Jeff VanderMeer

We're so excited for NOW WE SURRENDER! Álvaro Enrigue is one of our wonderful contributors. Click below and you can read his work for free.

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Jeff on left and Enrigue on right behind a small table with big mics. The back of the heads of three spectators in front.

Really loved being Álvaro Enrigue's in-conversation partner at @powells.bsky.social tonight, to celebrate his new novel Now We Surrender. It's one of the best books I've read in the past few years. Poignant, brutal, funny, exciting, important. A must-buy. (photo by @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social)

he said with fondness cause he likes second person

jaysus. yes, i know this isn't third person. that is the joke. now go out in the street and dance or something. so i don't have explain shit to you.

Let me tell ya--aliens want no part of this shitshow.

Aww what a sweetie.

aussie heeler doggo ready to herd people, cattle, babies, monsters, sticks, trees, insects, birds, popo, officers of the court, insurance adjusters, wildfires, streams, rivers lakes, elephant seals, and all else that resides upon the earth for it must be herded and heel-nipped, heel-nipped and herded by doggo

best doggo i photographed today, but best doggo i *saw* was the longest corgi ever, which unspooled itself as it walked toward me til it seemed the length of a giant centipede & i marveled at how it managed to hold itself up without a third set of legs in the middle and it gave me a look of disdain

Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza facing away from each other, with title BEST SELLERS below.

Watched Best Sellers (2021) with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social and we both thought it an underrated film that deserved better reviews when it came out. Smart, sharp, with unexpected twists and turns, along with good performances from Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza. Well-shot, too.

yellow skunk cabbage blossom

orange striped fish with long snout

glasses left on a stump, surrounded by greenery

oh who this? this who. this who fungi lookin' like a fritter, like a fritter gained consciousness and sat up on a log and said who this, this is who.

Quite a lot of lovely texture seen on the Reed College Texture Gathering Expedition that @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social and I went on yesterday. Our findings will be presented at the 2027 London Architecture College's "Colloquium on the Quantum Loss of Tactile Experience in the 21st Century".

Jeff on left and Enrigue on right behind a small table with big mics. The back of the heads of three spectators in front.

Really loved being Álvaro Enrigue's in-conversation partner at @powells.bsky.social tonight, to celebrate his new novel Now We Surrender. It's one of the best books I've read in the past few years. Poignant, brutal, funny, exciting, important. A must-buy. (photo by @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social)

that's the joke

It is impossible for @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social to not cook on fantastic science fiction. The Strange Bird may be short but its no less fantastic than Borne was.

yeah, if it's not done right

you *will* read third person and you will like it.

A gestural drawing of a frog, in blue, green and yellow

Hint of a frog
Sellwood, Portland, OR
#pdx #hraffiti #streetart

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Preening barred owl 2/2

Now I Surrender is a remarkable novel. I hope folks in the Portland area will come out to the Powell's Burnside location Sunday night. I'll be talking to Enrigue about this powerhouse of a book. I wouldn't at all be surprised to see it on the National Book Award short list later this year.

yellow skunk cabbage blossom

orange striped fish with long snout

glasses left on a stump, surrounded by greenery

oh who this? this who. this who fungi lookin' like a fritter, like a fritter gained consciousness and sat up on a log and said who this, this is who.

Quite a lot of lovely texture seen on the Reed College Texture Gathering Expedition that @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social and I went on yesterday. Our findings will be presented at the 2027 London Architecture College's "Colloquium on the Quantum Loss of Tactile Experience in the 21st Century".

your second moment of calm

tangle of mossy branches

wall of good dogs, including fava bean, means, pinto, porky, henry, tilly, riley.

beautiful pink purple huge blossoms

three pairs of mannikan legs up in the air against a fence

Around Portland with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social today. False spring 2 has sprung.

Preening barred owl 2/2

Your moment of calm: a barred owl @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social adroitly spotted near Reed College. 1/2

washed out swimming muskrat in a mush of rain cloudy water.

hummingbird in silhouette

gadwell duck dining on something in the water

Sleepy barred owl dreaming of a juicy mouse.

Cruddy half-decent photos from soggy birding expedition with @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social. We saw a barred owl, muskrat, and a bunny! Only some pictured here.

vague flash of red amid a blurry array of branches and green splotches

less vague flash of red accompanying a smudged bird body shape amid a blurry array of branches and green splotches

vague smudged washed out flash of red amid a blurry array of branches and green splotches

vague flash of red amid a blurry array of bird body, branches and green splotches

Please accept my marvelous photos of two ruby-crowned kinglets having a pitched battle right in front of me and @sarahlovesbirds.bsky.social, on the trails near Reed College the other day.

your moment of calm: sea potatoes! potatoes of the sea!

I had to re-edit it, yes, and accommodate a different layout to some extent.

Here are some substitute photos of Oregon wildlife and nature while Jeff works away

Announcing our final keynote speaker for GIFCon 2026: Jeff VanderMeer!
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please accept this recycled recycled elk head post as a stop-gap as i work on my novel