I marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan: author, artist, poet, ph.d. Books include DEAD PRECEDENTS, BOOGIE DOWN PREDICTIONS, POST-SELF, and THE MEDIUM PICTURE: http://roychristopher.com/books Free newsletter: http://roychristopher.substack.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3ml7afiix7223You could be the first... [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 17:35 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7afiix7223https://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mia3euqvos2gOne 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: https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/moving-at-the-velocity-of-reciprocity 💙📚 #booksky29 Mar 2026 21:22 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mia3euqvos2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3ml2rio7kik2kTHE 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: https://www.amazon.com/Medium-Picture-Roy-Christopher/dp/0820374350/ 💙📚 #booksky04 May 2026 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2rio7kik2khttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3ml246linu222Where 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 https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/the-soft-singularity04 May 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml246linu222https://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3ml2rio7kik2kTHE 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: https://www.amazon.com/Medium-Picture-Roy-Christopher/dp/0820374350/ 💙📚 #booksky04 May 2026 22:58 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2rio7kik2khttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3ml246linu222Where 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 https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/the-soft-singularity04 May 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml246linu222https://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mkatxk3gfs2sDefense 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... https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/allusions-of-grandeur 💙📚 #booksky24 Apr 2026 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkatxk3gfs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mkg4hfa4ds2dA few of my favorite films y'all don't talk about enough: https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/overlooked-underrated-or-otherwise26 Apr 2026 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkg4hfa4ds2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mkatxk3gfs2sDefense 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... https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/allusions-of-grandeur 💙📚 #booksky24 Apr 2026 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkatxk3gfs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mjox3nsx222rMy Author Talk at the UNF Library on April 14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3L_UPPp9s 💙📚 #booksky17 Apr 2026 12:41 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjox3nsx222rhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mjmjogqyn22uKnowing 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. https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/glimpsing-infinity16 Apr 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmjogqyn22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mih235vcos2lIt was bound to happen... They’re pulling all copies of my book POST-SELF (@repeaterbooks.bsky.social‬) off the shelves. They didn’t say exactly why, but I have a few guesses. 💙📚 #booksky Get yours while you still can! roychristopher.com/post-self/01 Apr 2026 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mih235vcos2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mia3euqvos2gOne 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: https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/moving-at-the-velocity-of-reciprocity 💙📚 #booksky29 Mar 2026 21:22 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mia3euqvos2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mdt4ulr7rs2vHey! My books THE MEDIUM PICTURE (@ugapress.bsky.social) and POST-SELF (@repeaterbooks.bsky.social) are now available everywhere! 💙📚 #booksky roychristopher.com/books/01 Feb 2026 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdt4ulr7rs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mi7f5b2nuk25If I had to pick one thing, I’d say that my taste in movies is driven by the desire to see something I haven’t seen or can’t see otherwise. Perhaps just my own personal cult classics, here are ten movies from this century so far that you might have missed: https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/overlooked-underrated-or-otherwise29 Mar 2026 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi7f5b2nuk25https://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mhzytdvxs22gIn his latest essay for @thestranger.com, Charles Mudede (@mudede.bsky.social) tackles the dread that only comes from the threat of nuclear apocalypse (a dread Gen X is all too familiar with), referencing and quoting my recent book POST-SELF 💙📚 #booksky #iran #war https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/03/26/80539695/gen-x-is-back-to-the-future27 Mar 2026 11:21 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhzytdvxs22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mhgupvycnc2cA beginning is a bifurcation, a deviation that leads off from the current path. Everything starts with a choice between one direction or another... The first steps beyond that point take you into alien territory... https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/behold-a-threshold19 Mar 2026 20:47 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhgupvycnc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mgfpkybnqc2mIt's BANDCAMP FRIDAY and you can get a signed copy of FOLLOW FOR NOW straight from me! @bandcamp.com 💙📚 #booksky #bandcampfriday https://roychristopher.bandcamp.com/merch/follow-for-now-interviews-with-friends-and-heroes06 Mar 2026 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgfpkybnqc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mfnc2o6nbc2gNew Nietzsche #books from Edgar Landgraf (@uminnpress.bsky.social) and @dharlanwilson.bsky.social (@rdspress.bsky.social)! 💙📚 #booksky https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/reaching-nietzsche24 Feb 2026 23:11 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfnc2o6nbc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mfcccjribc2zHey! My books THE MEDIUM PICTURE (@ugapress.bsky.social) and POST-SELF (@repeaterbooks.bsky.social) are now available everywhere! 💙📚 #booksky roychristopher.com/books/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Feb 2026 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfcccjribc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mep7bjuhuk2uThis piece is a rough draft of some of the research for my book 'The Grand Allusion' (If anyone has any ideas about who might publish it, let me know). 💙📚 #booksky https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/as-they-may-think13 Feb 2026 00:01 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mep7bjuhuk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mep7bjuhuk2uThis piece is a rough draft of some of the research for my book 'The Grand Allusion' (If anyone has any ideas about who might publish it, let me know). 💙📚 #booksky https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/as-they-may-think13 Feb 2026 00:01 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mep7bjuhuk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mejgvmjehs23I have been invited to speak about my work and words at the University of North Florida's Thomas G. Carpenter Library on April 14th at 5pm! 💙📚 #booksky unf.libcal.com/event/16359841 https://unf.libcal.com/event/1635984110 Feb 2026 17:02 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mejgvmjehs23https://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mdt4ozudvs2jHere's a very rough draft of a bit from my new book-in-progress: https://roychristopher.com/as-they-may-think/ (Your feedback is hereby requested.) 💙📚 #booksky01 Feb 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdt4ozudvs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mdt4ulr7rs2vHey! My books THE MEDIUM PICTURE (@ugapress.bsky.social) and POST-SELF (@repeaterbooks.bsky.social) are now available everywhere! 💙📚 #booksky roychristopher.com/books/01 Feb 2026 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdt4ulr7rs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mdt4ozudvs2jHere's a very rough draft of a bit from my new book-in-progress: https://roychristopher.com/as-they-may-think/ (Your feedback is hereby requested.) 💙📚 #booksky01 Feb 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdt4ozudvs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/roychristopher.com/post/3mcqmoj3qpk2qWith the passing of Ronnie Bonner this week, the world lost an inspiration, BMX lost a legend, and many of us lost a friend. https://roychristopher.substack.com/p/rip-ronnie-bonner19 Jan 2026 02:43 +0000at://did:plc:so5zgo2p75slt2dptlqidv5d/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcqmoj3qpk2q