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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · 1d

The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. Oct. 22! We’re excited to welcome readers @megancummins.bsky.social, Tierney
Oberhammer, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, and Anna Rasche. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Ditmas Lit | The Urbane

A monthly reading series in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of emerging and established writers in all genres. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm.

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you to our September readers Kerry Cullen, @cherrylousy.bsky.social, Allison C. Meier, and Patrick Ryan! We had a blast!

Four Ditmas Lit readers standing in front of a trompe l'oeil screen

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · 14d

Tonight! Join us at The Urbane Arts Club for our September show with readings by @cherrylousy.bsky.social, Patrick Ryan, Kerry Cullen, and Allison C. Meier. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 9/24! We’re excited to welcome Kerry Cullen, Patrick Ryan, Allison C. Meier, and @cherrylousy.bsky.social! RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Ditmas Lit | The Urbane

A monthly reading series in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of emerging and established writers in all genres. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm.

www.urbanebrooklyn.com

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jul 23

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader Belle Ling’s poem This Little Fish in @tupelopress.bsky.social www.tupeloquarterly.com/poetry/this-...

This Little Fish by Belle Ling

Our faces in water bearing us like mirrors watchingfrom the depth of a void, where I hear a call:Here, I am here— Turning, my fish, her swirls and twines hardly break...

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jul 22

Read an excerpt from @rubenwrites.bsky.social’s debut collection There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven in @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

BOMB Magazine | Alternate Histories of El Salvador or Perhaps the…

From the debut collection There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven , two pieces of flash fiction imagine new narratives for El Salvador.

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jul 21

Read Anthony Thomas Lombardi’s poem “God loves everybody, don’t remind me” in Salt Hill salthilljournal.net/god-loves-ev...

God loves everybody, don't remind me - Anthony Thomas Lombardi — Salt Hill Journal

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jul 20

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 7/23! @electricliterature.com interviews reader Heather McCalden about her memoir The Observable Universe electricliterature.com/heather-mcca...

Heather McCalden on Using Fragments to Write About Loss, Viruses, and the Internet - Electric Literature

Her memoir "The Observable Universe" is an album of grief about orphanhood

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jul 3

Ditmas Lit is on Wed. 7/23 at The Urbane Arts Club! We’re excited to welcome Belle Ling, Heather McCalden, @rubenwrites.bsky.social & Anthony Thomas Lombardi! RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jun 25

Ditmas Lit is tonight! @autostraddle.bsky.social calls reader Mac Crane’s novel A Sharp Endless Need “ . . . vibrant and grimy and hot and poetic and aching.” www.autostraddle.com/a-sharp-endl...

'A Sharp Endless Need' Lives in the Intersection of Sex and Basketball

At their heart, great sex and great basketball rely on the same fundamental principles: trust, attention, collaboration, and a desire to create something with whoever you’re with.

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jun 24

Ditmas Lit is tomorrow Wed. 6/25! In their starred review, Kirkus Reviews calls @jeannethornton.bsky.social’s A/S/L “A dazzlingly creative and heartfelt novel.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

A/S/L | Kirkus Reviews

Three queer women discover that the internet really is forever.

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jun 23

June reader Kristina Andersson Bicher interviewed in @amsterdamreview.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/writing-is-l...

Writing Is Like Finding Which Window to Open

Exilé Sans Frontières talks to Kristina Andersson Bicher about poetry, translating Marie Lundquist, and how her own writing comes to life.

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jun 20

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 6/25! Reader James Stewart III spoke with @chicagoreader.com about his debut novel Defiant Acts chicagoreader.com/books/book-r...

The defiant acts of the working class - Chicago Reader

Defiant Acts, the debut novel by James Stewart III, recounts fictionalized stories from the perspectives of his family members.

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jun 5

The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. 6/25! We can’t wait to welcome @jeannethornton.bsky.social, Kristina Andersson Bicher, Mac Crane, and James Stewart III 📚🌈🌷 RSVP here: www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jun 1

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Jun 1

Thank you to our May readers Andrew E. Colarusso, @leilataylor.bsky.social , @shayneterry.bsky.social, & @briangresko.bsky.social! We had a blast!

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · May 28

Leila Taylor’s Sick Houses published by @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social is “ . . . a must read for anyone who has ever looked at a house and sensed there might be something unsettling going on inside.” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/773360...

Sick Houses by Leila Taylor: 9781915672636 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Explores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home. Horror begins at home From family homes in Amityville to Go...

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · May 28

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader and Taylor and Co. bookstore owner Andrew E. Colarusso’s book Black Body Index, published by @bookworks.bsky.social bookworks.org.uk/publishing/s...

Black Body Index | Book Works

Then there was the sculpture, a large lustrous black stone of alien provenance. Walking around it I realised that the sculpture had been placed so that upon entering one might see only its black…

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · May 27

@shelf-awareness.com praises reader @shayneterry.bsky.social’s memoir Leave: A Postpartum Account, declaring it’s “. . . for any reader who has given birth, endured pain, or known someone who has (in other words: nearly everyone).” www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

Shelf Awareness for Thursday, January 16, 2025

Welcome to the Web site for Shelf Awareness: Daily Enlightenment for the Book Trade, the free e-mail newsletter dedicated to helping the people in stores, ...

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · May 26

Read an excerpt of May reader @briangresko.bsky.social’s new book You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing and Creativity in the @memoirland.bsky.social newsletter open.substack.com/pub/memoirla...

What Does It Mean to Be a Writer?

An excerpt from "You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing & Creativity"

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · May 21

Ditmas Lit is 1 week from today, Wed. 5/28! We can’t wait to welcome @briangresko.bsky.social @shayneterry.bsky.social, Leila Taylor, and Andrew E. Colarusso!

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Apr 23

Ditmas Lit is tonight! Check out reader Timothy Ree’s poem “Stations” in The Cortland Review www.cortlandreview.org/issue/68/ree...

Timothy Ree - Poetry: Issue 68 - The Cortland Review

Poetry by Timothy Ree in streaming audio - Issue 68 (August 2015) - The Cortland Review

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Apr 22

@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls reader @joannanovak1986.bsky.social’s poetry collection Domestirexia “Propulsive . . . Thanks to Novak’s language, these pages overflow with life’s complexities, terrors, and fragmentations.” softskull.com/books/domest...

Domestirexia

A poetry collection contorting the idea of home away from being a site of comfort and nourishment by coaxing the reader to think about domesticity in knotty new waysDomestirexia goes beyond the ent…

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Apr 21

@therumpus.net calls April reader Anton Solomonik’s short story collection Realistic Fiction “Stellar . . . Solomonik spins fictions that feel like jokes before you realize you are devastated by them.” www.littlepuss.net/shop/p/reali...

REALISTIC FICTION by Anton Solomonik — Transsexual Short Stories — LittlePuss Press

Finally, a book for men!

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Ditmas Lit @ditmaslit.bsky.social · Apr 18

Ditmas Lit is Wed. 4/23! Check out reader @dianemehta.bsky.social’s essay On Assignment, Virgil Rescues Dante From the Wilderness in Harvard Divinity Bulletin bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/on-assignmen...

On Assignment, Virgil Rescues Dante from the Wilderness

A Divine Comedy reading group with two artist friends deepens the author’s understanding of Dante’s transcendent friendship with Virgil. By Diane Mehta

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