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Totally different dug this excellent, hallucinatory novel about Cortes and Moctezuma. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social

We're starting to worry Tennessee Republicans might try and redraw our maps to steal Nashville's seat Oh wait they already did that sorry

Loved her novel The Wall. This short book from 1958, available for the first time in English, punches way above its weight. So damn good. @ndbooks.bsky.social

Balzac! Excellent read from Green Integer.

Coming in at a scant 91 pages…but man…pretty damn cynical. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @thebookshopnash.bsky.social

Sci-fi, fantasy, metaphysical treatise…and according to Octavio Paz…the perfect novel. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

A blurb for Elsa Morante, described her novel as being Sebaldian (even though she was dead before he even published anything). So of course, had to go and read WG Sebald. What a quiet, beautiful devastating novel. @ndbooks.bsky.social

Another great read from @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Great read from @charcopress.com

This book…everything I’ve read from James Welch is a heart punch. What a writer…

Born on this date: Caught Miles on this tour in 1988 in San Francisco…not everyone’s favorite era but I dig it. Back in the day, it was pretty damn exciting to come out of a record store with a new Miles Davis album.

William Tyler…

@democrats.org fuck the DNC…at this point the DNC is basically a collaborator.

Hell of a stark read…

I 💙 ANTIFA #handsoff

Cone of silence…

Morante! Less plot driven than her novels Lies & Sorcery and History: A Novel but just as devastating and beautifully written. Like the blurb on the back says, “touching and bleak.” @openletterbooks.bsky.social

Cumberland River…

Digging these short stories… @ndbooks.bsky.social

This cat led a life. Committed leftist, merchant marine, reporter (went to Biafra) and wrote an article for Esquire that inspired the creation of the Peace Corps. Absolutely knocked out by this collection of short stories. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Man… William Boyle just killing it with this novel. Like the best fiction, turns the specifics of the local into the big heart punches of the bigger world. Picked it up from my fave local indie bookstore, The Book Shop in East Gnashville @wmboyle4.bsky.social

Coming in at a scant 73 pages, it’s a quick breezy read with all the petulance you expect from Dazai… @ndbooks.bsky.social

Another great one from Victor Serge… Based on his experiences fleeing Paris as the Nazis invaded. Eventually making it to Marseille and getting the last boat out…as always, #nazipunksfuckoff @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

Elon musk could never in a million years be cool enough to play bass in a band but if he were in a band he'd definitely be a bass player that rushes

@aoc.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Just a pair of kid’s shoes in a parking lot…

Kind of insane how much absolute fascist fuckery goes down in the Tennessee state legislature. The prototype of the new cruelty.

Wait! A Republican giving a “Roman salute”? So out of character…

And here we are…

Another great read from Cesar Aira and @ndbooks.bsky.social

Just outside Clarksville, TN, someone prepping for the medieval times coming at us soon…

Another great read from @ndbooks.bsky.social

Just recently got hip to the writer Izumi Suzuki and to the harpist Zeena Parkins. Cool to find out that Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori’s project, Phantom Orchard just released an album, Hit Parade of Tears, inspired by Suzuki’s short stories.

2024 book wrap… @ndbooks.bsky.social @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social