I can't believe J.D. Vance went on TV and said "Ich bin Evil! Ich bin Evil!!! Ich bin der Evil kleine Chocolate Boy!!" with chocolate smeared all over his mouth and lederhosen. But he did. And we all saw it

Friday covers

lmao

Best Books of 1976? biblioklept.org/2026/01/01/b...

Stickman -- George Grosz biblioklept.org/2026/01/08/s...

Mantra biblioklept.org/2026/01/08/m...

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

Bite Your Tongue -- Leon Golub biblioklept.org/2026/01/07/b...

We Can Disappear You -- Leon Golub biblioklept.org/2026/01/07/w...

here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings

I would love to steal an unattended pie cooling on an open window sill.

RIP Béla Tarr biblioklept.org/2026/01/06/r...

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026 🤍

Mass-market Monday | Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada biblioklept.org/2026/01/05/m...

At my blog, a brief statement on the past & the future of the Empyrean Series, which will turn 5 years old this April jsief.com/2026/01/05/s...

Sunday Comix biblioklept.org/2026/01/04/s...

#SundayReads: Joshua Blu Buhs on Charles Fort and his unique explorations into unexplained phenomena... https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/charles-fort-and-the-book-of-the-damned #longreads

James Grauerholz, the overseer of the William Burroughs estate, is dead. Oliver Harris, one of the leading scholars of the novelist's world, pays tribute to the man and his achievement for Rock and the Beat Generation… simonwarner.substack.com/p/obituary-8...

Read "Orpheus the Dentist," a very short story by Alberto Savinio biblioklept.org/2026/01/03/r...

Existence does not reify a take

Best thing I found while working on this post was John Updike shitposting in the New York Times about the best books he read in 1976:

Best Books of 1976? biblioklept.org/2026/01/01/b...

A few sentences on every book I read or reread in 2025 biblioklept.org/2025/12/31/a...

A few sentences on every book I read or reread in 2025 biblioklept.org/2025/12/31/a...

RIP

Joy Williams' The Pelican Child (Book acquired, 27 Dec. 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/12/30/j...

Read a December 1985 interview with Minutemen biblioklept.org/2025/12/29/r...

"A Wish for Unconsciousness" -- Thomas Hardy biblioklept.org/2025/12/28/a...

Sunday Comix biblioklept.org/2025/12/28/s...

Peasants Washday -- Justin John Greene biblioklept.org/2025/12/27/p...

Six years ago on this date, the pioneering champion of cutting-edge fiction, Richard Kostelanetz, let me reprint his 1988 survey of 13 neglected classics of experimental American fiction, most of which are still out of print decades later. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Finished up Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket (thought it was great) and found @biblioklept.bsky.social chapter/section write-ups added to the experience — links to historical events/people, tying themes together and so forth biblioklept.org/2025/10/09/g...

The Adoration of the Shepherds -- James Ensor biblioklept.org/2025/12/25/t...

Totally normal thing to comment on Xmas Day 2025 on a blog post from 18 years ago.

Read "Christmas Eve," a supernatural tale by Nikolai Gogol biblioklept.org/2025/12/24/r...

Recorded this thing 25 years ago with my best friends. RIP Nick. americasfinestgoodtimeschristmasband.bandcamp.com/album/americ...

A partial glossary for Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow biblioklept.org/2025/12/22/a...

Plate from 10 Origin http://www.moma.org/collection/works/19641

Any recs for an Eng. translation of Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo? The Buss one seems to be the internet consensus...

"...plays out the Abraham/Isaac story in a Ferngully screensaver."

Sunday Comix biblioklept.org/2025/12/21/s...

this one small brain think thoughts

Read "Markheim," a dark Christmas tale by Robert Louis Stevenson biblioklept.org/2025/12/20/r...

Friday covers.

Glen Baxter

With my finishing of COUNT ROBERT, I’ve now completed my two-decade long project of reading all the “Waverly Novels.” My stalwart companion throughout has been the 1878 George Routledge edition of Scott’s novels, sourced for $150 from the sadly long-gone Beirmaier’s Books in Minneapolis.

Let me tell you about the nap biblioklept.org/2025/12/18/l...