Vicky Grut
@vickygrut.bsky.social
Writer. Short story collection Live Show, Drink Included shortlisted for 2019 Edge Hill Awards. Pushcart nominated in 2023. Work in The Masters Review XIII in 2025. Website: vickygrut.com
This is a wonderful obituary, a time capsule. Well worth reading.
Shulamith Firestone and a small cadre of her “sisters” were at the radical edge of a movement that profoundly changed American society.
The Death of a Revolutionary: Shulamith Firestone
Susan Faludi's excellent obituary of Shulamith Firestone, originally published in the New Yorker.
www.versobooks.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:43 PM
This is a wonderful obituary, a time capsule. Well worth reading.
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Reminder: Applications are open for the 2026–27 @malorieblackman.bsky.social Scholarships for Unheard Voices. This is your chance to receive up to £1,000 towards City Lit writing courses. Applications close 8 Feb 2026. @citylitwriting.bsky.social
Apply now: www.citylit.ac.uk/malorie-blac...
Apply now: www.citylit.ac.uk/malorie-blac...
January 6, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Reminder: Applications are open for the 2026–27 @malorieblackman.bsky.social Scholarships for Unheard Voices. This is your chance to receive up to £1,000 towards City Lit writing courses. Applications close 8 Feb 2026. @citylitwriting.bsky.social
Apply now: www.citylit.ac.uk/malorie-blac...
Apply now: www.citylit.ac.uk/malorie-blac...
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Attacking a foreign country to seize natural resources and profit from them was already illegal, wrong, and bad strategy. And that's if the profits went back to the country.
It looks like taxpayers paid for a military operation that netted money for the president's private accounts or slush fund.
It looks like taxpayers paid for a military operation that netted money for the president's private accounts or slush fund.
??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.
January 7, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Attacking a foreign country to seize natural resources and profit from them was already illegal, wrong, and bad strategy. And that's if the profits went back to the country.
It looks like taxpayers paid for a military operation that netted money for the president's private accounts or slush fund.
It looks like taxpayers paid for a military operation that netted money for the president's private accounts or slush fund.
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Reading to better understand.
@versobooks.bsky.social has made the ebook for "The Bolivarian Revolution" free to download.
Discounts will appear in cart.
#Free #Ebook #History #PastIsNotPast
@versobooks.bsky.social has made the ebook for "The Bolivarian Revolution" free to download.
Discounts will appear in cart.
#Free #Ebook #History #PastIsNotPast
January 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Reading to better understand.
@versobooks.bsky.social has made the ebook for "The Bolivarian Revolution" free to download.
Discounts will appear in cart.
#Free #Ebook #History #PastIsNotPast
@versobooks.bsky.social has made the ebook for "The Bolivarian Revolution" free to download.
Discounts will appear in cart.
#Free #Ebook #History #PastIsNotPast
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Shulamith Firestone wrote the first book of the women’s liberation movement to propound a feminist theory of sex. She would have turned 81 today.
‘I am who I am, and a lot of women are who they are, because of Shulie.’
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1...
‘I am who I am, and a lot of women are who they are, because of Shulie.’
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1...
The Death of a Revolutionary: Shulamith Firestone
Susan Faludi's excellent obituary of Shulamith Firestone, originally published in the New Yorker.
www.versobooks.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Shulamith Firestone wrote the first book of the women’s liberation movement to propound a feminist theory of sex. She would have turned 81 today.
‘I am who I am, and a lot of women are who they are, because of Shulie.’
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1...
‘I am who I am, and a lot of women are who they are, because of Shulie.’
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/1...
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Join the Mslexia salon!
We'll be reading members' pitches in February 💛
We'll be reading members' pitches in February 💛
To celebrate the publication of the 5th edition of our Indie Press Guide and the amazing work of independent presses, we're hosting an ✨ Indie Extravaganza ✨ in the Salon this February!
mslexia.co.uk/shop/indie-p...
mslexia.co.uk/shop/indie-p...
Indie Press Guide 5th Edition | Mslexia a magazine for women's writing and women who write.
The Indie Press Guide (5th Edition) features over 750 UK and Ireland independent publishers and literary magazines, with full submission details, genres, and contact information to help writers find t...
mslexia.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Join the Mslexia salon!
We'll be reading members' pitches in February 💛
We'll be reading members' pitches in February 💛
City Lit's 26-27 Malorie Blackman Scholarship for Unheard Voices is open for applications until 8 February 2026. More info at: www.citylit.ac.uk/malorie-blac...
January 7, 2026 at 10:17 PM
City Lit's 26-27 Malorie Blackman Scholarship for Unheard Voices is open for applications until 8 February 2026. More info at: www.citylit.ac.uk/malorie-blac...
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Here's a thing I've just learned, though I don't recall from whomst I learned it:
If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results.
If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results.
January 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Here's a thing I've just learned, though I don't recall from whomst I learned it:
If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results.
If you're googling something and you add -AI at the end of your query, you'll be spared the AI results.
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.
July 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use development is illegal to build these days.
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As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future | Rebecca Solnit
As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future | Rebecca Solnit
We enter 2026 with radical uncertainty about the fate of the US – but also with the clarity that people have the power to determine what it will be
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future | Rebecca Solnit
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Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983
December 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983
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Human species were doing wood working before we were Homo sapiens.
This is a superb piece of information found via this list medium.com/@tomwhitwell... which in turn I found via @levparikian.bsky.social
This is a superb piece of information found via this list medium.com/@tomwhitwell... which in turn I found via @levparikian.bsky.social
52 things I learned in 2025
This year I stopped being a consultant, started a tiny company, sold hundreds of little modular synths, hosted two incredible events, and…
medium.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Human species were doing wood working before we were Homo sapiens.
This is a superb piece of information found via this list medium.com/@tomwhitwell... which in turn I found via @levparikian.bsky.social
This is a superb piece of information found via this list medium.com/@tomwhitwell... which in turn I found via @levparikian.bsky.social
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Israeli troops kill five Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, say hospital chiefs
Israeli troops kill five Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, say hospital chiefs
Attack brings total numbers of Palestinians killed by Israel to 400 since October ceasefire took effect
Israel Defense Forces killed five Palestinians, including a baby, who were in a school that sheltered displaced people in Gaza City on Friday, hospital officials have said. The attack brings the number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 400 since the October ceasefire took effect.
Israeli troops fired over the ceasefire line which they have withdrawn to, killing the Palestinians and wounding a number more, the Palestinian civil defence said in a statement. It added that it was only able to recover the bodies after coordinating with the UN, to ensure they did not also come under Israeli fire. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Israeli troops kill five Palestinians sheltering in Gaza school, say hospital chiefs
Thanks to @laurabesley.bsky.social for recommending this lively and practical book of essays from @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Thanks to @laurabesley.bsky.social for recommending this lively and practical book of essays from @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
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Who went bra shopping with John Berger? Whose childhood routine involved visits from the snake charmer? Who disliked the “big, unfriendly giant” Roald Dahl? Was it the same person Dahl told to try children’s fiction because “the little bastards’d swallow it?”
I read some memoirs by Booker winners:
I read some memoirs by Booker winners:
Ten of the best memoirs by Booker Prize-winning authors | The Booker Prizes
Discover the inner workings of some of the greatest Booker Prize-nominated authors with our list of captivating memoirs
thebookerprizes.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Who went bra shopping with John Berger? Whose childhood routine involved visits from the snake charmer? Who disliked the “big, unfriendly giant” Roald Dahl? Was it the same person Dahl told to try children’s fiction because “the little bastards’d swallow it?”
I read some memoirs by Booker winners:
I read some memoirs by Booker winners:
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Best British Short Stories 2025 is here – the fifteenth volume of our landmark annual anthology. Edited by Nicholas Royle, it gathers the most exciting short fiction of 2024 from major names and brilliant new voices.
A perfect festive gift for the reader in your life.
#BBSS2025 #ShortFiction
A perfect festive gift for the reader in your life.
#BBSS2025 #ShortFiction
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Best British Short Stories 2025 is here – the fifteenth volume of our landmark annual anthology. Edited by Nicholas Royle, it gathers the most exciting short fiction of 2024 from major names and brilliant new voices.
A perfect festive gift for the reader in your life.
#BBSS2025 #ShortFiction
A perfect festive gift for the reader in your life.
#BBSS2025 #ShortFiction
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CALLING BOOK REVIEWERS
Boiler House Press are looking for reviewers of their Recovered Books series -- including Malachi Whitaker's super-relevant 1939 memoir, "And So Did I".
Interested? Message @bhousepress.bsky.social
Boiler House Press are looking for reviewers of their Recovered Books series -- including Malachi Whitaker's super-relevant 1939 memoir, "And So Did I".
Interested? Message @bhousepress.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
CALLING BOOK REVIEWERS
Boiler House Press are looking for reviewers of their Recovered Books series -- including Malachi Whitaker's super-relevant 1939 memoir, "And So Did I".
Interested? Message @bhousepress.bsky.social
Boiler House Press are looking for reviewers of their Recovered Books series -- including Malachi Whitaker's super-relevant 1939 memoir, "And So Did I".
Interested? Message @bhousepress.bsky.social
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'Telegraphy' at Burley Fisher Books, on January 15.
Lara Pawson (of Spent Light) and I will be there.
Come by.
6:30pm
400 Kingsland Rd, London E8 4AA
burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...
@cbeditions.bsky.social
Lara Pawson (of Spent Light) and I will be there.
Come by.
6:30pm
400 Kingsland Rd, London E8 4AA
burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...
@cbeditions.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
'Telegraphy' at Burley Fisher Books, on January 15.
Lara Pawson (of Spent Light) and I will be there.
Come by.
6:30pm
400 Kingsland Rd, London E8 4AA
burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...
@cbeditions.bsky.social
Lara Pawson (of Spent Light) and I will be there.
Come by.
6:30pm
400 Kingsland Rd, London E8 4AA
burleyfisherbooks.com/products/lau...
@cbeditions.bsky.social
Brilliant R4 interview with Danish novelist Olga Ravn. She contrasts legal archives (all about violence & death) with folklore archives where magic spells are in fact poems, full of imagery, metaphor, assonance: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Take Four Books - Olga Ravn - BBC Sounds
Danish author Olga Ravn speaks about her new novel The Wax Child and its three influences.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Brilliant R4 interview with Danish novelist Olga Ravn. She contrasts legal archives (all about violence & death) with folklore archives where magic spells are in fact poems, full of imagery, metaphor, assonance: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Very intrigued to see more about this potential new VOD platform. Hopefully a good home for indie films finally
More info here: boxd.it/dJy
Letterboxd Video Store: what you need to know about our new feature coming soon • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine
Coming in early December: Letterboxd Video Store, our latest feature to get you adding films to your watchlist and, crucially, checking them off. Here’s everything you need to know.
boxd.it
December 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Very intrigued to see more about this potential new VOD platform. Hopefully a good home for indie films finally
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This was the 300th edition of the project, which means that the archive website now presents over 3,500 individual short story recommendations!
And who's been picked the most times? I hear you ask.
And who's been picked the most times? I hear you ask.
I've updated the apersonalanthology.com website with @john-self.bsky.social's selection – his pick of and introduction to a dozen favourite stories that, in his words, "feel like they’re *mine*."
Check them out!
(Featuring a Personal Anthology debut for Brian Friel, so congrats to him!)
Check them out!
(Featuring a Personal Anthology debut for Brian Friel, so congrats to him!)
A Personal Anthology
Writers, critics and others dream-edit a personal anthology of their favourite short stories
apersonalanthology.com
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This was the 300th edition of the project, which means that the archive website now presents over 3,500 individual short story recommendations!
And who's been picked the most times? I hear you ask.
And who's been picked the most times? I hear you ask.
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Announcing The Scratch Winter Sale!
For two weeks before our festive break buy all our titles with 25% off.
For all the readers and writers in your life!
www.scratch-books.co.uk/shop
For two weeks before our festive break buy all our titles with 25% off.
For all the readers and writers in your life!
www.scratch-books.co.uk/shop
December 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Announcing The Scratch Winter Sale!
For two weeks before our festive break buy all our titles with 25% off.
For all the readers and writers in your life!
www.scratch-books.co.uk/shop
For two weeks before our festive break buy all our titles with 25% off.
For all the readers and writers in your life!
www.scratch-books.co.uk/shop
Wow. Imagine having the time to write not one, but three diaries!!!
Watching the first part of Neil Jordan's film of The End of the Affair this morning and was reminded that Greene kept not only a secret diary, but TWO secret diaries. One was a bluff, so that his wife would feel she'd discovered his secret diary. The other secret diary was the real one.
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Wow. Imagine having the time to write not one, but three diaries!!!
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Our winter 2025 issue is here!
vestalreview.net/issue-67
We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +
vestalreview.net/issue-67
We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +
December 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Our winter 2025 issue is here!
vestalreview.net/issue-67
We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +
vestalreview.net/issue-67
We've got the latest by: @marioaliberto3.bsky.social, Alisa Golden, @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social, L. F. Khouri, @mattleibel.bsky.social, @skyskkyy.bsky.social, Jennifer Met, Manuel Moyano, James Womack, @emilyrinkema.bsky.social, +
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The 50 best films of 2025 in the UK
The 50 best films of 2025 in the UK
Brilliant biopics, daring documentaries and a host of chillers and thrillers – our critics pick the best from another sensational year of cinema
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The 50 best films of 2025 in the UK