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Steve Himmer@shimmer.bsky.social |
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Occasional novelist, regular walker. Probably that guy you saw looking at something on the ground. Faculty at Emerson College and editor at necessaryfiction.bsky.social/.
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Tom McAllister
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My short essay "When We Used to Glow" is in the new issue of @hippocampusmag.bsky.social. It's about how there seem to be fewer lightning bugs than ever, and also about dying, and some other things
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EPOCH
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Our Fall 2024 issue is out now! Visit epochliterary.com to order a copy (print or PDF), or subscribe. Click ALT for the full list of contributors.
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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton)
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"Don't let the French have all the fun" is an excellent slogan and I submit it to the committee for wide promulgation in everyone's elections.
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Steve Himmer
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Chicago's urban nature writer Leonard Dubkin knew what was what blogs.roosevelt.edu/mbryson/2014...
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Steve Himmer
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@julianhoffman.bsky.social nice to run into you in Nijmegen, NL today — and a highlight, no less!
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Steve Himmer
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Reversible bench
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Invitation accepted
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Steve Himmer
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When a collaborative playlist link for a party is shared with you, it is an invitation to add a few very long, very gradual instrumental tracks, is what I like to think.
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Steve Himmer
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Congratulations!
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Steve Himmer
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Subscribe to receive Abundant Number in your mailbox, including some novel excerpts from me among other nice things.
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Steve Himmer
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Out patrolling the village beat. All is in order.
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Steve Himmer
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It could be a trap but a quick step inside should be safe
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Steve Himmer
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So APPARENTLY it doesn’t work that way
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Steve Himmer
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Behold the famous skyline of Paris
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Steve Himmer
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Extra excited for my flight today because I think I finally have enough miles that it’s my turn to drive.
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Steve Himmer
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A good read, too, by Sam Keck Scott
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Steve Himmer
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Orion Magazine knowing how to get me to open an email as quickly as possible
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Steve Himmer
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I spent some time yesterday just enjoying the word "windrows" because it came up several times in the book I was reading.
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Jaime Green
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icymi, my York Festival of Ideas talk - about how scientific discoveries change how we can imagine life on other worlds, and how our imaginations drive scientific discoveries - is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?si=MYV...
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Steve Himmer
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"True belonging is born of relationships not only to one another but to a place of shared responsibilities and benefits. We love not so much what we have acquired as what we have made and whom we have made it with." ~ Robert Finch, THE PRIMAL PLACE
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Patrick Nathan
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“AI” is the culmination of the tech industry. Every time you use it, you destroy the environment, erode labor protections, endanger workers overseas, enrich the ruling class, and make something unforgivably worthless, all at the same time – and it's all hidden from you in a frictionless distraction.
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Steve Himmer
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I like that way of putting it. I feel very close to someone when I notice something that I know they would notice if they were there, even if I haven't seen them in a very long time.
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Steve Himmer
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Absolutely thrilled to see such a brilliant memoir as LOSING MUSIC win the Colorado Book Award.
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Steve Himmer
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Based on how long and how many login code requests it is taking someone to realize they've accidentally signed up for Indeed with the wrong phone number (mine), I wouldn't hire them.
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Steve Himmer
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Ideal listening for a rainy Sunday morning
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Steve Himmer
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Great to see London out marching in memory of my first book (or, in fact, a much more important cause)
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Dave Borthwick
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please forgive for dissonance but while a celebration is needed this, from @ninamaclaughlin, hits it for me *from *Summer Solstice: an Essay*
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Éireann
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Two years ago, in a big room in coastal Maine, five of us wrote scores for the summer #solstice. That evening, two musicians came and played them. You can hear that live recording (and view the scores) at the link. #improvisation #bandcamp #summer #graphicscore
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Steve Himmer
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The weedy gravel in our driveway is long overdue for replenishing but I just watched a bumblebee go flower to flower across the stones with all the joy of exploring a strange lunar landscape so how could I take that away?
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Tom McAllister
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On this week's Book Fight, @lucaswmann.bsky.social joins us to discuss THE MARRIAGE PLOT, the novel's thinly veiled DFW stand-in, Rhode Island literature, cash bars at weddings, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Spotify link below, but available everywhere
open.spotify.com/episode/5rIW...
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Steve Himmer
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So much nicer than the red line. I enjoyed when it was free during track work. (Also happy late bday!)
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Adding insult to injury
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Simon Spanton
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100% this. People stuck with being themselves can be the vehicle and the meat for fantastic stories. The battle just to negotiate how you are as stuff keeps on happening to you.
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Willie Fitzgerald
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"detente" is french for "the tent," as in the tent you have to share with the person you're mad at, but you've made up just enough that you can get to sleep.
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Alex Higley
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My story “Harms” is in the new issue of Epoch. I’m thrilled they’ve made the story available online:
www.epochliterary.com/featuredfict...
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Steve Himmer
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I'm reading One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney, a tip from @michaelschaub.bsky.social, and it's great. The kind of small but large novel about a character facing the crisis of everday life that I like best.
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Caroline Casey
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taxes
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Steve Himmer
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With a heat wave arriving I put the AC unit in the bedroom window this morning and as always it felt like defeat
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Steve Himmer
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"Hate yourself? Read this instead."
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I recommend it for the beach or anywhere else.
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Steve Himmer
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I will be based in the south of the Netherlands for work in July with a couple of weekends free to travel. If anyone wants to meet for a hike or something, please get in touch!
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William Gerrard
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#NewYorkerCartoonCaptionContest
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Steve Himmer
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"Being curious is not an occupation that you can declare to an immigration agent." Would that it were, though, would that it were. From HOW TO TRAVEL WITHOUT SEEING by Andrés Neuman, tr Jeffrey Lawrence
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This style guide, on the other hand, also in the basement, still makes my heart and feet race with its enticing array of 1984 gear.
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Steve Himmer
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I do love snail portraiture!
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Steve Himmer
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Found this in the basement but hey, how much could have possibly changed since 1993?
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Feral chicken
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Travel at a reasonable speed
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Steve Himmer
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I've been sending a weekly newsletter from Necessary Fiction for about half a year now, if you'd like to check it out.
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