Jake Goldsmith
@jgoldsmith.bsky.social
Author. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/authors/jake_goldsmith/
Contributing editor to Exacting Clam.
Founder of The Barbellion Prize.
https://barbellionprize.org
https://www.jakegoldsmithauthor.com
Contributing editor to Exacting Clam.
Founder of The Barbellion Prize.
https://barbellionprize.org
https://www.jakegoldsmithauthor.com
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Jake Goldsmith
@jgoldsmith.bsky.social
· Jul 26
In Extremis
Published 9th September 2025
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
Published 9th September 2025
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
My essay 'Envying Artists' is available now in Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social.
Print edition out this Spring 🌱
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
Print edition out this Spring 🌱
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
February 18, 2026 at 11:25 AM
My essay 'Envying Artists' is available now in Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social.
Print edition out this Spring 🌱
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
Print edition out this Spring 🌱
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
My essay on art, artists, and friendship is out now via @exactingclam.bsky.social
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
Envying Artists | Exacting Clam
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February 14, 2026 at 6:14 PM
My essay on art, artists, and friendship is out now via @exactingclam.bsky.social
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20...
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It turns out there are some places left on my Memoir & Life Writing short course at the University of the Arts starting February 16. The course runs for 5 weeks and is being held ONLINE from 18:00-20:30 (London time) every Monday so you can tune in from anywhere in the world. (1)
February 2, 2026 at 5:47 PM
It turns out there are some places left on my Memoir & Life Writing short course at the University of the Arts starting February 16. The course runs for 5 weeks and is being held ONLINE from 18:00-20:30 (London time) every Monday so you can tune in from anywhere in the world. (1)
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State Terror in America: ICE in Minneapolis
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State Terror in America: ICE in Minneapolis
FUNCTION, NORMALISATION AND EMPATHY
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January 26, 2026 at 6:29 PM
State Terror in America: ICE in Minneapolis
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Strange situation where I’ve had to unfollow a specific person here who I’d prefer to remain following. They post valuable information yet they repost so much that it entirely clogs my feed so I have to scroll endlessly to see anyone else. Unable to turn off reposts from specific users. Sad.
January 25, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Strange situation where I’ve had to unfollow a specific person here who I’d prefer to remain following. They post valuable information yet they repost so much that it entirely clogs my feed so I have to scroll endlessly to see anyone else. Unable to turn off reposts from specific users. Sad.
People are ‘victimised by their own expertise’ trying to rationalise why this is happening. He wants Greenland for the same reason a dim 7 year old wants something: it’s big. It looks big on a map. That’s cool. There are no clever machinations. He’s a child. Stop sane-washing him.
Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant
Not everyone believed me when I wrote that Trump wants Greenland becuase it would make him feel important, but that's what he told the NYT:
When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
When asked why he needed to possess the territory, he said: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
People are ‘victimised by their own expertise’ trying to rationalise why this is happening. He wants Greenland for the same reason a dim 7 year old wants something: it’s big. It looks big on a map. That’s cool. There are no clever machinations. He’s a child. Stop sane-washing him.
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Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.
publicdomainreview.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain
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Happy New Year's Eve! Europe has been marking the change of year with pyrotechnics since at least the 16th century. @simon_werrett looks at how artists have represented fireworks displays through the centuries: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-pyrotechnics #Fireworks #NewYearsEve
December 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Happy New Year's Eve! Europe has been marking the change of year with pyrotechnics since at least the 16th century. @simon_werrett looks at how artists have represented fireworks displays through the centuries: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-pyrotechnics #Fireworks #NewYearsEve
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In Extremis
Published 9th September 2025
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
Published 9th September 2025
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
July 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
In Extremis
Published 9th September 2025
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
Published 9th September 2025
@saggingmeniscus.bsky.social
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
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My essay collection ‘In Extremis’ was published in September (from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social) .
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
My next project is a long essay titled ‘Envying Artists’, about art, artists I’m privileged to know, friendship, and the desire for connection
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
My next project is a long essay titled ‘Envying Artists’, about art, artists I’m privileged to know, friendship, and the desire for connection
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
My essay collection ‘In Extremis’ was published in September (from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social) .
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
My next project is a long essay titled ‘Envying Artists’, about art, artists I’m privileged to know, friendship, and the desire for connection
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
My next project is a long essay titled ‘Envying Artists’, about art, artists I’m privileged to know, friendship, and the desire for connection
Just to make sure I’m in the clear I want everyone to know that I think, based on solid evidence, that the President of the United States is a rapist and a liar 🤥 .
December 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Just to make sure I’m in the clear I want everyone to know that I think, based on solid evidence, that the President of the United States is a rapist and a liar 🤥 .
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Please support CB Editions.
It's a serious, pioneering Press run by one unconventional guy.
Offer a book, or a hint, to a friend, if possible.
List of their books here:
cbeditions.com/books.html
You can read excerpts from each book too...
It's a serious, pioneering Press run by one unconventional guy.
Offer a book, or a hint, to a friend, if possible.
List of their books here:
cbeditions.com/books.html
You can read excerpts from each book too...
CB editions December newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/cbe-...
CBe newsletter December 2025
Christmas. Presents. Books are even easier to wrap than bottles. See the home page of the website and bear in mind the Season Tickets: 6 b...
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December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Please support CB Editions.
It's a serious, pioneering Press run by one unconventional guy.
Offer a book, or a hint, to a friend, if possible.
List of their books here:
cbeditions.com/books.html
You can read excerpts from each book too...
It's a serious, pioneering Press run by one unconventional guy.
Offer a book, or a hint, to a friend, if possible.
List of their books here:
cbeditions.com/books.html
You can read excerpts from each book too...
My essay collection ‘In Extremis’ was published in September (from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social) .
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
My next project is a long essay titled ‘Envying Artists’, about art, artists I’m privileged to know, friendship, and the desire for connection
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
My next project is a long essay titled ‘Envying Artists’, about art, artists I’m privileged to know, friendship, and the desire for connection
December 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
My essay collection ‘In Extremis’ was published in September (from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social) .
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
My next project is a long essay titled ‘Envying Artists’, about art, artists I’m privileged to know, friendship, and the desire for connection
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/in_e...
My next project is a long essay titled ‘Envying Artists’, about art, artists I’m privileged to know, friendship, and the desire for connection
'Inclement' is far too good an adjective to be confined to describing weather, and 'smithereens' is far too good a noun to be reduced to the state of being blown
December 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
'Inclement' is far too good an adjective to be confined to describing weather, and 'smithereens' is far too good a noun to be reduced to the state of being blown
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If you see this please share (i.e. repost, not just like)! The Barbellion Prize is a unique award for writers with disabilities. We need to raise £20k to secure its future, so please make a donation, no matter how large, no matter how small, here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you!
donate | The Barbellion Prize
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December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If you see this please share (i.e. repost, not just like)! The Barbellion Prize is a unique award for writers with disabilities. We need to raise £20k to secure its future, so please make a donation, no matter how large, no matter how small, here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you!
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I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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My two essay collections are available direct from the publisher or other reliable suppliers.
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/mult...
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_cr...
150 essays in all, so if you read one a day starting on 1st January you'll be at it until the end of May. Real value, I'd say.
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/mult...
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_cr...
150 essays in all, so if you read one a day starting on 1st January you'll be at it until the end of May. Real value, I'd say.
December 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
My two essay collections are available direct from the publisher or other reliable suppliers.
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/mult...
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_cr...
150 essays in all, so if you read one a day starting on 1st January you'll be at it until the end of May. Real value, I'd say.
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/mult...
www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_cr...
150 essays in all, so if you read one a day starting on 1st January you'll be at it until the end of May. Real value, I'd say.
3 (New) Books I Enjoyed in 2025:
A Crumpled Swan by David Collard.
Books - A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library by Ian Patterson.
Raising Hare by Clare Dalton.
A Crumpled Swan by David Collard.
Books - A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library by Ian Patterson.
Raising Hare by Clare Dalton.
December 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
3 (New) Books I Enjoyed in 2025:
A Crumpled Swan by David Collard.
Books - A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library by Ian Patterson.
Raising Hare by Clare Dalton.
A Crumpled Swan by David Collard.
Books - A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library by Ian Patterson.
Raising Hare by Clare Dalton.
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Today, as we mark the international day of persons with disabilities #IDPD2025, we're also celebrating 15 years of the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at LSHTM.
Our co-directors, Hannah Kuper and Tom Shakespeare, reflect on this milestone
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
Our co-directors, Hannah Kuper and Tom Shakespeare, reflect on this milestone
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
Celebrating 15 years of ICED | LSHTM
Celebrating 15 years of ICED | LSHTM
www.lshtm.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Today, as we mark the international day of persons with disabilities #IDPD2025, we're also celebrating 15 years of the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at LSHTM.
Our co-directors, Hannah Kuper and Tom Shakespeare, reflect on this milestone
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
Our co-directors, Hannah Kuper and Tom Shakespeare, reflect on this milestone
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
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Happy Publication Day to Kurt Luchs' TRIBUTARIES — an anthology of twenty poems by twenty poets, accompanied by essays and tribute poems by Kurt. @deborahkalb.bsky.social talks with him about the book here: https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/q-with-kurt-luchs.html
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Happy Publication Day to Kurt Luchs' TRIBUTARIES — an anthology of twenty poems by twenty poets, accompanied by essays and tribute poems by Kurt. @deborahkalb.bsky.social talks with him about the book here: https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/q-with-kurt-luchs.html
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CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY.
If you’d like to gift a copy of Who Wants Normal? to someone who needs it this Christmas (but can’t afford it), I’m giving away my last author copy I just found. I’ll sign and dedicate it.
RT and I’ll pick an account at random. Ends Wednesday 3rd December 8pm. U.K. only.
If you’d like to gift a copy of Who Wants Normal? to someone who needs it this Christmas (but can’t afford it), I’m giving away my last author copy I just found. I’ll sign and dedicate it.
RT and I’ll pick an account at random. Ends Wednesday 3rd December 8pm. U.K. only.
December 2, 2025 at 11:02 AM
CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY.
If you’d like to gift a copy of Who Wants Normal? to someone who needs it this Christmas (but can’t afford it), I’m giving away my last author copy I just found. I’ll sign and dedicate it.
RT and I’ll pick an account at random. Ends Wednesday 3rd December 8pm. U.K. only.
If you’d like to gift a copy of Who Wants Normal? to someone who needs it this Christmas (but can’t afford it), I’m giving away my last author copy I just found. I’ll sign and dedicate it.
RT and I’ll pick an account at random. Ends Wednesday 3rd December 8pm. U.K. only.
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Congratulations to my pal Kurt Luchs, whose 'Tributaries' is published today You can order a copy here: www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/trib...
We had a wide -ranging natter about it as an Exacting Clam cephalopodcast: exactingclamcephalopodcast.com/episode/davi...:
We had a wide -ranging natter about it as an Exacting Clam cephalopodcast: exactingclamcephalopodcast.com/episode/davi...:
Tributaries | Sagging Meniscus Press
www.saggingmeniscus.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Congratulations to my pal Kurt Luchs, whose 'Tributaries' is published today You can order a copy here: www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/trib...
We had a wide -ranging natter about it as an Exacting Clam cephalopodcast: exactingclamcephalopodcast.com/episode/davi...:
We had a wide -ranging natter about it as an Exacting Clam cephalopodcast: exactingclamcephalopodcast.com/episode/davi...:
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Banipal Prize Announces 2025’s 6-book Shortlist
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
Banipal Prize Announces 2025’s 6-book Shortlist
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
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December 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Banipal Prize Announces 2025’s 6-book Shortlist
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
Today, the Banipal Trust for Arab Literature announced the six-book shortlist for their 2025 prize: "two comic works, an historical epic, a dystopian fiction, a prison memoir, and an eco-novel from the Gulf."
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My December newsletter is sent out to around two thousand clued-up subscribers tomorrow. If you're not already on the mailing list and would like a free copy, contact me via my website (scroll dowjn for email address): davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site
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November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My December newsletter is sent out to around two thousand clued-up subscribers tomorrow. If you're not already on the mailing list and would like a free copy, contact me via my website (scroll dowjn for email address): davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site