Ritwij Mishra
@ritwijmishra.bsky.social
Writer | Poet | Penguin Random House Author | Erstwhile Founding Editor of a poetry e-zine | Polyglot
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This is how to begin a novel
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is how to begin a novel
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“I write that is to say I get on board a notebook to cross abysses and be reborn from the fires.”
October 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM
“I write that is to say I get on board a notebook to cross abysses and be reborn from the fires.”
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Even if you just read one word a day you can finish a whole novel in 243 years.
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Beautiful! Poetry and its seduction of the dust off the poet's debris feels like an affine involution of both, seducing away the orthographic for the light to settle on.
Poetry embraces me behind the wall, she picks up
her skirt and lets me see, loving and loony.
Bad things happen, I tell her,
I, too, am a child of God
Allow me to despair
Her answer is to draw her hot tongue
across my neck;
She says rod to calm me,
she says stone, geometry
- Seduction, Adelia Prado
her skirt and lets me see, loving and loony.
Bad things happen, I tell her,
I, too, am a child of God
Allow me to despair
Her answer is to draw her hot tongue
across my neck;
She says rod to calm me,
she says stone, geometry
- Seduction, Adelia Prado
October 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Beautiful! Poetry and its seduction of the dust off the poet's debris feels like an affine involution of both, seducing away the orthographic for the light to settle on.
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In the footsteps of Anthropic: a new class action (not yet certified) against Salesforce for using pirated books for AI training. There will be more of these
A new lawsuit has been filed against Salesforce over using pirated books to train its LLM.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In the footsteps of Anthropic: a new class action (not yet certified) against Salesforce for using pirated books for AI training. There will be more of these
I photographed my gardens in their Monsoon plerosis on an evening when "Sobrevivir a un fusilamiento: ocho historias reales" and a Gazan preserving books cut an ontogenetic stentorian in my heart - my heart needed an epicanthic of green, a Nicht that really is a Weltinnenraum, to write that night.
September 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I photographed my gardens in their Monsoon plerosis on an evening when "Sobrevivir a un fusilamiento: ocho historias reales" and a Gazan preserving books cut an ontogenetic stentorian in my heart - my heart needed an epicanthic of green, a Nicht that really is a Weltinnenraum, to write that night.
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We’re getting closer to bringing the new @subpresspoetry.bsky.social titles to press. They’re so good.
September 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
We’re getting closer to bringing the new @subpresspoetry.bsky.social titles to press. They’re so good.
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"Llechen" ar gyfer "tablet" (h.y. iPad etc) wir yn profi bod y Gymraeg yn medru troi popeth yn gartrefol. Gwbod bod "llechau Moses" ayyb yn gywir, ond dal yn swnio i mi fel rhywbeth i roi ar y to ym Mlaenau Ffestiniog.
August 29, 2025 at 7:23 AM
"Llechen" ar gyfer "tablet" (h.y. iPad etc) wir yn profi bod y Gymraeg yn medru troi popeth yn gartrefol. Gwbod bod "llechau Moses" ayyb yn gywir, ond dal yn swnio i mi fel rhywbeth i roi ar y to ym Mlaenau Ffestiniog.
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Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected).
Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside
Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside
August 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected).
Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside
Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside
This does read like a riveting speculative piece. Textual interpretation used to have inexorable possibilities for discovery - all those allographic imports and transformational adjuncts - when the media for composition and typesetting were analogue, as opposed to self-effacing digital emendations.
#miltonwoolfparadisewaves and higher than that wall *** for MISSING WORD OR PHRASE see Edward Mendelson on The Waves in Times Literary Supplement 25th July 2025 and below--
#booksky #litsky #miltonsky #woolfsky #mashupsky #strictlysequentialsky #phraseadaysky
@michaelcaines.bsky.social
#booksky #litsky #miltonsky #woolfsky #mashupsky #strictlysequentialsky #phraseadaysky
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August 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This does read like a riveting speculative piece. Textual interpretation used to have inexorable possibilities for discovery - all those allographic imports and transformational adjuncts - when the media for composition and typesetting were analogue, as opposed to self-effacing digital emendations.
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Tiene razón en cuanto a que las bibliotecas personifican una cinta de Möbius de la proleptic. La vanidad de la enantiodromía aún no correspondida, mi biblioteca entusiasma; el Scaliger de la vanidad no puede quejarse del Pontano de la redundancia!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Tu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Tu...
Arturo Pérez-Reverte: "Tengo 32.000 libros en casa. Mi biblioteca es mi Wikipedia" | EL PAÍS
YouTube video by EL PAÍS
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April 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Tiene razón en cuanto a que las bibliotecas personifican una cinta de Möbius de la proleptic. La vanidad de la enantiodromía aún no correspondida, mi biblioteca entusiasma; el Scaliger de la vanidad no puede quejarse del Pontano de la redundancia!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Tu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Tu...
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My writing setup for quite a few nights now with platitude and hopelessness both a bilateral protomatter - a trefoil heeding both the "pure will" of Schopenhauer and the vigalitavedyantara of words and amphibrachs across a trefoil heeding Berezovsky's legatos for Medtner.
#litsky
#litsky
July 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
My writing setup for quite a few nights now with platitude and hopelessness both a bilateral protomatter - a trefoil heeding both the "pure will" of Schopenhauer and the vigalitavedyantara of words and amphibrachs across a trefoil heeding Berezovsky's legatos for Medtner.
#litsky
#litsky
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Organ concert coming up at 18:55 BST with Arjen Leistra on the Maarschalkerweerd organ, Havenkerk, Schiedam
www.youtube.com/live/aZDooUm...
www.youtube.com/live/aZDooUm...
Orgelconcert Havenkerk Schiedam door Arjen Leistra 15 juli 2025
YouTube video by Arjen Leistra
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July 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Organ concert coming up at 18:55 BST with Arjen Leistra on the Maarschalkerweerd organ, Havenkerk, Schiedam
www.youtube.com/live/aZDooUm...
www.youtube.com/live/aZDooUm...
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Jan Cockx' portrait of the writer Roger Avermaete,' (1919) can be seen as the ushering in of a new era of hope and light for painting and literature for Begium after WW1. Avermaete wrote and illustrated a book on Frans Masereel, considered to be the creator of the woodcut novel.
July 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Jan Cockx' portrait of the writer Roger Avermaete,' (1919) can be seen as the ushering in of a new era of hope and light for painting and literature for Begium after WW1. Avermaete wrote and illustrated a book on Frans Masereel, considered to be the creator of the woodcut novel.
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I wrote something on Kant on war and peace (in German) philarchive.org/rec/SCHTST-24
Dennis Schulting, Ten strijde tegen een vijandige nabuur. Kant over oorlog en vrede / Gegen einen feindlichen Nachbarn in den Kampf ziehen. Kant über Krieg und Frieden - PhilArchive
This essay advances the thesis that, unlike what the majority of Kant scholars believe, Kant has a just war theory. In Towards Perpetual Peace and in the section Völkerrecht in the ...
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June 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I wrote something on Kant on war and peace (in German) philarchive.org/rec/SCHTST-24
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Thread. There's also the issue that good, intensive journalism costs money and takes an editing/publishing infrastructure - more than many individual writers can afford and manage on their own. Single-writer newsletters can't and won't save journalism.
As more journalists are driven out of their jobs, I keep hearing this drumbeat of "it's ok -- they can start their own newsletter or publication." Some can. But becoming your own business is a huge job, and will eliminate many talented reporters from the public sphere. Here's why. (1/5)
July 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Thread. There's also the issue that good, intensive journalism costs money and takes an editing/publishing infrastructure - more than many individual writers can afford and manage on their own. Single-writer newsletters can't and won't save journalism.
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Mosab Abu Toha’s Substack has been reinstated
July 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Mosab Abu Toha’s Substack has been reinstated
My writing setup for quite a few nights now with platitude and hopelessness both a bilateral protomatter - a trefoil heeding both the "pure will" of Schopenhauer and the vigalitavedyantara of words and amphibrachs across a trefoil heeding Berezovsky's legatos for Medtner.
#litsky
#litsky
July 5, 2025 at 7:37 AM
My writing setup for quite a few nights now with platitude and hopelessness both a bilateral protomatter - a trefoil heeding both the "pure will" of Schopenhauer and the vigalitavedyantara of words and amphibrachs across a trefoil heeding Berezovsky's legatos for Medtner.
#litsky
#litsky
Wonderfully edifying, this! @alinaetc.bsky.social's piece makes me feel compelled to take Giacometti's sketches and oneiric substrata for an undulating lambrequin, a tastraum - a tactical space - for an involuted hodiernal rather than - or, the hodiernal as a crutch for the oneiric - the lived one.
July 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Wonderfully edifying, this! @alinaetc.bsky.social's piece makes me feel compelled to take Giacometti's sketches and oneiric substrata for an undulating lambrequin, a tastraum - a tactical space - for an involuted hodiernal rather than - or, the hodiernal as a crutch for the oneiric - the lived one.
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Yep. I saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month just from switching from Substack to self-hosted Ghost.
I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income.
I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income.
Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms that offer larger shares of subscription revenue
Former Substack writers who exited the platform in early 2024 are making more money on Beehiiv and Ghost thanks to their fixed pricing models.
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April 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Yep. I saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month just from switching from Substack to self-hosted Ghost.
I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income.
I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income.
My Dum Biryani! Hofmannsthal considered désoeuvrement as inertia of being as being dichotomous: writing - and the library - evokes a certain apotropaic response, while the garden and a solo-cooked meal quietens it enough to allow feeling and thought to supersede response.
April 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
My Dum Biryani! Hofmannsthal considered désoeuvrement as inertia of being as being dichotomous: writing - and the library - evokes a certain apotropaic response, while the garden and a solo-cooked meal quietens it enough to allow feeling and thought to supersede response.
Tiene razón en cuanto a que las bibliotecas personifican una cinta de Möbius de la proleptic. La vanidad de la enantiodromía aún no correspondida, mi biblioteca entusiasma; el Scaliger de la vanidad no puede quejarse del Pontano de la redundancia!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Tu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Tu...
Arturo Pérez-Reverte: "Tengo 32.000 libros en casa. Mi biblioteca es mi Wikipedia" | EL PAÍS
YouTube video by EL PAÍS
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Tiene razón en cuanto a que las bibliotecas personifican una cinta de Möbius de la proleptic. La vanidad de la enantiodromía aún no correspondida, mi biblioteca entusiasma; el Scaliger de la vanidad no puede quejarse del Pontano de la redundancia!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Tu...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Tu...
A poet since my boyhood, I have always thought of suffering of any living, sustained pis aller sort - to any however deserving - as a primordial anomaly, but I do hope now for fundamentalists - including our own Hindu hegemonic regime - that some supralapsarian justice subsumes their kraterocracy.
January 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
A poet since my boyhood, I have always thought of suffering of any living, sustained pis aller sort - to any however deserving - as a primordial anomaly, but I do hope now for fundamentalists - including our own Hindu hegemonic regime - that some supralapsarian justice subsumes their kraterocracy.
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In Authors v. AI news... in addition to using authors' work without permission and compensation, Meta allegedly used Library Genesis, "a notorious so-called shadow library of pirated books that originated in Russia" to source their work. www.wired.com/story/new-do...
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly Unredacted Court Docs Reveal
One of the most important AI copyright legal battles just took a major turn.
www.wired.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In Authors v. AI news... in addition to using authors' work without permission and compensation, Meta allegedly used Library Genesis, "a notorious so-called shadow library of pirated books that originated in Russia" to source their work. www.wired.com/story/new-do...