Diane Josefowicz

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The books I mean, not the shelves

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Why yes, I have a wall of books urgently to be read, and another for the books rather less urgently to be read, and I did touch every single one of those books on both shelves today

And decided to demote about six of them to the basement

Mine too, o’nights. Days, I’m at the Book Fair!

Are you a medical professional?

Be a perfectionist, by all means.

Are you regularly engaged with other people in the real world, in real time, not on a screen? No?

Then yes, it is almost certainly in the way.

Is your perfectionism in the way?

Are you involved with heavy, high-speed, flammable, combustible, or radioactive objects? No?

Then yes, it is probably in the way.

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Ha! It took a long time to accumulate so much unpublished work. I’m not as young as I look, @brianoneill.bsky.social! 😂

The Great Houses of Pill Hill by Diane Josefowicz: 9781641298087 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A scintillating, wickedly intricate locked-room mystery following an unconventional woman who makes miniatures of murder scenes and finds herself entangled in a real one when the client of her dream j...

How, exactly, is @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social already coming out with another novel? After just having a book of short stories last year? It seems unfair to be able to write so quickly and so well.

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Oh, you have a better idea for how Putin can receive realtime updates on the deliberations?

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

Among other consequences, a new endless, pointless & devastating war is a proven way to lose a generation of voters.

Ralph Ellison, The Art of Fiction No. 8 “The American novel is … a conquest of the frontier; as it describes our experience, it creates it.”

“The nature of our society is such that we are prevented from knowing who we are.” —Ralph Ellison

Bald Eagles were fishing off of ice floes on the Hudson River, saving the energy cost of flying and getting closer to the fish they wanted to catch. This one, seen at 79th Street on Friday, already was eating its catch. 🦅 🧡 🐟

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Jane Hirshfield’s “I Report to the Earth” bears witness to a world of terror and tenderness. Read Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

You Exist to Dream - Words Without Borders Jordanian poet Zuhair Abu Shayeb questions the limitations of history, water, and the past in this fervent poem.

"Put your hands on the book of water
and swear you’ll return to a sky
you used to touch with your small palm
or hide its night in your secret pocket."

Read "You Exist to Dream" by By Zuhair Abu Shayeb (tr. Miled Faiza & Karen McNeil) here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

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Edward Hirsch, The Art of Poetry No. 110 “It’s part of your job, as a poet, to write out of experience. To name what matters to you. You’ve only got one life to draw on.”

“For a long time—I’d say all of my twenties and much of my thirties—I was simply reading everything I could and trying to assimilate it.” —Edward Hirsch

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s “Tahsin from Erzurum,” translated by Aysel Basci, lingers in the quiet between man and landscape. Read Issue Fifty-Six through the link in our bio.

I don’t think he’s getting that Nobel Peace Prize

Eyes on - this is not good

It’s extremely bad that a nation with the most power has a citizenry with the most divorced relationship with that power.

As long as the American stock market remains high they will allow and justify endless war and mass murder and that is simply the hard truth of our predicament.

another stupid war

It really all just boils down to whether love or ruthless greed is the most powerful force

And its really neck and neck.