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:

Wim Wenders once again proving that Robby Müller's work is the best thing about his films

HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT now streaming for free on Le Cinéma Club 👇 www.lecinemaclub.com/now-showing/...

We're open to submissions next Friday (13th February) for gorse 15: Eureka!/EYPHKA! Full details on the website: gorse.ie/gorse-15-eur...

this was a great read

"Imbolc might affect these hours"

LET'S RUIN A MOVIE TITLE! 😂🎥 Replace ONE word in a movie title with "Sátántangó." I’ll go first: •Sátántangó

good chance we're going to hear Trump talk about Koyaanisqatsi in the coming days

On the fifteenth anniversary of his death, I wrote about one of my favourite poets, R.F. Langley, who I was lucky enough to know for ten years someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/we-speak-f...

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?

how it feels to finish reading two books in two weeks

Falling asleep last night I had the thought "when you die, your secret Tomatometer Score will be revealed to you". What could it mean?

I forgot to write anything this year. Maybe next year

Toy Story casting session: -So who do kids love? -Outspoken socialist Wallace Shawn, obviously. And convicted cocaine trafficker, Tim Allen. -And for the soundtrack? -Okay are you familiar with the song 'Rednecks'?

Don't feel bad if you didn't reach your reading goals for the year. There's only around 7 or 8 good books anyway.

The Muppets Seize Berlin

Christmas books

You've heard of Barbie-heimer... now get ready for Avatar-ty Supreme

one day we will figure out if Stoner is a good book or not. We just have to keep posting about it

real reason we haven't heard from Biden lately? he's got that Na'vi surgery. he's 7 foot tall and blue as hell now

Yawn

my proudest moment as a bookseller was when someone rang the shop to ask about a photography book Caller: I can't remember the title. It had a blue cover Me, taking a wild guess: was it Martin Parr's LUXURY? Caller, after a long pause: yes. yes it was

we're placing microbets on your inevitable downfall bro. we're financializing every facet of your personality. we're making your fall from grace a tradable asset.

If you're at a loss for something to watch this weekend, Talking Pictures TV has an enchanting Saturday night lineup: Godard's À BOUT DE SOUFFLE, followed by DETOUR (1945) then finally, a classic episode of EUROTRASH.

Celebrating International Mens Day #men

still enjoying The Chair Company but the needle drops are way too jarring

YES

Watching the Chair Company and I think Tim Robinson could actually do a decent adaptation of Ishiguro's THE UNCONSOLED.

Luc Moullet on cinephilia as the preserve of the man-child