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There is such poignancy in that single end-stopped line that opens the poem

'Just Once' by Anne Sexton

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Why listen to animals? - The Wire A new Foley based production at London's Royal Court Theatre invites us into the sound-making world of animals, writes Giles Bailey

Why listen to animals?

A new Foley based production at London's Royal Court Theatre invites us into the sound-making world of animals, writes Giles Bailey

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Last beauty in white of the season. Thinking of Rilke’s rose.

last rose

“Did she know he was also gay? In his long campaign to tell a fictional story about his love of women—a campaign that took as much energy as anything he wrote for The New Yorker—my mother was my father’s most important audience.”

Susan Cheever on her father, John. buff.ly/S53IoK0

London friends, I'll be interviewing Hannah Ross, the author of Revolutions – www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/hanna... – on 11 November. Book your free tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hackn...

The certificate by Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance, issued in Voncina, 2025, spells out that a newly described species of chiton has been formally named Craspedochiton zefranki. This is in recognition of his outstanding contributions to science communication, which have inspired curiosity, wonder, and deeper public engagement with the natural world.

I'm excited to report that a species has been named after my son Ze Frank, "in recognition of his outstanding contributions to science communication, which have inspired curiosity, wonder, and deeper public engagement with the natural world"

Big Apple Sky Calendar: October, November, December 2025 | Broadcast Dramatic highlights from the skies above Earth by intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson.

"Full Moon. This is called the Harvest Moon, as it’s the full Moon nearest the autumn equinox." 🌕 Read more insights on the skies above from intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson, now on PW Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...

Star Wars Episode II: Carole Lombard and Clark Gable (YMRT #28) — You Must Remember This Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts . After struggling to find her niche in Hollywood, Carole Lombard came into her own in the mid-1930s first as the queen of screwball comedy, and then ...

Carole Lombard was born on this day in 1908. Listen to our 2015 episode of @rememberthispod.bsky.social on Lombard & Gable and the tragic end of her life: www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/you...

White rose in October sun

The Memoirs of an Amnesiac, Oscar Levant -- a harrowingly funny read.

Sloane Crosley: “How Sober Should a Writer Be?” Sloane Crosley on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze and the state of American drinking culture.

With alcohol consumption in America at historic lows, is the boozy-author archetype a thing of the past? For our Essay of the Week, Sloane Crosley traces how Fitzgerald endures as its brightest—and bleakest—example.

A black and white image of a woman sitting behind a piano in a furnished room as she looks at the camera.

“Perry’s music both epitomized her time and foreshadowed the future of American composition.”

—Samantha Ege and Garrett Schumann shine a light on pioneering Black Southern composer Julia Perry, whose legacy was nearly lost after her untimely death in 1979.

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London-based @cbeditions.bsky.social (founded in 2007 by Charles Boyle) is a publisher of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, including work in translation. Find their books (including 'Ghost Stations' by Patrick McGuinness) at #smallpublishersfair25 on Fri 24 & Sat 25 Oct:
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A Personal Anthology, by Anna Aslanyan What’s the relationship between fiction and truth?

In which I plug a dozen short stories, starting with one translated by me. apersonalanthology.substack.com/p/a-personal...

❛ I have all my subjects to hand. I go back and look at them. I take notes. Then I go home. And before I start painting I reflect, I dream.

Artist Pierre Bonnard, born #OTD in 1867.

An unheroic hero: Ginster, by Siegfried Kracauer, reviewed Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966) made his name as a film theorist. His critical writings have long been available in English, and now his fiction is finally getting its due. The first of his two novels...

An unheroic hero: Ginster, by Siegfried Kracauer, reviewed.

✍️ Anna Aslanyan

Gore Vidal: American prophet The writer understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall

Gore Vidal: American prophet

📕 Will Lloyd on the writer who understood better than anyone how far the United States was going to fall

A lifelong Gotham chum, now residing in West Ken, George Rafael, went overboard in his enthusiasm for the Magnetic Fields' magnum opus, 69 Love Songs. Between you and me, he needs to get out more.

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‘Shall I apologize translation?’ John Florio once said; or, in modern parlance, 'Happy International Translation Day!'

Artwork from the inside sleeve of Sonic Youth's Washing Machine. A series of 12 smaller photographs.

Our #SonicYouth’s Washing Machine at 30 article is now accompanied by a curated playlist of essential tracks that define their career

Join the Quietus Subscriber Plus tier for access (to this plus many more perks)

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‘She wrote the best first line – and the most chilling stories’: Stephen King on the dark brilliance of Daphne du Maurier From Rebecca to The Birds and scores of creepy short stories, Du Maurier was queen of the uncanny, writes the US horror maestro

Stephen King on Daphne du Maurier.

Slipping into the twilight zone: Diving Board by Tomás Downey The first thing I think to write is this: what’s happening to me is incredible. But immediately, I stop—I’m suspicious of everything. I think about it, reread the sentence, and the pen slips throug…

Slipping into the twilight zone: Diving Board by Tomás Downey, translated by Sarah Moses @invisibooks.bsky.social
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Boys in Zinc ‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’ Svetlana Alexievich on the USSR and Afghanistan for Granta 34.

From the archive, 1990: Svetlana Alexievich on the USSR and Afghanistan.

‘I was trying to present a history of feelings, not the history of the war itself.’

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Picture This: Hot Bodies | Broadcast To be alive is to radiate according to a universal law.

Our existence is predicated on a delicate balance of hot bodies. For PW Broadcast, @jannalevinastro.bsky.social writes on the quantum equation that describes the radiation of your flesh, the Sun, and the universe itself. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...

❛ To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

Poet T. S. Eliot, who was born #OTD in 1888.

I consider myself fairly well read when it comes to 20th-c. anglophone poetry. Seldom do I stumble upon completely forgotten poets who were both consistently masterful in their craft and truly original in tone. Not in one or two poems—consistently. Broomell is one such poet.

September 2025 Poetry Feature: Earth Water Fire Poems, a Conversation LISA ASAGI <br> "No one knows why / water becomes rain / only the how / and maybe the where"

"Those incredibly long notes / bending far back into silence."

Delve into the waters of this month's poetry feature! Lisa Asagi explores whales and whale-calls in this collection of poems and sculptures. Click the link below!

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A whale of a collection (sorry). truly splendid.

THE PHOTOGRAPHER
Will the bride be down soon?

THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE
I do hope so. She’s been weeping for a week.

THE BROTHER OF THE BRIDE
Is there any beer?

THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE
You’re not having beer, you’re nine.

A radio play by Anne Carson. buff.ly/Tt5oecQ