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CURSE BOWL (look it up) @excited.bsky.social · 23d

Okay, I have just been shown tree.fm and it is saving my life at my open office right now.

tree.fm – Tune Into Forests From Around The World 🌳🔈

People around the world recorded the sounds of their forests, so you can escape into nature, while in lockdown or unable to travel. Use this site to chill, meditate or do some digital shinrin-yoku.

www.tree.fm

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 22d

This is delightful!

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · 26d

You are a treasure! And the best fact checker in the world. No arguments.

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StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 29d

Procrastinators rejoice! 😂

We are extending the deadline for Memoir In A Year applications (online with @eirencaffall.bsky.social and in-person with Rachel DeWoskin) until this Friday, September 12.

You have THREE more days. Apply now: buff.ly/eOXVcqo

#writingcommunity

In-A-Year Book Programs at StoryStudio Chicago - StoryStudio Chicago

IN-A-YEAR BOOK PROGRAMS Becoming an advanced writer takes a lot of hard work and dedication, and our “In A Year” programs are designed to help you cross the finish line… and…

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Sep 8

Gonna reup this, in praise of protecting something our dear leader wants to destroy before climate collapse can get its hooks in.

Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Jan 11

I’ve been writing about climate collapse for a long time, and I’ve come to frame it for myself in terms of planning what to save for the world, the community, the children, the family we will make in the future we want, not just in the crisis we are living through. lithub.com/what-will-yo...

What Will You Save When the Climate Crisis Comes For You?

It started with a phone call from my godfather. A few days after Superstorm Sandy, he called me from Brooklyn after he’d spent all night in the basement of his daughter’s building in Red Hook, usin…

lithub.com

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you for reading!

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Booklist Publications @ala-booklist.bsky.social · Jul 10

We are in the thick of #SummerReading and we have just the thing to keep those TBRs full:
🐳 Environmental reads
🎧 #Odyssey interviews & listen-alikes
📚 @libraryreads.bsky.social July picks
⏰ #PBSBooks countdown to the semiquincentennial
🎙️Interview with Michael Connelly
and more: bit.ly/40JmBWJ

Closeup of cover of the July 2025 issue of BOOKLIST READER with text: READ & SHARE THE JULY BOOKLIST READER with star burst DIGITAL VERSION NOW AN ALA MEMBER BENEFIT

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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · Jul 14

@eirencaffall.bsky.social's book, The Mourner's Bestiary was featured on the cover of ‪‪@ala-booklist.bsky.social‬ #Page1MediaPR #LiteraryPR #BookMarketing #BooksInTheMedia #SummerReading

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Jul 14

So excited for this! Two of my favorites! (E. Jean and I share an editor, which makes my fan girl heart soar! Also, she replied to a letter of mine in Elle back in the 90s. ❤️)

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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

Memoirs about disability & disabled experiences

Graphic with the disability pride flag as the background showing six memoirs about disability. Titles included are: “I’ll Look so Hot in a Coffin” by Carla Sosenko, “The Pretty One” by Keah Brown, “The Invisible Kingdom” by Meghan O’Rourke, “What My Bones Know” by Stephanie Foo, “Leg” by Greg Marshall, and “The Mourner’s Bestiary” by Eiren Caffall.

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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social · Jul 9

Last year, thanks to #dcasegrant, I went to a @storystudiochicago.bsky.social retreat at Ragdale co-run by @meganstielstra.bsky.social & @eirencaffall.bsky.social to work on my project COSMIC FRUIT. "We Beet On," now in @orionmagazine.bsky.social, started there! orionmagazine.org/article/we-b...

Cutting beets to make my fingers a lurid color.

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Page One Media @pageonem.bsky.social · Jul 8

Help us celebrate and uplift the disabled community this Disability Pride Month. We wanted to highlight the amazing work of former P1M authors,
@eirencaffall.bsky.social‬ and Megan Nix as well as recommend some of our favorite books with disability representation!

#disabilitypride #booksky

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Jul 7

March 2025 Me, in the hospital with a broken vertebra and high on painkillers, was super optimistic about what July 2025 Me, healed and back at work and stone cold sober, could get done during this month. To be fair to her, she was looking at this view.

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 5

"In dark places, it is light that calls us. Even in a broken ocean full of chemical fouling and warming water, bioluminescent fire remains."

Diagnosed with a kidney disease guaranteed to shorten her life, Eiren Caffall processes life and death through space and sea.

Sky of Plankton, Ocean of Stars

Recently diagnosed with a kidney disease guaranteed to shorten her life, a woman processes life and death through space and sea

orionmagazine.org

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Jul 2

He is a treat!

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Jul 2

But have you seen Studs?

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · Jul 1

The Trump administration has shut down a federal website on climate change, taking down congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment reports and extensive information on how global warming is affecting the country. @coveringclimatenow.org @sciencewriters.org www.latimes.com/environment/...

Trump administration shuts down U.S. website on climate change

The Trump administration shut down a website with national reports on climate change. Scientists decry the move, saying it robs the public of vital information.

www.latimes.com

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Jun 30

Crossed 20,000 words on the new novel today please clap.

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Jun 26

This is excellent news and makes the world a better place.

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Jun 25

Welp, kittens, it took over a decade, but here it is, baby’s first hate mail! (Pro tip, Sir: the ass is not where climate communism goes.)

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Karen Sprenger @grlgeek.bsky.social · Jun 19

All the Water in the World - @eirencaffall.bsky.social
When the Moon Hits Your Eye - @scalzi.com
Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett
The Bones Beneath My Skin - TL Klune
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt
The Will of the Many - James Islington

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Jun 19

Just saw this and felt so happy. Thank you for pulling this language out of the book.🌊

Bex @rebrosecca.bsky.social · Mar 18

A quote from The Mourner's Bestiary by Eiren Caffall that says: What if the whirlpool I'm falling into is really a vortex that takes me out through the glowing oceans of the world and into the infinity of the stars? What if that's death, something bigger and wilder and more beautiful than the fear?

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Jun 18

Just gave a book talk in the perfect library on the tiny island that’s the star of my memoir and the place I do my best writing. And it is foggy. Best day.

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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · Jun 18

This is the kind of thing that climate-concerned folks have been thinking about for a decade or two—but most of us (me very much included) just kind of assumed that by the time this was clear to people like Powell, the conversation would be...really different from what it is now.

Wild, indeed.

Kate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · Jun 18

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Jun 15

Missed marching with 100,000 siblings in my home city yesterday. But here, on a tiny island in Maine, there was also a march.

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