haunted, obsessed by “dusty bushworms”

the 100,000,000 best novels of all time

if anyone wishes to review ‘Peter Lebrecht: A Tale Devoid of Adventures’ (1796) by Ludwig Tieck, tr. Douglas Robertson, for a literary or scholarly rag, drop us a line this is a work of peak German Romanticism, you could say. here is an exceedingly lovely passage asterismbooks.com/product/pete...

a random photo of my daughters & niece that i took 8 ½ yrs ago… i must be very old by now

I wrote ‘there is no such thing as documentary’ because it’s illusory to take the real and reality for granted and to think that a neutral language exists... To use an image is to enter fiction. Trinh T. Minh-ha

what do the people want? ninth-century Tang dynasty tales when do they want it? now asterismbooks.com/product/an-a...

i do not think diogenes the cynic would have made a good father

GREATER AUSTIN BOOK FEST at the central library downtown, come say howdy (and buy some books/pamphlets!)

i know i'm a decade late to comment on it, but i am watching THE FLORIDA PROJECT (2017) now, and all i have to say is, these ppl are supposed to be living in cheap, squalid motels, and yet every exterior wall looks like it has a fresh coat of paint. what the hell

Dark auguries speak the fell truth...HELLARKEY 5 is again open for submissions! Send @renbolger.bsky.social, @ossuary.bsky.social, and yer's truly your best, weirdest, scariest stories for the single most important horror publication in the history of the written word docs.google.com/document/d/1...

THE HEARKENING

the hearkening

Does anyone have recommendations for the best laser cutter settings for making letterpress woodcuts? I am using Lightburn software. I am trying to replicate some 18c woodcuts. #letterpress #bookhistory

“grab a copy”? rude

when the culture no longer speaks to you b/c you don’t understand it at all, you’ve finally made it. you have reached nirvana

finally, some useful information on here

Incredible

Ma Yuan's studies of the properties of water, southern Song Dynasty China, ca. 1190 - 1225 CE 1

would like to thank Past Eric for pre-ordering these and promptly forgetting, leading to a Nice Surpise from Present Eric

this has been said by others before (every time its brought up), but i take great comfort in knowing this place is so unimportant to the outside world

am in a gallows mood, but am unable to muster gallows humor. just gallows then

Photographs of the Los Angeles Alligator Farm, ca. 1907. More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/los-angeles-alligator-farm

Do you want to write reviews for Splice? We're hoping to revive our reviews section this year and we'd like to hear from anyone interested in reviewing. Drop your details into this form and we'll be in touch: forms.gle/qSujTaQDSRvo....

in 2016 I made a comic titled “Mr. Gotcha” that would become most viewed and circulated image I’d create. Now it is the subject of a book by @glennf.com examining its history in online discourse. That One Matt Bors comic is live on Kickstarter—back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

asian man records, boy it’s been a decade or two since i heard that name. but without asian man records, my teenage yrs would have been a very different experience

The Rise of the Novel Dawn of the Rise of the Novel War for the Rise of the Novel Kingdom of the Rise of the Novel

going around in 2026 quoting pascal’s « vous êtes embarqué » & no one knows what you’re talking abt & you’re not going to explain, but vous êtes embarqué

It’s like, for example, thinking about owls. You can’t suddenly stop and say “I’ve thought about owls enough. My thinking about owls is now finished.” You would probably have more things to think about owls at a later time and that’s good. Unless your thinking about owls needed to become a product.

Musicians sometimes say that they keep endlessly working on a track, coming back and making little tweaks here and changes there, and therefore never finishing it. But this is because it’s not natural to finish music. A piece of music shouldn’t (or can’t) be finished.

sometimes waking up to realize yr tolerance for bullshit has been way too high… but then you are mired in it

a "fun" thing about hantavirus is that it is a particular occupational hazard for quaternary isotope geochronologists working in the american west b/c packrat middens, which can be thousands of years old, are one of the primary sources of datable material

tuesday, at the creek

public executions

Don't worry I shaved the beard.

« you’ll get chiggers, » the elders used to threaten. hasn’t happened yet, i’m calling BS

lying on the earth, resting en plein air as the gods intended

a film being « on the criterion channel » really is not sufficient motive to watch a bad film, and yet i often do

« Lorsque Jean Dézert résolut de se suicider, il choisit un dimanche afin de ne pas manquer son bureau ». via Sébastien Banse

Here, from a lovely tribute by Luke Roberts, is a J.H. Prynne opinion I wholeheartedly share www.littlemirrormag.com/luke-roberts...

I was the first to see never

everything’s great until you throw yr back out. (sometimes the universe wants us to lie in bed like invalids & watch movies)

“He was a poetic little fucker, though.” (watching D.O.A., 1988)

“... dozens of demons, each of varied aspect, crushed the men into ore with iron mauls.” “Huan got right up to the stone to have a look!” Cui Huan

the official pub. date of AN ACCOUNT OF MARVELS AND BEASTS (tr. Maxwell Massa) is in a week, but the book is in Seattle & orders began shipping this wk at 356pp + with hundreds of notes, this is a monumental work of scholarship & translation. preview it at the link below:

This is one of those "wait for it" things: simulation of the #TracyArm landslide tsunami by Pat Lynett for our paper that came out this week in @science.org. This one is from the vantage point of a jetski at sea level. 🧪⚒️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"I recall Zap #1 like I remember my first view of The Beatles and first listen to Bob Dylan. Shock and awe!" — Steven Heller, PRINT Our Complete Zap Comix box set is out in paperback on 9/1! https://ow.ly/E8BT50YWmLR

Guess the letter. From a 17th-century German book on the art of writing. A great range of different styles are represented seemingly increasing in complexity, and also illegibility, as the book goes on: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-proper-art-of-writing-1655

a beautiful remembrance of Edmund White. this paragraph in particular quite gobsmacking

Deer have only just now discovered the "wuzaaa" guys