wrote about Service buttondown.com/StreetHaunti...

'Service' provokes, comforts, inpsires

The artist and poet John Tottenham's debut novel, 'Service', is fire (he'll hate this descriptor)

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anandi m@anandimish.bsky.social · 2d ago

A novel I didn't foresee as an antidote to ways in which AI will demolish the service industry is John Tottenham's Service (2025). Human beings were always supposed to be at the centre of this industry, irrespective of what AI will have us believe. And its such a warm, funny, chaotic consolation!

'In a rhapsodic single sitting I’d devoured Goodman’s poetic, modern fairytale, and peered out the window staring at nothing, thinking about “the man”, his wife and Helen.' Read Anandi Mishra's Substack on Makenna Goodman's HELEN OF NOWHERE and THE SHAME here:

How Should a Person Be?

sheila heti & makenna goodman: a reading in consonance

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A novel I didn't foresee as an antidote to ways in which AI will demolish the service industry is John Tottenham's Service (2025). Human beings were always supposed to be at the centre of this industry, irrespective of what AI will have us believe. And its such a warm, funny, chaotic consolation!

I wrote about a frustrating, brilliant novel that deals with how devoid of connections and curiosity the world has become, and then, fittingly, I wrote (again) about how AI is ruining the book publishing industry. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

The Maris Review, vol 116

The theme of the week is how AI is making the world (more) stupid What I read this week The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams What to do with this frustrating, brilliant novel! I almost wanted to t...

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Amen. #BookSky

I'm actually fine with sounding old.

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

A film in which a beleagured and unfortunate man embarks on an exhausting journey home during which he is constantly diverted and grapples with mysterious, alluring, tricksy ladies...that's right folks, it's martin scorsese's AFTER HOURS

[reading tons of posts about British politicians and various ministries]: This must be what Premier Leagues transfer news feels like if you don’t follow soccer at all.

Vanquished by the baby you washed is some Athena bullshit

Happy for this guy.

spain ftw ♡

Poor bastard’s starving

DM: ‘You come to large wooden door.’ Cat: ‘I knock at the door.’ DM: ‘An orc opens it and asks you to come in.’ Cat: ‘I do nothing.’ DM ‘He asks you to come inside again.’ Cat: ‘I do nothing.’ DM: ‘Eventually the orc tires and closes the door.’ Cat: ‘I knock at the door.’

last night i was trying to read melancholy of resistance while watching the spain vs france game, and my mushy brain felt like a small damp dog failing two different classes at the same time

my personality is just 17 difft ways of saying "i am currently vibrating with anxiety" & hoping that someone calls it an aesthetic

'Backyard washing" by Pamela Grace, contemporary artist and printmaker living and working in Galloway, Scotland #WomensArt

The story is “a kind of warning”, he said. “Writers have no power, we don’t have armies, most of us do not have any money but what we do is tell the future what the past is like, and so the history of the human race is in our hands.” www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Salman Rushdie in Dublin: ‘What happens when language does not work any more?’

Award-winning novelist warns that people across the world ‘in danger’ of being unable to communicate

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www.saaganthology.com/general/ritw... Sumana Roy on trees in Ritwik Ghatak's movies/life

Ritwik's Trees | SAAG

Largely unrecognized in his lifetime, Indian filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak created a devotional body of work that confronts alienation and Partition, while attending to humanity’s final asylum in the embrac...

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so the @nytimes.com NYT Mag's Letter of Recommendation section has closed as silently as it came into existence?!

www.wsj.com/world/europe...

The World’s Most Surprising Capitalist Makeover Is Under Way in Sweden

Total public social spending is falling, its economy is outpacing European peers and taxes have been cut three years running. Not everyone is happy.

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Leah Wilson rescued an injured crow and keeps receiving gifts from other crows.

Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting ‘thank-you gifts’ from other birds

Since Leah Wilson rescued an injured crow, other birds have left more than half a dozen items for her—from sticks to balls of moss to a smaller bird’s nest.

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multiculturalism is pretty great

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2mo ago

New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind

It's possible to derive joy from other people's joy.

God they’re having so much fun. I wanna be there!

If Mary Oliver were alive today, I have to imagine she'd be writing something like this. (click through for the final stanza - it wouldn't fit on Bluesky and it's worth it ❤️) shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time