No 👑 s but this 👑 #NoKings #Evanston

Sage and perennial advice by Evelyn Waugh's dad about the evils of masturbation... Think of cricket instead. Ignore at the peril of a soft brain

Reading Ronald Hayman's biography of Thomas Man on the beach. What a fucking weirdo. I hate him; I love him.

Please enjoy this graph (it's taken since 7 am to finalize the data based on critical engagement with Patrick White). Interest in White has not completely fallen off the cliff apparently. (Essay in progress)

End of a very elaborate search and rescue quest for this 3B pencil that got lost in the deep caverns of my jacket pocket last year.

A stick in both hands, mud up to the waist, new red coat caked in muck. Sorry, not sorry. #Childhoodclassic #GrandadLife

My young friends: the sort of writing you want to do never earned anyone much more than a crust.

I've always insufficiency appreciated Van's Into the Music album

First Goodreads review of my new novel

I hope you have someone in your life who loves you the way Darwin loved earthworms

Successful and I thought an enjoyable launch of my novel Through Pleated Light last night in Evanston IL

A Child's Christmas in Wales and Dylan Thomas's poverty

A visitor on my book this morning
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Embarrassing streak

Every page of every book worth reading says the same thing...

Somerset Maugham was widely read but not always regarded as in the highest rank ("Second Class, rank one"). But some of these sentences are delightfully constructed: "When they arrived, Isabel, with Larry to write down the figures, measured the curtains..."

Second post on this new thing is a Kendrick Lamar stan post. Gloria (with SZA) on constant repeat: open.spotify.com/track/0wgOhY...