“we call this flavor ‘the shoggoth.’ it opens the mind to non-euclidian geometry. it drove three of our top technicians to madness.”
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · yesterdayThe money pit restaurant I would open as a billionaire would be the opposite of farm to table. What are the most unnatural flavors possible? Hiring top food scientists, giving a blank check and telling them to really explore the dark corners of the flavor latent space. I want to taste eternity.
This is exactly how I looked last night when I saw the line to get carry out at Carrburritos.
Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 16h agoJust in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.
Lots of people will weigh in with thoughts on Anne Carson in the coming days, but I will just note that she wins the epigraph game
And so Anne Carson becomes the only Nobel Laureate I have ever met on a public bus.
Formal beauty is easy. Making the grotesque beautiful, that's another story.
Leatherface with Chainsaw at Sunset
ALT: Leatherface with Chainsaw at Sunset
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Night of the Hunter and it isn't even fucking close.
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧@selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · yesterdayWhat's the most beautiful horror movie you've ever seen? I would say Kwaidan, though I realize that's a pretty basic answer. But given Kwaidan as a benchmark, can you recommend a horror (or horror-adjacent) movie in that league, or even more gorgeous?
There is no other answer than the Night of the Hunter.
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧@selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · yesterdayWhat's the most beautiful horror movie you've ever seen? I would say Kwaidan, though I realize that's a pretty basic answer. But given Kwaidan as a benchmark, can you recommend a horror (or horror-adjacent) movie in that league, or even more gorgeous?
What's the most beautiful horror movie you've ever seen? I would say Kwaidan, though I realize that's a pretty basic answer. But given Kwaidan as a benchmark, can you recommend a horror (or horror-adjacent) movie in that league, or even more gorgeous?
@indyweek.bsky.social featured AHP author Adam O'Fallon Price and his debut short story collection, Objects of Desire, available now! Congrats to @adamoprice.bsky.social, and thank you to INDY Week, photographer Matt Ramey, and culture editor Sarah Edwards! indyweek.com/news/culture...
Adam O'Fallon Price's Compelling Stories of Characters at Rock Bottom
"Objects of Desire," Chapel Hill writer Adam O'Fallon Price's debut short story collection, releases on October 6.
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Major thanks to Adrian Van Young!
Southwest Review@southwestreview.bsky.social · 3d ago“Still the clear-eyed iconoclast after sixteen years, drawing us in with allegory, then demolishing our minds with words.” Read Adrian Van Young on ACID GREEN VELVET by Grace Krilanovich out now via @twodollarradio.bsky.social 💥 southwestreview.com/hobo-fever-d...
i am glad to see Charles is bringing Reznikoff’s TESTIMONY to more readers. it’s a landmark work of documentary poetry that draws on courtroom records from USA at end of 19th/start of 20th C. it won’t be like much you have read before
Charles Boyle@cbeditions.bsky.social · 2d agoCB editions October newsletter: a brick: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/10/news...
literary/genre distinctions got you stressed? How about a weirdo transsexual cryptid that just might shatter your heart? bookshop.org/p/books/okps...
Okpsyche
★ "DeNiro's novel is a lyrical, emotionally powerful story . . . of queer parenthood, of the reality of the sharp fear of trans lives, and of complicated self-discovery." - Booklist (starred review)In...
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Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · 3d agoAnti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
Jeff Parker knows. Playing music is fun but intentionally making music you want to listen to is infinitely more gratifying.
The Tonearm@thetonearm.com · 3d agoTen years after 'The New Breed' merged his love of J Dilla with his background in jazz composition, Tortoise guitarist Jeff Parker discusses mentorship, the practical realities of a music career, and why he makes the records he wants to hear. Working it Out — Jeff Parker Revisits 'The New Breed':
Is it “true crime”? Is it horror? Could be. It *is* a memoir. I would argue that it’s sadly, disturbingly, timeless. Free shipping Oct 6-7 from Bookshop. bookshop.org/p/books/exca...
Excavation: A Memoir
The acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir from Wendy C. Ortiz A darkly vibrant and daring memoir, Wendy C. Ortiz's Excavation challenged the standard telling of abuse narratives when first published in...
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Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · 3d agoAnti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
"Absolute Elsewhere" by Blood Incantation just became my favorite album of all time (or at least this Monday). What a beautiful, amazing record! The music really sounds just like the cover looks--perfect match.
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
There is only one album that defines me as a person.
I’m reading a collection of Joyce Carol Oates crime novels, but was self-conscious about having the lurid pulpy pinup cover at my daughter’s jujitsu class, so I had her draw a new one. Ewok in a top hat works much better.
Thank you Esmé O'Keefe for the lovely review of my translation of Mathias Énard's PERFECTING THE SHOT! "It is to Mandell’s credit that her translation keeps pace with the breathlessness of Énard’s writhing prose." Thank you for mentioning the translation! www.ft.com/content/c228...
Perfecting the Shot — an immersive view of the act of killing
Mathias Énard’s dive into the psyche of a teenage sniper verges on the claustrophobic — but therein lies the power of this expertly translated French novel
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my latest for the sun magazine: i interviewed translator megan mcdowell about the universal language of horror
Shudder to Think
Whether there’s a monster, a crazy person, or something supernatural, we’re compelled to keep reading even as part of us wants to look away. That tension between curiosity and fear is what makes horro...
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All shows should be like this: on Wednesday, over before 10, and metal.
Ross Grady@rossgrady.dood.net.ap.brid.gy · last wk.I just went to a three-band metal show at a local bar. It is Wednesday night. The first band was onstage by 7:40 and the last band was finished by 9:35. I was home by 9:50. I had honestly assumed that *everything* about this post-2020 timeline was utterly shitty. It is legit disconcerting to […]
YOU: *a fool, from Connecticut* you can't say that pop country sucks!!! it's an authentic American folkway!!! I respect "honky tonk bandonkadonk!" ME: *wise beyond measure, from Kentucky* actually everything sucks
Yeggs, grifters, and revolutionaries scheme and dream in Grace Krilanovich's excellent new novel Acid Green Velvet biblioklept.org/2026/09/29/y...
Yeggs, grifters, and revolutionaries scheme and dream in Grace Krilanovich’s excellent new novel Acid Green Velvet
In Grace Krilanovich’s Acid Green Velvet, nearly everyone is trying to invent a new self. Tramps become philosophers, grifters become visionaries, labor organizers become prophets, mystics be…
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how on earth is J Macsis, of all the flanneled ‘90s burnouts, still writing great songs open.spotify.com/track/6duF3d...
No Friends
Dinosaur Jr. · There Near · Song · 2026
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