Alex Boyd

VIRTUAL: Defending the Right to Read: A Conversation with Ira Wells, author of On Book Banning, and Authors Against Book Bans members Fin Leary, Padma Venkatraman, and Josh Cook

Tonight, join Ira Wells, author of ON BOOK BANNING, and several members of Authors Against Book Bans for a lively and timely discussion on censorship and defending the right to read.
This is a free virtual event, hosted by Porter Square Books. Register here: portersquarebooks.com/event/2025-0...

They keep asserting they're going to put AI in everything, including critical, dangerous systems. Meanwhile, AI is like, "sure, eat those yard mushrooms, the word strawberry has 88 Rs, I'm Mecha Hitler, here's Taylor Swift naked when you didn't even ask for it and she has eleven fingers lol"

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I think Michael Giacchino is the best in the business:

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Possibly "ridiculous," given its use now for everything people don't like.

Men who cut down Britain's famed Sycamore Gap tree sentenced to more than 4 years in prison | CBC News Two British men who felled the beloved Sycamore Gap tree that had stood nearly 150 years were sentenced Tuesday to four years and three months in prison, minus time served.

The HIdden Life of Trees should be required reading.

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Going to take a break from not writing any more poetry and go back to not writing any more short fiction.

We at the Review mourn the loss of Fanny Howe (1940-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/YtQzXpd

"Memory is always more true to the present mind than to the past, always more true to itself than to anything else."

-- Robert Olmstead, Stay Here with Me.

#amreading

Of all the terms invented by #SF writers I've seen, I think driving around in a "quibble," is my favourite (from Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick).

#amreading

On Book Banning by Ira Wells Book review and summary of On Book Banning by Ira Wells, published by Biblioasis in 2025. Review by Anne Logan.

My #reading friend, Anne, has been into one of the newer books in the Field Notes series from @biblioasis.bsky.social

And I know there are a lot of people here who also want to know more about #bookbanning and #censorship:

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Lowfield by Mark Sampson I have to admit, I didn’t have reading a horror novel set in PEI on my list of things to do for 2025, but I enjoyed Lowfield by Mark Sampson. Riley Fuller is a traumatized officer on leave when he …

A horror novel set in PEI? Sure, why not. I've reviewed Lowfield by Mark Sampson here:

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Lowfield by Mark Sampson I have to admit, I didn’t have reading a horror novel set in PEI on my list of things to do for 2025, but I enjoyed Lowfield by Mark Sampson. Riley Fuller is a traumatized officer on leave when he …

A horror novel set in PEI? Sure, why not. I've reviewed Lowfield by Mark Sampson here:

boydwords.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/l...

"The people who used to ask, “Is it news?” now seem to be asking, “Will it stimulate?” And the change is felt, high and low, throughout the culture."

-- George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone #quote

"Behind what happens
there is that stillness, the wings that wait
the things to try, the wondering, the music."

-- William Stafford #poetry #amreading

I don't know why there's often a new Pope around when there's going to be a new Bond, but someone else can figure that out. 🤪

My two novels laying on nicely art-directed industrial flooring.

I don't promote my writing very often (ironically because I'm usually busy writing in my spare time), but I'd like to feature my two novels today, THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIENCE and most recently RADIOLAND.

Both are mind-bendy urban literary fiction with generous doses of dark spec blended in.

"The sublime is the first book to pick the lock of your memory / using nothing more than its words."

-- Chris Banks, Alternator (2023) #poetry #amreading

Just an FYI that is not the right Alex Boyd.

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"I can't afford to hate people. I haven't got that kind of time."

Ikiru (to live) by Akira Kurosawa is a great film. I'm only sorry I took this long to watch it. Roger Ebert apparently watched it every five years or so. #film

The Soul Should Not Be Handled | The Point Magazine This is the first column in a four-part series by B.D. McClay on speculative fiction.

"I like genre fiction for the same reason I like black-and-white film, stylized dialogue, animation, the paintings of Marc Chagall or ballet: things feel more real if they’re obviously a little fake."

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Two Women Risk Everything to Escape Communist Poland in Kasia's Jaronczyk's Riveting Debut Novel Prolific author Kasia Jaronczyk has had works of fiction and nonfiction published widely in journals and anthologies, and her keen voice has long been ...

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#canlit @palimpsestpress.bsky.social

I can now officially tell you The Quick and the Dead (1987) is just as good in a different way as The Quick and the Dead (1995) so, you know, that's nice. #film

I have yet to discover walking around a city #music better than the Stewart Copeland soundtrack to The Equalizer.

Court of Memory (McConkey) is fast becoming a favourite book of essays, and McConkey humanizes those he remembers: "Memory simplifies, for its impulse is order; in playing upon a given relationship, it can erode the irrelevant and ambiguous to leave the bones of allegory."

#amreading #essays

I revisited Spirit of the Beehive (1973) and I like the leisurely pace, but it's also just a extraordinary film beginning with a screening of the original Frankenstein in a Spanish village in 1940. #film

#amreading and enjoying On Book Banning by the entirely rational Ira Wells, and reaching for my highlighter often. Part of the concise, articulate Field Notes series from @biblioasis.bsky.social

I was once told "Nobody reads poetry anymore," at a party by a supposed filmmaker. He was working on a script about a post-apocalyptic kung-fu pizza delivery guy. Chances are it never became a film. I think a poetry book reaches more people than a never-made movie.

I recently watched The Straight Story as a quiet little tribute to David Lynch.

And now I need to watch a Gene Hackman film. #RIP

I've started this excellent book, and just in the introduction, the idea a teen can spend 4 to 5 hours a day looking at a phone is quite troubling. And it's really more than teens. #amreading

After that plane literally flipped upside down after smashing into the runway and 100% of people survived, I hope every person who ever said “what’s even the point of seatbelts on a plane” feels like a real doof.