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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 5h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 3h

"The legacies of Dostoevsky, Gogol and Kafka, along with Robert Walser and Thomas Bernhard, stalk the historical and psychological territory from which Krasznahorkai has emerged with his own original, gigantic, idiosyncratic constructions. "
George Szirtes
www.the-tls.com/literature-b...

Master of the apocalypse

László Krasznahorkai is only the second Hungarian to be awarded the Nobel prize in literature. He follows Imre Kertész (1929–2016), whose best-known book outside Hungary is Fatelessness – an account b...

www.the-tls.com

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 5h

Big bonus!

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 9h

Exciting stuff! 🍯

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 10h

I think so. It is scary though, how one person can have such a hold over another, only to lose it completely.

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 10h

I keep thinking it is just the right kind of slowing you up to open up in some inexplicable way, i.e. around how words sound together.

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 15h

Our submissions portal closes tonight at midnight US Eastern Time (UTC:-4:00). If you have a speculative fiction story of 5000 words or under, be sure to submit before then! translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 10h

I am such a believer in handwritten drafts! Although it’s a relief to finally start typing in. A sign we might one day actually send the MS out?!

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 10h

I did brave the Gucci thing. Surprisingly dark. Like it just keeps getting darker…

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 10h

Yes!

Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 10h

There are times when it’s only swapping words, distilling in one place, slightly expanding in another. You’re in there with the clay! Even if the tweaks are subtle, they all help. 💜

Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent! The Reacher Guy was a really interesting biography of Child by Dr. Heather Martin. Best wishes for the event!

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Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social · 11h

If you missed the news, we're extremely excited to announce that our very own Rachel Canwell will be doing an event at Kirkby Lonsdale Illuminate Festival in February with the incredible Lee Child. The week before her amazing debut novel Paper Sisters is out, and we'll have early copies with us!

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 1d

I’m an immigrant who taught secondary level students English Language & Literature at GCSE and A Level for 32 years.
I did not have A Level English Language.
Pricks.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 13h

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 5d

"What is at stake if we cannot continue?"

Simultaneously very happy and crestfallen to be part of this Open Letter (written to the industry, as well as readers, writers, and - well - everyone who cares).

Please read, and share:

www.thebookseller.com/comment/open...

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 18h

The opportunity to make and revisit sentences, to build paragraphs, this practice is how the pen’s power grows until one day it will be strong enough to outpace the sword.

Good wishes for the writing 💜

#5amwritersclub

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Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss our Skychat on #womenwriters and #writing mindset. It's on Thursday at 6pm. Hopefully see you there.

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1d

It seems that intensity comes not necessarily from obvious ‘burn down a barn’ type scenes, but is arrived at through careful pacing.
In life we often hold back. Characters in a story go further than we might.
And we have to let them.

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1d

This is to encourage you in pursuing the dynamic. x

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 1d

Could there be any better justification?

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CelticStoic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticstoic.bsky.social · 3d

#SundaySentence

"This is no new thing: Americans learn only from catastrophes and not from experience."

- Theodore Roosevelt, 1913

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 2d

So glad to hear it!

Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 2d

Truly wishing you luck.
And oh my word do edits ever take forever.

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Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social · 2d

Only once, my grandmother’s dark eyes stayed a while on my own. She didn’t have much time left. She wanted to give me money. It said more in her world than words. To make, save, give it, spelled love.
She had lived through the Depression.
♥️

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