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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 3h

Speaking of 1982... and since there's no #Brewers #baseball until next week, a little reminiscing. (My dad got me the expensive ticket.) #ThisIsMyCrew

Two tickets to the 1982 ALCS in Milwaukee, games 3 and 5. I was in college there and then, and my two months old daughter was with me at the games.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Greg @cheekface.bsky.social advises us to find our community. Well, someone found me before last night's show because they remembered seeing me at last year's show. It's a great feeling to be recognized by your community.

Greg with his arms up at the start of the set, standing with the other members of Cheekface.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#NowReading on the last day of #WITMonth (just coincidence, I read women in translation all the time) @twolinespress.com

"This book is a light at the end of the tunnel."
The Paris Review

ON LIGHTHOUSES

Jazmina Barrera
translated by
Christina MacSweeney

Aqua blue-green book with a lighthouse in the middle

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Thanks to @newvesselpress.bsky.social for such quick shipping & for the catalog -- it's been a long time since I've seen one & I love them. Looking forward to the read with @paperpills10.bsky.social, @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social, @yelenafurman.bsky.social, @olgaz.bsky.social & others! #WITMonth

My
Dreadful Body

A novel

Egana Djabbarova

Translated by Lisa C. Hayden

A dark-haired woman in pieces on the front cover of the book, which is next to a publisher's catalog:
New Vessel Press 2026-27

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Finished this last night & loved its style, quirkiness, projection, lonely characters, & empathy for even terrible people (that is, all of us). W/o my @twolinespress.com membership, I wouldn't know this writer. Ordered 2 more of her books from them before I'd even finished this collection.

And
How Have
*You* Been?

Stories
Maria Judite
De Carvalho

Translated by Margaret Jull Costa

Pinkish background, with white and black text and the cutout of a man and woman seen from the back, arm in arm, in the foreground. A bright green bookmark with the cutout silhouette of a bristling cat emerges from the top of the book.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

My @twolinespress.com order arrived Saturday and I've been feeling the endorphins ever since.

Six books and above them a yellow-
green Two Lines Press bookmark and an orange koozy that reads "I'm looking at the sea, it's all I do."

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Now reading @malarkeybooks.bsky.social 's THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON US by @joshuatrentbrown.com . I found "Look Homeward, Angel" in its beginning and nearing the end of Part One, Richard Wright's "Native Son." Impressive story and prose

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Dum-Dums suckers want you to celebrate 250 years for $15.99

An expensive bag of red, white and blue candy.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My short story collection SECRET KEEPERS hanging out with Alys Arden, James Lee Burke, and others at Blue Cypress Books on my favorite street, Oak, in New Orleans.

Books on a shelf by several authors with relation to New Orleans, or Louisiana in general

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I enjoyed every one of these off-kilter, interrelated stories so much they breezed by while I was reading them and stayed with me when I wasn't. @twolinespress.com @catranslation.org

SWELL (spelled with tied full black garbage
bags that almost look like balloons, on a neon green background)

Stories

Son Bo-Mi

Translated by Janet Hong

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Another "weird fiction" #BookMail ordered from @eveninghouse.bsky.social -- I wouldn't have known of this work without their curated site.

Jean Ray

The Last Canterbury Tales

Translated by Scott Nicolay

Shiny, mostly black, cover of a cobblestone (?) road with maybe church windows belonging to the building at the back, a woman likely on a pilgrimage approaches, the scene is duplicated.
Because it's shiny, a lamp and hands holding a phone taking this picture are reflected in it.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Jupiter and Venus, yes, but can you spot the lurker (stalker)?

Two bright white orbs framed as eyes in a power tower. A faint tiny white orb can be seen (barely) to the upper right of the "eyes."

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Fun event last night at Garden District Books for Nic Brown's @3313books.bsky.social VIOLENT FEMMES. The event ended with a great rendition of "Good Feeling" with the author on drums, Ted Joyner of the Generationals singing & playing guitar, and Nic's friend (sorry I didn't catch his name) on bass.

Garden District Book Shop bookmark

33 1/3
Violent Femmes by Nic Brown
Bloomsbury

Three men playing instruments in front of an audience with a carousel painting behind them.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Wonderful #BookMail yesterday from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social : A poetry zine by Rachel King, her work inspired by Emily Carr, an artist I enjoyed discovering during a visit to British Columbia years ago. And Terrestrial by @suzyeynon.bsky.social -- really looking forward to reading it!

How to Feel by Rachel King

Terrestrial by Suzy Eynon: a novella

The sticker above reads, do you believe we're alone

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Are you aware of these books? Maybe a couple repeat authors with Abyss, but completely different stories.

Women's Weird
Strange Stories by Women,
1890-1940

Women's Weird 2
More Strange Stories
by Women, 1891-1937

Both edited by Melissa Edmundson
From Handheld Press

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

It was great! I really enjoyed my time there and the other readers I heard before and after me. I bought the book next to mine. I love Justin's poetry. Great beer too!🍺😋

Books at a book table: Blue and green book cover -- mine! -- next to a book with the picture of a pregnant woman in white with blonde hair and eyeglasses holding orbs (eggs?) in each hand, one black and the other white, titled A Reading from the Book of Panic, by Justin Lacour.

Hazy IPA called Number One's Gonna Be Number One

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

This Sunday, LMNL Arts Fest at Parleaux Beer Lab in New Orleans. I'm scheduled to read at 4:30. Hope to see some of y'all there!

Lmnl
Arts Fest 2026

Readings: Every 7 minutes, from 12-5 pm

March 22

Parleaux Beer Lab
634 Lesseps St.

Lmnl Arts Fest 2026

List of readers, musical performers, children's story time, workshops & writing marathons, vendors, food and dessert

March 22
12pm - 5 pm
Parleaux Beer Lab
634 Lesseps St

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

As long as there's no Cadbury egg disaster (there was not)

A Cadbury egg with its top bitten off, looking like one of the paintings described in Don Bronco's (Working Title) Shell, the experience of looking -- or tasting -- a metaphysical one.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Finished @aaronburch.bsky.social 's charming novella TACOMA the other night. I now understand his illustration! Loved the wormhole.

Author-signed title page:

Thanks, Teresa!
A. (In author's handwriting)

Tacoma

Aaron Burch (crossed out and his signature added under)

Illustration of a group of pine trees with a swirly circle underneath and wormhole! written under it.

Autofocus Books
Easton, Pennsylvania

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

#BookMail is the best mail & it always seems to arrive when I need it. Thanks, @aaronburch.bsky.social -- I'm really looking forward to reading your book!

Book cover (white):

Tacoma (title in blue letters)

Aaron Burch (author name in black letters)

Black and white illustration of a lit rocket (firework)

AUTOFOCUS (publisher's name in black letters)

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Books have always been my friends, but now they've started to arrive just when I need them. Thanks to @eveninghouse.bsky.social for carrying this book. As soon I saw it on their site, I knew it'd become mine.

A book with a black cover and white letters reading Queens of the Abyss/ Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird/ Edited by Mike Ashley/British Library of the Weird sits on a brick hearth. Its illustration in black and orange centers a woman with piercing eyes wearing a hood over her longish hair. She is flanked by two women whose faces are only partially shown. They also seem to be wearing hoods. Above their heads are distinct hands and what seem to be interlocked fingers.

At top right of the brick hearth are silver and purple Mardi Gras doubloons and two king cake babies resting their heads on a gold bean. It's Carnival time, y'all!

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I completely agree with that sentiment. And full disclosure: I bought these two books a couple nights ago, right after I reposted John's post. What finds!

Two books I ordered from Evening House Books that I'd never heard of before going through their curated site. Queen of the Abyss (weird short stories) and The Last Canterbury Tales (a novel, but I'm guessing made up of short stories in a way).

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

My last new tea of the year, Peter Rabbit English Breakfast Tea, a gift all the way from... (See alt text)

The tea was bought from a Peter Rabbit cafe in Japan.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

🎶 ... and a (Carolina) chickadee in a pomegranate tree. 🎶

Chickadee in the lower right of the picture

Still in lower right - chickadee-dee-dee-ing its heart out

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

My Dec 26 tea was a gift I received yesterday 😃 The "roasted" aroma smelled as good as it tasted, and the second steep was as good as the first.

Nakamura
Japan Tea
Hojicha
Roasted green tea
Roasted
1st Yabukita Leaf
How to brew 100cc per cup
3g quantity
85 c temperature
1 min steam in teapot
Organic green tea
Good harvest from Shizuoka
Since 1919

Spoonful of roasted green tea waiting for the water to get to the appropriate temperature

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I think I said this in 2022, but "A Present for Big Saint Nick" by Kurt Vonnegut could have been written now about a certain man I hate to name, so I won't. #ssac2025

Short story booklet between two gift bags. One reads "Very Very Merry"

Outside of the Kurt Vonnegut museum in Indianapolis, Indiana

A book table inside the Vonnegut museum's gift shop

Wall hanging that reads:
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Day 24 #AdagioTeas2025 rooibos nutcracker A nice brew to end my evening and the Advent calendar.

Ingredients: rooibos tea, apple pieces, cocoa nibs, natural caramel flavor, blue cornflowers, marigold flowers, natural chestnut flavor, natural hazelnut flavor

Cookies by my daughter

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Day 12 #12DoS2025 #ssac2025 A Very Mario Lopez Christmas by Megan Giddings I'm not a consumer/fan of the stories/movies (Hallmark channel?) this story is parodying, yet it was still entertaining.

The last story booklet of The 12 Days of Stories sits between two 12 Days of Christmas mugs

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Day 23 #AdagioTeas2025 pomegranate green I enjoyed two good steeps with this blend. I only wish I'd thought to use my pomegranate tree for a photo op.

Ingredients: green tea, natural pomegranate flavor, raspberry leaves, raspberries

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Day 11 #12DoS2025 #ssac2025 When You Were Here by Claire Lombardo (I mentioned one of the grandsons with yesterday's story; today's story could be of another, his brother.)

Short story booklet next to the 'Twas the Night Before Christmas house. Santa escapes in the latter, but in the Lombardo, it's a family member.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Day 22 #AdagioTeas2025 gingerbread I wasn't a fan of the "natural" gingerbread flavor. I forgot to use citrus as a prop in my photo, but that's appropriate since I didn't taste any.

Ingredients: black tea, natural gingerbread flavor, cinnamon, ginger, orange

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Day 10 #12DoS2025 #ssac2025 A Nativity Scene by Rion Amilcar Scott "...when there is no other option, the courage will be there to cut through the revulsion, the fear or any other barrier..." (This story could be the birth of one of the grandsons, excepting that he was born before EMS arrived.)

Story booklet in front of my parents' first Nativity set, now mine, the tradition that the baby doesn't go into the manger until Christmas morning.

Two pictures of the same nativity set with each of my parents holding me -- I was exactly a month old. Their manger scene has all of the pieces at this juncture. Through the years and five more kids, inevitably, pieces got broken.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I love the Balthazar on the left! He reminds me of the little guy I got in Rome. 😂

One of the Magi in a nativity scene -- a little boy dressed up -- holding a wrapped gift and looking very proud of himself.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Day 9 #12DoS2025 #ssac2025 The Rent-Controlled Ghost by Lee Conell The start of emotional healing comes from unexpected places.

Short story booklet in a Great Expectations scene.
There is no real emotional healing in GE, but there is an old woman whose effect upon a boy is like that of a (malignant) ghost.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Day 21 #AdagioTeas2025 Don't tell @mkcanuck.bsky.social but I brewed this in a cup😂 @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social , I drank it before I read that it contained peppermint😱 I don't typically care for mate but this combo was good. The mate aftertaste I don't care for was revealed during the 3rd steep.

reindeer fuel ingredients:
black tea, ginger, peppermint leaves (didn't taste them, hoping my body doesn't realize it either), toasted mate tea, cocoa nibs, natural chocolate flavor

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Day 8 #12DoS2025 #ssac2025 The Old Ways by Silas House "He's never liked to see anyone else embarrassed; it always makes him feel embarrassed, too."

Story booklet next to a Christmas teddy-bear water glass and behind a white plate holding a spice-currant cookie. There was another cookie, but I ate it.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Day 19 #AdagioTeas2025 ginseng green This was nice. I'm thinking the fewer ingredients the better for me. (The second steep was a bit bitter, but I may have used too hot of water and/or steeped it too long.)

Ingredients: green tea, ginseng root, natural ginseng flavor, ginger

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