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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It would already be 19th November so I’d be safe, I think…Is it a participatory reading group with conversation or more of a talk situation where I could join from bed with my camera off and nobody would know? I would love to attend but midnight to 1am might be unrealistic

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Balle reading group *on* 18 Nov!!!!

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yes, although as a teenager I think I was sneaking books out of my parents’ shelves and buying things for 10p in charity shops and at jumble sales rather than talking to people. But it‘s true that some odd things came through v specific channels, e.g. The Silent Twins from a friend‘s mum

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I don’t think that changed all that much until well into the 2000s!

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

had reason to describe something as very ‘Lo! The Flat Hills of My Homeland’ the other day, started laughing and remembered all over again what a genius Sue Townsend was. I wish she was still with us

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Me to my beloved: this Anne Carson poem always make me think of you, with your little toolkit Her: it’s not a LITTLE toolkit

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

underrated and overlooked if you ask me! delighted to find Tillerman fans on this thread

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yes, Cold Comfort Farm and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn!

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I just looked this up as only have a vague sense of who Heinlein is. Would watch a Netflix adaptation and then instantly forget everything about it

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

yes, me too. By going back, do you mean actually re-reading, or, venerating-Trainspotting-as-cultural-object?

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

(I think ‘why did I love it so much?’ is a question I’m always asking, one way or another. Fatally primary source person here)

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

*what odd obsessions did you have with certain books, is what I really mean. Trainspotting isn’t a strange choice for a teenager, exactly, but why did I love it so much? And the same for the others on my list

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just interested in the fact that the things I loved and attached to aren't necessarily the things I’d recommend now, usually a tension I try to ignore, and yet — would I give a book about hostages in Beirut to a teenager today? (Of course this is also about how you encounter books and where)

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

for me: An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan (have read so many times) The Women’s Room - Marilyn French (ditto) Down and Out in Paris and London & Keep the Aspidistra Flying - George Orwell Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh The L-Shaped Room - Lynne Reid Banks (not so strange but I wonder how it reads now)

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Inspired by a nice thread recommending excellent novels for 8th-graders (13-ish) (not tagging bc who wants to be tagged in things), what odd or somewhat left-field books were you into as a young person?

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I also read The Color Purple at that age and it was life-changing

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A partial Sunday morning list: Classic YA: Feed, M.T. Anderson (have become Feed evangelist); Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman Cycle; Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend Adult: Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively; The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate, Nancy Mitford; Catcher in the Rye and other Salinger, esp. F&Z

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yannis Ritsos (tr. Nikos Stangos)

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the correct amount of cinnamon

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🎶 Way down in the sofa, between the cushions 🎶

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oxo @martinwellbourne71.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Bacchus, made by Ben Wheatley, in conjunction with Aardmann Animations and starring Postman Pat as an originally mild mannered postal worker who ingests mushrooms and his chest is torn apart and Dionysus enters.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

using the Lidl breadslicing machine is such an underrated everyday pleasure

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I've been obsessed by Margaret Bourke-White's 1937 photograph of a Louisiana sharecropper's house lined with newspapers since I first saw it in Thomas C. Leonard's News For All years ago. It captures the ubiquity &, one might say, the stickiness of newspapers so poignantly. Plus, of course, the dog

A black and white photograph of a young African American boy standing in an interior doorway of a house next to a hound dog. The boy is wearing a shirt and pants with a large hole in the knee. The floor consists of unvarnished planking, and the walls are lined entirely with newspaper sheets, although some may perhaps be from magazines. One gets the impressive that they are decorative as much as they are protective.

Source: Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell, Have You Seen Their Faces (1937)

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Will never forget the article about the couple attacked as they slept by the woman’s ex-partner who had hidden in the attic until nighttime…

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

After 12 years of seeming invincibility, the Modi regime is showing cracks due to widespread youth protests. This is the story to watch!

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a reminder that I have found the rope which was severed and I have knotted it. I have found the ferry-boat which was list <in> its floodwaters and I have brought it to land. (CTF1)

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

my mum used to put newspaper under the wheels of my little brother‘s pram when it had been wet out, mainly the Mirror which my older brother read for the football. I read a lot of inappropriate tabloid stories aged seven or eight, kneeling on the floor…

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

a punk name for a punk flower

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

for Banned Books Week, I talked for seven mins about book banning to Münster’s Silent Book Club and then we all read our books quietly for an hour in the Stadtbücherei

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I adore 3 🖤 'Did I ever walk the morning streets at twenty, my limbs streaming with a purer joy?'

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thelifeofwords.bsky.social @thelifeofwords.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Since sharing #AnneCarson poems is having a moment, here's a poem I published as part of a broadsides series about twenty years ago. Not aware that it was republished in any later venue or collection (let me know if so, it will go in the unlost bibliography) #NobelPrize

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Rohan Maitzen @rohanmaitzen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Our mental business is carried on much in the same way as the business of the State: a great deal of hard work is done by agents who are not acknowledged." GE, Adam Bede

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

In 2012, I stood on a stage with Anne Carson as a volunteer grad student to help her perform BRACKO, an adaptation of Sappho, where my job was to say the word "bracket" every time there was a bracket, which was more than two hundred times

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Finch Collins @finchinthestacks.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The CFP for *Queer Bibliography: Taking Stock* is now open! Full cfp below and at bit.ly/QB2027CfP (Please feel free to circulate these graphics off Bluesky! They're sized for an IG story.)

call for proposals

Queer Bibliography
TAKING STOCK
Manchester, UK and online
2-4 September 2027

details overleaf ❧ ❧ ❧

call for proposals

Taking Stock marks the fifth annual Queer Bibliography conference and is a chance to pause and reflect and to queerly attend to the many meanings of “stock” in bibliography.

Where do we find ourselves and our work?
How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations?
From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities?
What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects?

We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or to reflect on bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies.

❧ abstracts due 29 January ☙

full cfp: https://bit.ly/QB2027CfP

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Second week on strike with UCU Edinburgh. We will be on strike for five weeks - taking out the entire first half of term, up to the first assessments - but we could be back in the classroom tomorrow if management withdrew the threat of compulsory redundancies.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

[me, commenting quickly in the margin of a student's essay] Mice.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

oh, and the public information film about the dangers of sniffing glue

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Olivia Smith @oliviasmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We saw this today. The bones of a deer caught perfectly in shape.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They will appreciate it in twenty to thirty years' time

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this, plus a really specific scene in an episode of Morse

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