Bradley Kaye
@bradleykaye.bsky.social
Nobody can ever hold a monopoly on truth.™
I hope 2026 is the year I can stop hearing about what did and didn't "age well". It's closer to my experience that we're just flying through the abyss anyway, nobody upstairs will pin a gold star on you for dying with clean hands.
January 5, 2026 at 10:34 PM
I hope 2026 is the year I can stop hearing about what did and didn't "age well". It's closer to my experience that we're just flying through the abyss anyway, nobody upstairs will pin a gold star on you for dying with clean hands.
Is it too late to say my favorite books from 2025?
1. Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
2. The Agonies by Ben Faulkner
3. Annihilation by Michel Houellbecq (was this published in 2025? Anyway I read it in 2025)
1. Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
2. The Agonies by Ben Faulkner
3. Annihilation by Michel Houellbecq (was this published in 2025? Anyway I read it in 2025)
January 5, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Is it too late to say my favorite books from 2025?
1. Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
2. The Agonies by Ben Faulkner
3. Annihilation by Michel Houellbecq (was this published in 2025? Anyway I read it in 2025)
1. Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
2. The Agonies by Ben Faulkner
3. Annihilation by Michel Houellbecq (was this published in 2025? Anyway I read it in 2025)
My first three books were works of philosophy. Each sold over 5,000 copies. In terms of philosophy that's a massive win. The last one sold mostly e-book versions. I work on various projects with varying levels of commitment because in the back of my mind I know it's not a merit based reward system.
January 4, 2026 at 6:56 PM
My first three books were works of philosophy. Each sold over 5,000 copies. In terms of philosophy that's a massive win. The last one sold mostly e-book versions. I work on various projects with varying levels of commitment because in the back of my mind I know it's not a merit based reward system.
My review of Pynchon's Shadow Ticket appears in Counterpunch this weekend. Check it out!
Pynchon’s Farewell to America’s Vanishing Dream
Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket whisks us way back to 1932 amid shantytowns and lindy-hopping in the end times of prohibition as fascist creeps creep into
www.counterpunch.org
October 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
My review of Pynchon's Shadow Ticket appears in Counterpunch this weekend. Check it out!
Editors at writers conferences: Too much head-hopping confuses readers. Keep perspective consistent.
Every teenager growing up on tiktok: Rapid shifting visuals, please! Or I lose interest, thanks!
Book publishers: RIP books. We cannot figure this out?!
Thomas Pynchon: Shadow Ticket, deal with it.
Every teenager growing up on tiktok: Rapid shifting visuals, please! Or I lose interest, thanks!
Book publishers: RIP books. We cannot figure this out?!
Thomas Pynchon: Shadow Ticket, deal with it.
September 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Editors at writers conferences: Too much head-hopping confuses readers. Keep perspective consistent.
Every teenager growing up on tiktok: Rapid shifting visuals, please! Or I lose interest, thanks!
Book publishers: RIP books. We cannot figure this out?!
Thomas Pynchon: Shadow Ticket, deal with it.
Every teenager growing up on tiktok: Rapid shifting visuals, please! Or I lose interest, thanks!
Book publishers: RIP books. We cannot figure this out?!
Thomas Pynchon: Shadow Ticket, deal with it.
Check out Cthulhu: Dreams by Kevin A Davis on @kickstarter.com Proud to say I have a story in this project. Echoes of Innsmouth: Unearthing a Grim Philosophy
Cthulhu: Dreams
Horror writers come together for an inspired anthology
www.kickstarter.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Check out Cthulhu: Dreams by Kevin A Davis on @kickstarter.com Proud to say I have a story in this project. Echoes of Innsmouth: Unearthing a Grim Philosophy
We'll never know what might have been if Halliburton was healthy in Game 7.
July 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
We'll never know what might have been if Halliburton was healthy in Game 7.
It's got them this far, must be working for them.
June 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's got them this far, must be working for them.
This should be in a time capsule. Weird day?!
June 6, 2025 at 5:15 AM
This should be in a time capsule. Weird day?!
"Control freak" you mean, HoF coach.
June 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
"Control freak" you mean, HoF coach.
Conversation? I called Pacers in six before this game.
June 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Conversation? I called Pacers in six before this game.
You never watched Indy? Or you're twelve years old?
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
You never watched Indy? Or you're twelve years old?
The hell are you talking about?
June 6, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The hell are you talking about?
Reposted by Bradley Kaye
If, as Sheena Patel claims in today’s Guardian, that ‘men are doing just fine’, how come @thebookseller.com's
top 10 fiction picks for April featured no male authors? Now if it was the other way round…
top 10 fiction picks for April featured no male authors? Now if it was the other way round…
May 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
If, as Sheena Patel claims in today’s Guardian, that ‘men are doing just fine’, how come @thebookseller.com's
top 10 fiction picks for April featured no male authors? Now if it was the other way round…
top 10 fiction picks for April featured no male authors? Now if it was the other way round…
American players have no fundamentals. This is why less athletic European players are dominating the league lately.
May 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
American players have no fundamentals. This is why less athletic European players are dominating the league lately.
Reposted by Bradley Kaye
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Wisconsin Democrat Rep. Mark Pocan during a hearing before a House committee he thinks Americans should not be taking medical advice from him. via C-SPAN
May 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Wisconsin Democrat Rep. Mark Pocan during a hearing before a House committee he thinks Americans should not be taking medical advice from him. via C-SPAN
CREAM get the corgis... dolla' dolla' bills y'all.
May 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
CREAM get the corgis... dolla' dolla' bills y'all.
"Suppose I was a hack reviewer, educated by years of fakework to think no book's worth reading carefully unless everyone's already read it... condemned to review mediocre books... not being a hack reviewer I could go on reading the Recognitions instead of forgetting amid 10 worthless books a month."
Fire the Bastards! by Jack Green
www.nyx.net
May 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"Suppose I was a hack reviewer, educated by years of fakework to think no book's worth reading carefully unless everyone's already read it... condemned to review mediocre books... not being a hack reviewer I could go on reading the Recognitions instead of forgetting amid 10 worthless books a month."
Oh, I've read them all before. This is for my son who is 14. I also started a Father Daughter book club where we are reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler... now, *that* is eerily on point. It takes place this year?! She wrote it in the mid'90's.
May 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Oh, I've read them all before. This is for my son who is 14. I also started a Father Daughter book club where we are reading Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler... now, *that* is eerily on point. It takes place this year?! She wrote it in the mid'90's.
Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, The City and the City by China Mieville (a different take on detective genre fiction)
May 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi, The City and the City by China Mieville (a different take on detective genre fiction)
And? There were uneven calls. The Cavs should've had 60!
May 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
And? There were uneven calls. The Cavs should've had 60!
answer: yes. Desperately!
May 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
answer: yes. Desperately!