Today is the release of my first book 'The Veldt Institute'! Check out one of these bookstores: double--negative.com/stockists.html Or buy direct from Asterism: asterismbooks.com/product/the-...

over at Global Bernhard a project to 'systematically map and contextualize international responses to the work of Thomas Bernhard' #UniversityofVienna #Bernhard globalbernhard.univie.ac.at/en/authors/g...

Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.

Always worth reading Josipovici's thoughts. I wish he'd get more recognition.

✅ Yes, Snopes is unionizing. Fact-checkers deserve transparency too!

You need space to read the world. Readability depends on distance. (Edmond Jabès)

'that which is called literature that exists within the bulwark of culture needs to die so that the cockroaches and rats of the world can come out and create something interesting' @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @mwtempleton.bsky.social www.bloodhoneylit.com/wander-lines...

Keep this energy, kid

My review of Matthew Kinlin's novel So Tender a Killer: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Thousands of librarians from throughout history are now rolling in their graves. 🤮

Peabody Library

States like Indiana, Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and more drew even bigger crowds than on 4/5. We’re in awe of you, America. You know you did something right when even Fox News is covering it. Wow!! We love you!

This is how Baltimore fights to protect democracy!

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

Several thousand Hungarians mocked right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s moves to ban the annual Pride march by #LGBTQ+ groups, dressing in grey and carrying banners that ironically denounced colors and diversity at a rally in Budapest reut.rs/4lts0Kc

this one's now available as a .pdf here ansgarallen.com/the-sick-list/ [get it while you can]

I suppose the “I” gave it away!

For all the "It doesn't matter" people, I can confirm that in response to the court order, all 10 of the DOGE people at SSA were completely removed from the system. Someone was just dying to wipe their profiles, and they did it immediately.

Spokane people! Yeah to Spokane!

GOP representative: “I support Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.” Town hall crowd: “BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!” Let’s keep making Republicans own their complicity in President Musk’s hostile takeover. Take action near you during this congressional recess: indivisible.org/muskorus

Netanyahu has not allowed any food, water, or fuel into Gaza in two weeks. Now he has resumed bombing, killing hundreds of people and breaking the ceasefire that had given Gaza a chance to live again. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...

AOC should announce a primary against Schumer tonight.

Early stories from Bernhard due later this year, translated by @shirtysleeves.bsky.social Really could do with Manfred Mittermayer's biography too.

King Charles who loves killing foxes, birds, and badgers has been made Patron of the RSPCA. King Charles used his power to block a ban on Fox Hunting and to make sure it is the joke ban we currently have. RT if the RSPCA should remove him.

When I stopped enjoying novels and sought to understand why. this-space.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-me...

Per the The Atlantic, The Maimed by Hermann Ungar is an "older book that deserves to be popular today," noting that: "The tense, terse novel follows a hapless bank clerk, Franz Polzer, as he finds himself drawn into a sadomasochistic affair with his landlady." www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/02/18/a... with gratitude to @sd-stewart.bsky.social

Erratum author Michael Templeton drops another unflinching assessment of the times we live in.

'Who is to say that an orderly mind is more fertile than, and thus superior to, a feral one?' @sd-stewart.bsky.social heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/01/28/t...

My erasure texts made from Mary Shelley's apocalyptic novel The Last Man are up at Genrepunk. Visit my site for the link and to listen to the audio: sd-stewart.com/2025/01/22/e...

Ansgar Allen reviews Louis Armand's ANIZAR www.erratumpress.com/a-real-estat... @louisarmand.bsky.social

The excruciating effort of seeking precision in language while writing of nothing because there is nothing of which to write.

Haunted by the glacial reflection a vain Shadow of that double more yourself than yourself A simulacrum of lying light denied Lost in the waves of darkness in the dark waters of death —Roger Gilbert-Lecomte (from 'Eternity in the Blink of an Eye'; tr. David Ball #rogergilbertlecomte

Why these eyes without reading, but always ready to read? This mad will to be healed by the word when all sentences are only hiccups, shivers, sorry tics of the void? —Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions, Vol. II #edmondjabes

River with an indestructible heart in this mad prison-world, Keep us violent and friends to the bees on the horizon. —René Char (from 'The Sorgue'; tr. Mark Rudman) #renechar

Have been waiting for this review to be available for months! It’s a dream to be read so closely by one of the best reviewers out there

Words burnished in the black sun of silence. —Alejandra Pizarnik (from 'Paths of the Mirror'; tr. Yvette Siegert) #alejandrapizarnik

In the evening, when the bells ring peace, I follow the wonderful flights of birds That in long rows, like devout processions of pilgrims, Disappear into the clear autumn vastness. —Georg Trakl (from 'Autumn'; tr. Jim Doss/Werner Schmitt)

TO STAND in the shadow of the scar up in the air. To stand-for-no-one-and-nothing. Unrecognized, for you alone. With all there is room for in that, even without language. —Paul Celan (tr. Michael Hamburger) #paulcelan