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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

- Aldous Huxley
Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

― Vincent Willem van Gogh

This is awesome!

Train Dreams Train Dreams is a novella by Denis Johnson. Highly recommended.

Train Dreams: "I read this in a single evening. I was pulled in by the hardscrabble life of Robert Grainer, and could see similarities with my grandfather’s. A great way to spend an afternoon or evening."
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And then a good list of poetry books worth your time. New, recent, and older.
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The Great Spring 2025 Book Preview It’s been a painfully long winter here in New York City, but the glinting promise of spring—and spring books—has bolstered me through these cold, hard months. Here you’ll find just over 100 titles tha...

A couple of book lists for the weekend bolstering of TBR piles. First, a list of books coming out between now and June:
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The teeming life of dead trees Rotting logs turn out to be vital to forest biodiversity and recycling organic matter

Dead Trees are much livelier than most think. I, however, am certain all trees have been holding an Entmoot for centuries, and once they decide whose side we're on...
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Woke up to my poem, "The One" in the latest Lorelei Signal this morning. The art by Lee Ann Barlow is exactly what I pictured. Thanks to Carol Hightshoe for seeing something in the poem.

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A social media challenge I can encourage. Love seeing slightly older and much older books showing up in the feed

Recent books added to the TBR. Each recommended by favorite authors: Gabriel García Márquez was floored by Pedro Parma, and Italo Calvino called That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana the greatest Italian novel.

Suggestion of the Week- Normal Rules Don’t Apply: Stories Normal Rules Don’t Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson Literary Fiction | Speculative | Stories This collection of eleven fabulous interconnected stories includes a queen who makes one too many p…

That time of the week - our suggested book of the week is Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson.

The uncanny, unsettling surprises of the universe visit us where we live.

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Suggestion of the Week: Solutions for the Problems of Bodies in Space: Poems Solutions for the Problems of Bodies in Space: Poems by Catherine Barnett Poetry Barnett’s poems are full of grace at our bewilderments. She surprises with meditations and elegies that are so very …

In time for weekend reading, our book suggestion of the week is Catherine Barnett's Solutions for the Problem of Bodies.

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Three Books To Read In May Happy May! We’re changing up how we do our TBR suggestions. Each month we’ll suggest one recent release, one from a few years ago, and one on the more classic end of the spectrum. (There’s no such …

Three book suggestions for May. Something new, something less new (but connected to something so new it doesn't exist yet) and something older but revised and restored. #booksky #literaturesky modernfolklorepress.com/2024/05/10/t...

What You Sow - Small Wonders Your earliest memory is of your mother's brush as she yanks it through the tangle of Kentucky bluegrass carpeting your head.

Our story today is one of choices, grief, and growth. And, of course, flowers. "What You Sow" by @hschofieldfic.bsky.social :

"Your earliest memory is of your mother’s brush as she yanks it through the tangle of Kentucky bluegrass carpeting your head."

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For Your TBR - Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li Staff favorite, Yiyun Li returns with a new collection of short stories.

Several weeks ago we suggested Yiyun Li's book, Wednesday's Child. Reposting since this is a 2024 Pulitzer finalist. Such an outstanding collection.
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The Virtue of Slow Writers The slow writer embraces the protracted and unpredictable timeline, seeing it not as fraught or frustrating but an opportunity for openness and discovery.

Creativity refuses to work according to timetables. Writing slow is sometimes the only way a book makes it into the world.
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We are very excited to share that @aijiang.bsky.social‘s novelette, I AM AI, which we published last June, is a finalist for the Hugo Award!

Congrats, Ai!

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At Long Last, a Translation Worthy of 'Pedro Páramo' The latest translation of 'Pedro Páramo' is a mystifying work, in the dual sense that it is confounding and that its language possesses an almost mystical quality.

Because of this book's effect on Gabriel García Márquez, I'm automatically curious about it. Another for my TBR.
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For Your TBR - Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li Staff favorite, Yiyun Li returns with a new collection of short stories.

Catching up on our TBR suggestions. Wednesday's Child: Stories by Yiyun Li was an automatic addition to the TBR pile.
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5 book covers for Sofia Samatar, David Mitchell, Susanna Clarke, and Karen Russell.

I wrote for Shepherd about my five favorite books where the real and unreal collide. The list contains Sofia Samatar, David Mitchell, Susanna Clarke, and Karen Russell, but there are many, many more...
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“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”

― Ursula K. LeGuin

#Smallpress Some small press pals on #Bluesky with #award-eligible books you should check out, besides us: @neonhemlock.bsky.social, @atthisarts.com, @dancingstarpress.bsky.social, @tachyonpub.bsky.social, @stelliformpress.bsky.social, @lunapress.bsky.social

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
― Jane Smiley

Saturday seems like a good day to visit a bookstore.

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”

― Malcolm X

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz