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Morris Collins
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2024 O. Henry Prize. Author of Horse Latitudes
(Dzanc Books). New novel: The Tavern at the End of History
(Dzanc Books, 2026). Bon vivant, abed by nine. Boston.
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Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · Aug 28
Galleys dropped! My weird novel abt art, the angels of history, Kabbalah, Yiddish poets, a dybbuk, & the dangers of trauma narratives. I pitched it (not well) as a Jewish Magic Mountain, but shorter. It's a strange book & I can't wait to share it with you. Feb 10th from Dzanc.
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did anyone else know pedro pascal was john ashbery
November 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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ebbooksellers.bsky.social
Started cobbling together the nonfiction and arts sections of the holiday catalog. First time in a couple years, & you better believe we’re coming back hard.
November 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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amidanruo.bsky.social
We’ve progressed from watching the baseball game to being held hostage by the baseball game.
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Confidence goals
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Proud crow, crest raised, strides confidently into the world.
October 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Northampton, MA #NoKings
Protestor in an inflatable lobster costume, with claws outstretched, standing on a grassy lawn. Signs & people scattered behind.
October 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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mauraquint.bsky.social
Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago
October 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
morriscollins.bsky.social
The 1970s (widely defined: '66-81) were the single greatest decade for the American Novel.

Also, most short novels should be a lot longer.
rachelfeder.bsky.social Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · Oct 13
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
morriscollins.bsky.social
Getting in on the Rothko discourse since 2021. (The Tavern at the End of History from Dzanc in February 2026). Also, always nice to be read by a great writer...
wdclarke.bsky.social Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social · Oct 13
(a wee bit more of that mighty-fine aesthetic debate action)
"You give the viewer too much power," her advisor had said. Her chapter was stacked neatly on his desk, and he was poking it with bottom of his pen, as if to check if it were really dead. "I care less what one sees than what Lurio intends them to see. Does that make sense?" His voice was patient, kindly, he was talking maybe a little slower than usual. "After all, Lurio is the one making them look." "But they might not look," Rachel said. "They might choose not to look." "To not look at a painting is not a form of knowing what it means." The same professor in class had once described Rothko's work as a seduction. "He's forcing us to stare at him, to interpret him, to invest his forms with meaning. But Rachel thought: that's not how seduction works. Seduction is not a performance, but a gaze. You seduce by seeing. By letting another realize that you see them and letting them see themselves through your wonder. An artist does not seduce, but begs to be se- duced.
October 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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"...caught like a message on an electric wire, between who was seeing whom and how..."

—The Tavern at the End of History, the next @morriscollins.bsky.social novel, forthcoming in 2026 from Dzanc
For Lurio, a painting occurred at the intersection of different gazes, or as Rachel framed them, converging intimacies. The tensions, the energy, the sensuality of a work caught like a mes- sage on an electric wire, between who was seeing whom and how—
October 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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thebooksdesk.bsky.social
I've always been fond of my own signed copy of All Souls, with post-reading message. In that it turned up secondhand, maybe Javier's prophecy was correct!
Javier Marias All Souls signed copy
October 6, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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in the company of many many bsky.app/profile/anna...
annakornbluh.bsky.social Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Mar 12
"We are Jewish professors, staff, students from universities across the US. We hold various views about Israel, Palestine, student activism . But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our communities” docs.google.com/document/d/1...?
Not In Our Name
Sign the Statement March 11, 2025 Not in our name. We are Jewish professors, staff members, and students from universities across the United States. We hold various views about Israel and Palestine...
docs.google.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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davidnaimon.bsky.social
Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
@ndbooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social
Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House
Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannil...
tinhouse.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others:

we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
www.thenation.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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They shelved my novel next to some book I never heard of.
September 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation
September 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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tmhwrd.bsky.social
The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is to normalise retreating to your library to produce a volume of digressive, idiosyncratic essays that remain an essential repository of humanist thought and skeptical inquiry 400+ years after your death.
September 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
morriscollins.bsky.social
Please sir, may I have some more?
phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Sep 24
Henry James: The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt—no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries.

Dickens: this guy is named “M'Choakumchild”

James:

Dickens: he be chokin them childs!
September 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
morriscollins.bsky.social
My Rosh Hashanah cocktail: bonded apple brandy, bourbon, bitters, honey syrup, a twist.

Meanwhile, for 5786, more peace, friends. More light, more love. Never again must mean no more.
September 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
morriscollins.bsky.social
Yeah and he was very Sad(e) about it.
florencehrscott.bsky.social Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · Sep 21
You got me a bath bomb? Didn’t one of those kill Marat?
September 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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seventydys.bsky.social
the honeyed fruit

Nâzim Hikmet, ‘Autumn’, tr Richard McKane
AUTUMN The days are gradually getting shorter, the rains are about to start. My door waited wide open for you. Why were you so late? Bread, salt, a green pepper on my table. Waiting for you I drank on my own half the wine I kept for you in my jug. Why were you so late? But look, the honeyed fruit, ripe on the branch, remains alive. If you had been any later it would have dropped unplucked to the ground.
September 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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hanrahanistan.bsky.social
Tarkovsky gets drunk, shaves off moustache
12July 1970 Yesterday I got drunk. And shaved off my moustache. I only realized this morning. And on all my document photographs I've got a moustache. I'll have to grow it again. ANDREY TARKOVSKY, “Time Within Time: THE DIARIES i970-1986” (Translated KITTY HUNTER-BLAIR), 1994
September 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
morriscollins.bsky.social
Schattenfroh aside, there remain so many experimental works by small presses that fly under the radar. E.G: Old Men in Love by the great Alasdair Gray. Pub'd by Small Beer & prob. the most beautiful contemporary book object I own. & it totally disappeared. Other Examples?
September 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.

Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
Young Black man in a patterned shirt leans over a metal water fountain labeled “WHITE ONLY,” drinking directly from it. His gaze meets the camera, capturing a bold act of defiance against segregation during the Jim Crow era.
September 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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87-year-old Cecil Williams walked down the runway to "Neva Scared" during Actively Black and Spill's #NYFW show this weekend

www.whatimreading.net/p/civil-righ...
September 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
morriscollins.bsky.social
Teaching Hawthorne in my Love and Death in the American Novel class tomorrow and my prime takeaway from this is, their radical ability (so they think) to recognize semiotic coherence notwithstanding, what a bunch of little fuckers these Puritan kids are:
September 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM