and the award for weirdest authors portrait goes to Jonathan Cape London for Flesh by David Szalay, who looks like heβs been caught in the park holding hands with Jeffrey Epstein
#booksky
silicon valley demonstrating (if any further demonstrations were needed) once again their cosmic levels of stupidity.
also from the Mason Currey blog
another excellent post from Mason Currey on his Subtle Maneuvers blog, on a subject we don't talk nearly enough about...
masoncurrey.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
why do rw writers seem to live in a perpetual state of rage
there should be a separate Rest is History podcast which deals exclusively with Dominic and Tom's fucking festival announcements
a pretty effing prescient DFW in 1996: βOne of the scary things about the nihilism of contemporary culture is that weβre really setting ourselves up for fascismβ
#booksky
the state of him
drive
late to the party here but may we all one day write paragraphs as effortless as Miranda Julyβs in All Fours
#booksky
Rosenberg, the son of Holocaust survivors, believed in the Zionist project until a visit to Israel in the late 1960s revealed βa land filled with violence, injustice, and hatredο»Ώβ. His book, & its account of how Israelβs apartheid system operates, is essential reading. observer.co.uk/culture/book...
can we please leave clowns out of this
But actually everything in the world belong to us so there is no need to steal. For example my glasses. They are just glasses. They do not belong to me or to you, or they belong to all of us. But you know about my tired old eyes and so you let me use them.
Suzuki Roshi
using AI is like having a brilliant intern who is so brilliant you suspect they may actually be profoundly stupid
well we were hoping youβd answer that for us Richard
Exactamundo. Really struck by how timeless it feels
First read-through of Fellowship, 80 pages in. Good lord itβs brilliant! And i donβt even normally care for fantasy!
#booksky
Coetzee on Dostoevskyβs compositional method
beautiful little piece about the lord of the rings.
#booksky
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
I respect this arriving 79 pages into Haymanβs biography of Thomas Mann
fair point, franz
the great David Milch
#writing
I wrote a piece for Springback magazine about the Lyon Dance Biennale and the devotional nature of arts gatherings
#dance #writing
springback.org/assembly/202...
you found a home at the magic store
(stolen from the delightful @lildavidelms.bsky.social newsletter)
#blessed
wise words from @austinkleon.bsky.social
#booksky
something under discussed is the fact that white house renovations are currently being spearheaded by someone with famously bad interior design taste
βItβs been a cesspit, really, my lifeβ - Don McCullin
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Pessoa
#writing
