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Steve Fox
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Can run backwards
Rick Bass Montana Fiction Prize Winner
SOMETIMES CREEK (Cornerstone) winner American BookFest Best Book Award • Chicago Writers Book of the Year Award finalist
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Newest story collection, These Are My People, now available for early orders. Save 20%!

“… a reader’s dream. And a true gourmet of a meal, too!”

—Amber Sparks, author of Happy People Don’t Live Here

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If you've configured your customer support to route callers through a layered and complicated queuing / menu system, you can configure it to inform callers when your offices are closed, and when your hours of operation will resume. feh.
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
You need another book. Get this one now. “Crisp, unsentimental prose … stunningly honey and surprisingly tender.” — Kimberly King Parsons

Early-bird discount here: tinyurl.com/these-are-my...
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
So I am a lot nicer to Claude than I am to Gemini.
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Rabbit-hole rabbit-hole rabbit-hole rabbit-hole rabbit-hole. I’ve heard this said 100 times this week.

NEW RULE. You don’t get to use this metaphor unless a. You’re actually physically stuck in a rabbit-hole (then it’s not really not a metaphor, but still), or b. you know Alice.
November 21, 2025 at 2:31 AM
What’s a great book on craft you’ve never read? One of mine is How Fiction Work, James Wood.
#WritingCommunity #flashfiction #solarpunk #speculativefiction
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Had a great time last week at the Cornerstone book launch party. Honored to be on stage with Calvin Mills (The Caged Man) and Barry Pearce (The Plan of Chicago), two great fiction writers.
November 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Meanwhile, in #wisconsin
November 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
All I’m trying to do is turn my lights on.
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Just grabbed a copy of @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social ‘s cool new book, Graphic Rage, from @splitlippress.com while wandering the Twin Cities Book Festival. Wonderful surprise to see them here.
#writing #writingcommunity
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Good morning!
Daylight Saving Time. For the same reason we say

Dog walking time.
Story telling time.
Beer drinking time.

Bonus if you hyphenate because it’s a compound adjective.
November 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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My latest interview for Volume One Brooklyn is with the inimitable graphic artist and award-winning writer @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social - whose new book "Graphic Rage" is available now from @splitlippress.com

Here's the interivew link, friendos: www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/27/g...
Graphic Rage: An Interview with Writer and Artist Aubrey Hirsch
Writer and visual artist Aubrey Hirsch knows Clarence Thomas won’t be reading Graphic Rage – and that’s fine. Her new book isn’t meant to convert opponents; it aims to witness, validate, and …
www.vol1brooklyn.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
anyone read any good solar punk lately?

#writingcommunity #literature #fiction #solarpunk #dystopia
October 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Huh.
The AI customer support agent that has been assigned to my ticket is out of the office until next Wednesday.
October 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Yep. I’ll draft my own email replies, thanks.

And please stop enabling Beta software by default
October 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
That Uecker Magic can kick in again any time now.
October 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Reposted by Steve Fox
This has been in my head for like 2 years so I finally made it.
October 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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If information is free, why do the articles I need to read cost $34.99 to rent for two weeks?
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
a haunted house but each door and corridor requires MFA and FaceID
October 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Expired, but not puffy.
Likely fine.
October 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Weekend read with @ambersparks.bsky.social , Happy People Don’t Live Here,
Her debut novel.
Open up and get lost.
October 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hey @milwaukeebrewers.bsky.social

You got this. You do. But quickly, here are four reasons to win tomorrow, 11 Oct 2025:

- Beat the Cubs
- Advance to NLCS
- Notch season’s 100th win
- Beat the Cubs

Thanks.
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
More Leonora Carrington in the house. Down Below, with introduction by Marina Warner.
October 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
@danchaon.bsky.social this just in! Thanks for putting it out there.

One of Us. Worth noting: I did not walk into traffic while reading it on the way outta the bookstore.
October 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
NEW VIDEO ALERT! Today on Bar Cart Bookshelf, we're talking about THE WITCH ROADS by Kate Elliott. A fabulous fantasy of montane hiking, mysterious spirits, & sinister conspiracies, the first book in a propulsive duology, showing a master at the height of skill. Our drink is the Deputy Courier.
October 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM