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Matthew Kelty
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Writer/Actor/Director | Educator/Ethnographer
Political/Green/Queer/Antifa | Sarcastic/Curmudgeonly
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I know everyone says not to give in to despair; that there's strength in hope -- and some people who really can't read a room regarding anti-authoritarian sentiment say that we're not *allowed* to despair because we have to save our energy for *the fight.*

But, y'all. I am in despair right now.
February 7, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

SPECIAL BONUS ENTRY because (*waves vaguely at everything*)

DAY 21 / INFINITY:
February 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 20
February 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 19
February 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 18
The book cover for Neil Bartlett's novel _Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall_ features an image of an outstretched hand; the image is tinted purple and is slightly blurry, as if from an aged photograph or a picture taken underwater. Text superimposed over the image features the author's name in white and the title of the book in an olive green.
January 31, 2025 at 11:57 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 15
The book cover of Allan Gurganus' autobiographical novel _Plays Well With Others_ features a cartoon-like illustration of a young boy with red hair and a blue hat over a red background, with the title of the book in white text. Silver tag on the spine of the book seems to indicate that this is a library copy.
January 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 14
The book cover for Larry Kramer's play _The Normal Heart_ features a red background with a shape that looks like a white heart made out of torn paper. The play's title moves in an upward diagonal across the cover; the title is in white while over the red background, but switches to black when over the white heart. Other text on the cover includes the name of the publisher, Samuel French, and notes a foreword by Joseph Papp, who was then the Artistic Director of The Public Theater in NYC.
January 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 14
The book cover for Miranda July's short fiction anthology _No One Belongs Here More Than You._ features the book title and author's name in plain black text on a bright yellow background.
January 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 13
The book cover of Paul Auster's anthology _The New York Trilogy_ has text in red, yellow, blue, and white that includes the names of the three novels contained in the anthology: _City of Glass_, _Ghosts_, and _The Locked Room_. This text is superimposed over a collage of images including the New York City skyline, a fire hydrant, a coffee cup, a skull, several American flags, and other objets.
January 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 13
A book cover of Margaret Atwood's _The Handmaid's Tale_ features the title in white text on a black background, and an abstract image suggesting a woman wearing a red dress and a large white bonnet.
January 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 12
January 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 11
January 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 10
A book cover for Miguel De Cervantes' _Don Quixote_ shows a black abstract-style image on a white bacckground of a man riding a horse and carrying a lance. The tip of the lance forms the "i" in "Quixote."
January 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Song List for Anyone Interested ...
January 24, 2025 at 5:01 AM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews; just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 09
The book cover of _The Confessions of Saint Augustine_ is an artistic rendering suggesting stained glass, of Augustine wearing religious robes and holding a flaming heart. Part of the image is covered by a red box with the title in white text.
January 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 08
The book cover for _Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories_ features the title in black, flanked by a green branch and a peacock, all on a white background.
January 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
And by *definitely* I mean that I don't have proof, but it is my strong opinion; so call off your lawyers, Elmu.
An orange background with flame emojis sits behind white text saying that "He [Elon Musk] may not be a Nazi per se, but he is *definitely" a racist and a eugenicist."
January 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM.
Two Quick Fun Scientific Facts:
1) Vaccines don't cause autism.
2) Autism doesn't cause Nazi salutes.
Elon Musk gives a Nazi salute at the inauguration celebrations on January 20th, 2025.
January 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 07
The book cover of Karl Marx's _Capital_ shows a sepia-toned portrait of Marx. The top third of the cover has the title in white, on a red background.
January 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 06
The book cover of the anthology _This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color_ has yellow text and a yellow outline of a woman on her hands and knees (the outline suggests that the woman is naked) against a deep rusty-red background.
January 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 05
Book cover image of Henrik Ibsen's play _Brand_ is a shadowy sketch of a man in a suit, hiding his face in his arms as if he's feeling shame or grief.
January 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky #BookChallenge
#20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 04
Book cover of Toni Morrison's _Beloved_: an illustration of the "face" of a barely-visible, ghostly Black woman waering a white blouse and hat.
January 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
matthewkelty.bsky.social

20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky
#BookChallenge #20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

DAY 3
Book cover of _Bastard Out of Carolina_ features a black-and-white photo of a young girl in a rural setting facing the camera, while a woman looks at her in the background.
January 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
matthewkelty.bsky.social
20 DAYS / 20 BOOKS CHALLENGE
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. [I included plays as well.]
One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
💙📚 #Books #BookSky
#BookChallenge #20BooksChallenge #20DayBookChallenge
The book cover for _Barrel Fever_, a collection of fiction and essays by David Sedaris, shows a black-and-white photo on a yellow, gray, and green background. The photo shows two men in suits and bowler hats sticking their tongues out at the camera.
January 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Man, what a hoot this was! Good times, good times ...
#AhMemories #AAAAAAGHHHH!Memories #38Minutes
Black text on a gray background, over a photo of a beach with palm trees. The text is the (mistaken) January 13, 2018 emergency warning from the state of Hawai‘i to its citizens that a ballistic missile was headed toward the islands.
January 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM