I went on and on for 10k words about Gary Amdahl's Visigoth (it's that good). longform.wdclarke.org/visigoth-sto...

Periodic Walter Benjamin update: "Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet."

Teaching Hawthorne in my Love and Death in the American Novel class tomorrow and my prime takeaway from this is, their radical ability (so they think) to recognize semiotic coherence notwithstanding, what a bunch of little fuckers these Puritan kids are:

Please sir, may I have some more?

Executive Bathroom Order 8675309 of 24 Sept 2025: Police sketches/facial composites of Antifa suspects impeding the free flow of traffic shall set the eyes nearer the temples than the bridge of the nose—it's basic phrenology

When I indulge in the "For You" algorithm in the Pther Place (or click too far down any discussion tree) ["The Hand" appears in Leonard Michaels second book of short stories, I Would Have Saved Them If I Could]

This will kill that (fr The Rhetoric of Reaction, Albert O. Hirschmann)

The round-up.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/reflection...

my Thoughts move like a pregnant Polypus in sprouting Time, clung all over with young Polypi (Coleridge, Notebooks, Feb 1805)

Coleridge Notebooks 1806: "the Self contains a Prison-Yard within – wherein the Inmates walk and contemplate the Sky"

From Visigoth, Gary Amdahl's brilliant first collection of stories (2006), which I am just finishing...

Enjoy, my friend. (I know you will.)

The voices in my head started singing this earlier this year, and they just won't let up (from Don Dellilo's 1971 novel, Americana)

Words, hopefully, not to have lived by (fr Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel, Vineland)

the whole thing reminiscent of W. Benjamin, who never went to London lareviewofbooks.org/article/for-...

When I see pundits Auto-da-fé-nestrate through their Overton Window... (on the Gang of Four album, Damaged goods —from Rip It Up and Start Again by @simonreynolds.bsky.social cc: Gof4 fan @doughenwood.bsky.social )

Home after a 3800km Nova Scotia and back road trip to some accrued bookmail...some Shakespeare criticism as well as these two novels, (L) by @alvinlu.bsky.social and (R) from @galleon-books.bsky.social

Annual Nova Scotia roadtrip sauerkraur haul

I've fumed at the institutional powers at the CBC who've slow-walked the Gaza file in a most cowardly fashion, but this piece , on the recent RFK-Senate showdown, is some damn fine reporting by Andrew Chang...the CBC at its best www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Daybreak Nova Scotia

The Board of Examiners award you a C- in Reading Performativity (fr The book of Laughter and Forgetting, M Kundera)

Galleys dropped! My weird novel abt art, the angels of history, Kabbalah, Yiddish poets, a dybbuk, & the dangers of trauma narratives. I pitched it (not well) as a Jewish Magic Mountain, but shorter. It's a strange book & I can't wait to share it with you. Feb 10th from Dzanc.

Also apropos of a recent argument with a friend: —But what is this writer really *saying*? —No, *how* is their novel trying to *explore* it? Iris, and now in the morning's email, @lioneltrolling.bsky.social to the rescue unpopularfront.news/p/on-formles...

if you like weird, spooky, unsettling short stories, why not purchase my books? original weird stories by me in TOADSTONES (Malarkey Books 2022) or an edited collection of the fic-in-translation that appeared in Weird Tales, NIGHT FEARS (Paradise Editions 2023). $25 flat for each OR $40 for both!

A gormless book-non-review has made me think about rereading this... (review in 2nd reply)

[1/5 or more...!] For reactionaries, the Perversity Thesis never gets old...Podhoretz here wagging a pointed finger at the deluded who just don't get the science part of social science...

If you are at all familiar with the #rickbrick from @coronasamizdat.bsky.social you'll understand why I'm not attempting to wield the knife required to open one until I've had at least a second coffee...

"He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library." Robertson Davies makes the best case for the Humanities:

This audiobook is now live, link in reply... (The author has forgone royalties for this novel, audio and print...all proceeds go to the c\s fundraiser)

Frieda is Frieda (Milan Kundera, Testaments Betrayed)

Our books are printed in/shipped from Slovenia, not print-on-demand, and can be ordered at coronasamizdat.com (payments via secure provider Stripe) Ebooks, increasingly available through the usual outlets, courtesy of friends at redfiendpub.com

Mary Gaitskill throwin' some contra-Randian shade in her novel Two Girls, Fat and Thin (1991)

It's finally here! Of all my over 50 translations, this is the one I'm proudest of-- and most grateful for. I owe so much to Proust, I'm so glad I could repay my debt a little by translating him. ❤️

Cover reveal for the forthcoming audiobook edition ( @coronasamizdat.bsky.social 's first!) of my novel White Mythology. It's narrated by the great L.J. Ganser, who also narrates many of economist Thomas Picketty's books as well as A.J. Pearson's Cow Country, from @coweyepress.bsky.social

Thinking of Benjamin, still unpacking my "library", but here's shelves dedicated to @coronasamizdat.bsky.social (top/bottom) and @galleon-books.bsky.social and friends' and colleagues books (bottom)

I think of Orwell (“Writers and Leviathan”) on how books are so often “judged before they are read, and in effect before they are written” —& I think of how Salman Rushdie experienced just that over the Satanic Verses, becoming in the eyes of so many who had/would not read him perversely unreadable

Working on a ‘Digested Read’ of (and convo about) Milan Kundera's Testaments Betrayed with your pal and mine, Gary Amdahl (wish he were here), and just wanted to put this quot'n of K's out there :P

Let me know if you want an ARC.

A new post is up on the blog featuring the cover art for Fallen Angels. Slated for release Winter 2026 with: @galleon-books.bsky.social @galleonbooks.bsky.social stephen-hayes.ghost.io/fallen-angel...

I reviewed Mary Gaitskill's book of essays, Somebody With A Little Hammer (2017): goodreads.com/review/show/...

Sure would be nice if people who post screenshots of texts would provide links to the original!

I wrote about an obscure German contribution to the critique of political economy, for @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...

I reviewed Mary Gaitskill's book of essays, Somebody With A Little Hammer (2017): goodreads.com/review/show/...

Check out the colossal array of great Murphs in the replies.

Tolstoy, the OG Twitterer (Orwell, “Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool”)

Copies of my new book arrived! They’re beautiful! 🥳 #booklaunch shorturl.at/bjbwT

For anyone interested in reading a bit more on the late, great Ellen Meiksins Wood, see my tribute to her work here: longform.wdclarke.org/capitalism-e...

On the Xhitter, watch hot bot v bot action

90 yesterday again...the Dog Days were/are super-early this year... (tho as mom always sez, as with "Children's Day", every day is Dawgz Day)