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Roy Kesey

@roykesey.bsky.social

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Some things I do: write (Sarabande, Jonathan Cape/Random House, Dzanc), translate (Soho Press, Serpent’s Tail), teach, read, bind, photograph. Ideal job: walking around looking at stuff. Photos mine unless otherwise noted, e.g. profile tintype by Amy Güth.

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · Nov 8

Color, shape, texture, layers upon layers.
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#mountainsheepcanyon #taadidiintours #navajonation #arizona #photography #clarity

A view through interleaved walls of sandstone, the first one bright terracotta in sunlight, the others redder in shade.

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 7h

in a certain sense, yes, I am a theoretical physicist

Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 15h

THIS ALL DAY

Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 18h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Rose O'Neill Literary House @ Washington College @literaryhouse.bsky.social · 16h

We're excited to welcome @mayacpopa.bsky.social to the Literary House @washcoll.bsky.social next week for a poetry reading. Popa will sign books (available from The Bookplate) & broadsides will be for sale.

If you're not in Chestertown, a livestream is available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE8Z...

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 18h

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 20h

People Who Just Googled “parts of a spoon,” Unite

Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 1d

Authors beware:

I got an email from a guy who allegedly “runs the T-Dot Book Club here in Canada, a vibrant monthly” etc.

I ❤️ real book clubs, pure good vibes IME. But this offer felt off—corporate jargon, old title, etc.

Obvs: they want me to pay for the pleasure.

Don’t fall for it, folks.

Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 1d

wonderful work

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 1d

Kasparov’s (On) My Great Predecessors, Part I. And in the end I let him read halfway through Lasker. But no more. There’s shit to do, man.

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 2d

Um.

Mineral Matters @mineralmatters.bsky.social · 2d

Mineral Matters # 846 - Spessartine, Penrice Quarry, Angaston, South Australia
#mineralmatters #minerals #🧪 open.substack.com/pub/mineralm...

Spessartine, Penrice Quarry, Angaston, South Australia

Mineral Matters #846

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 2d

That thing where you spend an hour picking the book that your character will take off the shelf and not read.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 4d

Essential 🧵 for educators

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 4d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 5d

Find someone who looks at you like

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#swan #birdsky #kiplinhall #richmond #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A color photograph of two swans swimming together in sunlit water, with saplings in the background.

Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 5d

LÁSZLÓ at last.

The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 5d

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature!

Read his interview with Hari Kunzru in The Yale Reviewon apocalypse, art, and the urgency of the present—and his short story “An Angel Passed Above Us,” also published in TYR.

yalereview.org/article/l%C3...

László Krasznahorkai on hope, apocalypse, and his new short story

Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.

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Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social · 6d

cop: you have the right to remain silent

john cage: *smiles*

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 6d

So good!

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 7d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 8d

A primrose at Kiplin Hall.
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#plantsky #kiplinhall #richmond #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A color photo of a pink primrose in full bloom.

Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 9d

The Golden Lion Hotel has hosted eminent guests for 300 yrs, inc. future czar Grand Duke Nicholas, Queen Victoria’s 3rd son, & Andrew Carnegie. In the center of the dining room is this portal to the abyss. Good Scotch eggs.
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#goldenlion #northallerton #yorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A black-and-white photo looking down through a thin sheet of plexiglass into a medieval well located in the middle of the fucking dining room of a fancy English hotel.

Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 10d

Forest on a fencepost.
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#plantsky #hilltop #sawrey #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

A color photograph of a moss-covered fencepost on a background of green grass and reeds.

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 11d

Jackdaw says I beg your pardon?
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#birdsky #hilltop #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

A jackdaw, a corvid with black body, gray head, and blue eyes, looks up from green grass.

Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 11d

wonderful

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t much care what time it is, but I like a good clock all the same.
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#beatrixpotter #hilltop #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

A color photo of a beautiful clock, the pendulum blurred in motion, in the sitting room of Beatrix Potter’s home at Hill Top in Sawrey.

Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 13d

The floor of the Kentmere Boat, an 11th C. Viking dugout. Kendal Museum, Cumbria.
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#kentmere #kendal #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

The charred wooden surface of an eleventh century dugout.

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations!

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 14d

It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word!

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi

The front covers of The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam held up side by side in front of a tree whose leaves are beginning to turn from green to brown.

This picture shows the spines for The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam stacked on top of each other and held up in front of a small tree on a sunny day.

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