Anita Felicelli

We're still holding onto the Valentine's Day blush, but we’re interested in all kinds of love—messy, quiet, obsessive, unexpected. How We Know Our Time Travels by Anita Felicelli encompasses them all. 💖🧡

What kind of love do you like to read about? Comment down below! ⬇️

The cover the novel, Any Kind of Known Tomorrow, by Leah De Forest. The central image is a still life of flowers; that image is surrounded by a range of small insects, including dragonflies, a snail and a small wasp.

Here it is: the cover of my debut novel, ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW, coming from @bettybooks.bsky.social on 9/15.

Head here to learn more about the book and about Betty: www.wtawpress.org/betty. For media and review inquiries, contact Lauren Cerand Public Relations (@laurencerand.com)

A New Wharton Study on AI Warns of a Growing Problem: Cognitive Surrender Casual users should pay special attention

This is a mental war that we have to win. It's not about being a luddite, it's about destroying or retaining the ability to think. It's about how insidious this becomes in a situation where generative AI is adopted and then subverted intentionally.

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I'm Still Not Over Losing My Book Review Gig You can still get the Humble Bundle of every book by Annalee Newitz and myself published by Tor Books for a pittance — please select adjusted donation! — and...

"The notion of making a living with A.I.-generated books appears to be based on the belief algorithms will be serving up book slop the same way we are force-fed other kinds of slop"

I'm still not over losing my job as a book reviewer. Here's why we need book critics:

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You’ve Done It Again, Michael | Jynne Dilling Even as the pace of work life quickened exponentially across the next two decades, email inboxes overflowing, media outlets proliferating and then contracting, websites and newsletters dominating and ...

beautiful remembrance of Michael Silverblatt, and also of a different era of publishing and media www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found…” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

I’ve Been Laid Off. I’m Not Done. After 20 years at The Washington Post, I’m suddenly on my own — and still writing about books.

After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post.
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A healthy book ecosystem relies on professional book reviewers, not just authors reviewing their peers, although this is good and interesting too. We need both. But the professional reviewer is a keystone species in the ecosystem. We can't lose them.

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You’d think a guy who owns a company that is the largest seller of books would support the newspaper’s (that he owns) book section.

Inside Annalee Newitz’s Robot World In their new near-future novella, Annalee Newitz explores robot rights, authenticity, diaspora identity, and what rebuilding after war might feel like.

Former NBCC board member Anita Felicelli profiled Annalee Newitz for Alta:

I’m so grateful to @bulbculture.bsky.social for giving this story a beautiful new home.

Don't forget to write reviews of the WTAW Press books you've read. They make a big difference!
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I loved this book. Hard hitting and emotional powerful but also darkly funny.

Split Self, Split Sisters In her daring first novel, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, author Nina McConigley entwines race, sisterhood, and sexual violence in the American West.

For @altajournal.bsky.social, I reviewed @ninamcconigley.bsky.social's excellent new book, "How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder":

www.altaonline.com/books/fiction/a70001359/nina-mcconigley-how-to-commit-a-postcolonial-murder-book-review/

Delighted to be co-chairing the Leonard Prize with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social! This list comes from both our general membership & the Board, and the members will vote on the winner. (It’s not too late to join @bookcritics.bsky.social.) Cheers to all of these debut authors!

The Best New Books to Start 2026 From neo-Nazi true crime to George Saunders’s latest and a long-awaited Vollmann epic, here are the books we can’t wait to read in the coming months.

NBCC member Paul Wilner contributed a book roundup on the first months of the new year for Alta:

Art lives in the process, in the struggle to grow and figure out the specific needs of the work, and in the arrival at a better understanding of the artist’s limitations. The product is just the end result of the art.

Inside Annalee Newitz’s Robot World In their new near-future novella, Annalee Newitz explores robot rights, authenticity, diaspora identity, and what rebuilding after war might feel like.

a pleasure to talk to Annalee Newitz about their cozy science fiction novella, Automatic Noodle; robots; and world building for @altajournal.bsky.social.
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I don't know which challenge this is - but I agree with @themountaingoats - one of the cruddiest things that's happened to reading in the past 20 years or so is the algorithms that narrow bookshelf recs into books like those you've already bought, rather than wild books that might blow your mind.

October might be our busiest season, but Litquake presents a variety of literary programs year-round. From hosting Ocean Vuong and Ed Yong to a slate of local, up-and-coming authors, this year was a treat.
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On this week's Selected Shorts episode, Now You See Him, Now You Don’t, actors Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker, and Emily Skeggs perform stories about fictional disappearing acts by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, Claire Fridkin, and Anita Felicelli. bit.ly/48PohSY

psyched to have a new short story, "Delilah," in the latest print issue of Alta (Issue 34). illustration by Victor Juhasz. www.altaonline.com/culture/fict...

Congratulations to the poets and publishers on our 2025 Poetry Award longlist!

Starting today with our beautiful autobiography longlist!

We got a match! Every donation made to ZYZZYVA will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $5,000. Now through December 31st. If you’ve been thinking about supporting our work, now is a fantastic time.

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Honored to serve on the fiction committee and pleased to share our longlist for the @bookcritics.bsky.social awards for fiction. Congratulations to all the nominees!

The Empty Lab, in Science and in Fiction - Public Books When literature refuses readers entry into the laboratory, it fosters suspicions of science itself.

What happens when literature refuses readers entry into the laboratory?

New at PB: In a time of suspicion and conspiracy, @snarlsdickens.bsky.social argues that it’s imperative we don’t treat laboratories in fiction as unexplored and unexplorable territory.

On genres, brands, and commercial legibility: "That’s one reason why promoting a book can feel a bit draining — you have to take the raw product of your random synaptic misfires and package it as something that will appeal to people who like a particular kind of thing."