Michael Winkler
@micwink.bsky.social
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Writer, reader, swimwear model. Last book Grimmish. Next book Griefdogg. michaelwinkler.com.au
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Mara Wilson
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Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy
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Tim Howard
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[writing love letter] My darling, how i long to caress you. When I hold you tenderly in my arms I become [glancing at The Immortal Cinema of Tom Selleck dvd box set I keep on my escritoire at all times] quigley down under
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Bizarre headline from The Age. 'Forced'? By whom? SMH headline on same story is non-egregious.
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6 days ago
It's clear that the group behind these calls has *already decided* that half the artists in the Biennale are problematic. If they start cancelling exhibits this could easily destroy the Biennale.
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In which the reviewer's labour brings rewards for the reader.
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Erin Vincent, from the admirable Fourteen Ways of Looking.
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Another excellent Upswell title, this memoir by Erin Vincent is mesmeric and moving. Recommended.
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Still three months until this beauty hits the shelves, so mark it on the calendar. Confident in saying it's a book no-one else on earth could write because no-one else has Wayne Marshall's wild brain. It's a stunner.
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Matthew Muñoz
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Afterlife punishment of The Bon Mot—the hell of takes? (The City of Lost Intentions: A Guide for the Artistically Waylaid by A. Valliard from Varoque Books.)
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Rónán Hession
23 days ago
Me, randomly trying phone numbers: "I don't know who needs to hear this, but ..."
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Meera Atkinson
24 days ago
The Australian literary world has been in the news lately, so why not support the Vagabond Press 'Just one book' campaign? It's aiming to shift 300 books in Jan to help fund the publication of new works. Some great titles on the list. Get amongst it.
vagabondpress.net
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Vagabond Press
Independent literary press based in Sydney.
https://vagabondpress.net/
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Patrick Allington
27 days ago
What we need is a Festival of Hot Takes.
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Nick Feik
28 days ago
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Tim Byrne
29 days ago
"Can you imagine if [completely made-up, arguably defamatory straw man scenario]?? Well, CAN YOU?!?"
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Jennifer Mills
29 days ago
A failure of principle led to a failure of courage that led to a failure of governance and has now brought us to a failure of accountability. Writers - and readers - deserve so much better than this. Malinauskas should answer for the destruction of Writers Week.
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Nick Feik
30 days ago
Do we have a federal arts minister, while the biggest arts festival in Australia implodes? A bit of cultural leadership would be good at this point.
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Nick Feik
about 1 month ago
Where’s Tony Burke? It’s times like these you realise that arts ministers have no interest in defending the arts, and that govts are willing to burn millions of $ for political reasons. Adelaide’s board has just squandered millions of $ and months of work and countless opportunities for writers…
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Nick Pettigrew
about 1 month ago
The maths of 'Kung Fu Fighting': Carl Douglas says 'those kids were fast as lightning, it was a little bit frightening'. No kidding. A trained fighter can punch at 25mph generating a force of 500 pounds per square inch in the case of flyweights (these are kids, so not comparable to heavyweights) 1/
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Nick Feik
about 2 months ago
When do you think Albanese will realise there’s no placating these people? News Corp pays no tax and adds nothing to Aus society apart from hate, but Labor acts as if it owns them. Instead of fighting back or standing up for themselves, Albanese and co are like “please sir can I have some more?”
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about 2 months ago
The very fact that you enjoy the idea of shooting a living thing with a gun should automatically disqualify you from ever being allowed to have one.
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A.Valliard
3 months ago
The City of Lost Intentions: A Guide for the Artistically Waylaid is also available in BOOKSHOPS, where you can not only buy and own it immediately, but also support the dwindling, Amazon-ravaged bookstore ecosystem.
#booksky
#art
#bookshops
#Brisbane
#Sydney
#Melbourne
#Dublin
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Kaz Cooke
2 months ago
Calling all Melbourne & Victoria
#bookgroups
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#readinggroups
! Rally together this Saturday to help save the State
#Library
of Victoria, on its steps, at 12.30. (Here's a pic of the poet Edith Sitwell & big reader Marilyn Monroe: reading makes friends.)
#StateLibraryofVictoria
#ReadingMakesFriends
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For those playing along at home - delighted to report that, after last night, Robert Skinner has indeed got his razzle dazzle back. Thanks to all the big-hearted folks who came together to send love (and a few bucks) towards the people's champ.
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Slow Down Arthur
2 months ago
Ah, the famous Christmas tradition of right wing men drinking cum.
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Jock Serong
2 months ago
I had all this stuff I was going to get done, but the skydivers are on strike, so...
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Ben Walter
2 months ago
Really nice to read from Lithosphere for Radio National's Line Break series today - always such a privilege to have your work broadcast to unsuspecting ears.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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The Oysters Roar by Benjamin Walter - ABC listen
This poem explores the experience of walking among the oyster bursting from the tidal flats around Cygnet. Ben Walter is a Tasmanian writer, and the author of the recent poetry collection Lithosphere...
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/line-break/benjamin-walter-line-break/105872964
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Jan Carson
2 months ago
I really wish there was a way to dial down the book hype. It feels like the industry has forced us all into a corner where we have to be constantly screaming ‘read my book, it is brilliant’ or books don’t sell and now it’s just super noisy out there and hard to tell what’s actually worth reading.
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Jen Calleja
3 months ago
Now the FAIR and GOBLINHOOD tours are over, I wanted to share this essay I wrote for
@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
about writing both books.
thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
@prototypepubs.bsky.social
@roughtradebooks.bsky.social
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Essay | Evading Capture: On Writing Two Experimental Memoirs by Jen Calleja - The London Magazine
From our December / January 2025 issue, Jen Calleja on writing experimental memoir and the freedom of experimental forms.
https://thelondonmagazine.org/article/essay-evading-capture-on-writing-two-experimental-memoirs-by-jen-calleja/
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Nick Feik
3 months ago
“Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.” So pathetic. Backbenchers scared of taking a moral position, Albanese scared of any reform.
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'Broad, unspoken consensus': silent Labor MPs want action on gambling
Andrew Wilkie has asked the PM to allow a free vote on banning gambling advertising and it appears many Labor MPs would support it.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-08/albanese-government-free-vote-gambling-ad-reform-andrew-wilkie/105969714
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CAMERON WILSON
3 months ago
hey Bluesky whatever you’re doing to pick the thumbnails for videos……. Keep doing that Shit
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A.Valliard
3 months ago
I've had rather a lot of people recommending AI to me lately, so I've drawn Shakespeare stabbing a robot in the eye with a quill.
#art
#ink
#scribbleau
#verymuchnotAI
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Nick Feik
3 months ago
Little known fact about Jesus: he was also very close to the gambling lobby, and fought hard to shut down freedom of information requests
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3 months ago
Just how I always pictured it
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Michael Bell
3 months ago
Can’t wait for the next election so we can vote out the Morrison government
#Auspol
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
3 months ago
No memento mori more effective than needing to scroll ever longer to select your birth year.
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CHOAM Nomsky
3 months ago
I somehow missed the alert when this went up yesterday but I’m very proud of this review, of a moving and extremely strange new book by Carol Tyler.
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Turning Grief Into Art With Unusual Wit
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/books/review/the-ephemerata-carol-tyler.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yU8.NjH5.nFs05XubWnd2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Nick Feik
3 months ago
Another historic achievement in transparency by the Albanese govt: cratering the FOI system.
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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Eli Erlick
4 months ago
A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.
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Sarah Welch-Larson
6 months ago
Not now, widening gyre
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benjamin
3 months ago
Happy anniversary to those who celebrate 🥳
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Patrick Monahan
3 months ago
Someone needs to take this guy down a peg
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Charlie Lewis
4 months ago
Got into the one bit of the faux outrage over Albanese’s Joy Division shirt that I do find interesting -- the ideas behind early Punk's flirtation with the symbols of extreme right politics, and the battles over racism in rock at the time:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/29/a...
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This Fascist Groove Thing: Sussan Ley, Albo's Joy Division T-shirt and the politics of punk
The faux outrage over Albanese's band shirt calls to mind the early battles for the soul (and politics) of punk music.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/29/albanese-joy-division-t-shirt-sussan-ley-nazi-references/
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The inventive, antic, justice-fighting spirit of Jen Calleja is something to behold, bent here to an exploration of translation and the role of the literary translator. A ripper.
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nightylamp
4 months ago
"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN
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'wily lyricism' where ' rhythm and cadence never falter' Enjoyed this perceptive review of a worthwhile, hard-to-pin-down novella.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky”
4 months ago
Hard to think of a father and son who had more divergent careers than Richard and Mojo Nixon
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Nick Feik
4 months ago
If you stopped bank robbers it would kill the whole robbery industry
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Nick Feik
4 months ago
Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation. And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …
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Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-09/watt-coalition-near-deal-epbc-environment-laws/105865472
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