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Rachel Malik
@rachelmalik.bsky.social
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Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, A Fire of Stalks and Feathers, coming soon I hope

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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social · Nov 14
Some of you will know I've written a novel, Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves, based on the life of my black sheep grandmother, Rene Hargreaves and her partner Elsie Boston.

I was sent this recently by a relative of Elsie's. Elsie far right, elusive as ever, garden theatricals.
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i've got a mate who's a fishmonger in west london. she's not on social media herself but wrote to me in a state of high excitement because she had just sold a sea bream to robert pattison. i said i was not absolutely certain who that was but i would share the news here just the same
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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pfieldbookshop.bsky.social
What in the name of the Infernal Library of the Goblin King is that!!??
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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rohanmaitzen.bsky.social
Reading a gloomy thread about students who won’t or can’t read or learn and then thinking about the conferences I’ve been having with my students who are writing essays on David Copperfield. Anecdotes are not data and these are upper year majors but they seem generally keen and engaged.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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philiphoare.bsky.social
they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week

seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star

www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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joannapocock.bsky.social
Thank you to NPR @npr for choosing GREYHOUND in its favourite books of 2025. Very grateful to Bridget Bentz for selecting my strange hybrid road trip of a book!

“"An engaging combination of the profound and the profane—much like the country Pocock traverses."

#greyhound #npr #bookreviews
November 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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barthesstudies.bsky.social
Roland Barthes on writing as something that ‘perhaps reaches a goal you didn't have in mind’:
That's what writing is—it's a solitude that doesn't reach its goal, but perhaps reaches a goal you didn't have in mind.
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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smallpublishers.bsky.social
"Reading is both a virtue and a duty." Ma Bibliothèque is the London-based imprint of artist, writer and editor Sharon Kivland, publishing essays, experimental fiction, poetry, critical writing and writing about reading. Discover the library at #smallpublishersfair25, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 Oct
October 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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sarahmdowling1.bsky.social
Liron Mor declines the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies due to the MLA leadership’s refusal, in the midst of an ongoing genocide, to pass to the Delegate Assembly for debate a resolution in support of the 2005 Palestinian call for BDS: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...
MLA and BDS 9: Letter Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post)
MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025    By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
rachelmalik.bsky.social
Going to treat myself
minxmarple.bsky.social La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 6d
I wrote a book about mythography, or being lost with the gods, or close reading, or thereabouts. It would be an excellent festive gift for a smart girl, or someone who'd like to twist the current frenzy for retelling myths. it's available here mabibliotheque.cargo.site/Isabella-Str...
November 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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words to live by
bcdreyer.social Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Sep 20
peering behind a mute is truly the online version of turning over an especially slimy rock
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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taniacarinapires.bsky.social
Let me introduce myself: I'm a translator who has always loved books. To the point that I had my mum teach me to read at a very young age.📚
I also love coffee ☕️ so expect a lot of book and coffee posts.

📷 Taken at Lello (Oporto, Portugal)
August 19, 2023 at 8:03 AM
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minxmarple.bsky.social
Today! It’s sold out unfortunately but just know how much I’d enjoy showing you the filthy books.
minxmarple.bsky.social La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 8d
Tomorrow: In The Time of The Library, Senate House, London 4-7pm. As part of this wonderful event, I’ll be talking about hunting desire in the catalogue and the erotics of the stacks. Come! as Lacan would doubtless insist.
Join us for a discussion and exploration about the futures of physical libraries in a digital age, together with choreographer and artist, Mette Edvardsen, the writer, publisher and MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE editor, Sharon Kivland, and the writers, Paul Buck, Sam Dolbear, Joe Edwardes-Evans, Michael Hampton, Wiebke Leister, Louis Mason, Timothy Mathews, Joseph Noonan-Ganley, Nick Norton, Louise O'Hare, Bridget Penney, Adrian Rifkin, Adam Roberts, Isabella Streffen, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, Frank Wasser and Sarah Wood. The digital age of libraries has been with us for many years now. From the online library catalogue to an increasing presence of searchable texts online, from Al authored summaries to the flattening of reading, the library of the future seems to be one that we do not visit, sit in, nor read in very much at all these days. In this event, we invite writers and readers to come to the historic Senate House Library at the University of London to discuss what libraries mean to them today, as well as explore how they forge their own personal libraries through larger library collections. After an initial session led by Mette Edvardsen and MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE writers, the audience will be invited to explore the collections of the library and gather their own personal libraries from the open shelves before sharing how they group and organise their collections under constraints of time, space and what is available in any given language, format or library shelf. Questions to be explored include: How do the constraints of the physical library bring about different relationship with the time of reading and writing? How might each library's own collection engender different kinds of knowledge that might not emerge in digital time and space? What is the relationship between private and public libraries?
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Absolutely chuffed to have my story, If only, nominated for the #Pushcart, alongside so many writers whose work I adore & my writing bestie @pleomorphic2.bsky.social. Congrats to all 👋🏼

Thank you thank you Eirene and the editors of @templeinacity.bsky.social ❤️
templeinacity.bsky.social Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social · 15d
Nominations nominations nominations with a corrected typo because we are having a very mercury retrograde day just like cloudflare
With apologies. templeinacity.com/temple-in-a-...
Best of the net 2025 Sumitra Singam, Bird swallowers Rachel Rodman, He Always Lied, I Always Told the Truth. And Then We Fell in Hate Kathryn Reese, Post-vespers Pushcart Prize 2025 Cole Beauchamp, If Only Emily Rinkema, Lou June Gemmell, The Homecoming Kendra Cardin, A change in the recipe S.A. Greene, Brian Wilson is dead and why can't I stop crying? Dominic Walsh, Slice of life, in Absentia
November 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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nomad-sw18.bsky.social
In the wet and cold that is London right now, looking forward to Wed evening's pop up salon with @saloneurope.bsky.social !

@deborahzafer.bsky.social @judepickledplum.bsky.social @markabowles.bsky.social @aldbera.bsky.social @rachelmalik.bsky.social - who else is going to be there???
saloneurope.bsky.social European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 15d
Couldn’t make it to Paris?

Meet us in London for another night of chat, drinks and readings with writers from all over Europe, hosted alongside our pals at Insurgent Press

Only a few spots left--get em while they're hot! 🔥

Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-lit...
White text on a teal background repeated the event details listed here, with a picture from a previous salon in London. Against an exposed brick wall, a woman with blond hair looks down at another woman, holding a notebook. Mark Bowles is in the background and tables of writers watch her read.
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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petipaw.bsky.social
At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, I discovered the wild works of Argentine ceramic artist #LucioFontana (1899-1968). Here are one early work & one late piece.
Ceramic head of a woman with golden skin Ceramic bust of a woman glazed in white and pink
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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erinampersand.bsky.social
Anyone know of a medical book or website targeted to authors or writers? I want to hurt my characters and save them realistically, but my confidence level at properly interpreting medical papers whose intended audience is "qualified surgeons" is low.

#booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff
November 21, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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lucymercer.bsky.social
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!

www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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❤️❤️
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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tricksterprince.bsky.social
Oh god yes.

I wrote about something similar years ago
A sketch plan of the room in which a man died in a fire in 1940. The plan was drawn by a police office as evidence submitted to the coroner's inquest.
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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alanallport.bsky.social
Some well-remunerated Labour consultant thought this was a genius move because it would help win the 24-hour news cycle.
elainecrory.bsky.social Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 16d
Anyone who has been to see a concentration camp or even watched a documentary will have seared into their brain the images of piles of personal items (shoes, glasses, jewellery, etc) that were seized and how forlorn and laden with symbolism they are. No spin can fix that.
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20d
mariska hargitay’s documentary on her mother, jayne mansfield, is phenomenal
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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“What we have isn’t peace. What we have is a continuing genocide, albeit one that has shifted gears and has—for now—moved into the slow lane.” New: Saree Makdisi on the ceasefire in Gaza. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
After the Genocide, the Genocide | Saree Makdisi
As the Western media and politicians breathlessly celebrated the return of the final Israeli prisoners, a number of them soldiers captured in combat, Israel began returning hundreds of captives it had...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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radzpandit.bsky.social
Bumping up this thread for some excellent books to choose from in the ongoing NYRB Classics sitewide sale.
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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joiedevivre9.bsky.social
It’s that time of year! The NYRB sale is on now! For those of you who want to be prepared for #NYRBWomen26, here’s our schedule. (Note: Cagnati, Lemann & Carrington aren’t being released until next year.) www.nyrb.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM