Just popping back in to share the lyrics to a song, begun in early 2024... (not *at all* to ‘shame’ the very busy musician/writer friend I sent it to hahahahaha) ...that I finally finished at the end of 2025, after many a dead end... blog.wdclarke.org/the-song-the...

Reposting/transmuting these monitory bits of critical biography as tripartite literary career-path/lifeplan 🧵: (1) Deliberate self-exposure to the Vico virus

The NYT Special: Confrontation occurred, rib broke CNNification: Confronts Ice, breaks own rib Rufology: (BLM + DEI)*CRT = ANTIFA 101 in the ICUs of MN {FAFO in USA}

“It is not through form [Gestalt] but rather through transformation that creatures can offer themselves inexhaustibly to poetry from this source.” — Walter Benjamin from an essay recently translated for the first time (shared by Winter Pallaksch): www.e-flux.com/journal/157/...

“Only in dreams, in poetry, in play […] do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.” — Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

Vico, sending free copies of his books out and about, into the social desert, where only media darlings deserve acknowledgement of receipt-of-book

"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," writes Neil Young. “The president's international policies and his support of ICE, make it impossible for me to ignore his actions.” He also announced that anyone in Greenland can access his entire catalog for free at his site.

“I am not a character in a novel,” says Conrad’s Razumov... (from House of Meetings by Martin Amis)

Excellent interview/analysis of the, as we were wont to say, "current conjuncture"...

That time Rahm Emanuel (and Tim Geitner) "prioritized" families out by killing any Obama admin notion of foreclosure prevention (from We've Got People by @ryangrim.bsky.social )

You, me, and everyone else here on BookSky (Pride and Prejudice Vol I Ch11)

Style is not adornment, but content (cont'd) [Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder—Isaiah Berlin] #c18th #18thC

Amateurs. RNC's seriously needs to get casting about for their "21stC Leni Riefenstahl: miracle worker with shadows & light, Instagrammatologist of blood & soil"

TLDR: bsky.app/profile/wdcl...

I wrote some about Becca Rothfeld's 2024 debut essay collection, All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess...here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/12... ...hopefully more to come.

Richard II

Just two days ago. All gone now.

Oh, for the good ol' days when typographers were allowed creative latitude... The genius of "ideasthanhewaspreparedto" as...adverb?!

A riff on why Sam Lipsyte is (at least partially/so far, early days) filling that Martin Amis-shaped hole in my life... goodreads.com/review/show/...

If capitalism is a tawdry prom date, who pins the corsage on whom? (from Sam Lipsyte's 2019 novel, Hark)

My word but the forthcoming novel The Tavern at the End of History by @morriscollins.bsky.social never fails to surprise... (and here I was thinking he was an all right kinda fella, for a Yank)

I've posted the full video and an analysis of Bari Weiss's memo.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/60-minutes...

Finding Bsky-mutual @drbibliomane.bsky.social being cited in today's reading a pleasant surprise! (Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England, Valerie Hamilton et al)

With the book on the right (review link in reply), I finally got this OG MF outta my system (to the extent of available editions), thank Christ

(Said my piece over there and now repeated it here, so you know I am crazy, and/but): Still deeper into the "Après moi, le déluge" pit, & i know it's mostly me at this point, but if "begs the question" comes up in your article/book... No. Simply cannot read any further.

#Booksky #Booktube My latest Friday Reads includes books by Solvej Balle, Layla Erbil, Viktor Pelevin, Ilse Aichinger, Paul West, Gary Amdahl and some Plaestinian poetry www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhhL...

Third snowfall lays down enuff for first skijoring of the year

Literature and class at 30,000 feet: Up the pyramid and down, from Coach to 1st and back again, in two tweets (1): (from The Information, Martin Amins)

White Mythology by W.D. Clarke kudera.blogspot.com/2025/11/brief-note-on-white-mythology.html #writinglife #canadian #postmodern #novel #fiction #fridayreads #booksky

A shout-out to any & all "marooned modernists" out there ~fr Martin Amis's novel The Information—fifth re-read :P

I write to be loved: by a few, but *from a distance*. — Roland Barthes from The Preparation of the Novel (lecture of December 15, 1979)

CC: all those AI-bros who counsel their peers not to read (e.g. from here a few months back) Adam Smith's The wealth of Nations... but rather just ChatGPT the living shit outta the thang: (from Criticism & Truth, by Jonathan Kramnick (2023), writing/reading as embodied craft)

But TradMommy, you read us the Expialidocious stories *every* night! Can't we have a Vomitrocious novel just tonight we promise pleeeeeease?

My best books films 2025 open.substack.com/pub/aonchial...

You are stardust, you are golden

Night/Day

The latest three titles in the Empyrean Series arrived in Seattle from the printer this past week! Learn more abt these new books from Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa, & the rest of the series catalogue, here: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...

We must approach the oddity of the truly sui generis like a negative theologian —Arendt on Benjamin (w analogy to Kafka) (fr Illuminations)

In @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social 's book, Adults in the Room, there is a scene I'll never forget where none other than LARRY SUMMERS pulls the then-new Greek finance minister aside to say (quote fr memory), "Yanis, you can either be outside looking in, or inside looking out, your choice."

This is the way

A thing you never imagined would be a thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-L...

Harvard, 1951 (via Adam Walker, STack)

Update: Speaker Johnson says he has "national security" concerns about releasing the Epstein files

Some 15min before sunset

Follow me on Substack for literary notes, articles, excerpts, asides, and interviews. #writinglife #American #literature #indie #novel #small #press #survival substack.com/home/post/p-...

"How right-wing, Maxine wonders, does a person have to be to think of the New York Times as a left-wing newspaper?" --Thomas Pynchon, BLEEDING EDGE

Throw shade, by adding a subtitle, on a novel you actually love. I'll start: —Middlemarch, or, All This Useless Duty

But this exceeding posting day and night Must wear your spirits low; we cannot help it: But since you have made the days and nights as one, To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs, Be bold you do so grow in my requital As nothing can unroot you. In happy time[!] —All's Well That Ends... (V, i)

My annual reminder that, in spite of it all, November still sings blog.wdclarke.org/november-song/