Each day another author will be added to the Victorian period until morale improves. Virginia Woolf is now a Victorian author.

Please, for the love of all things holy, if you ever learn that something you posted is fake, delete it. Do not counter with "but it feels true" or "it's an exaggeration but people will know that" or any other garbage. Delete fake images and articles. We need to be able to trust reality.

It’s Shakespeare’s birthday. Used to show this to all my classes as one of the great examples of how to quickly & powerfully connect with your audience rhetorically under the guise of naturalism. Lewis is superb at building up his murderous contempt for the conspirators. youtu.be/q89MLuLSJgk?...

Good morning, Bluesky! Roosevelt Elk and Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach, Oregon 📸Ross Troxa

“There with fantastic garlands did she come…” #Hamlet_2026 Act 4, scene 7 Arthur Rackham illustration

Here's the short list for the 2026 Plutarch Award for best biography published in 2025: I'm hoping for Nicholas Bogg's James Baldwin: A Love Story -https://mailchi.mp/biographersinternational/bio-announces-long-list-for-2020-plutarch-award-for-best-biography-of-5758435?e=5c81e23333

Some very idiosyncratic choices here! www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-int...

Going through some old files, I found this 2022 book list from a talk I gave at an AAUW meeting here in Seattle; I was reminded of how much pleasure I’d gotten when I first read each of these books. I highly recommend each one.

Calling all Elizabeth Bowen fans! This will be available to view online. #BookSky 💙📚

I love the promise of a new book, but the opening movement is often the hardest for me. It’s so nice when an authors voice or the plot or something helps me know I’m in good hands. In this week’s episode @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I talk about the opening movement. substack.com/@mookse/note...

Margaret Lockwood, The Lady Vanishes Jessie Royce Landis, To Catch a Thief Claude Rains, Notorious Tallulah Bankhead, Lifeboat Joan Fontaine, Rebecca Peter Lorre, Man Who Knew George Sanders, Foreign Correspondent Barbara Bel Geddes, Vertigo Cary Grant, North by Northwest Vera Miles, Revenge

McNally Editions make me book greedy. I want them all. Plus that Ex-Wife tote bag. But what I want most right now is to hear what your favorites are. Trying to choose just one for a future episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social. @mcnallyeditions.com

As an adjunct to the bookish #1961Club, which officially starts tomorrow, I'm planning to watch some films released that year. Here's my watchlist of potential choices, too many to see in one week. But feel free to join me if the mood takes you! #FilmSky #BookSky 💙📚 letterboxd.com/jacquiwine/l...

📚 BOOK CHALLENGE 📚 Choose 20 Epic Books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge (1/20)

New episode of @onebrightbook.bsky.social is up now. We discuss The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor - Rebecca’s pick inspired by a recent listen to an episode of the Windham Campbell Prizes podcast that featured Hanif Abdurraqib sharing love for the book. onebrightbook.com/2026/04/10/e...

Our conversation about Gloria Naylor's terrific THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE is live! onebrightbook.com/2026/04/10/e...

Something that really unnerves me about these bad historical narratives is that you can almost be certain they’re creeping into LLMs and a couple of people in positions of relative influence can do real damage.

THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Akira Kurosawa, 1960, rewatch). Corporate corruption and embezzlement aplenty in this noirish film loosely based on HAMLET. Mifune is terrific as his intentions and complexities are gradually revealed. Thanks @princecharlescinema.com for a great screening on 35mm! #FilmSky

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

If you think it's just another Regency romance, you're wrong: The Unknown Ajax is possibly Georgette Heyer's finest moment. there's a fabulous hero, a smuggling plot, and one of the greatest finales in any book.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Happy Thursday. @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I were delighted to talk to @luispanini.bsky.social about reading projects in our latest episode. I myself love sitting down and making a reading project! Carrying through is much harder, but I’m getting better at it! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...

For years, Pueblos, Mescalero Apache, archaeologists, Utah and New Mexico politicos, conservation groups, recreation, water and timber interests fought over the land around Chaco Canyon. The Biden ppl finally got a settlement all could live with. Now a few disgruntleds have got Trump to undo it.

Wonderful opportunity!

Scott Fitzgerald sent a “full conjugation” of the verb “to cocktail” to Blanche Knopf in 1928 after hearing from Mencken that she was drinking far more than she was eating. A unique display of concern.

Well, Pilgrimage fans, one dream is coming true. Naxos audiobooks has just released the first of four volumes of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage, read by Lucy Scott (an ideal reader, IMHO). No word on when the next three are coming, but this is a wonderful start! www.naxos.com/CatalogueDet...

#BookSky people! Anyone can join in with the #1961Club. Just read a book first published in 1961 and post about it on here. (Other social media platforms are available.) I’ve got a couple of choices lined up, and maybe some 1961 films too! #FilmSky

I don't like Amazon recommending books to me based on what I've already read. I don't like them trying to "customise" my reading. I don't like any platform which does that. I like the serendipitous, the surprises, the exciting finds I come accross by looking for myself, be that bookshops or online.

i reread martyr! by Kaveh Akbar recently and it is easily one of my favorite books i have ever read. anybody else who has read it: are there any books out there similar to it? i’d really love to find and read some.

On the blog this week, some recommendations for books to read for the forthcoming #1961Club. Featuring titles by Carson McCullers, Ross Macdonald and Frédéric Dard (tr. David Bello). #BookSky 💙📚 #CrimeFiction jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/t...

My favourite French portmanteau describes vegan cheese. It merges faux (fake) and fromage (cheese) to get fauxmage * read on for more cheesy words and phrases from around the world (this thread may not turn out grate, but hopefully it will be gouda ‘nuff)…

#MrsPalfreyAtTheClaremont was shortlisted for the 1971 Booker Prize. ‘Elizabeth had expected the prize would go to Naipaul & this was confirmed just before the prize-giving dinner when ‘John, in the john, having a leak, heard it leaked out that Naipaul had won’. ET letter quoted in the biography.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Dorothy Parker always said it best -

"If you're afraid of wolves, stay out of the woods!" Nastasya Filippovna remarked, grinning. _The Idiot_

"Fees"

Hey DC folks, my school’s book fair is at @politicsprose.bsky.social this Sunday - all three locations. If you’re shopping that day, please mention our school to give us a boost. And/or share this with other people. It would be appreciated! It will provide lots of summer reading for cool kids!

I sneaked into the uni library to play a quick round of Poetry Serendipity on my way to class (rohanmaitzen.com/2023/06/01/p...) and equally serendipitously happened on Barbara Comyns's Sisters By A River which I've never heard of but which looked too weird and enticing not to grab up as well.

CRAZIE GENIE is on our #NYRBWomen26 reading schedule for May! 💫 “One of the best portraits of a mother-daughter relationship that I've ever read. A stellar book. I couldn't put it down.” — @alinaetc.bsky.social

One of the best portraits of a mother-daughter relationship that I've ever read. A stellar book. I couldn't put it down.

I’m sorry, Virginia, but what 9 out of 10 people would actually say if you asked their impression of Sheridan would be “Who?” The 10th, too, let’s be honest. But let’s pretend they know. They’re still not coming up with that “brilliant but slightly intoxicated insect” line. That’s pure you.

“And then his punctuality! It was almost frightful to an unpunctual mind!” Mamie Dickens #SundaySentence

What if we’ve been naysaying all this time and the only emperor is actually the emperor of ice cream?

I see PBS is airing a 2024 prequel to the Forsyte Saga. Does anyone still read Galsworthy? (Not intended as a slam, just curious).

I can't compete with this.

Happy Thursday! @bibliopaul.bsky.social and I got a chance to talk with @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social about unclassifiable books, and I had a great time! Here is our new episode! open.substack.com/pub/mookse/p...

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

Grab the powerful post-war memoir The Dancing Bear by Frances Faviell #freetillfriday 🎁 Berlin, 1946–1949, a city of ruins and black markets. A raw, honest, and compassionate look at life under occupation. Don't miss this Dean Street Press gem! Download for free on Amazon now. 📚✨ [Links below 👇]

“Faithless, mutable, fickle, he called her; devil, adulteress, deceiver; and the swirling waters took his words, and tossed at his feet a broken pot and a little straw." Virginia Woolf #SundaySentence