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Steve Himmer

@shimmer.bsky.social
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Writer, walker, and mandolin player. Probably that guy you saw looking at something on the ground. Faculty and MFA program director at Emerson College, and editor at necessaryfiction.bsky.social. www.stevehimmer.com

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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 15h
I'm reminded of Patrick Kavanagh's account of "adversarial poetry" qtd by Lawrence J. Taylor in his essay "Paddy's Pig: Irony and Self-Irony in Irish Culture" (in this book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...).
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm so sorry. I'm thinking of you both.
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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So I've got some big news. All my ramblings and ravings about urban hiking and how it can change our lives are going to become a book! I'm in Pittsburgh now, doing field research for Chapter 2, and I can't wait to share this with you all in 2028. (Also, I might be visiting your city soon.)
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Congratulations! I'm excited to read the book.
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I found it!
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Mondays can be a bit shocking
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Very welcome news of a new travel book forthcoming from @nickhuntscrutiny.bsky.social
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Autumn news: Ways to Say Goodbye
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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A *huge* thank you to anyone who found our Walking City Trails special project drive through here! Thanks to you, here’s what’s coming: ✅Signs on all 3 trails ✅Signage in trailside businesses ✅Claimable finisher patches for all 3 trails and more! www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-ac...
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Donate to Help us activate and blaze Boston's Walking City Trails, organized by Miles Howard
Hi there. I'm Miles Howard, founder and lead organizer of Bosto… Miles Howard needs your support for Help us activate and blaze Boston's Walking City Trails
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Congratulations!
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Going for a musical walk in the woods this afternoon and that's a hard thing to beat
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Scenic Songs: A Hiking Concert with The Nields
This event has sold out. Calling all hiking enthusiasts and music lovers! The Trustees and Passim are thrilled to collaborate for the 2026 Scenic Songs series, bringing Passim’s renowned folk music to...
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bad timing for me but BROTHER OF THE MORE FAMOUS JACK is a very good novel and I would have liked to hear this @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social conversation next week
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Barbara Trapido and Maggie O’Farrell on ‘Brother of the More Famous Jack’
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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This hed is complete journalistic malpractice. Cool science story? Yes! Story that has anything to do with aliens? NO! Headline that misleads the reader because radio waves are the main way we look for intelligent aliens on other worlds? Exactly.
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That was my reaction to the article too — I'd love to try it if my class was capped at five students
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Big congratulations to @emersonsoarts.bsky.social MFA alum @kithaggard.bsky.social, whose novel RUSHLIGHTS is forthcoming next year in multiple regions. www.instagram.com/p/Dd3ox79DjUh/
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Congratulations!
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Starting the day with Maura Shawn Scanlin's RULE OF THREE, alongside the only family member who shares my love of fiddle tunes maurashawnscanlin.bandcamp.com/album/rule-o...
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good to see the bears out there celebrating Backpack's big win
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fat Bear final today — bring it home, Backpack!
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Meet Bear 89 Backpack
YouTube video by Explore Live Nature Cams
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Congratulations! I’m so pleased for you.
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
These are delightful, and also an always welcome reminder to revisit the postage stamp paintings of Donald Evans hyperallergic.com/a-travelogue...
hyperallergic.com
A Travelogue of Imaginary Lands in Stamps
Donald Evans concentrated all of his attention on the postage stamp, unlocking its potential to evoke distant, unseen lands.
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Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tomorrow!
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Voting has opened and the Fat Bear Week server is struggling under the weight of the world's love, which gives me some hope.
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nothing beneath notice is a political strategy for the left
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Fat Bear Eve to all
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I call this meeting to order
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congratulations to @emersonsoarts.bsky.social MFA alum @kenanorhan.bsky.social, whose novel The Renovation (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is on the @nationalbook.bsky.social fiction longlist.
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Kenan Orhan - National Book Foundation
Kenan Orhan’s debut collection, I Am My Country: And Other Stories, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and was longlisted for the Story Prize. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The Common, The Massachusetts Review, and other publications, and has been anthologized in The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories. The Renovation is his first novel.
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don't know what you were doing at 6am but I was merging three related spreadsheets drawn from different sources in different formats into a single comprehensive efficient record and now I am going to admin so hard oh god please send help what have I become
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Enjoyed this new-to-me essay by @jonathangibbs.bsky.social about semicolons the other and will be discussing it with my students.
tinycamels.wordpress.com
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nicholson Baker: the greatest two semi-colons in All Literature
I promised I was going to share my favourite semi-colon in All Literature. This accolade used to belong to F. Scott Fitzgerald, for a beautifully ironical semi-colon in his story (or perhaps novell…
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That cover photo seems rather dark for it, though!
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I liked that one quite a bit.
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If sports were played more literally pickleball would be funnier than handball or football.
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Played this tune with some folks last night and can't get it out of my head this morning. No choice but to skip work, I guess.
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Sailing Over England, Clifftop campsite jam, 8/1/14
YouTube video by Will Carter
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have my mandolin in my office today for evening plans, which raises an important professional question: Is it time for an afternoon music break? Of course it is.
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
After receiving this glorious supermarket circular of literature from South Dakota Review, how could I not subscribe?
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It is indeed a beautiful and excellent book (I have had notes toward write about it for quite a while now and will eventually make them coherent).
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I don't care how many people try to convince me otherwise. This sneaker company logo is a person smoking as they stare into the sky, deep in the midst of an existential crisis and quite possibly French.
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Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
While the onions fry, figure what supper will be.
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Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A wonderful book.
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Stayed home this morning to read a stack of student writing without the distractions of the office, and now jackhammers and pavement saws are tearing up the sidewalk in front of my house.
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Terrific! Congratulations.
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As it should be
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Have you seen my snooker table, Doris? No farmer Griffiths. I haven't seen any snooker tables at all this morning.
Old painting. Man and enormous rectangular sheep
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We have only been empty nesters for a couple of weeks and it is still rather unsettling how bare the cupboard looks even after I've done the big shop.
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
and it turns out that finding blurbs has been tricky. So I'm wondering whether there might be anyone reading this who'd like to read such a book, and whose name and contact details I could pass on to the editors for them to consider
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Hi. Sorry. Hey. So publishing is overburdened and writers are overburdened and I have a weird book coming out in January (synesthesia, being too girly for the theory bros and too theory for the girlies, France and Flanders, making new universities in the spare room, stars, migration, etc.)
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A studded leather bracelet dropped on the subway station stairs. Somewhere the office punk will spend this whole miserable day getting mistaken for a square.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Well, to begin with today, it’s the 56th anniversary of the publication of the book which contains the only advice a chap really needs
Extract from Kathryn Paulsen’s 1970 work, The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft. The first line at the top of p.90 is: “You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese”
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Guy walking through the park calling out, "This life is amazing if you let it!" over and over and grammar aside he's bang on.
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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Printing this out and taping it to the wall of my office, looking at it any time I consider weighing in on a trending topic
Stand up chalkboard on a street corner with message

Caution
Hornet best
Stay clear!
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Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I look forward to your report from September's mascot festival
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Local Character Festival in Susaki 2026 - September Events in Kochi - Japan Travel
The Local Character Festival in Susaki is a fun celebration of Japan's mascot culture, known as yuru-chara. The event is set to include almost 80 yuru-chara appearances.
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