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Fund a reprint of Giono's The Serpent of Stars by Archipelago Books. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social secure.givelively.org/donate/archi...

We were doing great up to this post. Since then, just two sets sold. Booksellers, consider stocking a set. Customers will want one if they're going to take part in the great Pilgrimage read of 2026!
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Also: getting rid of pennies as a currency will absolutely become a regressive tax.

Your state's sales tax: Is it an even 5 or 10 percent?

Because if it isn't, who's going to end up paying for rounding up?

People with no phones or credit cards.

Goodness yes. Google reader.

Thank you!

Have you decided yet whether or not you’ll host a read-along?

Thanks! So pleased to follow fellow Hawkeyes.

I’m eager to listen to this one!

I would buy it if it was available.

Good thoughts and crossed fingers.

I’m reading Uwe Johnson’s “Anniversaries” and I’m deep in its rabbit holes.

Damn. I’m sorry. My Covid-free days are probably numbered too.

Zahid Rafiq : The World With Its Mouth Open - Tin House Today’s guest Zahid Rafiq discusses his debut short story collection The World With Its Mouth Open, eleven remarkable stories set in modern-day Kashmir. Prior to writing fiction Rafiq was a journalist...

Extremely excited to start off the year with a conversation with Zahid Rafiq who wrote the best story collection I read in 2024, eleven remarkable stories set in modern day Kashmir.
Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/zahi...
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That path is just begging to be explored. Thank you.

Good morning. It’s a cold one. 🥶

🎙️✨ On the latest episode of Between the Cover podcast, poet, novelist, and essayist Dionne Brand joins @davidnaimon.bsky.social to discuss her latest book of nonfiction Salvage: Readings from the Wreck.

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👂Listen! bit.ly/DionneBrandBTC

Awesome thread. Thank you.

Flogging my newsletter! This month I wrote about Agnes Denes and gentrification, the commodification of wheat and real estate, and how the new Tinworks art space is be both problematic and energizing: getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/2024/10/05/w...

And Iowa.

Miss Mac

Maybe there’s hope?

Wordle. If only they didn’t own Wordle, for Pete’s sake.

Good movie adaptation too.

Color photo of Mill Brook, Vermont. The brook is falling through the gorge bottom, and at center right in the background a modest waterfall emerged from the lush green forest. In the foreground the brooks skips along to its next fall, beside a steep mossy bank. 'When nothing matters, the small stuff counts.'

When nothing matters, the small stuff counts.

Amitav Ghosh : Smoke and Ashes - Tin House For nearly twenty years Amitav Ghosh has been writing about opium and the opium trade, first in his fictional Ibis trilogy, and now in nonfiction with Smoke & Ashes. This is a story that brings togeth...

Don't miss today's episode with Amitav Ghosh. We talk about the history of extractive colonial economies, how plants have agency within history, & about the geopolitical forces that led to the rise of realism within fiction, and at what cost. Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/amit... @amitav.bsky.social

"Screech Owl" All night each reedy whinny from a bird no bigger than a heart flies out of a tall black pine and, in a breath, is taken away by the stars. Yet, with small hope from the center of darkness it calls out again and again. —Ted Kooser

"Screech Owl" by Ted Kooser #NationalPoetryMonth

Bears! Ponies! Donna Haraway! Come read my latest at Getting Dirty: getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/2024/02/25/t...

Seems like the most powerful people at the NYT aren’t reporters, editors, or columnists. Instead it’s the folks that write the headlines.

Elk, subzero temperatures, and the problems of wrapping our brain around the anthropocene.
(And since I fled Substack, I'd appreciate all the follows, subscribes, reposts or boosts I can get. Thanks!)
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