Matthew Battles

No! Goodness, though, I will see if I can spend time with it!

I just wanted to test whether prepending "the secret to publishing" before any old slop would get me the social-media love I'm looking for.

Ah, this is great perspective, thank you. And yes, the centennial ought to be an opportunity to celebrate them both!

...it's probably fair to acknwoledge too that HLB was just covered in laurels—honorary degrees and the like—while Coatsworth almost certainly didn't get the academic/cultural attention she deserves. That said, Outermost House is an *astonishment*. Thanks for sharing your experience of it!

I hear you!

Interestingly, Beston's wife, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, was a prolific writer and a Newberry Medal Winner; their daughter, Kate Barnes, was Maine's first poet laureate.

The secret to publishing is this *ridiculous* supersize chocolate-chip Belgian waffle I got at a Cracker Barrel on B-95 in Springfield, IL [picture].

Emulsifying again!

I used to spend a LOT of time rolling library carts in very quiet stacks, and the haptic/synesthetic trance of being in community with them was for me a deep practice!

Hey, this is... great? Seriously, I so appreciate the kind words for the work, and the fun presentation!

Gosh, thank you! And apologies for slow reply—I'm still working bluesky into my routine.

Many thanks, Andrew!

Used Organic Maps on a trip to the Maine Woods last weekend, and was delighted to discover it has such useful features as downloadable maps, navigation, and a Gulf of Mexico.

No, no! You are the exception that proves the rule, dear one.

SELLOUTS. I'd buy that book. And we are, every last one of us.

I find it easier to tell if two strings are out of tune when played together—but to tell *which* is higher/lower than the other, I need to play them separately. I'll listen to them together & catch the beats of dissonance, then play them apart to catch the relation. Tested, I get within 2 cents.

I like Battles, the band, too, name notwithstanding. (My sibs and I long have joked about starting a band and calling it the Family Battles.)

Hey there fave folks! I've not got any traction with bsky yet, so I didn't see these mentions at speed. Hope all is well!

I once walked into a roadside gas-station restroom that had two toilets FACING EACH OTHER.

There is such thing as free will, but that's not all there is.

Scarface/Pacino

Seiche (demo), by Matthew Battles track by Matthew Battles

My first bandcamp release, a song adapted from a Wikipedia entry: matthewbattles.bandcamp.com/track/seiche...

Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.” When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...

I'm unsettled and inspired by this story of Cormac McCarthy's muse, whose life and person were so large he had to keep killing her off in fiction.
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We need your submissions!
I know you all were brilliant and published #envhist + #histtech articles in 2021-22, so submit them.

Portrait of a young Marianne Moore (literaryladiesguide.com)

Three tropical fish, hand-colored engraving in Voyage autour du monde, Poissons, by Louis-Isidore Duperrey, plate 30, 1825-30 (Linda Hall Library)

The Fish
wade
through black jade.
Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash-heaps;
opening and shutting itself like
an
injured fan.

(Modernist poet Marianne Moore is LHL's #ScientistOfTheDay.)

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#histSTM #OnThisDay 🗃️📜🐠

The Overlooked Lesson of The Parable of the Sower On the power of the big dream in Octavia Butler's prescient novel

Read Alexis here: oaklandgardenclub.substack.com/p/the-overlo...

The seed in winter Finding faith in the hollowness of a moment like this

I posted this preview of my winter column after a string of seminal synchronicities—especially in connection with @alexismadrigal.bsky.social's post on the Parable of the Sower, that left me feeling electric and open in the midst of this dark turn.

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Deep Dream Ten acclaimed writers imagine the future of art across space and time.In this volume from the Twelve Tomorrows series, Deep Dream, ten writers imagine the di...

MIT Press is having a holiday season promotion, so you can get 30% off DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART, edited by me, on US orders until November 30, 2024 with code MITHOLIDAY at penguinrandomhouse.com: