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.)
A fine choice by Zinovy Zinik. Pop a copy of Greyhound in your loved one’s stocking. His TLS piece on the Russian translators of Dickens is a beauty
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
November 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A fine choice by Zinovy Zinik. Pop a copy of Greyhound in your loved one’s stocking. His TLS piece on the Russian translators of Dickens is a beauty
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
“he was there on the heavily patrolled red carpet, and then far away on the stage, and then at the after-party in the VIP room behind a curtain. I got some curious looks and a woman asked me if I was Billy Bob’s father and I drank three margaritas and came home.”
Nice.
Nice.
Last Sunday I went to a Leicester Square premiere of the new series of Landman which stars Billy Bob Thornton and I've written about why I'm a little obsessed with that man here: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/11/bill...
November 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“he was there on the heavily patrolled red carpet, and then far away on the stage, and then at the after-party in the VIP room behind a curtain. I got some curious looks and a woman asked me if I was Billy Bob’s father and I drank three margaritas and came home.”
Nice.
Nice.
‘Oregon’s pilot program, called “Direct Cash Transfer,” and a similar initiative in New York City, have shown signs that the cash helped youths, ages 18 to 24, move out of shelters’
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
‘Oregon’s pilot program, called “Direct Cash Transfer,” and a similar initiative in New York City, have shown signs that the cash helped youths, ages 18 to 24, move out of shelters’
Some great writing in the Alt Text of these eerie Ladybird stories:
‘perplexing humans, cattle and horses with his antics, probably while high on food containing artificial additives, the Gingerbread Boy gets a lift across a river while balancing on a fox’s nose…’
‘perplexing humans, cattle and horses with his antics, probably while high on food containing artificial additives, the Gingerbread Boy gets a lift across a river while balancing on a fox’s nose…’
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Some great writing in the Alt Text of these eerie Ladybird stories:
‘perplexing humans, cattle and horses with his antics, probably while high on food containing artificial additives, the Gingerbread Boy gets a lift across a river while balancing on a fox’s nose…’
‘perplexing humans, cattle and horses with his antics, probably while high on food containing artificial additives, the Gingerbread Boy gets a lift across a river while balancing on a fox’s nose…’
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Read an excerpt of the forthcoming GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock in @anothermag.com: www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
This Book Traces One Author’s Bus Trip Across America’s Troubled Highways
In her captivating new memoir, Joanna Pocock undertakes the journey from Detroit to LA by Greyhound bus, following in the footsteps of women writers who’ve chronicled epic road trips. Read an exclusiv...
www.anothermag.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Read an excerpt of the forthcoming GREYHOUND by Joanna Pocock in @anothermag.com: www.anothermag.com/design-livin...
Reposted by Peter Kravitz
A moment, please, to consider the absolute majesty of Daphne Oram's unbelievable score to this. A pitch shifted, time stretched, frequency agile glimpse of the future of music production; a liberty-taking all analogue remix of Sandy Nelson's Teen Beat realised in real time with the visuals.
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A moment, please, to consider the absolute majesty of Daphne Oram's unbelievable score to this. A pitch shifted, time stretched, frequency agile glimpse of the future of music production; a liberty-taking all analogue remix of Sandy Nelson's Teen Beat realised in real time with the visuals.
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There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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'So What If It's The End'.
One week until our live literary event in Glasgow with fiction, poetry, film, music & more. This is the way to spend your Saturday night in dear old Glasgow
www.thi-wurd.com/the-end-lit-...
One week until our live literary event in Glasgow with fiction, poetry, film, music & more. This is the way to spend your Saturday night in dear old Glasgow
www.thi-wurd.com/the-end-lit-...
'So What If It’s The End' – Live Literary Event 22 Nov 2025 - thi wurd
(Tickets are £10 and available here.) (Half Price Student Tickets are £5 and available here.) Endings Our new live event ‘So What If It’s The End’ is a literary night dedicated to endings. Come along ...
www.thi-wurd.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'So What If It's The End'.
One week until our live literary event in Glasgow with fiction, poetry, film, music & more. This is the way to spend your Saturday night in dear old Glasgow
www.thi-wurd.com/the-end-lit-...
One week until our live literary event in Glasgow with fiction, poetry, film, music & more. This is the way to spend your Saturday night in dear old Glasgow
www.thi-wurd.com/the-end-lit-...
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Terrible news: Rachel Cooke has died. She was 56.
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Terrible news: Rachel Cooke has died. She was 56.
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
When I was lucky enough to commission her at The Observer, I wanted her to write everything. She was seriously witty and crystalline in her argument when being serious, which she was on a dazzling range of topics. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s practice & theory…
“I am not a ‘nice’ Buddhist. I’m more interested in a plain rice, ‘get down in the street and get dirty’ Buddhism.”
Joan Halifax
“I am not a ‘nice’ Buddhist. I’m more interested in a plain rice, ‘get down in the street and get dirty’ Buddhism.”
Joan Halifax
Do not believe them.
Do not get used to this.
Keep your focus.
Stand your ground.
Do not get used to this.
Keep your focus.
Stand your ground.
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It’s practice & theory…
“I am not a ‘nice’ Buddhist. I’m more interested in a plain rice, ‘get down in the street and get dirty’ Buddhism.”
Joan Halifax
“I am not a ‘nice’ Buddhist. I’m more interested in a plain rice, ‘get down in the street and get dirty’ Buddhism.”
Joan Halifax
Sane rubric:
“In consumerist cultures, relatable animals are sold to us as scheming foxes, Stetson-wearing bunnies and cute, wise-cracking pandas, all-too-human caricatures dressed up in animal skins. Rather than entering their world, we force them into ours.”
“In consumerist cultures, relatable animals are sold to us as scheming foxes, Stetson-wearing bunnies and cute, wise-cracking pandas, all-too-human caricatures dressed up in animal skins. Rather than entering their world, we force them into ours.”
Submissions are still open for writing and art on the subject of BEASTS for the next Dark Mountain publication.
Deadline is November 14. (1)
dark-mountain.net/bestiary-a-c...
Deadline is November 14. (1)
dark-mountain.net/bestiary-a-c...
Bestiary – a call for submissions for Dark Mountain: Issue 29 - Dark Mountain
A call for submissions for Dark Mountain: Issue 29 – Bestiary, a book that has the animal at its heart
dark-mountain.net
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Sane rubric:
“In consumerist cultures, relatable animals are sold to us as scheming foxes, Stetson-wearing bunnies and cute, wise-cracking pandas, all-too-human caricatures dressed up in animal skins. Rather than entering their world, we force them into ours.”
“In consumerist cultures, relatable animals are sold to us as scheming foxes, Stetson-wearing bunnies and cute, wise-cracking pandas, all-too-human caricatures dressed up in animal skins. Rather than entering their world, we force them into ours.”
Today.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Today.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
Edinburgh.
Muriel Spark.
The front page.
Photographed on 25th May 1960.
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Distressed loudspeaker at Leytonstone station. An almost Kleinian blue.
#londonunderground #lookup #loudspeaker #london #peelingpaint
#londonunderground #lookup #loudspeaker #london #peelingpaint
October 31, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Distressed loudspeaker at Leytonstone station. An almost Kleinian blue.
#londonunderground #lookup #loudspeaker #london #peelingpaint
#londonunderground #lookup #loudspeaker #london #peelingpaint
Salon cartography and choreography at the Queere Moderne exhibition at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, with artists including Lotte Laserstein, Ludwig von Hofmann (whose painting ‘The Source’ Thomas Mann took with him into exile) and British artist Gluck (born Hannah Gluckstein).
November 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Salon cartography and choreography at the Queere Moderne exhibition at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, with artists including Lotte Laserstein, Ludwig von Hofmann (whose painting ‘The Source’ Thomas Mann took with him into exile) and British artist Gluck (born Hannah Gluckstein).
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She captures the movement in work and a burdensome urgency, whilst keeping a sense of grace.
Maria Nordin "Act of Comfort" (Sweden, 2022), depicting a woman carrying an impossibly large pile of linen for the laundry. Nordin likes to portray women's unpaid labour in the home, but in beautiful shapes and colours.
#womensart
#womensart
October 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
She captures the movement in work and a burdensome urgency, whilst keeping a sense of grace.
Mary Robinson rewrites Paul Simon…
What better way to get voting day off to a lively start than to share these alternative lyrics to Simon and Garfunkel’s Mrs Robinson, which can be found in the #PresidentialElection material of Robinson’s archive @uniofgalwayasc.bsky.social @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social
#Áras25
#Áras25
October 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Mary Robinson rewrites Paul Simon…
Worth digging deep into this piece on Gathered Meeting. It includes principles which will be needed to re-civilise politics over the next decade or so…
I’m trying, with a group of other folks, to create a network of drop in facilitated resting spots so that we can listen to each other and breathe together without having to fix anything or battle.
Just sit together and refuel
Just sit together and refuel
Gathered Meeting to Support Helpers — What A Shrink Thinks
A quiet space to gather, rest, share & recover
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Worth digging deep into this piece on Gathered Meeting. It includes principles which will be needed to re-civilise politics over the next decade or so…
Reposted by Peter Kravitz
Epping Forest magic this afternoon with views over London from Loughton.
#eppingforest #autumn #light #treebathing #london
#eppingforest #autumn #light #treebathing #london
October 12, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Epping Forest magic this afternoon with views over London from Loughton.
#eppingforest #autumn #light #treebathing #london
#eppingforest #autumn #light #treebathing #london
‘Who wants to sit all day in some anonymous state office building listening to testimony about utility rates? …now we’ve trained up a whole cadre of older Americans who show up with a basket of knitting or a crossword puzzle book and are there witnessing, testifying, organizing.’
thirdact.org
thirdact.org
September 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
‘Who wants to sit all day in some anonymous state office building listening to testimony about utility rates? …now we’ve trained up a whole cadre of older Americans who show up with a basket of knitting or a crossword puzzle book and are there witnessing, testifying, organizing.’
thirdact.org
thirdact.org
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My re-imagining of the Bell Rock Lighthouse off the East Coast of Scotland. Based on one of the original engineering drawings.
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spyglassillustration.com/product/bell...
March 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My re-imagining of the Bell Rock Lighthouse off the East Coast of Scotland. Based on one of the original engineering drawings.
spyglassillustration.com/product/bell...
spyglassillustration.com/product/bell...
Reposted by Peter Kravitz
September 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
September 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Fine piece that says new things about a concept that has previously been resistant to thinking that is not of an either/or variety
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Follow-Up to Letters on ADHD
Here I describe the subjectivity of ADHD diagnosis; elaborate on why I see it as a personality dimension, not a disorder; and present an evolutionary explanation of personality differences.
open.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Fine piece that says new things about a concept that has previously been resistant to thinking that is not of an either/or variety
open.substack.com/pub/petergra...
open.substack.com/pub/petergra...