And if you're a librarian or bookseller or book reviewer (or similar), it's on Netgalley!

OK FINE

Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Organized Communities Against Deportations has launched a new mutual aid fund to support immigrant families in Chicago impacted by ICE raids

Link to donate: donorbox.org/mutualaid2025

“Do you really expect Mamdani to get everything he’s promising done?”

No. I’m sure a lot of what I want won’t happen. But I’m ready for someone who’s willing to actually fucking try rather than tell everyone why trying is pointless and must be saved for an undefined later moment

Okay USA, I know you have plenty of other things going on at the moment, but my new book An Academic Affair will be released in your country in only a few weeks (11 November!!), and if you wanted to pre-order it, I would simply love that.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/An-Aca...

a video of the young man's arrest shows him backing up, following commands, while having a weapon drawn on him. He's then surrounded, thrown to the ground, jumped on, and detained. shared with permission.

Romance 'sky, a question for you! My students are loving Bolu Babalola's "Honey & Spice" in part because it's a university-set student romance, and I'd love any recommendations you might have for other recent books with that setting & cast of characters. Might be a fun course focus.

I should note: by my count, this makes at least four clergy members *that I know of* who have been shot with pepper balls or rubber bullets fired by ICE/DHS agents in recent weeks — two Presbyterians, two Methodists and a UCCer.

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Don’t know the argument but already sold!

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

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listen, if zohran mamdani urged New Yorkers to not spend on Black Friday (unless via cash at small, local businesses only) as a pre-General Strike... the whole world would listen 😂 he's ALL our mayor, okay?!

for me, meet-cute works in books where they meet on page in a, well, cute manner, but would exclude romances where they met off page or meet in unremarkable ways. I’d see regular degular romance as “romance,” the broadest/first level of the genre’s taxonomy

Large crowds of protesters gathered in cities across the U.S. on Saturday as part of a mass “No Kings” demonstration against the Trump administration. nyti.ms/4hocDS0

Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.

Epically beautiful and also a bit scary and heartbreaking. We are on the precipice now of revolution or dictatorship. Those are the only jump offs. America largely made their choice today.

Already there are mass calls to cancel Christmas. A national grab your wallet, fuck the corps. It could work.

;asdknfa;sdfja "C'mon Cuomo, thirteen women were lying?" says Curtis Sliwa. How is Zohran not sitting there with a shit-eating grin askdnfas;dkfj

it's wild how confusing it is to watch a politician who thinks we should like, all get human rights and be able to afford to live, but also is inviting us (generic, not me sob) to do joyful things with each other too

This Indigenous Peoples Day please speak up: another typhoon sweeping away homes of Alaska's Natives, who, during settlement (statehood: 1948) were forced to end ways of life (like my Grandma's) involving mobility across regions & stuck them in flood-prone/unstable villages with housing deficits.

"With the high cost of living front and center in this fall’s mayoral election, Cuomo’s #CUNY policies — most notably a 2016 push to slash nearly $500 million in state funding to the university system — are resurfacing." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Insane story out of India

Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me) introduces his second novel, Rakesfall, which is is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

A satisfying takedown of all things Bari, but I especially enjoyed the description of Skydance failson David Ellison as having "resting checking-into-the-White-Lotus face."