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i just finished the forthcoming 3rd book by an author i think is genuinely one of my favorites of all time and i despised it. i dont know what to do with this feeling.
it sounds good, instruments are clear in their distortion, im just sentimental because i have interpersonal relations with all the people involved to 1 or 3 degrees. im right.
we just got an email about pennies so getting out of retail any which way does sound slightly more appealing
A copy of Thomas Love Peacock's, friend of Percy Shelley who preferred his first wife, Headlong Hall (1816) & Nightmare Abbey (1818) sitting atop the second Norton Critical Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) annotated by Ranged Touch's Michael.
crushing it in the Quietest Fangirling (Nonbinary) competition
Photo of a blurb that reads: Bee Recommends Cujo Stephen King Roughly halfway through my journey of reading Stephen King in publication order,* I can pretty confidently say that Cujo is King's best novel. A raw look at animal misery with the bleakest ending he's managed, all buoyed up by the inimitably Kingian digressions into infidelitous tennis instructors and the wacky world of independent corporate marketing. The rabid dog's there too, of course, and Cujo isn't just a threat; the best aspect of this novel is that we get to spend a sizable chunk of tine in his head as events transpire, which doubles down on both the misery and the terror. *Check out the Just King Things podcast on the Ranged Touch network; they inspired this journey and talk about each book in ways that both instruct & edify.
selfie of the poster in a white shirt with blue text that reads Ranged Touch Investigates the Cascade with matching N95
just another thursday guerrilla advertising for Ranged Touch at the Shop
its been like six months and i keep thinking about it so i think i need to write about Tom's Crossing. how does one write. why do i love that book & all that dorks books so much.
i only do it with you and ranged touch so its either great company or that i simply listen to too many podcasts o:)
i was definitely early in identifying as trans & so Eager to talk pronouns but i dont hate how i did it. anyway, good book thanks sean.
a hundred years ago i was on Spectology talking about it after my first read and i dont hate this conversation www.spectology.com/e/214-stars-...
i guess i have youtube videos about Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Tides of Lust/Equinox, The Einstein Intersection & The Jewels of Aptor since then, and i loved Big Joe's republication last year, but Stars is so unbelievable
Stars in my Pocket Like Grains of Sand is such an exceptional piece of literature and its been over six years since i read it, and ive read so much & so little Delany since then.
SFULTRA is the only solo podcast i can listen to and im so glad Sean covered what might be the only good science fiction novel ever written (it might also be the only good novel ever written). im excited to listen to this two or three more times.
I say all this because--you knew this was coming--I hope you, who are reading this, might feel the same way, and help us out: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org#/portal/signup
As we gear up for our true launch in a few weeks--multiple pieces a week, which writers are paid to write, that wouldn't have been written otherwise--we're gearing up to be really annoying about asking you to help us out and contribute. That's what "everything we publish will be free, always" costs.
So, a quick note on Oakland Review of Books, or ORB: a handful of us are working to will it into existence, and--aside from a big boost to get started from our friends at @ebbooksellers.bsky.social--it's a self-funded operation whose goal is to exist and enable writing like this.
oops i bought Frankenstein so the real prize is all that's left
Please see the award-winning poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by the US government today in Minneapolis.
poets.org/2020-on-lear...
Just spoke with the owner, Dante, & learned there is a fundraising page. If you are not in a position to give, please consider sharing this widely. Let's blow through that preliminary # -- immediate access to cash gives options the fire would seem at first to destroy.
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The Academic Work Tracker spreadsheet is now updated with 2026 dates! If you don't already, 2026 is a great time to start treating your academic work like the wage job where you are paid to work a certain amount of hours that it actually is: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
a loaf of fresh baked bread
the poster in a hello kitty jumpsuit taking a mirror selfie
before work i baked a loaf of bread and put on this outfit so today i am the jump suit bread fairy
okay back into my hole
picture of a subchapter of Hayek's Bastards subtitled Outreach to the Rednecks
continuation of previous
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conclusion of said subchapter
not to discourse but this little subchapter of Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards seems relevant to that whole male loneliness shit people keep posting about
this is a really good conversation about the local through a book that sounds very cool, between two good podcasters
Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it.
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might be able to write for real again someday
posting to no one again is lightly nice
so shoutouts to ISLB for rendering all that beautifully
which is impressive because rendering SGJ's voice is hard, giving the characters their own unique voices within that frame is harder, and i cant even imagine acting through the pacing of those books in such a way that makes them hit like they do when you read them.
i only know Isabella Star LaBlanc's work as the narrator for Stephen Graham Jones audiobooks (the second two novels of the Indian Lake Trilogy, The Baby Sitter Lives, & just today Killer on the Road) but today i remembered she is extremely capable of hitting the exact right notes to make me cry
