Roy Christopher

Hey! My books THE MEDIUM PICTURE (@ugapress.bsky.social) and POST-SELF (@repeaterbooks.bsky.social) are now available everywhere! 💙📚 #booksky roychristopher.com/books/

THE MEDIUM PICTURE is one year old! Many thanks to @ugapress.bsky.social for getting it out into the world and to everyone who's picked it up. #BookSky 💙📚 You haven't!? What are you waiting for?! www.themediumpicture.com

We had an informative and inspirational time at Tananarive Due's (@tananarivedue.bsky.social) #LitChat at the Jacksonville Public Library! Her work in horror is unparalleled. Check out 'Ghost Summer', her novel 'The Reformatory', and her latest historical Hollywood romp 'Mazywood'. #BookSky 💙📚

First movie I saw in the theater? Bambi... roychristopher.substack.com/p/whats-your...

THE MEDIUM PICTURE is one year old! Many thanks to @ugapress.bsky.social for getting it out into the world and to everyone who's picked it up. #BookSky 💙📚 You haven't!? What are you waiting for?! www.themediumpicture.com

"Kiss Destroyer" from my short story collection, DIFFERENT WAVES, DIFFERENT DEPTHS (@impellerpress.com, 2023) : roychristopher.com/different-wa... #BookSky 💙📚

Of Refuse and Refuge: The Downward Spiral On @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social's 'End Times Fascism' and Paulina Borsook's 'Cyberselfish': wellredbear.com/of-refuse-an... #BookSky 💙📚

anticon started with collaborations and compilations from different points on the map, but on the cusp of the new millennium, they got it all together in the grey area of the Bay Area. Now, Joseph Rathgeber has compiled their definitive history roychristopher.substack.com/p/anticon-a-... #BookSky 💙📚

This is about how great tech critics are made and how they’re sometimes unmade, and for a few hundred words it’s also about a guy named Dick Pick.

anticon started with collaborations and compilations from different points on the map, but on the cusp of the new millennium, they got it all together in the grey area of the Bay Area. Now, Joseph Rathgeber has compiled their definitive history roychristopher.substack.com/p/anticon-a-... #BookSky 💙📚

Two great authors: @roychristopher.com (author of time travel novels like Fender the Fall and sage applications of McLuhan like The Medium Picture) and @sarahclarkesy.bsky.social (author of a book about Lost and the science fiction novel Song of the Unsung Mushroom)

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, September 19th I'll be at the @jaxlibrary.bsky.social's Main branch downtown, talking about my books. Come through, meet local authors, discover new books, and celebrate Jacksonville's literary community. Event details: www.jaxlibrary.org/BookFest 💙📚 #booksky

SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, September 19th I'll be at the @jaxlibrary.bsky.social's Main branch downtown, talking about my books. Come through, meet local authors, discover new books, and celebrate Jacksonville's literary community. Event details: www.jaxlibrary.org/BookFest 💙📚 #booksky

Gloria Steinem. I think I just want to curl up in a ball and cry all day.

Excited to announce The Human Costume (On Selfhood, Alienation, and the Body We Borrow). Edited with my bud, @roychristopher.com , and coming out through Anti-OedipusPress. Slated for a 2027 release 🙌

We’ve all heard and had so many conversations about and with LLMs lately... Leif Weatherby (@leifw.bsky.social) does some deep work on and thinking about these models in his new book 'Language Machines' (from @uminnpress.bsky.social). 💙📚 #booksky #ai #llms wellredbear.com/leif-weather...

During the “Voices from the Classroom” panel at the 3rd annual Literary Indulgence Book Festival, I read a bit from from Chapter 4: Time of the Signs of THE MEDIUM PICTURE. This section is called “Nomads and Monads.” It's about the affordances of different screens. 💙📚 #booksky youtu.be/Ti1j8oCMflg

I interviewed rhetorical scholar Bryan J. McCann about his latest, 'The Bundy Archive', is the first book-length academic work on Ted Bundy. 💙📚 #booksky wellredbear.com/bryan-j-mcca...

I can't believe I didn't do this earlier... POST-SELF Godflesh face shirts are now available: www.stickermule.com/roychristoph...

The 8th issue of my zine “The Unexplained” came out sometime during the second half of 1988... It’s evident with this issue that I’d learned a bit more about cameras and copy machines. I remember being very proud of it. roychristopher.com/the-unexplai...

Broken Fingers and Book Talks: The Latest in Both: roychristopher.substack.com/p/broken-fin... 💙📚 #booksky

I was recently on The Arpichelago on Stegi.Radio (@onassisstegi.bsky.social) out of Athens, Greece to talk about my book POST-SELF! 💙📚 #booksky Check it out: stegi.radio/show/the-arc...

Cool books and interview! Read them, people!

I interviewed my old rival Peter Relic about his new book, 'BUST A MOVE': the greatest untold story in hip-hop. roychristopher.substack.com/p/peter-reli... 💙📚 #booksky

SAVE THE DATE: Join me on July 18th at the 3rd Annual Literary Indulgence Book Festival! Let’s talk media, music, books, stories, and everything in between. I'll be at table 14, and I’d love to see you there! #JaxReads #LiteraryIndulgence #LiteraryIndulgence2026 #LitIndulge2026 💙📚 #booksky

Collected by Chris Kelso available now! From the hallucinatory margins of Scottish fiction comes a career-defining retrospective of collected short stories. "Visceral, rotten, funny, mind-expanding," says Chris McQueer. paperback and digital formats. www.shorelineofinfinity.com/product/coll...

Knowing more about the cognition of creativity is like knowing how a car engine works: It doesn’t make you a better driver. Finding the creative Edge is a far more personal quest. roychristopher.substack.com/p/glimpsing-...

I am Roy Christopher. I'm REwriting my book 'The Grand Allusion'. It's going slowly. roychristopher.com/the-grand-al... 💙📚 #booksky

I interviewed my old rival Peter Relic about his new book, 'BUST A MOVE': the greatest untold story in hip-hop. roychristopher.substack.com/p/peter-reli... 💙📚 #booksky

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author #OctaviaEButler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚 #Booksky Have you read her work? www.librarything.com/author/butle...

I’ve been slowly, quietly compiling an anthology of my zines, and this was one I didn’t have a copy of myself. FrontWheel Drive #46 was a ten-year anniversary issue of sorts. It came out sometime in 1996, a decade after my first zine in July of 1986: roychristopher.com/front-wheel-... 💙📚 #booksky

My Author Talk at the UNF Library on April 14: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3L... 💙📚 #booksky

THE MEDIUM PICTURE won an International Impact Book Award and is currently a WHOPPING 75%-OFF ($7.54!) here: www.amazon.com/Medium-Pictu... 💙📚 #booksky (Not entirely sure what this award means, but I'll take it!)

THE MEDIUM PICTURE won an International Impact Book Award and is currently a WHOPPING 75%-OFF ($7.54!) here: www.amazon.com/Medium-Pictu... 💙📚 #booksky (Not entirely sure what this award means, but I'll take it!)

The great British satirist Steve Aylett’s (@steveaylett.bsky.social) latest novel 'The Book Lovers' was recently released in the US by Anti-Oedipus Press. After 22 years, we reconvened to have the following exchange: roychristopher.substack.com/p/steve-ayle... 💙📚 #booksky #fiction #satire

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Afterword, by David Markson by [Name of Author] (@incastellated.bsky.social, 2025) is an odd little book at best... I cornered the consciousness behind the lack of author of Afterword (no, it’s not AI) and asked a few questions. 💙📚 #booksky wellredbear.com/afterword-an...

My dude @rusirius.bsky.social interviewed me for Mindplex Magazine! A wide ranging discussion that also digs into my two newest books: magazine.mindplex.ai/post/aging-b... 💙📚 #booksky

SAVE THE DATE: Join me on July 18th at the 3rd Annual Literary Indulgence Book Festival! Let’s talk media, music, books, stories, and everything in between. I'll be at table 14, and I’d love to see you there! #JaxReads #LiteraryIndulgence #LiteraryIndulgence2026 #LitIndulge2026 💙📚 #booksky

One of the perks of being a writer is being asked by people you like to write about stuff you like. Another one is when people you like write about your stuff. Here are a few recent instances of both: roychristopher.substack.com/p/moving-at-... 💙📚 #booksky

THE MEDIUM PICTURE did not win a Pulitzer Prize today, but it is on sale for a whopping 60%-off on Amazon for whatever reason, making it about $12! Get yours: www.amazon.com/Medium-Pictu... 💙📚 #booksky

Where the technology is supposed to help us, augmenting our efforts, we let it do the work for us, forgoing our own labor for the work of the machine. 💙📚 #booksky #ai #singularity roychristopher.substack.com/p/the-soft-s...

THE MEDIUM PICTURE did not win a Pulitzer Prize today, but it is on sale for a whopping 60%-off on Amazon for whatever reason, making it about $12! Get yours: www.amazon.com/Medium-Pictu... 💙📚 #booksky

Where the technology is supposed to help us, augmenting our efforts, we let it do the work for us, forgoing our own labor for the work of the machine. 💙📚 #booksky #ai #singularity roychristopher.substack.com/p/the-soft-s...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently quoted a speech by Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) from the 1994 movie 'Pulp Fiction', claiming he was reciting scripture. It’s a bit more complicated than that though... roychristopher.substack.com/p/allusions-... 💙📚 #booksky

A few of my favorite films y'all don't talk about enough: roychristopher.substack.com/p/overlooked...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently quoted a speech by Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) from the 1994 movie 'Pulp Fiction', claiming he was reciting scripture. It’s a bit more complicated than that though... roychristopher.substack.com/p/allusions-... 💙📚 #booksky

My Author Talk at the UNF Library on April 14: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3L... 💙📚 #booksky

Knowing more about the cognition of creativity is like knowing how a car engine works: It doesn’t make you a better driver. Finding the creative Edge is a far more personal quest. roychristopher.substack.com/p/glimpsing-...