Brendan
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I enjoy good books and good shitposts. I don’t post much.
Here’s the original essay: www.theguardian.com/books/2005/a...
The outsider
Novelist Rachel Cusk joined a book group to discuss beauty and truth. Instead she found herself defending Chekhov, and perplexed as to why the English resist stories of everyday life.
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Here’s the original essay: www.theguardian.com/books/2005/a...
@iammilliam.bsky.social ’s anecdote about Cusk’s book club piece in The Guardian left me wanting to dig up the lost response from one of the ladies in said book club ... and I think I found it? It looks like it appeared in the print paper two weeks later! 🔥💅 www.theguardian.com/books/2005/s...
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
@iammilliam.bsky.social ’s anecdote about Cusk’s book club piece in The Guardian left me wanting to dig up the lost response from one of the ladies in said book club ... and I think I found it? It looks like it appeared in the print paper two weeks later! 🔥💅 www.theguardian.com/books/2005/s...
I already knew Epstein was a monster, but can we add to his crimes his use of two commas instead of an ellipsis?
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I already knew Epstein was a monster, but can we add to his crimes his use of two commas instead of an ellipsis?
Andy, if you want your fans to go after your detractors you need to provide a link 🔥⋔
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Andy, if you want your fans to go after your detractors you need to provide a link 🔥⋔
Seeing this just now made me find my copy on my shelf and remember I got it signed after seeing him read at the Dodge Poetry Festival in '04. It's not as lauded as What Work Is or The Simple Truth, but it's one of my favorites anyway
November 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Seeing this just now made me find my copy on my shelf and remember I got it signed after seeing him read at the Dodge Poetry Festival in '04. It's not as lauded as What Work Is or The Simple Truth, but it's one of my favorites anyway
Excuse me: **MERVYN** Peake.
I cannot be weird enough for the British
I cannot be weird enough for the British
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Excuse me: **MERVYN** Peake.
I cannot be weird enough for the British
I cannot be weird enough for the British
I have just discovered that "Mervin Peake" was in fact *not* a pen name.
England: what a country
England: what a country
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I have just discovered that "Mervin Peake" was in fact *not* a pen name.
England: what a country
England: what a country
q. for lawyers/jurists on here: do judges tend to look favorably on purple prose in legal filings (“MAGA myrmidons” etc.)?
language like that seems meant to be quoted in articles and posts, not the person who'll actually rule on the merits.
just curious whether judges will reward or punish them
language like that seems meant to be quoted in articles and posts, not the person who'll actually rule on the merits.
just curious whether judges will reward or punish them
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
q. for lawyers/jurists on here: do judges tend to look favorably on purple prose in legal filings (“MAGA myrmidons” etc.)?
language like that seems meant to be quoted in articles and posts, not the person who'll actually rule on the merits.
just curious whether judges will reward or punish them
language like that seems meant to be quoted in articles and posts, not the person who'll actually rule on the merits.
just curious whether judges will reward or punish them
I want to say 2008? He spoke to me!
To wit [pushing through the crowd to the back of the bar before the readings started]: “’Scuse me, fellas, I gotta use the john.”
The man was a national treasure.
To wit [pushing through the crowd to the back of the bar before the readings started]: “’Scuse me, fellas, I gotta use the john.”
The man was a national treasure.
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I want to say 2008? He spoke to me!
To wit [pushing through the crowd to the back of the bar before the readings started]: “’Scuse me, fellas, I gotta use the john.”
The man was a national treasure.
To wit [pushing through the crowd to the back of the bar before the readings started]: “’Scuse me, fellas, I gotta use the john.”
The man was a national treasure.
I once saw PL reduce a barful of jaded literary New Yorkers to tears by reading "The Two" from this collection.
"Home For the Holidays" and the one about the rats under the Williamsburg Bridge are two other Levine bangers from in here
"Home For the Holidays" and the one about the rats under the Williamsburg Bridge are two other Levine bangers from in here
November 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I once saw PL reduce a barful of jaded literary New Yorkers to tears by reading "The Two" from this collection.
"Home For the Holidays" and the one about the rats under the Williamsburg Bridge are two other Levine bangers from in here
"Home For the Holidays" and the one about the rats under the Williamsburg Bridge are two other Levine bangers from in here
gradually realizing that Mad Men didn’t even come close to capturing how nutty the sixties really was
I made the Frankfurter Loaf, Recipe from 1967
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November 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
gradually realizing that Mad Men didn’t even come close to capturing how nutty the sixties really was
i’ll see your stalactite and raise you a
Breast-shaped hill - Wikipedia
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November 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
i’ll see your stalactite and raise you a
oh they did, baby
www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/b... [gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/b... [gift link]
Vincent Musetto, 74, Dies; Wrote ‘Headless’ Headline of Ageless Fame (Published 2015)
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
oh they did, baby
www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/b... [gift link]
www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/b... [gift link]
guys i’m a loyal npr listener/supporter but i’m not sure why you’re reposting social media copy that’s nine hours out of date on bsky dot app
October 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
guys i’m a loyal npr listener/supporter but i’m not sure why you’re reposting social media copy that’s nine hours out of date on bsky dot app
A bit bummed that Andy couldn’t make it, but it was wonderful to see John (welcome back!) lead such a terrific conversation. Thanks for coming over here
October 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
A bit bummed that Andy couldn’t make it, but it was wonderful to see John (welcome back!) lead such a terrific conversation. Thanks for coming over here
I would love to be at this one bust just can’t justify two work-night city trips in the same week 😫
October 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I would love to be at this one bust just can’t justify two work-night city trips in the same week 😫
NY City eateries, famous for their two-hour hamburgers
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
NY City eateries, famous for their two-hour hamburgers
Babel, not Babylon. I’d delete this but I deserve to be shamed for that
October 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Babel, not Babylon. I’d delete this but I deserve to be shamed for that
“Death and the Compass” is his most banger gangster story, but also “The Book of Sand” — an improvement over “The Library of Babylon” with a similar premise, except all in one book instead of an infinite library.
October 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“Death and the Compass” is his most banger gangster story, but also “The Book of Sand” — an improvement over “The Library of Babylon” with a similar premise, except all in one book instead of an infinite library.
Faulkner hated writing stories, he said he only wrote them when he needed money, but “A Rose For Emily” and “Barn Burning” are extremely good
October 22, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Faulkner hated writing stories, he said he only wrote them when he needed money, but “A Rose For Emily” and “Barn Burning” are extremely good
holy shit, thank you
October 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
holy shit, thank you