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Morris Collins

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2024 O. Henry Prize. Author of Horse Latitudes (Dzanc Books). New novel: The Tavern at the End of History (Dzanc Books, 2026). Bon vivant, abed by nine. Boston.

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Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · Aug 28

Galleys dropped! My weird novel abt art, the angels of history, Kabbalah, Yiddish poets, a dybbuk, & the dangers of trauma narratives. I pitched it (not well) as a Jewish Magic Mountain, but shorter. It's a strange book & I can't wait to share it with you. Feb 10th from Dzanc.

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 2d

I've always been fond of my own signed copy of All Souls, with post-reading message. In that it turned up secondhand, maybe Javier's prophecy was correct!

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Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 4d

I didn't realize they reissued this? I've been looking for a copy...(I've long wanted to teach a class on the British avant garde of the 60s=70s)

Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 4d

wow, that's really a stunning object

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 9d

in the company of many many bsky.app/profile/anna...

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Mar 12

"We are Jewish professors, staff, students from universities across the US. We hold various views about Israel, Palestine, student activism . But we are united in denouncing anyone who invokes our name to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our communities” docs.google.com/document/d/1...?

Not In Our Name

Sign the Statement March 11, 2025 Not in our name. We are Jewish professors, staff members, and students from universities across the United States. We hold various views about Israel and Palestine...

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 9d

Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga...
@ndbooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social

Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House

Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannil...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 9d

just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others:

we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime

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Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint

Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

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Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social · 11d

They shelved my novel next to some book I never heard of.

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Rafi @rafil.bsky.social · 11d

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

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Tim Howard @tmhwrd.bsky.social · 11d

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is to normalise retreating to your library to produce a volume of digressive, idiosyncratic essays that remain an essential repository of humanist thought and skeptical inquiry 400+ years after your death.

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Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 14d

Please sir, may I have some more?

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14d

Henry James: The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt—no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries.

Dickens: this guy is named “M'Choakumchild”

James:

Dickens: he be chokin them childs!

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Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 16d

My Rosh Hashanah cocktail: bonded apple brandy, bourbon, bitters, honey syrup, a twist.

Meanwhile, for 5786, more peace, friends. More light, more love. Never again must mean no more.

Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 17d

Yeah and he was very Sad(e) about it.

Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 17d

You got me a bath bomb? Didn’t one of those kill Marat?

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 17d

the honeyed fruit

Nâzim Hikmet, ‘Autumn’, tr Richard McKane

AUTUMN
The days are gradually getting shorter, the rains are about to start.
My door waited wide open for you.
Why were you so late?
Bread, salt, a green pepper on my table.
Waiting for you I drank on my own
half the wine I kept for you in my jug.
Why were you so late?
But look, the honeyed fruit, ripe on the branch, remains alive.
If you had been any later
it would have dropped unplucked to the ground.

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Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · 18d

Tarkovsky gets drunk, shaves off moustache

12July 1970
Yesterday I got drunk. And shaved off my moustache. I only realized this morning. And on all my document photographs I've got a moustache. I'll have to grow it again.

ANDREY TARKOVSKY, “Time Within Time: THE DIARIES i970-1986” (Translated KITTY HUNTER-BLAIR), 1994

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Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 22d

I bought my copy from @gavingrant.bsky.social at the Boston Books fest in...2014 maybe? Such a stunning object by one of our great pomo fabulists (and weird heir to Calvino)...I remember feeling shocked that such a book could remain invisible.

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Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 22d

Schattenfroh aside, there remain so many experimental works by small presses that fly under the radar. E.G: Old Men in Love by the great Alasdair Gray. Pub'd by Small Beer & prob. the most beautiful contemporary book object I own. & it totally disappeared. Other Examples?

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Mr Autumn Man @hartsunknown.blacksky.app · 24d

Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic.

Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956

Young Black man in a patterned shirt leans over a metal water fountain labeled “WHITE ONLY,” drinking directly from it. His gaze meets the camera, capturing a bold act of defiance against segregation during the Jim Crow era.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24d

87-year-old Cecil Williams walked down the runway to "Neva Scared" during Actively Black and Spill's #NYFW show this weekend

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Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 24d

...and the day you get galleys is the day you are finally ready to edit. (Or, this is where I am right now, proofing galleys confronted by all the things I cannot change. If only someone had written a book about the revision process...)

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Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 29d

Seems too late for self improvement.

Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 29d

Teaching Hawthorne in my Love and Death in the American Novel class tomorrow and my prime takeaway from this is, their radical ability (so they think) to recognize semiotic coherence notwithstanding, what a bunch of little fuckers these Puritan kids are:

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Morris Collins @morriscollins.bsky.social · 29d

So true! All I need in my university office: 4 decanters of Napoleonic brandy, a sword cane, the complete works of Walter Benjamin (unread), seven cats, a candelabra, a crucible, quicksilver, azoth, saltpeter, three invisible owls, whiteout. (Also, how hard is it to put chalk in all the classrooms?)

Arielle Zibrak @zibrak.bsky.social · 29d

Look how happy we humanists are with so little. A mere cart to transport our books and puppets by. How came we to be so vilified?

Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 29d

I’m teaching my book history class across campus this semester, so my wonderful dept bought a giant steel work cart. This is going to make the whole mobile book lab thing so much easier! (Some of my colleagues also use material items, e.g. puppets, for teaching, so useful all around, I hope).

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sometimes when I see myself now I think, oh, you are older now. (My birthday is in two days, so I've been having feelings.)

Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here's @ljabouttown.bsky.social (author of STILL ALIVE) reading from @guillermostitch.bsky.social's forthcoming THE COAST OF EVERYTHING (preorders at www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/the_...). Thanks LJ! ljpemberton.com
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LJ Pemberton reads from Guillermo Stitch's THE COAST OF EVERYTHING

YouTube video by Sagging Meniscus

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · Sep 8

On September nights heavy with pollen and absence, the body, dulled by antihistamines, drifts with the mind through Bachelard’s Water and Dreams, as unnamed aches and temporal echoes stir at the threshold of now and memory, murmuring just beneath the skin.

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Lindsay but pumpkin-spiced @lindsaynicolle.bsky.social · Sep 8

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

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