Meg Elison

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Author, essayist, hot fat monster of appetites. Bi my books and tell me I’m pretty. Rep: Arley Sorg at KT Literary.
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My Birdverse novella YOKE OF STARS is officially out today!! tachyonpublications.com/product/yoke... Please spread the word if you are so moved.

Yoke of Stars - Tachyon Publicationstachyonpublications.com “Haunting, nuanced, and hopeful, Yoke of Stars is essential reading.” —Izzy Wasserstein, author of These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart In the School of Assassins, Stone Orphan waits for a first ...

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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an incredible group of books!!! this recognition is so well deserved

We're delighted to announce — with help from Electric Literature — the shortlist for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. Congratulations to the authors! The recipient of this year's prize will be announced on Ursula's birthday, October 21st. electricliterature.com/announcing-t...

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time to dust this one off. amen.

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

Pulling apart a silicone mold and a tiny shard of ice shot straight into my eyeball like I had deployed to Hoth with no goggles.

My apt is a tropical hellbox and my dish mat is growing a riot of molds.

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Strange Horizons has been doing top notch work in fiction, criticism, and essays on the SFF fields for more than twenty years, and has been consistently passed over for the Hugo. I hope that this year, voters finally give them their due.

This is the last week of Hugo Award voting and we would like you to consider Strange Horizons for Best Semiprozine. For over 20 years, Strange Horizons has been publishing weekly issues filled with new stories, poems and non-fiction. Here are some more reasons you should vote for us below!

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There is never any shame in using the library, and much benefit in doing so. They are the closest thing to an unmitigated social good that we have in these United States, which is why the hard right is gunning so fervently for them these days. A world without libraries and librarians is a poor one.

My book-buying budget is not what it once was, which is precisely why I’m using the library more. It also gives me the opportunity to read books that I’m not sure I want to add to the home library (not that there’s a lot of room to do that anyway).

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The latest cover of the New Yorker:

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some die, and no one knows their name. it is simply true. and "what becomes of the unloved dead?" @megelison.bsky.social asks and answers HERE The Unloved Dead by Meg Elison psychopomp.com/the-unloved-...

The Unloved Dead - PSYCHOPOMP.COMpsychopomp.com In the oldest human stories, the question always arises: who will bury my body? Who will lay me to rest? Heroes are tormented by their unburied soldiers;

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My Readercon book haul: Samatar, Lima, Tremblay, Webb, @sillysyntax.bsky.social, McSweeney, Milstein & Ruin, @megelison.bsky.social. And I got the last copy of Suzan’s book, which is signed!

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SPOCK: My freak to your freak. My thots to your thots

Readercon day 3: catch me if you can.

The Shirley Jackson award for short story just went to @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social for her story “The First Mrs. Edward Rochester Would Like a Word!”

I do what I can to honor the legacy of Shirley Jackson, by being a fat spooky bitch who writes stories to freak you out.

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Ooh child Things are gonna get stupider Ooh child Things'll get dumber

Readercon day 2: revenge of the froth. Dress by Selkie.

Getcher signatures right here.

Another reading from @randee.bsky.social at #Readercon!

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this is incredible

hey, go, People! what a great, brief, accurate read on what Project 2025 means by porn

A grand reading from @johnchu.bsky.social, who has a new story (this story!) in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social right now.

Hey Readercon folks! I’m autographing tonight at 7 and I’ll be at the bar for Meet the Pros(e) so don’t be shy. I’m the one who looks like a blancmange in a KN95.

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This Sunday in Cambridge, MA! Join me, Elizabeth Bear, A.T. Greenblatt, John Wisell, and Max Gladstone for a post-Readercon panel at Pandemonium Books & Games: pandemoniumbooks.com/products/pos...

Post-Readercon Panel With John Wiswell, Max Gladstone, Scott Lynch, Elpandemoniumbooks.com Did you know about Readercon this year, but for whatever reason couldn't make it? Never heard about it, but wish you had? Have you had one Readercon, yes, but what about second Readercon? Look no furt...

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Anyway it turns out revenge porn goes back a lot longer than I thought

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Josie lays it out very clearly: "In Weimar Germany, where the German Communist Party was far more robust and ready to fight in the streets, the revolution-oriented strategy—allowing a fascist victory to raise urgency and bring about a more lasting leftist one—didn’t work."

My Slate essay on why leftists should vote for the Democratic Presidential candidate this November, despite everything:

The Leftist Case for Voting—Yes, Even for Bidenslate.com We need to think about this election differently. Just look at France.

Someone in the Penn Station tunnel is always playing the Godfather theme on the violin. 🗽

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Your move, Hemingway

I myself can be had for a mere fraction of what the shitty art computer costs.

imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists