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Jake Goldsmith
@jgoldsmith.bsky.social
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Author. https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/authors/jake_goldsmith/

Contributing editor to Exacting Clam.

Founder of The Barbellion Prize.
https://www.jakegoldsmithauthor.com
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Went to a book club on Wednesday in Saxmundham and the book I suggested for next time (Books - A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library by Ian Patterson) was picked out of the hat. Thanks to @davidcollard.bsky.social for putting the book on my radar
socialbar Saxmundham. Our next book club pick, Books - A Manifesto: Or, How to Build a Library by Ian Patterson, Wed 3rd Dec, 7pm
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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@kvind.bsky.social Should we trust him?
Man in a brown coat, jeans, and baseball cap, colourful umbrella, at a green table with multiple sets of dentures and teeth upon it. The man holds a pair of pliers.
October 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Latest purchase ( recommended by @ronanhession.bsky.social )
Nocilla Lab by Agustín Fernández Mallo, Fitzcarraldo Editions
October 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Family gathering today to celebrate 🥂 my new book 'In Extremis' (from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social)
Jake's books on a table, with balloons and ceramic decorations
September 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Met @davidcollard.bsky.social at my book signing today
Jake (left) and David (right) at Woodbridge Books
September 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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My book signing at Woodbridge Books is this Friday (12th September) from 11AM ...

I will be signing copies of my latest essay collection 'In Extremis' (from @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social).

@davidcollard.bsky.social should also be there if the tube strike doesn't halt him.
Woodbridge Books. Pop in to meet Jake this Friday. Friday 12th September at 11am. Here at Woodbridge Books
September 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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My 3rd Mister Herbert sculpture for my 3rd book (In Extremis, published by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social), from Sally Dunham
Mister Herbert, a skinny man made of white clam, writing in a book while sitting on a pile of 3 large books. Sculpture by Sally Dunham View from behind
September 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Book signing 12th September @ Woodbridge Books 📚
Book signing 12th September at Woodbridge Books. Jake standing next to an Events sign in Woodbridge thoroughfare Events Jake Goldsmith Book Signing 12th September. Children's Book Club 25th September
August 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I will be signing copies of my new book/latest essay collection In Extremis (published by @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social) at Woodbridge Books, Friday 12th September from 11am
Jake Goldsmith Book Signing Friday 12th September at 11am Here at Woodbridge Books
August 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Published 9th September
Back and front cover of In Extremis, with moustached ceramic man in the middle
August 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Recommended to my dentist
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Toothpull of St Dunstan by Kevin Davey
August 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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In Extremis

Published 9th September 2025

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IN EXTREMIS JAKE GOLDSMITH book cover
July 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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A brief glimpse inside my upcoming essay collection 'In Extremis'. Published this summer 🌞
IN EXTREMIS ESSAYS JAKE GOLDSMITH Sagging Meniscus Press Contents page for In Extremis Quotes featured in In Extremis, from Joan Didion, Michel de Montaigne, Manès Sperber, and Étienne Pivert de Senancour
June 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I’m still waiting on my prize, @davidcollard.bsky.social
Swan Whisperer banned from Hyde Park after kissing the birds
June 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Cat Whisperer
Cat on Jake's shoulders, on the stairs. Jake is wearing a beige outfit. Cat on Jake's shoulders, on the stairs. Jake is wearing a beige outfit.
June 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Issue 17 of @exactingclam.bsky.social . I am inside, with my short essay 'Remembering Gracián'. Out now
Green cover of Exacting Clam, Issue 17 Summer 2025. Front cover features art of a clam-headed figure in a dress at a gambling table. A Clam at the Bellagio by Gina DeMartino Text of the brief essay Remembering Gracián by Jake Goldsmith
June 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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More swan evidence 🦢
June 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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More swan 🦢
June 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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@davidcollard.bsky.social

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June 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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A Crumpled Swan by @davidcollard.bsky.social @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social , out today
Book - ‘A Crumpled Swan: Fifty essays about Abigail Parry’s ‘In the dream of the cold restaurant’ ‘ by David Collard , with Daphne the cat
June 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Relevant comments on the same subject I made recently…
January 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián
The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián, drawing with amateur doddle of Gracián
January 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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A Statement Regarding The Barbellion Prize, 2025
Statement on the continued hiatus of the Barbellion Prize
January 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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The Pulse Glass — Gillian Tindall
December 31, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Arons
Raymond Aron caricatures
August 1, 2024 at 9:08 PM