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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Mar 21

Meta stole my novel to train its AI.

Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Mar 19

@johncusack.bsky.social do you still have hope? Asking for a friend...

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Mar 17

Unpopular opinion: no, I don't think your writing is any good.

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Mar 14

Move over, Meghan
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Bina Shah on Instagram: "Move over, Meghan #lifestyle #salad #lettuceromaine #hostess #thebest #makingsaladgreatagain"

4 likes, 1 comments - bina_writer on March 14, 2025: "Move over, Meghan #lifestyle #salad #lettuceromaine #hostess #thebest #makingsaladgreatagain".

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Mar 13

I want to open a coffee shop for older women called "It's Not Too Latte"

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Mar 13

There's a piece of AI "creative" metafiction floating around on social media. Let me tell you that piece of writing is not good writing. There is not one ounce of human emotion in it -- it's like writing behind a glass wall, in a museum of the future, where aliens are laughing at us.

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Feb 11

Happy to tell you that The Monsoon War, my novel about militant feminist resistance and sequel to Before She Sleeps, won the Getz Pharma English Fiction prize at the Karachi Literature Festival this past weekend. Looking forward to hearing what you think of it!

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Jan 8

I bragged about not being married in the national newspaper. I really hope my mom doesn't read my essay.

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 29

My Diane Keaton era is starting in 2025, I feel.

A picture of the author Bina Shah wearing a red shawl from Pakistan and red sunglasses. She's standing on the balcony of her Karachi home with neem trees and blue skies in the background.

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 28

At the bookstore. Sales person sees me come in, hastily brings a few of my books down from a dusty top shelf and puts one half-heartedly on a display. The glamor of being a successful novelist.

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 27

Tired of 2024.

Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 17

I'm glad to meet you. Somehow doctors and medicine keep showing up in my work. I'm interested in the field of narrative medicine as well, and in how doctors and medical professionals are portrayed in fiction.

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 17

Need to get this guy a license plate that says A55H0L3

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 17

Wrote what I think is the first page of a new novel on Sunday. I'm too scared to look at it now, it's the point of no return. Anyone else know how that feels? #writing #novel #firstpage

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 16

I still have that dimple! And the scarf.

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 16

Almost 21. Taken at Wellesley College for my senior class photo, 1993.

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 10

You're taking me here in February

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 9

"But who was really eating it up there?" I asked. "Baby Grok!" he said, as the girls hid their faces muttering "Oh my GOD". "No cap?" I said. "Baby Grok had the most rizz, huh?" #GenZ #Teaching #GenX #translation #communication

Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 9

Showed my students a music video and asked them to explain the story to me (we are studying narrative writing). "Can I do it in Gen Z?" asks one of my students, then proceeds to talk about Twitch Streamers, Baby Grok, and god knows what else.

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 9

Papa, if only you knew that teaching one of your stories to a bunch of 10th graders at 8 am is as hard if not harder than reeling in a 400 pound marlin, driving an ambulance in a battlefield, and running with the bulls all at the same time... #hemingway #teaching #English #highschool

Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 4

The hardest part about teaching English at my old school is the three flights of stairs I have to climb to reach my classroom #yesimold

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Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 4

Teaching Hemingway to a class of 10th grade boys who think only Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson know how to be a man. And yet they spoke of admiration for their fathers and an absolute ignorance of how to go from being boys to men like their dads, who they respect and love.

Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 1

A book that influenced me greatly in my teens was Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham. I'd like to re-read it to see, thirty years later, whether it moves me the same way. #writing #novels #comingofage #somersetmaugham

Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Dec 1

Womp womp.

Tarik Moody @tarikmoody.com · Nov 29

The lawyer that represented Asian students who helped break Affirmative because they thought Black students were less qualified and shouldn't have gotten in. is now suing because Asian enrollment is down at select Ivy-league schools. Come to find out, it is white students who have always benefited.

Bina Shah @binashah.bsky.social · Nov 30

Museum of the Future, Dubai. This city was the inspiration for Green City in my novel Before She Sleeps. It looks like 2070 here.

A photo of the Museum of the Future at night, with the Emirates Towers behind, in Dubai, UAE.