting mad.”

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So excited for this 🤩 Help fund “DEAD PRETTY: Beauty in the Horror Genre” now 🖤 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/deadpretty...

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Donate to Save Manhattan's Last Queer Bookstore!, organized by Jules Wernersbach Hive Mind Books Needs Your Help to Save the Last Queer Bookstore in Man… Jules Wernersbach needs your support for Save Manhattan's Last Queer Bookstore!

The Bureau of General Services - Queer Division is the only queer bookstore in Manhattan. Please help save it. 🌈

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ITS ALL INTENTIONAL DONT FALL FOR THIS. There’s a reason they want it to seem like ice is more helpful than tsa. They’re trying to push the narrative TSA is bad at their jobs and are ungrateful. Push back against this narrative they’re trying to build.

Thank you! I’m so psyched 🤩

Jean Bennet’s painting “Salome,” featuring a woman with dark hair and a slight smile on her face carrying a plate with a bearded man’s head on it. Text on photo reads: LIT ANGELS 40: BRING ME HIS HEAD, Feminine Rage.

I never would have thought I’d be lucky enough to be part of a lit magazine founded by one of the authors I most admire 🤩 Many thanks to Francesca Lia Block and Melissa Peckham. Watch out for LIT ANGELS this April! 💐 🐍 💇🏻‍♀️

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Portrait of a Filmmaker: Alexandra Heller-Nicholas At the beginning of your new film 1000 Women in Horror, you describe your early exposure to horror as existing in the terrain of your friends’ older brothers. Was there a particular moment, or film…

Great interview with Alexandra
Heller-Nicholas at Bloodletter 🤩 #horror #film

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The real theme of the modern age is "Nobody Wants This". AI, ICE in airports, ICE in general, the Iran War, data centers sending actual cities wiht people into blackouts -- "nobody" wants this. And yet here we are.

Love Rockets Wet leaves along the threshold of the mid-day and I’m off to rescue the sky from its assassins jogging and screaming and launching my clean mortars into the March obscene air…the enemy. I suppose I’d rather be sitting in Samoa now sipping a quart of Orange Julius and being fanned by Joey Heatherton in black tights and white glossy lipstick. but I’m not. I’m here. and I have something to say, as well as something to take care of. And that something is probably more important than you realize. I like the sky (don’t you) its warmth, its friendliness, I’m not going to let all this fucking soot taint that terrific blue. battle the filthy airs with your mortars and your prayers. you’ll soon be overcome with lovely sensations of the sky. you’ll be thinking of me as this happens.

For today, my number one favorite poem, which takes place in March, by Irish-American poet Jim Carroll 💚 #poetry #StPatricksDay

The beach scene at the end of Ian McEwan’s “On Chesil Beach” 💔

Kyle McCarthy’s novel “Immersions”

Many thanks to @tinhouse.bsky.social for this gorgeous ARC of “Immersions” by Kyle McCarthy - I’m tearing through this dreamy, unsettling novel. 🤩💜

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand. CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

A screenshot of the pre-orders section at mzs.press. Three screenshots of books that have not yet been released. I Am The Night, Daniel Dockery's book about Batman the Brave and the Bold, has a silhouette of Batman stretching from the top to the bottom of the cover, with the title of the book and a nighttime Gotham skyline circumscribed by the borders of the Batman silhouette. CENTER The cover of The Ring Cycle, Matt Zoller Seitz and Odie Henderson's book on the Rocky and Creed films. The cover is white except for a pair of black boxing gloves floating there RIGHT The cover of Documentary Now!, the 600-page, 7-pound coffee table book celebrating the aforementioned IFC Channel series parodying classic documentaries.

Screenshot of three books carried at mzs.press arts bookstore: LEFT: Cover of Lead Sister, a biography of Karen Carpenter, featuring a closeup of Carpenter playing and singing with The Carpenters. CENTER: The cover of Anthony Hopkins' We Did OK, Kid, a memoir of his life and career. On the cover is Hopkins in closeup as he looks presently, narrowed blue eyes looking directly at the spectator. RIGHT: Cover of Louis Armstrong In His Own Words, a collection of the bandleader's correspondence. The cover image is a photograph of a probably fortysomething Armstrong seated at the wooden desk in his office where he often wrote letters.

Screenshot of the covers of 3 books carried at mzs.press Arts Bookstore. LEFT: The cover of Gotham City Cocktails, a book of mixed drink recipes inspired by Batman. Art deco-style flowing border lines flow around and around the interior of the dust jacket. At the center are drawings of two tall cocktail glasses and between them, a shot glass and a tumbler with a sword-pierced cherry in it. CENTER: The cover of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook. Green cover, white writing and graphics. The central image is a teapot with stem lines coming out of it, and at the pot's base, a teacup and saucer and a separate plate of biscuits. RIGHT: Bob's Burgers "The Re-Recipe Box," a set of recipe cards inspired by the joke hamburger names featured on the small board at the front of Bob's joint. Red sides with small graphics, cover image of the restaurant.

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

one of the neat things about submitting to the fancier lit mags is that by the time they send you a rejection all the cells in your body have been replaced with newer cells, they're not rejecting you but as past version of yourself, how quaint

Ugh sorry about the flare. These designs are all beautiful!

Get your own FOREST GOD from @yuecrafter.bsky.social at the link in her profile 🥰

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The word is remembering and pronounced ahnuhdahdeeskee

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

[Film Review] Breathing In (2023) — Ghouls Magazine Ever since there has been war, there has been art about war. Viewers at the 2023 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival were lucky enough to see the world premiere of Jaco Bouwer's film Breathing In, a tense t...

So happy my review for Jaco Bouwer's “Breathing In” is now up on Ghouls Magazine 💜 #horror

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Very happy the lovely editors at @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social published my prose poem “Trash” on Valentine’s Day 🥰

The Anti-Valentine’s Day Reading List Treat yourself to books about tragic romances, messy love triangles, relationship-resistant protagonists and painful breakups.

Not quite in the #valentinesday mood? My anti-Valentine’s Day reading list has doomed affairs, cringey love triangles, searing breakups and more 🖤 #books #literature

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Throughout Canada and in some US cities, February 14 is a day of action and remembrance for Missing & Murdered Women, Girls, 2-Spirit+. #MMIWG2S+
Vancouver's march in 1992 was the first.

In the US, many Native people observe May 5, the National Day of Awareness for #MMIWR.