Rosie Schaap

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[I hate PKs] ⚽️

Gaza’s “last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing,” according to the United Nations.

Children are starving. In recent weeks, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians seeking food aid, per the UN.

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New York City, I love you! And I wish I were there to celebrate this with you! If it weren’t so freaking hot!

It’s always heartwarming when a good candidate beats an enormous sack of cash.

The Drug That Could Revolutionize the Fight Against H.I.V. World leaders are dismantling global health programs and cutting back foreign aid. Will an extraordinary new medicine be able to outpace the damage?

A new drug could revolutionize H.I.V. prevention. But, as world leaders dismantle global health programs and cut back foreign aid, will this extraordinary new technology be able to change the world?

I bet you can find a nice one for free.

Happy solstice!
It’s all downhill from here!

In the distance I hear the village nursery school kids singing ‘Que Sera Sera’ and think, this has to be the soundtrack for the end of the world.

Our entry for 'hyperbole' is probably the greatest thing ever written in the English language.

Cavan 🤣

Lovely to bump into @rosieschaap.bsky.social today in No Alibis Books, Belfast, as we signed copies of our books (while accidentally colour-coordinating with the covers).

who ever heard that the devil was dead?

The President just fired our extraordinary Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. As Chair of Senate Rules I worked closely w/her. She was dedicated to the Library and highly respected by Democratic AND Republican senators. This is an outrage and a big loss.

The best radio station!

Looking forward to tonight’s pub quiz. I hope the Glenarm Wildlife Group will agree that our team should be called Pine Marten Scorcese…

I loved our conversation, Royal--thank you x

Thanks, Keith! All is well in Glenarm, but I’m nonetheless distraught by goings-on back in the US. Wouldn’t mind a long walk dressed as a curlew myself.

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Thanks, Daemon!

This Cultural Life - Maggie O'Farrell - BBC Sounds Author Maggie O'Farrell reveals the influences that have shaped her writing.

Loved this interview with Maggie O’Farrell, full of smart, useful stuff for writers (and writers who teach). Spoiler: her influences include Tove Jansson and David Hockney.

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Who’s the meshuggener who woke up at 4:30 to make bagels for her students on the last day of the semester? Me. I am the meshuggener. But they deserve it.

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Wow!

I'm writing about the building in which I spent most of my childhood, and my research has led to a thrilling discovery:

BIG EDIE and LITTLE EDIE lived there in the 1930s.

Now I have to find out if we lived in the same apartment...

#greygardens

Woke up today very excited to write. This is not normal for me. But it’s nice.

Exile On Main Street: Rosie Schaap the New Yorker who found happiness in an Antrim village | Free State with Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning

I so enjoyed having this conversation with the very smart Dion Fanning about THE SLOW ROAD NORTH, Roger Casement, Muhammad Ali, Ciaran Carson, grief, Glenarm, and more. Hope you'll give it a listen--and other episodes of Free State with Joe Brolly & Dion Fanning, too (it's a great podcast).

The Slow Road North by Rosie Schaap: A beautiful, unsparing memoir about grief Schaap was 39 when her husband, Frank, died on Valentine’s Day

An absolutely lovely review of THE SLOW ROAD NORTH in the Irish Times! I so appreciate this thoughtful, thorough--and beautifully written--consideration by Mei Chin.

Winter retreats, and the days lengthen and brighten in this beautiful place.

Oh, thank you so much for reading, Dina, and for your kind words!

Rosie Schaap: ‘In Ireland, I found an openness to talking about death’ The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

It was an honour to chat about THE SLOW ROAD NORTH with the phenomenal Róisín Ingle on the Irish Times' The Women's Podcast.