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Simon Knott

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Sylvia Plath, born #OTD 27 October 1932, with her bike on the wall of the Shoulder of Mutton, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. Today would have been her 94th birthday. She's buried in Heptonstall extension churchyard on a hill above the town.

brattlefilm.orgDreams That Money Can BuyKarina Longworth in Person! Double feature with LAURA

If I weren't a few thousand miles away from Cambridge, MA (that fair city) I'd go to this for sure.

You Must Remember This@rememberthispod.bsky.social

New England: Tomorrow 10/27 and Wednesday 10/28, Karina will be presenting films at @brattletheatre.bsky.social in Cambridge! On Tuesday you can see DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY at 6 and make it a double feature with LAURA at 8:45. Tickets: brattlefilm.org/purchase/169...

lrb.co.ukDaniella Shreir · The New BarricadesThe call to mobilisation began to spread at the start of September: first on TikTok, then across social media platforms...

This is the article I'm sharing with my stateside friends. It's a very good explainer, as explainers go.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk

‘These were the first national demonstrations in which many lycéens had taken part, but they knew what to expect, having grown up with images of protests and police violence.’ Daniella Shreir on the protests in France, online early from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Raven Books

@ravenbooks.bsky.social

If I was to write a haunted house story it would be about a techbro billionaire who buys an old castle, installs all the latest AI tech to make it a SmartCastle™, invites all his techbro billionaire cronies to a celebration party and the castle, in its ancient wisdom, destroys them all without mercy

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Nicole Chung

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We need indie publishers. We need our literary communities to thrive. Catapult was a place where I saw students become published writers, then authors, and sometimes teachers. Where I was lucky to work and collaborate, for a while, with some of the most brilliant & kind people in the business.

And while you're doing that, take a look at Archipelago's backlist. They've been making beautiful books for 20 years now.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF

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Happy Gregori Day! Celebrating Raymond Gregori, my fave eclectic architect, born #OTD in 1891, with some of his weird little guys.

theonion.comBookseller Scrambles To Hide All The Classics After Seeing Emerald Fennell Approaching DoorLONDON—Calling for all hands on deck as he seized an armful of paperbacks, local bookshop owner Colin Mueller was reportedly scrambling to hide the classics Monday after he spotted filmmaker Emerald F...

Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻@mrose.ink

What is your favorite meme/Onion headline about your profession?

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king's co-op boo store 👻

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all the trouble of making a nice edition of my boy and then you put the wrong kind of whale on it?? like how many more whale facts did you need him to put in this thing

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The European Bar Guide

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I am declaring Pub Fire season 🔥 OPEN 🔥 A prize* for anyone who names the pub *The prize is a feeling of smugness

Finally, a proper rainy day in this small corner of France. I'm appreciating it by staying in my PJs and working on this beast. My bookshop was only about 10 blocks away from the cathedral, and the fire was a traumatizing time. Putting Notre Dame together piece by piece is the opposite of that.

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Michael Lobel

@mlobelart.bsky.social

Artist Beauford Delaney, writing in his journal in 1962: "Is this the last day of my life? How does one tally the score? Love is all and that I give the world. Painting only now begins to explore all that I have felt and suffered."

youtu.beMavis Staples - "Sow Good Seeds" (Full Album Stream)YouTube video by ANTI- Records

Woke up this morning with this tune in my head. Lucky me.

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery

@kennysbookshop.bsky.social

We wanted to assure you that Sally Rooney's books are still available to buy and to order online!

@salenagodden.bsky.social

Evergreen, this. One of the in-jokes in my family is that I was born a wordy Cubs fan, and my first complete sentence was, "There's always next year."

Levi Stahl@levistahl.bsky.social

I am sad about the Cubs.

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Salena Godden

🍂🌰 Hey my lovely friends, here’s a new pinned post with updated autumn tour dates, some beautiful shows coming up! Next stop: October 1st, National Poetry Day Special with Bradley Taylor, Georgie Jones, Zakariye & friends at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery! Tickets & links in bio!

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Brian Bilston

@brianbilston.bsky.social

Autumn poem just dropped.

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Bart King

@bartking.bsky.social

20 Sept

This extraordinary map for "Moby Dick" was made in 1956 by artist Everett Henry for a *calendar*! Its caption read: “We hear the call of 'Moby Dick,' still echoing today for anyone who yearns to feel the magic and terror, the stress and calm of the sea and its ships.” blogs.loc.gov/maps/2026/09...

19 Sept

Here's Bébé, a small French cat who has been around books his entire life.

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com

Never has it been more crucial to post adorable pet photos

My home town at night. When we were little, my sister and I would ride our bikes to the lakefront and marvel at what we called our own personal ocean.

Lake Michigan! Live!@lake-michigan.live

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Where I'm from, you can't see across the lake. It has its very own weather systems. And sometimes, in the winter, the water gets ornery and has "lake effects" which try to kill you with weather.

16 Sept

You can take the Chicagoan out of Chicago, sure, but that person will have lifelong urges for Italian beef sandwiches in the wintertime. Also, they will do things like put Mike Royko's books in the niche meant for saints in a French country kitchen.

16 Sept

One hell of a two-fer in this morning's feed. RIP Michael Stewart May 9, 1958 – September 28, 1983

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16 Sept

Jean-Michel Basquiat Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart), 1983.

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Archipelago Books

15 Sept

Today we publish Jean Echenoz’s Jérôme Lindon, in an excellent translation by Mark Polizzotti. “It’s a tiny and unusual book to adore,” says Molly Young, a lively portrait of Echenoz’s editor, Jérôme Lindon, publisher of Les Editions de Minuit. Get your copy: archipelagobooks.org/book/jerome-...

My home town at night. When we were little, my sister and I would ride our bikes to the lakefront and marvel at what we called our own personal ocean.

Lake Michigan! Live!@lake-michigan.live

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Being born in Chicago comes with a double dose of pride. We're city proud, of course, and then there's the lake. After I moved away and saw other bodies of water, I had to bite my tongue to not say, "You call that a lake?"

Ever since the last time I left it, I've dreamed of returning to Dublin for another bookshop crawl. Finally booked tickets. I'll arrive early on Dec. 14th with an empty suitcase and a grin. Next up, arranging a hotel within walking distance of both @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social and the Palace Bar.

Right on. I booked a place close to Chapters and about a dozen other bookshops. The plan is to tumble out of bed, eat massive breakfasts, hunt for books, and ogle the architecture as discreetly as possible. I hope it's good and cold when I get there.

4 Sept

It's just like me to get excited about books and breakfast. When I arrived in France, I adapted in a million ways. Eventually I lost the habit of eating a heap of food in the morning. For years, it's been strong coffee and pains au chocolat. So breakfasts in Dublin are downright Proustian for me.

@fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social

Naturally, I will pour one out for Flann O'Brien and friends at the Palace.

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Deep Vellum

@deepvellum.bsky.social

25 Aug

Happy publication day to DIARY OF A FILM by Niven Govinden, a sun-drenched tale of art-making and queer love, for fans of Rachel Cusk and Luca Guadagnino. Now available in paperback!

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Five Leaves Bookshop

19 Aug

We're only a small shop, but our fiction in translation bays - divided by language - now have fifty languages. Welcome Bulgarian to the club. Some, most, sections are small... we know of only two books in translation from Swahili... but we cover from Albanian to Yiddish. #booksky #booksintranslation

I'm just amazed at what I've uncovered in the archives. In this picture, the handsome gent on the right is my father's cousin Roger. He was a machine-gunner on a French bomber during WWII. His sister Jeanine escaped occupied France and fled to England, where she joined the Forces françaises libres.

Built for speed and maneuverability. Easily recognized, the P.C.2 has great possibilities, and is expected to create havoc around Paris early next year."

One of the most charming discoveries I made in his letters is his film criticism. At Camp Lucky Strike in Normandy, he saw Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window and was over the moon about it. The following week he saw The Falcon in Hollywood and, well, not so much.

In one of his letters, he assured his wife that he was still alive and breathing French air. He was always a funny man, even when in combat zone. "Today I saw a wild boar and a rabbit. Two hundred pounds of pork chops on the hoof and me without a bullet or a rope."

Even his lack of drawing skills makes me laugh. Here he is telling his wife that he's grown out his mustache. "It's that dashing type, usually seen with a cane and a top hat. As we say in aircraft recognition, it has a dihedral with a gentle bevel toward the tips. Graceful like a B-17...

I have some of the letters he wrote while in between battles in Germany. His unit was the first U.S. Army group to liberate a camp, and he describes Ike and Patton showing up to witness what they found there. Here's a lesson for our times from one of his letters home:

He was a keen observer and candid about what he saw. He said the Army had to introduce a curfew for its soldiers in Normandy in an effort to protect the local women and girls. I also learned that he was issued false dogtags with the name Johnson in case he was captured by Nazis. His name was Cohen.

@nataliehaynes.bsky.social

I wonder if my father, who was an infantryman fighting Nazis inside Germany, knew what his Parisian cousins were up to. Maurice joined the Résistance and served with distinction, and Roger was up in the air shooting the bastards. I was born late in my dad's life and he never spoke of the war.

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Natalie Haynes

I heard you like epic poems... Yes, having given you pocket sized versions of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid, next week I'm standing up for The Argonautica 🌊🐏 That's the one with Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece - and of course Medea. Shout out to Apollonius of Rhodes!

14 Aug

Bright side: Apparently, the summer-long heatwave is due to break tonight. I'll beat the last of it by going to see The Conversation on the big screen. In rural France. I'm just a lucky so-and-so. And I just did a headcount of the gang of cats who live next to my house. They're all good.