Jacqueline Doyle

The Way It Worked by Sue Dickman | Building a life.

Great flash essay by Sue Dickman (@suecd.bsky.social) via @short-reads.org.

www.short-reads.org/the-way-it-w...

ICYMI Another great piece by @pdforan.bsky.social in @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social. I don't know why I miss so many publications on social media these days, but I'm glad I found this! Lovely, musical language.

A "situationship," a "calliope of could." Love the language and sounds here!

Thanks for reading and posting, Pat!

True, I thought of that too.

Missing Girls, Hidden Women I loved reading at Books on B yesterday with Patricia Bidar, Lynn Mundell, and Dawn Tasaka Steffler at the launch for Patricia’s flash collection Pardon Me for Moonwalking. I read an unpublished flash...

I've got a new substack post today, on @jaynemartin.bsky.social's interview with me five years ago on my chapbook THE MISSING GIRL and what I learned about my forthcoming book THE LUNATICS' BALL.
jacquelinedoyle2.substack.com/p/missing-gi...

Johnny Depp just followed me. Why am I pretty sure that he isn't Johnny Depp, just as Elena Ferrante, who seemed very interested in my writing, wasn't Elena Ferrante? Life is full of small disappointments.

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors The literary world can be a bit of an echo chamber. That is, if enough people say a book is “great,” it becomes official. It becomes a Great Book, and horrified looks are administered t…

Nabokov on Dostoevsky: "No, I do not object to soul-searching and self-revelation, but in those books the soul, and the sins, and the sentimentality, and the journalese, hardly warrant the tedious and muddled search." Read more here. These made me laugh: lithub.com/14-classic-w...

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Four women standing in front of bookstore bookshelves, arms entwined, with big smiles. The second woman is wearing snazzy green shoes.

Remember when readings were in person and not on Zoom? Such fun to read at @booksonb.bsky.social with @dawnsteffler.bsky.social and @lynnmundell.bsky.social to celebrate and launch @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social 's Pardon Me for Moonwalking!

Thanks, Sabrina!

He does, doesn't he!

Thanks for posting!

Thanks Laura Black for publishing my flash "Fish Oil" in @fictivedream.bsky.social today!

Surprisingly OK, given the magnitude. Hope your son arrived in Atlanta without mishap.

Whoa! A 7.1 earthquake where our son lives in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo (deep in the ocean, thankfully). A 6.75 earthquake in Mexico where we were on vacation with our son last month. I thought he was safe now that he's no longer in California. He's fine. No tsunami warnings or damage.

Felt #earthquake: 7.1 #quake South China Sea, 62 km west of Kudat, Sabah, Malaysia, 13 minutes ago - 22 reports so far.
Did you feel it? Send a report!

Read this amazing story by @kevingrauke.bsky.social in @fictivedream.bsky.social. This blew me away.

Piedmont’s first Black family sues city over century-old racial discrimination More than a century after Piedmont’s first Black family bought their home and were subjected to a racial harassment campaign, the family’s descendants are suing for damages.

Piedmont's first Black family sues city over century-old racial discrimination www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/17/p...

Woolf in 1902 by George Charles Beresford Portrait of Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941), a British author and feminist, with her chignon. A black and white portrait photograph of Virginia Woolf shown in soft three-quarter profile facing left. She has dark hair swept up and gathered into a low, loose chignon at the nape of her neck. Her features are delicate — a long, fine nose, deep-set eyes with a contemplative, faraway gaze, and a gentle mouth. She wears a light-colored blouse with a soft, slightly ruffled or gathered neckline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902_-_Restoration.jpg

Reading at Random with Virginia Woolf

By Frances Lindemann

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Virginia Woolf at PG:
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Au Musée du Luxembourg, à Paris, Leonora Carrington, artiste surréaliste majeure du XXᵉ siècle L’exposition, la première de cette ampleur en France, propose une centaine d’œuvres, dont certaines peu connues, et de documents.

Au Musée du Luxembourg, à Paris, Leonora Carrington, artiste surréaliste majeure du XXᵉ siècle

"Training wheels off, my midnight blue two-wheeler wobbled underneath me." Check out today's "Beautiful Thing" in @riverteeth.bsky.social : Tanya E. Friedman's "Pedal Fast, Eyes Up" riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-th...

This is fascinating! I had such trouble with research on Naomi Ginsberg (for a piece on lobotomies) and I wish I had uncovered this then.

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The Lunatics’ Ball: Some Backstory and the Invitation List Our suburban New Jersey household in the nineteen-sixties was a dark one, my depressed mother sleeping all day, my parents bickering every night over cocktails.

A new substack post on why I wrote THE LUNATICS' BALL and what "lunatics" are included. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

Parts by Allison Field Bell - CRAFT I. He tells me my body is deteriorating. Just like that. He says, “Your body is deteriorating.” Part 1 of me says Fuck you. Part 2 of me weeps.    II. We’re fighting about sunflowers again. Or maybe t...

Love @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social's new flash essay in CRAFT today: www.craftliterary.com/2026/02/11/p...

Can't wait!

Flyer announcing Book Launch and Reading, with Patricia Q. Bidar, Jacqueline Doyle, Lynn Mundell, and Dawn Tasaka Steffler. Event takes place February 28th at 2:30 PM at Books on B, 1414 B Street in Hayward. Flyer is turquoise blue with photos of the readers.

I'm thrilled to announce that @jacqdoyle.bsky.social @lynnmundell.bsky.social and @dawnsteffler.bsky.social are reading with me later this month at @booksonb.bsky.social !

Walk for peace: Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 2,300-mile journey Draped in burnt-orange robes, two dozen Buddhist monks are due to finish a 2,300-mile "Walk for Peace" in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, a self-described spiritual journey across nine states that has been cheered on by crowds of thousands.

Walk for peace: Buddhist monks arrive in Washington after 2,300-mile journey reut.rs/4kqhinI