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Ilana Masad

@ilanaslightly.bsky.social

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Writer and critic for hire. Author of the novel "All My Mother's Lovers" and "Beings," forthcoming from Bloomsbury, 9/23/25. Pre-order links (and hopefully other stuff soon): https://linktr.ee/ilanaslightly

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 17d

For @electricliterature.com, I wrote about milk, marketing, and making art (or boobs, books, and being a product):

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Artists Shouldn’t Need to Become Content Creators to Get Fair Pay - Electric Literature

Under capitalism, those of us who want a career in the arts feel pressured to sell ourselves. But making art and marketing it are very different skills

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Micah Nemerever @nemerevermore.bsky.social · 13h

most novels should be longer 🙌

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 3d

I have been a @youaregood.bsky.social fan from the very start, when it was Why Are Dads, and I was so thrilled to explore my love of another fatherless family with Alex and River for this episode 🥹😍👽 (and talk a bit about aliens, mushrooms, and more)

You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 3d

E.T. as sincerity-core with @ilanaslightly.bsky.social and @riverbutcher.bsky.social.

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 20h

Incredibly grateful for this wonderful review of BEINGS by @hspartington.bsky.social at @altajournal.bsky.social. Such a joy and privilege to be read so lovingly <3.

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Out of the Archives

In her sophomore novel, Beings, Ilana Masad weaves three compelling narratives about trust and belief.

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The Gaily Show @thegailyshow.org · 22h

On YouTube we've created a playlist of all of our author interviews! Go beyond Goodreads and enjoy literal hours of book goodness that you can watch (obviously) or more likely listen to in the background while playing wordle on your phone. We see you.

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Alien abductions and queer yearning in Ilana Masad's new novel Beings

YouTube video by The Gaily Show

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Gina Kaufmann @ginak.bsky.social · 22h

My son wants to start a paper clip delivery business. He’ll sell you paper clips when you’re in a bind and don’t have time to go get them yourself. But not if it’s raining. With all due respect for your paper collation needs, he doesn’t care for riding a bike in the rain.

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Greg Mania @gregmania.bsky.social · 1d

a packed house—the only kind you should have when celebrating such a special book 👽 loved teaming up with laura warrell and talking to @ilanaslightly.bsky.social about BEINGS at @sunnysbookshop.bsky.social, it was—i have to—out of this world 🛸

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 2d

Like, we actually don't need to build intellectually unsound argument structures in order to say simple things! It's OK to just say a simple thing! It saves so much time and energy for other stuff too!

Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 2d

It is incredible to me the absolute epic burning man levels of strawman arguments people will build on here in order to say something like 'being nice to other people is good' and 'maybe we can stand to care a little more about our fellow humans'

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 3d

You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 3d

E.T. as sincerity-core with @ilanaslightly.bsky.social and @riverbutcher.bsky.social.

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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 3d

Jesus fucking christ

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 4d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 3d

To be fair, my whole vibe is being sinceritycore

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You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 3d

E.T. as sincerity-core with @ilanaslightly.bsky.social and @riverbutcher.bsky.social.

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 4d

This just in - you can feel envy AND ALSO not be a dick about it!

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Greg Mania @gregmania.bsky.social · 5d

saturday! we’re tearing up tarzana celebrating the release of @ilanaslightly.bsky.social’s stunning new novel at @sunnysbookshop.bsky.social 🛸 join us! 👽

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much, Jeff!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5d

Really loved BEINGS by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social, with its intricate threading of lives and the speculative. Beautifully written and deeply perceptive! Available now! bookshop.org/p/books/bein...

Sepia-toned cover of Beings by Ilana showing a forest canopy over a small road and a car by the side of the road, with a flying saucer hovering overhead. With author text is dull gold over the saucer and the title in the middle of the cover in all caps in white and "A NOVEL" at bottom also in gold.

Below the cover is a quote from the New York Times Book Review:

"Engaging, elegant... A restrained, gentle reflection on the nature of 'truth' versus memory."

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 5d

What a thrill to return to @youaregood.bsky.social to talk about ET!!!

You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 5d

NEW EPISODE! In which @ilanaslightly.bsky.social, author of Beings, joins us to discuss empathy, aliens and nonbinary icon E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. @riverbutcher.bsky.social co-hosts!

a dinosaur is drinking milk out of a bottle in a kitchen .

Alt: an alien is drinking a brewski in front of an open fridge in a 1980s kitchen

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You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 5d

NEW EPISODE! In which @ilanaslightly.bsky.social, author of Beings, joins us to discuss empathy, aliens and nonbinary icon E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. @riverbutcher.bsky.social co-hosts!

a dinosaur is drinking milk out of a bottle in a kitchen .

Alt: an alien is drinking a brewski in front of an open fridge in a 1980s kitchen

media.tenor.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 6d

So grateful to @gabriellekorn.bsky.social and @autostraddle.bsky.social for this <3

"Masad blends meticulously well-researched history with lyrical invention, weaving a braided narrative that asks with urgency and tenderness: are any of us ever truly alone?"

www.autostraddle.com/queer-histor...

Queer History Meets UFO Lore in Ilana Masad's Stunning New Novel 'Beings'

"I think having crushes can be really nice. It can remind you that you have a body that can reach out, that you have a nervous system capable of excitement as well as anxiety or stress or anger or enn...

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you, Maris and Maggie, for your service in these dark times <3

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 6d

It happened. Last night I was feeling despair about a lot of different things and I realized I needed to enlist my dog’s help to make me feel better.

I present to you Maggie the Pug as Cher Pugowitz.

Maggie the Pug is majorly, totally, butt crazy in love with Josh. She’s wearing Cher’s classic yellow plaid ensemble.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6d

I am doing a round of We Want You To Have This TOMORROW MORNING at 9AM mountain time. If you are trans in the US and want a gift from my shop but cannot afford it, or if you have a trans loved one you would like a gift for, I will have 20 available. Details in thread. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

We Want You To Have This: Jewelry Gifts For Trans People

Requests for gifts are now closed! They will open again at 9AM Mountain Time (Denver) Wednesday, October 8th. The following round will be on Saturday, October 25th at 9AM. Just looking for the forms?...

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 7d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much to @ncpiehl.bsky.social for this lovely review over at @bookreporter.bsky.social!!!

"But through voice, technique and format, Masad manages to make each [narrative] distinct, memorable and more than worthy of readers' attention."

www.bookreporter.com/reviews/beings

Beings | Bookreporter.com

In 1961, an interracial couple drove through the dark mountains of New Hampshire when a mysterious light began to follow them. Years later, through hypnosis, they recalled an unbelievable brush with e...

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Grace Byron @emotrophywife.bsky.social · 6d

Interviewed for SSENSE today by PE Moskowitz.

www.ssense.com/en-us/editor...

The Demons Just Kept Coming as I Was Writing

Grace Byron on her genre-bending debut novel ‘Herculine,’ in which a young protagonist leaves New York City to join a trans commune in the woods.

www.ssense.com

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