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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If I still lived in Brooklyn, I'd be here next Wednesday www.cafeconlibrosbk.com/event-info/b...

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Book Launch: "Wishbone" by Laia Jufresa | Cafe con Libros

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Relieved and disappointed not to live in a place with named winds

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Assessing a collection for possible donation to my library. Love this book plate

Photo of a book plate with Art & Crafts style type that reads “Darby Library Company. Read Slowly/ Handle Carefully/ Return Promptly”

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"All possible uses of words for all people" - this seems to me a good motto, with a nice democratic sound. Not because everyone is an artist, but because no one is a slave." - Gianni Rodari, The Grammar of Fantasy, trans. Jack Zipes

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

If you’d like to lose me, just mention the baby shoes story and attribute it to Papa

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Just devastated about the shooting in Chico’s public library

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Congratulations to Kristen Gleason, winner of the 2026 Tom La Farge Award! I’m so thrilled to celebrate your remarkable fiction www.thetomlafargeaward.com

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The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Today at work I held the fossilized brain of an extinct horse creature

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Quite by accident, but also understandably, none of the books I have read this year have been written by Americans. Until I read these sly critical fictions of elfland by @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

A wholesome update from my library, where students who are moving out of their dorms are excitedly showing their families their favorite study nooks

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“Let’s meet in my library to do some planning, and then if there’s time, I’d love to see your fossils”

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I’d love a perfume of my home town. I first scanned to see if she mentions bay laurel, my madeleine (yes)

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Procession of bluets in the moss

Photo of a forest scene: mossy path through trees, bordered by delicate, pale blue flowers

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

"With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings." - Robert Walser, Jakob van Gunten, translated by Christopher Middleton

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Joy Williams on Rilke in the NYRB. She pulls out the most Joy Williams Rilke quotation www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

Screenshot of this pull quote: "How glorious…to ease oneself into the dog exactly at his center, the place out of which he exists as a dog, that place in him where God would, so to speak, have sat down for a moment when the dog was complete, in order to watch him at his first predicaments and notions and let him know with a nod that he was good."

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The info desk keyboard is broken. I tried to explain to the student workers that a lipogram in C and V is not hard, but put in a request with IT anyway

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

My story in the latest @exactingclam.bsky.social issue is constructed around a sleep cycle. Each paragraph's length and character is dictated by a corresponding sleep stage, and each contains one object from "The Pea Test" aka "The Princess and the Pea" www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...

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Chemical Night with Eiderdown | Exacting Clam

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

How do I get to Earth's End? Walk around the protest and turn left at Spring

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Deadline is January 30, 2026. Send us something fantastic

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Pitch for a new library service model: visiting your family for the holidays. Staff pad around the library in bathrobes drinking coffee, and when you ask for a book we give you 10 and say you can take the leftovers home with you. There's also a dog that is psyched out of her mind to see you

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

A new digital platform is being established to preserve the archives of news outlets that have been shut down or are facing extinction in authoritarian countries. The platform, a joint project of PEN America and Bard College, is called Kronika apnews.com/article/cens...

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Digital platform aims to preserve journalism from outlets closed or threatened

PEN America and Bard College have started a digital platform, Kronika, designed to preserve the journalism of independent news outlets that have been closed or threatened by authoritarian governments.

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

“Architects transform their thoughts into images, and these images are transformed into rooms, buildings, houses, parks, cities, roads. You think you’re walking down a street, but you’re walking in the thoughts of a stranger.” - Laura Vazquez, The Endless Week trans. Alex Niemi

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We say "I better head out soon or I'll turn into a pumpkin" and I'm realizing this means we identify not with Cinderella, but with her conveyance to the ball. Maybe we identify with the story itself: the container of the Cinderella arc

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I’m taking a class on Tolstoy’s short fiction, and Father Sergius visited one of my classmates in a dream

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

What an incredible joy and privilege it is, in 2025 (or any time really), to open a new library

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

It took me 6 business days to cave and put Outlook and Slack on my phone

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

the Tom La Farge Award 2025 Please join us at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th St., New York City) at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 16 October to honor Zack Darsee, this year's recipient of the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing. www.thetomlafargeaward.com

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The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I created a form called a "migraine story" that uses the stages of a migraine, from trigger to rebound, as a structure. TYPO has just published the first migraine story in issue 12. Thank you, Norman Conquest! blackscatbooks.com/2025/10/01/n...

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NEW ISSUE!

IN THIS ISSUE:Julien Gracq’s “The House”Albert Cossery’s “Perpetually Barking Man”The Belgian School of the BizarrePaul Nougé’s Optic UnveiledA “Surreal Wheels” pictorialDoug Skinner’s intrus…

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Writers, publishers, and/or educators: the application period for the 2026 Tom La Farge Award is now open. This $10,000 prize supports innovative work and community practice. Please spread the word! www.thetomlafargeaward.com

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The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This is my last week in a public library before I move to an academic one. I am so excited for this opportunity, but I will miss the kids, and the older folks, and the weirdos

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"Given the prevalence of hype and misunderstandings surrounding GenAI, unpacking discourse on GenAI and AI literacy is a powerful and necessary part of this work" www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/ai-feel...

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Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Angelo Pastormerlo asked me to write little reactions to his collection of not-so-obscure objects of desire, and to write an introduction. The strange little book is out now from Book Whisperer Press with photographs by Norman Conquest. How can you resist? www.amazon.com/dp/B0FMKC3SYT

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Not-So-Obscure Objects of Desire

Not-So-Obscure Objects of Desire [Pastormerlo, Angelo, Bardoff, Corina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Not-So-Obscure Objects of Desire

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Yesterday was a good day in the library, in which I did all the usual democratizing information work, and I also helped a young person find comics and told a regular patron to listen to @wfmu.bsky.social 🤘

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Do something interesting with language

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

“‘Sexual stealing’ has been a constant in American history and has held center stage in our literature since the moment of its inception.” SEXUAL STEALING by Wendy Walker is a beautiful, dangerous book. Available free in seven weekly instalments. Start here : temporary-culture.com/sexual-steal...

Statement by Wendy Walker, 13 July 202 : I realized I was watching “sexual stealing” in real time. “Sexual stealing” has been a constant in American history and has held center stage in our literature since the moment of its inception.

William Blake print, A Surinam Planter, 1796

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

The summer issue of @northamerreview.bsky.social is here and I am thrilled to have my story "Barbara Blue" out in the world!

Scan of a page in a magazine with information about the Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize

Scan of a two-page spread of a magazine. The left-hand page has an illustration of a possum hanging by its tail, reading a book. The right-hand page is the beginning of the story "Barbara Blue" by Corina Bardoff

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Congratulations to Zoe Darsee, winner of the 2025 Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing. Thrilled to celebrate your writing and community practice

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The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Nest found in the library parking lot near the woods. I think it's a house finch's. I think/hope the chicks fledged and everyone moved out before it fell out of the tree

Photograph of a hand holding out a bird's nest. The nest is cup shaped and twiggy, with bits of string and hair.

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Often, patrons come to talk to me at the reference desk, and I can tell they are practicing making conversation with someone safe - maybe their therapist even suggested it. They are nervous, awkward, and earnest. I'm always happy to talk to them about the weather

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Sam Helmick @samhelmick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social said funding cuts mean cuts to services, hours of operations, and in more rural areas, some libraries may be forced to close entirely.” wgntv.com/western-subu... #SaveIMLS

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

More and more worried about this. About the Talking Book and Braille Centers, about Interlibrary Loan, about all the research databases provided by state libraries to smaller public libraries

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is a great issue of Clam, Exacting Clam. Especially enjoying the short fiction

Photograph of the spring 2025 issue of Exacting Clam. The salmon pink literary magazine is resting on an open dictionary

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Snow Moon tonight, and I am over the moon to share that my story "Barbara Blue" won the 2025 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

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Winners of the 2025 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize | North American Review

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Just one more week to apply! This generous prize supports folks working outside accepted literary convention

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Corina Bardoff @causeatiger.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

A couple times a week, our reference desk gets a phone call from a gruff man in his car who wants to know what song is currently playing on the classical radio station

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