I want to play games that make me feel like I was eight and playing Metroid for the first time at my cousin's house in Ohio.

Alasdair Gray’s Celestial Ceiling at the Òran Mór (formerly Kelvinside Parish Church), an arts & entertainment venue in Glasgow’s West End, is stunning – described as “resurrecting the spirit of William Blake, but on a much larger scale” 📷: Mark Wild Photography oran-mor.co.uk/arts-for-all...

Hah! Yes. I still believe this is true.

Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.

Frankenstein is available to stream on Netflix today, so expect a bunch of “I don’t get the big deal” takes from people uninterested in the movie who half-watched it on their phones.

Today in "of course he is" kotaku.com/mrbeast-open...

did you know the Mountain Goats have a new album out today and you can buy it or stream it and dance to it in your living room or while driving or on the subway and it's a whole vibe? well now you know that 30tgrs.ffm.to/ttfafpb

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

The First Auteurist Mayor

Curtis Sliwa did extremely well among voters whose top priority was to have a mayor who looked like a GoldenEye 007 NPC, but it simply wasn't enough.

Fellow Donald Westlake fans who might have access to Watch TCM: The Hot Rock, not generally available on streaming and out of print on disc, is streaming until Nov. 16. It's a good film, even if Robert Redford is an unconventional Dortmunder. www.tcm.com/watchtcm/tit...

Yeah Agent Cooper taught us all 35 years ago you couldn’t trust him

PSA: today is the last day One Battle After Another is screening on VistaVision at the Vista in Los Angeles, and there are still tickets to the late show i suspect it'll return, but if you've got the opportunity now...

Writers who do not believe themselves to be right-wing should go on the Joe Rogan Experience before they go on Zibby's podcast I am so serious

Today in things America cannot have: Guns, vanishingly rare!

Dear lovely folks, this is a quick reminder that if you're in Boston, we'll be launching Letters from an Imaginary Country at Trident Bookstore on November 11th, at 6:00 pm! Here's the link for FREE tickets: theodora-goss-event-jjbhy.tripleseattickets.com/registration...

Bodegas are independent, owner-operated, eccentrically stocked, at least slightly shabby, and the cashier speaks more than one language (one of which may or may not be English). The cat is optional but its major attitude is not. Come on, this isn't hard.

Hey @colsonwhitehead.com you definitely have an AI-impersonator sending emails pretending it is you (I've also received similar emails impersonating other authors, so if one is going around with my name on it, please let me know!)

The satisfaction of *finally* finding the book you've been looking all over for, tinged with the regret that you really have too many books, this is not a normal problem to have.

It’s insane to talk through this shit out loud. “Children should starve because it might make their moms less likely to sleep around in the future.”

Feel like your university has a problem if the board knows or cares about the identity of the football coach.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social out here doing all the side quests

My favourite minor historical coincidence is that the solicitor in the defence of Chatterley was the son of the solicitor who acted in defence of The Well Of Loneliness

BRO WHAT

Looking for some Halloween horror delights that aren't only the usual suspects? Look no further. Part 1...

Reading Richard Stark's Butcher's Moon, and just got to the point where everything hits the fan and Parker calls up his whole past crew. Should probably put book aside now, lest I stay up past midnight turning pages. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

This piece reads like a shiv, whew.

What the headlines feel like in 2025.

ah so not merit based, just racism.

I interrupt your doomscrolling for a heartwarming update: Notre Dame, which is generally unavailable for private events, is hosting a wedding...for one of the carpenters who helped rebuilt it after the fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH7D...

I think I'm going to sit down for an interview with Isaac Chotiner. I'm also going to tug on Superman's cape, spit into the wind, pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger, and mess around with Jim

Also husband of the tiger mother, who was JD Vance's mentor and a prominent Brett Kavanaugh apologist. Great family!

Good news for @jamescrossley.bsky.social & readers of the leviathanbookstore.com/newsletter-archive: Greer Gilman's agent is going out with a new novel right now. Ok, I weep a bit we're not going to publish it but getting more publishers for her work is fabulous. Who's Greer? Read this:

The Shadow: What evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow after 30 seconds on the internet: **weeping** the..Shadow…knows…oh gods..THE SHADOW KNOWS **weeping**

If you'd like to know what Joyce Carol Oates is up to when she's writing horror fiction, have I got a post by me for you! www.thebulwark.com/p/joyce-caro...

A conviction for BASE jumping is a rather mild FO, considering how lethal it can be?

Wondering what it means that my work’s library has almost all the Richard Stark books (generally in UChicago editions, @levistahl.bsky.social!) but comparatively few Donald Westlakes? Anyway, have two by each checked out now. Stark’s Breakout makes me wish my bus commute were longer.

Today’s #poemsontheunderground @poemsonthetube.bsky.social

A couple of things in the last 2 days have made me wonder if I've slipped into an adjacent universe: 1. visited Grey Matter Books in Hadley & was startled by the large flock of ducks in an enclosure just outside door. Asked bookseller when they'd gotten ducks & was told, "They've always been there."

Important subtext: Hard to oversell how rare this precise Christian coalition is, and how unusually defiant this letter they're signing is.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall! Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

it is funny how much studio executives dislike making money

Zohran Mamdani: I want to make housing and transportation affordable for the common person Andrew Cuomo: if you elect Zohran we will have 10 9/11s a day Curtis Sliwa: The events of Godzilla 1998 actually happened and I lead the team of French mercenaries that killed her babies in MSG

Out of rights jail, straight back to a life of crime

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. #nokings

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster