I could beat up a million babies. Vincent almost laughs at the idea, sees himself rampaging through an American football field full of infants with absurdly large shoulder pads.

He wishes everything was tone and resonance and description a total conceptual impossibility. Like colours and shapes. Then he wouldn’t have to pretend reality was communicable

Like the body was a restraint required to experience the materiality of space and space was like ‘oh fuck your body.’ Or like the body was to life what a bed sheet with cutout holes for eyes and animated by some mournful desire for attention was to the idea of death.

The rain arrives, reducing everything to shape and colour. The windscreen fogging like a cataract though the effects are far more malevolent than anything those dainty handed impressionists thought to so sentimentally beautify.

She looks out at the sea and watches as the lightning does something sublimely terrifying to the world. Rendering the world an organ, turning the sky internal, and revealing its subordination.

The vape tastes like the holy spirit dipped in sugar

this one completely wrecked my head for some reason, sorry for the delay bsky.app/profile/did:...

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I'm starting a new series on my podcast SFULTRA (www.patreon.com/SFULTRA) covering my first time reading through the work of William S. Burroughs. It's called Right Where You Are Sitting Now. I made this trailer for it. I'll be keeping this thread updated with each new episode.

‘In essence, the world can’t be programmed only intuited eg. experienced. Chat GPT et al. actually feels regressive to me in a lot of ways, though I suppose it’s typical of our culture that advanced forms of aggregation are being treated as progress.’

New interview up at 3am magazine! Thanks to @chris88.bsky.social for this! www.3ammagazine.com/3am/killing-...

Really lovely review of The Autodidacts up at TriYou: ‘I can say with zero exaggeration that this book made my life better…. And yes, I do think this book can be compared to Joyce or Wolf. It also suggested Don DeLillo. triyou.com/f/the-autodi...

Really lovely review of The Autodidacts up at TriYou: ‘I can say with zero exaggeration that this book made my life better…. And yes, I do think this book can be compared to Joyce or Wolf. It also suggested Don DeLillo. triyou.com/f/the-autodi...

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Rave review of HIKTUM up at Triyou: triyou.com/f/how-i-kill...

A masterful essay by one of the best writers out there at the moment

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‘My body’s a prison but it’s crucial you know I’m an abolitionist’

‘What Vincent wouldn’t give to be totally immaterial. He wishes the world were only tone and resonance and description a total conceptual impossibility. Like colours and shapes, he thinks. Then he wouldn’t have to pretend reality was communicable.’

‘Not so much post-apocalyptic as pre-civilisational’

‘We can think of these crisis points as thin places, a concept from Celtic folklore where the border between worlds is most porous, where the contradictions of ideology become so apparent that weird fictions of seeing through the illusion of reality—metaphorically speaking—are increasingly rampant’

The private problem of the person who has failed lol

Thanks so much to @sorchadallas.bsky.social and @agrayarchive.bsky.social for accomodating my visit while I was researching this episode. Phenomenal place and project, total privilege to see it. Their website is also a model for this kind of work: thealasdairgrayarchive.org bsky.app/profile/noch...

All I want for Christmas is to hole up with no responsibilities and every one of these. I’m so thrilled to see the Tit’s How I Killed the Universal Man among the end-year weirdos! @tkendall.bsky.social

@sd-stewart.bsky.social Has made my day!

"Jakob gathers the beard of the first head in the chain, the oldest, nicknamed, of course, Adolf, though the name on his mailbox in Putney read Clive Welliver, and he drags them out." // New today at AC: "Jakob as Nazi Hunter" by the ever-incredible David Leo Rice ( @raviddice.bsky.social ) //

Have been waiting for this review to be available for months! It’s a dream to be read so closely by one of the best reviewers out there

BIG NEWS! More Jesi Bender is coming to you from The Tit next year (also: don't miss this post of some of @kernpunktpress.bsky.social's gorgeous releases)

On @beyondthezero.bsky.social (one of the best lit podcasts out there) talking hiktum: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

No big deal. Just my book being discussed and ranked alongside its obvious peers like Denis Johnson, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, William H. Gass, and Gabriel freaking Garcia freaking Marquez!🤯@whiskeytit.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1L77...

Which i should have mentioned was written by @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social whose novel ‘Troll’ is a must-read

A lovely review up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social Of ‘How I Killed The Universal Man’ strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...

The great sf ultra made an episode about my novel how I killed the universal man a while back: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

"This is the netherworld of the uncanny, and I think it’s definitive of the moment we’re living in now, where the past both promises and threatens to return, while the future always seems just out of reach, or else it seems like it’s already arrived and somehow we’ve missed it."

"Kariena realizes that Axin has too many arms, maybe a hundred, and that his tuxedo hides the stacked segments of an asymmetrical insect, a carapace hardened against evolution." Today on ergot. 'In Vermillion' by Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog www.ergot.press/authors/Joe_...

From @megapolisomancy.bsky.social deep dive review of ‘How I Killed The Universal Man’ at @seizethepress.bsky.social

HOW I KILLED THE UNIVERSAL MAN by @tkendall.bsky.social is a transhumanist noir taking place in an ever-nearer future where environmental disaster and the advent of biological A.I is leading to the radical reorganisation of consciousness: whiskeytit.com/product/how-...

Endless thanks to Dennis Cooper for hosting this deep dive into ‘How I Killed The Universal Man’ and its various influences. denniscooperblog.com/please-welco...

Over at @xraylitmag.bsky.social I spoke with Thomas Kendall about his philosophically dense offering How I Killed the Universal Man. Out now from @whiskeytit.bsky.social xraylitmag.com/interview-wi...

Plus an interview with The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar author Indra Das; nonfic on Dario Argento and censorship, Seth Dickinson's novel Exordia, and resident critic and opinion-haver Zachary Gillan reviews How I Killed the Universal Man and A Study in Ugliness & Outras Histórias.

My review of How I killed the Universal Man by Thomas Kendall felcherman.wordpress.com/2024/05/07/h... 5 stars from me, what an experience that was. available from @whiskeytit.bsky.social

Excellent new review of ‘How I Killed The Universal Man’ up at exacting clam: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-12...

Excellent new review of ‘How I Killed The Universal Man’ up at exacting clam: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-12...

My favorite reads of 2023: Abnormal Statistics by Max Booth III Deliver Me by Elle Nash A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch's Dune by Max Evry Burn You the Fuck Alive by B.R. Yeager How I Killed the Universal Man by Thomas Kendall Molly by Blake Butler

Thanks to @horrorsong.blog for these beautiful words about ‘How I Killed The Universal Man’ Available as paperback or epub here: whiskeytit.com/product/how-... www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...