Catherine Gammon

What is your work? and other Little Misfits

A beautiful short video about how these books are made, along with news -- Books and Bistros, City of Asylum's indie book fair coming October 12 -- and more. 💙

Phillipsburg PA protest against Moshannon ICE facility, August 24 --

Something's coming On the way from Almost Perfect Press —

If you're in Pittsburgh, join us for a celebration at Bottom Feeder Books Saturday August 30 from 6 to 8 pm.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Bass suggests Trump actions in Los Angeles part of 'national experiment' to create 'fear'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCSW...

PGHwrites: Free Association Reading Series - City of Asylum The Free Association Reading series showcases local writers every month in an intimate reading at City of Asylum.

Tonight, live and online

PGHwrites: Free Association Reading Series - City of Asylum The Free Association Reading series showcases local writers every month in an intimate reading at City of Asylum.

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Readings past and future

news old and new

Sounds like the Hegseth vote is going to be close, so tomorrow morning would be a really good time to call your senators and ask them to vote against someone so reprehensible and unqualified. Ask them to please put the good of the country ahead of the desire of Donald Trump.

From his bio: “Sen.McCormick is looking forward to using his unique leadership experiences...to deliver results for the Keystone State. He isn’t afraid to stand up to both parties to do what’s right...”
And he’s a vetaran.
Let’s flood his inbox & phone lines asking him to demonstrate courage

Anyone with a Republican senator needs to write to them ASAP and oppose the appointment of Pete Hegseth. Write, phone, phone, write. Ad nauseam. Or even just once.

Stop Scrolling Thank you, I think I will

I'm here on Blue Sky so little that I didn't include it in this farewell to social media, but now that I'm reminded, I've just come by to say that in the interest of simplicity I'm just going to be on Substack for some long time to come. If you're there too, come by and say hello.

A Cinema of Gestation: On Returning to Filmmaking After a False Start, Multiple Life Changes, and 14 Years of Motherhood | Filmmaker Magazine Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources.

A beautiful story from the beautiful Heather von Rohr

“We are educated to think that we should be able to know the meaning of a piece of writing, but what if the intention of the writing is to throw us into confusion, induce a state of wonder, and unravel the basic tenets of our experience?” —Robert Glück

Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann

A Bird Came Down A short film by Heather von RohrwithMitzi Akaha, Raúl Castillo,b, and Jessie Pinnick Fundraising goal $20,000 Amount raised $9,000 A Bird Came Down is a story of love, pregnancy, and birdwatchi...

Please give -- my beautiful daughter's beautiful movie

Brooklyn Botanic Garden last Sunday 🌸

you're telling us this is NOT an AI cat?

RSVP -- www.eventbrite.com/e/a-reading-...

In Pittsburgh, this Thursday night -- 💙📚📚🐦
@littsburgh.bsky.social -- join
@sherrieflick.bsky.social, Mike Good and me for a reading at Riverstone Books in Squirrel Hill.

My eclipse gear ... 97% totality here, good view with the glasses, nothing like twilight but an eerie light, bright and dim at once -- and it went perfectly with this perfectly eerie book.
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Darkness: "I had a dream, which was not all a dream./ The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars/ Did wander darkling in the eternal space,/ Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth/ Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air:/ Morn came, and went--and came, and brought no day,/And men forgot their passions in the dread/ Of this their desolation . . . "

Somebody has to remind Bluesky of Lord Byron's "Darkness" (1816, the "year without a summer"). Here's the opening.

Btw, the skies were blue here in Cambridge until just after 3, when the world switched to something closer to black & white. Grateful that others had eclipse glasses I could borrow.

THE LONG SWIM by Terese Svoboda (UMass Press). Reviewed by Catherine Gammon (@nonabiding.bsky.social).

This is so sad! I have so much to say about this I have to bite my tongue and remain silent.😢

Special Feature: This story about travel to Mars features gritty descriptions (literally) and a narrative technique that embraces simultaneity of experiences.

Wonderful! from Chloe N. Clark
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
www.cincinnatireview.com/special-feat...

Home Epley Maneuver The home Epley maneuver is a type of exercise help that helps to treat the symptoms of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). You can do this exercise at home.

oh those transpositions ... but does Spelling Bee rule out proper names? (I gave it up along with Wordle when I saw the addictive potential.)

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This week's newsletter

April 18 -- one last Pittsburgh event for THE GUNMAN AND THE CARNIVAL -- this time with Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social and Mike Good -- come on down to Riverstone Books in Squirrel Hill

perfect for those who love homework, as long as you can assign it to yourself!