Katherine Argent

Respectfully, everyone should be a little more feral about supporting libraries.

#booksky #library #bookgoblin

@bsky.app Could we please have mute reposts by user, and maybe the ability to remove followers without a full block?

There’s a reason Jane Smiley said “if you want to write, keep your overhead low.”

Books aren’t free!

Which did you choose?

Yes, that’s such a great point. I read to encounter new ideas or new ways of looking at the old ideas I’ve carried around with me.

We’ve been applying the facepalm incorrectly.

We need a faster way to 25th dementia-riddled presidents and maybe age limits too.

Good morning, USA. Anyone else hoping we’re liberated soon?

Ugh.

Jeff’s designs for Stanchion are always breathtaking. He has such an eye!

That sounds like a wonderful one!

It’s odd, isn’t it? First has its time and place, but insisting on it exclusively? Dopey is a great word for it!

What’s your favorite? I used to read everything but romance. But the older I get, the less I’m into genre fiction.

Oh that foot guy was wild. I saw him in your comments last night and preemptively blocked. 🦶

Oh ouch.

Huh. I’m lying in bed reading Stanchion and wishing I had ice cream. Small world.

Not Girl Orn… whatever that difficult spelling was yesterday?

Reading The Correspondent currently. Think I’ll go for Dominion next and keep going until I’ve read them all.

All of them. 💚

Think about Nabokov’s “Pale Fire” or Danielewski’s “House of Leaves” or Woolf’s stream of consciousness. There are no rules if what you’re doing captivates.

Be true to your story, even if that means tearing up the rulebook. Make it work.

I figured you didn’t have your glasses on. 😂

Naomi Elias interviews Camonghne Felix about her new book, “Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom." They talk about the poetic form as a blueprint for resistance.

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The need to start ass kicking is growing unbearable.

GenX here and I’m having flashbacks. Not the good kind.

I’ll never unhear this.

I don’t. 😂

The woman they’re quoting literally says seeks “dumbed down” books with “burning enemies-to-lovers arcs, especially those that lean on fantasy tropes.”

This isn’t someone actually reads. This is someone who whiffles pages to look smart without putting in the work.

She’s not your audience. Write.

Readers Are Embracing a Shift in Perspective in Books. It Could Reshape Literary Culture. There’s been a profound shift in perspective preferences when it comes to romance novels.

Writers, please, please stop despairing over this article. Just as other social media platforms drive up engagement through outrage, Slate needs eyes on ads (which pay more when you’re logged in) and is farming anger with articles like this.