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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.
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about 3 hours ago
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Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun. Icelandic post rock.
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1 day ago
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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.
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9 days ago
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Shellac - Dude Incredible.
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9 days ago
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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.
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15 days ago
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Carlton Melton - Turn to Earth. Psychadelic Rock.
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16 days ago
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Larry McMurtry - Dead Man's Walk. Part one of the Lonesome Dove series. An epic western that I look forward to continuing!
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22 days ago
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Cut Worms - Nobody Lives Here Anymore. New York indie folk.
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23 days ago
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Water - John Boyne. A woman travels to an isolated island to escape Dublin and her past in this Irish novella.
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28 days ago
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Deafheaven - Sunbather. Black metal/shoegaze from California.
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30 days ago
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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.
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about 1 month ago
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Nick Drake - Pink Moon. British folk.
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about 1 month ago
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Andy Borowitz - Profiles in Ignorance. Author of the satirical column The Borowitz Report takes aim at the state of US politics.
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about 1 month ago
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Surround - Hiroshi Yoshimura. Ambient from Japan.
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about 2 months ago
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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.
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about 2 months ago
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MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks. Indie rock from North Carolina.
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about 2 months ago
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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.
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about 2 months ago
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Wand - Plum. Psychadelic rock from L.A.
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about 2 months ago
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The Storm is Upon Us - Mike Rothschild. Untangles the origins and impacts of the QAnon conspiracy.
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2 months ago
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Dungen - 4. Swedish psychadelic rock ✌️.
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2 months ago
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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.
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2 months ago
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Whitney - Small Talk. Indie rock from Chicago. 🎶
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2 months ago
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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.
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3 months ago
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Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid. Ambient from Austin Texas.
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3 months ago
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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.
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3 months ago
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Flickering Resonance - Pelican. Post metal from Chicago.
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3 months ago
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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.
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3 months ago
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William Tyler - Modern Country. Instrumental folk from Nashville.
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3 months ago
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Surviving the 21st Century - Noam Chomsky & José Mujica. Conversations on climate change, capitalism, political corruption, and paths forward.
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3 months ago
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Slint - Spiderland. Seminal post rock from Louisville, KY.
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3 months ago
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Earth Abides - George R. Stewart. One of the pioneers of post apocalyptic fiction. How do you rebuild society when almost everyone is gone?
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4 months ago
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Blanck Mass - S/T. Embryonic electronic from British composer Benjamin John Power.
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4 months ago
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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.
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4 months ago
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Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain. Black metal from Portland, Oregon.
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4 months ago
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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👍
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4 months ago
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Midwife & Matt Jencik - Never Die. Dreamlike shoegaze, a great fall record.
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4 months ago
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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.
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4 months ago
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Slomosa - S/T.
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4 months ago
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Cuba: An American History - Ada Ferrer. Details the tense and often exploitative relationship between the United States and Cuba.
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4 months ago
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Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest. Electronic from Scotland.
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5 months ago
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The Undertow - Jeff Sharlet. Snapshots of militant & religous extremism that has taken root in the MAGA movement.
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5 months ago
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Billy Woods - Golliwog.
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5 months ago
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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.
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5 months ago
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Nils Frahm - Spaces. Electronic music from Germany.
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5 months ago
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Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter. Crime drama set on the West Coast. Recommended for fans of Oz/Shawshank Redemption.
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5 months ago
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Green Lung - Woodland Rites. Doom metal from Britain 🤘
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5 months ago
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American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis. A brutal satire of Wall Street in the 1980s.
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5 months ago
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Pinback - Summer in Abaddon.
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5 months ago
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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.
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6 months ago
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Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions. Heavy, loud drone metal from Seattle. ⚫️
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6 months ago
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