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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 2m

It really is! We do it somewhat by genre for the larger bookshelves we share as a family, but I also have a smaller shelf where it’s vaguely in order of what I want to read followed by authors important to me followed by chaos.

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 27m

it’s a lovely set of shelves

to me, the work of actual shelving would be much less daunting than what criteria I’m going to use to shelve the books by—could spend days going back and forth on that

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 4h

Especially given that so
much of what we encounter these days are dysfunctional substitutes (with AI being shoehorned everywhere being the most obvious but not only one) at work, school, or while trying to get the business of life done.

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 4h

I am not a coffee drinker, but the phrase “functional substitute” is such a telling thing as if normal people should be denied aesthetic/sensory pleasure so long as they get the stimulants they need to function in (an increasingly hostile to the not-wealthy) society.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 20h

this is the best one

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 20h

short stories

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 21h

new writing goal unlocked: obscurantist drivel*

*(may have already been achieved)

Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 2d

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 22h

Disco Misfit bangs

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 23h

💯

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

the day after you finish reading a long book when the cadences of the prose and the daze of being in that world still linger is a lovely day for a long walk or bike ride or hike or drive or traveling somewhere by train or bus

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

nice!

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

For easier access! lithub.com/why-toni-mor...

Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing

Commercial book publishing was (and is) unbearably white. In 1971, when Toni Morrison became a trade editor, about 95 percent of the fiction published by the big commercial houses was by white auth…

lithub.com

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

one of the crimes of everyone becoming foodies is that somehow white chocolate became uncool—but it’s a completely different experience from dark chocolate and that’s awesome (I like both!)

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Dan—I’m trying to sell your book here 😆

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

(specifically chapter 4, which also contains a fascinating reading of Stephen King’s work in relation to publishing)

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

I have some good news for you: bookshop.org/p/books/big-...

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

bookshop.org

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Remember when you could do
an internet search of a phone number that dialed you not to creep but to confirm if it was a spam call or not based on other folks reporting it?

That appears to be mostly gone.

User-generated content has always been problematic, but it also used to be useful sometimes.

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

I have no idea if this is a hinged or unhinged take, but that doesn’t matter because it’s correct!

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

FWIW, I finally caught up with this episode & the track Elliott mentions in the interview but couldn’t recall the artist is People Are People by Depeche Mode: youtu.be/DTYsElEGswc?...

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

[and I’m not talking just about the author self-insert metafictional thing they share—read Moon Palace and you’ll see what I mean (but also don’t read it)]

Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Paul Auster is the litfic Stephen King (derogatory)

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 1d

Robin McKinley is a literary fiction author

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Having just finished Han Kang's We Do Not Part, I don't have the words to express the experience other than to say this is an instance where I'd suggest reading all her other works first.

And I can recommend @radzpandit.bsky.social's review: readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/w...

We Do Not Part – Han Kang (tr. E. Yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris)

Han Kang is one of my favourite authors – loved both The Vegetarian and The White Book – but inexplicably I did not read anything by her since then. She came into my orbit once again after being aw…

readersretreat2017.wordpress.com

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

this deserves more shine b/c a) it's true and b) not all of you are going to read all the replies to the op (which is very fair)

Michael @miwiri.bsky.social · 1d

Guys brag about learning how to post on SA but they would’ve had their minds broken by StyleForum

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Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com · 1d

Joyce

I can read Flannery O’Connor if I feel the urgent need for Faulkner, a need which has yet to fall upon me thus far in my life, btw

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 1d

Pick one! Once and for all!

Joyce
Faulkner

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