Thomas Bulen Jacobs
tbjacobs.bsky.social
Thomas Bulen Jacobs
@tbjacobs.bsky.social
Writer
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“I began to understand that books like Moby-Dick or Swann’s Way were written not in a planned attempt to subvert the novel, but because the writer couldn’t write anything else; because they couldn’t help it.”
Life at Its Most Free | Sydney Review of Books
What happens when a project that could make one’s career doesn’t eventuate? In the wake of the biography of Ruth Park she never wrote, Tegan Bennett Daylight considers what it means to write for a liv...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Currently reading “Lying Awake” by Mark Salzman
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Read interesting things
Bach is a Strange Loop
Prelude
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October 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
r/extrafabulouscomics
October 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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It’s a good feeling when one of your favorite writers likes your spouse’s research.
Post 189
When the church changes its mind
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September 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
There There by @tommyorange is indisputably one of the best novels I’ve ever read.
September 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Just finished Alligator Zoo-Park Magic by @chhooks.bsky.social from Bridge Eight Press.

Read more indie writers, people!
September 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
My scorching hot take, and, to mix metaphors, also the hill I’ll die on is that none of the prestige TV shows is half as good as people tell themselves.
July 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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“NOVELS ARE BETTER THAN TELEVISION. For a long time this thesis underwrote nearly all literature that tackled the subject of TV.”
New TV Novels | Lisa Borst
It’s a literature of dimming stars, smoggy drives through flammable chaparral, frequent benders, prostitutes. Flash periods of productivity where somebody bangs out a script in a week. There’s at leas...
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July 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Finished @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social ‘s The Cosmic Color today.

Highly recommend. Can a story about gigantic living robot exoskeletons be tender? This one was.
July 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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From my very good friend Sarah
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June 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Reposted by Thomas Bulen Jacobs
Rainbows and library readings.
June 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Buy and then read this book by @domsdickey.bsky.social

It’s so fucking cool! Wild as hell. Fuck yeah!
May 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
“The theology of the Roman Catholic Church is explicitly against any form of authoritarianism or Christian Nationalism.”

From @briannejacobs.bsky.social
Church and State: Roman Catholicism in an Era of Christian Nationalism
One of the most courageous and faith-filled developments of the Roman Catholic Church has been its shift in relationship with the role and purpose of state government. The Roman Catholic Church has de...
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May 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
As the parent of an autistic kid, it is hard even to formulate a sentence these days. The rage bubbles like molten lava under my skin.

The audacity of a regime that illegally tears a father from his autistic child to claim that it is autism that destroys families…

He is preaching eugenics.
April 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM