Clare Beams

Today's meeting of the #VelshiBannedBookClub features "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, which explores humans passively upholding authoritarian rule in exchange for mass-entertainment, tech, and comfort. Authors M.T. Anderson and @clarebeams.bsky.social join at 10 am ET to discuss. #Velshi

Today's meeting of the #VelshiBannedBookClub features "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, which explores humans passively upholding authoritarian rule in exchange for mass-entertainment, tech, and comfort. Authors M.T. Anderson and @clarebeams.bsky.social join at noon ET to discuss. #Velshi

Absolutely in awe of @erinlmccoy.bsky.social's debut novel, UNDERLAKE. Thanks to @clarebeams.bsky.social, Susanna Kwan, and Ron Rash for the kind words. Preorder UNDERLAKE wherever books are sold: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804090...

oh shit i had totally forgotten what it felt like for something good to happen

Pennsylvania has an important Supreme Court race coming up on Tuesday, November 4. If you live in the Keystone State, or know someone who does, vote YES to retain three justices who will protect your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Ladies in Hating @alexandravasti.bsky.social
The Art of Not Eating #JessicaHamel-Akré
Hum @helencphillips.bsky.social
The Garden @clarebeams.bsky.social @david-higham-books.bsky.social

Books I loved in waning daylight:

🌙Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez
🥀Literary Witches, Taisia Kitaiskaia & @katyhoran.bsky.social
🕳️Portalmania, @debbieurbanski.bsky.social
👾The Sky Didn’t Load Today, Rich Larson
📚The Illness Lesson, @clarebeams.bsky.social
🕌The White Mosque, Sofia Samatar

So excited I can finally share that First Love is a @lambdaliterary.org award finalist in bisexual nonfiction!!!

Snowy-white, Rosy-Red, Will You? - Ecotone I had two baby girls at once and named them for the rose trees on either side of my front door. Snow-white, Rose-red. Their father had already left us,

From “Snowy-white, Rosy-red, Will you?” by Clare Beams in Ecotone 37 🌕

“To look at them was to want to eat them, which was what I wanted to do to my delicious baby daughters too...”
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Read the full story + subscribe: ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/snow... ‎

Snowy-white, Rosy-Red, Will You? - Ecotone I had two baby girls at once and named them for the rose trees on either side of my front door. Snow-white, Rose-red. Their father had already left us,

Thrilled to have a story in the beautiful new Moon issue of @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social , one of my forever favorites, in wonderful company!

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Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

"Our calculations suggest that the proposed budgetary cuts to the NIH will create a social cost that is 16 times greater than the savings that the administration is attempting to achieve."
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Headliner: Rachel Khong In conversation with Clare Beams Rachel Khong will be at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books!

Pittsburgh! I get to talk to the brilliant Rachel Khong as part of the Greater Pittsburgh Book Festival on Saturday! Free (though pre-registrations get priority), 11:30am at the Carnegie Library-- join us?

I woke up depressed by the NEA news but also angry. They’re stifling the best that has been thought and done (in the sciences as well as the arts) to push a shallow alienated world of slop and brainrot and I will never stop hating them for that

NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” Subheader: “In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Obsessed with 'The Last of Us' Season 2? Try these 8 post-apocalyptic, zombie books Post-apocalyptic survival, bioweapons and touching bonds at the end of the world. These adrenaline-packed books read like "The Last of Us."

How High We Go in the Dark doesn't have mushroom zombies or ruthless leaders of militias, but it still has lots of super sad times + bonus robot dog, telepathic pig, futuristic alternative funerary practices, space travel, and lots of 80s music. #booksky

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HOORAY!!!! Enormous congratulations!!!!!

THIS IS SO WONDERFUL!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Hooray hooray hooray!!!!!

Thank you so so much!!!

Thank you!!! ❤️

Loved finding THE GARDEN here, in excellent company!

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On the Joys of Literary Community Black-owned independent bookstore and wine bar in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

SO excited to get to do a group paperback launch with superstars @crystalhanak.bsky.social , @iamlisako.bsky.social , and Xochitl Gonzalez on April 15 at Liz's Book Bar in Brooklyn!

www.lizsbookbar.com/events/23127...

Paperback copy of THE GARDEN by Clare Beams against a leafy background.

Back of the paperback of THE GARDEN by Clare Beams against a leafy background.

THE GARDEN is out in paperback (cheaper! lighter!) on April 8th! Hearing from this novel's readers over the past year has meant the absolute world to me.

Yellow lettering on red background. Text reads: One Story Beginner Fiction Workshop with Rita Chang-Eppig. Apr 3 - May 15. Register today at www.one-story.com

Re-upping this!

Flyer for AWP 2025 panel: Los Angeles AWP Panel: Unapologetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction with Anjali Sachdeva, Cleo Qian, Chelsea Sutton & Lena Valencia (Friday, 12:10 p.m. – 1:25 p.m. PT, Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two)

I will be at #AWP2025 talking weird fiction with @cleoqian.bsky.social @lenavalencia.bsky.social @crsutton.bsky.social and Anjali Sachdeva!

"Unaplogetically Uncanny & Unsettling: Bending Reality in Short Fiction" - Fri March 28 12:10-1:25 pm

Room 403A, Los Angeles Convention Center, Level Two

The cover of McSweeney's #77, featuring art by Claire Boyle.

The first page of "Playspace," by Clare Beams. There is a pinwheel above the title. The first sentence reads "We, the parents, mostly the mothers, had been coming to the Playspace for a long time."

A recent bright spot: I have a short story about the surrealities of parenthood in the new issue of @mcsweeneys.net . Very grateful to Rita Bullwinkel and everyone at McSweeney's for giving "Playspace" such a beautiful home.

Practice imagining that the world could be otherwise.

So, here it is: the revealing of The Cover.

The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.