iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Trash (1971) by late Slovenian artist Karel Zelenko (1925-2026) #RIPKarelZelenko

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Books bought at St Michael’s College Booksale (4/x): Journey to Portugal (1981) by José Saramago Enemies, A Love Story (1972) by Isaac Bashevis Singer One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

0253

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Books bought at St Michael’s College Booksale (3/4): The Assault (1982) by Harry Mulisch The Acrobats (1954) by Mordecai Richler Our Gang (1971) by Philip Roth

1161

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Books bought at St Michael’s College Booksale (2/4): Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein (1975) by Janet Hobhouse Two Stories and a Memory (1961) by Giuseppe Di Lampdeusa The Drowning Pool (1950) by Ross MacDonald The Chateau (1961) by William Maxwell

0140

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Books bought at St Michael’s College Booksale (1/4): Water Music (1981) by T.C. Boyle The Songlines (1987) by Bruce Chatwin Montreal Stories (2004) by Mavis Gallant Loving + Living + Party Going (1978) by Henry Green

1190

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His first words to his newfound father were said to be “Ya mo not been there most of my life, Dad”

3340

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting fact about Conrad Lant (aka Cronos), the vocalist /bassist of British heavy metal band Venom, who has died at 63: His older brother Graham was drummer for Prefab Sprout in the mid-1980s, including on debut album Swoon. #RiPConradLant #RIPCronos

58412

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

La Castidad (Chastity) by late Chilean artist Carmen Aldunate (1940-2026). #RIPCarmenAldunate

1183

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Early poster for a concert of The Fall in 1979. #FallFriday

0431

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Books bought at ABC Books closing sale - 6 books for $28 (2/2); Collected Novels and Plays (2002) by James Merrill New Rolling Stone Record Guide 2nd Edition (1983) Collected Stories (1984) by John O’Hara

3200

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Books bought at ABC Books closing sale - 6 books for $28 (1/2); The Complete Poems 1927-1979 (1983) by Elizabeth Bishop Nothing/Doting/Blindness (1979) by Henry Green The Dark Stuff -Selected Writings on Riock Music (2nd Ed) by Nick Kent

1200

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Figura de Mujer (1966) by late Argentine artist Carlos Alonso (1929-2026) #RIPCarlosAlonso

0150

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Books bought at Deer Park & Roncesvalles United Church’s Book Sales (4 books for $10): On Movies (1968) by Dwight MacDonald Young Törless (1906) by Robert Musil Zazie in the Metro (1959) by Raymond Queneau Flesh (2025) by David Szalay

3191

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Writer Annie Dillard has died at 81. While her 1974 narrative Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is justly celebrated, her book, Holy the Firm, weaved a spell over me, an agnostic. Its search for answers in the spirituality of nature displayed a poetic sensitivity that was never strident. #RIPAnnieDillard

0174

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Costume designer Bob Mackie has died at 87. With nicknames such as “The Sultan of Sequins”, Mackie was known for the costumes he delivered for celebrities such as Carol Burnett, Cher and Elton John “ A woman who wears my clothes is not afraid to be noticed." #RIPBobMackie

1303

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

UNTITLED (RED/BLACK FLOOD PAINTING 01) by late American artist Lucien Smith (1989-2026) #RIPLucienSmith

1200

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Latest Little Free Library Finds: Her (1927) by H.D, The Sound of Waves (1956) by Yukio Mishima The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) by Hanif Kureishi The Lost Soul (2017) by Olga Tokarczuk. Illustrated by Joanna Concejo. Curtains (1961) by Kenneth Tynan

3202

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Cover for the 1976 ECM album Staircase by Keith Jarrett. Photography by Franco Fontana. #RIPFrancoFontana

0251

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

San Francisco (1979) by late Italian photographer Franco Fontana (1933-2026) #RIPFrancoFontana

07216

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dots Infinity (2003) by late Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) #RIPYayoiKusama

0463

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Don’t Walk, Red, NYC (1981) by Jay Maisel (1931-2026) #RIPJayMaisel

0203

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Celebrated American photographer Jay Maisel has died at 95. His famous portrait of Miles Davis, Some Kind Of Blue, was used on the cover of the musician’s classic 1959 album. #RIPJayMaisel #MilesDavis #Jazz

16714

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Battlefield in the Fog (1966) by Bun'yō Ishikawa (1938-2026) #RIPBunyoIshikawa

0395

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Latest literary finds at Little Free Libraries: The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven (1993) by Sherman Alexie The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI (2026) by Cory Doctorow The Curse of the Appropriate Man (2004) by Lynn Freed A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes (2022) by Rodrigo Garcia

1141

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yuma Arizona (2011) by late California artist Mary Heilmann (1940-2026) #RIPMaryHeilmann

090

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In Preparation for Below (1974) by late contemporary English painter Jack Crabtree (1938-2026) #RIPJackCrabtree

080

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Energy of the Arts (1989) by late assemblage artist Betye Saar (1926-2026) #RIPBetyeSaar

0141

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Latest Little Free Library literary pickups: Tristana (1892) by Benito Pérez Galdós Comedy in a Minor Key (1947) by Hans Keilson The Doomsters (1958) by Ross MacDonald Hurricane Season (2016) by Fernanda Melchor Old School (2003) by Tobias Wolff

2140

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Latest Little Free Library Finds: The Two Roberts (2026) by Damian Barr The Crisis of Canadian Democracy (2025) by Andrew Coyne Incidental Inventions (2019) by Elena Ferrante Letty Fox: Her Luck (1946) by Christina Stead The Optimist’s Daughter (1972) by Eudora Welty

1193

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Captain Sensible just left me a voicemail.

4251

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Body Corner (2016) by late Portuguese painter Luisa Cunha (1949-2026) #RIPLuisaCunha

0150

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Latest Little Free Library literary pickups: Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game (1979) by William Kennedy The Emigrants (1996) by W.G. Sebald The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy, Gentleman (1767) by Laurence Sterne You Can’t Go Home Again (1940) by Thomas Wolfe

5516

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Untitled (Construction) (1981) by late Israeli optical artist Yaacov Agam (1928-2026) #RIPYaacovAgam

0211

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Latest literary pickups from Little Free Libraries (2/x): Angel Down (2025) by Daniel Kraus The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family (2001) by Mary S. Lovell In Persuasion Nation (2006) by George Saunders Now Dig This- The Unspeakable Writings of Terry Southern (1950-1995) (2001)

0100

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Latest literary pickups from Little Free Libraries (1/2): We All Love Glenda So Much and Other Tales (1983} by Julio Cortázar Magma (2019) by Thóra Hjörleifsdóttir The Trial (2025) by Franz Kafka Satantango by László Krasznahorkai (2012)translation by George Szirtes)

3311

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A Bigger Splash (1967) and Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) by British Pop Artist David Hockney (1937-2026) #RIPDavidHockney

54412

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Fourteen Colours - Sequence (1959) by Argentine-French Op Artist Julio Le Parc (1928-2026) #RIPJulioLeParc

0272

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Latest finds at Little Free Libraries: Owls Do Cry (1960) by Janet Frame The Great Believers (2018) by Rebecca Makkai At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965) by Peter Matthiessen Christmas Pudding (1932) and Pigeon Pie (1940) by Nancy Mitford

1100

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

In 1981, the late jazz legend Sonny Rollins played the sax solo for the song “Waiting on a Friend” by the Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger discussing Rollins’s contribution in 1985. #RIPSonnyRollins #RollingStones

27919

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Long time Milwaukee Brewer Charlie Moore has died at 72. HIs final MLB year in 1987 was as a catcher with the Jays. One night at legendary Toronto pub The Wheat Sheaf, a piece of the ceiling fell on him. A plaque was erected “Charlie Moore got plastered here”#RIPCharlieMoore

38113

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Found this beauty of a trade paperback version of Nabokov’s King, Queen, Knave in a Little Free Library yesterday.

1120

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Books bought at Fairlawn United Church Book Sale 12 books for $22 (4/x): Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa (2016) by Haruki Murakami Where the Bluebird Sings to Lemonade Springs (1992) by Wallace Stegner LIttle Novels of Sicily (1883) by Giovanni Verga

1180

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Books bought at Fairlawn United Church Book Sale 12 books for $22 (3/4): Snowman, Snowman- Fables & Fantasies (1963) by Janet Frame Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1982) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Men’s Club (1981) by Leonard Michaels

1120

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Books bought at Fairlawn United Church Book Sale 12 books for $22 (2/4): Auto Da Fe (1935) by Elias Canetti The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Volume 1 - Variorum Edition (1998) My Brilliant Friend (2012) by Elena Ferrante

2100

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Books bought at Fairlawn United Church Book Sale 12 books for $22 (1/4) The Invention of Solitude (1982) The Wrecking Yard (1992) by Pinckney Benedict Perspective(s) (2023) by Laurent Binet

090

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

British poet J.H. Prynne has died at 89. Influenced by American Black Mountain School poets such as Charles Olson, he was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival of the late 1960s & 1970s. #RIPJHPrynne “Again in the Black Cloud” (1974) by J.H. Prynne

05211

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Latest literary pickups from LIttle Free Libraries: Vagabond: A Memoir (2025) by Tim Curry Ducks, Newburyport (2019) by Lucy Ellmann The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (1976) Felicia’s Journey (1994) by William Trevor

2150

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Chromachord #77 (2000) by American abstract painter James Hayward (1943-2026) #RIPJamesHayward

0140

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

French actress Nathalie Baye has died at 77. In films such as Day for Night, Every Man for Himself and La Balance, she was a luminous yet earthy presence. And also an acting equal to contemporaries such as Isabelles, Huppert and Adjani. #RIPNathalieBaye

1212

Sean Walters @seanwrite.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Ice #2 (2002)by American abstract expressionist artist Pat Steir (1940-2026) #RIPPatSteir

1140