Paraic O’Donnell
@paraicodonnell.bsky.social
Writer | The Naming of the Birds (Jan. 2025) l The House on Vesper Sands | Lives in a very small way. https://vspr.st
So sorry, everyone. I’ve been here for a bit, which is why I’m now missing out on all the pub day fun. It’s tiresome, but what—apart from a spectacular suicide involving a funicular and a porpoise costume—can you do? I’ll be back soon. Love and peace, weirdos.
Honestly, if it had been up to me, she’d have won again the following year just for this.
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I see that Connections has its own little scoring bot now, which is nice. I’m especially tickled by this screen, where it gamely tries to piece together what those hapless meat puppets can possibly have been thinking.
What idiot called it The Lord of the Rings and not Unexpected Item in the Baggins Area?
On special at Lidl today: • A vacuum robot • A blood pressure monitor • Kangaroo steaks • A cocktail shaker • A flame gun If we could but live the lives that have been dreamed for us.
British Amazon ratings: A primer ⭐ : Good lord, no. ⭐⭐ : Still a no, I'm afraid. ⭐⭐⭐ : Well, if you absolutely must. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Fine, if you like that sort of thing. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ : Quite interesting, actually.
Tomorrow! Join @paraicodonnell.bsky.social author of The Naming of the Birds The Writer's Center !🖤🐦⬛💙🗡️✨ In convo w/ Tin House Publisher & Editorial Director Masie Cochran. 4pm PT / 7pm ET - Tues 1/7/25 Free, but pls register: writer.org/event/paraic...
When you do a demonstrably perfect joke and it gets precisely two likes.
My favourite episode of Frasier? Gotta be the one where the irresistible farce meets the immovable objet d'art.
Just tweaking my list of all-time favourite games for 2025. One new entrant, but otherwise no major upsets. • The one where everyone is undead, so it's nice and quiet. • The one where you get to ride around gathering herbs on a horse. • The one where you get to tidy up a whole planet.
Probably not ideal that I keep forgetting this is happening. In my defence, though, pretty much nothing else that's happening feels remotely plausible just now.
Tin House@tinhouse.bsky.social · 2y ago🗡🐦⬛ Counting down the days until The Naming of the Birds by @paraicodonnell.bsky.social is out.... January 7th, 2025!🗡️🐦⬛ bit.ly/NamingofBird...
Today marks 6 years since the passing of my friend Simon, who many of you will know as @simonnricketts on the other place. He was a good boy, who I miss terribly. If you knew Simon in any way, please remember him. Thank you. x www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfXj...
Morecambe & Wise - Bring Me Sunshine
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My friends, I have discovered the existence of decorative electrical tape and nothing is ever going to be the same.
Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri. Emma Donoghue, Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann are just some of the big names with new books coming out in 2025. Here’s our pick of Irish and international fiction for the year ahead www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Fiction to look out for in 2025: From Eimear McBride to Ben Okri
Emma Donoghue, Joseph O’Connor and Colum McCann are just some of the big names with new books coming out in 2025. Here’s our pick of fiction for the year ahead
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Molière walks into a bar. Bartender says, why the long farce?
Unresting death, a whole disco slide closer now.
21.XII.24 In deference to festive custom (and by way of belated introduction), here’s my thing about gardens and dying again. CW: Swearing, dying, miscellaneous filth. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Paraic O’Donnell: MS is meticulously destroying me. I am being unmade
In this moving essay, the writer charts his disease’s progression against the seasons
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Then Jesus turned to me and said, ‘Child, where you saw only one set of footsteps, it was then that you started in about your cold press technique.’
The Etiquette of Kisses in Publishing Emails: A Concise Guide "xxxxx": We remain on speaking terms. For now. "xxxx" – Fuck it, maybe you'll actually earn out that $750. "xxx – You’re still under contract, just about. "xx" – I had to ask who you were. "x" – I’m having you killed.
Why are ads for fragrances so violently weird. Like, it's a just a pleasant scent with notes of sandalwood and vetiver, why are there eight-foot androids doing S&M in a Hamburg bus shelter?
I'm still mainly not talking about AI, because spending decades adjacent to tech bros will do that to you, but a thing that continues to be underappreciated in mainstream coverage is that literally every unicorn tech product you know about is held together at some level by open-source code. [1/n]
My cherished friend Melissa Harrison isn’t just a gifted nature writer. She’s a gift *to* nature writing, and I can’t think of anyone who’s done as much to make its wonders and consolations available to everyone. Do yourself a favour. apps.apple.com/ie/app/encou...
Encounter Nature
Encounter is a guided nature journal that lives on your phone. Create beautiful diary entries complete with images, your location and the weather. Find inspiration and ideas specific to your area and...
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I took my first US road trip in 1997 (yes, I'm that old). First stop I made was at a Barnes & Noble in Columbia, MO (yes, I'm that boring). Since then, I've never once got in the cab to the airport without stopping off at Union Sq. So, yeah. Some feelings. www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/best-bo...
Best Books of January 2025 - B&N Reads
As you pack away your holiday decorations and say farewell to visiting family members, let these new releases welcome you into a new year of epic reading. With the latest from Rebecca Yarros, Charmain...
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