Andrew Wittkop
@awestfell.bsky.social
books, images, place LITERARY VOYAGERS forthcoming from Belt Publishing
This was Henry Schoolcraft, same guy who “discovered” the source of the Mississippi, named it Itasca (another made up name), then later claimed the name came from an Ojibwe legend he also made up. Trustworthy fellow!
Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)@kleinman.bsky.social · 16h agoFun fact about Michigan, a lot of small counties have names that mean nothing, the guy in charge of naming them just chose names that he thought sounded authentically Native but were gibberish.
These two cities with the same name are among the oldest settlements in North America (est. 1668). And they sit across an increasingly fraught US/Canada border. I wrote about it:
As Trump’s Tariff War With Canada Drags On, This Border Community Suffers Without a Voice
Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sig...
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My Dog Ate My Library Book!, a project from Ms. Evangelista
Help me give my students a second chance on lost and overdue books. My baby brother put my library book in the bath! I left it on the metro! My teacher took my library book and won't give it ba...
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DonorsChoose@donorschoose.bsky.social · last wk.Back-to-school season is quickly approaching, so let’s make sure every student has the supplies they need! When you donate to a project, use code “READY” and your donation will be doubled, while funds last! 📗 📝 💙 Create opportunities and support a classroom today: https://bit.ly/4wrNyw7
Seems about right. Fritz Gareis (1872–1925): Das 20. Jahrhundert/The 20th Century, 1916
When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist. Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights Photo. La Veille Charité, Marseille.
Especially loved these lines leading up to the one Christina quoted: “The smallest things, because they were on the verge of disappearing, meant more than the biggest. I could not accept ignoring a single life.“
Christina Tudor-Sideri@dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 2w ago“Whatever this crowded world had no room for, I made a place for within myself,” writes Elias Canetti in Notes from Hampstead, in the translation of John Hargraves. Perhaps that is indeed the lesson to take from him. To always make a place within oneself. And to tell stories.
“He could not disavow his actions, belauded as they were by half the world, and so he had to repudiate truth, goodness, and all humanity.”
S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 2w agoWar and Peace
Emlen Etting was a pioneer who created cinematic forms that embodied poetic belief. This film represents a quest for an intensified perception of everyday life. — R. Bruce Elder 🎵 Space Age Love Song, A Flock Of Seagulls
we're all victims of circumstance abusers think they're the only ones
“…it exists not in their sum but beyond it.”
Rebecca Hussey@ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 3w agoSo there, AI, Proust says you can never write a good book.
Reviewers, the pay rate for a book review is: $250 or $450, depending on length
The Common@commonmag.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Common is revamping and greatly expanding our book reviews section! With a focus on new releases from independent presses, and of course on titles with a strong sense of place, we're hoping to bring attention to the best books you haven't heard about. Visit the link below for more information!
That was the ethos she took to “the writing of the wind on the sky,” detailing the science of each of the main cloud classes and celebrating them as “the cosmic symbols of a process without which life itself could not exist on earth.” On Rachel Carson's 'Something About the Sky'
@kimdorman.bsky.social · 3w ago
At the moment I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf 1925-1930
“She did not plan; she merely let herself go, and the overwhelming life in her did the rest. It is only when youth is gone and experience has given us a sort of cheap courage that most of us realize how simple such things are." F. Scott Fitzgerald, “First Blood”
Happy Birthday to Ringo Starr. Bob Dylan summed him up perfectly:
These heavy years have passed like summer clouds
'...illness...batters its victim until they get along with one another.' ... '...I do not intend, my stormily pounding heart does not intend, to lie down and be covered by stupid, precise cystallometry.' Revisiting The Magic Mountain today, as one does.
Notes to a Black Woman by Françoise Ega (Author), Emma Ramadan (Translator) “The extraordinary testimony of a daring Caribbean writer-activist, determined to expose injustice &defend the dignity of migrant workers. In the 1960s, hundreds of women traveled from French colonies in the West Indies.”
Fascinating read -- Mankato has a complex and quite troubling history, but I'll be on the lookout for Betsy-Tacy books now.
Sara Catterall@scatterall.bsky.social · last mo.
- the sublime fanaticism of OU Sooner sports fans - Indigenous counterstories - introducing neurodiversity for educators - the combat future of the human body University press books = not boring!!! Take a look at the new @oupress.bsky.social Fall 2026 catalog > www.oupress.com/fall-winter-...
Terry Pitts, proprietor of the indispensable Vertigo blog, had an early look at my book, and called it “a fascinating group portrait” and “a visual delight”. Read his review, subscribe to his newsletter, and browse his formidable archive from here: sebald.wordpress.com/2026/06/29/w...
Week 26 (2026) – Zawacki, Wittkop & Habermeyer
For years I have been writing a paragraph about every book I read as part of my annual Reading Log, which you can find above. Many of the books I read are from smaller, independent presses or were …
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