Barbara Drake-Vera

Next in the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social: Makeshift, Sarah Campion's 1940 novel about the journey of Charlotte Herz, a German Jewish woman, from 1919 through the Weimar republic, the rise of the Nazis, and her journey in search of a new home.

Josephine Johnson wrote Seven Houses: a Memoir of Time and Places (1973) when she was in her sixties. It’s a memoir constructed around the framework of the seven houses in which she had spent most of her life to that point. (Not all innovation in the memoir is recent.)

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My accomplishment this week has been not dying in the heat dome.

Ty

Thank you for outlining it so clearly. My heart weeps

Grateful to the Key West Literary Seminar for hosting me as their June writer in residence for my novel in progress. What a gift! (View from my KW studio)

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H. L. Davis's Winds of Morning (1952) is a western in the same sense that Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It is a western: yes, there are cows and cowboys in Davis's book, but fundamentally, it's about how people come to ways of living in a land so much bigger than us.

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Wow

Joaquina Ballard Howles holding a copy of the new edition of No More Giants from Boiler House Press in November 2023

Back in 2021, I read a 1966 novel about a young woman on a remote ranch in Nevada that had never been published in the US. Luckily, I tracked down its author, Joaquina Howles, and arrange to republish No More Giants with @bhousepress.bsky.social before she died last year.

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A long and -- at times -- brutal week. But we continue to fight for democracy with hope and determination. Thank you to everyone who has offered kind words of support on this journey. More soon. Goodnight.😴

Thank you.

Thank you. They took our gardener. Such a decent hardworking family man. I can't believe I am witnessing such evil.

Horrific. It is happening in my own community.

YouTube video by Michael Mann Michael Mann on BBC World News America Discussing Closing Window for Limiting Warming Below 1.5C

My interview earlier this evening on #BBC #WorldNewsAmerica about the closing window for averting dangerous planetary warming: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7DU...

First electric aircraft lands at JFK — General Aviation News According to Beta Technology officials, the ALIA can fly 250 nautical miles on a single charge. He told reporters from Reuters that it cost just $8 to power the 45-minute flight.

A milestone: the first electric aircraft has landed at JFK.

"...the flight from the airport in East Hampton to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport took 45 minutes with a pilot and four people" and cost ... $8 worth of electricity.

Your endorsement meant the world to me. And it captured the book!

My residency workspace at the Key West Literary Seminar. So grateful for this opportunity.

Painting featuring a Black woman, head and shoulders, floating under turquoise water with eyes closed smiling and with bubbles coming out of her nose

'Rising Tides' by contemporary US painter Samantha French #WomensArt

I bet some go "ooooo."

A plague a’ both houses!

They will always remember the teeny book.

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long, that nation will forget what it is and what it was."
- Milan Kundera

Entrance to my residency cottage in Key West, with the generous support of the Key West Literary Seminar. So grateful for the opportunity.

A Florida weatherman telling his viewers he can no longer be confident in his forecasts due to cuts to atmospheric science is the kind of resistance content I’m here for.

Kudos, Sir.🌦️

Marilyn in a subway station, under signs: Uptown Local - Grand Central A passer-by watches

Remembering Marilyn Monroe on her birthday 🎂
📷 Ed Feingersh, 1955

“Her fame increases, & as it does so we see how far she depended on, and excelled in, photographs - not movies. She is funnier in stills, sexier, more mysterious & protected against being. ”
- David Thomson

Feeling this

Climate memoirs are special. They’re how my storytelling journey began. @barbaradrakevera.bsky.social was the first writer to ask me for an endorsement. Melt ❤️ Literally 😭

Barbara’s story centers her Peruvian family & her time with an Andean glacier. I so enjoyed returning there through her words.

I would love to see that in a restored version.