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Award-winning, best-selling writer. Subscribe to JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING, a story of bloody revenge & fighting xenophobic fascists; link below. He/him.

 New York, NY.
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Joined July 2011
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ABSOLUTELY GOBSMACKED that the National Endowment for the Arts chose BLACKFISH CITY for their iconic Big Read program! Alongside some of my favorite books, like THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD and THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET! Link in bio, omg, brb, hyperventilating. @NEAarts
Grid of 22 book titles and the headline NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS BIG READ / 2025-2026 THEME: OUR NATURE / INTENT TO APPLY DUE JANUARY 23 2025

ALT Grid of 22 book titles and the headline NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS BIG READ / 2025-2026 THEME: OUR NATURE / INTENT TO APPLY DUE JANUARY 23 2025

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Mark Royse@markjroyseSep 25
Sam J. Miller grabbed me by the short hairs and pulled with this electrifying introduction to his work. Short stories threaded through with mysterious, menacing interludes. Haven't been this excited by an author in a long while! @sentencebender #bookrecommendation #bookstagram
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Mark Royse@markjroyseSep 25
Wow. Still reeling from this epic sci-fi? fantasy? kick-ass novel. From a new favorite writer Sam J. Miller and narrated astonishingly by Vikas Adam. Again, wow... @sentencebender @vikasadam #audiobookreview #audiobookstagram #audiobook
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Aaron H. Aceves@aaronhacevesSep 15
Happy Latine Heritage Month! If you don’t already know, I wrote a novel about a bi Latino teen growing up in East LA who tries to get over his crush on his best friend by getting under someone else. It’s called This Is Why They Hate Us, and I hope you check it out!
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Research folk! Can anyone point me toward solid books/papers on the audience for the Homeric epics? How, when, where, & for whom were they performed? Especially interested in non-elite/working-class access to the narratives. Signal boosts appreciated if you don't know.
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Shooting his shot with the hot construction worker, in this week's installment of JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING!! 🥵 (link in bio!) #mm #romance #amwriting #mlm #queerbooks #sciencefiction
“What does a handsome activist such as yourself do with his evenings?” He smiled, then frowned. His ears were way too big, and absolutely perfect. “Hang out with my boyfriends, mostly.” “Boyfriends,” I said. “What fun.” “It is, mostly,” he said, rubbing a hand through red-blonde hair, and like the human cinnamon bun that he was he utterly failed to keep me from seeing in his face how ambivalent he was about the relationship. “I apologize,” I said. “I would not have asked you out if I had known you were partnered.” “It’s okay,” he said. “We’re open. Was that what that was? You asking me out?” His grin was boyish, mischievous, and made me feel a little feral.

ALT “What does a handsome activist such as yourself do with his evenings?” He smiled, then frowned. His ears were way too big, and absolutely perfect. “Hang out with my boyfriends, mostly.” “Boyfriends,” I said. “What fun.” “It is, mostly,” he said, rubbing a hand through red-blonde hair, and like the human cinnamon bun that he was he utterly failed to keep me from seeing in his face how ambivalent he was about the relationship. “I apologize,” I said. “I would not have asked you out if I had known you were partnered.” “It’s okay,” he said. “We’re open. Was that what that was? You asking me out?” His grin was boyish, mischievous, and made me feel a little feral.

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CorrineKumar@Corrine_A_KumarJun 28
May and June Reads Part 1! Check out these amazing books by @MaryRobinette, @sentencebender, Drew Hayes, @mattdinniman, @chelsabdullah, @Nnedi, @DebHarkness, @BrianTMcClellan, & Sabaa Tahir! #fantasy #sciencefiction #amreading #books
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Listen. As a gay man who got bullied by jocks in the 90s, sports fandom has always felt menacing to me. But as a New Yorker: what joy, to walk the uptown streets last night! Love, fireworks, impromptu splits… I say it every day. Today I say it a little louder: I love New York.
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Yes, humans are always the worst monsters, but also…pease give me monsters once in a while, you know? A creature here, an indescribable abomination there, something in the woods. Give me big teeth and things hiding in the sewers or abandoned subway tunnels. Monsters are awesome.
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Today Outdoor Walking Tour $25 starting at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. Learn the amazing history of the lower east side, how community members rebuilt the neighborhood after a community crisis, and it became a community and sustainable success story.
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I miss the era when having enormous wealth was seen as profoundly embarrassing and potentially cause for damnation, to the extent that robber barons would attempt to rid themselves of their massive fortunes by building libraries, museums, concert halls, research universities.
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Joseph Fasano
@Joseph_Fasano_Jun 12
I think about this every day. In the Netherlands, if a person dies alone, without any family or friends as mourners, a poet will be sent to write a poem and read it at the burial service. It's called the Lonely Funeral Project, and it's just humans being good humans.
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“I put on my murder sweater,” the next chapter of JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING, drops tomorrow… in which Deimos switches up his plans: from seducing one target to annihilating another. Subscribe for free, or go paid to vote in the poll on what happens next! sentencebender.substack.com/…
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You have spoken! Voting is finished on the first paid-subscriber poll of what happens next: whether Deimos goes to his arch-nemesis’s birthday party (stepping up the action & confronting our principal foe) or to his old neighborhood (letting bro breathe a little bit).
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If you want to go MAD WITH POWER and help shape the arc of Deimos’s bloody revenge, consider upgrading to a paid subscription? sentencebender.substack.com/…
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Writers, what's the coolest weirdest thing you've learned about lately in research for a project?
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Pedro Iniguez@Pedro__IniguezApr 1
In honor of the Artemis II mission that's launching to the moon today, here's "Mexicans on the Moon," the titular poem from my SF poetry collection. Much love.
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FRIENDS I AM NERVOUS!! This is the first time that paid subscribers to my serialized novel JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING get to vote on what happens next! It's not that I think they'll make the wrong decision. But giving up narrative control feels strange! Not entirely unpleasant?
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No one ever tells you this, about activist meetings. They’re wonderful and they’re terrible. They’re infuriating and they’re exhilarating and funny and melodramatic and full of interesting people.
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I’ve rarely seen that captured in fiction before, and that’s part of my mission in JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING: to help folks see that organizing for social change is real, and possible, and fun. And miserable lol sentencebender.substack.com/…
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AI isn’t “democratizing” art. It’s strip-mining the sum total of human creativity, to sell us back a rotted zombie re-animation of our own words & dreams & feelings....
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Support a human creator today. Buy a zine, go to a library, read a story written with actual blood and sweat. (I’ve got some of that at JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING, but there's billions of awesome alternatives 😅). sentencebender.substack.com/…
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