Later.

Earlier.

the 100,000,000 best novels of all time

Later.

Benchwork.

And as a bonus today It is time for the intermission within the book - uncredited, but by George Maciunas

Tank monoskop.org/Tank

Midnight with The Arcades Project. “Fog appears as a consolation of the solitary man. It fills the abyss surrounding him.”

Foliated pages.

Long live the autodidact.

On Vexations, written for today’s performance by Andrew Brixey-Williams in Ealing:

In 1983 the border town of Presteigne made world headlines as Erik Satie’s ‘Vexations’ (16 bars long, repeated 840 times) was played by composer & music teacher Adrian Vernon-Fish & his pupil 16 year old Dawn Pye, “in the front parlour of Archie Dobson’s house on the High Street in Presteigne.”

1777: The roads are full of water.

Kurt Schwitters Plate 3 from Merz 3 [i.e. the third of six prints which Schwitters published in portfolio form as Number 3 of his journal Merz] 1923 paper collage on lithograph 55.5 x 44.6 cm

Painting book.

ink

Jennifer Pike Found in ABC + ABCD, The National Poetry Centre, 1975

Red things found in 19th century hymn books.

Andrew Wilson is posting page-by-page, and almost daily "the content of one of the great books of the early 1960s, La Monte Young and Jackson MacLow and George Maciunas: 'An Anthology of Chance Operations'."

Two examples of the several photographs of West Country views installed in the wood-panelled Duty Manager's office and Customer Lounge at Exeter St Davids station.

Two examples of the several photographs of West Country views installed in the wood-panelled Duty Manager's office and Customer Lounge at Exeter St Davids station.

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Paper is only paper. Words are only words." This is very good—a well-honed epistle on distaste for the pristine, a call for bibliographic abuse. "Cockled by dishwater? It's all the same to me."

unproofed unicode letterpress project for the #DHmakes #ACH26 mail art collaboration

Robert Bolick examines and discusses Michael Hampton's recent projects—the self-destructing challenge of 'Rage Pen' (Folium, 2025); the works shown in 'Hampton & Co., exercises in parabibliography' at Tension Fine Art; and the new ephemeral edition '410/411'. books-on-books.com/2026/05/08/b...

Robert Bolick examines and discusses Michael Hampton's recent projects—the self-destructing challenge of 'Rage Pen' (Folium, 2025); the works shown in 'Hampton & Co., exercises in parabibliography' at Tension Fine Art; and the new ephemeral edition '410/411'. books-on-books.com/2026/05/08/b...

Hélio Oiticica Lá e cá/Metaesquema, 1958

The Camera Man www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/se... Happy birthday to a gracious correspondent and a loving son

Still available! The Radburn Idea 2: Pedestrianisation in sunny Peterborough. £10 incl postage for sale here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com

Still available! The Radburn Idea 1: A story of pedestrianisation on the postwar English housing estate. £10 incl postage for sale here: theradburnidea.bigcartel.com

Still camouflaged.

Fans on timers leafing through the pages of Silence: Lectures and Writings by John Cage.

Long live the pamphlet.

Long live the pamphlet.

Some thoughts on that dustwrapper... davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2016/12/finn...

Cardbird VI from Cardbird Series http://www.moma.org/collection/works/73026

Telecommunications https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/telecommunications-1934

The N.B. column in the latest TLS @thetls.bsky.social rightly wondering about the baffling decision of the current administration of Conway Hall to not allow the Small Publishers Fair to take place at the venue, after twenty-three very successful years... no comment or reason is forthcoming.

It's the final day of 'Hampton & Co.—exercises in parabibliography' at Tension Fine Art, Penge. Michael Hampton will give a talk at 3.00pm; the winner of ‘Guesswork!’ will be announced—the artist has wrapped a book, guess it correctly (170,000,000 to 1 chance) you win it. 'Bag Library' (detail)

It's the final day of 'Hampton & Co.—exercises in parabibliography' at Tension Fine Art, Penge. Michael Hampton will give a talk at 3.00pm; the winner of ‘Guesswork!’ will be announced—the artist has wrapped a book, guess it correctly (170,000,000 to 1 chance) you win it. 'Bag Library' (detail)

1777: Growing weather. Vast clouds about.

The N.B. column in the latest TLS @thetls.bsky.social rightly wondering about the baffling decision of the current administration of Conway Hall to not allow the Small Publishers Fair to take place at the venue, after twenty-three very successful years... no comment or reason is forthcoming.

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Editing a little magazine.

820. Je me souviens que Georges Perec tenait souvent sa cigarette allumée entre le majeur et l’annulaire.

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt Aufbruchstimmung, 1989