🎃 Chris Rose from the Grave 💀

The Shadow on the Nest - Uncanny Magazine “…but what is it like, having a war criminal as your past life?” Sadie Salazar, Licensed Life Speaker, should have been professionally above the prurient interest lighting her hazel eyes, and much too...

Fabulous and funny, recent CCS alumna Alaya Dawn Johnson appears in the new issue of Uncanny!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Funny, smart, generous CCS alum Amber Sparks has a new novel out! I'm looking forward to it!
www.ambernoellesparks.com

Oof I hate those!

Boo! Don't do it!

Sweet Jesus do I hate Adobe Acrobat!

Willow the black lab sits in a chair, looking out the front window at a rainy neighborhood.

Rainy days—

László Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240 László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, a provincial town in Hungary, in the Soviet era. He published his first novel, Satantango, in 1985, then The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), War and Wa...

Unlocked (for a week?) Paris Review interview with Nobel-winning author László Krasznahorkai:
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A poetry collection cover, featuring a woman wearing a red cloak and matching lipstick, her face obscured, her lands lifted up. There is smoke between them. The title, in an elegant gold font, is Offerings for Ordinary Gods. The author's name, Ali Trotta, is in a matching font at the bottom.

Who wants preorder links?

BN: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/offerings-...

@mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social :
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A quart or so of American Kiwi fruit in a reflective metal colander.

Picking our American Kiwis—they may not look like much, but they're sweet!

A dog who's very happy at being let up on the bed. (She's not normally allowed there.)

Here's Willow, here to brighten up your timeline—

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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I want to put Craig Finn up there.

The River Has Roots|Hardcover AN INDIE NEXT AND LIBRARYREADS PICK!The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar. Follow the river Liss to th...

Ever read something and fall into dark despair because you will never ever ever be able to write something like that?

In related news I just finished up Amal El-Mohtar's THE RIVER HAS ROOTS, available from Barnes & Noble and other retailers:

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-river-...

I do feel like this entire episode is another outcome of a general lack of science literacy (no shade to ICP, who I greatly admire.)

(They're really lucky no one was hurt!)

This is an astounding story and the LAPD should be horrifically embarrassed by this, if nothing else:

I'd also like to announce that I'm not dead—

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” — Robert Frost

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Congratulations Samantha!! Very cool! 🐇

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

A crowd gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial monument in Washington, DC, holding protest signs that read, "Stop This Madness." Bold text with an invitation to "Action Hour" for scientists and allies.

📣ACTION HOUR TOMORROW!!!📣

Feeling overwhelmed by the political attacks on science, education, and civil rights? You’re not alone—and you don’t have to face it alone. Join us tmrw @ 8 PM ET to connect with others, make sense of what’s happening, & move into action.

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An illustration of a flying Mothman. He is airborne and has a dark body with red webbing in his wings and red antenna. His face is pale with his mouth twisted in an open scream, his eyes are wide and are red. The background is a pale pink

The man, the myth, the legend: Mothman

Legendary Canadian rock band Rush will return to the road Surviving members of Rush, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, are reuniting for a 2026 concert tour with drummer Anika Nilles sitting in for the late Neil Peart.

The band Rush planning to return to the road (gift link):
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SOMEONE GETS TOO CURIOUS

Graphic Novel Fest

A little late—but there's apparently a Maryland Graphic Novel Fest, and it's going on today?!
www.graphicnovelfestival.com

How was it?

Is this woman looking at the model boat, or the stuffed pheasant?

Werner Herzog has slammed the use of AI in new cinematic releases, saying that films that make use of the technology “look completely dead.”

“There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.”

Amen to that!