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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s only Tuesday and this is already a tough week in a tough month and honestly Nigella’s debut on GBBO is just that little something I need to look forward to, you know?

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

No other TV show title has ever struck pure terror in my heart and spine the way ‘Bargain-Loving Brits in the Sun’ does.

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I was chatting with a favourite bookseller yesterday, and told him I might have a better shot at solvency if I wrote a book about a selkie who falls in love with a werewolf. We had a laugh. But SHOULD I?

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I bet Thomas Pynchon is furious that he didn’t come up with the name ‘Severin Wunderman’ before real life did.

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The ‘Little Scorpion’ of the French Riviera

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"We may not all conceive of whatever it is as ‘holy,’ but I think most of us are seeking something that is beautiful and marvellous to us in some singular, seemingly intangible way. Like a more just world, with less cruelty, less suffering...this is the kind of ‘holiness’ I seek." My latest post:

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Too Much With Us, Late and Soon

A Reflective Winter Solstice

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I love a good literary hoax, especially if it’s at the expense of Modernism. But these are my takeaways from ‘about this poem’: Witter Bynner was an asshole; the hostess a hero; I hope the waitress sued.

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Madagascar [Opus 104]

How terrible to entertain a lunatic! / To keep his earnestness from coming close!

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Friends I have a lot of shallots in need of thin slicing and I can’t find the finger guard for my mandoline but I’m going in anyway.

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The latest on ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE: If finance is math, do I even stand a chance?

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No, YOU Do the Math

(because I can’t)

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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Can’t help it: it pleases me to think of Kim Davis as the gay divorcee.

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

FROM THE ANNALS OF UNEXPECTED CELEBRITY OF WHICH I DO NOT FEEL WORTHY It has come to my attention that I was quoted by the Very Reverend Nicholas Frayling at the funeral of the great Dame Patricia Routledge. I should just retire now. #hyacinthbucketforever www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/in-full...

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IN FULL - the moving tribute to Dame Patricia Routledge delivered at her funeral

Dame Patricia Routledge - the full text of the tribute given at her Funeral in Chichester Cathedral on 5 November 2025 by the Very Reverend Nicholas Frayling, former Dean of Chichester.

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

You’d think they’d at least have made the password Louvre1!

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Folks better get their benefits stat!

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The New Yorker Mamdani cover is great but I just can’t bring myself to share an image with a Yankees cap.

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Marathon day is one of NYC’s greatest annual occasions; I miss it. Here’s one reason why:

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The people of Sudan are enduring unimaginable suffering - and the world is watching. I have written to the Foreign Secretary demanding the suspension of arms sales to the UAE.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

what stage of capitalism is this

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Keris Fox is, in my experience, basically a unicorn: a writer who actually loves talking about money! She interviewed me for her excellent Substack, The Ladybird Purse. 🐞💰🦄

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"How does your relationship with money affect your emotions?"

+ some actual health and safety

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New post on ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE. How do you describe the difference between being broke and being poor?

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Broke or Poor?

Because they're not synonymous

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

New post up at ROSIE $CHAAP IS BROKE. We lived pretty large in my childhood home. There were consequences.

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Beyond Our Means

Or, Why I Hate the Telephone

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

New post on my newsletter, ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE! Milo implores you to read it, and to subscribe. And to give him treats, stat.

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Stormy Weather

and pennies from heaven

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I've just launched ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE, a newsletter (mostly) focused on personal finance, by a person who doesn’t understand money at all! Can I sort my shambolic financial self out and be debt-free by 2030? I hope you'll subscribe and join the conversation. rosieschaap.substack.com/about

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About - ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE

I’m a writer. I’m broke. I’m writing a new book about being broke. Click to read ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 23/07/2025

Gaza’s “last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing,” according to the United Nations. Children are starving. In recent weeks, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians seeking food aid, per the UN. Learn more:

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

New York City, I love you! And I wish I were there to celebrate this with you! If it weren’t so freaking hot!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/06/2025

A new drug could revolutionize H.I.V. prevention. But, as world leaders dismantle global health programs and cut back foreign aid, will this extraordinary new technology be able to change the world?

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The Drug That Could Revolutionize the Fight Against H.I.V.

World leaders are dismantling global health programs and cutting back foreign aid. Will an extraordinary new medicine be able to outpace the damage?

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy solstice! It’s all downhill from here!

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

In the distance I hear the village nursery school kids singing ‘Que Sera Sera’ and think, this has to be the soundtrack for the end of the world.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 17/06/2025

Our entry for 'hyperbole' is probably the greatest thing ever written in the English language.

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Bernie McGill @berniemcgill.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Lovely to bump into @rosieschaap.bsky.social today in No Alibis Books, Belfast, as we signed copies of our books (while accidentally colour-coordinating with the covers).

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 09/05/2025

The President just fired our extraordinary Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. As Chair of Senate Rules I worked closely w/her. She was dedicated to the Library and highly respected by Democratic AND Republican senators. This is an outrage and a big loss.

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Looking forward to tonight’s pub quiz. I hope the Glenarm Wildlife Group will agree that our team should be called Pine Marten Scorcese…

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Loved this interview with Maggie O’Farrell, full of smart, useful stuff for writers (and writers who teach). Spoiler: her influences include Tove Jansson and David Hockney. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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This Cultural Life - Maggie O'Farrell - BBC Sounds

Author Maggie O'Farrell reveals the influences that have shaped her writing.

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Who’s the meshuggener who woke up at 4:30 to make bagels for her students on the last day of the semester? Me. I am the meshuggener. But they deserve it. 🥯🥯🥯✍️✍️✍️

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I'm writing about the building in which I spent most of my childhood, and my research has led to a thrilling discovery: BIG EDIE and LITTLE EDIE lived there in the 1930s. Now I have to find out if we lived in the same apartment... #greygardens

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Woke up today very excited to write. This is not normal for me. But it’s nice.

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I so enjoyed having this conversation with the very smart Dion Fanning about THE SLOW ROAD NORTH, Roger Casement, Muhammad Ali, Ciaran Carson, grief, Glenarm, and more. Hope you'll give it a listen--and other episodes of Free State with Joe Brolly & Dion Fanning, too (it's a great podcast).

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Exile On Main Street: Rosie Schaap the New Yorker who found happiness in an Antrim village | Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

An absolutely lovely review of THE SLOW ROAD NORTH in the Irish Times! I so appreciate this thoughtful, thorough--and beautifully written--consideration by Mei Chin.

irishtimes.com

The Slow Road North by Rosie Schaap: A beautiful, unsparing memoir about grief

Schaap was 39 when her husband, Frank, died on Valentine’s Day

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Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Winter retreats, and the days lengthen and brighten in this beautiful place.

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