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NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Absolution. Repped by Joe Veltre at Gersh. Gigs: The Tuesday Agency. he/him

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 12

Just a reminder: The tenth anniversary editions of the original Southern Reach trilogy are still out in the wild, selling well. NYT bestsellers and on a lot of best-of-decade or this century lists. With new intros by Karen Joy Fowler, NK Jemisin, and Helen MacDonald. Buy from you favorite indie.

Southern Reach covers with morphed boar, rabbit, and owl, art by Pablo Delcan.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2h

i hate lovecraft

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 6h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4h

Bring Her Back was a superior and gory horror movie with excellent acting and pacing. Very disturbing to watch, but pretty unique. Pulls no punches.

pale kid with red eyed and hand on his head with title BRING HER BACK in the middle

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5h

Wingspan is too complicated to play.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5h

The problem is that board game would change texture during the evening and pieces would begin to fuse with your hand as you moved them around. The landscape on the board would seem to shift by the latter stages and by night's end wing itself out the window you opened in yourself all unknowing.

Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 12h

A combination of activities last night has left me thinking it would be really cool to make a board game based on @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social's Southern Reach books. A bit like Wingspan, but with sanity checks.

The cover of Absolution, book #4 of the Southern Reach trilogy, by Jeff VanderMeer. It shows an alligator hybridised with various flora.

Wingspan by Stonemaier Games. The box shows an image of a bird -- a swift, I think, maybe? Not really my area of expertise.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, Portland, join me in conversation with the wonderful Amy Stewart on Oct 24 at the Powells at Cedar Crossing, to celebrate the trade paperback of Absolution. That is, if you can make it through the war-ravaged landscape and endless waves of inflatable dancing frogs and unicorns...

With photos of Jeff VanderMeer and Amy Stewart and the deconstructed alligator cover of Absolution...
10/24, 7:00 p.m. - Beaverton, OR
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
in conversation with Amy Stewart

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19h

Your moment of calm: A white-tailed kite hunting above the Tomales Bay Trail, near Point Reyes Station.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19h

My City of Saints & Madmen makes this list of the best books of the past 25 years. lithub.com/58-books-you...

58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)

In honor of Literary Hub’s tenth birthday, we asked over 200 authors, editors, booksellers, publishing professionals, and other literary luminaries to weigh in on a few questions about the pa…

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 6h

Flat, graphic illustrated poster entitled "Red-Eyed Birds of North America" featuring shadowy gray-blue silhouetted birds punctuated by bright red eyes. 23 birds are depicted in total, some highlights being the Snail Kite, Roseate Spoonbill, Common Loon, and Wood Duck.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h

like a book, because i love you

L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 18h

What would *your* book smell like if you engaged in a mega weirdo scented pages promotional campaign?

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 22h

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16h

A few more from Tomales Bay.

Olivia Portlander on trail flanked by large windblown fir

Jeff taking photo, post in foreground, photo by Olivia Portlander.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18h

lovely hike

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18h

Walked Tomales Bay Trail today, with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19h

My City of Saints & Madmen makes this list of the best books of the past 25 years. lithub.com/58-books-you...

58 Books You Need to Read (Recommended by People Who Know)

In honor of Literary Hub’s tenth birthday, we asked over 200 authors, editors, booksellers, publishing professionals, and other literary luminaries to weigh in on a few questions about the pa…

lithub.com

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19h

White-tailed kite hovering. I like the slight blurring as it suggests the beauty of its form in motion.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19h

Your moment of calm: A white-tailed kite hunting above the Tomales Bay Trail, near Point Reyes Station.

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Katakateri @katakateri.bsky.social · 1d

Your books and Bronson Pinchot's genius readings of said books are why I have heard each fuck an average of four times.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

awesome!

Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 1d

This is from this year's conference. Just imagine next year!

(Meant to tell @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social about this and forgot in midst of busy-ness. Good stuff on art, freedom, and estrangement in To the Lighthouse & Annihilation from Chris Gortmaker from U Chicago.)

A screen in a conference room. Projected onto it are the covers of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse in the original edition with art by Vanessa Bell and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer in the recent US paperback edition.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

we all need this right now

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 22

that time i let a baby opossum have a single grape

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! Glad you liked them.

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Justin Gaynor @justingaynor.com · 1d

Bronson has been phenomenal in all of the Southern Tier novels he narrated but his work as a drugged-up cannibalistic Lowry in Asbsolution was next level. All of the narrators in the audiobooks have been great.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Absolution has also received five stars from the American Museum of Fuck.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know Absolution has the highest ratio of fucks and alligators relative to other words of any novel ever written? Did you also know noted actor Bronson Pinchot had to say all those fbombs for the audiobook? And did you know there is more gator in Absolution than the Annihilation movie?

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 12

And in Oct, the trade paperback of Absolution...

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 1d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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