Herb Randall
@herbrandall.bsky.social
Ukraine, Estonia and e-Residency, books, classical music (mostly Mahler). Writing at @PuncturedLines @apofenie @LAReviewofBooks @On_The_Seawall @Statorec
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in case someone recalls..
an American kids scifi book maybe from the 40s or 50s, about a kid (& his friend?) who walked from N. America to Europe across the Atlantic seabed, wearing pressurized suits
don't recall the name, can't find reference to it
it is possible I dreamt it but I don't think so
an American kids scifi book maybe from the 40s or 50s, about a kid (& his friend?) who walked from N. America to Europe across the Atlantic seabed, wearing pressurized suits
don't recall the name, can't find reference to it
it is possible I dreamt it but I don't think so
September 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
in case someone recalls..
an American kids scifi book maybe from the 40s or 50s, about a kid (& his friend?) who walked from N. America to Europe across the Atlantic seabed, wearing pressurized suits
don't recall the name, can't find reference to it
it is possible I dreamt it but I don't think so
an American kids scifi book maybe from the 40s or 50s, about a kid (& his friend?) who walked from N. America to Europe across the Atlantic seabed, wearing pressurized suits
don't recall the name, can't find reference to it
it is possible I dreamt it but I don't think so
Early fall evening in the White Mountains
September 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Early fall evening in the White Mountains
З Днем Незалежності 🇺🇦 I cooked Ukrainian borshch as a small way to honor the occasion
August 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
З Днем Незалежності 🇺🇦 I cooked Ukrainian borshch as a small way to honor the occasion
Does anyone know if @sublunary.bsky.social is still operating? I’ve not received any subscription mailings this year. I’ve sent a support email but it’s gone unanswered and they don’t seem active here or on X recently. I hope all is ok with them, one of my favorite small publishers.
June 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Does anyone know if @sublunary.bsky.social is still operating? I’ve not received any subscription mailings this year. I’ve sent a support email but it’s gone unanswered and they don’t seem active here or on X recently. I hope all is ok with them, one of my favorite small publishers.
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I'm saddened by the loss of Tim Mohr. Among Tim's many accomplishments were his translations of work by Alina Bronsky and Wolfgang Herrndorf, collaborations with Duff McKagan and Paul Stanley, and his own definitive history of East German punk, Burning Down the Haus.
March 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm saddened by the loss of Tim Mohr. Among Tim's many accomplishments were his translations of work by Alina Bronsky and Wolfgang Herrndorf, collaborations with Duff McKagan and Paul Stanley, and his own definitive history of East German punk, Burning Down the Haus.
Live music is the best. Don’t be lazy, just get out, go to the show! (Saturday night in Portland, Maine)
March 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Live music is the best. Don’t be lazy, just get out, go to the show! (Saturday night in Portland, Maine)
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Uilleam Blacker and I are delighted to launch The Ukraine Shelf, a podcast where we speak with leading authors, intellectuals, scholars, and journalists about Ukraine and its place in the world. 📚Time to make space for a new bookshelf—you’ll need it! 🎧 Link below.
March 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Uilleam Blacker and I are delighted to launch The Ukraine Shelf, a podcast where we speak with leading authors, intellectuals, scholars, and journalists about Ukraine and its place in the world. 📚Time to make space for a new bookshelf—you’ll need it! 🎧 Link below.
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@geoliminal.bsky.social has this story about a lost film, rediscovered and shown to an eager audience of cinephiles, and halfway through, the story becomes a detective noir with a twist.
IDK, I think about that story a lot.
You should buy his book.
malarkeybooks.com/store/toadst...
IDK, I think about that story a lot.
You should buy his book.
malarkeybooks.com/store/toadst...
Toadstones by Eric Williams — Malarkey
Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star’s lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper’s final job for her late employer. An exhumation to retrieve a poetry manuscri...
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February 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
@geoliminal.bsky.social has this story about a lost film, rediscovered and shown to an eager audience of cinephiles, and halfway through, the story becomes a detective noir with a twist.
IDK, I think about that story a lot.
You should buy his book.
malarkeybooks.com/store/toadst...
IDK, I think about that story a lot.
You should buy his book.
malarkeybooks.com/store/toadst...
Perfect company on this snowy Sunday: Sibelius and @drdavidvernon.bsky.social’s SUN FOREST LAKE, an erudite exploration of the Finnish composer’s music. Difficult to put down, yet every page is a springboard to discover more works of art that share kinship with the music. Highly recommended!
February 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Perfect company on this snowy Sunday: Sibelius and @drdavidvernon.bsky.social’s SUN FOREST LAKE, an erudite exploration of the Finnish composer’s music. Difficult to put down, yet every page is a springboard to discover more works of art that share kinship with the music. Highly recommended!
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The life of the word resides in the fact that it tenses and strains to produce a thousand associations, like the quartered body of the snake of legend, whose separate pieces sought each other in the dark.
Bruno Schulz, ‘The Mythologization of Reality’, tr Bates
www.brunoschulz.org/mythologizat...
Bruno Schulz, ‘The Mythologization of Reality’, tr Bates
www.brunoschulz.org/mythologizat...
BRUNO SCHULZ
www.brunoschulz.org
February 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The life of the word resides in the fact that it tenses and strains to produce a thousand associations, like the quartered body of the snake of legend, whose separate pieces sought each other in the dark.
Bruno Schulz, ‘The Mythologization of Reality’, tr Bates
www.brunoschulz.org/mythologizat...
Bruno Schulz, ‘The Mythologization of Reality’, tr Bates
www.brunoschulz.org/mythologizat...
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A. S. Byatt talk earlier today with @herbrandall.bsky.social @yelenafurman.bsky.social @petipaw.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social made me pull this one from the shelves. I’m going to reread the quartet. ❤️
February 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
A. S. Byatt talk earlier today with @herbrandall.bsky.social @yelenafurman.bsky.social @petipaw.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social made me pull this one from the shelves. I’m going to reread the quartet. ❤️
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. “The Children's Book” was mentioned several times, so I’ll try that next, as well as “The Game”, before continuing on to the Frederica Quartet.
A question for my fellow literary-minded friends here: I’ve recently read A.S. Byatt’s “The Matisse Stories” and enjoyed them thoroughly. It’s the first Byatt I’ve read since Possession long ago when it was newly published. What work of hers would you recommend I read next?
February 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. “The Children's Book” was mentioned several times, so I’ll try that next, as well as “The Game”, before continuing on to the Frederica Quartet.
A question for my fellow literary-minded friends here: I’ve recently read A.S. Byatt’s “The Matisse Stories” and enjoyed them thoroughly. It’s the first Byatt I’ve read since Possession long ago when it was newly published. What work of hers would you recommend I read next?
February 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A question for my fellow literary-minded friends here: I’ve recently read A.S. Byatt’s “The Matisse Stories” and enjoyed them thoroughly. It’s the first Byatt I’ve read since Possession long ago when it was newly published. What work of hers would you recommend I read next?
Someone is very happy for the morning’s fresh snow
January 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Someone is very happy for the morning’s fresh snow
I finally tried the famous Tom Nichols lamb recipe. Can confirm: just follow this recipe from his grandmother, ignore the temptation to adjust. I cooked to an internal temperature of 135 F and let rest for 20 minutes for rare / medium rare perfection.
January 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I finally tried the famous Tom Nichols lamb recipe. Can confirm: just follow this recipe from his grandmother, ignore the temptation to adjust. I cooked to an internal temperature of 135 F and let rest for 20 minutes for rare / medium rare perfection.
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Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris #Morris24 #TandTMON starts today, December 17th! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/t... via @paperpills10.bsky.social
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris #Morris24 #TandTMON starts today, December 17th!
They are not inhibited by fashion, public opinion or political correctness. They are exiles in their own communities, because they are always in a minority, but they form a mighty nation, if they o…
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December 17, 2024 at 1:35 PM
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere by Jan Morris #Morris24 #TandTMON starts today, December 17th! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/t... via @paperpills10.bsky.social
Christmas market in Strasbourg, France
December 4, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Christmas market in Strasbourg, France
Thanksgiving snow
November 29, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Thanksgiving snow
There is so much wonder to experience if you just remember to look
November 28, 2024 at 5:31 AM
There is so much wonder to experience if you just remember to look
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i just uploaded my own humble contribution to the $5 sampler, which meant i got to peek at the stuff that other Malarkers have put into it and, folks...lemme tell ya...
...get in on this one immediately, for real
...get in on this one immediately, for real
Project Malarkey continues, now 25% toward our goal. Put $5 toward sustaining a tiny ass press run out of some guy’s house in Missouri and you’ll be rewarded with a digital sampler featuring writing from a bunch of our authors.
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Project Malarkey
While the big publishers follow trends, we follow our interests and our hearts. We need your help to stay afloat.
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November 26, 2024 at 5:06 PM
i just uploaded my own humble contribution to the $5 sampler, which meant i got to peek at the stuff that other Malarkers have put into it and, folks...lemme tell ya...
...get in on this one immediately, for real
...get in on this one immediately, for real
Excellent mail day today! I’ve really been looking forward to hearing this new album from Cracker, packed full of alternative versions, rare demos, and live recordings from across their career, not just the songs forced on you by some streaming algorithm. Check it out! @davidclowery.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Excellent mail day today! I’ve really been looking forward to hearing this new album from Cracker, packed full of alternative versions, rare demos, and live recordings from across their career, not just the songs forced on you by some streaming algorithm. Check it out! @davidclowery.bsky.social
This really is a fantastic book!
Today's best deal, courtesty of
@nagletx.bsky.social:
A free EPUB/PDF of Robert Hillyer's A Heart for Hostage, a story of a failed romance in Paris at the end of WWI. When I wrote about in 2019, I said it "may be the closest thing to a perfect book that I’ve come across."
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@nagletx.bsky.social:
A free EPUB/PDF of Robert Hillyer's A Heart for Hostage, a story of a failed romance in Paris at the end of WWI. When I wrote about in 2019, I said it "may be the closest thing to a perfect book that I’ve come across."
www.personvillepress...
November 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM
This really is a fantastic book!