But none of us are in heaven yet.

it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan.

look, when the legendary City Lights asks to record a conversation about close reading, you respond “yes, I’ll hide upstairs in a room in my parents‘ house, put on a clean shirt, and talk a lot with my hands!!!” join @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , Yael Segalovitz, @samantharhill.bsky.social, and me!

I will always repost Bread and Puppet content

It’s been a long while! Empyrean Series nos. 46–50 are announced & available for preorder as of today. Books by Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa are due out in November. Ludwig Tieck & Niu Sengru will be published next spring. asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...

It’s all fun and games until your four-year-old reveals the face of her imaginary friend.

Little poems everywhere, in Wittgenstein, for those with eyes to see

in the mornings you can feel the anxiety machine starting up

Guys, he’s back

Alright, it’s got a cover and a pub date and can be yours for four interest-free payments of $4.75 via Klarna, for some reason! www.mcnallyeditions.com/books/p/elis...

There’s a guy running for city council here on the slogan: “Empathy with restraint.”

Niche request, I know, but I’d be grateful for any info on the best Francophone bookstores, used and new, in Montreal . . . particularly shops with good film sections . . .

Vermont / New Hampshire

Oh man, July’s almost over, better get started on lesson planning so that I’m 100% prepared for my first day of classes at the

New entry at the Ruiz Diaries. ruizdiaries.substack.com This Friday it's Ruiz's birthday. I'm not sure what to do or if I'll be able to do anything for it. Hope you enjoy.

Whoever’s kid did this to my copy of Nicanor Parra was channeling Caspar David Friedrich

Mourning Fanny Howe this afternoon—please go read Night Philosophy, and One Crossed Out, and The Needle’s Eye, and everything, everything.

Just noticed that on the world map above the door to Harvard’s Yenching Library / East Asian Civilizations building, East Asia is basically invisible. What Could This Possibly Mean. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/u...

There’s your problem right there

Mods are asleep, post rare Barthelmes

Found in a stair-hole at the Harvard Natural History Museum: vintage apple juice & camera flash. Surely I’m not the first visitor to have been tall and/or bored enough to shove his whole forearm beneath this particular riser since the early 1970s?

TIL that this book, which I desperately wanted to teach with but thought had not been translated, is coming out in English in October! Profs teaching tech / labor / digital society take note! www.penguin.co.uk/books/465353...

It’s like a regular tape-measure, except that you can only use it to find the length of one very specific thing.

It feels like the Largest Rosary in New England arrives a little bit earlier every year.

The texts get richer as the rot takes hold.

L’Amour par terre has an official runtime of 2 hours 56 minutes, but realistically you’re going to need at least five hours to get through it since you have to go back and rewatch every shot with Jane Birkin like three times.

▸ @cinemaguild.com takes N. American rights to restorations of Luc Moullet’s films and is planning a touring retrospective. deadline.com/2025/03/luc-...

Celebrating @cinemaguild.com 's Luc Moullet news by recalling the time Éric Rohmer explained to him how uncomfortable it is for a dude to run while naked ("because of the balls"). Not wrong!

Teaching The Battle of Chile next week, I’m rewatching it in this Blu-Ray edition, which is based on the 2K restoration released in 2023 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup. terrifying to watch a film about the rise of authoritarianism under current circumstances, so many parallels.

For someone born in San Francisco in 1980, watching any of Agnes Varda’s early-80s California films is a real plunge back into the primeval sensorium. A textile, a plastic toy, a period gait or vernacular hairstyle—it’s like somebody firing madeleines into your mouth at a high rate of speed.

I found this morlock hatch in my back yard—can anyone tell me what it is and whether or not I should be worried

The only abundance I’m trying to hear about https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6_fApwdrok0

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

How I aim to go out

It is very cool to have these essays in a single volume, finally

I’ve got to say, re-reading Kristin Ross is the main thing keeping me sane at the moment.

[Stepping from the jetway with furrowed brow]: Wait a thecond.