The Crimson Bears by Tom La Farge is now open for pre-orders, buy this book (you won't regret it)

I bought a book today at my local book shop — Patti Smith. Bread of Angels

detail of a binding design of repeated crossed leafy branches and dots / file under : things on the desk

read this : “the other legacy of Dick Cheney: fiasco. The wars he wanted did not showcase American power. They put on display American weakness, avarice, futility and manic resource extraction” — Spencer Ackerman on Dick Cheney

happy Hallowe'en !

Lincolnstein by Paul Witcover is an important book, a concise and nimble treatment of the Matter of America, with resonances from works by Mary Shelley and Samuel Clemens Great to know it will be available in USA / I read it in early 2022 endlessbookshelf.net/2022/01/24/l...

The Crimson Bears by Tom La Farge / forthcoming from Tough Poets / this is NEWS ! www.toughpoets.com/la_farge_cri...

there is more than one Austin / photo from last time I was there, September 2024 / keep Austin weird

Peter Straub is one of the few magicians I have ever met: that rare real thing, a writer who starts a tale in a recognizable place and enables the reader to go somewhere unexpected and unsettling. / from A Conversation larger than the Universe (2018) [am at a point in Wreckage where it happens]

‘It’s wonderful, Margot thought, Tilly always tells the truth, but it never means what you think it does.’ / from Wreckage by Peter Straub

am reading Wreckage by Peter Straub, the final, unfinished work by a master endlessbookshelf.net/2025/10/26/r...

today marks 14 years since publication of My Man and Other Critical Fictions by Wendy Walker here’s a link to the introduction to the book : criticalfiction.net/wordpress/?p... / from the archives

no hay banda

Elizabeth Siddal, #TaylorSwift's Ophelia, wrote poems called "too hopelessly sad for publication". We published them. They are sad, but also powerful and visionary. Check them out at your favorite bookstore or ElizabethSiddal.com #hasselblad #photography #portrait #photosky

the Antifa of today is PKD’s Aramchek, a bogus conspiracy as justification for internal crackdown on the ill-defined, ever-multiplying "enemies" of an authoritarian régime (Ferris F. Fremont was a Russian tool like his counterpart in our reality) / Radio Free Albemuth

Aramchek / still thinking about Ferris F. Fremont, populist/fascist president, the FAP (“Friends of the American People”), in Radio Free Albemuth, written by Philip K. Dick in 1976 and published posthumously in 1985

In 2005, I wrote an article called "Inventing Akromiya" about how the government of Uzbekistan made up a group called Akromiya to justify a massacre of civilian protesters. Twenty years later, the US is more like Uzbekistan, and I wrote "Inventing Antifa": sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/inventing-...

RESIST ! on the beach, San Francisco 11 February 2017 / from the archives

the marshmallow is still burning / in the spirit of Ronald Reagan The Magazine of Poetry (1968) / since November 2016 : Donald Trump The Magazine of Poetry (back cover by Molly Crabapple) temporary-culture.com/product/dona...

“various Jorys have from time to time, upon one occasion or another, taken up a temporary residence there. The last was my dear Aunt Elizabeth, during those periods in which she believed herself to be a barouche-landau.” / from Old Hall, New Hall [1956] by Michael Innes. Penguin Books, [1961].

A lovely deep dive into the only s/f story my father Howard Rodman Sr. ever wrote: THE MAN WHO WENT TO THE MOON TWICE. Published in Harlan Ellison’s seminal anthology DANGEROUS VISIONS, where it can be found cheek-by-jowl next to PKD’s FAITH OF OUR FATHERS. Proud of my dad and grateful to Harlan.

John Clute is up to something new and it is ‘miraculously contortuplicated’ encyclopediaofsciencefiction.substack.com/p/i-have-a-c...

New York area folk, please note : Thursday 16 October the Tom La Farge Award 2025 (please re-post)

Face-to-Face with the Chupacabra by Chris Brown aka @christopherbrown.bsky.social / I was there texashighways.com/culture/comi...

on the extreme commute, every day is Infrastructure Day

autumn, a step away from the trail

Hampstead Heath, 07:23

institutionalized ! The Critical Mess by Michael Zinman

Douglas A. Anderson marks the centenary of Leonard Cline’s first novel, God Head wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

faint sounds from the pub, as of revolution or football support

meet the Barmaid _from_ Elfland and a Detective _in_ Elfland / buy yourself a book : The Elfland Prepositions (2025) temporary-culture.com/product/the-...

New York area folk, please note : the Tom La Farge Award 2025 (please re-post)

the Tom La Farge Award 2025 Please join us at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th St., New York City) at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 16 October  to honor Zack Darsee, this year's recipient of the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing. www.thetomlafargeaward.com

who will be the first U.S. soldier to refuse the illegal order ? will it be a general ? or a reservist ?

obscure intimations of subliminal uneasiness — Michael Innes. The Bloody Wood [1966]. Penguin Books, [1968].

Today is Brian O’Nolan’s (aka Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen et al) birthday.

when will the first U.S. soldier refuse the illegal order ? will it be a general ? or a reservist ?

Austin folks: please join us Tuesday night at Alienated Majesty Books for the paperback release of A Natural History of Empty Lots (and a month-long celebration of this amazing bookstore's second birthday): alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/34023...

when will the first U.S. soldier refuse the illegal order ? will it be a general ? or a reservist ?

thoughtful review by Samantha Ellis for the TLS “It feels extraordinary to be reviewing now, in 2025, a new book of ten poems by Charlotte — astounding not only that they have not been published before, but also that they have never been transcribed or photographed” www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

the Trump régime in Washington continues to act against the interests of the people

thoughtful review by Samantha Ellis for the TLS “It feels extraordinary to be reviewing now, in 2025, a new book of ten poems by Charlotte — astounding not only that they have not been published before, but also that they have never been transcribed or photographed” www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

2025 has been a bonzer* year for me in books endlessbookshelf.net/2025/09/29/3...

I signed up for copies of the new collection by @tomtomorrow.bsky.social, maybe you will, too www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

Over at the Endless Bookshelf, some thoughts on 30 years of the Avram Davidson website, and a a few other things endlessbookshelf.net/2025/09/29/3...

on the extreme commute, ever day is Infrastructure Day

Twentieth game of the year, final of the regular season, my 27th in these seats. I’ll probably make it for at least one playoff game, but even so I brought a book and came early today so I could just enjoy being here a while longer. Winter ain’t short. Play ball. Let’s go, Cards.

today in infrastructure “suspended until further notice due to a slow-speed derailment of a non-passenger work train” and all the outward ripples & cancellations

what fifty years of sunlight will do to the books on the shelves and tables and on the floor