Peter Kravitz
@peterkravitz.bsky.social
Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief.
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing.
(And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
Great piece by @danigaravelli.bsky.social
It is without hyperbole to say that as a writer of short stories Agnes Owens is equal to Flannery O’Connor. And her novellas sit right next to those of Rachel Ingalls.
It is without hyperbole to say that as a writer of short stories Agnes Owens is equal to Flannery O’Connor. And her novellas sit right next to those of Rachel Ingalls.
It's the centenary of the wonderful Agnes Owens' birth this year. Her books are being reissued & a satellite archive has officially opened within the Alasdair Gray archive. I spoke to her son, John, & wrote about this "most unfairly neglected of Scottish authors" in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social.
Finally, recognition for 'unfairly neglected' Scottish author Agnes Owens
Writer Agnes Owens was once seen as “part of a golden age of Scottish literature,” and influenced younger writers, including Janice Galloway,…
www.heraldscotland.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Great piece by @danigaravelli.bsky.social
It is without hyperbole to say that as a writer of short stories Agnes Owens is equal to Flannery O’Connor. And her novellas sit right next to those of Rachel Ingalls.
It is without hyperbole to say that as a writer of short stories Agnes Owens is equal to Flannery O’Connor. And her novellas sit right next to those of Rachel Ingalls.
Maddie Jamieson does a priceless takedown of learning-by-rote education with a blistering recitation of kings and queens of England…
January 17, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Maddie Jamieson does a priceless takedown of learning-by-rote education with a blistering recitation of kings and queens of England…
“And what will come will come without your grating anticipation. To a life of smoothness and clarity. The dream of distant mountains from your childhood arises once more. There will be a past and a future you can step into. It is yours.”
A scrupulous, look at the inner world of an evolving writer.
A scrupulous, look at the inner world of an evolving writer.
This essay came out last January in @minorliteratures.bsky.social. It'll also be published in a book of my essays this year with @blackheraldpress.bsky.social
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The Compliment — Caroline Clark
1. The compliment came in swift and stayed with you your whole life. You in your blue sweater with the cowl neck. You with your dark hair. Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque: glass fronted, deeper and …
minorliteratures.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:39 PM
“And what will come will come without your grating anticipation. To a life of smoothness and clarity. The dream of distant mountains from your childhood arises once more. There will be a past and a future you can step into. It is yours.”
A scrupulous, look at the inner world of an evolving writer.
A scrupulous, look at the inner world of an evolving writer.
Reposted by Peter Kravitz
Remembering James Mosley
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hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...
January 7, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Remembering James Mosley
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hyphenpress.co.uk/2026/01/07/r...
Still a few tickets left for his 4 hour epic ‘For Philip Guston’ in London this Sunday. I’ll be on my way from Scotland…
And the great Sheffield label
www.anothertimbre.com
are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been.
Happy 100th Morty
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
And the great Sheffield label
www.anothertimbre.com
are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been.
Happy 100th Morty
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
January 15, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Still a few tickets left for his 4 hour epic ‘For Philip Guston’ in London this Sunday. I’ll be on my way from Scotland…
And the great Sheffield label
www.anothertimbre.com
are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been.
Happy 100th Morty
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
And the great Sheffield label
www.anothertimbre.com
are making his music available and accessible like it’s never been.
Happy 100th Morty
www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
RIP the greater Irish tenor Seán Ó Sé (1936 - 2026)
Listen to how he takes the singing in a cheeky direction 1 min 10 seconds in the YouTube link below the Irish Examiner piece…
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Listen to how he takes the singing in a cheeky direction 1 min 10 seconds in the YouTube link below the Irish Examiner piece…
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
January 13, 2026 at 8:52 PM
RIP the greater Irish tenor Seán Ó Sé (1936 - 2026)
Listen to how he takes the singing in a cheeky direction 1 min 10 seconds in the YouTube link below the Irish Examiner piece…
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Listen to how he takes the singing in a cheeky direction 1 min 10 seconds in the YouTube link below the Irish Examiner piece…
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Tom Service on Tureck:
“she had an out-of-body experience playing Bach's counterpoint…she briefly blacked out and returned to consciousness with an indelible sensation of the music as a three-dimensional experience, something existing in space as well as time”
www.theguardian.com/music/tomser...
“she had an out-of-body experience playing Bach's counterpoint…she briefly blacked out and returned to consciousness with an indelible sensation of the music as a three-dimensional experience, something existing in space as well as time”
www.theguardian.com/music/tomser...
January 11, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Tom Service on Tureck:
“she had an out-of-body experience playing Bach's counterpoint…she briefly blacked out and returned to consciousness with an indelible sensation of the music as a three-dimensional experience, something existing in space as well as time”
www.theguardian.com/music/tomser...
“she had an out-of-body experience playing Bach's counterpoint…she briefly blacked out and returned to consciousness with an indelible sensation of the music as a three-dimensional experience, something existing in space as well as time”
www.theguardian.com/music/tomser...
@juderogers.bsky.social surfaces the back story to one of the finest drama’s commissioned by the BBC, including the fact that writer Troy Kennedy Martin would still be dictating scripts the night before recording. Same riding the brinks as David Milch with Deadwood, on the floor of his trailer.
January 11, 2026 at 5:22 PM
@juderogers.bsky.social surfaces the back story to one of the finest drama’s commissioned by the BBC, including the fact that writer Troy Kennedy Martin would still be dictating scripts the night before recording. Same riding the brinks as David Milch with Deadwood, on the floor of his trailer.
“Poor soul, his unreflecting act…”
Mark, printed on the opposing page,
The unfortunate effects of rage…
—Robert Louis Stevenson’s MORAL EMBLEMS (c.1881–82) – printed & published by his 12-year-old stepson Lloyd Osbourne, & illustrated with woodcuts by RLS – is a pastiche of #C19 didactic rhymes for children
#BookWormSat
💙📚
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The unfortunate effects of rage…
—Robert Louis Stevenson’s MORAL EMBLEMS (c.1881–82) – printed & published by his 12-year-old stepson Lloyd Osbourne, & illustrated with woodcuts by RLS – is a pastiche of #C19 didactic rhymes for children
#BookWormSat
💙📚
1/3
January 11, 2026 at 1:42 PM
“Poor soul, his unreflecting act…”
. in the beginning was the word .
in thi beginning was thi wurd
in thi beginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin wuz thi wurd
n thi biginnin wuz thiwurd
nthi biginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginninwuzthiwurd
. in the beginning was the sound .
Tom Leonard
in thi beginning was thi wurd
in thi beginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin wuz thi wurd
n thi biginnin wuz thiwurd
nthi biginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginninwuzthiwurd
. in the beginning was the sound .
Tom Leonard
"Writing Fiction'. Starts next Wednesday, 14 January. We are based in Glasgow but our classes are open to writers anywhere in the world. Book here: thi-wurd.com/product/writin…
January 8, 2026 at 7:52 AM
. in the beginning was the word .
in thi beginning was thi wurd
in thi beginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin wuz thi wurd
n thi biginnin wuz thiwurd
nthi biginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginninwuzthiwurd
. in the beginning was the sound .
Tom Leonard
in thi beginning was thi wurd
in thi beginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin was thi wurd
in thi biginnin wuz thi wurd
n thi biginnin wuz thiwurd
nthi biginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginnin wuzthiwurd
nthibiginninwuzthiwurd
. in the beginning was the sound .
Tom Leonard
And also this from A Long Game by @elizmccrack.bsky.social
‘It’s easy to despise those…who feel neither the terror of the desk nor the rising joy of playing hooky. But it makes no difference whether you work hard and easily or must trick yourself into it, as long as you work.’
‘It’s easy to despise those…who feel neither the terror of the desk nor the rising joy of playing hooky. But it makes no difference whether you work hard and easily or must trick yourself into it, as long as you work.’
I clicked with some trepidation, expecting the usual bromides. But this excellent piece by none other than Elizabeth McCracken is full of wisdom and practical thoughts. @elizmccrack.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
Dreaming of writing your novel this year? Rip up all the rules!
After 35 years of teaching fiction writing, the prize-winning author shares her wisdom. First tip? Don’t write what you know…
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
And also this from A Long Game by @elizmccrack.bsky.social
‘It’s easy to despise those…who feel neither the terror of the desk nor the rising joy of playing hooky. But it makes no difference whether you work hard and easily or must trick yourself into it, as long as you work.’
‘It’s easy to despise those…who feel neither the terror of the desk nor the rising joy of playing hooky. But it makes no difference whether you work hard and easily or must trick yourself into it, as long as you work.’
Reposted by Peter Kravitz
At the Missouri State Historical Society, GC Bingham’s portrait of Vinnie Ream (1876), the first woman ever to have a sculpture commission from the US government. She did the sculpture of Abraham Lincoln that is in the Capitol Rotunda
December 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
At the Missouri State Historical Society, GC Bingham’s portrait of Vinnie Ream (1876), the first woman ever to have a sculpture commission from the US government. She did the sculpture of Abraham Lincoln that is in the Capitol Rotunda
Reposted by Peter Kravitz
Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov.
December 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov.
I always prefer a well read book from a charity shop. More friendly than a brand new pristine spine. Only wish would be for second hand and thrift shops to pay authors ten percent. This is already done by auction rooms with Artist's Resale Right. They could use the barcodes.
Saw a copy of my book in a charity shop for the first time!!! WHAT a weird thrill. Also, pages pretty ruffled up, looked like the owner had probably actually read it?
January 2, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I always prefer a well read book from a charity shop. More friendly than a brand new pristine spine. Only wish would be for second hand and thrift shops to pay authors ten percent. This is already done by auction rooms with Artist's Resale Right. They could use the barcodes.
And this also from Virginia Woolf apologising to Sibyl Colefax for not coming to dinner
“I have consulted the Wolves, who say they are too dingy, jaded, & altogether mangy to dine anywhere again this summer. They are a disgrace to every house they enter; the hostess always repents of asking them”
“I have consulted the Wolves, who say they are too dingy, jaded, & altogether mangy to dine anywhere again this summer. They are a disgrace to every house they enter; the hostess always repents of asking them”
my proportions
Virginia Woolf, Diary, last entry for 1930
Virginia Woolf, Diary, last entry for 1930
December 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
And this also from Virginia Woolf apologising to Sibyl Colefax for not coming to dinner
“I have consulted the Wolves, who say they are too dingy, jaded, & altogether mangy to dine anywhere again this summer. They are a disgrace to every house they enter; the hostess always repents of asking them”
“I have consulted the Wolves, who say they are too dingy, jaded, & altogether mangy to dine anywhere again this summer. They are a disgrace to every house they enter; the hostess always repents of asking them”
So еnjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself,
it's later than you think
Original lyrics from 1948 by Herb Magidson. Prince Buster digs deep into tradition…
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself,
it's later than you think
Original lyrics from 1948 by Herb Magidson. Prince Buster digs deep into tradition…
A song for New Year's Eve.
Prince Buster borrowed the chorus of an old tune to make this classic ska in 1963. The Specials later covered it on their 2nd LP...
youtu.be/Q9cl39L1p9g?...
Wishing everyone a healthy and happy new year. ❤️💛💚
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky #ska #2tone
Prince Buster borrowed the chorus of an old tune to make this classic ska in 1963. The Specials later covered it on their 2nd LP...
youtu.be/Q9cl39L1p9g?...
Wishing everyone a healthy and happy new year. ❤️💛💚
#reggae #reggaesky #vinylsky #vinyl #musicsky #ska #2tone
December 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
So еnjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself,
it's later than you think
Original lyrics from 1948 by Herb Magidson. Prince Buster digs deep into tradition…
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself,
it's later than you think
Original lyrics from 1948 by Herb Magidson. Prince Buster digs deep into tradition…
Reposted by Peter Kravitz
New online ‘Writing Fiction’ classes begin Jan 2026: Tues, Wed & Sun. We're changing the format to help writers produce more work & receive even better feedback. Details on website www.thi-wurd.com
All welcome. Please spread thi wurd
All welcome. Please spread thi wurd
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
New online ‘Writing Fiction’ classes begin Jan 2026: Tues, Wed & Sun. We're changing the format to help writers produce more work & receive even better feedback. Details on website www.thi-wurd.com
All welcome. Please spread thi wurd
All welcome. Please spread thi wurd
Reposted by Peter Kravitz
Alan Bennett’s diary, 1984.
December 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Alan Bennett’s diary, 1984.
Reposted by Peter Kravitz
Final episode today of a fine series on BBC Radio Four including Jane Austen’s letter to her sister Cassandra on 26th October 1813:
“I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am”
More letters at
pemberley.com/janeinfo/bra...
“I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am”
More letters at
pemberley.com/janeinfo/bra...
December 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Final episode today of a fine series on BBC Radio Four including Jane Austen’s letter to her sister Cassandra on 26th October 1813:
“I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am”
More letters at
pemberley.com/janeinfo/bra...
“I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am”
More letters at
pemberley.com/janeinfo/bra...
Reposted by Peter Kravitz
Spotted this last night at the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, MA.
I love libraries so much. 🥹
I love libraries so much. 🥹
October 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Spotted this last night at the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, MA.
I love libraries so much. 🥹
I love libraries so much. 🥹
read
write
put
be
jump
&c…
write
put
be
jump
&c…
Here's what I WILL be doing in 2026.
1. Reading for more hours.
2. Writing SOMETHING. Dunno.
3. Putting this phone down more.
4. Being sassy.
5. Jump roping like that beefy dude on Insta.
6. I don't even know.
1. Reading for more hours.
2. Writing SOMETHING. Dunno.
3. Putting this phone down more.
4. Being sassy.
5. Jump roping like that beefy dude on Insta.
6. I don't even know.
December 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
read
write
put
be
jump
&c…
write
put
be
jump
&c…
dwelling
resourcing
knowing
not knowing
lots of good stuff here…
resourcing
knowing
not knowing
lots of good stuff here…
The final session of Awareness in Action “Going Forth,” — a powerful time with Roshi, Dainin, and Kodo.
The recording is now available at Upaya.org or by following the #linkinbio
Deep gratitude to all who participated in this remarkable series. @joanhalifax.bsky.social
The recording is now available at Upaya.org or by following the #linkinbio
Deep gratitude to all who participated in this remarkable series. @joanhalifax.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
dwelling
resourcing
knowing
not knowing
lots of good stuff here…
resourcing
knowing
not knowing
lots of good stuff here…
Thanks to @hollygramazio.bsky.social for nudging this in front of our christmas evey eyes. First look at this engaging reading journal yields some immediate discoveries such as novels from Anna Broinowski, diaries by Barbara Hanrahan and a memoir from Jackie Huggins…
I started my holidays by making a list of all 98 books I read this year. Then decided to note why I read them in the first place (reviews, research?) and my verdict. And … this is a lot. But if you’re curious to see thoughts on any particular book, scroll to see!
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My 2025 reading year
I read 98 books this year. What made me pick them up? I have some thoughts.
jo528.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Thanks to @hollygramazio.bsky.social for nudging this in front of our christmas evey eyes. First look at this engaging reading journal yields some immediate discoveries such as novels from Anna Broinowski, diaries by Barbara Hanrahan and a memoir from Jackie Huggins…
Staggering middle stanza from Anne Carson touches on right now…
December 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Staggering middle stanza from Anne Carson touches on right now…
Reposted by Peter Kravitz
