Minx Marple
@minxmarple.bsky.social
astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
The op-ed by @stuhennigan.bsky.social challenges Booker Prize judges to look further afield to anoint big-prize winners as heavyweights – he's flying the flag for indie presses. inews.co.uk/culture/book...
The Booker is a shambles - and everyone in publishing knows it
Plenty thought my novel would make the list – it didn't. Here's why I don't give a toss
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“For all those occupations of mine that demanded an inviolable solitude: reading, reverie, tears and sensuous pleasure.” MP, The Way by Swann’s (transl Lydia Davis)
elegaic birds blue-laced with tongues and terrors answer to verse-names
You can tell I’m on annual leave due to the games I am willing to play.
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
If I thought this was bad, I had forgotten* about the Academic Hunger Games of 2013-15. FML. *foreclosed, ok, repressed into my wild dreams and sudden squalls
Minx Marple@minxmarple.bsky.social · last wk.for reasons i cannot confide, I am currently re-reading the twitter archives of 2012 and specifically the last 3 months of my phd and my viva. I am fucking traumatised. that sweet summer child.
Our full Madrid programme is out!! Check out the yoga sessions, workshops, dinners, tours, public readings and more that we have planned for our 3-day Annual Salon. We only have a handful of tickets left, so get yours while you still can✨
Introducing Our Madrid Programme!
Last few tickets left – don't miss out on 3 days of creativity, inspiration and community
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Report of the time I walked into a surprise a capella performance of sacred music in a Parisian church. Occasionally I reshare this so it doesn’t get lost, and because it is of surpassing beauty.
So, I have mutated into the Bank of Mum & Dad. Fucking hell, I thought I’d feel richer.
This is a list I can get behind.
Alex Jenkins@alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = sublated limerence
Anyway, today is: debrief on mortgage advisor meeting (keep your fingers crossed); reading Proust in bed; drinking lots of tea; eating blackberries.
1 like = 1 completely dull mundane fact about me
virtuoso alliumist 🧄@solidarity.pizza · 3d ago1 like = 1 completely dull mundane fact about me
silver[] filaments[] pour through your mouth[] your[] drips[] vital[] the stars[] shivering
and you became a million fledglings running as pollen down his opened veins,
“A classic has the reputation of foregrounding the owner, but also of being visible enough to be “read” by authority. It is a password that allows the wearer to pass.” @badaude.bsky.social The Style Analyst answers my question about both my outfit AND my manuscript. 👇 get your style qs on
badaude@badaude.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Style Analyst will see you now... (apologies to Julia Kristeva) New at #theoryofstyle, your style problems a-dressed. theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/style-anal... PLUS ! Do you need style analysis? Subscribe for a free session (see post)...
‘She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening.’ ~ Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories #SpookySunday 🖼️ Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott, 1902.
Just learned about the Star Gauge and I am obsessed with it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Ga...
Star Gauge - Wikipedia
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Moon has set and Pleiades: middle night, the hour goes by, alone I lie.
The Style Analyst will see you now... (apologies to Julia Kristeva) New at #theoryofstyle, your style problems a-dressed. theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/style-anal... PLUS ! Do you need style analysis? Subscribe for a free session (see post)...
Style Analysis
Theory of Style answers your pressing questions on style, "dans tous les sens..."
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To all our parents who never read our doctoral theses.
Jeremy Noel-Tod@jntod.bsky.social · 4d agoAbsolutely stone cold dedication to a work of popular history
Persimmon moon / what a glory / my head is full of it* *you
This was one of the most fun articles to research: a cultural history of the split-flap (now, unfortunately, a bit too "pour-over ubiquitous: :)
Fluttering Code: A Cultural and Aesthetic History of the Split-Flap Display
Words in Space is the work of Shannon Mattern.
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Very excited to present UNDERTOW. This will be a showcase of new and emerging writers of weird and wonderful fiction. If you'd like to take part, please click here: www.seamusheaneycentre.com/news/Callfor...
So what am I going to do with my wild and precious August?
Love when you go out to dinner and come home with a new typeface.
