Lauren Groff

"It’s true that there are physical feats that players in one league can accomplish that players in the other league simply cannot. For example, one league has players like DeWanna Bonner, who can carry and give birth to twins and return the next season to average 17.3 points and 7.2 rebounds a game, while the other league has multiple players like LeBron James, who can carry the ball."

👏👏🫡
www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

It has been hard to breathe under the weight of despair about the genocide in Gaza and my complicity as a citizen and taxpayer in the USA. I gave, and hope others will, also.

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

NY TImes www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

FALL PREVIEW NIGHT | The Lynx Books Gainesville's local independent bookstore

Tix here: thelynxbooks.com/events/32702...

As booksellers, we're always in the know about upcoming book releases--sometimes months in advance. Now, we want you to be in on the secret. Hear about upcoming titles from our wonderful @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social reps while you snack on hors d'oeuvres and sip wine from our curated list!

This is from @thelynxbooks.bsky.social !

Last night I sat at @zspacesf in San Francisco, watching as a troupe of 6 actors spoke my story “Annunciation” word for word. I came face-to-face with the me who wrote the story, and also the me who lived it. Thank you to everyone involved in this extraordinary production. I am so moved and honored.

I guess I need to make it absolutely clear, to avoid another awkward confrontation. If you utilize generative ai in any capacity to create or promote, I cannot be involved. I cannot blurb. I cannot share. I cannot stock it. I shouldn't have to tell anybody this by now. Stop. Fucking. Using. AI.

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

I’m proud to have signed this.

@legroff.bsky.social's new collection of short stories, BRAWLER, is coming out February 2026, and is now available for pre-order on The Lynx’s website. Order through The Lynx for EXCLUSIVE signed and personalized copies, alongside a piece of art commissioned for the book.

The Lynx has a book vending machine at the Gainesville Regional Airport! It features Florida authors including Zora Neale Hurston, Carl Hiaasen, Karen Russell, and The Lynx's own @legroff.bsky.social.

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

People who believe not voting 2024 makes them morally superior because they're not "murdering children" should be constantly reminded that they helped elect Trump, who destroyed USAID - an act that's now murdering children around the world.

www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Down with all Republicans in Democratic clothing.

I hope the entire center-right gerontocracy of the Democratic Party gets primaried now.

Happy New Release Tuesday from The Lynx! Shop new releases in-store or online for 10% off—today only. 💚

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

Every time someone writes a smug poorly-argued AI article like this, they’re simply demonstrating how swiftly AI has already transformed said writer’s critical thinking into a rotten log on the forest floor, studded with grubs and slime mold, gently disintegrating into humus even as we watch.

No one hates Trump’s voters more than Trump himself.

If you care about hunting, hiking, wildlife, clean water, or just the idea that public lands belong to all of us, it’s time to raise hell.

Call your senators. Call the media.

Call it what it is: A war on the American West.

120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.

See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

These aren’t just any lands.
They include:

🌱 Wilderness study areas
🌲 Roadless national forests
🫎 Big game migration corridors
🥾Local recreation lands
❤️‍🔥 Tribal homelands and sacred sites (with NO right of first refusal)

Buried in a Senate budget bill is a massive giveaway to corporate developers and fossil fuel companies.

It forces the sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management land in 11 Western states *every 60 days* until millions of acres are gone.

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands.

Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

A lynx sleeping among some oak leaves

A lynx grumbly awakes among the trees

Side shot of the lynx

I got a great Eurasian Lynx sighting while visiting Sweden this year. I am so excited about it. 🦊🧪📷

FIRST EDITIONS CLUB: JESS WALTER AND CHAD SMITH WITH SO FAR GONE | The Lynx Books Gainesville's local independent bookstore

We're so excited to host Jess Walter and Chad Smith with SO FAR GONE this Friday at 6pm.

This event is free for The Lynx's First Editions Club members. Non-members can purchase tickets here:

thelynxbooks.com/events/25505...

…he had the revelation, nearly religious, that the colossal scale of evil could only be matched or countered by some solitary flicker of intense and private humanity. THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, Shirley Hazzard

[Exit King.]

No kings.
Fuck ICE.
Thank you for taking your voice out to the streets today, if that’s what you’re doing. I’m in France but there with you in spirit.
Stay safe.

Seems bad.