Who voted for MANSFIELD PARK?? Sickos!

NO GRAVITY'S RAINBOW

List is grand, the individual choices much more interesting. Whole thing feels engineered to generate "Why isn't X author on this list?" type responses www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

jesus christ, you think you're a socialist?

why am I getting ads with Ben Lerner in them

Keir is BRAT

"It’s true that these have been bad times recently and I keep going because poetry is the truth of life and it is a duty for us to keep the window open".

"It’s true that these have been bad times recently and I keep going because poetry is the truth of life and it is a duty for us to keep the window open".

My novel is coming out in paperback soon with this handsome new cover! If you've been thinking of picking up a copy, please do me a solid and consider putting in a preorder for £10.44, which I understand is roughly the price of a pint in London. Thank you! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/poor...

If nothing else, Ted Turner was part of the inspiration for "Daniel Clamp", the cable network owner in Gremlins 2

Highlights of The Odyssey trailer:

It's May the 4th! So you know what that means movie fans: Time to rewatch Salò

You're absolutely correct to say that the old world is dying! -Would you like me to suggest some ways that we can mitigate monsters?

Topics that should be banned from "braided essays": -Walser's final photo in the snow -Anything to do with Yves Klein Blue -ANYTHING to do with Wittgenstein

Which way western man?

This is what every Dimes Square novel sounds like to me

Hi to all my new followers ☺️ 👋 A few things about me: - I'm a full time cat dad 🐈 - I'm a landlord 🏠 - Now that enough time has passed since the court settlement, I can also reveal that I'm the reason why Silica Gel sachets say 'Do Not Eat' 😄

"I heard that Prynne was of the opinion that the only two countries with well-formed poetic traditions were England and China, though China’s was far better established, and that Prynne considered American poetry to be rudimentary and infantile in comparison". www.nplusonemag.com/issue-11/ess...

J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:

If there's one poet English journalists love to quote, it's Philip Larkin

"Had she seen “Hamnet”? “I cannot imagine anything more ignominious than watching ‘Hamnet,’” Ms. Riley said". www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/s...

Bluesky quickly becoming the perfect social media platform: no notifications, no feed, no users

> Welcome to the Internet! > Would you like to read 1,000 think pieces about the band Geese? (y/n)

I'm very pleased to see that Rosalind Belben's novel Is Beauty Good (there is no question mark) from 1989 is being reissued in July by @andotherstories.bsky.social www.andotherstories.org/is-beauty-go...

yeah I'm monitoring the situation alright

Easter Snow performed by Seamus Ennis, for the day that's in it. youtu.be/KjCr0AK_GLI?...

this is what killed Alexander Kluge

current reads

knew two lads who went to see Sunn O))) play live. one lad got a nosebleed at the gig and the other fell off his bike on the way home.

Daniele Del Giudice's 1st novel (1983) has finally been translated into English. It's about a writer who decided to stop writing. Italo Calvino said this book was "a new approach to representation." From New Vessel Press. sebald.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/a...

not today satan

not today satan

actually yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life, you missed it

Incredible mix of Ghanaian and Nigerian highlife and makossa tunes. Instant mood lifter: www.nts.live/shows/breakf...

Interviewed Andrew Drummond about his @versobooks.bsky.social on Thomas Müntzer the Reformation (proto) revolutionary. Good book, get the book open.spotify.com/episode/5jp2...

Strait of Hormuz where is the Strait of Hormuz how long until Strait of Hormuz is open again can I dig my own Strait what to do if ingested silica gel sachet

‘After more than one sold-out screening of 𝘑𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘯 last year I overheard departing cinemagoers complaining that they would never get back those three hours, but Chantal Akerman would not have been offended by this.’ Daniella @Shreir.bsky.social on the director. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Reactivating just to say that I finally watched Sentimental Value and hated it. Flat-pack arthouse cinema. Bourgeois Mubi-slop. The Departed level of hackneyed symbolism. More like Sentimental Dogshit.

Good god

And Ireland is still happy for US Military aircrafts to use Shannon Airport. Absolutely pathetic vassal, seoinín state

Adam Phillips:

Huge news

Huge news

Time jestermaxxes us all

Data servers working overtime to generate AI Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor memes for WhatsApp. We're never hitting those climate goals.

Frederick Wiseman was born on Jan 1st, 1930. DH Lawrence and Arthur Conan Doyle were still alive at that point. Wyatt Earp had been dead less than a year.

wim wenders: p-p-politics? but i'm just a smol bean director 🥺👉👈 Spike Lee: