It's starting to feel like all spice production is being brought to a halt.

*Probably not enough attention is paid to the "entropic rot" of words and ideas #entanglementtheory #IanHodder *That ideas are not Platonic and static, that instead ideas have to be actively maintained, that they crumble and drift, meme-like

At the current show on Le Guin's life and work in Portland, visitors can try out her old typewriter. She bought it used in 1966, after she sold her 2nd novel, Planet of Exile. She typed A Wizard of Earthsea on it, Left Hand of Darkness, Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed...

‘Uncropped’ James Hamilton (geboren 1946) is een Amerikaanse fotograaf, vooral bekend om zijn documentatie van de jaren zeventig en tachtig Vanaf de late jaren zeventig fotografeerde Hamilton ook oorlog en burgerlijke onrust #jameshamilton #photographer #streetphotography

Is this where it starts?

“'Librarians out in our branches are seeing a lot of young people who are really excited by these collections,' Langlais told 404 Media. 'Folks who are coming in just for the games are picking up program flyers and coming back for something like that.'"

A literate film or film as a form of literature? D.W. Young: "I've taken to calling this a multiform work, as I feel it can be equally a written piece and a film."

Showing now on @thearsonista.bsky.social, D.W. Young's short 35mm film, Dancing on the Silk Razor, produced by New York-based @fineprintpictures.bsky.social, features a narration by Wallace Shawn.

Today we're releasing our short film Round Three, which was shot on election day one year ago. The third installment of our trilogy (so far!) chronicling the Trump elections in NYC, Round Three is a roaming portrait of Brooklyn on that fateful day. vimeo.com/1132288351

Today we're releasing our short film Round Three, which was shot on election day one year ago. The third installment of our trilogy (so far!) chronicling the Trump elections in NYC, Round Three is a roaming portrait of Brooklyn on that fateful day. vimeo.com/1132288351

One Bookstore, 3 Sisters and 100 Years www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...

A Hamilton photo we always loved that wasn't in the film: www.newyorker.com/culture/post...

I wrote about Sylvia Plachy back in 2008. "That’s my sense of Sylvia Plachy and her photography. It’s a constant, consistent expression of gratitude for simple, honest things." salon.utata.org/2008/06/29/s...

Beguiling pubtones of southern Ichikawa

Reposting in celebration of the #ShadowTicket release When the goin' gets tough, And that crooked old they Want to put you in hovel, Along comes a new Pynchon novel. Neither it, nor the Chums of Chance, Can quite save the day, But - and sing along if you fanc-ay, Maybe, for today, it's just enough.

ATMs only get slower and slower.

The Thing Cast & Crew

One of James Hamilton's many awesome photos working as the stills photographer on Knightriders.

*Back when there was a Fourth Estate press, there was often something like "news." Nowadays, by contrast, there's highly-significant stuff that's Not Allowed to Be News, along with Vast Fake-Newsy Rumors which command public attention but are as insubstantial as meme-stocks. #TwentyTwenties

All American Food

SHADOW TICKET cover reveal!

Happy Birthday Ms. Butler... portrait by artist Bisa Butler based on a photo by Alice Arnold ---Black Star: The Life and Work of Octavia Butler: crimereads.com/black-star-t...

A new documentary titled "Maintenance Artist" highlights Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ radical, caring approach to public art. It premieres this weekend at Tribeca Film Festival. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/mier...

Nothing's real

Rediscover the work of legendary photographer James Hamilton, one of the great chroniclers of US cultural history. A compelling deep dive into Hamilton's work and a visually rich chronicle of New York’s zeitgeist over the last 50 years, Uncropped shows from 20 Jun. 📸 bit.ly/Uncpt

Zohran is Mira Nair's SON?? #donotrankcuomo

En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.

“When I first heard Elvis Presley’s voice I just knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody and nobody was going to be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail.” – Bob Dylan #BOTD "nobody was going to be my boss" is imo the #1 quote about EP's impact.

Hey Amazon, we love that you're replacing big trucks with cargo bikes, but if your cargo bike blocks a bike lane, then you've replaced one asshole with another.

Essential Reading: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social. We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one. We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

“Kevin Young, the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, D.C., resigned as President Donald Trump stepped up attacks with plans to overhaul the Smithsonian’s landmark museums and cultural institutions.”

Patti Smith and the love of books www.ft.com/content/5f9e...

Happy 100th Ogdred Weary.

"...a short poem titled “Nothing New” [was] copied out on the front free endpaper." 📜 #RobertFrost downtownbrown.substack.com/p/robert-fro...

📸 David Lynch, September 1986 photographed by James Hamilton

Jimmy Carter and Cecil Taylor at the White House Jazz Festival 1978. Photo by James Hamilton

Happy to see UNCROPPED on this list alongside so many great films! @fineprintpictures.bsky.social www.uncroppedfilm.com

Watching this fascinating 2019 documentary by DW Young about the rare book trade in NYC. Delicious stuff for a book lover like me nom nom nom #booksky www.imdb.com/title/tt9355...

It was Tom Verlaine's birthday yesterday. In slightly belated remembrance, here's one of our favorites of him and Patti Smith. Photo by James Hamilton

Don't know anything about this new show The Sticky but its trailer is running on the front page of Amazon Prime. There are some rather exact similarities to the trailer for our film The Happy House...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRXVBOf3ruQ

James Hamilton 🎂📷 b 20 Nov 1946 You GOTTA see this👇 www.uncroppedfilm.com

Wanna know how the GOP first turned treasonous? Read my newest book, Den of Spies, a real-life spy thriller about the October Surprise of 1980, and how the Republicans out together a covert op that sabotaged the election. RePosts are great appreciated. www.harpercollins.com/products/den...

Yesterday, I walked around the Jefferson Market branch of the NY Public Library. Built for the equivalent of $11 million in 1877, it also included a courthouse & fire watchtower Public goods can & should be beautiful, affordable, & abundant. Library socialism is the way

UNCROPPED chronicles the career of legendary photographer James Hamilton and the decline of journalism. @stevenmps.bsky.social reviews D.W. Young's documentary ahead of its Madison premiere at Arts + Literature Laboratory on November 14. tonemadison.com/articles/jam...

Thought this nugget was important. This is what happened when I created a Twitter acct from scratch in September (after declaring zero interest in seeing political content)