Thanks and double thanks to @chillsubs.bsky.social for listing Brevity Literary Magazine as #4 in the "damn good reads" category--chosen by readers, so a triple thanks to those fine people as well! www.chillsubs.com/lists/a-damn...

Skating, playing, and a lot of falling on the ice near Amsterdam, as painted by Hans Bol. He was born on this day in 1534.

Le pont d'Héraclite / Heraclitus's bridge - 1935 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112534

We love kicking off the week with a new issue. Our DECEMBER ISSUE is here and ready for you to browse! 📖 🙌 buff.ly/xfJzbi6

ISSUE 33 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.thetemzreview.com

We are very happy to announce that, thanks to a very generous anonymous donor, we are now offering $100 (CAD) prizes to the runner-up in each category of the inaugural "London" Literary Prizes! Reminder: NO ENTRY FEE!! Full contest info: www.thetemzreview.com/the-london-l...

Damn!!! We love to see it! Thank you @eleanorfuller.bsky.social for letting us know! And thank you to @chillsubs.bsky.social for doing this work! And thank you to everyone who voted! So thrilled to see this love. 🥰

@splitlipthemag.bsky.social on @chillsubs.bsky.social's Top 10 Damn Good Read list! Yes! Love these people and this mag! 🎉🎉🎉🫶 www.chillsubs.com/lists/a-damn...

Congrats to the 2026 Edith Wharton Writing Residency cohort! 🎉💐🎈🙌 Victoria Baena Sharon DuPree Ali Goldstein Caprice Gray Margaret Jameson Molly Lanzarotta Arya Samuelson Nina Michiko Tam Hafsa Zulfiqar edithwharton.org/calendar/wir...

In progress. Lives up so far.

AI-generated posts, "art", book covers. 🥱😒 #Can'tEven

Cat by Vasily Kandinsky, 1907 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137936

🔥Reminder🔥 Our submission portal closes tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time and won't reopen until January 15th! Send us writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” buff.ly/r7UkLPy

Toad sipped his tea. “Frog,” he asked, “are you making this up?” “Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.

Experimentation: now adding some pretty great porcelain to the table in 1638. By Willem Claesz. Heda, on his birthday.

Originally published in 1967, Michael Ondaatje’s The Dainty Monsters is our feature from the Coach House archive this week:

Giorgio de Chirico, The Nostalgia of the Infinite, Paris 1912-13? (dated on painting 1911) https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134782

Toad and Frog went for a long walk. They walked across a large meadow. They walked in the woods. They walked along the river.

"I've turned water into wine, so I should be able to get your faculty to respond to emails."

Sun and rain on fells towards Fairfield, Cumbria. Deep, saturated green. Watercolour on Two Rivers paper 760x560mm #ArtYear #Watercolour #Watercolor #Landscapepainting #Landscape

The ONE STORY archive? This IS cool to see!

Zoom on Francisco de Zurbaran’s Annunciation Angelwear 1650 Philadelphia Museum of Art

"The prospect of reading Beckett's letters quickens the blood like no other's, and one must hope to stay alive until the fourth volume is safely delivered." Tom Stoppard, blurb on dust jacket of The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929–1940 (2009)

Buchenkönigin - Stuttgart-West, Germany A magnificent European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) Photo: Juergen Bluemle

On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland, is NetGalley UK's Book of the Year ✨

Cutting the Christmas Tree Ernest Sampson 1931

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paragon apples, painted by royal charles steadman, 1925

Night Snow Maud Lewis c. 1958

❛ This much you can say for any grave, / it's landlocked. The late Steve Heighton's 'Christmas Work Detail, Samos', which was shortlisted for The Moth Poetry Prize in 2019.

My uncle broke ranks with my Methodist family & told me the Glyderau mountains of Dyffryn Ogwen are home to Gods, & Angels live in the rivers & trees on the valley floor As a child I listened in awe to his stories of a life with Nature, & still have no reason to not believe him

reminder that we are open for fiction, essay & experimental submissions throughout December ... details here: oleada.io/publication/...

There's just *something* about this painting. We've found that visitors using The Art Rate Monitor spend a lot of time with it, and it both spikes and lowers people's heart rates. You only have until Dec. 9 to try The Art Rate Monitor and see how your 🖤reacts to the art. ago.ca/art-rate-mon...

Plato might seem to be saying, with his proto-phenomenological ladder of love, that human desire will always live itself out for the best, that love will find a way. But he isn’t exactly, and that points to something important in the psyche. youtu.be/mnYfsJcevaI

David Blackwood, Myth & Legend, on now at the AGO. 🐋💙 (bad photography mine)

'Robertson makes intellect seductive; only her poetry could turn swooning into a critical gesture,' said the Village Voice (RIP, sadly) of Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip. Our feature from the Coach House archive today, in celebration of 60 years: chbooks.com/Blog/Celebra...

David Blackwood, Myth & Legend, on now at the AGO. 🐋💙 (bad photography mine)

Housetops in the Ward A.J. Casson 1924

An absolute highlight of a wild year to have COLD TOAST included in Republic of Consciousness Foundations's 'Best Small Press fiction of 2025' 💥

Today we're highlighting @srirachachang.bsky.social's fiction piece HOW TO MAKE NON-KOREAN KIMCHI. 🙌 Read about what inspired their piece right here! buff.ly/b5whAvi

Today (Sat., Dec. 6) at 2 PM in Kleinburg: André Alexis will be in conversation with Stan Douglas! This is a free event (with admission); learn more and register here: mcmichael.com/event/artist...

That was when it was sad, when you lay awake at night and remembered things.

Happy Friday classics peeps!

The Curious Bear Stands Tall Under A Very Full Moon Jason Carter ~ Cree 2023

'Pattern-Book is... extraordinary, because in its poems, “life / continues,”... lit by mortality from one side and by love from the other.' Jane Zwart for Plume, on Éireann Lorsung's Pattern-book Read the rest: plumepoetry.com/jane-zwart-r... Get Pattern-book: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017485...

2/2 A few more flowers held up by a blue ribbon and painted by Daniel Seghers, Jesuit. It's his day.

#Moon at roughly 88% full tonight from the backyard in #SantaBarbara. #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography #SantaBarbara Camera settings: Canon T5i Sigma 150mm x 600mm Focal length: 600mm F-stop: f/10 Exposure time: 1/1250 ISO: 800 Moon Phase: Waxing 88%

Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Fabriano Paper

Red Sleigh Leaving Brown Bridge Maud Lewis 1956