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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 11m

Champion of animal rights, of dignity and justice for all, known for the Capability Approach to wellbeing, Martha Nussbaum (writer of ) has been honored twice this year: 1) Kluge Prize (Library of Congress) & Monaco's Principality Prize. Full post here: substack.com/@heavycrownp...

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

lesson. We see where the cracks are. After he's gone (even if we have to drag his ass out) we'll know how to tighten things so it never happens again. And of course so much more can happen, the story is ongoing, but at least we know it. We can see it. More eyes are opening everyday.Have you read it?

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I hardly ever post here. It's time to change that. Getting my head back into bluesky, I'd like to tell everybody how good Regime Change is. Maggie & J Swan did a real public service by putting it all together. I've lost faith in the system to bring DJT to justice but there's a bigger sociological⤵️

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why do people go on tv and say insane things?

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

open.substack.com/pub/heavycro... A title can spoil the ending and still tell you almost nothing important. Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped is about the mechanics of hope: fear, patience, ordinary objects, and the stubborn belief that escape is still possible.

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The Sound of Evidence

Possibility, Belief, and the Mechanics of Hope in Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped

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Rudy Reichstadt @rreichstadt.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Aux Rencontres philosophiques de Monaco, avec Géraldine Muhlmann, David Djaïz et Patrick Savidan 👇

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Fake news, vérités et complots

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

And the winner of the publisher prize for excellence in curation and continuance: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89d...

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Éditions Jérôme Millon - Wikipedia

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Trumpism understands the trickster’s talent for disruption. What it doesn’t understand is what disruption is for. I wrote about Ezra Klein, Nolan’s Odyssey, masculinity, chaos, homecoming—and what might be worth carrying with us after the old order breaks. open.substack.com/pub/heavycro...

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The Poetry After Chaos

From Homer’s wanderer to Ted Lasso, the strange work of finding a way forward

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I almost overlooked Étienne Bimbenet. He has changed how I think about what it means to be human & respect animals. While others focus on similarity and intelligence, he quietly encourages us to open our hearts to difference. The Difference Between Us is now live. open.substack.com/pub/heavycro...

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The Difference Between Us

What phenomenology reveals about animals, ethics, and ourselves

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A $165,000 pen in a cluttered drawer is funny until it becomes a theory of the world. I wrote about Montblanc, Jane Austen, Wes Anderson, luxury objects, and the strange moment when a writing instrument stops being a tool and becomes a story. open.substack.com/pub/heavycro...

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Montblanc: When the Pen Becomes the Story

From Captain Wentworth’s quill to Wes Anderson’s Schreiberling, the writing instrument becomes more than a tool. It becomes a myth.

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

*The Signal Between Us* is now included with Prime Reading. Amazon Prime members can read the complete ebook at no additional cost—no Kindle device required, just the Kindle app. A quiet story about fathers, daughters, absence, discovery, and the signals that pass between us. Link in comments/bio

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The Signal Between Us library.biblioboard.com/content/0238... Great news! If you have a library card, you can use it to read my book on Biblioboard.

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BiblioBoard

BiblioBoard Library

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

open.substack.com/pub/heavycro... Literary dispatches from the French Open made me think about the rhythms of tennis, and whether imagined experiences are any less real than lived ones. New essay: The Game Is Afoot: Notes from Roland-Garros

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The Game is Afoot: Notes from Roland-Garros

On Games, Stories, and Experience

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

My quietly renovated home for fiction, essays, literary criticism, and stories about memory, fracture, and human connection. www.heavycrownpress.com

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

open.substack.com/pub/heavycro... Bob Dylan locked up my phone for 90 minutes and I didn’t die. In fact, something strange happened: I had to actually listen. Wrote about it—attention, absence, and a hoodie doing quiet philosophical work on stage. He Played the Music

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He played the music

His show, his terms, and what remains unseen

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

My novel, The Signal Between Us, is part of the Goodreads giveaway stakes right now. You can enter to win 1 of 100 free kindle copies until May 25. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

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Goodreads

See what your friends are reading

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Me and Pete Buttigieg, apparently co-authoring the national mood again.

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hey, fiction writers, I see your profiles. I’ve followed all of you and I just want to ask, have you submitted your stories to the Heavy Crown Voices literary magazine? Because we’re taking submissions until June. Check it out: heavycrownvoices.substack.com

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Heavy Crown Voices | Ashley Rovira | Substack

Writing that listens. Voices that last. This is the home base for the annual literary magazine published by Heavy Crown Press. Click to read Heavy Crown Voices, by Ashley Rovira, a Substack publicatio...

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Aha tacos!

$A corgi dog, reading a book, and being offered tacos. A tabby cat with its own book and tacos. A huge closed, front-fracing book between them. And stars and piano and motorcycle raining from the sky.$

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Just me and Pete Buttigieg, out here posting notes like it’s a joint venture 🤝 #substacknotes

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The signal just got clearer. I’ve redesigned my Linktree to bring everything into one place—books, essays, and Heavy Crown Voices Literary Magazine. 📣 Submissions open for Voices 2026 Deadline: June 24 If you’re a writer, I’d love to read your work: linktr.ee/heavycrownpr...

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Ashley Rovira | Heavy Crown Press 📍 Baton Rouge | ✍️ Author of The Signal Between Us

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

One of the advantages of the Second Term is being able to pick on Barron. Just saying. It is nice to find an advantage in the free for all that is adulthood.

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

What a Spy Novel Knows About Love open.substack.com/pub/heavycro... A spy novel about love is already a strange premise. But Graham Greene understood something we’re still living with: systems don’t need truth—only plausibility. New piece:

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What a Spy Novel Knows About Love

Satire, Sentiment, and the Cold War

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

A lot of people are cracking up today. What is interesting about crack ups is that they reveal the truth. You either become more aware or you get worse. You face the crack and open up, or you avoid it & let it crack you quietly under the surface.

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Last day. FREE ebook promo! The Signal Between Us is free on Kindle through tonight. www.amazon.com/Signal-Betwe...

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The Signal Between Us is free on Kindle—today and tomorrow. A father. A daughter. Eighteen years of silence. March 24/25 only! www.amazon.com/Signal-Betwe...

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The Signal Between Us: A Father/Daughter Discovery Story

Amazon.com: The Signal Between Us: A Father/Daughter Discovery Story eBook : Rovira, Ashley: Kindle Store

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

open.substack.com/pub/heavycro... Wake Up Dead Man is structured like Agatha Christie— but what it reveals feels closer to something older, and harder to name. I wrote about the pattern beneath the mystery.

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Wake Up Dead Man (where the devil awaits)

On power, faith, and the making of a scapegoat

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Donald Trump thinks people with learning disabilities shouldn’t be president? Dyslexia is disqualifying? Not insurrection. Not dishonesty. Not corruption. I’d take a leader who’s open about struggle over one who weaponizes it. It’s hard enough feeling different. Leaders should empower, not belittle.

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

open.substack.com/pub/heavycro... The Frankenstein movie is about what happens when we create life and refuse to love it.

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Playing God, Refusing Love

Frankenstein (2025) and the Moral Cost of Neglect

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

We call the intact life a success and the cracked life a failure. But only one leads to transformation. More Notes from the Loft on Fracture open.substack.com/pub/heavycro...

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More Notes from the Loft on Fracture

Still obsessing about the crack-up, one fragment at a time

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

It’s fun to notice things no one else seems to notice. Even more fun to notice that they don’t notice that you notice. Then it becomes almost a secret garden. Anyone could find the key.

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

open.substack.com/pub/heavycro... The poetry of an eerie calm. Old friendships resurfacing — scattered. And a dream that refuses to stay buried. When the Wind Turned (13) 🔗👇

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When the Wind Turned (13)

A Katrina family saga / After the Storm / Briarhaven

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Representative James R. Walkinshaw (D-VA): “My fear is we’re here today as part of a political exercise, part of a long-running fever dream where Republicans want to lock up Secretary Clinton.” THEY ASKED HER ABOUT CONSPIRACY THEORIES 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

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In Tense Deposition, Hillary Clinton Denies Knowing Epstein or His Crimes

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This should be a bigger story. Ethical AI bullied by Pentagon to be unethical. Growing industry willing to do it without pressure. 🎁🔗 www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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Anthropic Takes a Stand

The company is refusing to bow to the Pentagon’s demands.

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

open.substack.com/pub/heavycro... They don’t call it starting over. They call it unpacking. Chapter Twelve — Brookside. A loose stair. A pipe that knocks once. Enough.

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When the Wind Turned (12)

A Katrina family saga (Part II: After the Storm)

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I read the article. The headline misleads a little bit. The writer means the stock market when he says “the economy”. He says affordability is not strong, prices up, and that’s how Trump misses the mark. Voters look at store prices not stocks, housing, can they afford to buy stuff.

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

😂 right? I’m glad she arrived at tbd right lesson.

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Ashley Rovira 🇺🇦 @heavycrownpress.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

open.substack.com/pub/heavycro... “What was shattered in the trenches was not merely flesh but illusion.” On the Somme as Fitzgerald’s master analogy in Tender Is the Night. #booksky

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High-Explosive Love

Romance, Illusion, and the Somme in Tender Is the Night

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