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THE ELFLAND PREPOSITIONS Four original short stories by Henry Wessells “an Elfland as implacable as ever, but now ruthlessly enmeshed in contemporary mortal affairs” (Mark Valentine) temporary-culture.com/product/the-...

“In short, the Map is useless, but you are advised to keep consulting it, because it is the only one you will get. And, be warned. If you take this Tour, you are going to have to visit every single place on this Map, whether it is marked or not. This is a Rule . . . .” — Diana Wynne Jones

remember ! what Diana Wynne Jones wrote in The Tough Guide to Fantasyland (1996)

not me, ern

I don’t know when WSB wrote this in the copy I’d sent him, except that it would have been over 28 yrs ago, on July 31, in Lawrence. Leary had encouraged him to read Neuromancer and he’d liked it, which thrilled me. We hadn’t yet met, and wouldn’t for a few yrs.

Good morning from William Burroughs. It's one week until Halloween.

the fab new Endless Bookshelf tee shirt with design by John Coulthart / one more week at special subscriber price (until 29 Oct.) / get one for a friend, too ! temporary-culture.com/product/endl...

Book Moon are good people ! [here's to many more years !]

still thinking about Ferris F. Fremont / Radio Free Albemuth / since 1985 / Aramchek

Thanks Rudy ! The Penrose triangle was drawn by the amazing John Coulthart ( @johncoulthart.com ) for the Endless Bookshelf. Shirts will be printed in NJ and ready in November (at special subscriber price through next Thursday)

The Hand of Man / photograph by Alfred Steglitz, Camera Work, 1903

you can never post too many pictures of herons

current reading : — Paul McAuley. Loss Protocol. Gollancz, [2026]. endlessbookshelf.net/2026/10/16/october-commonplace-book/

from the morning walk, a very fresh hen of the woods on an oak tree

posting seems wonky today but maybe just me

dreadful truths / cc : @catandgirl.bsky.social

The Great God Pan & The White People by Arthur Machen available for preorder from Suntup on Saturday 17 October at 9:00 a.m. Pacific suntup.press/the-great-go...

at NJ Performing Arts Center in Newark to see Patti Smith as part of the Dodge Poetry Festival

. @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social you will want to read the new book by Liz Hand (see previous post)

Gimme Danger : a note on Unspeakable Things by Elizabeth Hand / an excellent, transgressive book endlessbookshelf.net/2026/10/16/g...

my next book (Fall '27) is a new edition of two classic novellas by Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan & The White People, with an original essay as afterword, printed to the high standards of Suntup Press with new illustrations (also reproducing frontispiece intended for 1894 edition) : exciting !

The Great God Pan & The White People by Arthur Machen a new edition with illustrations by Flora McLachlan, Afterword by Henry Wessells just announced by Suntup Press suntup.press/the-great-go...

still thinking about Ferris F. Fremont / Radio Free Albemuth

in today's mail : — Elizabeth Hand. Unspeakable Things. A Novel. Little Brown, [2026]. the newest from @elizabethhand.bsky.social / what a great epigram from Lytton Strachey ! “I saw these marvelous people, they were utterly beautiful, but they had feathers where brains should be.”

"the president of the US is a wrecker. . . . Current US policymaking is not just reckless and immoral. It is also one of the causes of the world’s unpredictability.” — Martin Wolf, in today's FT

This strip ran on February 8, 1993, a couple of months after the movie came out, so it’s possible that Schulz knew the film rather than the book. But we do know Snoopy is a serous reader (see his frequent references to Anna Karenina), so let’s assume he is a fan of the novella.

current reading : Christopher Morley. Parnassus on Wheels. Doubleday, Page, 1917.

this will be great, you should come, too ! / thank you @gavingrant.bsky.social / and thank you, @jwomack.bsky.social [when Jack Womack speaks, people listen]

How I spent my summer vacation / new at the Endless Bookshelf (books & snapshots, etc.) endlessbookshelf.net/2026/10/11/h...

If my publisher were to hand me LLM back cover copy I would definitely be looking to move.

‘the conventional Western American weapon — the lawsuit — not the six-gun’ Larry McMurtry, in Sacagawea’s Nickname

it's a great dizzying tee shirt buy one for yourself & for a friend

On behalf of the John Crowley Literary Trust, I am pleased to announce a memorial gathering to celebrate the life & writings of John Crowley (1942-2026), on Tuesday 1 December from 6:00 to 7:45 p.m. in Rabb Hall, Boston Public Library preliminary details here : endlessbookshelf.net/2026/10/08/j...

the title of the book is : Sacagawea’s Nickname / file under : what was I thinking ? [book was right in front of me when I typed that !]

you know you need this : Endless Bookshelf tee shirt, with the fabulous design by John Coulthart (aka @johncoulthart.com ) special pre-order price through 29 October temporary-culture.com/product/endl...

current reading : — Larry McMurtry. Sacagawea’s Necklace. Essays on the American West. New York Review Books, [2001]. Great stuff, facts, attitudes, opinions, clearly stated. The closing paragraphs of “The West without Chili” are deft and funny and true.

current reading : — Larry McMurtry. Roads. Driving America’s Great Highways. Simon & Schuster, [2000].

very Philadelphia looking / overheard on east 62nd street, NYC / file under : go figure

Read This ! forthcoming from Liz Hand @elizabethhand.bsky.social

In Part 6 of AUTUMN'S End, we learn more about Death's daughter. floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2026/10/autu...

the view from the hammock / open series / last one of the season

from the morning walk, part of a really moist fresh sulfur shelf / in the woods, Essex county, New Jersey

Networks of New York by Ingrid Burrington (aka @lifewinning.com ) was Endless Bookshelf best book of 2016 in the earlier edition, now more relevant than ever

delightful October mailbag at the Endless Bookshelf, with A Private Matter, essays by printer Chad Oness, & the fab new edition of Networks of New York by @lifewinning.com endlessbookshelf.net/2026/10/03/e...

Read This

good morning, all ! / was away for a week, looking at books & the manuscripts of Voltaire & Rousseau & Nerval & Potocki, &c. I have returned to a world even more unhinged. Did everyone drink some spiked kool-aid or something ? I'd prefer not to

Thought for the day (riffing off discourse elsewhere on BSky): AI isn't real. But p-Zombies are real, and LLMs are machines for turning people who outsource their cognitive functioning to "AI" into p-Zombies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie