Rosie Schaap
Author, teacher, maker of excellent soups, proud chairperson of the Glenarm Wildlife Group. 🐿️
My new book is THE SLOW ROAD NORTH: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
rosieschaap.net
- "We may not all conceive of whatever it is as ‘holy,’ but I think most of us are seeking something that is beautiful and marvellous to us in some singular, seemingly intangible way. Like a more just world, with less cruelty, less suffering...this is the kind of ‘holiness’ I seek." My latest post:
- I love a good literary hoax, especially if it’s at the expense of Modernism. But these are my takeaways from ‘about this poem’: Witter Bynner was an asshole; the hostess a hero; I hope the waitress sued.
- Friends I have a lot of shallots in need of thin slicing and I can’t find the finger guard for my mandoline but I’m going in anyway.
- The latest on ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE: If finance is math, do I even stand a chance?
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- Can’t help it: it pleases me to think of Kim Davis as the gay divorcee.
- FROM THE ANNALS OF UNEXPECTED CELEBRITY OF WHICH I DO NOT FEEL WORTHY It has come to my attention that I was quoted by the Very Reverend Nicholas Frayling at the funeral of the great Dame Patricia Routledge. I should just retire now. #hyacinthbucketforever www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/in-full...
- You’d think they’d at least have made the password Louvre1!
- Folks better get their benefits stat!
- The New Yorker Mamdani cover is great but I just can’t bring myself to share an image with a Yankees cap.
- Marathon day is one of NYC’s greatest annual occasions; I miss it. Here’s one reason why:
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- This dog would like you to read this newsletter.
- Must I Create a System? featuring W. Blake, S. Beckett, and being shit at math
- Keris Fox is, in my experience, basically a unicorn: a writer who actually loves talking about money! She interviewed me for her excellent Substack, The Ladybird Purse. 🐞💰🦄
- New post! Tulips! Poetry! Human folly! substack.com/@rosieschaap...
- New post on ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE. How do you describe the difference between being broke and being poor?
- New post on ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE!
- he’s a nut ❤️
- New post up at ROSIE $CHAAP IS BROKE. We lived pretty large in my childhood home. There were consequences.
- New post on my newsletter, ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE! Milo implores you to read it, and to subscribe. And to give him treats, stat.
- I've just launched ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE, a newsletter (mostly) focused on personal finance, by a person who doesn’t understand money at all! Can I sort my shambolic financial self out and be debt-free by 2030? I hope you'll subscribe and join the conversation. rosieschaap.substack.com/about
- Reposted by Rosie SchaapCanceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.
- SO GOOD.
- [I hate PKs] ⚽️
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- New York City, I love you! And I wish I were there to celebrate this with you! If it weren’t so freaking hot!
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- Happy solstice! It’s all downhill from here!
- In the distance I hear the village nursery school kids singing ‘Que Sera Sera’ and think, this has to be the soundtrack for the end of the world.
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- Looking forward to tonight’s pub quiz. I hope the Glenarm Wildlife Group will agree that our team should be called Pine Marten Scorcese…
- Loved this interview with Maggie O’Farrell, full of smart, useful stuff for writers (and writers who teach). Spoiler: her influences include Tove Jansson and David Hockney. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
- Who’s the meshuggener who woke up at 4:30 to make bagels for her students on the last day of the semester? Me. I am the meshuggener. But they deserve it. 🥯🥯🥯✍️✍️✍️
- I'm writing about the building in which I spent most of my childhood, and my research has led to a thrilling discovery: BIG EDIE and LITTLE EDIE lived there in the 1930s. Now I have to find out if we lived in the same apartment... #greygardens
- Woke up today very excited to write. This is not normal for me. But it’s nice.
- I so enjoyed having this conversation with the very smart Dion Fanning about THE SLOW ROAD NORTH, Roger Casement, Muhammad Ali, Ciaran Carson, grief, Glenarm, and more. Hope you'll give it a listen--and other episodes of Free State with Joe Brolly & Dion Fanning, too (it's a great podcast).
- An absolutely lovely review of THE SLOW ROAD NORTH in the Irish Times! I so appreciate this thoughtful, thorough--and beautifully written--consideration by Mei Chin.
- Winter retreats, and the days lengthen and brighten in this beautiful place.
- It was an honour to chat about THE SLOW ROAD NORTH with the phenomenal Róisín Ingle on the Irish Times' The Women's Podcast.
- THE SLOW ROAD NORTH Belfast book launch is two weeks from today, 4 March! In a happy coincidence, that’s Mardi Gras—so expect a party. Wanna be there? Great! Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-nigh...
- I'll be chatting about THE SLOW ROAD NORTH tomorrow on 'Saturday with John Toal' on BBC Radio Ulster. My segment will air just after 12 noon.
- Today's the day! ☘️ 📖 🩷 THE SLOW ROAD NORTH is officially out in Ireland and the UK. You can get it from most of the usual online suspects, and uk.bookshop.org. Or order it from your favourite indie bookshop!
