Ayrton-Lewis Avery
lewisjourn.bsky.social
Ayrton-Lewis Avery
@lewisjourn.bsky.social
Journalist and fiction writer 📚.
Words in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, and The Elephant (Kenya) 💙📚.
Beats: climate journalism, open to others.
My favorite novel from the recently deceased Mario Vargas Llosa. (I always interpreted it as a cryptic commentary on authoritarianism). #booksky #writingcommunity #amreading
April 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Just like artists draw from reference images, I also write from reference images. Today, I'll be writing to Untitled by Leonora Carrington (1960). #writingcommunity #writingsky #amwriting
April 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This book nearly traumatized me over COVID. #amreading #booksky #PhilSky
April 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
An example of the works featured:
April 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If you are having trouble writing a scene in a novel, try writing that section as a stage play or a screenplay. #writingcommunity #amwriting #writingsky
April 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
This is a movie that always deeply moves me. #filmsky
April 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I'll be writing to Hilma af Klint today... one of the first abstract artists to exist in the West. #writingcommunity #amwriting #art
March 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A movie that will always stay with me. #filmsky It also taught me a lot of philosophy, especially Freud. #philsky
March 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
It's going to take quite some imagination to write something geometric in the style of Carlos Mérida's paintings. #writingcommunity #amwriting
March 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
An Australian movie I'll always return to. It has a certain dreamy feeling. #filmsky
March 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A few weeks, ago Joyce Carol Oates posted this on X. She is not incorrect, of course. However, right now, everyone on Bluesky has a moral responsibility (because we are leaving Elon Musk-owned X), and as long as it stays that way, we should be fine. #writingcommunity
March 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The most recent philosophy/linguistics book I'm reading. #philsky #booksky
March 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This composition seems to be an accurate depiction of the Earth, despite what flat-earthers think. #art
March 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Writing to Egon Schiele is going to be a real challenge. He was one of the strangest and most grotesque expressionist artists that ever came out of Germany. #amwriting #writingcommunity
February 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This is a book I'll be returning to a lot. It's about as poetic as a novel can get 💙📚. #scifi #booksky
February 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I'm going to try writing to this. #amwriting #writingcommunity
February 18, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This is a #film I'll always return to. It really talks about the meaning of art in a whole new way.
February 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Gustav Mahler, one of Austria's greatest composers, spent three years in this tiny hut composing #music.
February 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'm going to be writing to this today: #writingcommunity
February 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is the album I've been listening to on repeat for a few days now: #musicsky
January 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I was thinking capitalism these days is so competitive it makes me feel like this: #writing #writingcommunity
January 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I've joined Bluesky because all the rest of social media makes me feel like this:
January 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM