Ben Berman Ghan

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LIBRARIES ARE FOR EVERYONE

“beautiful, intriguing, and world expanding” is how Gary Barwin describes THE LIBRARY COSMIC, Which is coming this spring from @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social

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Boy am I glad all the mainstream U.S. Jewish groups spent the last two years loudly proclaiming that there was no absolutely no daylight between the actions of the Israeli State and the Jewish people just in time for the entire world to blame the Jews for a global oil crisis.

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Omg u guys do u remember deltora quest

ONLY THE CHOSEN REMEMBER

There’s all this bullshit online about “what men want/what men need” blablabla. I know what men want. I know what EVERYONE wants

Two 3 pieces of deli meat and one little slice of cheese folded into a simple little meat-cheese taco with just a dash of Dijon mustard

Zachary. Zach. Come on. Characters should be horny

Toronto Film Critics Association Faces Collapse After Allegedly Censoring Indigenous Filmmaker’s Pro-Palestine Speech Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her trophy, the president resigned and 16 members have quit — with more considering their position: "This Is Killing the TFCA."

Update: the TCFA is in shambles with over a third of their members resigning in protest. Taking a stand is contagious and effective. Your voice matters. How you use it matters.

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Meme triptych of Duke Leto and Paul Atreides Text: We must not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. Why not? Because people are fucking idiots, Paul. They're just... incredibly stupid.

because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!

No to fascism.
No to forever war.
No to occupation and genocide.
No to antisemitism and Islamophobia.

The dog in fire meme. But he’s an author

it’s good trust me THE LIBRARY COSMIC insists that 3rd spaces will not only survive the horrors but will become more mysterious and unknowable

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There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Ben Berman Ghan - The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits - SSBA Sci-Fi Finalist Today's feature is the second last one for the SSBA Finalists of 2025! I bought this book, forgetting it was an SSBA Finalist book based on ...

My penultimate SSBA 2025 Finalist Feature over on my blog. It's Ben Berman Ghan's The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits, finalist in the Sci-Fi category.

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I haven't been posting about THE LIBRARY COSMIC yet, but I should take a moment to shout out that early versions of these stories were published in the likes of @clarkesworldmagazine.com @thetemzreview.bsky.social and @cold-signal.com!!! They are crazy and have only gotten crazier to me

Feeling terrible about the universe still, but also perfectly seared tuna steaks tonight so

I have been reading The Source of Self Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison.

These two short essays are in the book. I think they are a must read.

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Danny devito in always sunny stating "you would have to be a real low life piece of shit to be proud to be an American."

This sucks!!

I feel like these days. I’m in a constant state of panic. If I’m not panicked about the world or what war is about to start (I am) I’m panicked about my career hopes, or panicked about my writing, or my body, or how someone I care about is doing.

I have reached a flow state of anxiety.

Can’t count how many guys I’ve met with a protagonist different than them and then pause halfway through the story for their character to speak to the reader with a “AND NOW I SHALL EXPLAIN THE X EXPERIENCE. THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PERSON OF COLOUR/GAY/DISABLED. NO EXCEPTIONS” monologue

Dispatches from MN: it's getting really hard, guys. The media has left, the donations are drying up, and ICE is still here kidnapping people. It's hard not to be resentful that other people have the option of setting this aside for.other things.

It’s really lending credence to dead internet theory over there

Tbf titling your book “permission to touch you” indicates maybe there’s a lot of odd thinking here

just to clarify: if you platform people who use AI to generate slop and call it "art" then you're an even bigger loser than they are

You know, sometimes I’m like “what authors are actually falling for those all those A.I. scams I’m getting every day, these can’t possibly work on anyone” and then I glance at Threads and see like 10,000 people self publishing on Amazon being taken in by every A.I. scam possible

Literary agents urge writers to avoid AI as they see ‘change in nature of submissions’ A number of literary agencies are adding amendments to their submission guidelines urging authors not to use AI in their submissions, as signs of its use become more prevalent.

How has this happened? How do you even sleep at night if you submit a manuscript featuring AI? How do you then leave your bed, & continue to walk around, doing everyday things, conning yourself into the conviction that you're still a person, much less a writer? www.thebookseller.com/news/literar...