What would the Lindy West haters say about this kind of relationship behavior

Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in April 2026 See what April books we're excited about. This month's selection includes an International Booker Prize nominee, a novel that features Monica Lewinsky as a patron saint, and more.

Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by @patrickcottrell.bsky.social publishes today! I hope you took our advice and preordered your copy, along with the others on our list for April. Put your email in the box to subscribe so you don’t miss our picks for May! 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

You're not supposed to talk back to the account, Lisa

I think it would be funniest if this blurb appeared on the cover of an Ottessa Moshfegh book 📚💙

Even better!

Just encountered this entirely without context out in the wild but it seems like this is a part of the internet we should be plugged into

Publishers Weekly can be just as devastating, but they do it within a more standardized format. That beginning summary sentence 😭: "in this powerful but uneven biography..." "this earnest but weakly executed memoir..." "this ingenious but structurally baffling novel..." #booksky

So look, we'll admit we could be queerer. Not personally (we're already very queer), but yeah, there could be even more gay books on our site and more books that are even gayer. We'll look into it. In the meantime, this very queer content is here #booksky

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In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family In “The Witch,” a mother passes to her daughters a secret, burdensome power, but sorcery can’t fix a household that’s coming apart.

Kristen Roupenian predicts that Marie NDiaye will win the Nobel Prize. And, like, who knows, but she IS right about how funny The Witch is, so... #booksky

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We're also really good at intentionally choosing queer books. Here's one of them #booksky

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Review: Camonghne Felix's Let the Poets Govern and the Scam of Representation Felix stresses that real, substantial change isn’t instant, nor does it happen without us—without people. But real change is happening, will happen, must happen despite the liberal cynicism and fear t...

People who would like a book that will help you/us understand the present (personally, politically, socially) and build a better future, this is it. Or rather, there are certainly many books, but this is certainly one of them #booksky

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We want to talk to anyone in prison who thinks they may have Long COVID, and would appreciate readers sharing this call for sources with any loved ones, friends, or contacts. People in prison have limited access to information, so they may not know much about what Long COVID is. Rather than just asking if someone has Long COVID, you may need to explain that a person might have it if they got COVID-19 and never felt they really got all the way better or if an old health issue got a lot worse after COVID-19. Anyone with ideas for sources should contact reporter October Krausch by May 31 at rebelprof@proton.me If writing from the prison: The Sick Times Attn: October Krausch PO Box 331009 Brooklyn, NY 11233

Reporter @octoberk.bsky.social is working with The Sick Times on an investigation about the experience of #LongCOVID in prison, which will also highlight how people outside of prisons can advocate on this issue.

Another reason to stick with us is that we're really good at completely inadvertently choosing books to read and write about that aren't specifically presented as having queer storylines but end up having them anyway #booksky

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"The New York Times' books coverage doesn't work like that blah blah blah...."

"The New York Times doesn't run prepub reviews blah blah blah..."

Hmm...no, pretty sure we scooped the NYT #booksky

Lindy West's Adult Braces and Her Haters | Who Even Reads What wave of feminism is it where we tell a woman she is too clueless to understand what is going on in her own marriage?

ICYMI, that Lindy West Slate article was trash, and the internet outrage about her marriage is anti-poly, misogynist, and racist! Read our explainer on the Lindy West outrage and read her very funny memoir Adult Braces 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/polyamory-po...

PSA: The Beheading Game is not just about Anne Boleyn coming back to life after being executed but also about Anne Boleyn being bisexual #booksky

I just donated to this campaign for Seraj, his parents, and his siblings. Will you join me?

Green and purple update graphic from the Greater Longfellow Relief Fund: The "Secondary Crisis" is Here When neighbors are detained or deported, the loss of income creates an immediate threat of eviction. THE REALITY: Families can't afford to leave, but they also can no longer afford to stay. NeighborReliefFund.org

Green and purple update graphic from the Greater Longfellow Relief Fund: 2-3 Families Every Day. That is the average number of requests for aid we receive. THE RISK: We are fulfilling most needs, but delays put neighbors in a precarious position. We need to move faster to prevent evictions. NeighborReliefFund.org

Green and purple update graphic from the Greater Longfellow Relief Fund: IMPACT TO DATE: $297,767 distributed to 173 families. Community generosity has been life-changing, but the work isn't done. THE DATA: ⚠️$41,000+ in unmet requests right now. ⚠️ The long-term effects of Operation Metro Surge will be felt for years. NeighborReliefFund.org

Green and purple update graphic from the Greater Longfellow Relief Fund: HELP US REACH $375,000 We are increasing our goal to ensure no neighbor faces a crisis alone. Please give if you're able and, also just as powerful, spread the word. Let's keep our community safe. NeighborReliefFund.org

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Many families in Minnesota are in crisis and need help now. Our local #MutualAid fund alone has $41,000 in requests for rent relief that are overdue. Please share widely!

Thank you to everyone who is helping us keep our neighbors housed. ✊🏻

Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in March 2026 Check out five books we're looking forward to that are coming out in March, including new releases from Rebecca Solnit and Louise Erdrich.

Reposting this because I just finished The Beheading Game by @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social and it DID NOT DISAPPOINT #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

Some of our favorite varieties of devastating Kirkus reviews include "This author shows promise but for some unknown reason wrote a terrible book" and "This book has one good chapter/story and is otherwise an overstuffed house of horrors" #booksky

Can't spell Kirkus without "irk us"

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And also only then if your opinion is of a different variety than the widespread mess of opinions that are the emotional equivalent of when people decided that not only must it be fine to eat the stickers on fruit, but because they were right there on the fruit, you must be intended to consume them

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Okay, I admit it.

There are usually 2-4 books in this building that are deliberately overpriced.

That's my TBR. The prices will be adjusted when I've had time to read the books.

Sometimes someone buys a book at the TBR price, usually without comment.

I then give free books to a random kid.

I was the one taker. Please join me.

Image description: Cover of Adult Braces, with comical image of Lindy West grimacing and mascara running, set on yellow background that includes an angry mob of crudely drawn figures on the left.

Lindy West's Adult Braces and Her Haters | Who Even Reads What wave of feminism is it where we tell a woman she is too clueless to understand what is going on in her own marriage?

Don't let the haters win! Read @runtalien.bsky.social's defense of Lindy West and her new memoir Adult Braces. If you think you know more about Lindy's marriage than she does, please get a grip! @slate.com #booksky #feminism #discourse #longreads www.whoevenreads.com/polyamory-po...

A Thing and a Half: An Interview with Kenan Orhan "Exile is such a strange and absurd situation. I think there are going to be things you miss so much. You start to wonder whether or not it really was worth it. And what you're willing to give up to g...

ICYMI We have published some awesome stuff in the past couple of weeks! Check out our interview with Kenan Orhan about The Renovation, a surreal novel about a woman with a Turkish prison cell in her bathroom #booksky www.whoevenreads.com/a-thing-and-...

The Corrections is finally coming to Netflix. Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, the seismic family saga you couldn’t avoid in the early aughts, is finally getting a screen adaptation. In 2012, Noah Baumbach and Scott Rudin attemp…

Too bad this looks like it might actually turn out to be good, we were looking forward to making fun of it if it ever happened #booksky
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