NOTHING SACRED (1937)

Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay Thanks to all the independent bookstores and everything you do.📚📚📚 Here's some pics from the mighty @subtextbookstore.bsky.social in St. Paul @dorothyproject.bsky.social @gabehabash.bsky.social

THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932): most fun I’ve had watching a movie in a long time

this whole enormous boneless mass is as one wad

My 6 favorite books of 2025 (in the order that I read them) • SAKINA’S KISS by Vivek Shanbhag • THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER by Jamaica Kincaid • WHITE ON WHITE by Ayşegül Savaş • O CALEDONIA by Elspeth Barker • HIGH-RISE by J.G. Ballard • THE TURN OF THE SCREW AND THE ASPERN PAPERS by Henry James

My 12 favorite movies of 2025

"The stairwells smell like the cement they're made of." - Infinite Jest

Still probably one of my favorite paragraphs of all time

Eddington > One Battle After Another

Institutional printing #metaphor

New-to-us species alert! 🚨 🐟 These snailfish get bumpy, dark, and sleek in the deep sea. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/new-...

garmonbozia

Cinerama Dome, My Neighbor Totoro premiere, May 1993

In order to watch a Playboi Carti video on Youtube, I was first made to watch an ad for an ai-powered therapy panda that hugs you back

“...in the beginning you understand the world but not yourself, and when you finally understand yourself you no longer understand the world.” - Mary Ruefle

If we're doing horror

A future classic arrives next year

All I want is Wingstop www.youtube.com/shorts/vlT-c...

I loved Vivek Shanbhag’s GHACHAR GHOCHAR, and loved his new novel, SAKINA’S KISS. The book increasingly sidesteps expectations, with a narrator that reminded me of OPEN CITY and SOMETHING HAPPENED, and ends with a surprising final act that’s one of the boldest moves I’ve seen in a book recently.

Augusto Monterroso

I think about this regularly

Fernando Botero flowers

Watched THE INNOCENTS yesterday and so the list grows

“Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon.” ― Clarice Lispector

My 5 favorite books of 2024 (in the order that I read them): • HANGMAN by Maya Binyam • UNUSUAL FRAGMENTS: JAPANESE STORIES edited by Sarah Coolidge • THE SUNDIAL by Shirley Jackson • ATLAS OF REMOTE ISLANDS by Judith Schalansky, tr. by Christine To • AMERICA by Jean Baudrillard, tr. by Chris Turner

My 10 favorite movies of 2024

Timeless lessons in 80s children’s books