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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Welcome to my late summer deckchair SNOW LIT REV 17. There’ll be a reading on October 21st in London. Details to follow. abar.net/snow.pdf

Pristine cover of SNOW lit rev on blue striped fabric.

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Rulers by Cecilia Rikap looks accurate and necessary (unfortunately). Pair it with this comment from pavement art at Pond Street London NW3 on how the powerful profit from bubbles:

A child’s painting using green and blue and red and orange paint pressed from the bottom of a jar onto paper to illustrate the phrase ‘I can count the bubbles’, with autumn leaves surrounding it on the pavement.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 18/09/2026

‘In front of the sarcophagus, Valentino gave a Roman salute, made the sign of the cross and wrote “Ti voglio bene” (“I love you”) in the visitors’ book.’ @danigaravelli.bsky.social on the neo-Fascist cult of Mussolini: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Dani Garavelli · Diary: Cult of Mussolini

A couple of days before I arrived in Predappio, I read that Hitler’s birthplace in Austria had been compulsorily...

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is great, a liberating mix of prose and poetry, and prescient too, given the catalyst for Letford’s apocalypse is a sneaky wee radge AI called Andy, which has gone “full Shawshank.”

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

‘Where Manhattan dreams of congestion, London dreams of decongestion – of fields, parks and gardens, of leafy suburbs and garden cities…Many who have lived in London will know that it grows on you; indeed, that London grows you.’ from ‘Nature’s double’ by Irénée Scalbert

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Ok, final teaser from my minicomic as syllabus for my new Comics in Ed course! This spread was, ummm, kind of dense! A lot going on, and it points to a lot of what we are going to do/cover along the way. It probably needs footnotes :) I'll finish & post the whole thing early next week. Stay tuned!

a spread from a minicomic syllabus. It's arranged on a mobius strip. The upper left to lower right talks about reading and analyzing comics. Lower left to upper right talks about making comics and studying comics terms. There is a lot going on on each twist of the strip, and then all the books we might draw on are in the negative space in the loops

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good news from a great publisher…

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

RIP Frances Stonor Saunders. Here, her program for BBC radio four, on the ‘exciting, seductive, dynamic…cul-de-sac of excessive self-consciousness’. And this on a wonderful exhibition she curated (from @davidnice.bsky.social): davidnice.blogspot.com/2018/12/what...

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<i>What Would You Take?</i>: a perfect exhibition

It all came together so swiftly and perfectly. Writer Frances Stonor Saunders had the idea of asking 12 people living in Britain today w...

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Adding these two Barbara Hanrahan novels from the glorious Pink Shorts Press, with glorious covers by the author…

Two covers. One with a woman face on with hair coming down over one eye, wearing a flowered top and striped skirt. In the background are creatures and flowers pink and purple. Slightly trippy, visionary. The other: half a face with birds on the face and more trippy flowers and faces in the background.

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I want you to promise me that you will go home and finish this book. You’ll do nothing other than go home and finish writing this book. If anything happens to upset you, remember that I’m standing right behind you like an old elephant, flapping my ears to cool you down John Berger to Arundhati Roy

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tolstoy, born on this day in 1828, which is a good excuse for Maira Kalman’s imagining of him having breakfast. From her “still life with remorse (family stories”

Tolstoy at the breakfast table wearing Russian hat having

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Philippa @gingerworrier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Caught some of this in the car earlier and definitely need to hear the whole thing, not *only* for Mitsuko Uchida’s refusal to play ball with interviewer John Wilson (she’s 👌), but I could definitely take some pointers on how to respond to unimaginative questioning… 🙃 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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This Cultural Life - Mitsuko Uchida - BBC Sounds

Pianist Mitsuko Uchida discusses her cultural influences and her career in music.

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

‘Swift and sure was his foot on hill and valley’

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you've been reading a lot about climate change and insurance and you were curious what insurance companies were up to *before* everything felt like a crisis, check out our new paper! Edoardo di Vincenzo and I trace how the American insurance industry planned for climate change starting in 2012.

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OSF

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Helen O’Hara @oharaviolin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Out 21st September! Updated & with new photos & extra chapters including Dexys, Tim Burgess, The Bluebells, Tanita Tikaram & the magical Laugharne festival. New adventures & circles completed. www.route-online.com Cover design by leah@leahs-studio.art

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Nina Antonia @ninaantonia13.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Two wonderful adverts for Strathmore writing paper, 1968-69.

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Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Why is it that when I miss my self-imposed deadlines I feel like a failure and when I meet them I assume whatever I've written can't be good enough?

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Some causes & consequences of current distress…

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Jackson State choir. And God.

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This wonderful Gwen John exhibition has landed in Edinburgh until January 2027…

An extract from a Gwen John notebook:
“Thought: You make your life. Let it be consciously, with fearlessness”

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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(whaddya call that widget which keeps an eye on the driver's speed and working hours, when driving goods vehicles? Well, that's the idea with this health/safety type poster... you are being watched)

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026

A remarkable site. Orkney's embarrassment of archaeological riches meant this incredible tomb did not get professional investigation. The farmer carefully excavated and opened the site. Many of the artifacts, including human remains, were stored in a glass-fronted cabinet in the farm's porch.

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And hats off to @deepvellum.bsky.social who have just this week done her Nelly’s Version: “A middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia checks into a small-town hotel under the pseudonym Nelly Dean with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it, or she, came from…”

Book cover has a picture of a woman maybe in the 1940s carrying a square leather suitcase. I’m wearing a dress with buttons all the way down the front standing in thick grass.

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Martin A Parker @martinaparker.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Read this book some time ago, with all the weather and yellow grass it comes to mind. It’s a dark but compelling story. Also known as ‘No Blade of Grass‘. After the death of grass a small group escape a cordoned London & head north.

Book cover with orange band at top and black and white drawing of field with abandoned house on fire and cow skeleton at the for front. A group of people on the horizon in silhouette.

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Squish! A mosquito caught between the pages of Isaac Barrow's mathematical lectures, printed in 1684 #WorldMosquitoDay

Bottom corner of a page from a 17th century book. Printed text is in Latin and Greek. There is a squashed mosquito in the margins.

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Life, a user’s manual at Paddington Station this morning…

Printed words on steps at Paddington Station saying
Please take care
One step at a time
don’t rush
No mobiles

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My toddler is starting to speak; I write about the things around me, the future tense taking a hold on my daughter. Thoughts slide over the 90s Big Breakfast, Lispector, Rupert Sheldrake, The Cloud of Unknowing, Renata Adler, Steiner, Bergson, Housman. 1st pub. @tearsinthefence.bsky.social, 2013. 5/

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur, Espooky. @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I just preordered The Children Of Light, not just because it's getting rave reviews, but because Luke's batting 1.000 when it comes to picking interesting, exciting translation projects (as anyone who read his translation of Masters Of The Nefarious can tell you). bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Children of Light

An advanced alien race attempts to escape oblivion with the help of a world-sized spaceship, an omniscient supercomputer, and a mysterious group of godlike creatures in this astonishingly illustrated ...

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Comment on yesterday’s By-Election from The Children of Light by Jean Pleyers, albeit made in the early 1980s. Just translated for @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social from the French by @lukevburns.bsky.social

Orange circle with tail and yellow insides surrounded by white line and yellow wavy shape, the whole of which is coming through a gap in the black sky, pressing through green circles of atmosphere into the planet underneath.

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This quietly challenges the if-you-have-then-I-haven’t-got ‘want’ type of scarcity. As opposed to that of basic needs for shelter, food, safety. There is another way to live.

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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It was an honour to write The Scotsman’s obituary of Turner Prize nominee Christine Borland - an extraordinary artist and wonderful person. Longer version at www.scotsman.com/news/people/...

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A tender piece on a superb artist. This is her ‘I Say Nothing’:

A semicircle of silhouettes of men and women printed on tracing or glassine paper with illumination in the middle shining through them.

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The great great Dorothy B. Hughes…

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

And a response (from you know where): “I can share more targeted thoughts or coping perspectives for what you're processing.”

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Lovely gusts of post-operative liberation in this…

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Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Guru Dutt's MR AND MRS '55 is back on the Channel 4 Player. Recommended. www.channel4.com/programmes/m...

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Mr & Mrs 55

(1955) Guru Dutt's classic social satire with Madhubala. A poor cartoonist marries money.

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Great writer, great translator, wise reviewer…

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Each time I read this, it gets more complex…

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House of Reggae @houseofreggae.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Happy 69th birthday to saxophone legend Dean Fraser. Over the last 50 years Dean has played with everyone from Dennis Brown to Tarrus Riley. Here's an early 7" of him playing a reggae version of Dave Brubeck's Take Five... youtu.be/ZBdycOUxk-Q?... #reggae #reggaesky #vinyl #music #musicsky

7" of Jah Devon aka Dean Fraser - To Take It All on Jacques label. Released in 1978. Produced by Jacob Killer Miller.

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Rosewind @rosewind.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I do think that tolerance for swearing is quite individual? Because I like to read books aloud to my children I am very aware of the swear levels of books One thing I find hard to read is pseudo swears—I am with Dorothy Parker 3/3

Quote from Dorothy Parker:
So, you're the man who can't spell
'fuck."
Dorothy Parker to Norman Mailer after publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a euphemism,
'fug,' in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead.
Dorothy Parker

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Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

New life goals having visited the home of Vita Sackville West. She had a writing tower (I will also need a lift and air-conditioning) and she and her husband had a library each and combined ‘extra’ one. Their collection included Sinclair Lewis - if more people had read this we wouldn’t be here.

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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

2/ Larger gatherings of sandwich terns than I've seen here before, seemingly peaceful together with gulls.

Sandwich terns and gulls, rock near Sandycove, Dublin Bay.

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Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"My children’s dimensions change too. They are all around, but I can’t see their faces. Just as they begin to come into focus, I must again climb out the window, down the rope ladder into the house next door." Stunning @kathyfish.bsky.social

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Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It was a pleasure to read some of my Margery Kempe poems yday! Margery Kempe in Tesco went down especially well 😁 (with thanks to Victoria Craggs for the fantastic graphic design, turning my poem into a Tesco receipt!) #NCS2026

My poem Medieval Mystic Margery Kempe in Tesco

Graphic design of my poem by Victoria Craggs

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Peter Kravitz @peterkravitz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

From Victoria MacKenzie’s Substack, partly on Old Filth: “The novel deals with what is probably my favourite subject of novels - the discrepancy between a person’s public life (and how they are perceived by those who scarcely know them), and their secret inner lives - their real lives, to my mind.”

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