Cormac McCarthy - No Country for Old Men. Anton Chigurh is one of the great all time villains. Hard not to picture Javier Bardem's performance while reading this. #booksky

Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun. Icelandic post rock. #nowspinning #musicsky

Kaveh Akbar - Martyr! An Iranian American poet searches for meaning in death after his mother's passenger plane is shot down by the US millitary. #booksky

Shellac - Dude Incredible. #nowspinning #musicsky

Jeff VanderMeer - The Southern Reach Trilogy. A team of researchers explores Area X, a vast quarentine zone that alters everything it touches. Like Thoreau on LSD, recommended if you like the video game Control. #booksky

Carlton Melton - Turn to Earth. Psychadelic Rock. #nowspinning #musicsky

Larry McMurtry - Dead Man's Walk. Part one of the Lonesome Dove series. An epic western that I look forward to continuing! #booksky

Cut Worms - Nobody Lives Here Anymore. New York indie folk. #musicsky #nowspinning

Water - John Boyne. A woman travels to an isolated island to escape Dublin and her past in this Irish novella. #booksky

Deafheaven - Sunbather. Black metal/shoegaze from California. #musicsky #nowspinning

The Overstory - Richard Powers. Explores the fraught relationship between humanity and the rest of the natural world, specifically trees. Environmental fiction that hits home as someone living in the heavily forested Pacific Northwest. #booksky

Nick Drake - Pink Moon. British folk. #nowspinning #musicsky

Andy Borowitz - Profiles in Ignorance. Author of the satirical column The Borowitz Report takes aim at the state of US politics. #booksky

Surround - Hiroshi Yoshimura. Ambient from Japan. #nowspinning #musicsky

Christopher Buehlman - The Daughter's War. Follow up to The Blacktongue Thief but stands alone as its own story. I really like his writing style. Complex characters and great world building with a terrifying enemy. #booksky

MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks. Indie rock from North Carolina. #nowspinning #musicsky

An Immense World - Ed Young. Explores the "umwelt" of animals, or how they experience the world. Eye opening how important it is to let dogs follow their nose or how much noise pollution affects bird populations. #booksky

Wand - Plum. Psychadelic rock from L.A. #nowspinning #musicsky

The Storm is Upon Us - Mike Rothschild. Untangles the origins and impacts of the QAnon conspiracy. #booksky

Dungen - 4. Swedish psychadelic rock ✌️. #musicsky #nowspinning

The Great Dissenter - Peter S. Canellos. Biography of Supreme Court Justice John Harlan, who was a strong advocate for racial equality under the law during reconstruction. Details how his relationship with his half brother and civil rights activist Robert Harlan informed later opinions. #booksky

Whitney - Small Talk. Indie rock from Chicago. 🎶 #nowspinning #musicsky

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood. After binge watching the Haindmaid's Tale I wanted to check out some of her other novels. This is similarly dark and dystopian but set in a world run by large genetic engineering corporations. Recommended if you are a fan of her work. #booksky

Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid. Ambient from Austin Texas. #musicsky #nowspinning

Chip War - Chris Miller. Details the global supply chain that produces microchips and chokepoints that lead to geopolitical conflict. Explains why Taiwan has been in the center of US & China tensions for its critical role in semiconductor production. #booksky

Flickering Resonance - Pelican. Post metal from Chicago. #nowspinning #musicsky

Diaspora - Greg Egan. Hard science fiction. Heavy on theoretical and abstract scientific concepts that can make it difficult to access. A very interesting and thought provoking depiction of what digital consciousness could look like. #booksky

William Tyler - Modern Country. Instrumental folk from Nashville. #nowspinning #musicsky

Surviving the 21st Century - Noam Chomsky & José Mujica. Conversations on climate change, capitalism, political corruption, and paths forward. #booksky

Slint - Spiderland. Seminal post rock from Louisville, KY. #nowspinning #musicsky

Earth Abides - George R. Stewart. One of the pioneers of post apocalyptic fiction. How do you rebuild society when almost everyone is gone? #booksky

Blanck Mass - S/T. Embryonic electronic from British composer Benjamin John Power. #nowspinning #musicsky

Hyperion - Dan Simmons. A crew sets out on a pilgrimage to find the Shrike, a mysterious godlike entity. Along the way, the pilgrims recount their stories. My favorite - the Priest's tale. Science Fiction. #booksky

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain. Black metal from Portland, Oregon. #musicsky #nowspinning

The Plot Against America - Philip Roth. An unlikely celebrity candidate with far right isolationist, xenophobic and fascist tendencies secures the republican nomination and then the presidency. The book is pretty good too👍 #booksky

Midwife & Matt Jencik - Never Die. Dreamlike shoegaze, a great fall record. #nowspinning #musicsky

Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders. Historical fiction imagining Willie Lincoln's journey through the afterlife. Felt similar to Coco or a Tim Burton film. One of my favorite books this year. #booksky

Slomosa - S/T. #nowspinning #musicsky

Cuba: An American History - Ada Ferrer. Details the tense and often exploitative relationship between the United States and Cuba. #booksky

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest. Electronic from Scotland. #nowspinning #musicsky

The Undertow - Jeff Sharlet. Snapshots of militant & religous extremism that has taken root in the MAGA movement. #booksky

Billy Woods - Golliwog. #nowspinning #musicsky

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr. Historical fiction, follows a German radio operator and a blind French girl during the battle of St. Malo during WWII. #booksky

Nils Frahm - Spaces. Electronic music from Germany. #nowspinning #musicsky

Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter. Crime drama set on the West Coast. Recommended for fans of Oz/Shawshank Redemption. #booksky

Green Lung - Woodland Rites. Doom metal from Britain 🤘 #nowspinning #musicsky

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis. A brutal satire of Wall Street in the 1980s. #booksky

Pinback - Summer in Abaddon. #nowspinning #musicsky

Hernan Diaz - In the Distance. A Swedish immigrant searches for his brother after they are separated on their journey to America. A Western in the same league as Blood Meridian. #booksky

Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions. Heavy, loud drone metal from Seattle. ⚫️ #nowspinning