Kevin Hyde
@molars.bsky.social
Great story from @nickarvin.bsky.social, who's gonna publish a story a week through his newsletter.
#1 of 52 Fictions for 2026 is up! My story "A Collection of Sticks." Click through to read (and check out the fabulous photo illustration by my wife Erin Schoepke).
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January 8, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Great story from @nickarvin.bsky.social, who's gonna publish a story a week through his newsletter.
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Starting 2026 with a couple of announcements:
1. I have a new book coming in spring of '27 via @europaeditions.bsky.social.
2. I'm going to do an insane thing and attempt to send out a story a week for the next year.
Check it out at the link and subscribe!
1. I have a new book coming in spring of '27 via @europaeditions.bsky.social.
2. I'm going to do an insane thing and attempt to send out a story a week for the next year.
Check it out at the link and subscribe!
An Intro
Forthcoming: a new novel and 52 fictions
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Starting 2026 with a couple of announcements:
1. I have a new book coming in spring of '27 via @europaeditions.bsky.social.
2. I'm going to do an insane thing and attempt to send out a story a week for the next year.
Check it out at the link and subscribe!
1. I have a new book coming in spring of '27 via @europaeditions.bsky.social.
2. I'm going to do an insane thing and attempt to send out a story a week for the next year.
Check it out at the link and subscribe!
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Today‘s the first half-birthday of THE NIMBUS! As good as any time to suggest that it would make an excellent holiday gift for the discerning fiction reader in your life. Order here or at your local indie, and DM me if you’d like a personalized bookplate to go with it:
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bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Nimbus: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Today‘s the first half-birthday of THE NIMBUS! As good as any time to suggest that it would make an excellent holiday gift for the discerning fiction reader in your life. Order here or at your local indie, and DM me if you’d like a personalized bookplate to go with it:
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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"I don’t know why, but there is something about that instrument that makes you want to play slow, melancholic music on it."
The Guitar-Bass Hybrid That Gives Tortoise Its Lonesome Sound
Bassist and multi-instrumentalist Douglas McCombs has made the cult-favorite Bass VI a staple of the post-rock legends’ palette.
www.hearingthings.co
November 21, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"I don’t know why, but there is something about that instrument that makes you want to play slow, melancholic music on it."
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Such a treat to find THE NIMBUS on WaPo’s list of the best fiction of the year! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Such a treat to find THE NIMBUS on WaPo’s list of the best fiction of the year! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
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Ping, You’ve Got Whale
A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.
by @ashleybraun.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/ping-youve-g...
A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.
by @ashleybraun.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/ping-youve-g...
Ping, You've Got Whale - bioGraphic
A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.
www.biographic.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Ping, You’ve Got Whale
A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.
by @ashleybraun.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/ping-youve-g...
A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path.
by @ashleybraun.bsky.social
www.biographic.com/ping-youve-g...
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Hi Bluesky friends, I’m giving out a handful of free Audible audiobook versions of my novel, THE NIMBUS. If you’d like a copy, DM me your name and email address. The offer’s good till they’re gone. Learn more about the book here: robertpbaird.com/nimbus/
The Nimbus - A Novel
robertpbaird.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hi Bluesky friends, I’m giving out a handful of free Audible audiobook versions of my novel, THE NIMBUS. If you’d like a copy, DM me your name and email address. The offer’s good till they’re gone. Learn more about the book here: robertpbaird.com/nimbus/
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Nightmares, passing the test, trial period, route assignments—
An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social
An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social
“Driver” by Mattia Fillice — The Dial
An excerpt.
www.thedial.world
October 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Nightmares, passing the test, trial period, route assignments—
An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social
An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social
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I considered writing a treatise on a certain pop vortex’s song that details her man’s dick with the facepalm yucks of a B-level stand-up from the mid-’80s, but I decided instead to take advice, of sorts, from singer and rapper Shelailai: Don’t need it!
Like J Dilla Zooted Off a Few Lines of Pixy Stix Powder
Plus the catchiest song Dry Cleaning have ever made, a grown-and-sexy house-pop situation, and more.
www.hearingthings.co
October 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I considered writing a treatise on a certain pop vortex’s song that details her man’s dick with the facepalm yucks of a B-level stand-up from the mid-’80s, but I decided instead to take advice, of sorts, from singer and rapper Shelailai: Don’t need it!
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A book of my Creased Comics is coming this spring from NYRC.
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A book of my Creased Comics is coming this spring from NYRC.
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The publisher has only five copies left of my translation of Book IV of Vergil's Georgics, titled The Bees.
It's a beautifully designed little chapbook, with the classic drawing by Breughel on the cover, and typesetting by the designer Ken Botnick.
Get a copy for $10 before they're gone!
It's a beautifully designed little chapbook, with the classic drawing by Breughel on the cover, and typesetting by the designer Ken Botnick.
Get a copy for $10 before they're gone!
Joel Calahan - The Bees — Verge Books
www.vergebooks.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The publisher has only five copies left of my translation of Book IV of Vergil's Georgics, titled The Bees.
It's a beautifully designed little chapbook, with the classic drawing by Breughel on the cover, and typesetting by the designer Ken Botnick.
Get a copy for $10 before they're gone!
It's a beautifully designed little chapbook, with the classic drawing by Breughel on the cover, and typesetting by the designer Ken Botnick.
Get a copy for $10 before they're gone!
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Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen talks old scenes and a new tour: defector.com/grizzly-bear...
Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen Talks Old Scenes And A New Tour | Defector
The last few years have seen the revival of many dormant musical acts. Oasis is well over halfway through a reunion tour that, for decades, had been the stuff of rumor. Radiohead is set to go on the…
defector.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen talks old scenes and a new tour: defector.com/grizzly-bear...
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Tortoise spoke with @theguardian.com about their Chicago roots; the making of their new album, ‘𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡,’ out next month; and the special shows they’re performing to celebrate the release of the album, their first in nine years 🦂✨
READ MORE: tinyurl.com/mr46fc7k
Photo: Heather Cantrell
READ MORE: tinyurl.com/mr46fc7k
Photo: Heather Cantrell
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Tortoise spoke with @theguardian.com about their Chicago roots; the making of their new album, ‘𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡,’ out next month; and the special shows they’re performing to celebrate the release of the album, their first in nine years 🦂✨
READ MORE: tinyurl.com/mr46fc7k
Photo: Heather Cantrell
READ MORE: tinyurl.com/mr46fc7k
Photo: Heather Cantrell
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Read Anna Gaca’s essay in LARB Quarterly no. 46, where she recounts her journey learning French and immersing herself in the language. “What trust is lost, what intimate connections with language, with culture, with auditory experience itself?” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/vous-ecoutez-rfi/
September 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Read Anna Gaca’s essay in LARB Quarterly no. 46, where she recounts her journey learning French and immersing herself in the language. “What trust is lost, what intimate connections with language, with culture, with auditory experience itself?” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/vous-ecoutez-rfi/
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TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
#roadecology
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
#roadecology
Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is initiating an environmental impact statement (EIS) and rulemaking concerning management of inventoried roadless areas on approximately 44.7 million acres of Natio...
www.federalregister.gov
September 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here:
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
#roadecology
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
#roadecology
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"This will never work": PARCHMENT (@parchmentmag.bsky.social), a literary journal devoted to contemporary Canadian Jewish writing, is returning to print.
I joined the editorial board because I don't feel "Jewish writing" needs to mean what it usually means, especially lately. 1/5
I joined the editorial board because I don't feel "Jewish writing" needs to mean what it usually means, especially lately. 1/5
August 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"This will never work": PARCHMENT (@parchmentmag.bsky.social), a literary journal devoted to contemporary Canadian Jewish writing, is returning to print.
I joined the editorial board because I don't feel "Jewish writing" needs to mean what it usually means, especially lately. 1/5
I joined the editorial board because I don't feel "Jewish writing" needs to mean what it usually means, especially lately. 1/5
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"To raise sunflower stars in captivity and release them to the Pacific, however, scientists must first learn how to keep stars from dying. And for that, they must know what’s killing them in the first place."
@craigwelch.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
@craigwelch.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
Unmasking the Sea Star Killer
After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?
www.biographic.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"To raise sunflower stars in captivity and release them to the Pacific, however, scientists must first learn how to keep stars from dying. And for that, they must know what’s killing them in the first place."
@craigwelch.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
@craigwelch.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
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My new piece Untitled/Dreamweapon is out today on Bandcamp. Its based off a recording originally performed by Angus MacLise & Tony Conrad in NYC, 1968, my own take on "Untitled" from the Dreamweapon recordings. Ive been trying to think of ways to make more work with explicit Antifascist intentions…
August 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
My new piece Untitled/Dreamweapon is out today on Bandcamp. Its based off a recording originally performed by Angus MacLise & Tony Conrad in NYC, 1968, my own take on "Untitled" from the Dreamweapon recordings. Ive been trying to think of ways to make more work with explicit Antifascist intentions…
Incredible article by Jaclyn Moyer in the June issue of @highcountrynews.org about a community in rural Oregon fighting against the expansion of an already colossal landfill:
Where the garbage goes - High Country News share.google/bM92q4RqRm8t...
Where the garbage goes - High Country News share.google/bM92q4RqRm8t...
Where the garbage goes - High Country News
Amid massive rollbacks of federal environmental protections, a community battling the expansion of a local landfill seeks to safeguard its own backyard – and everyone else’s.
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July 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Incredible article by Jaclyn Moyer in the June issue of @highcountrynews.org about a community in rural Oregon fighting against the expansion of an already colossal landfill:
Where the garbage goes - High Country News share.google/bM92q4RqRm8t...
Where the garbage goes - High Country News share.google/bM92q4RqRm8t...
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Each William Langewiesche disaster story was an event in itself: defector.com/each-william...
Each William Langewiesche Disaster Story Was An Event In Itself | Defector
William Langewiesche died on Sunday. He was a damn titan. Langewiesche hit his stride in longform magazine journalism round about 1998, applying the concept of system accidents to the downing of…
defector.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Each William Langewiesche disaster story was an event in itself: defector.com/each-william...
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there's been a scandal brewing on nerdy guitar-centric corners of YouTube for the last couple of months about a guy who got caught copying other people's guitar solos and presenting them as his own. i wrote about that bizarre saga here www.hearingthings.co/the-great-in...
The Great Instagram Jazz Guitar Plagiarism Scandal
What Giacomo Turra shows us about the strange intersection of jazz and social media
www.hearingthings.co
June 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
there's been a scandal brewing on nerdy guitar-centric corners of YouTube for the last couple of months about a guy who got caught copying other people's guitar solos and presenting them as his own. i wrote about that bizarre saga here www.hearingthings.co/the-great-in...
Never thought Forth Wanderers would come back. Still listen to their 2018 album a bunch. New songs sound great: forthwanderers.bandcamp.com/track/to-kno...
To Know Me/To Love Me, by Forth Wanderers
from the album The Longer This Goes On
forthwanderers.bandcamp.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Never thought Forth Wanderers would come back. Still listen to their 2018 album a bunch. New songs sound great: forthwanderers.bandcamp.com/track/to-kno...
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Last week, we lost the poet, activist, and scholar Joshua Clover. Those who want to pay homage might donate to their local bail fund.
The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025)
How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.
www.thenation.com
May 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Last week, we lost the poet, activist, and scholar Joshua Clover. Those who want to pay homage might donate to their local bail fund.
The infamous Toronto '85 live version of "Baby Beluga" is 19 minutes long and features audible cries of anguish from kids in the audience. But Raffi and the band just kept going.
April 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The infamous Toronto '85 live version of "Baby Beluga" is 19 minutes long and features audible cries of anguish from kids in the audience. But Raffi and the band just kept going.