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Death Scholar. Book Blogger. Co-host the Death Studies Podcast. I review books on death, dying and the dead. Dutchie 🇳🇱 living in Finland 🇫🇮 See: deadgoodreading.com

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JT Welsch@jtwelsch.bsky.social · yesterday

The @deathstudiespod.bsky.social is such a brilliant space for death-related scholarship, and it was lovely talking to them recently about The Poetry of Suicide. I promise it’s a cheerier listen than you’d guess! ❤️

The Death Studies Podcast@deathstudiespod.bsky.social · 4d ago

Fresh month, fresh episode! Listen to @jtwelsch.bsky.social discuss his book The poetry of suicide: Lessons in grief from the lives and deaths of poets, and more! @manchesterup.bsky.social 💙📚 open.spotify.com/episode/1q8j...

Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 2w ago

“In a way, my mother’s death was both an ending and a beginning” writes Jane K. Callahan, author of A Death Doula’s Guide To a Meaningful End. A book for death doulas, the dying and those who care for them. 💙📚 deadgoodreading.com/a-death-doul...

A Death Doula’s Guide to a Meaningful End

“In a way, my mother’s death was both an ending and a beginning” writes Jane K. Callahan, author of A Death Doula’s Guide To a Meaningful End. Before the death of her mother, she had no real frame of ...

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Salena Godden@salenagodden.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thank you! Sending love and solidarity to you @deadgoodreading.bsky.social This is so encouraging, thank you. I'm just putting the finishing touches to the 2nd novel, 'The Life of Life' will arrive in proof in September 2026 and then published and in your favourite bookshop on 11th March 2027 Xx

Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I re-read Mrs Death Misses death by @salenagodden.bsky.social this week. Still love it. 💙📚 This is what I wrote about it in 2021, which feels a lifetime ago: deadgoodreading.com/mrs-death-mi...

Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I re-read Mrs Death Misses death by @salenagodden.bsky.social this week. Still love it. 💙📚 This is what I wrote about it in 2021, which feels a lifetime ago: deadgoodreading.com/mrs-death-mi...

Mrs Death Misses Death

Salena Godden is an acclaimed poet, activist and broadcaster born in the UK. Mrs Death Misses Death is her debut novel. She opens her book with a disclaimer for the reader, akin trigger warnings that ...

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In Too Poor to Die: the Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins author @amysheawriter.bsky.social demonstrates that death is not the great equalizer. Some people, as the title highlights, are simply too poor to die…. 📚💙 Read more ⬇️ deadgoodreading.com/too-poor-to-...

Too poor to die

In Too Poor to Die: the Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins author Amy Shea demonstrates that death is not the great equalizer. Some people, as the title highlights, are simply too poor to die. ...

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Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · 3mo ago

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Uggi the dog next to my hand, holding a copy of Dead Weight Two copies of Dead Weight with teethmarks
Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Life, however, does not follow a novelist’s discipline. Fiction, one suspects, is tamer than life” writes pulitzer prize winner @appletwigli.bsky.social in her beautiful and emotive memoir on the deaths of her two sons. 📚💙 Read my blog here: deadgoodreading.com/things-in-na...

Things in nature merely grow

Thing in nature merely grow is the 2026 winner of the Pulitzer Price for memoir or autobiography. In the memoir Yiyun Li writes about the suicides of both her sons which occurred six years apart. Li's...

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New blog! In Too Poor to Die Amy Shea sheds an important light on the lived reality of the end-of-life and death experiences of unhoused people in the United States @amysheawriter.bsky.social deadgoodreading.com/too-poor-to-...

Too poor to die

In Too Poor to Die: the Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins author Amy Shea demonstrates that death is not the great equalizer. Some people, as the title highlights, are simply too poor to die. ...

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In Lost Souls Meet under a Full Moon people can arrange a meeting with the dead via the go-between. If you could have one final conversation with a deceased person who would it be? 💙📚 deadgoodreading.com/lost-souls-m...

Lost Souls Meet Under A Full Moon

Recently I found myself at an airport without any reading material so, needless to say, I wandered into a book shop. This is where I came across Lost Souls Meet Under A Full Moon by Mizuki Tsujimura, ...

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Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New blog! In Too Poor to Die Amy Shea sheds an important light on the lived reality of the end-of-life and death experiences of unhoused people in the United States @amysheawriter.bsky.social deadgoodreading.com/too-poor-to-...

Too poor to die

In Too Poor to Die: the Hidden Realities of Dying in the Margins author Amy Shea demonstrates that death is not the great equalizer. Some people, as the title highlights, are simply too poor to die. ...

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Joanne Ella Parsons@joparsons.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CFP: The Inaugural International Women’s Writing Association Conference 17- 19th June Falmouth University womenswritingassociation.com The IWWA will elevate & analyse women’s voices & creative practices across a wide range of disciplines, time periods, and texts. @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social

International Women's Writing Association – Membership to the IWWA is open internationally to academics at any stage of their career, PGRs and early career researchers.

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Scott Kersey, art fella@scottkersey.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I read this when it came out and it was the start of deep diving the (at times VERY) problematic history of medicine and how we can do better. Great book, highly recommended. The family deserves so much.

Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is a moving read for anyone interested in family history, race relations, bioethics and thinking about the relationship between life and death. 💙📚 deadgoodreading.com/the-immortal...

Dead Good Reading @deadgoodreading.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is a moving read for anyone interested in family history, race relations, bioethics and thinking about the relationship between life and death. 💙📚 deadgoodreading.com/the-immortal...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

This time last year, I had never heard of Henrietta Lacks. But over the past year her name has been appearing in papers and book chapters I have been reading. Most recently, in a chapter of The Routle...

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