Jeff Tobin

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ICYMI Take a few moments for some thought-provoking #prose in the #Bully issue from @jefferyallentobin.bsky.social and @gyatchisin.bsky.social along with Mea Andrews, Ivars Balkits & Amy Anam Cara #prosepoetry #flashfiction #microfiction

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Myths, Gods & Immortals | Contents Announcement | Loki We’re delighted to announce the stories and authors included in our upcoming Loki book! Selected from submissions, eighteen brand new stories see their first publication here, from authors inspired by...

Very excited to have my story "The Shape of Mischief" included in this excellent book. Thank you to Flame Tree Fiction!

The Difficult Genius of Francisco Goya Every year, on this date, I find myself thinking of Francisco Goya—not just the painter, but the man: the court chronicler, the satirist, the wounded citizen, the exiled skeptic. Goya was born on...

🎂 Born this day: Francisco Goya (1746)
🎨 Court painter, chronicler of war, and eventual king of nightmares.

I wrote a blog about why I sometimes love him, sometimes can’t stand him—and why he might be the most novel-worthy artist in history.

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Signed, Always On this day, someone wrote ...

I started a new series over at Substack called "Signed, Always" that takes a look at history through written letters. It's literature-heavy (for now) but I consider anything when choosing the letters. This is today's post about Thomas Merton raging against the machine.

The Age of Auden Why the Poet of Anxiety Speaks to Our Times

A little something on Auden's relevance.

I’ve got a poem in Canary Literary Magazine’s latest issue. Take a look!

Robert Burns

Happy Burns Day!

Some hae meat an canna eat,
And some wad eat that want it;
But we hae meat, and we can eat,
And sae the Lord be thankit.

We Need John Keats Now More Than Ever ​“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” These words, penned by John Keats over two centuries ago, have endured as a testament to the power of beauty to outlast the fleeting nature of time. In...

One of the "projects" I want to commit to this year is reconnecting with the Romantic poets. In this chaotic (often infuriating) world, we could all use a little beauty. I wrote a short piece on my infatuation with John Keats and why he still matters:

What We Can Learn From Ferruccio Busoni, the First Truly Modern Composer Ferruccio Busoni, who died 100 years ago, was a globe-trotting, forward-thinking composer and teacher with a message of timelessness in music.

Great piece in the @nytimes.com about under appreciated composer Ferruccio Busoni. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/a...

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Cover image of Seamus Heaney’s Death of a Naturalist.

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Cover image of Samantha Harvey’s novella Orbital.

OK, I read Orbital and I have to say, it just did not connect with me. Harvey has a poetic gift with her prose, but there are only so many different ways you can describe the beauty of earth from low orbit. A lack of emotional buy-in due to a lack of plot and interesting character arcs killed it.

Cover image of Allan W. Eckert’s The Frontiersmen.

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The Stillness That Dwells in Possibility: Celebrating 194 Years of Emily Dickinson I didn’t love Emily Dickinson at first. In fact, I resisted her entirely. She was assigned reading in my high school English class, introduced with reverent solemnity—“the reclusive genius of...

Today is Emily Dickinson's 194th birthday. I wrote a short essay on my experience with her work and why silence is golden.

Cover image of Patrick Radden Keefe’s book Say Nothing.

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Cover image of Albert Camus’ “The Stranger”

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Scars & Fresh Paint Jeffery Allen Tobin, a political scientist by some cosmic mistake, wades through the murky waters of U.S. foreign policy in South Florida, much to the dismay of real experts. After hours, he retreats ...

Shameless plug alert!🚨

My new book of poetry is officially available. It's a very personal and cathartic journey. You can get it on Amazon, but I am going to link to the publisher here. If you extend me the honor of purchasing it, I appreciate it and I hope you enjoy.

Cover image of Hans Fallada’s novel Every Man Dies Alone.

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Cover image of Gore Vidal’s Point to Point Navigation.

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Cover image of Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago.

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Cover image of John Steinbeck’s The Log From the Sea of Cortez.

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Thomas Mann

📚 Thomas Mann may be a "forgotten" giant, but his influence shapes modern literature in surprising ways. From The Magic Mountain to his essays, his legacy deserves a fresh look. Dive into my latest Substack essay to rediscover his enduring relevance! 👉 substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Cover image of Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones.

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A classic. Read it for the first time in sixth grade and still revisit it. Timeless.

Cover image of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.

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Cover image of Anne Sexton’s poetry book All My Pretty Ones.

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