Lee Foust
@leefoust.bsky.social
Out of work professional anarchist living in Naples, Italy, under the volcano, will write novels and poems for food, sometimes corrects people's grammar, not so bad now that you know me.
I feel it's fair from now on, whenever any right-winger begins to speak, to silence them with a gentle but firm, "Quiet piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I feel it's fair from now on, whenever any right-winger begins to speak, to silence them with a gentle but firm, "Quiet piggy."
A medieval historical novel from a friend--racy stuff with a philosophical/moral edge.
Lee Foust's review of Jerusalem
Full disclosure: Not only is the author of this novel, Mathias Wildt, a friend, but we were in a writer's group together for several years in Florence, Italy, while he was working on this expansive vo...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A medieval historical novel from a friend--racy stuff with a philosophical/moral edge.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
I dunno, pretty good writing about how awful you were before you got sober/found God. maybe if you need the illusion of God to be good you're just not meant to be good.
Lee Foust's review of Jesus’ Son
I'm quite torn here so just might mark it as read with no stars to muddy the waters. On the plus side, yes, there are some flashes of brilliance in the writing, veering away from chronology or standar...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I dunno, pretty good writing about how awful you were before you got sober/found God. maybe if you need the illusion of God to be good you're just not meant to be good.
Not quite the "lost classic" it's touted to be, but interesting.
Lee Foust's review of Medusa
3/5: Only three stars means, to me anyway, a good novel--four for excellent and I try to reserve 5 for objective masterpieces and a few personal favorites. Thus this is a solid read, if a bit of the p...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Not quite the "lost classic" it's touted to be, but interesting.
One small consolation for the horror of the new Ballroom/bunker being added to the White House: probably Trump will one day shoot himself in it. Whichever, he's free to chose.
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
One small consolation for the horror of the new Ballroom/bunker being added to the White House: probably Trump will one day shoot himself in it. Whichever, he's free to chose.
A novel as unsettling as reality itself.
Lee Foust's review of Edith's Diary
4/5: Well, this, despite Highsmith's reputation as a writer of mostly crime thrillers and this particular novel as perhaps the closest thing to a serious character study she produced, that is to say a...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A novel as unsettling as reality itself.
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New Halloween cartoons in today’s Noth Things substack.com/@paulnoth/no...
October 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
New Halloween cartoons in today’s Noth Things substack.com/@paulnoth/no...
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Fun postmodern ghost stories! I loved them!
Lee Foust's review of Night Side of the River
5/5: I can't say I'm giving this collection five stars because of any sort of objective professorial opinion that it's one of the great works of occidental literature, but rather because I just really...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Fun postmodern ghost stories! I loved them!
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Una O'Connor in "The Invisible Man" - BOTD
October 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Una O'Connor in "The Invisible Man" - BOTD
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Ach so. Das ist der Plan...
Never forget Epstein.
Never forget Epstein.
October 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Ach so. Das ist der Plan...
Never forget Epstein.
Never forget Epstein.
Are they ALL pedophiles?
October 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Are they ALL pedophiles?
From the obscure annals of the first wave of Gothic, 1790-1810.
Lee Foust's review of The Castle of Montabino
3/5: As a scholar of the literary Gothic I'm always on the lookout for more voices from the shadows. I found the name Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson on a list of early Gothic authors with a link to this bri...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
From the obscure annals of the first wave of Gothic, 1790-1810.
Always a pastor, never a drag queen.
The pattern of "religious" men abusing children is real and documented. It's infuriating that LGBTQ+ people bear the brunt of moral panic rhetoric while the actual harm to children is coming from the very people doing the loudest screaming about "protecting" them. #NotADragQueen
Pastor who raged about kids seeing Pride flags arrested for child abuse - LGBTQ Nation
Silas H. Shelton has been accused of abusing his religious authority to groom a teenage girl.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Always a pastor, never a drag queen.
Just kicked off Halloween season by watching _Vault of Horror_ (1973) while eating the season's first clementines and doing shots of Jack Daniel's Bold and Spicy Rye. Welcome to hardcore October, baby.
October 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Just kicked off Halloween season by watching _Vault of Horror_ (1973) while eating the season's first clementines and doing shots of Jack Daniel's Bold and Spicy Rye. Welcome to hardcore October, baby.
I feel like discovering the cause of Young Republicanism is a whole lot more pressing than discovering the cause of autism.
October 17, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I feel like discovering the cause of Young Republicanism is a whole lot more pressing than discovering the cause of autism.
A wonderful book I wish every city official who ever had anything to do with urban renewal these last 141 years had read (spoiler: they didn't).
Lee Foust's review of Il ventre di Napoli
4/5: Even at 141 years distant this is still an important and wonderful journalistic take on the city of Naples--and, I think, an important critique of poverty, wealth, and urban renewal in general. T...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A wonderful book I wish every city official who ever had anything to do with urban renewal these last 141 years had read (spoiler: they didn't).
Easily the greatest thing ever filmed. This lady is all of us! What a queen. Wish I could vote for her for US president.
She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.
October 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Easily the greatest thing ever filmed. This lady is all of us! What a queen. Wish I could vote for her for US president.
A late Sherlock Holmes novel that's probably not worth your time but is nonetheless pleasant enough.
Lee Foust's review of The Valley of Fear (Sherlock Holmes, #7)
3/5: Certainly a lesser Sherlock Holmes work, this odd novel is basically a typical Holmes short story dragged out to around 100 pages, then another hundred pages (ostensibly backstory) of a Pinkerton...
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October 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A late Sherlock Holmes novel that's probably not worth your time but is nonetheless pleasant enough.
NRA members: if you're not in Chicago, Portland, or LA matching ICE gun for gun right now it's time to hand in your weapon as the excuse that you needed it in case the government became tyrannical is no longer valid.
October 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
NRA members: if you're not in Chicago, Portland, or LA matching ICE gun for gun right now it's time to hand in your weapon as the excuse that you needed it in case the government became tyrannical is no longer valid.
For once not a pastor--but of course a MAGA politician.
October 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
For once not a pastor--but of course a MAGA politician.
If you don't want terrorists, get the fuck out of their countries.
If you don't want protesters, get the fuck out of their cities.
If you don't want protesters, get the fuck out of their cities.
October 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
If you don't want terrorists, get the fuck out of their countries.
If you don't want protesters, get the fuck out of their cities.
If you don't want protesters, get the fuck out of their cities.
Remarkably original and bad at the same time!
Lee Foust's review of Abahn Sabana David
3/5: Well, as in more than one of Duras's later novels, this one simultaneously does something quite original and therefore remarkable, while also failing utterly to be what, by pretty much any concei...
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October 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Remarkably original and bad at the same time!