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Roy Kesey

@roykesey.bsky.social
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Some things I do: write (Sarabande, Jonathan Cape/Random House, Dzanc), translate (Soho Press, Serpent’s Tail), teach, read, bind, photograph. Ideal job: walking around looking at stuff. Photos mine unless otherwise noted, e.g. profile tintype by Amy Güth.

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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Was just confronted with a captcha where I had to pick the animals that lay eggs and one of the options was a chameleon and motherfucker they both do and don't what are you trying to do to me
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hell of a list!
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've been informed that cover reveals & pre-order requests are still a thing, & so I give you LORE. Huge thanks to everyone at @sarabandebooks.bsky.social for building the beautiful cover, & to everyone who pre-orders (w/ discount via www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...) - you are beloved by me.
The cover of my next book, LORE: black letters on a dark red background, kind words from contest judge Ed Park, and a fox that matters deeply to the story.
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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
✨ SPRING 2027 COVER REVEALS + PREORDER SALE ✨ Starting today through Cyber Monday, 11/20 all of our Spring 2027 titles are on-sale! Sale runs 9/17 thru 11/20. No code required. Discount automatically applies at checkout. Free shipping on orders of $75+. 🛒 Shop here: tinyurl.com/mrzs69zb
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As an indie guy I'd love to see more indies but that's a hell of a list.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Me when I realize Wear a Costume to Work day is actually tomorrow.
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Joshua, Silverquill Expert @mizzixonmain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's inevitable and everyone's using it, also I need 4 billion million trillion dollars to remain solvent for the next 4 months.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Humans are pattern-seeking and pattern-building creatures. We tend to anthropomorphize the things we deal with regularly, both as a way to vocalize the qualities of a thing we subconsciously intuit, and to have a sense of control. I think that's part of why coders are weird about AI.
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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
even now, she's still teaching us
screen on car radio reading:
Dolly Parton
Love is Like A Butt
(it should be Butterfly but the last part couldn't fit on the screen)
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Woke from a dream where SpaceAI hacked & emptied all US bank accounts & put all the $ in their own. & because EM had funded the president's re-election, he had the support of the DoJ & Supreme Court, so. & anyone who complained was sent to a data center gulag. I'm sure everything's fine tho.
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Rock and Roll Reading kicks off at 6 p.m. September 11, 2026, at Chicago's Rainbo Club. About a dozen readers will read work about or inspired by Rock and Roll (or any of its offshoots or precursors) for three minutes or less each (the length of a song). Super fun times. No cover.
Flyer for the Rock and Roll Reading at 6 p.m. September 11, 2026 at Chicago's Rainbo Club. The flyer lists the readers and includes images from Rainbo's Club's distinctive sign.
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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Readers include @tarabetts.bsky.social @mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social @roykesey.bsky.social @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social @martinezfjulian.bsky.social. Thanks to @suecifer69420.bsky.social for the dope flyer!
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Essential reading thebaffler.com/salvos/paid-...
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Paid Phones | Daniel Kolitz
More and more Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. Albert, Cleo, Brigit, and Dave are here to help—but terms and conditions apply.
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Curiosity has a way of making obedience conditional. A girl who is encouraged to ask questions about the world may eventually ask questions about the rules governing her own life: Who made them? Why do they exist? Who benefits from them? What happens if I disagree?" www.salon.com/2026/08/28/w...
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Why the right is so afraid of the Girl Scouts
Behind the cookies and badges is a quietly radical idea: Girls should be curious about the world
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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
WenzlerPowers: 

Dolly Parton writing “I will always love you“ and “Jolene“ in the same day is mind blowing.

It’s like if da Vinci finished the Mona Lisa then turned around in the same day and wrote “Jolene“
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Truly crazy how many people mocked the idea that students outsourcing their work to LLMs would degrade their capabilities. Imagine arguing that about a student who paid a friend to do all their homework. Why would it be any different with a computer program?
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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Me, nodding knowingly: The beaks.
Headline of paleontology news article: Crocodiles can't fly. Birds can. Scientists have finally figured out why
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake." —Jean Rhys
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Sometimes in a library I imagine each book as years of an author’s life such that you are standing amidst uncounted hours of effort and concentration like some oasis of meaningful time.
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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
On the blog this week, WOMEN WRITERS IN TRANSLATION - some book recommendations for #WITMonth. Featuring books by Alba de Céspedes (tr. Ann Goldstein), Magda Szabó (tr. Len Rix), Vigdis Hjorth (tr. Charlotte Barslund) & more! #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/w...
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Women Writers in Translation – some book recommendations for #WITMonth
As many of you know, August is #WITMonth (Women in Translation), a celebration of books by women writers, initially written in languages other than English (and then translated for English-speaking…
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
York Minster Cathedral as seen from the Lord Mayor’s Walk. 📷📸🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⛪ #england #york #citywall #photography
A color photograph in nostalgic tones of a cathedral tower seen through trees.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A shadow in the tower. 📷📸🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏰 #england #york #citywall #photography
A black and white photo of the view up an enclosed stone staircase, with a human shadow cast on the far wall.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A carved head on the door canopy of Jacob’s Well, a 15th-C building in York. 📷📸🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏰 #england #york #jacobswell #photography
A color photograph of a carved wooden head.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A tree near Hill Top in Sawrey. 📷📸🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌿 #england #lakedistrict #hilltop #tree #photography
A color photo of a windblown tree on a hill.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Okay fine ONE MORE picture of the sky above Lake Windermere but only because of the gull photobomb. 📷📸🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🪶☁️ #england #lakedistrict #bowness #windermere #sky #photography
A color photograph of a chaotic cloudy sky after sunset, with a seagull flying through.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The wall of Rydal Cave reflected. 📷📸🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #england #lakedistrict #ambleside #cave #photography
A color photograph of the reddish striations in a cave wall reflected in the water below.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
❤️
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
There is green and there is *green*. Near River Rothay, below Rydal Cave. 📷📸🧭🌿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #england #lakedistrict #ambleside #tree #photography
A very green tree trunk and roots in a forest.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Writing assignment #2: the ontology of memory as mapped to that which we collect. Setting: the stone bluffs at the top of Brandt Fell. 📷📸🧭⛰️🖋️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #england #lakedistrict #windermere #photography
A color photograph in muted tones of a person wearing a baseball hat, writing in a notebook, silhouetted on top of a rocky bluff.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
More Lake Windermere. 📷📸🧭🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #england #lakedistrict #grasmere #photography #clarity
A color photo of clouds reflected in the fairly calm water of a lake just after sunset.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The way down. 📷📸🧭⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #england #lakedistrict #grasmere #photography #clarity
A color photograph in austere nostalgic tones of a dirt path leading down through an opening in an old drystane wall toward a hill half-hidden by fog.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Writing assignment #1: that which moves v. that which is still. Setting: the highlands above Alcock Tarn, near Greenhead Ghyll. 📷📸🧭⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #england #lakedistrict #grasmere #photography #clarity
A black and white photo of a person writing in a notebook, seated on a ridgeline in heavy fog.
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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Those who don’t learn from the pasta are doomed to reheat it I am not even sorry you read this
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The only way to know what dreams were dreamt in this bed: read Home at Grasmere, the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth. 📷📸🧭🛏️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #england #lakedistrict #grasmere #dovecottage #photography #clarity
A color photo of an old wooden bed, very small by contemporary standards, with white sheets, a green blanket, and a white sleeping bonnet hanging from the corner of the headboard.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I am very lucky: I get to lead students across northern England each year. What I hope they discover: the power of stillness, of silence, of looking carefully, of engaging fully. Here: a shot of Lake Windermere. 📷📸🧭🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #england #lakedistrict #windermere #photography #clarity
A color photograph in nostalgic, dramatic tones, of sunlight streaming through thick clouds onto a lake.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Until I watched Track 29, I had no idea Gary Oldman had ever not been old. I mean it’s right there in his name but apparently
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
great america state fair just fundamentally doesn’t understand what a state fair is. state fairs are not grand celebrations of all that make us proud to be americans. they are lynchian phantasmagorias of family-friendly kitsch braided with licentious perversity and just a sprinkle of cosmic horror.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
For those of you got worried for me when you saw me putting tinfoil on the tops of my doors, just know that it’s to tell the barn swallows they can nest literally anywhere else. I like them! But I don’t want them nesting over my doors. Also it keeps me safe from Deep State 5G nanochips, so win-win.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Just bought my first peach of the season and I cannot WAIT for it to be perfectly ripe for nine minutes around midnight on Thursday.
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"The shortest essay I ever wrote, maybe the shortest essay anyone has ever written, was 'Little Essay on Form.' It went like this: 'We build the corral as we reinvent the horse.'” —Stephen Dunn
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The only thing that makes me happier than a soccer match that makes Cristiano Ronaldo sad is a soccer match that makes Luis Suárez sad. Well done to Cape Verde, and to all of us who survived that terrible FS1 play-by-play and “analysis."
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Beverly Bullock @bcbnyc.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Oof. The Cheese and the Worms changed so much for me. Addio, Carlo, che la terra ti sia lieve.
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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 17/06/2026
It’s like a Demon Theory footnote: you just keep falling through awnings.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
So are you going to buy this automobile, yes or nault?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Far Right riot in Belfast last night was nothing less than “a race-based pogrom”, Belfast MP and leader of the SDLP Claire Hanna said. The mob hunted down non-whites and set fire to their homes. Carl Whyte, a local councillor, called it “a hard Far Right element”.
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Homes set on fire in Belfast night of violence as MP says people targeted based on skin colour - follow live
On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.
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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Today, I lived Rachael Carson’s “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?” On Ring Mountain in Marin County, CA, you might find a wildflower growing nowhere else on Earth, except on this thin rocky outcrop. Tiburon Mariposa Lily (Calochortus tiburonensis) 🌿
A lily wildflower that is mainly light tan and green with some pinkish red markings. The petals have an unusual fringe throughout the interior. It has a center pistil with six stamens that have spots and a brownish pollen.

From Wikipedia: Calochortus tiburonensis is a perennial growing from a bulb to 10–60 cm in height with a single leaf. The ciliate, light yellow-green petals are streaked with purplish-brown. When mature, ovaries form a capsule full of small, dark brown seeds.A lily wildflower that is mainly light tan and green with some pinkish red markings. The petals have an unusual fringe throughout the interior. It has a center pistil with six stamens that have spots and a brownish pollen.

From Wikipedia: Calochortus tiburonensis is a perennial growing from a bulb to 10–60 cm in height with a single leaf. The ciliate, light yellow-green petals are streaked with purplish-brown. When mature, ovaries form a capsule full of small, dark brown seeds.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
In the hope of getting my own statue outside the Ulster Museum, I too am going to invent a new temperature scale. It shall start with True Room Temperature and go both ways from there.
Bronze statue of Lord Kelvin
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