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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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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 13h

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.

www.oregonlive.com

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 7h

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 · 9h

lovely hike

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 9h

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

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 10h

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

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 17h

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 · 19h

awesome!

Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

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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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

f-bombs should be used as punctuation in most novels

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

gibber jibber flibber naw blibber? yes.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3d

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary.

Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from).

The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe.

Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat?

This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight:
* Waste of public resources on military theatrics.
* Fraud in the name of “public safety.”
* Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect.

Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here.

When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness.

Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control.

Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard.

Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2d

portland continues to serve up a protest that confuses the feds and totally disrupts the false narrative they're pushing via propaganda channels...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

Portland cyclists strip down in pouring rain to protest ICE facility and Trump troop deployment

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

www.oregonlive.com

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

naw, it's just Cass's private life wasn't something she'd reveal to anyone in that situation

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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 1d

In a week from now, I'll be back out on the tundra to see these big, beautiful bears. I can't wait! 🌿🐻‍❄️ #mammals

Two large, male polar bears spar on their hind legs in the misty morning sun, among the flashes of gold of a few remaining willow leaves. The bear on the left is biting the cheek of the bear on the right.

A polar bear sits pensively among the bare willows as light snow flutters around it.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

lolllll uh oh

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

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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RainSurname @rainsurname.bsky.social · 1d

Someone left a rack full of inflatable costumes near the ICE building in Portland.

I love this town.

This is a wonderful thread that explains how & why Portland is Like This.
bsky.app/profile/ceau...

A clothing rack on a sidewalk, full of colorful inflatable costumes, with a sign that says free.

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