Craig Clevenger
@craigclevenger.bsky.social
Writer. Library staffer. I do all my own stunts. "The Contortionist's Handbook" forthcoming 01/14/25 from Datura Books. "Mother Howl" already forthcame in 2023, also from Datura.
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RE todays rotten vaccine news...
A Pox on Fools arrives in May. It's a historical polemic that traces the serial falsehoods that drive today's anti-vax movement.
It's my most important work. And it needs help.
Pre-orders & 1st week sales make or break books. If you are interested...here's a link:
A Pox on Fools arrives in May. It's a historical polemic that traces the serial falsehoods that drive today's anti-vax movement.
It's my most important work. And it needs help.
Pre-orders & 1st week sales make or break books. If you are interested...here's a link:
A Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson: 9798217155002 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology—from a leading science writer Since the...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
RE todays rotten vaccine news...
A Pox on Fools arrives in May. It's a historical polemic that traces the serial falsehoods that drive today's anti-vax movement.
It's my most important work. And it needs help.
Pre-orders & 1st week sales make or break books. If you are interested...here's a link:
A Pox on Fools arrives in May. It's a historical polemic that traces the serial falsehoods that drive today's anti-vax movement.
It's my most important work. And it needs help.
Pre-orders & 1st week sales make or break books. If you are interested...here's a link:
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Literature moves the needle. I can see it transforming and mobilizing readers in realtime. The world needs fiction.
December 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Literature moves the needle. I can see it transforming and mobilizing readers in realtime. The world needs fiction.
You are missed, Daniel Woodrell. Sleep. #DanielWoodrell
November 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
You are missed, Daniel Woodrell. Sleep. #DanielWoodrell
Scrolling through the ancient posts on my other socials... found a few gems that I absolutely stand behind.
November 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Scrolling through the ancient posts on my other socials... found a few gems that I absolutely stand behind.
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Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Well I can see Bluesky is handling a PR crisis in their normal competent manner
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Why? Sarah Kendzior is one of the main reasons I moved here. If you're going to just be Twitter-lite than there's no point in staying. You can't suspend an account of her magnitude and expect it to go unnoticed and unchallenged @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team @support.bsky.team
Hello @support.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team
I heard from Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social that her account was suspended.
Can you please look into this and reinstate her account? She’s a published author and scholar on authoritarianism. Her presence here is valuable.
cc:
@jay.bsky.team
@aaron.bsky.team
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Why? Sarah Kendzior is one of the main reasons I moved here. If you're going to just be Twitter-lite than there's no point in staying. You can't suspend an account of her magnitude and expect it to go unnoticed and unchallenged @jay.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team @support.bsky.team
A long round-trip to Los Angeles, but worth it. Got to shake hands with @danchaon.bsky.social at Book Soup.
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
A long round-trip to Los Angeles, but worth it. Got to shake hands with @danchaon.bsky.social at Book Soup.
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@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is documenting the resistance, and it’s an encouraging read.
But the message remains: We keep fighting!!
#MomSky
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But the message remains: We keep fighting!!
#MomSky
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A year on from Trump’s victory, resistance is everywhere | Rebecca Solnit
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realize
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is documenting the resistance, and it’s an encouraging read.
But the message remains: We keep fighting!!
#MomSky
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
But the message remains: We keep fighting!!
#MomSky
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Couldn't make it to the launch in Los Angeles earlier, but the latest from Mark Z. Danielewski's in my hands, so I'm turning off my phone for a few days. #Tom'sCrossing
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Couldn't make it to the launch in Los Angeles earlier, but the latest from Mark Z. Danielewski's in my hands, so I'm turning off my phone for a few days. #Tom'sCrossing
Mini-brainstorm on my work breaks over the weekend; I wrote a book group guide to a non-existent novel.
open.substack.com/pub/craigcle...
open.substack.com/pub/craigcle...
October 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Mini-brainstorm on my work breaks over the weekend; I wrote a book group guide to a non-existent novel.
open.substack.com/pub/craigcle...
open.substack.com/pub/craigcle...
One more shout-out before this weekend... hoping for a solid enough turnout that the library lets me run with this program.
October 15, 2025 at 1:34 AM
One more shout-out before this weekend... hoping for a solid enough turnout that the library lets me run with this program.
A mother and her girl (about 5 y.o.) at the circulation desk...
Me: This one's one of our honor books. You don't have to check it out, just return it when you're done.
Girl: We can return it whenever we want?
Me: Yup. We can trust you... right?
Girl: Not always.
I love my job. #libraries
Me: This one's one of our honor books. You don't have to check it out, just return it when you're done.
Girl: We can return it whenever we want?
Me: Yup. We can trust you... right?
Girl: Not always.
I love my job. #libraries
October 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
A mother and her girl (about 5 y.o.) at the circulation desk...
Me: This one's one of our honor books. You don't have to check it out, just return it when you're done.
Girl: We can return it whenever we want?
Me: Yup. We can trust you... right?
Girl: Not always.
I love my job. #libraries
Me: This one's one of our honor books. You don't have to check it out, just return it when you're done.
Girl: We can return it whenever we want?
Me: Yup. We can trust you... right?
Girl: Not always.
I love my job. #libraries
This book. Goddamn. Seventy-five pages in and it's already on a (very) short list of 'do not read right before I go to sleep' books. Get this one, stat. @danielkraus.com
October 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This book. Goddamn. Seventy-five pages in and it's already on a (very) short list of 'do not read right before I go to sleep' books. Get this one, stat. @danielkraus.com
We celebrate the signing of this document annually. But here we are.
"...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government...
"...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We celebrate the signing of this document annually. But here we are.
"...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government...
"...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government...
It's October, so it's officially The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (not that other holiday), so I'm kickin' off a new thing at the library. Come on down and let's hash it out over @sgj.bsky.social and #TheBuffaloHunterHunter.
Saturday, October 18th, 1-2pm, Goleta Valley Community Center.
Saturday, October 18th, 1-2pm, Goleta Valley Community Center.
October 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
It's October, so it's officially The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (not that other holiday), so I'm kickin' off a new thing at the library. Come on down and let's hash it out over @sgj.bsky.social and #TheBuffaloHunterHunter.
Saturday, October 18th, 1-2pm, Goleta Valley Community Center.
Saturday, October 18th, 1-2pm, Goleta Valley Community Center.
Cheers, Craig.
If a book allows you a reprieve for just a moment from world chaos, crack that spine and fall into the pages. Here’s a few writers that might take your mind to other places… @craigclevenger.bsky.social
@laurelhightower.bsky.social
@beverleylee.bsky.social
@rossjefferyauthor.bsky.social
@laurelhightower.bsky.social
@beverleylee.bsky.social
@rossjefferyauthor.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Cheers, Craig.
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Philadelphia could be a shining city on a hill for this tactic
Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.
September 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Philadelphia could be a shining city on a hill for this tactic
"They fed our novels to the machine without asking if we wanted to be the voice of skynet."
will7christopher.substack.com/p/highway-64
will7christopher.substack.com/p/highway-64
highway 64
the trail of tears is a flat circle
will7christopher.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"They fed our novels to the machine without asking if we wanted to be the voice of skynet."
will7christopher.substack.com/p/highway-64
will7christopher.substack.com/p/highway-64
Back home from New Orleans #Bouchercon and just rolled a trinket shop voodoo doll in catnip and threw it to the little beasts. Now waiting to see if someone out there spontaneously rips open.
September 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Back home from New Orleans #Bouchercon and just rolled a trinket shop voodoo doll in catnip and threw it to the little beasts. Now waiting to see if someone out there spontaneously rips open.
Turns out the cafés in New Orleans frown on it when you motorboat their pastries in public. But you get it, right? #Bouchercon2025
September 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Turns out the cafés in New Orleans frown on it when you motorboat their pastries in public. But you get it, right? #Bouchercon2025
Security gave me this li'l scarlet letter to carry through airport screening. Sorta like a coupon for a free pat-down and a side-eye. And the extra time in line meant I got to hear my name over the airport PA for the boarding gate. Not quite the win that it sounds like. But I'm in NOLA. #Bouchercon
September 2, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Security gave me this li'l scarlet letter to carry through airport screening. Sorta like a coupon for a free pat-down and a side-eye. And the extra time in line meant I got to hear my name over the airport PA for the boarding gate. Not quite the win that it sounds like. But I'm in NOLA. #Bouchercon
Hey y'all, I'll be at Bouchercon this coming week. Hit me up.
August 31, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Hey y'all, I'll be at Bouchercon this coming week. Hit me up.
Hardware Store Clerk: Help you find something, sir?
Me: Um... yeah... ant poison?
Clerk: Aisle 10. That's Death Row.
Another reason to support small, local businesses.
Me: Um... yeah... ant poison?
Clerk: Aisle 10. That's Death Row.
Another reason to support small, local businesses.
August 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Hardware Store Clerk: Help you find something, sir?
Me: Um... yeah... ant poison?
Clerk: Aisle 10. That's Death Row.
Another reason to support small, local businesses.
Me: Um... yeah... ant poison?
Clerk: Aisle 10. That's Death Row.
Another reason to support small, local businesses.