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This guy is rad! He went to my high school!

fuck this shit

Had a great discussion about horror on the Lit Hub podcast this morning, but forgot to add this one-liner that just came to me: horror is just dystopian fiction with a sense of humor, right? Or perhaps I should have gone with, "The world ends not with a bang, but with a slasher..."

Everyone needs to look up Goya's dog painting...why is this the saddest painting I have ever looked at

Although I imagine there are many pleasant aspects to the self-driving cab experience, I will never stop taking cabs with human drivers because sometimes they say things like "this body is just a uniform" and "demonic forces are the only thing preventing immortality"

I have a growing list of books set in communes and cooperative housing where I plan to rank them based on the length of their house meetings and I just want y'all to know that

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

had to post this on our Instagram earlier tonight after a bunch of people freaked out about our chalkboard sign so thought we would share here too 😘

As far as I can tell, the Big Balls thing isn't the burning of the Reichstag, it's Horst Wessel, which means we will probably all have to suffer through a song about it

Olivia Laing's new book is about the filming of Salo and the days leading up to Pasolini's murder and it's so fucking good - and essential reading for those who wonder how we'll capture our current fascist era and the shame therein with future artistry. Will there be giant plaster penises?

Every time I see a suspense novel set on a train I'm tempted to do one of those bad faith twitter style takes on it and go off on how anyone who GETS TO TAKE TRAINS shouldn't be complaining about anything.

Really pleased that I now have an excuse for why I never delete emails. It's for the environment!

‘A few prisoners were trying to leave. One of the guards raised his rifle. A senior officer stopped him. “I know them,” he said. “They’re from the financial crimes ward. Shoot only if you see political prisoners.”’ Amir Ahmadi Arian on Israel’s bombing of Evin Prison: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Oh my god, we're re-inventing Weizenbaum and the ELIZA Effect from first principles! Quote below is from "Computer Power and Human Reason, From Judgement To Calculation" (1976)

"There really was no such thing as happiness or unhappiness. Maybe there was only intensity-and then everything else.” - Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers

Fellow Travelers is making me want to do a lot of listicles...and try to describe The Quiet American as a novel of queer obsession and moral compromise, perhaps? Or maybe King Rat?

In America fashion is cyclical, & so is the popularity of child labor. As they deport migrant workers, the right will slowly integrate children into the low paid jobs once held by immigrants. Paying workers more is never a viable option for the class conscious business community.

The new Ian McGuire is so fucking good. And the Hudson Bay Company was so fucking evil.

I remember this flood really well, but it's for an idiotic reason: at summer camp it rained so much we started to have mud fights, then horse shit fights, and finally, escalated to throwing ant hills and mud-covered rocks at each other...

Reading this now and it's fucking EXQUISITE. Weird, feral, decadent, gorgeously horrific. Whatever you're expecting, you're wrong: it's SO MUCH BETTER than that! (And worse, in the best possible way.) I will RIOT if this doesn't make Ennes a household name!

NEW EPISODE Stephen Graham Jones (@sgj.bsky.social) returns to the show to talk about his new double-novel release from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social, and to take a deep dive into Gene Wolfe's eerie, fascinating "A Fish Story!" Also, Mothman disrupts our communications! LISTEN NOW:

I went to summer camp ten miles from Camp Mystic. Kerrville was the nearest town. This shit is fucked up.

Shoutout to my old housing coop, where I was once officially banned from ever ordering pizza with anchovies ever again. In the official rulebook. There was a meeting item, a discussion, and a vote. About anchovies.

I'm currently obsessed with the Hollywood musical stylings of Virginia O'Brien, who translated uncontrollable stage fright into a career where her deadpan delivery and frozen expressions on screen earned her the title of "ice queen"... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVtq...

ANYONE WANT TO MEET A FEARLESS RIGHTEOUS ANTI-FASCIST OPENLY QUEER (WHEN IT WAS ILLEGAL) CARTOONIST WHOSE GREATEST CREATION IS A FAMILY OF REFUGEES? I know you need this moment of joy. Tove Jansson and the Moomins rock. And they’ve reached American shores. Trust me, you’ll smile at this one. Xoxo

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,

Gothic sagas, crazed splattergore, hellish journeys, and so many antichrists... @mollsotov.bsky.social rounds up the best horror novels out this summer and fall! crimereads.com/25-new-and-u...

To quote the flies and worms from Andrew Joseph White's new book, "I looooovvvveeee yyyyoooooouuuuu"

"chick lit did not provide solutions for this feminist impasse even as it lampooned it, just as Jane Austen was not engaged in dismantling the British class system." - If only.... lithub.com/how-sex-and-...

I had the most absurdly academic dream last night where I was attempting heroically to get an entire research library of books off of the top floor of a decaying building before an earthquake hit and destroyed the remainder

One hundred percent. Developing chronic foot pain has really brought home the fact that every person living without disability is only temporary abled.

You should all be grateful that I decided to leave the question of necrophilia out...

The Washington Post, which silenced its Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist and reduced its opinion pages to a defense of “free markets and democracy” alone, would like to lecture other people on the importance of a free and full exchange of all ideas.

New from me for @lapublicpress.bsky.social - Thousands of projectiles littering LA’s streets represent a massive taxpayer expense as at least eight law enforcement agencies deployed an arsenal of crowd control weapons during weekend ICE protests. lapublicpress.org/2025/06/poli...

A reminder to our WGA West friends that if you feel you've been handed anything created by generative AI, been asked to use it, even have a WHIFF of it, the Guild and AI Committee want to hear from you! There's a form! www.wga.org/contracts/kn...

A waymo blocked me into a parking spot for 15 minutes the other day and I fully support their ongoing destruction

Regular liberal people must come to understand that there is no way you can appease Nazis and especially that there is no way that you can shrink yourself so they won't hurt you. Their main goal is to hurt you.

This is just...medieval warfare now, right? They might as well start foraging the countryside like locusts while they're at it

Radical graffiti seen in Chicago

There should be a version of the Odyssey where Penelope is just taking 10 years to revise her dissertation.

"Everyone deserves to be able to take six months off to have a baby. Everyone. The fact that Sydney Sweeney cannot is a reminder that the reason American workers do not have paid family leave is also the reason each generation has more nepotism babies than the last."

If you are an attorney, sign up for the RECAP extension to jailbreak any PACER documents you view. And use that power to make sure these very public cases are public records. free.law/recap

Looking for house-focused horror novels about RENTERS. Who's got an evil landlord book they want to see me praise? So far the only one I've got is Nat Cassidy's NESTLINGS

Celebrating memorial day by reading books about failed American military efforts and humming Phil Ochs' "Cops of the World"

Themes include: silver mines, women committing murder in cooperation, legal thrillers, and demonic possession

Should I yell at the guy next to me at a bookstore cafe interviewing loudly for a job in AI? Can I at least him give him a passive aggressive note?

Me last night: "Anti-Vaxxers are a sign of individualism gone amok!" My friend: "Your entire life is a sign of individualism gone amok" Me: "True..."

Apparently when a tenant and a property management company have a months long argument about whose job it is to change the air conditioning filter, the ac breaks out of spite....