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

Powell's City of Books, Sunday, Mar 8, 7pm, two author photos and the cover of Now I Surrender. Extended description below: Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender (Riverhead) radically recasts the story of how the West was “won.” In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband’s ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he’s on the trail of a more dramatic abduction. Decades later, with political ambitions on the line, the American and Mexican militaries try to maneuver Geronimo, the most legendary of Apache warriors, into surrender. In our own day, a family travels through the region in search of a truer version of the past. Part epic, part alt-Western, Now I Surrender is Álvaro Enrigue’s most expansive and impassioned novel yet. It weaves past and present, myth and history into a searing elegy for a way of life that was an incarnation of true liberty — and an homage to the spark in us that still thrills to its memory. Enrigue will be joined in conversation by Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach series.

Wow. Now I Surrender is amazing. Please come out to Powell's Burnside on Sunday night, when I'll be in conversation with Enrique, talking about his new novel. www.powells.com/events/-lvar...

They have everything!!

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Prob get this one for myself, lol!! www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/...

Breast Cancer (Malignant neoplasm) Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, but early detection and treatment can greatly improve survival rates. Our Breast Cancer plush is a thoughtful and educational reminder to st...

Going to see my oncologist soon, and she is awesome, so as a gift for her I ordered a malignant neoplasm plushy. This website has everything!! You really should check it out. www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/...

I could not love this more.

ABSOLUTION by Jeff VanderMeer in Stock and Shipping We're pleased to announce that Absolution, surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction ser...

In stock and shipping! The signed, limited edition of @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's ABSOLUTION: subterraneanpress.com/newsabsoluti...

A book: Absolution by Jeff Vandermeer.

A color illustration of a man running thru fire with a dead rabbit and many bones and skeletons underfoot.

A vivid color illustration of a big alligator.

An illustration of an uncanny green glow over ocean waves over skulls and bones.

The @subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press edition of Absolution by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social has arrived, and it is beautiful!!

Get your tickets to the Locus Awards in May! Guests of Honor are Nnedi Okorafor, Stephen Graham Jones and Tananarive Due, we are so excited to be partnering with the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley!

Tickets at locusmag.com/2026-lo... or via the link in our bio!! C U there.

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Photo credit Jeff VanderMeer. A black crow sits atop a wood post, ocean in background.

life sized cow figurine with colorful straw hat on guard in convenience store

se lions in the sea lion cave

the gray brutalist juicer topped with gold figurine that is the oregon capital building

reflective mirror block street art with olivia portlander reflection in it

Around the Oregon coast with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social today.

An ocean cove with white waves rolling thru blue/green water, in the distance land and a lighthouse next to a couple other buildings.

Hecate Head lighthouse.

I'll tell him! 😄

Jeff VanderMeer, a man in black with a black cap and silver beard, sitting at a table in front of an audience.

At the Book Bin in Salem, Oregon. Great new and used selection, every category of book you can think of. Oh, and @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social answering questions.

And poop, dont forget about the poop.

YouTube video by Dazza The Full Frod Story! Building a frog house for a Frod.

I can't get enough of the Frods. youtu.be/JbxE9myZrsg?...

Jimmy John's it is!

Child, 4, arrived alone for heart surgery. His doctor became his mom. “I think he is alive today because of Amy and Ryan stepping up to the plate and taking him in,” said Jason Cole, True’s cardiologist.

All I need to know today is this: wapo.st/4aRWBwO

So did I!

Nom nom nom nom nom nom ...

Mine is on the way!

This is something bullshit.

A still from the Oscar nominated short films, All The Empty Rooms.

I watched a couple of nominated short films with @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and this one stood out for me. I went in knowing nothing, and decided to stay bc it is important to not turn away from things going on around us. I do not regret watching this short film.

And is still trying.

Smile and sigh 🧡❤️💛

Michael Pollan Punctures the AI Bubble His new book, about the mystery of consciousness, strengthens the case that technology will never truly replicate humans.

www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0.... Enjoy!

Australian artist Margaret Preston, 'Bird of Paradise' 1925, woodblock print #womensart

Um... nevermind.

A movie poster: The Singers

Based on an Ivan Turgenev story so how could I not? The opening, dipping in and out of conversations took me a minute to get into. After that, though ... was not expecting that!