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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The good old days when the land was just barren rock and atmospheric oxygen levels were too low to support nearly any kind of life on land. The good old days for trilobites.

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Reform 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.

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Enrico Cavaletti’s 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵: the finest of beginnings to a novel which disappears in mere paragraphs

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

19 January 2024: apersonalanthology.substack.com/p/a-personal...

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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

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Perhaps see also: Mr. N, suffering from dementia, his memory leaving him, yearning for and then engaging Mr. A, the secret agent who was assigned to follow Mr. N many years before, with Mr. A realising that Mr. N is now the only person who will listen to his stories (Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov)

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

El mundo al revés; debajo de la ciudad, vuelan las aves Ronda, Octubre 2025

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I loved this: it is a wonderfully crafted read, and zooms out much further than just Trump; a perspective on speaking about (sadly inevitable) stupidity, more than just the current actors in place

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

30 pages into a copy I’ve found online – this is amazingly imaginative, and one of the best recommendations I’ve seen in ages 💪 The wonder of Michal Ajvaz’s The Golden Age, peppered with the geometry of two dimensions (eyes closed to the dated application of gender onto this abstract space, tho ;)

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

J. M. G. Le Clézio, The Interrogation

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

On seeing a post on writing about tides (this, from Danilo Claremont's 'Submissão ao periódico das inseguranças')

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

𝑳'𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝑫𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆 ⬝ 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 ⬝ apersonalanthology.substack.com/p/a-personal...

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I’ll scan the shelves of Oxfam, Abingdon, perhaps one Saturday in four; found my own name staring back at me this weekend

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

Went to the recently-opened and well-hidden Curio bookshop in Oxford today; £12 lighter, 4 very good books heavier

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

A big thank-you to @jonathangibbs.bsky.social for hosting this piece (and all the work he does in pulling A Personal Anthology together each week)

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

"For every six butts he has, you see, he can make his own cigarette—he takes a little of the unsmoked tobacco from each, rolls it in his own paper and, by piecing these fragments together, has a smoke of his own."

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

WELL... 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...

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Ṩ @simonkinch.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

This 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

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Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

Just 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/about

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A 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...

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