Tessa Hulls's "Feeding Ghosts": A phantasmagorical memoir of intergenerational trauma and reconciliation.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-07-02 08:23:44

Tessa Hulls's debut graphic novel is *Feeding Ghosts*, a stunning memoir that tells the story of three generations of her Chinese family. It was a decade in the making, and it is utterly, unmissably brilliant:

us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…

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Pluralistic: Tessa Hulls’s “Feeding Ghosts” (2 Jul 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

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* AI warnings are the hip new way for CEOs to keep workers afraid of losing jobs edition.cnn.com/2025/06/18/bus… (h/t Ed Zitron)

* Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe…

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#10yrsago Neal Stephenson on the story behind Seveneves bookotron.com/agony/audio/2015…

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Monday's threads: How much (little) are the AI companies making? and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-07-01 06:22:03

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: How much (little) are the AI companies making? and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/acc…

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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:

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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Manchester: Picks and Shovels at Blackwell's Bookshop, Jul 2
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* #Manchester: Co-operatives UK Co-op Congress keynote, Jul 4
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* Virtual: ORG at 20: in conversation with Maria Farrell, Jul 16
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* #DC: Enshittification at Politics and Prose, Oct 8
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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* #SanFrancisco: Enshittification at Public Works (The Booksmith), Oct 20
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Recent appearances:

* If We Had a Choice, Would We Invent Social Media Again? (The Agenda/TVO)
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* Forward Kentucky
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* Democrats Abroad
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I'm on the LAST STOP of my 24-city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*!

Catch me in #MANCHESTER at Blackwell's Bookshop on TONIGHT (July 2):

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