Mérida, Yucatán, 2025 #merida #yucatan #mexico #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #dayofthedead #diademuertos #hanalpixan #anima #snapshot #nikon

Halloween read: The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher #booksky

Mérida, Yucatán, 2025 #merida #yucatan #mexico #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #longlens #dayofthedead #diademuertos #PixanPeek #anima #vaqueria #snapshot #nikon

Mérida, Yucatán, 2025 #merida #yucatan #mexico #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #longlens #dayofthedead #diademuertos #PixanPeek #anima #vaqueria #snapshot #nikon

Busan, 2025 #busan #부산 #korea #streetphotography #snapshot #photography #nikon #cyberpunk

I was saddened to hear today of the death of the writer Maxine Clair. Her novel in stories “Rattlebone” is one that deserves to be brought out of the shadows and into the spotlight . thesewaneereview.com/articles/man...

Contributor copies arrived in Busan today ~ how nice to hold it. I don't publish stories often, but when I do they somehow go into excellent journals like @theamscho.bsky.social

The Miles Davis soundtrack to this movie is so great. The granddaddy of noir jazz.

relevant The Clash - English Civil War #musicsky

I'm going to be at the Gwangalli Beach Book Festival. Book club friends and I will be selling used books and handing out coupons and stuff from local cafes and eateries we enjoy. If you're in Busan 09/18-09/23 stop by the beach and buy some books!

relevant #tomwaits #musicsky

Hey look I have a story in the new issue of The American Scholar @theamscho.bsky.social This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.

Hey look I have a story in the new issue of The American Scholar @theamscho.bsky.social This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.

Here are ten.

Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie.

Laura Itandehui - Si Me Ven Alegre Album of the summer. Of my summer anyway. Album of coming home from the beach & making dinner with a pastel Busan sunset outside the window

"Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk." ~ Jane Kenyon

As someone from the USA I always have a hard time celebrating Korean Liberation Day (Aug 15th), because I know what happened. The Koreans had spent 35 years trying to get free, and they immediately began putting into action the plans they'd made. Was it perfect? No, of course not. But then the

The editors of The Shanghai Literary Review, a distinguished print & digital magazine founded in 2016, have made an alarming announcement, stating: "We’re writing today with an important and difficult update." Why the delay? What happened? 👉 Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...

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RESIDENCY ALERT! Apply for Bucheon's Residency Program in 2025! Open to writers, poets, translators, graphic novelists who have at least one published work and are from a City of Literature. Applications close on 31 August 2025. - lnkd.in/gBupJm9G

In a letter from William Maxwell to Mavis Gallant: “I hope that you are not foolish enough to be discouraged at this point. Your command of humorous detail is getting stronger & sharper, and so is your sense of character […] I have very serious hopes for you.” #NYRBWomen25 lithub.com/chasing-myst...

Tried using Chatgpt 5 to look up 1918 rail routes. It's still useless. Still confidently reports made-up nonsense. Still sneakily gives links to unrelated websites, or sites that give facts flatly contradicting chatgpt. It'll send you on wild goose chases. Credulous users are a danger to us all.

I keep seeing suggestions that Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CLOUD is some kind of action masterpiece. Truth is, by suspense movie standards it's mediocre. By Kurosawa's standards it's minor & entirely forgettable.

Wisława Szymborska, "In Praise of Feeling Bad About Yourself" #poetry

It's still summer, right? I've just gotten my beach reads lined up. #charlesportis #mavisgallant #readmoremavis #booksky

Mérida, Yucatán, 2024 #merida #yucatan #mexico #streetfood #streetphotography #snapshot #nikon

Yeah, Simon Joyner isn't for everyone. But I feel bad for those he isn't for. "Everything rhymes; just choose your word, boy, and then bend it like a spoon."

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings have been my faves for so many years. No one else comes close. Something indescribable happens when they sing together. It just lifts me.

Man I love this hooky new Say Sue Me tune. I got to hear it live a couple months ago — the day Yoon Suk-yeol's impeachment was upheld in the constitutional court. What a joy.

Busan, 2025 #busan #부산 #korea #streetphotography #snapshot #photography #nikon

Korean soul/r&b 신중현과 뮤직파워: 저무는 바닷가 (Shin Jung-hyeon & Musicpower: "The Darkening Beach") #BusanSummerNights

Korean soul/r&b 신중현과 뮤직파워: 저무는 바닷가 (Shin Jung-hyeon & Musicpower: "The Darkening Beach") #BusanSummerNights

Did the kids already forget about Sinners? It was an ok movie, but it made me happy to imagine all the gen z kids watching a bunch of bottleneck guitar explainers on tiktok. I hope they did. I hope they're all listening to country blues now.

𝐈 𝐈𝐧𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐌𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐔𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐨𝐝𝐬, my comic novel, is loose in the world. #booksky #litfic "Brilliantly creative and utterly hilarious, Richard Martin’s I Inherited a Mixed Animal from Uncle Living in Woods is a masterpiece." --Steven Mayfield, author of Penny Mansions

Lot of details in here if you’re interested in the US response to the Gwangju Democracy Movement 45 years ago english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

KIRKUS VERDICT: GET IT. #BookSky www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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Been refamiliarizing myself w/ Joseph Campbell, & one thing that leaps out is how neatly Twin Peaks—including (especially) The Return—maps to the hero’s journey. I know @markfrost.bsky.social is a novelist w/ special interest in world mythologies; speculating I’m seeing his hand here.

You were born to be made a fool of.

The woman in the video's been identified as Ahn Gwi-ryeong, a journalist turned Democratic Party politician. A translation/explanation/reaction over on Twitter by 마이 럽 내 사랑 @goyangiprince: "부끄럽지 않이야?? aren't you ashamed???" she yells while literally grabbing his gun holy shit. Holy shit indeed!

Yes I will absolutely preorder your compilation of Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia.

If you trust neither in yourself nor in others, you will rejoice when things go well, but bear no resentment when they go badly. You will then have room on either side to expand, and not be constrained. (Tsurezuregusa)

One nice thing about deciding (after nine years!) to settle in Korea, instead of half-planning eventually to live elsewhere, is that it finally makes sense again to own real books -- including these out-of-print gems by Mavis Gallant. #booksky #readmoremavis

Best taco in Korea? I haven't tried them all, but so far yeah—by a landslide. Tapas Tokki in #Busan.

If you like grit lit, this may be for you! Thank you to everyone who's backchanneled me with compliments. If you get a chance to review it on Amazon or Goodreads, I'd be forever grateful. a.co/d/buAzgGt