Joseph
@joecam79.bsky.social
Music, old and new. Literature, book blogs and reviews. History and folklore. Sacred and profane. Some Gothic stuff.
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Here's my review of Ian McEwan's latest novel, "What We Can Know"
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What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
A book review of Ian McEwan's latest novel, What We Can Know, a dystopian, futuristic work with elements of the literary quest and crime fiction.
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October 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here's my review of Ian McEwan's latest novel, "What We Can Know"
endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2025/10/what...
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Sarah Was Ninety Years Old
YouTube video by Sarah Leonard - Topic
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September 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
A review of the first issue of Gozitan literary journal "Mgħawġin"
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Mgħawġin - Ġurnal Għawdxi
A review of the first issue of Mgħawġin, a literary journal featuring authors from Gozo. Edited by Corinne Zahra and Ħaley Xuereb
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August 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A review of the first issue of Gozitan literary journal "Mgħawġin"
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Uncertain Stories, a new Edinburgh-based publishing house focused on illustrated volumes of new short fiction for adults, has been launched by Rob Redman, founding editor of The Fiction Desk, and artist Lucy Scott 👇
New Edinburgh-based publishing house Uncertain Stories launches
Uncertain Stories, a new Edinburgh-based publishing house focused on illustrated volumes of new short fiction for adults, has been launched by Rob Redman, founding editor of The Fiction Desk, and artist Lucy Scott.
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August 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Uncertain Stories, a new Edinburgh-based publishing house focused on illustrated volumes of new short fiction for adults, has been launched by Rob Redman, founding editor of The Fiction Desk, and artist Lucy Scott 👇
Michelle Paver returns to historical "explorer horror" with her forthcoming novel "Rainforest"
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Rainforest by Michelle Paver
Book review of "Rainforest" by Michelle Paver, a historical horror novel set in Central America
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July 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Michelle Paver returns to historical "explorer horror" with her forthcoming novel "Rainforest"
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Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley, philosophical folk-horror with a riff on Shirley Jackson.
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July 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley, philosophical folk-horror with a riff on Shirley Jackson.
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#nightmusic
Born-again Romantic...US composer George Rochberg (1918-2005) was #botd. Here are his lyrical "Variations (on Pachelbel)" from String Quartet 6
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Born-again Romantic...US composer George Rochberg (1918-2005) was #botd. Here are his lyrical "Variations (on Pachelbel)" from String Quartet 6
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Rochberg, Variations (on Pachelbel's Canon) from String Quartet No. 6
YouTube video by bcmfmusic
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July 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#nightmusic
Born-again Romantic...US composer George Rochberg (1918-2005) was #botd. Here are his lyrical "Variations (on Pachelbel)" from String Quartet 6
youtu.be/tFxryoy2-d4?...
Born-again Romantic...US composer George Rochberg (1918-2005) was #botd. Here are his lyrical "Variations (on Pachelbel)" from String Quartet 6
youtu.be/tFxryoy2-d4?...
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zeran, translated by Sophie Hughes
#bookreview
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#bookreview
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Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán
Book review of "Clean" by Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated by Sophie Hughes, a politically aware domestic thriller
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June 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zeran, translated by Sophie Hughes
#bookreview
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#bookreview
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Somebody is Walking on Your Grave : My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell
#bookreview
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#bookreview
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Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enríquez
A review of "Somebody is Walking on your Grave", a non-fiction book by Mariana Enriquez translated by Megan McDowell.
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June 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Somebody is Walking on Your Grave : My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell
#bookreview
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Martha Theuma AKA Das Birthday Girl, featuring Luke Scerri AKA Fake Ophelia: "Image" What a hauntingly Gothic music video...
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Das Birthday Girl - Image
YouTube video by Ultralow Music
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June 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Martha Theuma AKA Das Birthday Girl, featuring Luke Scerri AKA Fake Ophelia: "Image" What a hauntingly Gothic music video...
youtu.be/oZfA_A7nICE?...
youtu.be/oZfA_A7nICE?...
#nightmusic
Mark-Anthony Turnage #botd in 1965: Two Baudelaire Songs
Harmonie de Soir; L'invitation au voyage
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Mark-Anthony Turnage #botd in 1965: Two Baudelaire Songs
Harmonie de Soir; L'invitation au voyage
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Mark-Anthony Turnage - Two Baudelaire Songs (Erato Ensemble)
YouTube video by Erato Ensemble
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June 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
#nightmusic
Mark-Anthony Turnage #botd in 1965: Two Baudelaire Songs
Harmonie de Soir; L'invitation au voyage
youtu.be/LxX2dVuOy-g?...
Mark-Anthony Turnage #botd in 1965: Two Baudelaire Songs
Harmonie de Soir; L'invitation au voyage
youtu.be/LxX2dVuOy-g?...
Just in time for Whitsun, a new recording of the Cantata for Pentecost by Calvin Hampton, a composer I only heard about yesterday....
#art by Giotto
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#art by Giotto
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June 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Just in time for Whitsun, a new recording of the Cantata for Pentecost by Calvin Hampton, a composer I only heard about yesterday....
#art by Giotto
youtu.be/PdDNTOablZ8?...
#art by Giotto
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Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth
#bookreview #Gothic #Histfic
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#bookreview #Gothic #Histfic
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Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth
A book review of Heap Earth Upon It, Chloe Michelle Howarth's second novel, set in 1965 rural Ireland. A Gothic tale of sapphic obsession.
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June 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth
#bookreview #Gothic #Histfic
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#bookreview #Gothic #Histfic
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"The Homecoming" by Zoë Apostolides. An atmospheric reworking of the Gothic, haunted house novel.
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#BookReview #debutnovel #SaltPublishing #zoeapostolides #horrorfiction #Gothicfiction
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#BookReview #debutnovel #SaltPublishing #zoeapostolides #horrorfiction #Gothicfiction
The Homecoming by Zoë Apostolides
A book review of debut novel "The Homecoming" by Zoe Apostolides published by Salt Publishing. A Gothic horror haunted house novel.
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June 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"The Homecoming" by Zoë Apostolides. An atmospheric reworking of the Gothic, haunted house novel.
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#BookReview #debutnovel #SaltPublishing #zoeapostolides #horrorfiction #Gothicfiction
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#BookReview #debutnovel #SaltPublishing #zoeapostolides #horrorfiction #Gothicfiction
"Lotería : Stories" by Cynthia Pelayo
#bookreview #horror #folkhorror
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#bookreview #horror #folkhorror
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Lotería by Cynthia Pelayo
A book review of the short story collection Loteria by Latina horror writer from Puerto Rico, Cynthia Pelayo
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May 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"Lotería : Stories" by Cynthia Pelayo
#bookreview #horror #folkhorror
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#bookreview #horror #folkhorror
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The Empusium, a Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk.
This is a fever dream of a book, and the simmering female rage beneath its surface is powerfully conveyed in Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s translation.
#bookreview
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This is a fever dream of a book, and the simmering female rage beneath its surface is powerfully conveyed in Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s translation.
#bookreview
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The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk
A book review of The Empusium by Olga Toarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions
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May 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The Empusium, a Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk.
This is a fever dream of a book, and the simmering female rage beneath its surface is powerfully conveyed in Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s translation.
#bookreview
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This is a fever dream of a book, and the simmering female rage beneath its surface is powerfully conveyed in Antonia Lloyd-Jones’s translation.
#bookreview
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#nightmusic
Judith Weir #botd in 1954: "Still, Glowing".
Weir's own note states: "Still, Glowing (2008) for an orchestra of strings, flutes, clarinets and keyboard percussion, is my one and (so far) only attempt at writing 'ambient music'."
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Judith Weir #botd in 1954: "Still, Glowing".
Weir's own note states: "Still, Glowing (2008) for an orchestra of strings, flutes, clarinets and keyboard percussion, is my one and (so far) only attempt at writing 'ambient music'."
youtu.be/ApK3iv2Sfbc?...
Judith Weir: Still, Glowing
YouTube video by Dalia Stasevska - Topic
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May 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
#nightmusic
Judith Weir #botd in 1954: "Still, Glowing".
Weir's own note states: "Still, Glowing (2008) for an orchestra of strings, flutes, clarinets and keyboard percussion, is my one and (so far) only attempt at writing 'ambient music'."
youtu.be/ApK3iv2Sfbc?...
Judith Weir #botd in 1954: "Still, Glowing".
Weir's own note states: "Still, Glowing (2008) for an orchestra of strings, flutes, clarinets and keyboard percussion, is my one and (so far) only attempt at writing 'ambient music'."
youtu.be/ApK3iv2Sfbc?...
"Good and Evil and Other Stories" by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell. Injecting the weird into the ordinary.
#bookreview
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#bookreview
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Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin
Mainly book reviews, occasional poetry and short fiction, musings about literature and classical music
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April 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"Good and Evil and Other Stories" by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell. Injecting the weird into the ordinary.
#bookreview
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#bookreview
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James MacMillan: "The World's Ransoming" -
having some holy fun playing "spot the chant" (and the chorale....)
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having some holy fun playing "spot the chant" (and the chorale....)
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The World's Ransoming
YouTube video by Sir Colin Davis - Topic
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April 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
James MacMillan: "The World's Ransoming" -
having some holy fun playing "spot the chant" (and the chorale....)
youtu.be/nt_HUQPV92w?...
having some holy fun playing "spot the chant" (and the chorale....)
youtu.be/nt_HUQPV92w?...