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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 19h

I’m continuing A Personal Anthology but also thinking about a similar but different project around the novella. So if novellas (novellae?) are your thing, or if you even have strong thoughts about them, and if you have a favourite novella, then do let me know!

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good cover image for any book about higher ed these days.

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Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's always a good time to remember the fundamental things of life...

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Engaging with an existing trope or plot pattern, isn't about simplicity or robot formulas. It's rather about an acknowledgement of the history of your field, a constant intertextual conversation with (or against) the meanings that have built up around certain tropes.

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just got an email from a former student who took my class a decade ago, asking me for the reading list because she enjoyed the course so much and wants to revisit the texts. And she *apologized* for making the request. Are you kidding me?

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Sad Old Man Crying

ALT: Sad Old Man Crying

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Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

for fun i thought i'd do one of the hobart interviews i don't think i did very well tho. is it stealing to do this? probably, right? Social media you most use bluesky Sally Rooney or Ottessa Moshfegh i don’t know who they are. i feel i shouldn't admit this. Literary website you regularly read lol

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A constant recommendation.

J is for …
Jansson
One of my favourite imagined places to inhabit as unhappy
child was Moominvalley. I am still an unofficial ambassador
for it, telling young writers I mentor that they will struggle
to find a better constructed fictional world. I push those
writers into reading Tove Jansson because she makes
words dance, because she makes locations shimmer with
a sense of nature holding within it the not-quite-real that
may manifest at any moment. I push because she is one
of the finest storytellers, because her imagination still
pushes me. I hope that is all in Hookland, as no book ever
taught me more about the power of dark absence in a text
than Moominvalley In November. While the Moomins may
sometimes overshadow Jansson’s stunning lines as illus
trator, the sheer fairytale menace of her early paintings,
they cannot obscure her power to create spaces where the
mind may walk in hope of wonder

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Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy National Public #Libraries Open Day! As well as being full of books (the highest praise I can think of), libraries are one of the few services left that are genuinely open to all. Which makes them pretty radical, really. Join the biblioresistance! www.librariesireland.ie/national-pub...

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National Public Libraries Open Day

Check out your local library on Saturday, September 26th and ‘Take a Closer Look’ at what's on offer.

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Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is World Maritime Day, so here's a timely reminder of The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic @reaktionbooks.bsky.social 'Bell ... brings exemplary scholarship as well as storytelling flair to the lightless depths of the “supernatural and monstrous Atlantic”.

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow it's Friday, and there's a new Personal Anthology incoming. This week's guest editor, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, is author, salonist and generous supporter of all kinds of literary endeavour @davidcollard.bsky.social. Details & sign-up below. RTs appreciated!

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About - A Personal Anthology

A weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc...

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Perfused With Signs / Paradoxographorum Reliquiae @perfusedwithsigns.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Picked up these classics yesterday in Khan's bookshop in Kilkenny. Normally a happy occasion to fill some gaps on the shelves at bargain prices, but this was a closing-down sale, with Khan driven out of business by rising costs, particularly electricity. Who needs books when we've got data centres?

A stack of six books lying flat, showing the spines. From top to bottom: The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester; The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie; The Glimpses of the Moon, by Edmund Crispin; Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, by Philip K. Dick; The Three Stigmata of Palme Eldritch, by Philip K. Dick; and Northwest of Earth, by C.L. Moore.

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great to see M. John Harrison on the Booker shortlist. We were honoured to have him contribute to A Personal Anthology, picking and introducing a dozen favourite short stories, with some writers you'll expect, some you won't and some you just love to see: apersonalanthology.com/category/m-j...

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M John Harrison (as editor) – A Personal Anthology

M. John Harrison was born in 1945. He published his first story in 1966 and his first novel, The Committed Men, in 1968. Climbers won the Boardman Tasker prize for Mountain Literature in 1989. His …

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A new release on the always great Ramée label. "Hildegard’s mystical sounds alongside impassioned Eastern improvisations and links 12th-century Christian mysticism with Sufism of the same period."

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

People who read great books and then write about them. go.bsky.app/kwLaK4

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Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The apples on our trees are ready for picking (how TF did it get to be Autumn already?), &—since an exclusive diet of apple crumble is for some reason considered unviable—I've been investigating savoury dishes that use them. Happily, many of the recipes seem to include cheese, sausages, or both. 🍎🧀♥️

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Great quote from @portersqbooks.bsky.social's Josh Cook (the Libromancer): "If you aren’t acknowledging those systemic attacks on literary culture, it’s hard for me to muster any enthusiasm for your arguments about apps and young people."

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Dr Susan Maxwell @muinbeoarchives.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And a very good course it is, too; shining well-informed lights into (to me, at least) unfamiliar corners to see what darts out. And lots of additional material. Just what your October needs...

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Dave Rudden @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

An occupational hazard of research is finding details that inspire new books. Like finding out the Dublin franchise roll (1468 - 1512) records female apprentice armourers, butchers, justices, tanners and vintners. Does Sister Wake need a sidequel about a female armourer in a world of Celtic-kaiju?

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Martin Starr as Bohdi: It's A Very Strong Maybe

ALT: Martin Starr as Bohdi: It's A Very Strong Maybe

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We're delighted to share #TheModernistReview63, the first of two special issues dedicated to this year's MSA & BAMS Weird Modernisms conference. This issue includes a selection of reports and interviews reflecting on the conference's programming: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/t...

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The Modernist Review Issue #63: Weird Modernisms Special Issue Part 1

28 August 2026 For the first part of our special issue celebrating the joint British Association for Modernist Studies and the Modernist Studies Association conference Weird Modernisms (1-4 July 20…

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Plus, people seem to forget that there were groups in history that fought against this sort of thinking. Abolitionists, anyone? Yes, some were still racist, but many *weren't*. Were they not "people of their time"? So why do we give historical racists a free pass? Populations don't all think alike.

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Godot may never arrive, but this copy certainly travelled. A Canadian 1969 edition of Beckett’s En attendant Godot, via Shakespeare and Company at Kilomètre Zéro in Paris, has made its way to Chapters in Dublin. Canada to Paris to Ireland. Now in Secondhand. Do not wait indefinitely!

A 1969 Canadian Macmillan edition of Samuel Beckett’s En attendant Godot standing among vintage books. Its cream cover features a stylised orange figure in a bowler hat, a yellow sun and flowers.

Close-up of the title page of Samuel Beckett’s En attendant Godot, bearing a faded circular Shakespeare and Company, Kilomètre Zéro, Paris bookshop stamp.

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"hello, i'm calling from Acme Family Law Services, has your boyfriend ignored you to look at a hot blonde girl in the street?"

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today is #InternationalOwlAwarenessDay. Here's "Two Owls", a 1921 print by Dutch artist Julie de Graag. Buy as a print here: publicdomainreview.org/product/two-… And more on the good work of owl conservation here: www.owls.org

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Call for subs!

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🕸️👻 Dr Evilyn K🎃ch 👻🕸️ @evelynkoch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My timeline might be pleased to know that there's now a statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner on Dorchester's high street.

A statue of Sylvia Townsend Warner. The statue sits on a bench holding a book and papers in her hand. There are more books near her feet. Part of the statue is a cat canoodling with the writer's legs and feet.

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SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk · 01/08/2026

eyes only consciousness raising single malt fanfic mediascape

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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 28/07/2026

Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026

The Booker Prize 2026 longlist in full:

- The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis
- Switzy by Emma Cline
- Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman
- The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
- The Disappearers by Marlon James
- Black Bag by Luke Kennard
- The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
- May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
- The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
- The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
- John of John by Douglas Stuart
- All Them Dogs by Djamel White
- The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams

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Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I've just found this issue of @3lobedmag.com sitting forlornly in my spam folder - bad email system! Now that I have rescued it, I very much look forward to catching up with the goodies contained therein.

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Lionel XI: 1. Jospin, 2. Jeffries, 3. Stander, 4. Barrymore, 5. Shriver, 6. Bart, 7. Hampton, 8. Trilling, 9. Blair, 10. Messi (c), 11. Richie.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

classics profs today: [silently, to self: it's good they're taking an interest in Homer. it's enough that they're taking an interest in Homer. build on the interest. don't waste the opportunity] [aloud:] well heh the notion we have of "character" now is actually a modern [silently] stop stop

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

As part of the celebration events in Crystal Palace Park this weekend, the Dinosaurs will be illuminated each evening. We got a preview tonight..

Colour photo. The two Crystal Palace Iguanodons illuminated at twilight. Hues of purple and blue

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Alexandra Irimia @alexandrairim.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Issue no. 7 of Bureaucritics is now out! This time, we open the file on "papereality," David Dery's name for the world where the written record creates the reality it describes. Read and subscribe here: bureaucritics.substack.com/p/paperealit...

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Paperealities

Dear Bureaucritics,

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Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Book post! Nocturnal Mirrors by Richard Gavin, from @swanriverpress.bsky.social (OK, it's actually @perfusedwithsigns.bsky.social's book post, but I somehow felt moved to 'borrow' it, I'm creative that way...)

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

On this scorching July afternoon, we are delighted to share #TheModernistReview62! With a range of excellent articles and reviews, we hope you enjoy this issue! 🌞 Check it out here: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2026/07/10/t...

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The Modernist Review Issue #62

10 July 2026 In our first issue following the joint Modernist Studies Association and British Association for Modernist Studies’ ‘Weird Modernisms’ conference earlier this month, we are…

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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This is also true of Humanities journals and those of us who publish in them.

Screenshot from Twitter, I guess? I saw it on Facebook.

Anyway, its a social media response to a question by one Louie who asks "What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?"

The answer comes from one Dr. Holly Witterman and reads: "That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so".

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Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Ah, feck - my editor is about to disappear down a rabbit-hole...

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A gentle #CFP reminder 🕰️📣 Our Special Issue for the #WeirdModernisms conference invites speakers to publish a shortened version of their paper, an extract, or a summary. Deadline 31st July! 🗓️ Email tmr@bams.ac.uk with proposals, doubts, and/or submissions! 📨 @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I'm about to nip out for some pre-day-job work preparing the external walls of my house for a re-paint - it was going to be white, but now I've got notions...

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

#WeirdPride

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