Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Reform supporter James Bowden of Bexley: “Carbon dioxide was much higher in the past, it was 10 times higher than this […] It’s not a human problem.” Yes James, that would have been the good old days of the Ordovician Period, roughly 485 million years ago. 100 0
Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Enrico Cavaletti’s 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵: the finest of beginnings to a novel which disappears in mere paragraphs 020 0
Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 19/01/202619 January 2024: apersonalanthology.substack.com/p/a-personal... 010 0
Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 12/01/2026‘Sensible people are like that, they tend to simplify everything, and then, but always too late, we witness their astonishment at the great diversity of life…’ José Saramago, The Double 021 0
Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 04/10/2025El mundo al revés; debajo de la ciudad, vuelan las aves Ronda, Octubre 2025 000 0
Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 27/11/2024On seeing a post on writing about tides (this, from Danilo Claremont's 'Submissão ao periódico das inseguranças') 010 0
Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024𝑳'𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝑫𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆 ⬝ 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 ⬝ apersonalanthology.substack.com/p/a-personal... 020 0
Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 17/09/2024I’ll scan the shelves of Oxfam, Abingdon, perhaps one Saturday in four; found my own name staring back at me this weekend 010 0
Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 20/01/2024Went to the recently-opened and well-hidden Curio bookshop in Oxford today; £12 lighter, 4 very good books heavier 010 0
Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 19/01/2024WELL... Since you ask me for an anthology of short stories, itself in the form of its own short story, I may just have something that you find... convoluted but nevertheless charming: apersonalanthology.substack.com/p/a-personal... 120 0
Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 17/01/2024This week, I'm guest-editing for @jonathangibbs.bsky.social 's wonderful A Personal Anthology – a sojourn through twelve of my favourites, via a (less than believable) stay at L'Hotel Delle Cento Storie. Available online (and in inboxes) at 14:00 on Friday, at apersonalanthology.substack.com/about 040 0
Reposted by ṨJonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 15/01/2024Just a heads-up that this week's guest editor on A Personal Anthology will be @simonkinch.bsky.social, author of Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness, a fascinating experiment in split-narrative novel-writing. I do recommend it! Sign up here: apersonalanthology.substack.com/aboutapersonalanthology.substack.comAbout - A Personal AnthologyA weekly guest-editor picks and introduces a personal anthology of twelve favourite short stories. Click to read A Personal Anthology, by Jonathan Gibbs, a Substack publication with thousands of subsc... 012 0