Ian Denning

Pumped to announce that my novel and I are now represented by Sophia Bark and Sian-Ashleigh Edwards at WME Books! I couldn’t have found a better team to help this novel transform, Sephiroth-style, into its final form and bring it out into the world 🎉

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

re lrp: I read something on a fat acceptance blog long ago which I try to do sometimes: when I am on public transport or have an idle moment at my job, I look at people around me and imagine what that person would look like to me if I was someone who knew and loved them.

Oh, shit. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Assuming Counterpoint is included in the Catapult news, that means that 20% of this year's National Book Awards longlist for fiction was published by imprints that will no longer exist in their current form by the time of awards night.

The algo is really trolling me today

Sad news for cinephiles: Tilly Norwood has been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike.

For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

Tragic

just another morning in 2026, when one of my favorite gardening instagram accounts posts a beautiful landscape photo with the caption "executions are not entertainment"

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers

One way to be a lil bitch is by constantly cleaning up leaves. Like wahhhh help Earth is falling on Earth & it’s messy! Toughen the fuck up

I love him.

This piece feels like something @kotaku.com would have published in 2009 (complimentary) kotaku.com/boys-dont-di...

If the awards are all white, it's because white people are better. But if they're not all white, that's racist. bsky.app/profile/mari...

if you're a moderately competent desktop computer user with the means to buy a few hard drives i think you have a duty to your iphone friends to become "the plex guy"

This whole thread makes me feel like my scalp is on fire. I feel like some of us have been shouting the bolded part here for years and they just tweeted it out (in court).

rip annie dillard

memento but he's trying to figure out the mystery of the kids daycare activity carpet with the roads all over it

Ed Sheeran’s band just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.

WIRED featured our study on a phenomenon happening alongside the mainstream AI publishing controversies: Some people are using AI to write their own stories. You may not like it, but it's happening, and it's interesting. Shout out to co-authors @neel2112.bsky.social & @mariaa.bsky.social.

trying to make new friends as an adult

anyway, the American id understander himself, Hunter S. Thompson, the next week for goddamn ESPN of all places. the party's over, folks.

…excuse me?

Good Mexican food in Manhattan should be protected at all costs, this sucks

Jennifer Kent kicked off "elevated horror" in 2014 with THE BABADOOK. Her next film flopped, and she never made another. Ana Lily Amirpour made A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT; her next film flopped, now she directs TV episodes. *Julia Ducournau* had a movie out last year & I didn't hear about it.

The best film featuring a lowlife new york hustler character study in the vein of scorsese or elaine may that also has a ressurected stop-motion aztec dinosaur god in it

I hear you—and I apologize. That mushroom was one of the poisonous ones, you’re right. That’s not just useful feedback—it’s you setting a boundary.

First day of fall

The new Death Cab album is really good. Who do I talk to about this? Seems embarrassing