Krasznahorkai thanks multitudes in his Nobel banquet speech www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter... but there's a transcription fail when he gets to W.G., sigh.

Antonio Moresco's THE BEGINNINGS is "a work of startling and consistently moving genius — belligerently committed to its particularity." (—Sean Thor Conroe, author of Fuccboi) More info coming this Friday, December 12th.

I’m calling it. It’s Sinéad O’Connor winter. This week I’ve heard the radio and various places play more Sinéad than I’ve heard in the past five or more years combined. It’s motion. Not the singles, either. WTMD hit me during drive time rush with “Stretched On Your Grave” yesterday.

the English Graduate Studies board is getting a little too real

I know that over-the-top face-melting guitar solos that go on for far too long and which lack any sense of taste or appropriateness for the song are not cool, but they are the closest thing I get to exercise in a given week so I'm going to keep going.

Tubi is the only streaming service I use. You have no idea how many Ernest movie are in there.

Good morning, I have a new piece up at LitHub on Woolf's To the Lighthouse, her unacknowledged plague novel--a book about what happens after the end of the End of the World. This one took me a long time to put together. I hope you enjoy.

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

I’ve crunched the numbers and the best band is still …

Half way through my Iris Murdoch Read-a-thon. The order of my preference so far: The Bell The Unicorn A Severed Head Under the Net The Sandcastle

If you’re in #Louisville #Kentucky, go see The Corrupting Sea (Jason Lamoreaux) tomorrow night at the Woodbine Chamber. ✌️ www.woodbinechamber.org/events/jason...

it is legitimately difficult to imagine anyone making a positive case for this in literally any sense

As of one or two weeks ago, Sturly, The Parson in Jubilee, & The Mariner are in bookstores & in reader’s mailboxes & hands.

co-signing all of Wyatt's picks here, get in on this

if theres one thing I hate, and which causes me multiple nervous breakdowns, its when I, Antonio Salieri, am accused of hating and murdering my contemporary Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. but hopefully now that i am dying these spurious rumors will end *200 years pass* what the FUCK

My favorite YLT record

we tell ourselves stories in order to agree with everything the protagonist says and does

reading the barbecue sauce wiki

Horses Viola, TN

If I can convince 14 more people to pre-order Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans before 12/16, it will bring us to 501 copies, surpassing the entire first print run of the book from 1925. I feel like we can correct a wrong, at least symbolically, or like, cosmically.

"Daddy, is there a song where the song name and band name are the same?" "Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath from the album Black Sabbath" "What's that song about?" "Witches." My daughter, dressed head to toe as Elphaba for the third day straight, leaning forward: "Can we listen to it?"

My copy of Murdoch’s The Bell had an earlier life as a library copy labelled “reading group pack” I bought it in a charity shop and benefit from someone’s analysis scribbled in pencil in it. Lovely.

One of my fave finds is this considered lit crit in Severed Head. (Nice ed too) bookdedications.co.uk/a-severed-he...

The evolution of jacket design of the novels of Iris Murdoch, 1962 to 1969. @backlisted.bsky.social

Looking at my Apple Music monthly stats, I think you would be hard pressed to tell that I was a middle-aged dad.

Has a great time here once in the 80s. We ate at a restaurant after that made you stand on a scale and charged you based on your weight.

Grant Hart - 2541 [USA, alternative rock] (1988) - Former Hüsker Dü drummer drops this solo gem on his way to illustrious obscurity https://redd.it/1p1nhfx https://youtu.be/lCsYUIQ3sZo

Now listening to new jazz from The Cosmic Tones Research Trio. It’s good.

incredible quote lol

Finished A Severed Head and Under the Net. Enjoyed both but wasn’t quite ready for ASH ( I mean that in a good way). The Bell is probably still my favorite so far, because it is more to my taste, but really enjoy reading funny books.

Thankful for all of the writers, translators, and readers who still believe in the possibilities of literature. Here is the SCHATTENFROH balloon from the Macy’s parade this morning. Slightly smaller than the real book, but what can you do?

At evenfall

one of these things is not like the other! one of these things doesn't belong!

YOUNGEST: *coming down from her room* the podcast episode ended and the next one is really scary MY WIFE: oh the one about viking poop ended? what was the next one... ah, Leningrad

A toddler when in a moment of exhaustion and weakness you let them have or do something you normally wouldn’t:

Update: just finished The Bell. Really loved it. Can’t go wrong with a novel that begins with a train ride to a remote location.

Today we are reading vintage Richard Scarry

While I would love to weigh in on what music was loved/hated by people my age in high school, I had The Monkees Greatest Hits on cassette so I’m sitting it out.

As a Kentuckian, I’m very proud of this.

On this day in Horror History, ONIBABA was released in 1964.

When 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 reviewed the first translation of this one they paired it with ... Musil's 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 !

on first looking into

Looked outside to see what the weather was like and saw:

my lights cannot turn on because they are downloading and installing an update

baby shoes, now with AI