Meg Reid 🦦

Great thread. I can't engage with platner stuff online bc I grew up in Maine and the politics are so much more complex than outsiders, who only want to talk about the tattoo, can understand.

I also understand that some communities of color in Maine — the whitest state in the country — have refused to give up on him and I think their position in relation to him matters and tells everyone else something about their political situation and what feels urgent to them

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

> @covie93.bsky.social

So does that offset the eight he's ended? I expect him to send the Nobel committee a full balance sheet.

We're really through the looking glass feeling here involves him not asking for congressional approval OR really providing a single reason for this action. So now he can do anything he wants.

It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.

I am sure JD Vance will resign in protest, right?

The biggest publishing misconception I have to clear up about a press our size is that we don't pay royalties on net price. I get why really small presses have to but charging the writer for printing feels so weird to me.

Listening to All Things Considered and Hillary Duff just pronounced the word "cathartic" in the wildest way

The best thing you can do in light of the Ellison takeover of Warner Brothers invest your time, energy, and money in supporting independent creators and independent distribution networks and independent venues. It is absolutely crucial to make independence a viable option.

I know! That was this one for me. I've got a Chapel Hill thing immediately before our Paris Review party in NYC and I know my energy levels--if I'd added AWP, I know I'd get too rundown. (And I said, I do WI every other year bc of the cost.)

yep!

And Minneapolis in 2027, for sure. Winter Institute is too goddamn expensive for small publishers to go every year and I'd be happy to tell that directly to the ABA, if I thought they cared.

I felt secure in my decision not to go to WI and AWP until invites started rolling in, and I'm now feeling sad about it. I will, however, be in NYC in late March!

House Republicans have just introduced a bill that would result in a NATIONWIDE book ban. Oh, the bill is also specifically transphobic. Contact your House Rep and ask them to publicly oppose this legislation. A few more thoughts in the thread about this action. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

Galley copy of Ray Naylor's "palaces of the crow"

Back cover of galley copy of Ray Naylor's "palaces of the crow." Synopsis reads: four teens caught between Nazis and the Red army survive winter in the woods with only the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect."

I am psyched

Edelweiss Announces Discount Tier for Publishers The new tier will offer a more limited suite of features and allow qualifying publishers to make their titles searchable on Edelweiss, as well as visible in saved filter results. The rollout comes ami...

hahahahahaha

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we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

oh my god

Hub City Press Catalog Search Hub City Writers Project's catalog of books, including novels, fiction, nonfiction and poetry, all representing the Southern experience.

Plus, 2026 is poised to be our biggest year with our highly anticipated Nancy Lemann reissue and the debut book from musician/poet, Lee Bains. It's not all bad news, folks!

www.hubcity.org/books

The book industry is doom and gloom these days but at @hubcitypress.bsky.social, sales are up 30% over last year because of three national awards for two weird, short novels. Good things still happen to books, y'all. (Also, a reminder to publish what you love and not only what you think might sell.)

unreadable from a distance. bad on amazon. meant to be picked up (I did). love love love.

The DOJ hid accusations against trump in the epstein files story was out on NPR yesterday morning (and lead story of the hourly news broadcast) and the nyt had to wait until they were done with SOTU content before reporting it?

Cover of brian platzer's The Optimists

A great cover.

my husband just contributed: "What's the matter, Chief? You've barely touched your banana kaboom." and "It's nothing but peyote and carrot juice" (he's a wiggum guy)

of all of the injustices of february, bills coming around a full 3 days early is one of the greatest.

"Your ideas are intriguing to me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter."

"Let the bears pay the bears tax! I pay the homer tax!"

And ofc, "and how much are you charging for this free weekend??"

(I could do this all night. Way better than watching SOTU)

This was a delightful scro//. "Lousy smarch weather" is a classic in my house but I also love "is it about my cube?" "We'll live like kings! Damn hell ass kings!"

when the information is all lies, I'll stick with being misinformed (until tomorrow).