Bob Black
@bobblack1.bsky.social
Poet, writer, photographer, filmmaker, teacher. I surf (waves) From USA but have lived around world. Childhood in Taiwan 🇹🇼 I write. I make things with cameras. I listen.
我愛台灣
一期一会
Currently in Toronto
我愛台灣
一期一会
Currently in Toronto
Brilliant
Just begun.
I wrote thoughts at IG
A true master of the lucid, culmination and beautiful, fox-like sentence of shadow
I love this book
@cbeditions.bsky.social Invisible Dogs 🐕
@usrofc.bsky.social nominee
Read it!
In the realm of hirsute and warm nations
Genius
Just begun.
I wrote thoughts at IG
A true master of the lucid, culmination and beautiful, fox-like sentence of shadow
I love this book
@cbeditions.bsky.social Invisible Dogs 🐕
@usrofc.bsky.social nominee
Read it!
In the realm of hirsute and warm nations
Genius
February 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Brilliant
Just begun.
I wrote thoughts at IG
A true master of the lucid, culmination and beautiful, fox-like sentence of shadow
I love this book
@cbeditions.bsky.social Invisible Dogs 🐕
@usrofc.bsky.social nominee
Read it!
In the realm of hirsute and warm nations
Genius
Just begun.
I wrote thoughts at IG
A true master of the lucid, culmination and beautiful, fox-like sentence of shadow
I love this book
@cbeditions.bsky.social Invisible Dogs 🐕
@usrofc.bsky.social nominee
Read it!
In the realm of hirsute and warm nations
Genius
After finishing Dr Jake Swan’s @JakeSwan Hilarious novel Grantreprenrur (@galleonbooks ), then most afternoon reading Pizarnik poems, tonight I return to Ernaux
two of Ernaux short novels as the snow continues to devour Toronto
I hunger to read an amour fou
Publishers
@GalleonBooks
@7storyPress
two of Ernaux short novels as the snow continues to devour Toronto
I hunger to read an amour fou
Publishers
@GalleonBooks
@7storyPress
February 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
After finishing Dr Jake Swan’s @JakeSwan Hilarious novel Grantreprenrur (@galleonbooks ), then most afternoon reading Pizarnik poems, tonight I return to Ernaux
two of Ernaux short novels as the snow continues to devour Toronto
I hunger to read an amour fou
Publishers
@GalleonBooks
@7storyPress
two of Ernaux short novels as the snow continues to devour Toronto
I hunger to read an amour fou
Publishers
@GalleonBooks
@7storyPress
This weekend’s poetry reading
Having finished Pizarnik final book in London, I return to her words again
She ravishes
Read her
as important and brilliant as poetry gets and survives
Having finished Pizarnik final book in London, I return to her words again
She ravishes
Read her
as important and brilliant as poetry gets and survives
February 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
This weekend’s poetry reading
Having finished Pizarnik final book in London, I return to her words again
She ravishes
Read her
as important and brilliant as poetry gets and survives
Having finished Pizarnik final book in London, I return to her words again
She ravishes
Read her
as important and brilliant as poetry gets and survives
I loved @cbeditions.bsky.social The Other Jack
Brilliant book of many things
Congratulations on being a okay. Would love to see
🍷🙏🎉
Brilliant book of many things
Congratulations on being a okay. Would love to see
🍷🙏🎉
It's a novel, memoir, notebook stuff, and now a play, and I am hugely grateful. Whichever. The book: www.cbeditions.com/boyle2.html
5am (LA) start for rehearsal in the UK (and producer in NYC, and stage manager in Florida) — ‘The Other Jack’ adapted from the book by @cbeditions.bsky.social and available online soon as a reading via The Alcove @lorteltheatre.bsky.social 🙏🏻
February 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I loved @cbeditions.bsky.social The Other Jack
Brilliant book of many things
Congratulations on being a okay. Would love to see
🍷🙏🎉
Brilliant book of many things
Congratulations on being a okay. Would love to see
🍷🙏🎉
In Praise of the short Novel
Last night, I read in a sitting Lee Thompson oneiric & beautiful first book, 75 pages
In an era of maximalism,I wish to share some of the most beautiful & meaningful short books read over the last 6 months
like Death in Venice, genius can be divined in a sitting
Last night, I read in a sitting Lee Thompson oneiric & beautiful first book, 75 pages
In an era of maximalism,I wish to share some of the most beautiful & meaningful short books read over the last 6 months
like Death in Venice, genius can be divined in a sitting
February 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In Praise of the short Novel
Last night, I read in a sitting Lee Thompson oneiric & beautiful first book, 75 pages
In an era of maximalism,I wish to share some of the most beautiful & meaningful short books read over the last 6 months
like Death in Venice, genius can be divined in a sitting
Last night, I read in a sitting Lee Thompson oneiric & beautiful first book, 75 pages
In an era of maximalism,I wish to share some of the most beautiful & meaningful short books read over the last 6 months
like Death in Venice, genius can be divined in a sitting
a day struggling with something i thought (initially, alas) had worked (drunken delirium of jet lag), i turn away from the poem and language of the head and seek something else and return an old series to toss out the sentimental into the river
www.criterionchannel.com/videos/scene...
www.criterionchannel.com/videos/scene...
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE: Episode 1
“Innocence and Panic”
Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1973 • Sweden
Starring Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ul...
www.criterionchannel.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
a day struggling with something i thought (initially, alas) had worked (drunken delirium of jet lag), i turn away from the poem and language of the head and seek something else and return an old series to toss out the sentimental into the river
www.criterionchannel.com/videos/scene...
www.criterionchannel.com/videos/scene...
May we all be brave, smart and undeterred enough to live to 98 let alone write and publish a book
Biggest congratulations
This may well be my fave photograph of an author reading in years
🙏💚💚🧎♂️🌻
Biggest congratulations
This may well be my fave photograph of an author reading in years
🙏💚💚🧎♂️🌻
Here is Marjorie Ann Watts on her 98th birthday reading from Mrs Calder and the Hyena, which is glowingly reviewed in this week's Spectator. Amazon, bless them, promise delivery "within 6 to 7 months". Or you could buy from the website (www.cbeditions.com/watts2.html) and I'll post today.
February 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
May we all be brave, smart and undeterred enough to live to 98 let alone write and publish a book
Biggest congratulations
This may well be my fave photograph of an author reading in years
🙏💚💚🧎♂️🌻
Biggest congratulations
This may well be my fave photograph of an author reading in years
🙏💚💚🧎♂️🌻
Some new books to read people, including the newest by @cbeditions.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the nominees
Well done!
🙏🎉🍷🌻
Congratulations to all the nominees
Well done!
🙏🎉🍷🌻
Congratulations to the small presses and writers on the Republic of Consciousness Prize longlist, announced today on Substack: therepublicofconsciousness.substack.com/p/announcing.... The RoC isn't on BlueSky, so here's the list:
February 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Some new books to read people, including the newest by @cbeditions.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the nominees
Well done!
🙏🎉🍷🌻
Congratulations to all the nominees
Well done!
🙏🎉🍷🌻
I returned from London with this package nestling at my door
@nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social remarkable collection Brilliant Corners
Why hadn’t I heard of it before
Remarkable
Reading all early morning
Read this collection 🙏🍷🎉
@cbeditions publisher
@nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social remarkable collection Brilliant Corners
Why hadn’t I heard of it before
Remarkable
Reading all early morning
Read this collection 🙏🍷🎉
@cbeditions publisher
January 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I returned from London with this package nestling at my door
@nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social remarkable collection Brilliant Corners
Why hadn’t I heard of it before
Remarkable
Reading all early morning
Read this collection 🙏🍷🎉
@cbeditions publisher
@nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social remarkable collection Brilliant Corners
Why hadn’t I heard of it before
Remarkable
Reading all early morning
Read this collection 🙏🍷🎉
@cbeditions publisher
Reposted by Bob Black
Today Marjorie Ann Watts celebrates (at Daunt Books in Hampstead) both publication of her book and her 98th birthday. (Her grandmother founded PEN International in 1921; + organisations to help young writers and help women into work; + at age 24 published an epic poem supporting women's rights.)
January 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Today Marjorie Ann Watts celebrates (at Daunt Books in Hampstead) both publication of her book and her 98th birthday. (Her grandmother founded PEN International in 1921; + organisations to help young writers and help women into work; + at age 24 published an epic poem supporting women's rights.)
Reposted by Bob Black
The editor @cbeditions.bsky.social has updated my book page to include recent review quotes from essays in journals and books.
The best place to acquire my book (& peep into the opening pages) is from the publisher's website: cbeditions.com/bukhari.html
The best place to acquire my book (& peep into the opening pages) is from the publisher's website: cbeditions.com/bukhari.html
January 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The editor @cbeditions.bsky.social has updated my book page to include recent review quotes from essays in journals and books.
The best place to acquire my book (& peep into the opening pages) is from the publisher's website: cbeditions.com/bukhari.html
The best place to acquire my book (& peep into the opening pages) is from the publisher's website: cbeditions.com/bukhari.html
Big big congratulations to @cbeditions.bsky.social book Invisible Dogs being nominated for the @usrofc.bsky.social prize
Big congratulations
Very excited for Charles
🙏🍷🍷🎉🎉🧎♂️
Big congratulations
Very excited for Charles
🙏🍷🍷🎉🎉🧎♂️
January 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Big big congratulations to @cbeditions.bsky.social book Invisible Dogs being nominated for the @usrofc.bsky.social prize
Big congratulations
Very excited for Charles
🙏🍷🍷🎉🎉🧎♂️
Big congratulations
Very excited for Charles
🙏🍷🍷🎉🎉🧎♂️
“The spider a web, man a friendship”
two mild lones pay a visit to William Blake
chip over the seesaw between grief & mourning & the acceleration of all things
except the collective better wisdom of the world
Stone Doves, Sea Shells & an orange’s shadow sing over a grave
With Marc Nash
two mild lones pay a visit to William Blake
chip over the seesaw between grief & mourning & the acceleration of all things
except the collective better wisdom of the world
Stone Doves, Sea Shells & an orange’s shadow sing over a grave
With Marc Nash
January 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
“The spider a web, man a friendship”
two mild lones pay a visit to William Blake
chip over the seesaw between grief & mourning & the acceleration of all things
except the collective better wisdom of the world
Stone Doves, Sea Shells & an orange’s shadow sing over a grave
With Marc Nash
two mild lones pay a visit to William Blake
chip over the seesaw between grief & mourning & the acceleration of all things
except the collective better wisdom of the world
Stone Doves, Sea Shells & an orange’s shadow sing over a grave
With Marc Nash
Escaping the dark world of Trump et al with this brilliant Pirandello meets Agatha Christie play in London
Genius and hysterical
@theplaythatgoeswrong
Absurdist comedic theatre.
Loved it.
🙏🧎♂️💛
Genius and hysterical
@theplaythatgoeswrong
Absurdist comedic theatre.
Loved it.
🙏🧎♂️💛
January 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Escaping the dark world of Trump et al with this brilliant Pirandello meets Agatha Christie play in London
Genius and hysterical
@theplaythatgoeswrong
Absurdist comedic theatre.
Loved it.
🙏🧎♂️💛
Genius and hysterical
@theplaythatgoeswrong
Absurdist comedic theatre.
Loved it.
🙏🧎♂️💛
Escaping the dark world of Trump et al with this brilliant Pirandello meets Agatha Christie play in London
Genius and hysterical
@theplaythatgoeswrong
Absurdist comedic theatre.
Loved it.
🙏🧎♂️💛
Genius and hysterical
@theplaythatgoeswrong
Absurdist comedic theatre.
Loved it.
🙏🧎♂️💛
January 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Escaping the dark world of Trump et al with this brilliant Pirandello meets Agatha Christie play in London
Genius and hysterical
@theplaythatgoeswrong
Absurdist comedic theatre.
Loved it.
🙏🧎♂️💛
Genius and hysterical
@theplaythatgoeswrong
Absurdist comedic theatre.
Loved it.
🙏🧎♂️💛
Reposted by Bob Black
if you want an example of what I do present as flash fiction, then you can read my story "Dubmisstep" over on the Akashic Books website in their Mondays Are Murder noir short stories section
www.akashicbooks.com/dubmisstep-b...
Bite on that language AI!
www.akashicbooks.com/dubmisstep-b...
Bite on that language AI!
"Dubmisstep" by Marc Nash
Every South London borough has a murder mile. A stab alley. A no-man’s land patrolled by kids steeled with knives . . .
www.akashicbooks.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
if you want an example of what I do present as flash fiction, then you can read my story "Dubmisstep" over on the Akashic Books website in their Mondays Are Murder noir short stories section
www.akashicbooks.com/dubmisstep-b...
Bite on that language AI!
www.akashicbooks.com/dubmisstep-b...
Bite on that language AI!
My friend @marcnashauthor.bsky.social brilliant reconstruction of the Detective genre with existential and linguistic questions tossed in for good measure.
Read it.
Published by @coronasamizdat.bsky.social
🍷🍷🕵️♂️🕵️♂️
Read it.
Published by @coronasamizdat.bsky.social
🍷🍷🕵️♂️🕵️♂️
Demystifying the mystery novel; demythologising the myth of the tortured artist. Crime scene reconstruction meets literary scene deconstruction
“The Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)”
Available direct from the publisher @coronasamizdat
coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id...
“The Death Of The Author (In Triplicate)”
Available direct from the publisher @coronasamizdat
coronasamizdat.com/index.php?id...
January 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
My friend @marcnashauthor.bsky.social brilliant reconstruction of the Detective genre with existential and linguistic questions tossed in for good measure.
Read it.
Published by @coronasamizdat.bsky.social
🍷🍷🕵️♂️🕵️♂️
Read it.
Published by @coronasamizdat.bsky.social
🍷🍷🕵️♂️🕵️♂️
Taking @morriscollins.bsky.social first novel with me to London
Excited
Happy Birthday Morris! 🙏🎉🍷
🐎🐎🛫🛫🌎
Pub by Dzanc Books 📕
Excited
Happy Birthday Morris! 🙏🎉🍷
🐎🐎🛫🛫🌎
Pub by Dzanc Books 📕
January 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Taking @morriscollins.bsky.social first novel with me to London
Excited
Happy Birthday Morris! 🙏🎉🍷
🐎🐎🛫🛫🌎
Pub by Dzanc Books 📕
Excited
Happy Birthday Morris! 🙏🎉🍷
🐎🐎🛫🛫🌎
Pub by Dzanc Books 📕
Looking forward to reading both.
🙏🍷🎉
🙏🍷🎉
2016 and a hyena: the CBe newsletter went out to subscribers today and is also archived (as previous newsletters) on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/01/2025...
2025: 2016 and the Hyena
First newsletter of the year. The news is – happily, and thanks mainly to some very loyal readers – that there is no news, in the sense tha...
sonofabook.blogspot.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Looking forward to reading both.
🙏🍷🎉
🙏🍷🎉
One of the touchstones of my life, since her work was introduced to me 30 years ago when I was a young writer.
Accompanying me to London
Seek and read her work. 🙏🌻🇦🇷🧎♂️
Accompanying me to London
Seek and read her work. 🙏🌻🇦🇷🧎♂️
January 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
One of the touchstones of my life, since her work was introduced to me 30 years ago when I was a young writer.
Accompanying me to London
Seek and read her work. 🙏🌻🇦🇷🧎♂️
Accompanying me to London
Seek and read her work. 🙏🌻🇦🇷🧎♂️
fabulous book by a fabulous writer
Gary Amdahl's scintillating and scathing and nutso...
January 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
fabulous book by a fabulous writer
I cannot recommend this brilliant book enough
The irony of recommending “i hate the internet” surely is not list on Jarett Kobek….
or Jack Kirby for that matter
🙏🍷
The irony of recommending “i hate the internet” surely is not list on Jarett Kobek….
or Jack Kirby for that matter
🙏🍷
January 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I cannot recommend this brilliant book enough
The irony of recommending “i hate the internet” surely is not list on Jarett Kobek….
or Jack Kirby for that matter
🙏🍷
The irony of recommending “i hate the internet” surely is not list on Jarett Kobek….
or Jack Kirby for that matter
🙏🍷
A new essay by my friend the extraordinary Molly Young
The best writer, by a country mile, at the review
@nytimesbooks we need more essays and reviews by Molly in 2025
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/b...
The best writer, by a country mile, at the review
@nytimesbooks we need more essays and reviews by Molly in 2025
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/b...
Pregnant With One Child and 295,233 Words (Gift Article)
During the months before she gave birth, our critic wrote — a lot. What happens when the impulse to put pen to paper becomes extreme?
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2024 at 3:48 PM
A new essay by my friend the extraordinary Molly Young
The best writer, by a country mile, at the review
@nytimesbooks we need more essays and reviews by Molly in 2025
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/b...
The best writer, by a country mile, at the review
@nytimesbooks we need more essays and reviews by Molly in 2025
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/b...
Boxing Day theatre
Today, musical for partner
Weekend will be Albee (for me 😂)
Today, musical for partner
Weekend will be Albee (for me 😂)
December 26, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Boxing Day theatre
Today, musical for partner
Weekend will be Albee (for me 😂)
Today, musical for partner
Weekend will be Albee (for me 😂)
Not met me in real life?
Easy to spot 😂
I’m holding: a) a book b) drink c) food d)all the above
usually wearing: a) yellow scarf b) yellow/blue beanie c) sneakers or boots d) vest e)combo of all above
I’m usually a) reading b) writing c) walking d) listening e) sleeping, f) all above
Say hi
Easy to spot 😂
I’m holding: a) a book b) drink c) food d)all the above
usually wearing: a) yellow scarf b) yellow/blue beanie c) sneakers or boots d) vest e)combo of all above
I’m usually a) reading b) writing c) walking d) listening e) sleeping, f) all above
Say hi
December 24, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Not met me in real life?
Easy to spot 😂
I’m holding: a) a book b) drink c) food d)all the above
usually wearing: a) yellow scarf b) yellow/blue beanie c) sneakers or boots d) vest e)combo of all above
I’m usually a) reading b) writing c) walking d) listening e) sleeping, f) all above
Say hi
Easy to spot 😂
I’m holding: a) a book b) drink c) food d)all the above
usually wearing: a) yellow scarf b) yellow/blue beanie c) sneakers or boots d) vest e)combo of all above
I’m usually a) reading b) writing c) walking d) listening e) sleeping, f) all above
Say hi