award winning author, THE THOUSAND CRIMES OF MING TSU @littlebrown; lit/STS phd @ucdavis; rep'd by Lisa Queen; Mary Pender, Geoff Morley @unitedtalent. he/him
hi everyone, it’s been grand being on here but between the unprompted notifications for insipid tweets, bot spam, and generalized decline, i’ve had it with this place. i’ll be leaving this platform for good, but you can still find me on bluesky, instagram, and at my website
This dude stole 15,000 authors' books for his AI project. @AuthorsGuild needs to be looking into this immediately along with all the publishers affected.
based on the warhead shape and single side pod it's a D series, and those were only active at Vandenberg in CA, Warren in WY, and Omaha in NE— i suspect this is from Warren...
I’ve been on a serious New Western fiction kick since my return to California, and I think everyone should read this gorgeous book by @tom_lin__ - magical realist western with a love story hell yeah
ALT Image of book: The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu
#nowreading
'The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu' by @tom_lin__
'An astounding debut that reimagines the classic western through the eyes of a Chinese American Assassin'
If that doesn't tickle your interest I don't know what to do for you 😁
Have a good one friendos!
#books
A wave of new fiction is reframing the idea and image of the West, expanding the genre and rearranging the standard narrative to create a more complex sense of time and place. nyti.ms/3NyavcR
This is one of the most interesting free school lunch papers - when districts implement universal free school lunch, it puts competitive pressure on grocery stores, resulting in lower food prices for *everyone* even if they don't directly benefit from school lunches
When schools offer free meals for everyone, local families reduce grocery spending. Large chains respond by dropping prices, amplifying benefits to the broader community, from @jessiehandbury and Sarah Moshary nber.org/papers/w29384
ICYMI, in which I write bluntly about climate fiction. I avoided this topic for a long time because it felt like a certain etiquette forbade it, but at the end of the day, it also felt like certain histories and points had been forgotten or elided, so...
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