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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The Observer review of my new book 'There is No Meant to Be'. 'This innovative memoir is not a tale about coping with trauma or a guide for living with a disability, but an exploration of how to lead a commendable life.' observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Jarred McGinnis’s guide to a commendable life | The Observer

There Is No Meant to Be is a moving and stylistically daring account of the author’s paralysing accident and its aftermath

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I don't want AI on my computer mainly because I don't want it judging me when I try to spell 'Mediterranean yacht'.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Any novel recommendations that are set during the Lebanese Civil War that you can recommend?

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

My soulmate in all literary shenanigans just made me the best advertisement for my book. I'm going to talk to my publisher about getting this bad boy on a billboard over the I-75 in Tampa.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I told my daughter that if she had been born a boy we were going to name her Weenis. I've never seen such side-eye!

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Just got banned from Facebook. No explanation. Blessing in disguise.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Happy National Rubber Ducky Day to all those who celebrate it!

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

There are only two types of rich people: The tall fat ones who are going to burn down the world and the tall thin ones who will be buying fine art while the world burns.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Playing around with scriptwriting. Got a note from one of my readers, 'Is it better to save the prosthetic ass for later?' Making art!

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I watched the film adaptation of McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’. Less than impressed. However, Martin Short’s portrayal of the Kid was inspired.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d…

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

If you fancy it, you'll fancy it even more saving 25%.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I realise when tarot appears in fiction I have an immediate, possibly unfair, reaction. Tarot in the book. Book in the bin. What's your reading red line?

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

10% of my parenting is having tiny humans to show all my favourite movies. Is 8 and 9 too early for 'Night of the Hunter'?

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 24/09/2025

‘She and Toklas lived between two worlds – the official avant-garde world of Hemingway and Picasso, and the unofficial lesbian avant-garde of Natalie Barney and Janet Flanner and Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire.’ Adam Thirlwell on Gertrude Stein: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Adam Thirlwell · Devotion to the Cut: Gertrude Stein makes it plain

We’re so used to voice as confession, as a form of radical honesty, that it can be hard to appreciate Gertrude Stein...

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

One of my wife’s French friends when finding out who long we’ve been married asked her if I was her first ‘sex boy’. I’m using this title for all administrative forms now. Marital Status: spouse’s sex boy.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I’ve been invited to my own event. I’m tempted to respond to the organisers to tell them on a number of occasions the author has touched me inappropriately.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

On the tram a nursing mother said Bon appétit to her baby. That’s peak French cuteness there.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

There Is No Meant to Be" is available for preorder! My publisher promised that if I have 250 preorders that I get a case of prosecco left over from last year's Christmas party. 500 preorders before March & they'll go halfsies on a vintage George Foreman! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ther...

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I present the most french of french delicacies. Pruneaux fourrés. Some french prune farmers decided the only way to improve their plums was to stuff them with more plums. Pruneaux fourrés are prunes stuffed with prune paste. They are magic.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

They call them proofs because it always feels like an elaborate hoax until you see them. Book 2 coming next March.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

@officialmelbrooks.bsky.social My daughters, 8 and 9, watched Spaceballs and have talked about nothing else. Lots of questions but glorious to see humour reach across generations.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I needed to look up my French editor's name to make sure I spell it right (his name has so many accent marks it looks like a cactus) and I found this great photo. This was the first event in France at Librairie Le livre et la tortue in Paris. That's pretty much how I remember the event going.

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Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Gethan Dick signed some copies of Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night around Dublin recently. In case you didn't get one, we also have some limited, signed bookplates!

Image is a copy of Gethan Dick's Water in the Desert Fire in the Night, next to a bookplate that looks a bit like a title page. It's been signed by Gethan with the word "Enjoy!". Backdrop looks like burnt floorboards and suits the apocalyptic vibe of the novel.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Otto von Bismarck was reported to have challenged Rudolf Virchow to a duel. Virchow, being entitled to choose the weapons, chose two pork sausages, one infected with the roundworm Trichinella; the two would each choose and eat a sausage. Bismarck reportedly declined. @wikipedia.org

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Whenever my daughters struggle to open a jar, I do it and say 'Raw Power!' #iggypop Now when they need me to open a jar or lid they just shout, 'Papa! I need Raw Power!' I'm not going to lie. It gives me a little boost. 💪

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Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Over on our Substack today, the inestimable @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social picks the books that inspire his own writing, books that push the form of nonfiction and memoir - from Hong Kingston to Harry Crews. hinterlandnonfiction.substack.com/p/the-non-fi...

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The Non-fiction That Shapes Us: Jarred McGinnis

Hinterland authors reflect on the non-fiction that inspires their own writing.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

They say you shouldn’t live your dreams through your children. They are wrong. Behold last night’s dinner. My daughter wanted quadruple potato. I made it happen.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

If I said it once, I've said it a million times, pride flags need more sweet-ass battle axes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:La...

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

I know what song I'm picking for Karaoke.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

I told the girls if they clean up their room I'll put on a 'clean up' song. Scourge of Iron by Cannibal Corpse It worked!

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

What I see when you post pictures of your kids on facebook.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

I was listening to Merle Allin talking about his brother GG's artistic development. There was a great line. ‘It was a gradual progression. It wasn’t like he shitting on stage in ’78.’ So, if you need a little reminder that art takes time and patience, there you go.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

They just don't name towns like they used to.

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

After Sappho is a Time Magazine Book of the Year! time.com/collection/m...

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

ChatGPT says I've made a 'significant contribution' to the world of contemporary literature. Significant. I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Crossed a street against the light. Youngest told me, that's bad parenting.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Have some Shirley Jackson wisdom

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

And if doubts distract you, in vain will you seek sympathy from your fellow men. -Melville

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Just received the most lovely message from a reader who enjoyed my last two books. Has cheered me up no end. Do tell writers, or leave reviews, when you like what they do. You never know, you might reach them at a time they really needed to hear something positive. 💙📚

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Is it The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz that you people keep going on about?

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

The Florentine Codex, written by Indigenous scholars in Spanish and Nahua in the 16th century, is now fully searchable in English, Spanish and Nahua thanks to the Getty — including the nearly 2,000 images which have all been tagged. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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How a digitized colonial codex reveals fresh stories about Mexican Indigenous life

The Florentine Codex is online and searchable in three languages. Plus, "Spring Awakening" on stage and a painting reclaimed, in our weekly arts newsletter

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Tonight was the first annual Lyra McKee lecture hosted by NUJ It was incredibly emotional, so inspiring and such a celebration of Lyra’s life and work. Really grateful to have been there. Thanks to all who shared and contributed.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

Instagram is great if you want to know how mediocre art by pretty people is made.

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Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

The wren is all done for this year on the WP HQ back wall… expect more bird related and WP updates here.

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Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

90s? Yeah I was there man in the shit with grunts.

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