Gregory Crosby
@monostich.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
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I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
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Away with them to prison
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Away with them to prison
Fantastic cover for this.
Cover reveal for Frolic's first release!
80th Anniversary Edition with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell @ramseycampbell.bsky.social
New over illustration by James Hutton
trade paper and e-book available:
February 10, 2026
frolicpress.ink
#FritzLeiber
#RamseyCampbell
#WeirdFiction
#CoverReveal
80th Anniversary Edition with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell @ramseycampbell.bsky.social
New over illustration by James Hutton
trade paper and e-book available:
February 10, 2026
frolicpress.ink
#FritzLeiber
#RamseyCampbell
#WeirdFiction
#CoverReveal
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Fantastic cover for this.
Fun fact: I'm reading Garrett Graff's Watergate: A New History this week, and from the perspective of 2025, all I can think about nearly every aspect of the story is "How quaint."
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Fun fact: I'm reading Garrett Graff's Watergate: A New History this week, and from the perspective of 2025, all I can think about nearly every aspect of the story is "How quaint."
I also don't recognize that name, but that simply means I, like Bartleby, simply have the freedom of the prison yard.
It must be really nice not being Very Online. In therapy yesterday I mentioned the name of Graham Linehan and my therapist didn't recognise the name. Can you imagine being that free?
November 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I also don't recognize that name, but that simply means I, like Bartleby, simply have the freedom of the prison yard.
Am I really going to have to give up the Gmail account I've had since *the turn of the century?* Goddamn this technofascist piece of shit era all the way down to hell.
Google has now admitted that they will tap into users' personal data within Gmail and Drive in order for their upcoming AI search to "be more helpful".
For years, Google has advertised their services as "encrypted" and "secure", which begs the question: are they really?
1/5 🧵
For years, Google has advertised their services as "encrypted" and "secure", which begs the question: are they really?
1/5 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Am I really going to have to give up the Gmail account I've had since *the turn of the century?* Goddamn this technofascist piece of shit era all the way down to hell.
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I would like to skip the ringside seat at this debauched circus and go straight to the empty field where the tent once stood.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I would like to skip the ringside seat at this debauched circus and go straight to the empty field where the tent once stood.
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Not that the Times hasn't been making a lot of decisions that made its objectivity questionable but what is the recourse for being this compromised?
This article is utterly damning for the New York Times and also for Vanity Fair and ABC, whose editorial teams were apparently intimidated into silence by a mix of legal and violent threats. Virginia Giuffre did not stand a chance against all this.
This story by @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social about Landon Thomas, former NYT reporter now appearing in the latest email tranche, soliciting a $30k contribution from Jeffrey Epstein?
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
Yes, you can read it here
www.npr.org/2019/08/22/7...
November 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Not that the Times hasn't been making a lot of decisions that made its objectivity questionable but what is the recourse for being this compromised?
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Billionaire Philanthropist
Regulated Tech
Human Intelligence
Regulated Tech
Human Intelligence
Oxymorons for 2025
Deafening Silence Exact Estimate Working Democracy Slow Newsweek Mild Headache Fair Election Impartial Judge Justice Department Separation of Power...
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Billionaire Philanthropist
Regulated Tech
Human Intelligence
Regulated Tech
Human Intelligence
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At the Edge of the Cliff - Laura Knight, ca. 1917
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
At the Edge of the Cliff - Laura Knight, ca. 1917
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
November 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
Justice Louis Brandeis, born on this day in 1856
Yes. The Portable opened up Faulkner to me in a way a single work wouldn’t have.
There was nothing middlebrow at all about THE PORTABLE FAULKNER, au contraire. In the brilliance of its editorial selections and, esp., its critical introduction, it holds its brow very very high.
didn't realize that faulkner's career was rebooted by a portable version of his works. score another W for middlebrow www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Yes. The Portable opened up Faulkner to me in a way a single work wouldn’t have.
Showing a class a documentary about Marshall McLuhan only to look up and see nearly all of them staring at their phones; achievement unlocked.
November 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Showing a class a documentary about Marshall McLuhan only to look up and see nearly all of them staring at their phones; achievement unlocked.
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Beautiful essay by Becca Rothfeld on Ingeborg Bachmann in @thenation.com.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Ghosts of Ingeborg Bachmann
Haunted by a dark past, the poet and novelist tried to explore the limits of language itself.
www.thenation.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Beautiful essay by Becca Rothfeld on Ingeborg Bachmann in @thenation.com.
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Good question, isn’t it?
why the fuck didn’t any of this stuff come out when Biden was president
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Good question, isn’t it?
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One day the US will have to face the shame and horror of what has happened here: that a cabal of wealthy people have elevated a monster into the most powerful person in the world www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
One day the US will have to face the shame and horror of what has happened here: that a cabal of wealthy people have elevated a monster into the most powerful person in the world www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
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as a French theory enjoyer this is correct
being an evil student of humanities is basically just being a French philosopher /s
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
as a French theory enjoyer this is correct
After reading Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus as a teenager, I knew I would never commit suicide.
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
After reading Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus as a teenager, I knew I would never commit suicide.
Nothing more boring than boredom itself.
November 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Nothing more boring than boredom itself.
It would explain much.
VAMPIRE JAMES BOND
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
It would explain much.
We could all use a smooch.
Broke: friends to lovers
Woke: mutuals to smoochuals
Woke: mutuals to smoochuals
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
We could all use a smooch.
