Félicitations, mon cher !

Howard A. Rodman@rodman.bsky.social · 3d ago

I am now officially generated and veneered. #emeritus

nithin like the sense of freedom after meeting two droo sead deadlines in a single evening

Why did the armadillo cross the road?

the Infrastructure Film Fest, wish I could be there

Ingrid Burrington@lifewinning.com · last wk.

filmforum.org/series/nyc-i... this film series is definitely the special interest of some sickos on here, but what the hell only one screening of THE WARRIORS and it's at 1pm on a Tuesday

that is : portrait of a reader

Endless Bookshelf@endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · last wk.

this just up on the ’shelf, a nice pirtrait of a reader endlessbookshelf.net/2026/07/27/b...

this just up on the ’shelf, a nice pirtrait of a reader endlessbookshelf.net/2026/07/27/b...

recent reading : — Ian Penman. Erik Satie Three Piece Suite. Semiotext(e), [2025]. Fascinating ! Formally innovative or even bonkers but what a delight to read !

Robin Lane Fox on the gardens of Ogygia and Phaeacia and orchards in Homer’s Odyssey : hilarious & interesting, what a fine writer ! / in this weekend’s FT

SFO -> EWR

[yes, the internet, am back within range of, &c.]

if he had to dress it as fiction, there must be something there

Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · 2w ago

Seems to be a single copy in the Los Angeles Public Library system. Also, I found a couple of online comments from people who'd read it, and they were meh about it. (I like the suggestion that it started out as nonfiction and Bodeen was warned he might be sued.)

If this isn't John Waters' next movie I'm going to be very sad.

cheers ! after a week plus of writing & walking / from the undisclosed location

& some forty plus years later, I wrote “A Detective in Elfland“ : a critical fiction or collision of Chandler, Elfland, & Wittgenstein, part of The Elfland Prepositions temporary-culture.com/product/the-...

Endless Bookshelf@endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Raymond Chandler / born 13 July 1888 Reading ‘Killer in the Rain’ was an education and single dose corrective to prose excesses rooted in obsessive teenage readings of H. P. Lovecraft. endlessbookshelf.net/2025/12/03/c...

Raymond Chandler / born 13 July 1888 Reading ‘Killer in the Rain’ was an education and single dose corrective to prose excesses rooted in obsessive teenage readings of H. P. Lovecraft. endlessbookshelf.net/2025/12/03/c...

What a wonderful day that was ! I remember meeting you at KGB ! temporary-culture.com/conversation... / from an undisclosed location

Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c.@gavingrant.bsky.social · 2w ago

25 years ago Kelly & I published our first season's titles — all 2 of them: first collections from Kelly (Stranger Things Happen; art: Shelley Jackson) & Ray Vukcevich (Meet Me in the Moon Room; art Rafał Olbinski). Buy either this month, we'll send you both: smallbeerpress.com/not-a-journa...

from the undisclosed location

EWR -> SFO & then offline & into the woods

watery topics on the Endless Bookshelf for these hot July days review of L’internationale des rivières by Camille de Toledo, an important book on law, ecology, & the future ; also Gerard Manley Hopkins on mermaids and recent reading endlessbookshelf.net

I have read the complete cycle, out of sequence, and several of the novels more than once or twice ; with the Dance I don’t think it matters whether or not one reads the books in any particular order, for Powell’s prose moves across time within each book . . . endlessbookshelf.net/2026/01/29/r...

Tomás Murray@tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 3w ago

“I was not yet old enough to be aware of the immense rage that can be secreted in the human heart by cumulative minor irritation.”

Awesome gnarly pavement Pittsburgh, PA

Hampstead Heath, 07:54

any time is a good time to read Robert Sheckley !

Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4w ago

I haven’t read Sheckley for as long time! Maybe it’s time to go back

Borges, Davidson, and Sheckley. The best of the best

Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ballard, Borges, and Calvino. The best of the best.

what a fun evening ! to see a great writer & an old pal, Howard Rodman « aka @rodman.bsky.social », read & talk so candidly about his writings & his life in a crowded room full of friends / file under : this literary life

a new, post-capitalist economic model

Endless Bookshelf@endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 4w ago

review of L’internationale des rivières by Camille de Toledo / one of the most remarkable books I have read in several years endlessbookshelf.net/2026/07/07/l...

review of L’internationale des rivières by Camille de Toledo / one of the most remarkable books I have read in several years endlessbookshelf.net/2026/07/07/l...

“There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour.” — Frederick Douglass. Oration, July 5th, 1852 / evergreen ; and as true in 2026 as in 1852, alas endlessbookshelf.net/2025/07/05/c...

the essay by Susanna Clarke on illness, Woolf, and narrative is outstanding Clarke’s Piranesi (2020) is a wonderful book endlessbookshelf.net/2021/06/19/b...

"This was an insight that I too gained in illness, and it is part of what I tried to write about in Piranesi: that there is a whole world endlessly going on, endlessly being beautiful, regardless of whether anyone is there to see it or not." Very moving piece ♥️

Oliver K. Langmead@oliverklangmead.bsky.social · last mo.

Susanna Clarke on illness www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...