Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c.

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Gavin J. Grant. He/him. Peely-wally vegan Scottish immigrant. Equality, health care 4 all. BLM. Long covid 12/21, meh. smallbeerpress.com (closed to subs) & LCRW. Don't let the bastards grind your vote down. bookmoonbooks.com

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Just received this from Google — uh, who is this?

Self decorating frog apartments

Me: I think I will open that thing I was working on. InDesign:

I like other people’s beautiful nature shots in times of stress, so here you go — here’s mine

I like other people’s beautiful nature shots in times of stress, so here you go - here’s mine.

A couple of booksellers are out sick (1 Covid, 1 unknown) this week so I sat behind the counter for 2 mornings. I suppose "worked" is accurate, although at about 1/4 speed compared to anyone else. What a laugh to work in a bookshop, though! Questions! Weird shipping problems! Loved it. Must do again

Someone else immune to prosecution

Added pictures from the printer's proofs of all Wesley Allsbrook's illustrations for The Book of Love: smallbeerpress.com/the-book-of-...

For the last many months @gavingrant.bsky.social & I have been putting together a limited edition of The Book of Love in four volumes with illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook. Soon off to the printers, and then it will be available for preorder.

Looked at NYT headlines to see supreme court summaries and somehow I do not think this blow is to one person you tools

Who scheduled a Saturday morning meeting?

extrapolating Long Covid newspaper profiles over time until everyone gets profiled as everyone has it

One law for the rich: www.propublica.org/article/dona...

From the Belletrist.com's newsletter interview with Elwin Cotman: BELLETRIST: What book are you most looking forward to reading in the year ahead and why? ELWIN: The Jaguar Mask by Michael J. DeLuca. It's climate fiction based on Guatemalan myth. Seems like just the decolonial read I'm craving.

Oh no, Christie's got hacked and my info has been— Hmm. Christie's? Did I pick up any of my supercars (all electric, natch) there? Any of my 13 residences? Part of the art collection? Rare zines? My 400 tons of cocoa beans? Hmm!

rhododendron with irises

Cloudy, but the solar panels are putting 1.6kw into the grid, 0.2 to the house this second. Mornings the panels recharge the battery — which keeps the house going overnight. In the middle of the day our house is putting ~8kw to to the grid.

What's kind of amazing is that we're actually living through a huge technology revolution where our entire power grid is being replaced by solar panels and battery storage and you hear less about it in the press than you did about the totally fake "tech" of NFTs

Me, a worrier: If Tr*mp uses actual Nazi language newspapers will shout it to the rooftops and everyone will rise up against it NYT, WaPo, WAJ, Seattle Times, USA Today ✅ No: LAT NPR ChiTrib Newsday Oregonian StarTribune Boston Globe Miami Herald Charlotte Observer St. Louis Post-Dispatch etc.

Had this tab open for a while and it was the right read while resting today: @notquitehydepark.bsky.social on "Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea" by John Plotz strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...

Is it shut the fuck up?

Putting together the next LCRW, #48, for June & sent out an "LCRW. Re-sub?" email & all these people are re-upping which is 🤩 Chocolate subs reached a new high: 33%. 100% of subscribers get the zine (cough) & we send a backlist Small Beer book with new/re-subs: smallbeerpress.com/shopping/sub...

A friend from a local nonprofit which supports "rural families during the crucial postpartum period" sent out an email to ask people to support diaper banks. A neighbor sent this response. People — they're so great! Got $10? Send? hilltownvillage.org/donate

Sorry for writing this so badly! This response is Not from their local senator! Just some local person without empathy at all.

Good list here by Lisa Zhuang of "8 Books Inspired by Asian Mythology" "From the pontianak of Malay lore to the Chinese fox spirit, these stories draw from folktales as old as time" including Spirits Abroad by @zenaldehyde.bsky.social electricliterature.com/8-novels-ins...

Anya DeNiro smiling and holding a signed copy of her book, OKPsyche at the Strand Bookstore in New York @adeniro.bsky.social

Two good friends, Matthew Cheney and Christopher Barzak, chat about having new novellas coming out at about same time: matthewcheney.net/matthew-chen...

"This past weekend Kelly and I and our kid (cropped out of photo [below]) went to Mass MoCA. I think this might be the first museum I’ve been to since the start of the Covid pandemic and the first time I’ve been to a museum since I came down with Long Covid. . . ." smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...

Good times

Buried down in the “updates” like we’re learning he’s in Iowa this week

Fixed Matthew Schmitz's essay