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Teresa Tumminello Brader

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Reader; tea adept; New Orleanian🖤⚜️ writer: LETTING IN AIR & LIGHT https://bellepointpress.com/products/letting-in-air-and-light; SECRET KEEPERS https://bellepointpress.com/products/secret-keepers Find the homes of my other words at https://teresabrader.com

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · Mar 25

The arrival of SECRET KEEPERS, my second book (from @bellepointpress.bsky.social) and first short-story collection.

I never dreamed I'd have one book, much less two. Thank you to all its readers, past, present, and future. 💚💙📚

A box full of SECRET KEEPERS, showing the front cover and back cover

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 1d

Same translator, but it had been out of print, published by a university press, 2003. I found a used copy awhile back.

A copy of Olga Tokarczuk's House of Day, House of Night. The cover holds a black and white illustration of houses crowding a narrow path with a bicyclist near the bottom

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 1d

From the public display of the Fisher Rare #Books Library: Alice!

Description of a pop-up edition of Alice in Wonderland

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 1d

I loved House of Day, House of Night!

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Patricia @rnpatricia.bsky.social · 6d

Monday marked the last step (CDC Director signed off), and we’re officially back on track: RSV, flu, and Covid-19 vaccines are now available to all.
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/a-guide-to...

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 6d

Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

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Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 2d

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Belle Point Press is a regional small press celebrating the literary culture and community of the American Mid-South.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 2d

Apologies to my first book, LETTING IN AIR AND LIGHT, for forgetting its 2nd birthday -- two days ago.
(In my defense, I have a lot going on.)

Last night in a dream I explained to someone about the nail polish my daughter's friend custom-made for my book's birth, this prompting my memory...

Copy of my book from BELLE POINT PRESS with two empty blue nail polish bottles above it. They're from FAMILIAR POLISH. Yay for indies!

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 3d

From Firstborn Girls by Bernice L. McFadden

From 1867 to 1974, various cities across America enacted ordinances that outlawed the public appearance of people who were unsightly, diseased, mutilated, or deformed. Coined Ugly Laws...

Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 3d

The schedule for the Louisiana Book Fest is up! louisianabookfestival.org/featured-aut... I'm excited to be on a short story panel for SECRET KEEPERS, but even more excited to be moderating a panel on memoir -- look at these amazing books and their writers! ⬇️👀

The 2025 Book Fest is Saturday, November 2.

10 a.m. I moderate Memoirs at the Crossroads of Violence and Voice with Jordan LaHaye Fontenot, Bernice L. McFadden and Lauren Rhoades.

2:15 I'm on a panel called Short Stories of the Modern Soul with Daren Dean and Jennifer Anne Moses. A.E. Rooks moderating

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 3d

PD day at the Fisher Rare Books Library
They always have an interesting display of some of their books for the public.

Here we have Finnegan’s Wake and a description of why this copy is considered “rare”; It is accompanied by an artist’s interpretation of the same text.

#Books

A Iicture taken from the centre of the panopticon. About five floors of books surround you on all sides. You are encased in glass. A display of rare books are open for you to view at your level. Above a long light, looking like a huge insect strip hangs above the centre of the room.

A first edition of Finnegan’s Wake. It has been annotated. It was once owned by Marshall McLuhan.

A cut-up and knitted edition of Finnegan’s Wake.The book lies open. Its red cover frames the black and white pages of the book.

Descriptions of both items:
#43 James Joyce’s 1939 first edition
#44Ximena Perez Grobet’s 2013 “Reading Finnegan’s Wake”

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing!

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 4d

Or we could just cross our fingers🤞

Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 4d

I just finished Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social
Spectacular ending!

A collage-woman holds a red kite on a black background of a paperback book cover. A white mug decorated with colorful teapots is nearby.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 4d

like there's discussion to be had about adults reading YA, who the age level is marketed to, and about adult publishing leaning into more commercial genre fiction, but just being like "everything that is shallow or commercial we are going to call YA" is ill-informed and lazy

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't either

Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 5d

Most recently... @dryan.bsky.social accepted a story of mine because of social media. bsky.app/profile/drya...

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Advent calendar from Adagio Teas features a Nutcracker whose tall black hat reads 24 Days of Tea. He holds a black teacup in his hands in front of his red uniform.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 6d

I just checked my email and mine has arrived too! Picture later 🫖

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 6d

☕🍵🥳

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america’s local band cheekface @cheekface.bsky.social · 8d

does anyone know a song about noodles

Stacie Loves David @juststacie5683.bsky.social · 8d

Good morning! Today is National Noodle Day. Yes!! I love carbs in tube form.

What song is snaking through your brain today?

#EarWorm
#NationalNoodleDay

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 9d

Alison Lubar (left) displaying peace signs while sitting in front of the Thirty West booth at Collingswood Book Festival

Alison Lubar signing copies of their debut chapbook, Philosophers Know Nothing About Love

The Tower of Chapbooks with an autumn leaf collar standing at the Thirty West booth

Josh Dale standing and smiling behind the Thirty West booth with many books on display

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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 9d

Y’all come through next month at the NOLA Words and Music Festival, and watch me, Bryan Camp, Desiree S. Evans, and Marguerite Sheffer discuss magical realism and speculative fiction!

The panel will take place on 11/21/25 @ 2 PM!

We hope to see you there :)

WORDS & MUSIC
PRESENTS
Suspend All Disbelief:
Magical Realism and
Speculative Fiction
November 21
2:00pm
Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice

Pictures to the right of:

Bryan Camp
Danny Cherry Jr
Desiree S Evan
Marguerite Sheffer

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 10d

Ba dum dum

Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 10d

I think they'll love it -- I love it!

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 11d

I liked David's the time I had it, esp. having enough tea for a potful every day. I can't remember if I've had the Adagio's before, but I will now 😃