Roz Ray

100 Notable Small Press Books — Reviewer Interest Form

The 100 Notable Small Press Books 2025 list is live! In 2026, I’ll be taking over the project from the amazing @miriamgershow.bsky.social

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I am SO thrilled to be on this list for the Crime & Mystery category. A big thank you to @theblcklst.bsky.social and the judges for some very welcome wind in the sails!

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

Hey-o! @literaryhub.bsky.social's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 is up! This was a fun project to be a part of. Congrats to all authors and presses! Big thanks to @miriamgershow.bsky.social for being the engine on the train!

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My parents have a picture of me at 7 years old pounding a nail into a 2x4, "helping" my parents build our house. I'm pretty sure I made more progress on that board than good ol' Dave here. Fuck, man, I don't know. Maybe just go find a scrappy looking 2nd grader....

A photo of Katie Wilson seated in a wooden chair beside a white brick fireplace smiling at the camera with her hands folded

an image of the election results from King County

SEATTLE!!!

We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!

this is genuinely wild

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.

If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.

Here's one! toastedseattle.com

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There are two wolves in my heart. One is the persistence hunter I want to be.

....the other one is Fizzgig.

This last round of agent querying for me was waaaaaaaaaay different than my first two rounds. Last time I queried (2016), the folks who got back to me got back within a month. This time around, I've had agents get back to me nine months after I sent the query. Chin up, chin up.

I know it's a new national pastime to move to Seattle and then shit all over Seattle. It's gloomy. It's expensive. We're all frigid bitches. I get it. But, like, it IS gloomy, it IS expensive, we ARE going to silently judge you if you say "Pike's Place," so......

#don'tletthedoorhityouonthewayout

SEN. @ossoff.bsky.social : “Money in politics is the root of all of this… the vast sums of corporate & billionaire money in our political system - with or without Trump - are why ordinary people are so ill-served by elected officials and congress.”

Seattle folks! If you aren't already subscribed to Ron Davis's newsletter, git on it. It's a banger.

If I could possibly skip the days I roam around the house doing fuck-all because I'm trying to bite off more than I can chew instead of breaking the problem down into chunks because I won't admit to myself that I'm just one person and not a whole-ass writer's room.....man, I'd get that framed.

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I know, like, this whole season of the Christian Right is jumping the shark, but man oh man....

Nobody bats a thousand, but I read this *just after* I listened to him tell Kara Swisher that he wasn’t endorsing Zohran because he “wasn’t involved” in NY politics. Cool.

Pete Buttigieg backs Harrell for Seattle mayor Although Bruce Harrell has won the support of mayors from around the country, Buttigieg is by far the most well-known endorsement from outside of Washington.

Dude. Boo.

With respect, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, you got this one wrong. Bruce Harrell might be nationally recognized, but locally, he's been actively working against affordability in Seattle until *checks watch* about three weeks after he lost a primary to Katie Wilson.

Step 1 was cancel your streaming services/park visits/cruises/etc.

Step 2 is contact Sinclair advertisers.

Hey, what’s the publication here?

Hold the line, Dems. If my health insurance is going to go up 75% (which it will because I’m self employed and on the exchange), I want it to go up NOW, not quietly 18 months from now when nobody’s paying attention.

We the people must never accept government threats to our freedom of speech. Efforts by leaders to pressure artists, journalists, and companies with retaliation for their speech strike at the heart of what it means to live in a free country. Last week, Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after the government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for freedom of speech in our nation. In an attempt to silence its critics, our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives, and entertainers across the board. This runs counter to the values our nation was built upon, and our Constitution guarantees. We know this moment is bigger than us and our industry. Teachers, government employees, law firms, researchers, universities, students and so many more are also facing direct attacks on their freedom of expression. Regardless of our political affiliation, or whether we engage in politics or not, we all love our country. We also share the belief that our voices should never be silenced by those in power – because if it happens to one of us, it happens to all of us. This is the moment to defend free speech across our nation. We encourage all Americans to join us, along with the ACLU, in the fight to defend and preserve our constitutionally protected rights.

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Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation.

More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

Do. DO stop your doomscrolling and listen to this story. This is everything right here. The whole reason for the whole damn thing.

In Order to Keep Our Editorial Page Completely Balanced, We Are Hiring More Dipshits Here at the New York Times, we believe that all sides of the story should be tolerated and explored, from white supremacists being actually kinda c...

"By the end of the year, we aim to have 200 percent more dipshits writing columns for us. As long as you are a Ben Shapiro knockoff who can string together the words 'the intolerant left' and occasionally criticize Trump, you have a home here on our opinion pages."

YEAH! GIT it, lady! We will, I trust, be seeing an announcement when said essay comes out???

What're y'all workin' on?

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Who's got two thumbs and 5500 words of A New Thing?

To every student who rolled their eyes when I told them to read their work out loud: I AM VINDICATED.

I wish I could have any reaction to this other than squirming, ants-on-your-skin embarrassment. I want nothing but shame (and boredom, mostly, actually) to come out of the National Guard being in DC, so to that end, bravo this guy, that video makes me want to crawl in a hole.