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Instead of garbage, read more fiction. https://substack.com/@literaturesupporter?utm_source=user-menu http://Historyofliterature.com #anthonypowelltogether #rachelcusktogether #InfiniteJestTogether #ProustTogether #MannTogether +Arsenal

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

week 2 of #rachelcusktogether starts tomorrow!

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 59m

if you're wondering what AI was supposed to be (and not be) and then reimagined, read this primer.
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Hibou le Literature Supporter's review of The Road to Conscious Machines

5/5: A brilliant introduction to the history of AI, told in engaging stories which are highly accessible (with appendices in the back for those who want to dig deeper). I found myself recounting bits ...

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 16h

Day 8, Oct 8, Wed - SHORT DAY p46 “My phone sounded on the table in front of me.” to END OF CH2 p49
#rachelcusktogether

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

i get so many daily steps on my annual trip to SF!

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

this guy's flaws are kind of fascinating. I almost start to think that he is charming.
#RachelCuskTogether

Maureen McGranaghan @mcgranaghan.bsky.social · 5d

"life...had treated them abundantly, and this--he now saw--was what had given him the confidence to break it all, break it with what now seemed to him to be an extraordinary casualness, because he thought there would be more." #Rachelcusktogether

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TJ @worldserious.bsky.social · 6d

#RachelCuskTogether I first read this book 9 years ago and made an underline of a sentence that still strikes me today. “Money is a country all its own.”

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

i liked this and that moment when he says that if he were to write a second book, he would have to relearn completely how to be a writer!

#RachelCuskTogether

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

on the heels of that transporting chapter 1, comes ryan and his US marine-joining brother escaping to america and back.

#rachelcusktogether

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, it takes a different kind of energy to listen to a stranger -- one expects them to be uninteresting or disorganized. But, as dislikable as this man is, he seems like he is more than an outline.
#rachelcusktogether

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Maureen McGranaghan @mcgranaghan.bsky.social · 1d

It really is an amazing first chapter--her sharp and witty observations of these men as they unroll their whole lives, her reflections on her own life, and the confidence, control, and intelligence of the voice. It never fails to interest me.

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

week 2 of #rachelcusktogether starts tomorrow!

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 1d

Day 7, Oct 7, Tues - p39 “It was more than just a stroke of luck…” to p46 “…to be able to stay in it.”
#rachelcusktogether

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 2d

Is there a better description of home?

"where when you go there they have to take you in"

#RachelCuskTogether

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Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social · 24d

trying to force myself to share at least the occasional poem, now that I'm throwing new work against the walls. this one was published in Southern Indiana Review 🖤 I wrote it in a time when I had not really slept for many months and was going insane.

GABRIELLE BATES
New Baroque Derangement
I was conceived in a restless biome, a riot of wisteria.
Unguarded. Bitch of blue.
A woman pushed her tongue into my mouth and it was good weather.
There were spirals, spirals at the heart as pure lasso—ice pure loss skipping liquid, straight to air I could and couldn't bare because I was and wasn't.
Combing a lone shore there under the moonlit backwash of receding waves, all that grit in my gums and oceanscape's
overlappings, I am telling you in that fading cyanic
I saw your faces. In the sands. I saw.
Every person I might have been or birthed
I could not reach but I could see.
A consciousness I'd once called mine clambering into a swan boat.
And high above, and far around, the rope of air caught music's meat. I saw what seeing used to mean.

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the87press @the87press.bsky.social · 14d

We're delighted to announce one of our acts for the next MUSHAIRA is our very own Gabrielle Bates (@gabriellebates.bsky.social)!

October 24th 2025, doors at 7 at Cafe OTO
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87...

Mushaira is a live literature reading series featuring authors published by indie presses.

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 2d

so glad you're reading it for a 3rd time!

this is my second time and I find her voice yet again quite astonishing. she jumps right to the point in anecdotes (which have a built-in higher patience level in the listener), something deceptively simple.

#RachelCuskTogether

Maureen McGranaghan @mcgranaghan.bsky.social · 2d

I've read Outline twice, yet this first chapter fascinated me all over again. The billionaire and the Greek's stories, the "magic" of distress that brings her children's dropped items back, the armchair in-laws, the exhaustion and expense of a life without limitations... #RachelCuskTogether

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 2d

Day 6, Oct 6, Mon - START CH2 p32 to p39 “…separate himself from the place from which he had come.”
#rachelcusktogether

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 3d

Day 5, Oct 5, Sun - SHORT DAY p29 “I remained dissatisfied by the story of his second marriage.” to END OF CH1 p31.
#rachelcusktogether

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 4d

Day 4, Oct 4, Sat - p22 “It was now that the propriety of his first wife…” to p29 “…while I was in Athens.”
#rachelcusktogether

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 5d

That funny airplane scene. How often is the book you read in public representational of your reading tastes? Snobbery? Self-definition?

Admit when I was younger I liked toting around my Woolf / Murakami / Amis. These days, I like carrying French poetry to just be over the top!

#RachelCuskTogether

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 5d

hahahhahah!

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 5d

Day 3, Oct 3, Fri - p17 “My neighbour turned to me again…” to p22 “…they had gradually dwindled away.”
#rachelcusktogether

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 5d

you won't be able to put it down. a page-turner that is so English and psychologically modern but from a different era (letter writing!).

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Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 5d

i used to only read Chekhov or Ibsen plays on flights. but prob in the past 10 years, I started a new tradition, starting a new book on each flight!

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 6d

aw, thank you. i also admire it because it's not my usual 700-1,000+ page favorite novel length.

Literature Supporter @literaturesc.bsky.social · 6d

it's such a wonderful book. this is the kind of nostalgia and Englishness I greatly admire.

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