It's Monday once more and today I'm reading The Wax Child by Olga Ravn What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷
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American/British Swiss resident. Builders tea, indie publishers, and editing till it hurts ❤️🔥♾️
‘Lisette Model’s portraits of the leisure class on holiday weren’t indictments of affluence and privilege so much as creepy, outsized depictions of her subjects’ loneliness, despair and physical deformities.’ @adamshatz.bsky.social on the photographer: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · On Lisette Model
‘I was absolutely overwhelmed by jazz because I knew that was America,’ Model wrote. ‘And that was something I...
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Wherever reading and writing is in the making, there’s a seat open 🖊️ 📖 💦 #5amwritersclub #booksky 🫂📚
A project to remember those whose lives were stolen, may mean that at least some rebuilding of scholarship may take place. #booksky 🖤 www.publicbooks.org/remember-the...
Remember Them: Palestine Scholars Murdered in the Gaza Genocide - Public Books
“In Palestine, some 87,000 students have suffered a near total disruption of their studies for the duration of the genocide, and more than 1200 have been killed. Upwards of 200 academic staff have per...
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as part of returning to the blogging fold I'm relaunching the author interview series, currently setting up a new domain and adding all the old interviews to it but always on the lookout for other authors to join in or current authors to update their old interview www.authorspot.org/2026/09/19/m...
Meet the Author
The Author Q&A has been running for a few years now and there are 120 interviews on the blog, it’s had a bit of a hiatus as things went on in my world and I decided to separate the info t…
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@shomedasgupta.bsky.social does the work so you don’t have to. Thank you! 👏👏👏
shome dasgupta@shomedasgupta.bsky.social · 3d agoSay—here are about 78 literary journals opening for submissions in October. Some are open now or will close soon in September or October. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary—dates are tentative. These should be no-fee. There are more resources out there, too. Wish y’all well, friends.
Paul Scraton@paulscraton.bsky.social · 2d agoOur latest Postcard from The Winding Trail is about wanderlust, travel and Anthony Bourdain. It was sent out this morning but you can also read it on the website (where you can subscribe for future editions if it seems like your type of thing): the-winding-trail.com/2026/09/19/p...
‘When commercial housebuilders use the term (housing demand), they mean a willingness among buyers to pay a price that protects their profit margin, justifies how much they paid for the land and keeps their investors happy.’ It doesn’t mean more people will have homes ⬇️ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek · ‘What kind of people do they think we are?’: On Social Housing
Now that Southwark has become desirable, the patches of neglect are placeholders for the chains and high-end outlets the...
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Cathedral of Steel by: Cushla Monk. Sydney Harbour Bridge, N.S.W. Australia. The Mono Awards 2026. 📷 #PhotographySky
Happy #BlueSkyMonday, Bluesky friends! Here's a sliver of the northeastern sky at sunrise on Friday. Have an awesome week folks! Bay Ridge, Brooklyn
Streisand effect doesn’t fit… I propose “Sheeran effect” for blithe overconfidence in mass appeal resulting in tone deaf behavior that brings the whole false structure of manufactured consensus crashing down on one’s small guitar
You, too, could be as delighted as Ian. An annual £20 subscription means you’ll be delighted four times a year. Be like Ian. Sunburntsaints.co.uk
Ian Critchley@iancritchley.bsky.social · 2w agoDelighted to receive my copy of @drewgum.bsky.social's new story. First of a new chapbook series by the resurrected @sunburntsaints.bsky.social Saints alive!
Using embroidery, yarn, and wool, Peruvian artist Ana Teresa Barboza creates textile art depicting land and seascapes #WomensArt
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.” –John Keats #booksky
Anyone who has ever had a dog knows this look. It's the one they give you when they can tell something is wrong, and they have decided they are not leaving your side... This beautiful painting is called Fidelity, and it was made by British artist Briton Rivière in 1869.
Delighted to have a new flash in the excellent @bluestemmag.bsky.social. Thank you, Editor Mike McClelland, for picking this one.💙
Cattails and Regret — Bluestem Magazine
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‘She wrote—and edited, and fundraised—for the white woman, the woman of color, the agricultural worker, the factory worker, the housewife. She knew what it was like to need print the way one needs water.’ Loving thanks again, and again. #SmithCollege #booksky 🌹🖤 newrepublic.com/article/2150...
Gloria Steinem’s Life Between Art and Activism
Steinem faced a problem familiar to many activist writers: how to live according to your political principles without sacrificing your art—or vice versa.
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It's Monday once more and today I'm still reading Twisted Pike by David Barnett and hopefully finish it today What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR
That, to us, is what a community library should be, a space where curiosity is welcomed, access is expanded, and a child's imagination is never told that something is “not for them.” #RightToRead #CommunityLibrary #BansaLibrary