Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialMargie Deck @margiedeck.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Well...this happened this morning. 🙂 www.kickstarter.com/projects/bel...kickstarter.comThe Secrets of Private FamiliesStories of SHERLOCK HOLMES 022
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialNeglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 01/10/2026Subject for further research: Helene Eliat. Eliat was a German writer & psychotherapist who published three novels about the relationships between men and women, all long out of print. If she is remembered now, it is for donating a portrait of Freud by Dali to the Freud Museum. 1202
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialDavid Hiller @bodhihodi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Happy Birthday Richard Wright! 032
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialAdmirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Poet, essayist & playwright Rita Dove is the youngest person & first Black poet to be appointed Poet Laureate of the US (1993-95). + She won the Pulitzer Prize for #Poetry for "Thomas and Beulah" (1987) + Poet Laureate of Virginia (2004–2006) She was born #OTD in 1952. #LitSky #BookSky #PoetrySky 4869186
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 10/09/2023George Herriman 0135
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialVincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Head of a Man (Possibly Theo van Gogh) - 1887 botfrens.com/collections/46/content… 0549
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialJude Hopkins @heyjudenotjudy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026"The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too damned much after" — Hemingway, "Death in the Afternoon" #SundaySentence 2222
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialjondmaas.bsky.social @jondmaas.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Happy Birthday, @AlHirschfeld! 041
jeffdkr.bsky.social @jeffdkr.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Cordelia-Anne of Decatur, GA .... hello ... hello ... are you there? In memory of your Father. 010
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialAnne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Marion Long (Canadian, 1882-1970) The End of the Day charcoal, c.1915 approx. 20 x 12 cm. Private collection (sold in 2019) #WindowsOnWednesday #CanadianArt 🎨 0143
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialSteve Shilstone @steveshilstone.bsky.social · 04/04/2026💙📚 #booksky 0175
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 24/02/2026Some of the men of the 369th (Harlem Hellfighters) who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action during World War One (1919) www.nps.gov/articles/000... 537691
jeffdkr.bsky.social @jeffdkr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026I wear this on my coat as a badge whenever I go out. A friend of mine printed these up and has been distributing them. They have been well-received. 051
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialVincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Self-Portrait with Dark Felt Hat at the Easel - 1886 botfrens.com/collections/46/content… 1544
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialDr Christina Faraday @cjfaraday.bsky.social · 20/12/2025I had so much fun thinking about M. R. James, ghosts, art and objects for Apollo this month 👻👻👻 0182
jeffdkr.bsky.social @jeffdkr.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Learning more about one of America's primary literary contributors. 030
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialVincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 16/12/2025In 1901, the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris held a major exhibition of Van Gogh’s work. It shifted his art from scandal to sincerity—from shock to a new standard of quality. 0616
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialVincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 07/12/2025The Novel Reader - 1888 botfrens.com/collections/46/content… 08417
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.social100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Dec. 5, 1925: Langston Hughes at work as a waiter at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. At around this time he comes across the poet Vachel Lindsay at the hotel and shows him some of his own poetry, an encounter that will lead to Hughes being published. 516138
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialCian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 24/11/2025A round of applause for the French is in order! 👏👏👏 19712180
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialsanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 21/11/2025I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And there I found myself more truly and more strange. Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems 0489
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.social Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social · 08/11/2025#horror #filmsky #moviesky Bram Stoker #BOTD visited the ruins of 7th-century Whitby Abbey on the North Yorkshire Coast in 1890. It was the inspiration for the setting of his novel, Dracula, published in 1897. 57615
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialKim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social · 08/11/2025I think I might do something a little different next year for #NYRBWomen26. I’m considering just 1 book per month because 1) I’d like to focus better & be more thoughtful +2) I want to reread May Sarton’s nonfiction & am hoping to find a small group that might want to join me. More thoughts below👇 11314
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 09/11/2025"A ring at the door. It was Flaubert." In tribute to Helen Garner winning the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, I put together a list of some of the best writers' diaries, from the Goncourt brothers to John Cheever ("Every time I read a review of Saul Bellow, I get the heaves"):thetimes.comThe 10 best writers’ diaries — from Virginia Woolf to Alan BennettAs Helen Garner’s diaries win the Baillie Gifford prize, John Self picks ten more literary journals brimful of insight and scandal 34310
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialMargie Deck @margiedeck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Thanks for your kind words, @rileyblakebooks.bsky.social! 061
jeffdkr.bsky.social @jeffdkr.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I love these candid, out-of-character shots. 020
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialVincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Farmhouse in a Wheat Field - 1888 botfrens.com/collections/46/content… 0388
jeffdkr.bsky.social @jeffdkr.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Spent the weekend in picturesque Salem .... had a wonderful time. 070
jeffdkr.bsky.social @jeffdkr.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Some loose, rough sketches from my small moleskin notebook, 20-25 yrs ago .... 180
jeffdkr.bsky.social @jeffdkr.bsky.social · 15/09/2025DOTD in 1938, Thomas Wolfe of Asheville. “Some of his rhetoric is effective and at times deeply moving … These are the errors of the young and the amateur; he was always to be young, always to be amateur, he would never have changed. But he also had something of real genius.” — Pamela H. Johnson 232
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialDr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 08/09/2025”…and pray you'll never know, The hell where youth and laughter go.” Siegfried Sassoon, English war poet, born #OTD 1886. National Portrait Gallery London 414122
jeffdkr.bsky.social @jeffdkr.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Just one of Maxwell’s novels worth reading. Clean & beautiful prose. 150
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialDarryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 29/07/2025‘For the Dead Remember: The Life of M. R. James’ will be published by Oxford University Press on 10 September 2026. Set your watches, mark your calendars, and spread the word! 36424
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialBryan Thomas @munkiman.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Remembering fantasy, sci-fi, horror and mystery fiction author Ray Bradbury, born August 22, 1920, Waukegan, Illinois (d. June 5, 2012). Best remembered for his Fahrenheit 451 and other novels that combined poetic language with social commentary and a recurring theme of nostalgia. More: alt text 191
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialPatrick Murtha @patrickmurtha.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. 4257
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialimnjupiter @imnjupiter.bsky.social · 21/08/2025#AnthonyPowellTogether 5317
Reposted by @jeffdkr.bsky.socialGrant McGaheran @grantmcgaheran.bsky.social · 21/08/2025'We can ask and ask but we can't have again what once seemed ours for ever - the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on a belfry floor, a remembered voice, the touch of a hand, a loved face. They've gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.' 0183
