"Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine." ~ Carl G. Jung September (1956) 🎨 René Magritte

no no I love living in this country, I love getting trapped after dark in an amusement park that recently declared bankruptcy

September 2025

September 2025

Can't now babe. I'm vibe coding.

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE HAPPY HELLO SUNSHINE DAY!! ☀️☀️☀️

Daydreamers is out in the world now. "A story of immigration, brilliantly inflected with undercurrents both noir and comic.” —Susan Daitch "Daydreamers kind of sinks in slowly. Then it becomes absorbing in a way that doesn't let up." —Stacey Levine Cover concept by @illepitaph.bsky.social

SEVEN TRANSLATIONS OF MAFFEO BARBERINI'S SONNETTO XXXII by Eric T Racher @ericracher.bsky.social Poetry for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/23/s...

One of my art heroes, watercolorist Jon J Muth From Dracula, A Symphony in Moonlight 😊🖤💀

Above link doesn't seem to work! Info is here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/optindiebook... #Greyhound #nonfiction #indiepublishers #Newcastle

Any NEWCASTLE people out there... I will be reading from GREYHOUND and talking about the book at Deep North, Dean Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tuesday 23rd September, 6pm. Info is here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/optindiebook... #Newcastle #greyhound #nonfiction #books

'the fence is a window and the window is a room and the room is a table and the table is a speck and the speck is a girl and the girl is a knife and the knife ...' - Liesl Ujvary (tr. Ann Cotten & Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie) LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/21/t...

ENTANGLED #20 by Damian Ward @damianward.bsky.social New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/22/e...

@kathleenmrooney.bsky.social @neglectedbooks.com I've still got a looong way to go lol

"Everything in this country was understood backward; the more recent the arrival, the more American, the truly exceptional." If you really wanna hear my voice, I did a 2-minute radio reading of Daydreamers for @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7 FM's "New Arrivals" show. Thank you, Lisa Morehouse!

Transmuting base metals into gold, playboy?

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

if you ate food from 2005 you could become ill. but in 2005 you ate it all the time

This was a lovely reading! Shared about 10 new tiny poems on this call

and coming up this week ... — @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews Austyn Wohlers — an extract from new work by Joseph Nechvatal ( @orbistertiuspress.bsky.social )

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... — fiction from Adam Judah Krasnoff minorliteratures.com/2025/09/16/f... — @nameofauthor.bsky.social on YOUR NAME HERE minorliteratures.com/2025/09/17/y... — @monalisavitti.bsky.social talks to @alinaetc.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2025/09/18/w...

Reading your posts like:

I'm only 10 minutes into this 90s anime & they hit me with this.

Interesting long piece by Michael Moorcock on the right-wing views implicit in Golden Age fantasy and science fiction. Moorcock anarchism/libertarianism colour everything, but he's very knowledgeable and well read. libcom.org/article/star... #books #sff #scifi #reading #writing #booksky

bit of a preview here, courtesy of @sublunary.bsky.social sublunaryeditions.com/magazine/gla...

Yes. I was once this young.

Alabama🤢

THREE POEMS by Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social Poetry for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/20/t...

War is back again: War Primer by Alexander Kluge, tr. by @wordkunst.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2025/09/15/w...

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This book is still in print (for now at least) www.amazon.com/New-Make-Bel...

I think my book is out of print 😕 www.amazon.com/Gross-Feathe...

FINGERPRINT by Michael L Sevy @mlsevy.bsky.social New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/18/f...

Many thanks to @wordkunst.bsky.social and the staff at @thearsonista.bsky.social for publishing my piece “Fingerprint”. burninghousepress.com/2025/09/18/f...

for the British Mexican Society, Fernando Sdrigotti is leading an online discussion of PEDRO PARAMO on Monday 22nd September details and reservation here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pedro-para...

“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects … is to succumb to violence.” ~ Thomas Merton

“Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.” ~ Thomas Merton

the Dreadful POINT no.60 Read for free and subscribe to the email edition at thedreadfulpoint.com/2025/09/15/60/ Subscribe to the broadside edition at ko-fi.com/s/df090ca6bb

your honor, what's the wifi

DM us—we’re starting a store list on our page. The #1 question we get is “Does any store in ______ have copies?” and right now our answer is usually just awkward silence. Also, if you’re a shop interested in carrying us…please send us a message.

i'm on a writing retreat (i've retreated from writing)

Morning. 🖼️ Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wild Swans, Svend Otto.

A secular prayer of sorts

all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago

Robert Redford talking about how the Algerian War led him to interrogate his own understanding of the United States of America.

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

One of the all-time greatest films.

Foils by Daisy Lyle @novembergrau.bsky.social Fiction for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE / LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/14/f...