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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is Andy Burnham the first prime minister in my lifetime who actually likes fiction and poetry? I feel quite moved to hear him talk with genuine enthusiasm about Tony Harrison’s V.

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Lockwood is a storyteller and most of these poems are anecdotal. She is the main character: the word “I” occurs more than 800 times." @ravoon.bsky.social's review of Patricia Lockwood's collection reminds me that Philip Roth once had to have his typewriter repaired as he wore out the letter 'I'.

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Gems, vaginas and me, me, me! Patricia Lockwood returns to poetry

In Agate Head/Stone Soup, the Priestdaddy author turns stone-cutting and medical drama into refreshingly wry verse

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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social · 19h

“I always feel a certain nostalgia now in recalling the city centre as it was in those days; the streets were not so filled with the noise of traffic, and the factories had yet to take the fragrance of seasonal blossoms from the night air.” Finally reading this beautifully crafted early Ishiguro

A copy of An Artist of the Floating World (1986) by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15h

I spoke to Salman Rushdie and Rachel Eliza Griffiths about their new documentary and surviving the worst thing that ever happened to them

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 1h

"Part of me thinks it would have been simpler just for Andy Burnham to recommend Jilly Cooper and give everyone a straightforward good time". @samjordison.bsky.social on the novelty of a book-reading PM... substack.com/app-link/pos...

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Big Heart

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham says that Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness is the novel he would “press into someone’s hands to get them reading.” Bold move!

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 15h

As stuck as the protagonist in the wall, even, for the whole afternoon, hopefully.

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 15h

Finally getting deep into..! Been looking forward.

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Stina Leicht @stinaleicht.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is a great series. and perfect for spooky month!

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

fyi from out the blue: the word 'boondock' comes from the filipino tagalog word, 'bundok' meaning mountain.

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Christine D. Baker @klaxoncomms.com · 03/10/2026

There are 27 books on my 'currently reading' stack. I need to finish some of these!

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Building Intergalactic Mixtape this week. Many of the links were discovered because someone shared them: either as a rec, to raise a related point, or to have further thoughts. Linking to things outside the "be mad about this" cycle is so critical.

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 23h

Live in Bengaluru Sunday October 11 at 6 PM! Kuzhali Manickavel in conversation with Shalini Srinivasan Launching her first novel! RVSP at the link below! champaca.in/blogs/events...

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Book Launch | ‘A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Gove

Join us for the book launch of Kuzhali Manickavel's debut novel, which draws from her high school years in small-town Tamil Nadu.

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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 22h

A Christmas Carol --> The Female Man How does that work? That's the essay. Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com (it's by @effjayem.bsky.social, who knows their stuff)

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Sisters of Sci-Fi Podcast @sistersofscifi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Meet our sweet Temporal Portal, played by Allison Beteta, the one who'll take our Earth Crew to the Alactria of the ancient past. Hear the rest of Episode 5 wherever you get your podcasts and on the SoSF website (link in bio).

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 22h

Yeah we talk a lot about how bad it is for writers to use AI to write but not enough about how even many those who say they’d never write with AI seem to have no problems letting it “give a summary” of what they read

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Honkey Kong @henrygoeldner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the only non-negotiable for writing is you have to read. doesn't matter if you're writing comics, prose, screenplays. read. read books, articles, scripts, comics. fiction and non-fiction. read lots of 'em and never stop reading.

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kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 22h

three days to go till my novel is released, whaaaaaaat! today's koothu number is more of a village song but whatever, it's my countdown, give it up for the village people! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HWk...

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YouTube video by Ayngaran Music

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Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social · 21h

Powell's is THE most famous indie bookshop in America so this is super exciting! Kuzhali's novel is full of fantabulous small-town paranormal literary weirdness and well, you just better read it! www.blaft.com/products/a-c...

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A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School

Release Date: October 6, 2026 Available for Pre-Order a novel by Kuzhali Manickavel 232 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 300 g Paperback ISBN: 978-81-995091-4-6 In the oppressive heat of a small Tamil Nadu town, ...

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 21h

The Anti-Defamation League: A Critical Reader brings together a collective of scholars, organizers, and activists to expose the ADL as a deeply reactionary and conservative force in American politics. OUT NOW👇️

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks so much Gabino. Phengaris, my eco-horror novella, available at payhip.com/b/58paC Parch Marks, featuring future archaeology, heritage crime and vengeful Bronze Age Gods, available here: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... #FridayReads (Promotional image by @marywyrd.bsky.social)

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Eco horror - Phengaris
Cli Fi - Parch Marks.

Phengaris has a cover image of a, butterfly made of rusted parts

Parch Marks features markings of ferns on dried earth.

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imaginationasu.bsky.social @imaginationasu.bsky.social · 20h

This week’s #FreeFictionFriday is “Take Three” by @drkarenlord.bsky.social. As humanity ventures to new extraterrestrial locations, our relationship with music evolves closely behind us. Read here: csi.asu.edu/story/orches...

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sat next to a crying baby for the entire flight. I don't mind though. Feel like they were the only other passenger who truly grasped the unnatural horror of our undertaking. Man does not belong to the sky. The real monsters are those who remain silent.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 21h

Books are ghost magnets. This means every good library has it phantoms. A density of Dewey Decimal Classification is spirits what a saucer of beer is to slugs. Of course we understand ghosts desire to haunt libraries. Thousands of books and the time to read them is a heaven. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 20h

'A year feels an age, a week passes in an instant, time is measured by the snaps of wood in the fire, by the feel of the night, the shades of it in the sky--then by the ticking of a gold watch, and suddenly it is centuries later and the city has been remade.' - Sara Hinkley THE RED SACRAMENT

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20h

The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

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Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social · 21h

Cloud inversion over the Mawddach or, as my nain would say, it’s the hen wyr - the old man (refering to his beard stretching down the river and out to sea). We never found out who he was…

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merryn @merryn02.bsky.social · 20h

I've been asked: what the earliest agreed archaeological evidence for making beer from cereals? Gobekli Tepe is a good place to start. If you are looking for agreement among archaeologists. Cereals. Feasting. Hot stone technology. Beerstone or calcium oxalate. gobekli-tepe.com/blog/beer-br...

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Was Beer Brewed at Göbekli Tepe? The Evidence | Göbekli Tepe

Stone troughs with calcium oxalate residues suggest fermentation. Six vessels held 160+ liters—evidence of brewing thousands of years before written history.

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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 20h

Warner's hints about the Lord of Brockton's poem, Mamillion, are so wonderful. Her ability to evoke its tenor and some of its scenes and to make you want to read it is just extraordinary. What an incredible writer she is. Yes, all the superlatives, but all earned.

A close-up photo of the 2020 Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner. The cover art is by Georges Barbier.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 02/10/2026

'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: calls for panels now invited for our annual meeting of historians and archivists, with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. Closing date: 16 October HAP27 focuses on connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

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'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

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Matt Kirkcaldie @matttkk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not least because the eyeball and photoreceptor cells are full of water, regardless of the outside environment.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 19h

Incredible to see THE FIST OF MEMORY featured as one of October's best sci-fi and fantasy books from LitHub! lithub.com/time-travel-...

Wole Talabi, The Fist of Memory
(DAW, October 27)
In this first contact technothriller, a mysterious spaceship carrying an alien hive mind called the Irunmole appears above Nigeria. As the extraterrestrials prepare their arrival, down on the surface several strangers find their fates linked. Itumeleng is a South African astronomer who has put aside his family’s faith and traditions, yet it’s those visions that aid him in identifying the Irunmole in the first place. Meanwhile, conflicted assassin Tope takes another typical job from witchdoctor Baba, only for everything to go sideways and send her on the run—right in the path of Itumeleng, who also recognizes her from his visions. Add in another assassin, obsessed with the singular memory of the title, and you have a thrilling new take on first contact.

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Miranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh HELL no, #Audible. So you're going to not only steal my characters, infringing my copyright and IP, but you're also going to steal the voices of my brilliant audiobook narrators for your utterly crap AI chatbot? Get - and I say this with my whole heart - IN THE SEA! #NoAI

A headline from an online news article that reads: "Audible will soon let you talk to audiobook characters with a new AI feature."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The downtown Neiman Marcus flagship was one of the first major Dallas businesses that broke with these practices. In 1961, the company desegregated its Zodiac Room, a swanky lunch spot frequented by Dallas elites. Later, they welcomed Black shoppers to come and buy clothes without restrictions.

The Zodiac Room restaurant on the sixth floor of Neiman Marcus in Dallas. The photo shows a bunch of tables covered in white tablecloth and leather covered seats.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For instance, they had to try on clothes over their clothes, put on protective covers when trying on hats, or weren't allowed to make returns once they brought the clothes home. These policies stemmed from racist fears that white customers would refuse merchandise previously worn by Black shoppers.

Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956

By Gordon Parks

Promised gift of The Gordon Parks FoundationJoanne Wilson, one of the Thorntons’ daughters, is shown standing with her niece in front of a department store in downtown Mobile. The pair is impeccably dressed in light, summery frocks. The jarring neon of the “Colored Entrance” sign looming above them clashes with the two young women’s elegant appearance, transforming a casual afternoon outing into an example of overt discrimination. Notice the fallen strap of Wilson’s slip. Though this detail might appear discordant with the rest of the picture, its inclusion may have been strategic: it allowed Parks to emphasize the humanity of his subjects.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Maria Ressa was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize (with Dmitry Muratov) for "their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for #democracy and lasting peace." She is the first Nobel laureate from the Philippines. Happy birthday @mariaressa.bsky.social 🥳

A color photograph of Maria Ressa, born October 2, 1963, the pioneering Filipino journalist, co-founder of Rappler, and co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. She is standing at a dark wooden podium, captured from the chest up. Smiling broadly with an expression of joy and animation, she looks slightly to the right of the frame. She wears thin, rimless eyeglasses, a black turtleneck, and a textured, patterned blazer in shades of cream and light pink or soft orange. Her right hand is raised forward with her palm open and fingers extended in a welcoming, expressive gesture, while her left hand grips the flexible neck of a black microphone attached to the podium. The warm, soft-focus background suggests a grand indoor lecture hall or auditorium with architectural details. The bright, direct lighting emphasizes her optimistic and commanding presence, reflecting her historical significance as a fearless champion of freedom of expression and democratic resilience.

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The Economist @economist.com · 19h

Stanislas Hutin freed himself from the trauma of the war in Algeria by writing about it. Memories of his comrades’ barbarity marked him for the rest of his life

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Stanislas Hutin knew he must not stay silent

The exposer of French war crimes in Algeria died on September 2nd, aged 95

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 03/10/2026

Intrigued by all the countries renaming themselves recently. Maybe Nigeria, South Africa someday soon? 😏

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