Bradley Kaye
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Nobody can ever hold a monopoly on truth.™
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
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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
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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
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?!
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…
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
"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
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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."
One of my favorite writers telling the story of my life. AND, as the job applications pile up the novel query letters pile up... into my mid-40's. Parents gone to the other side. Wife clinging on for dear life. Children soon off to college. What was it worth? Absolutely nothing. Zero. Zilch.
May 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
One of my favorite writers telling the story of my life. AND, as the job applications pile up the novel query letters pile up... into my mid-40's. Parents gone to the other side. Wife clinging on for dear life. Children soon off to college. What was it worth? Absolutely nothing. Zero. Zilch.
In hindsight, the Cure album released a few days before the 2024 election is the perfect soundtrack for the next four years.
April 27, 2025 at 12:50 AM
In hindsight, the Cure album released a few days before the 2024 election is the perfect soundtrack for the next four years.
I scrounged up a Bro' lit starter pack for my teenage son. We're starting a Father Son reading club. Our slogan is either "Bro lit, in tha' house!" Or, "It's lit!" I like the pithiness of the second. My daughter has ideas about the Father Daughter reading club.
April 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I scrounged up a Bro' lit starter pack for my teenage son. We're starting a Father Son reading club. Our slogan is either "Bro lit, in tha' house!" Or, "It's lit!" I like the pithiness of the second. My daughter has ideas about the Father Daughter reading club.
Snoozine Magazine published a story I wrote titled: The Hobbles. 😎Link is below. Hopefully the first chapter in a longer novel.
Partly inspired by the classic Fuzzies novels by H. Beam Piper.
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Partly inspired by the classic Fuzzies novels by H. Beam Piper.
snoozine.wixsite.com/snoozine/the...
The Hobbles | Snoozine
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April 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Snoozine Magazine published a story I wrote titled: The Hobbles. 😎Link is below. Hopefully the first chapter in a longer novel.
Partly inspired by the classic Fuzzies novels by H. Beam Piper.
snoozine.wixsite.com/snoozine/the...
Partly inspired by the classic Fuzzies novels by H. Beam Piper.
snoozine.wixsite.com/snoozine/the...
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon. Yesss! Oh, boy! Best news in publishing in years.
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon: 9781594206108 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The new novel from Thomas Pynchon Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation busines...
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April 9, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon. Yesss! Oh, boy! Best news in publishing in years.
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon! A new novel from the legend out in October. Yesss!
April 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon! A new novel from the legend out in October. Yesss!
Vollmann is one of our greatest living writers/researchers. This is tragic.
«A few years ago, William T. Vollmann was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Then his daughter died.
Then he got dropped by his publisher.
Then he got hit by a car.
Then he got a pulmonary embolism.
But things are looking up».
«A few years ago, William T. Vollmann was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Then his daughter died.
Then he got dropped by his publisher.
Then he got hit by a car.
Then he got a pulmonary embolism.
But things are looking up».
The Last Contract
William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an American Epic
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March 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Vollmann is one of our greatest living writers/researchers. This is tragic.
«A few years ago, William T. Vollmann was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Then his daughter died.
Then he got dropped by his publisher.
Then he got hit by a car.
Then he got a pulmonary embolism.
But things are looking up».
«A few years ago, William T. Vollmann was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Then his daughter died.
Then he got dropped by his publisher.
Then he got hit by a car.
Then he got a pulmonary embolism.
But things are looking up».
I never thought of it this way, but maybe the mass deportation policy is a pipeline into human trafficking. "Hidden in plain sight" so to speak.
March 24, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I never thought of it this way, but maybe the mass deportation policy is a pipeline into human trafficking. "Hidden in plain sight" so to speak.
A theory of everything can only make sense after the end of time and there are no round trips in time.
March 24, 2025 at 2:55 AM
A theory of everything can only make sense after the end of time and there are no round trips in time.
Where are the job postings for Reclusive Author?
March 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Where are the job postings for Reclusive Author?
Gas in America (1987) - a photo I took.
March 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Gas in America (1987) - a photo I took.