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Sure is rotten of the New Level of Threat and Fear to do this to the hapless Trump administration

Probably unrelated to the fact the HBO has the rights to that four hour documentary about him.

when ur studying the senator’s body even tho you’ve never studied a man’s body before (not ur thing) and you notice his ass and you examine his ass and it’s like it’s like a pile of muscle

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Assuming Counterpoint is included in the Catapult news, that means that 20% of this year's National Book Awards longlist for fiction was published by imprints that will no longer exist in their current form by the time of awards night.

This sounds like a very mid SNL sketch premise

obviously many more important takeaways from the French approach to protest, but much respect to the absolute varsity level Whimsy of throwing a whole ass piano at the cops

One of my top Taylor novels, without a doubt.

I’m continually astounded by the things people are willing to admit.

AI, the kind the companies want normal people to use in their everyday lives, was invented by bad dorks who can't think about or make or do anything fun or cool or social, and they keep trying to sell it to us as a tool to outsource the doing of cool fun social things as if that's appealing.

"Perhaps that was the discovery, simply that life brings revelations, supplies all the material we need. And if it does not supply it in the right order, then we must simply wait for more to come to light." My post on Anita Brookner's LATECOMERS. readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/10/08/l...

the tech industry is about to invent books

Finally teaching a Taylor story today. Got decent responses to Willa Cather and Edith Wharton, so I’m optimistic about how this will go over.

absolutely incredible shit

rip annie dillard

“Same-sex bathrooms”

Ralph J. Gleason, who got to know John Coltrane on the way up, wrote the liner notes for ‘Coltrane’s Sound’ on Atlantic Records. A memorable first few paragraphs here.

You could tell me this is a music video for a new wave band that went #1 in a half-dozen countries in 1982 and I’d be searching for their Wikipedia page before it ended.

going back in time to tell my teenage secular atheist self that when the war comes i am fighting on the side of the pope against the libidinous rationalist forces

Right now at Sonny Rollins's memorial at St John The Divine.

This article is fascinating! What should, on paper, be the truest possible way to be faithful to the original intent fails to account for technical limitations, now absent, that the original was designed to incorporate and accommodate.

My favorite doorknobs are the ones the New York City public schools installed at the turn of the 20th century. You can still occasionally find one on eBay!

For a certain kind of white man, there is no fear more primal than the fear that the people they have abused will gain power and treat them the same way.

I have no idea what happened in the football game, but why does this look like the back cover of a Dean Koontz novel ©️1983.

My gosh, this Anita Brookner can write.

Never pegged him as a pivoting to a 90s middle part guy

Here’s the 1965 Grade 12 reading list for Mater Christi HS (now St John’s Prep) in Astoria, Queens. It’s fascinating to think of the literary “canon” and its mutations/permutations over time…

Shifting into fall mode (only listening to playlists with titles like “Moody Post-Punk,” “80s Indie Pop w/ Sweaters On,” “Sad Bastards/Mournful Chamber Pop,” and “Heartache Jazz”).

Caroline Blackwood deserves so much more attention. And not just because her parents were an Earl and a Guinness heiress, and her husbands were painter Lucian Freud, composer Israel Citkowitz, and poet Robert Lowell. She also wrote some goddamn great books.

Stephen Colbert on Mary Oliver

My fav Mary Oliver poem.

this is the first major advance in the field of dunkology in decades

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

When your wife drinks half a can of seltzer and then just leaves it somewhere

Dems could choose this moment to make the case that education is for creating free people

It feels like industry is waiting for universities to come up with ideas about how they can use Ai and all I can think is: it is not my job to make your business more profitable.

In 1999, the LA Times asked 36 writers, from Susan Sontag to Elmore Leonard, to share their neglected classics of the century, books they loved but which failed to find the readers they deserved. You can read their responses here: neglectedbooks.com/?...