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Roy Kesey
@roykesey.bsky.social
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Some things I do: write (Sarabande, Jonathan Cape/Random House, Dzanc), translate (Soho Press, Serpent’s Tail), teach, read, bind, photograph. Ideal job: walking around looking at stuff. Photos mine unless otherwise noted, e.g. profile tintype by Amy Güth.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · Nov 8
Color, shape, texture, layers upon layers.
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#mountainsheepcanyon #taadidiintours #navajonation #arizona #photography #clarity
A view through interleaved walls of sandstone, the first one bright terracotta in sunlight, the others redder in shade.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 3h
So good!
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d
Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 2d
A primrose at Kiplin Hall.
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#plantsky #kiplinhall #richmond #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity
A color photo of a pink primrose in full bloom.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 3d
The Golden Lion Hotel has hosted eminent guests for 300 yrs, inc. future czar Grand Duke Nicholas, Queen Victoria’s 3rd son, & Andrew Carnegie. In the center of the dining room is this portal to the abyss. Good Scotch eggs.
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#goldenlion #northallerton #yorkshire #england #photography #clarity
A black-and-white photo looking down through a thin sheet of plexiglass into a medieval well located in the middle of the fucking dining room of a fancy English hotel.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 4d
Forest on a fencepost.
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#plantsky #hilltop #sawrey #cumbria #england #photography #clarity
A color photograph of a moss-covered fencepost on a background of green grass and reeds.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 5d
Jackdaw says I beg your pardon?
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#birdsky #hilltop #cumbria #england #photography #clarity
A jackdaw, a corvid with black body, gray head, and blue eyes, looks up from green grass.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 5d
wonderful
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 6d
I don’t much care what time it is, but I like a good clock all the same.
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#beatrixpotter #hilltop #cumbria #england #photography #clarity
A color photo of a beautiful clock, the pendulum blurred in motion, in the sitting room of Beatrix Potter’s home at Hill Top in Sawrey.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 7d
The floor of the Kentmere Boat, an 11th C. Viking dugout. Kendal Museum, Cumbria.
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#kentmere #kendal #cumbria #england #photography #clarity
The charred wooden surface of an eleventh century dugout.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 8d
Congratulations!
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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 8d
It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word!

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin
THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi
The front covers of The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam held up side by side in front of a tree whose leaves are beginning to turn from green to brown. This picture shows the spines for The Endless Week and The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam stacked on top of each other and held up in front of a small tree on a sunny day.
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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 8d
It's International Translation Day, also known as the feast of St Jerome, patron saint of translators!

#internationaltranslationday #xl8 #translatorslife
Portrait of "St Jerome in his Study" (1480) by Domenico Ghirlandaio, showing the saint with his head resting on his left knuckles, elbow on his desk. Overprinted with the text "Be a translator, they said. It'll be fun, the said."
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 8d
Rydal Cave, from inside out.
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#rydal #westmorland #cumbria #england #photography #clarity
A color photo looking out of the mouth of a cave at rocks, trees, far hills, and blue sky.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 9d
splendid, Paul
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 9d
The water-mirror of Rydal Cave, an abandoned slate quarry in the side of Loughrigg Fell.
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#rydal #westmorland #cumbria #england #photography #clarity
A color photograph of slanted slabs of slate reflected in a pond of water inside a cave.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 9d
A very efficient, distilled and to me pretty persuasive version of the bear case against AI economics.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 9d
No surprise, this is very good. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 9d
Ed Park is a writerly hero of mine—I’m honored that he picked Lore, flattered by his kind words and comps, and fucking tickled that he name-checked the POV.
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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 13d
"LORE is about loneliness, endurance and the mercies of language" - Ed Park
Cream background. Text at top reads: Praise for Lore by Roy Kesey. In the center is the quote from judge Ed Park: “One of the most resolutely interior books I've read in a while—everything filtered through a beautifully calibrated close third person—LORE is about loneliness, endurance, and the mercies of language. It reads like Cormac McCarthy had written Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine [by Stanley Crawford].” Bottom right is the white Sarabande logo.
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BlueGarth @blugarth.bsky.social · 9d
Delivering dinosaurs for exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science, 1984.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 10d
glorious, Paul
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 10d
There are worse places to write.

Every summer we take a small group of undergrads through northern England. I run the travel writing. This shot is from the first hike, up Greenhead Ghyll, around & back down to Grasmere.
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#writing #grasmere #westmorland #cumbria #england #photography #clarity
A color photograph of a young woman writing in a notebook beneath a small tree overlooking a green valley.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 11d
Especially there near the end...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11d
One of the constant strands in the history of the university, dating back to its medieval origins, is the attempt of authorities - especially religious authorities but not exclusively - to control what can and cannot be taught.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 12d
Thank you so much, Maria! I hope all’s well.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 12d
Many thanks!
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · 12d
Thank you!
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