Francois Lachance
@lachance.bsky.social
World Citizen since forever. Scholar-at-large since 1996, interested in discourses of technology, sensoria, social reproduction, and poetry as cognitive device.
An old gem: Svevo Brooks, The Art of Good Living: Simple Steps to Regaining Health and the Joy of Life. (1990 but evergreen)
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
An old gem: Svevo Brooks, The Art of Good Living: Simple Steps to Regaining Health and the Joy of Life. (1990 but evergreen)
Might I suggest Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author? It scoots along well and involves a structural twist.
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Might I suggest Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author? It scoots along well and involves a structural twist.
May you have many excellent pastry encounters in Budapest ...
November 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
May you have many excellent pastry encounters in Budapest ...
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel by David Rakoff.
November 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel by David Rakoff.
Reminds me of the George Carlin joke:
Last night I played a blank tape at full blast; the mime next door went nuts.
Last night I played a blank tape at full blast; the mime next door went nuts.
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reminds me of the George Carlin joke:
Last night I played a blank tape at full blast; the mime next door went nuts.
Last night I played a blank tape at full blast; the mime next door went nuts.
On DVD - the 1994 BBC production of Middlemarch - there's a lovely reader's guide (talking heads documentary) with folks such as David Lodge, Terry Eagleton and A.S. Byatt. And the series itself is marvellous -- makes one want to turn to the novel.
November 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
On DVD - the 1994 BBC production of Middlemarch - there's a lovely reader's guide (talking heads documentary) with folks such as David Lodge, Terry Eagleton and A.S. Byatt. And the series itself is marvellous -- makes one want to turn to the novel.
Congratulations. For carrying all that text across the keys...
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Congratulations. For carrying all that text across the keys...
Go little book, go ...
Once it was a physical book, it felt apart from me. A child that had grown up and had to find its own legs, its own place in the world.
Once it was a physical book, it felt apart from me. A child that had grown up and had to find its own legs, its own place in the world.
November 13, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Go little book, go ...
Once it was a physical book, it felt apart from me. A child that had grown up and had to find its own legs, its own place in the world.
Once it was a physical book, it felt apart from me. A child that had grown up and had to find its own legs, its own place in the world.
Ah - praise for the typographical art of a well-placed footnote ...
November 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Ah - praise for the typographical art of a well-placed footnote ...
Great caffeinated haiku !
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Great caffeinated haiku !
I read She Who Knows avidly and devoured the next volume in the trilogy One Way Witch. Looking forward to the final volume The Daughter Who Remains which is slated to come out in 2026. Okorafor is a gifted storyteller and world creator.
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I read She Who Knows avidly and devoured the next volume in the trilogy One Way Witch. Looking forward to the final volume The Daughter Who Remains which is slated to come out in 2026. Okorafor is a gifted storyteller and world creator.