Jim Esch
@eschorama.bsky.social
reader, writer, content maker, knight of infinite resignation
Great Books, Big Ideas booktube: https://www.youtube.com/@greatbooksbigideas
newsletter: https://eschorama.substack.com
author page: https://www.amazon.com/author/jimesch
Great Books, Big Ideas booktube: https://www.youtube.com/@greatbooksbigideas
newsletter: https://eschorama.substack.com
author page: https://www.amazon.com/author/jimesch
Happy birthday Commodore Amiga, the computer for the creative mind. 40 years old! #commodore #amiga #retrocomputer
July 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Happy birthday Commodore Amiga, the computer for the creative mind. 40 years old! #commodore #amiga #retrocomputer
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New to Penguin Classics: Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation by David Horrocks!
Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4h9tPcb
Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4h9tPcb
March 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
New to Penguin Classics: Steppenwolf, Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse’s iconic countercultural novel about the search for authenticity in an inauthentic world, in a new translation by David Horrocks!
Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4h9tPcb
Start reading now 👉 bit.ly/4h9tPcb
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#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Turn on line numbering in the editor using 'View > Text Editing > Show Line Numbers'.
February 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Turn on line numbering in the editor using 'View > Text Editing > Show Line Numbers'.
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An emerging generation of Black writers at the frontiers of science fiction and fantasy takes center stage in The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, a groundbreaking new collection edited by SF expert @andrecarrington.bsky.social landing in bookstores today!
www.loa.org/books/the-bl...
www.loa.org/books/the-bl...
February 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
An emerging generation of Black writers at the frontiers of science fiction and fantasy takes center stage in The Black Fantastic: 20 Afrofuturist Stories, a groundbreaking new collection edited by SF expert @andrecarrington.bsky.social landing in bookstores today!
www.loa.org/books/the-bl...
www.loa.org/books/the-bl...
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#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Tidy your text after importing from Microsoft Word with ‘Edit > Text Tidying’. You can delete struck through text, replace multiple spaces with single spaces, remove empty lines between paragraphs, strip leading tabs and more.
January 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Tidy your text after importing from Microsoft Word with ‘Edit > Text Tidying’. You can delete struck through text, replace multiple spaces with single spaces, remove empty lines between paragraphs, strip leading tabs and more.
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Some capacities you have now:
1. To snub the dominant spectacle.
2. To satirize it.
3. To think freely.
4. To protect the weak from the strong. Even if you’re vulnerable, someone else can benefit from your protection.
5. To imagine new futures.
6. To build solidarity.
7. To have actual fun.
1. To snub the dominant spectacle.
2. To satirize it.
3. To think freely.
4. To protect the weak from the strong. Even if you’re vulnerable, someone else can benefit from your protection.
5. To imagine new futures.
6. To build solidarity.
7. To have actual fun.
January 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Some capacities you have now:
1. To snub the dominant spectacle.
2. To satirize it.
3. To think freely.
4. To protect the weak from the strong. Even if you’re vulnerable, someone else can benefit from your protection.
5. To imagine new futures.
6. To build solidarity.
7. To have actual fun.
1. To snub the dominant spectacle.
2. To satirize it.
3. To think freely.
4. To protect the weak from the strong. Even if you’re vulnerable, someone else can benefit from your protection.
5. To imagine new futures.
6. To build solidarity.
7. To have actual fun.
Note to self: you don't have to listen, and you don't have to obey.
January 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Note to self: you don't have to listen, and you don't have to obey.
Won't Get Fooled Again
YouTube video by The Who - Topic
music.youtube.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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"What happens to us when we live so much of our lives through communication systems, when the self, reconfigured as a pattern of information, becomes media content?"
Read the preview of SUPERBLOOM by Nicholas Carr, out 1/28.
www.newcartographies.com/p/the-mirror...
wwnorton.com/books/superb...
Read the preview of SUPERBLOOM by Nicholas Carr, out 1/28.
www.newcartographies.com/p/the-mirror...
wwnorton.com/books/superb...
The Mirrorball Self
An excerpt from Superbloom.
www.newcartographies.com
January 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"What happens to us when we live so much of our lives through communication systems, when the self, reconfigured as a pattern of information, becomes media content?"
Read the preview of SUPERBLOOM by Nicholas Carr, out 1/28.
www.newcartographies.com/p/the-mirror...
wwnorton.com/books/superb...
Read the preview of SUPERBLOOM by Nicholas Carr, out 1/28.
www.newcartographies.com/p/the-mirror...
wwnorton.com/books/superb...
Original instrumental music for a snowy day music.youtube.com/watch?v=3kKI...
The Snowy Walk Home from Worrall School
YouTube video by Breakthrough Shine - Topic
music.youtube.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Original instrumental music for a snowy day music.youtube.com/watch?v=3kKI...
Step aside, it's time to say bye bye 2024
Bye Bye
YouTube video by Breakthrough Shine - Topic
music.youtube.com
December 31, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Step aside, it's time to say bye bye 2024
My year in books, 2024
The highs and lows of books completed
jimesch.medium.com
December 27, 2024 at 4:08 PM
A good day when the sunspot comes to you. #bostonterrier
December 2, 2024 at 7:15 PM
A good day when the sunspot comes to you. #bostonterrier
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#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Use the Bookmarks pane in the Inspector to create links to external files that you don’t want to import into the project.
November 28, 2024 at 1:50 PM
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Use the Bookmarks pane in the Inspector to create links to external files that you don’t want to import into the project.
Our kid's home for Thanksgiving and brought this beauty along, a Catahoula Leopard / Shepherd mix. Make yourself comfortable, Dallas!
November 27, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Our kid's home for Thanksgiving and brought this beauty along, a Catahoula Leopard / Shepherd mix. Make yourself comfortable, Dallas!
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#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Use Search Collections to keep track of different threads. Use Project Search, then save as a Collection using the search field menu.
November 26, 2024 at 2:53 PM
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & Mac Tip of the Day: Use Search Collections to keep track of different threads. Use Project Search, then save as a Collection using the search field menu.
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Here's a Starter Pack of independent and small-press publishers. I'll add to it as more of those publishers join these blue skies. If YOU would like to have your company added, LMK.
go.bsky.app/PDDBYLp
go.bsky.app/PDDBYLp
November 23, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Here's a Starter Pack of independent and small-press publishers. I'll add to it as more of those publishers join these blue skies. If YOU would like to have your company added, LMK.
go.bsky.app/PDDBYLp
go.bsky.app/PDDBYLp
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Steve Donoghue reviews a profiling of some of the New Yorker’s signature artists, At Wit's End by Michael Maslin and Alen MacWeeney, out from Clarkson Potter:
openlettersreview.com/posts/at-wit...
openlettersreview.com/posts/at-wit...
At Wit's End by Michael Maslin and Alen MacWeeney — Open Letters Review
Profiles of some of the New Yorker’s signature artists
openlettersreview.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Steve Donoghue reviews a profiling of some of the New Yorker’s signature artists, At Wit's End by Michael Maslin and Alen MacWeeney, out from Clarkson Potter:
openlettersreview.com/posts/at-wit...
openlettersreview.com/posts/at-wit...
Finished Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler today. Terrific book. I'm gathering thoughts and hope to make a #booktube video about it tomorrow. It's about time for a reading update video anyway.
November 21, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Finished Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler today. Terrific book. I'm gathering thoughts and hope to make a #booktube video about it tomorrow. It's about time for a reading update video anyway.
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#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Use ‘Edit > Paste and Match Style’ to strip out images, and any formatting code from Microsoft Word (and other editors) as they may use their own proprietary optimization and formatting which can cause problems in Scrivener.
November 20, 2024 at 5:54 PM
#Scrivener 3 on Windows & macOS Tip of the Day: Use ‘Edit > Paste and Match Style’ to strip out images, and any formatting code from Microsoft Word (and other editors) as they may use their own proprietary optimization and formatting which can cause problems in Scrivener.
Have a feeling I'll be OD'ing on Windham Hill records this season. Need more peace, hope, solace.
November 18, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Have a feeling I'll be OD'ing on Windham Hill records this season. Need more peace, hope, solace.