Granted, her first husband didn't touch her; his drooping penis, more flaccid than a tender beet, never raised itself to the middle of his tunic, but the father of the son is said to have defiled the couch - Catallus, "Carmen 67" rudy.negenborn.net/catullus/tex...

Today brings Andrew Marzoni’s profile of Richard Hell and I am here for it. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/177...

Matt Wilkens on the end of DH: "The steady state of DH, which I once believed was to be fully subsumed within the humanities, now looks much more likely to involve the diffusion of humanistic knowledge into disciplines...constitutively quantitative and computational" academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

We should all post our favorite episodes. His interview with Sebald(!) was extraordinary on so many counts. www.kcrw.com/shows/bookwo...

I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions. - Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Mask

Radu sniffing the available shadows.

Michael Silverblatt was one of the greatest bibliophiles we had. May his legendary conversations never be forgotten. www.kcrw.com/shows/bookwo...

Let me eat when I'm hungry Let me drink when I'm dry Two dollars when I'm hard up Religion when I die youtu.be/ppiol9oetOk?...

Join us as we celebrate the 2025 US Republic of Consciousness Prize Longlist! Authors, translators, & translators will speak about each of these incredible selections. This party - free & open to the public - will take place on Wed. Feb. 18 at 6pm CT. See you there! 🔗👇

James Wolcott at his best in this review of Updike’s letters— firmly agree that John Cheever’s corpus has withstood the test of time better than Updike’s. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Michael Clune is a balm somehow.

Chicago UP is running a HUGE sale, and you can get extremely well-researched hard-bound books about all sorts of topics and all sorts of places for a price of a cheap paperback press.uchicago.edu/resource/Sal...

ICE Out of Hudson Valley! Monday, Feb 16, 12 noon, 843 Union Ave, New Windsor, NY Show up at ICE's "secret office" with @mhvdsa.bsky.social and let them know the Hudson Valley wants them to get the hell out! actionnetwork.org/events/ice-o...

I did not resist.

The world is a mess. Buy books.

"I summon the loves that, racked and followed by summer's scythe, embalm the evening air with their white inactivity." - Rene Char, "Invitation" (translated by Mary Ann Caws)

In the sky of men, the star's bread seemed to me shadowy and hardened, but in their narrow hands I read the joust of these stars calling others. - Rene Char translated by Mary Ann Caws

valentines, you say? m.youtube.com/watch?v=BMOl...

14 February 2026 Reading Notes Gore Vidal lobbied for FP's «Voices» in the 12 May 1983 edition of the New York Review of Books. "Frederic Prokosch: The European Connection" Collected in Gore Vidal, «United States: Essays 1952-1992», pp. 413-427.

Prokosch’s portraits of heiresses, literari, and avant-garde-ists is as superbly styled as it is brutal. Modernism in its posthumous voice. Playing tennis with Ezra Pound, hanging out with the Mann twins, a who’s who of the 30’s and 40’s.

Leonard Cohen — Valentine's Day 1966

The world is what it is but books continue! Agents + writers: looking for deeply researched and imaginative nonfiction manuscripts about the South, for publication in 2027/28. Literary nonfiction, personal/reportage & cultural criticism are highly welcomed. DMs open for pitches or [email protected].

And students want this.

I am going to sound like a crazy person when I say this but the Endymion crowd at Orleans and Carrollton where me and the kids are has been… really nice and polite and stuff?

“Because of Piaf's louche life - the lovers, the booze, the drugs - the archbishop of Paris forbade her a mass…” - Stuart Jeffries “Rien de rien. Je ne regrette rien.” - Edith Piaf www.theguardian.com/music/2003/n...

The Berlinale doesn’t need a Wenders right now— it needs a Fassbinder. We all need a reminder of why art shouldn’t just be “entertainment” or “content” but instead must offer radical contestations of the given. Our world is unsustainable. Platitudes are useless.

As if issuing platitudes isn’t a form of politicking on this planet where “the judgement of history” underwrites our art and communities. . . www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I love Bill’s poems.

Free Granta Therapy - I'll bite! @grantamag.bsky.social A few days left...well it would be rude not to jump onto the couch / chair / cushions / sacred circle etc

I have no idea when I said “bad kitties” (hint: I didn’t) but it’s wild to realize that Bluesky takes animal metaphors personally. I love cats and dogs and goats and donkeys. Please don’t harness me into yr anti-poetic pet wars. I hate college football!!

happy Valentine’s Day from Jamie MacInnis 💘

I’d mix it up a bit. Cats are the gorgeous stoners who maintain a firm suspicion of the world and cuddle selectively. Dogs are the restless, tamed man-eaters who eat absolutely anything including books. One howls at the moon; the other admires it.

I should like to take the time to admire the use of imitative form in 'as bad as being at sea in a calm' and 'cumbrous cargo of words.' But alas! It is you, Reader, I would wear out. - William Gass in a footnote, reminding me why I adore him

Here for the red vibology

a beautifully written and powerful piece from University of Minnesota Law professor Emmanuel Mauleón on the stakes of how the legal profession responds in this moment. lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...

🖤 youtu.be/46Wu4o_NkJY?...

I used to think cats were sexy because I read a lot of Colette and wanted to be a slinky but then I realized cats are complete in themselves— they lack an appetite. Cats are lackless. Dogs can never get enough: their lack is loud. Now I think bumbling lackadaisically like a dog is the sexy part.

Missing my boi on these travels 🥹

My relationship with my dog is so much more exciting than the one I had with my cats— and this is because Radu resembles me in that he lacks a purr, lacks a capacity to sit smugly in personal oblivion, lacks an eazy-peazy release valve for restlessness & pleasure.

When the man tries to “contextualize“ Spinoza for me and I am distracted by the subtext of his cheese-professing socks

on the curtain on braids

When your beloved frenemy, Debussy, orchestrates your work rather beautifully . . . youtu.be/aamD4SyNKd0?...

My personal favorite: “Ocean Park #17, 1968: Homage to Diebenkorn” www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I love how close we are to building LLM agents that carry and reproduce the exact same memetic grievances as does Scott Alexander and Curtis Yarvin lol

If justice was a concern, then Donald Trump and Steve Bannon and Larry Summers and all the Netanyahu-supporters in Congress would be on trial. Justice in the US is a lie and a racket. #freeleqaakordia

I agree that every religious group has supremacists. I disagree that "state power" is the thing that makes ethnoo-religious extremism worth discussing or not. The potential for real world violence is what I'd use as a barometer of relevance. Both scale and severity.

I can no longer bear the aggressiveness of poetry, and I do not wish my deeds to be investigated. I would like to be an opened knife: the inscrutable. - Szilárd Borbély translated by Ottilie Mulzet www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2026/2/...

Me today, missing the fragment that would allow me to pull back the bow and create the tension needed to launch the arrow.