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Gwynne Garfinkle
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My short fiction collection SINKING, SINGING is available from Aqueduct Press. Work published in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Escape Pod, and Uncanny. she/her. gwynnegarfinkle.com
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Gwynne Garfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · Oct 21
Hello to the new folks following me! I write novels, stories, and poetry (mostly speculative). My collection of short fiction, SINKING, SINGING, came out at the beginning of October. aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2024/10/sink...
Sinking, Singing by Gwynne Garfinkle
I'm pleased to announce the release of Gwynne Garfinkle's wonderful new collection, Sinking, Singing. Aqueduct Press is publishing i...
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A final reminder:

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November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen

Talking Heads
The Birthday Party
Patti Smith
The Specials
The Cramps

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cafenowhere.bsky.social Lisa M. Bradley @cafenowhere.bsky.social · 18h
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Girlyman
Murder by Death
Devil Makes Three
The Dead South (before I knew that one member is trash)
Trampled by Turtles
breathinghead.bsky.social D. Matthew Urban @breathinghead.bsky.social · 18h
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen

Man…or Astro-Man?
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Mission of Burma
Insect Warfare
Lisa Loeb
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
gwynnega.bsky.social
This is the second time this week that I've seen my dad's writing partner Quinn Redeker at random on my TV (the other night on TCM in The Christine Jorgensen story, and right now on a Y&R rerun from 1990!). He certainly had an interesting career. I wish I'd asked him more about it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Me and Superman, together again for the first time in this poem from my contributions to The Vertigo Project: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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Thanks for this post! The Sunken Place is an adaptation of my UCLA course, but for the public: www.sunkenplaceclass.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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i have a book about the Death of Mountains visiting a middling hill in the Appalachians who doesn't want to die. it's a short little book, and on sale from my publisher (@lethepress.bsky.social)!
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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My books SINKING, SINGING and CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME are in stock at The Last Bookstore Studio City! They make great stocking stuffers. (Okay, they might be a little big for a stocking, but still.)
Purple paperback of SINKING, SINGING by Gwynne Garfinkle (with paperback of GG's CAN'T FIND MY WAY HOME peeking out from behind it) on a bookstore display table.
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The Annotated Nightstand: What Dorothea Lasky Is Reading Now, and Next
The poet Bernadette Mayer’s Memory is capacious in its scope. Mayer, the iconic poet perhaps best known for her poem tracing midwinter day in a volume of that title, took a roll of film for each da…
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November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I'm still thinking about this beautiful, heartbreaking essay by @amalelmohtar.com after reading it yesterday.
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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A new poem from me as part of The Vertigo Project, Greetings from Innerspace: with love and exasperation to the people of Earth: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Only on itch.io - sale on A Place of Refuge! Buy the three novellas for $2 each, 11/28/25 03:00 AM EDT - 12/4/25 01:00 AM EDT.

Former rebel guerillas find their lost beloved friend and escape fascism. Also there's banter and pastries. #cozy #hopepunk #sapphic #spaceopera.

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Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by Victoria Janssen
A bundle by Victoria Janssen, $5.99 for Finding Refuge: A Place of Refuge, Part One, Accepting Refuge: A Place of Refuge, Part Two, Embracing Refuge: A Place of Refuge, Part Three
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November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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I had a book come out this year that you can vote for! The Island of Dreams is a dark YA fantasy inspired by Peter Pan that focuses on disability and ageism and our assumptions about whose dreams are eligible for paradise and a chosen path to the good place.
Image of novel cover, The Island of Dreams with text that announce awards eligibility for YA novel
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!

Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...

#romancelandia
Three paperback advance reading copies of Enchanting the Fae Queen are piled in a cardboard box. The illustrated cover for Enchanting the Fae Queen, by Stephanie Burgis, shows a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sitting perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Vines of leaves sweep magically out from the tree around her to draw him towards her. The tagline reads: All’s fae in love and war.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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I walked to Trader Joe's, which wasn't as chaotic as I'd feared, and they played Aretha's "Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)." I was wearing my Let's Go to the Bookstore t-shirt, and the cashier and I discussed our favorite Los Angeles bookshops.
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com

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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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New poem with The Vertigo Project! Club Planet Vertigo, wishing the world was playing a song that was easier to dance to: vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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David Lynch in beard and sunglasses saying "I hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects"
October 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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My top 3 weekly #lastfm artists: The Beatles (39), The Clash (11), The Pretenders (10).
November 24, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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New story with The Vertigo Project! Advice for Wormhole Travelers: a little help for when you find yourself in another, weirder world! vertigoproject.co.uk/files/2025/1...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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i always follow up with, “this is what public libraries are for, ppl. and libraries pay authors."
rowennam.bsky.social Rowenna Miller @rowennam.bsky.social · 4d
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”

Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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We need it. Not only are the classes full, but also concert halls, libraries - we've gone to a bunch of classical concerts this year as an antidote to despair and guess what - they are full. They were not as full before, but they are now.

"Humanities are shrinking" is artificially imposed top down.
rbtownsend.bsky.social Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 5d
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d
BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. JAMES B. COMEY, JR., Defendant. Criminal No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT ECF NO. 60) On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice. IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA NORFOLK DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. LETITIA A. JAMES, Criminal No. 2:25-cr-00122-JK W Defendant. OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT (ECE NO. 22) On October 9, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just two weeks before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging New York Attorney General Letitia James with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. Ms. James now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Ms. James that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Ms. James's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM