spinetingling
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Nancy Forde | Writer/Photographer | she/her🇮🇪🇨🇦🏳️🌈 MFA in Creative Nonfiction (Class of '26) | MA in Doc Photography & Photojournalism ('21) | Grab a cuppa & curl up: spinetingling.substack.com (This here's my 📚 bsky. Personal bsky: @nancyfjorde.bsky.social)
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Turning Over a New Leaf
Welcome to Spinetingling, the home of shameless shelf-promotion. Where I promise to be an open book.
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As one of my 2025 new year's resolutions, I've launched a new book-loving newsletter over on Substack. Read about all about it and subscribe: spinetingling.substack.com/p/turning-ov...
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"Books are often slow to materialise, and can be months or years in the making. They can also arise from next to nothing and take shape in a matter of days. Small Publishers Fair is both an incentive and a deadline."
On the 2025 Small Publishers Fair
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/the-exchange
On the 2025 Small Publishers Fair
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/the-exchange
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"Books are often slow to materialise, and can be months or years in the making. They can also arise from next to nothing and take shape in a matter of days. Small Publishers Fair is both an incentive and a deadline."
On the 2025 Small Publishers Fair
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/the-exchange
On the 2025 Small Publishers Fair
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/the-exchange
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Shinkichi Takahashi
(tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)
(tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Shinkichi Takahashi
(tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)
(tr. Lucien Stryk & Takashi Ikemoto)
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Lest we forget.
In memory of my grandfathers, members of the original antifa.
In memory of my grandfathers, members of the original antifa.
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Lest we forget.
In memory of my grandfathers, members of the original antifa.
In memory of my grandfathers, members of the original antifa.
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You're invited to the launch of The Lore of Silver on Thursday 20th November at 6.30pm in the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Cow's lane, Dublin 2, now with added @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social
There will be cake. And shenanigans.
There will be cake. And shenanigans.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
You're invited to the launch of The Lore of Silver on Thursday 20th November at 6.30pm in the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Cow's lane, Dublin 2, now with added @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social
There will be cake. And shenanigans.
There will be cake. And shenanigans.
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Was just thinking about how Toni Morrison says all water has a perfect memory and what we call floods is water trying to get back where it used to be.
Nation-states may be similar. Things seem to be reverting back to the actual foundation... with similar relations to people and the earth.
Nation-states may be similar. Things seem to be reverting back to the actual foundation... with similar relations to people and the earth.
That's BS. Drop in CO2 was from genocide and settler deforestation
"By focusing on CO2 levels trapped in the ice, they see another deadly side of human activity: colonization."
The deaths of 56 million indigenous people in N. America during first 150 yrs of colonization is recorded in the ice."
"By focusing on CO2 levels trapped in the ice, they see another deadly side of human activity: colonization."
The deaths of 56 million indigenous people in N. America during first 150 yrs of colonization is recorded in the ice."
January 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Was just thinking about how Toni Morrison says all water has a perfect memory and what we call floods is water trying to get back where it used to be.
Nation-states may be similar. Things seem to be reverting back to the actual foundation... with similar relations to people and the earth.
Nation-states may be similar. Things seem to be reverting back to the actual foundation... with similar relations to people and the earth.
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Montreal-born David Szalay becomes first Canadian to win Booker Prize since 2019
www.cbc.ca/books/david-...
www.cbc.ca/books/david-...
Montreal-born David Szalay becomes first Canadian to win Booker Prize since 2019 | CBC Books
The annual U.K. prize, worth $92K, honours the best novel written in English from anywhere in the world.
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Montreal-born David Szalay becomes first Canadian to win Booker Prize since 2019
www.cbc.ca/books/david-...
www.cbc.ca/books/david-...
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'Immeasurable beauty
is immeasurable precisely
until it's gone - '
Oluwaseun Olayiwola, 'Strange Beach', @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
is immeasurable precisely
until it's gone - '
Oluwaseun Olayiwola, 'Strange Beach', @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
'Immeasurable beauty
is immeasurable precisely
until it's gone - '
Oluwaseun Olayiwola, 'Strange Beach', @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
is immeasurable precisely
until it's gone - '
Oluwaseun Olayiwola, 'Strange Beach', @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
For the day that's in it... #November11
"or summon an overheated heart glazed just in time for a
camera. I that I have nothing to say— no words stronger than the steel that pressed you into itself, no scripture older or more elegant than the ancient atoms you have become."
- Toni Morrison, The Dead of September 11, Source of Self Regard
camera. I that I have nothing to say— no words stronger than the steel that pressed you into itself, no scripture older or more elegant than the ancient atoms you have become."
- Toni Morrison, The Dead of September 11, Source of Self Regard
It came from a line in the Toni Morrison poem "The Dead of September 11".
I was mutual on Twitter with someone who worked with Morrison on the "Pieces I Am" documentary, and she said that it was Morrison's preferred title.
I was mutual on Twitter with someone who worked with Morrison on the "Pieces I Am" documentary, and she said that it was Morrison's preferred title.
November 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
For the day that's in it... #November11
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Huge congratulations to @lilliputpress.bsky.social, and to all the other wonderful publishers on the shortlist! 📚
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Huge congratulations to @lilliputpress.bsky.social, and to all the other wonderful publishers on the shortlist! 📚
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We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
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November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
tinyurl.com/f9sccz4v
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE).
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
My heart is not a mirror
To reflect what others will
My heart is not a stone
It cannot be rolled
My heart is not a mat
It cannot be folded away
我心匪鑑 不可以茹
我心匪石 不可轉也
我心匪席 不可卷也
#everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com
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Cory Doctorow coined the term ‘enshittification.’ And he knows how to stop it /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
Cory Doctorow coined the term ‘enshittification.’ And he knows how to stop it
The Canadian technology critic remains hopeful a good internet is possible
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Cory Doctorow coined the term ‘enshittification.’ And he knows how to stop it /via @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Two years ago, I wrote this about how the COP climate summits are designed to fail, and how they could be designed to succeed. Sadly, nothing has changed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planet | George Monbiot
Inaction and self-interest are built into climate summits. Instead, we need a voting system that can’t be subverted by fossil fuel producers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Two years ago, I wrote this about how the COP climate summits are designed to fail, and how they could be designed to succeed. Sadly, nothing has changed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Do you prefer your fiction with a little steam? Aching passion and fiery love? We got two for you ❤️🔥
Like the perfect lover, we only got teases for you today - go buy the book for the full reveal 🦝
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
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Like the perfect lover, we only got teases for you today - go buy the book for the full reveal 🦝
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
@terryholland.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Do you prefer your fiction with a little steam? Aching passion and fiery love? We got two for you ❤️🔥
Like the perfect lover, we only got teases for you today - go buy the book for the full reveal 🦝
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
@terryholland.bsky.social
Like the perfect lover, we only got teases for you today - go buy the book for the full reveal 🦝
mybook.to/WhatComesToL...
@terryholland.bsky.social
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The science of storytelling with author and humanist Kurt Vonnegut 😅❤️
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The science of storytelling with author and humanist Kurt Vonnegut 😅❤️
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
Kurt was born #OnThisDay 1922.
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"I've gone ahead and notified Nyarlathotep's hierophants that we'll give them everything they asked for, and will also throw in a few sacrificial firstborn children for the inconvenience."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wev...
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We’ve Defied President Nyarlathotep’s Psychic Siege Long Enough
Well, everyone, it was a valiant and brave endeavor. We refused to capitulate during the Dread Lord Nyarlathotep’s nationwide psychic siege for ove...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"I've gone ahead and notified Nyarlathotep's hierophants that we'll give them everything they asked for, and will also throw in a few sacrificial firstborn children for the inconvenience."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wev...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wev...
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Leftists everywhere are winning elections and rising in polls by refusing to pander on the right on migrant rights, trans rights, Palestinian freedom etc. Let these lessons sink in, I beg
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Leftists everywhere are winning elections and rising in polls by refusing to pander on the right on migrant rights, trans rights, Palestinian freedom etc. Let these lessons sink in, I beg
🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻✨This calls for a proper celebratory cuppa.
A brand new collection of short stories by Colm Tóibín 'The News From Dublin', has just been announced for publication in March. We're thrilled to announce our Kennys Exclusive Signed Limited Edition of the book, available for pre-order now: www.kennys.ie/shop/the-new...
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻✨This calls for a proper celebratory cuppa.
Just saw the film adaptation of that genius Helen Macdonald's 'H is for Hawk' starring Brendan Gleeson and Clare Foy might release in theatres where I live as a wee gift for me for my January birthday. Thank you, Cosmos.
If you haven't yet read the book: fly. Fly and hunt your own copy down now!
If you haven't yet read the book: fly. Fly and hunt your own copy down now!
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Just saw the film adaptation of that genius Helen Macdonald's 'H is for Hawk' starring Brendan Gleeson and Clare Foy might release in theatres where I live as a wee gift for me for my January birthday. Thank you, Cosmos.
If you haven't yet read the book: fly. Fly and hunt your own copy down now!
If you haven't yet read the book: fly. Fly and hunt your own copy down now!
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We take a lot of people from the universities down here... these guys are so talented and they’re so enthusiastic, because it is an opportunity that they can’t really get anywhere else, says John Twiggs on Hungry Tomato 👇 #BookSky
Hungry for success: John Twiggs on growing Cornwall-based kids’ publisher Hungry Tomato
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November 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We take a lot of people from the universities down here... these guys are so talented and they’re so enthusiastic, because it is an opportunity that they can’t really get anywhere else, says John Twiggs on Hungry Tomato 👇 #BookSky
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Best Anthology is Bury Your Gays - An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, edited by Sofia Ajan, Ghoulish Books.
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Best Anthology is Bury Your Gays - An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror, edited by Sofia Ajan, Ghoulish Books.