Always forget to plug, but happy to announce INFINITE LIBRARY POD #51: The Return of the King. Joined by man of many hats, Nathan Schmidt to discuss the wrap up of the Lord of the Rings with plenty of riffs to go around. Link in the comments

INFINITE LIBRARY 47: The Master and Margarita. Really happy how this episode turned out. Molly and Melissa both brought their unique perspectives to this fantastic, diabolical satire. Link in the comments. open.spotify.com/episode/33yR...

INFINITE LIBRARY 47: The Master and Margarita. Really happy how this episode turned out. Molly and Melissa both brought their unique perspectives to this fantastic, diabolical satire. Link in the comments. open.spotify.com/episode/33yR...

Episode 44: The Part About the Crimes. Keep forgetting to plug this on here but I'm really happy with how this EP turned out. We talk about true crime and serial killer shows, violence against women in lit, and even get a little 👁️ pilled. Link below

Really happy to revisit this. One of those books that I feel like only gets better and better the more I reread it.

The Summer Season of the Infinite Library starts this Tuesday with an episode on the first two parts of Roberto Bolaño’s “2666”! Join Ben and John for some unconventional beach reads!

Hi Bookheads, John here. Due to an unexpected personal loss, this week’s episode on Melville’s “The Confidence Man” is going to be late. Ben and I are figuring out the schedule for this ep and the rest of this season, and we’ll share more as soon as we’re able. Semper Books!

Got a good feeling we're going to get a lot of mileage out of Watt's Richardson vs Fielding dichotomy; ie The Novel of Interior Psychology vs the Novel Which Says Something About Society

they're good guys!

The fellas from the Infinite Library Podcast operate on a different level from the rest of us. Can't recommend this podcast enough.

Far Away by Vasily Kandinsky, 1930 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137549

Announcing our Spring Semester schedule! We hope you'll join us as we finish out our Michael Chabon readthrough. Also, looking forward to talking Confidence Man. We've got an expert guest lined up for that one.

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this jongleur?" because it implies they're a) a jongleur & b) that don't even have an established repertoire of troubadour songs or distinctive juggling tricks. they can't even do pratfalls!

Any of Vit Babencos Goodreads reviews

*sicko voice* yes YES

Two spiritually related albums

Catching up on some stuff I liked this year but haven't got a chance to relisten. This is cosmic classic drone by Adam Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid.

"According to my calculations we can edit the embryo to make humans 14% more efficie-" shut the fuck up dude read The Brothers Karamazov. Shut up. "B-b-but we can utilize AI to diminish human error by-" read East of Eden.

genesis: *peter gabriel singing* The Queen In Green Gives Me Pretty Things *tasteful hackett guitar solo* yes: *janderson angelic choir* I am Buddha / You Are Buddha / We are Buddha *band suddenly shifts into 15/8 with monstrous bassline*

Enjoyable to see Chabon finally nail his Great American novel after the "shipwrecked" Fountain City. The whole thing is chock full of bravura paragraphs. Also this is perhaps our most riff filled episode to date lol.

I WILL fear the old blood. (expression of stony resolve softening, curious glint in my eyes) Ah what the hell. Pass me a blood vial, Hunter

this is what i look like

November is the month when you end up saying things like "by 630 id like to be sitting down"

Yo yo yo, happy halloween everybody! We recorded a spooky collab podcast on The Ring, both the 1991 book and 1998 movie adaptation. Give it a listen if you like monsters and/or critiques of modernity! open.spotify.com/episode/7iiQ...

when people ask me what the ideal conditions are for writing i usually say "under duress"

the globalists don't want you to know this but if you drink enough coffee it mysteriously transforms into its opposite beverage, putting you to sleep instantly with a single sip

me: "they're trying to cancel @thecumman.gay's ass on LGTBQ bluesky" my coworker: what the fuck are you talking about. you were supposed to reply to that email 3 hours ago

somedays you get some writing done and other days you come to and realize you've just been typing "blah blah blah" into the google document for 15 minutes straight

episode two is out! we covered the first ever Gothic novel Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. sort of like a horny episode of scooby doo! check it out

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq1w... when mccoy tyner plays the main theme vs when he starts playing those signature 4ths 4 minutes in

@slutgoblinking.bsky.social and I have started a book podcast. It's about books, mortality, and what to do with your limited time with both. give it a listen i swear we're good! open.spotify.com/show/3K8XLcP...

being at home prevents me from wheeling and dealing

earth 2, the earthy earth of the earth

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn7f... been jamming to the john martyn now that the leaves are starting to turn

genesis: *peter gabriel singing* The Queen In Green Gives Me Pretty Things *tasteful hackett guitar solo* yes: *janderson angelic choir* I am Buddha / You Are Buddha / We are Buddha *band suddenly shifts into 15/8 with monstrous bassline*

gonna drink some caffeine about it

another day in paradise

bribing clarence thomas so he successfully sways a 5-4 vote in favor of me Being Cool

getting to the end of a dream of red mansions finally after starting it sometime in january I think. incredible book but the last 30 chapters which were written by a different person have this weird uncanny "last season of a show with a different writer" vibes its hard to describe

looking at maurice sendak's "adult" illustrations

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CZF... starting a dance punk band with your friend who is a monkey

got this on in the background while writing. wish ECM rocked out more? wish keith jarrett used more electronics? have i got the album for you

Sunday afternoon spin. The furthest "out" Buckley gets on the trilogy with Happy Sad and Blue Afternoon. the ease with which the band plays in a free and unresolved way always knocks me flat

how it feels to make your first bluesky post