With a little help from Kevin Ayers, Nico warms up the stage for Can in 1975. (Bonus Ash Ra Tempel action, too.) Listen in. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8241187...

Actors who would have made or might still make good Odysseuses • William Powell • Robert Guillaume • Jack Nicholson • Forest Whitaker • Walton Goggins • Buster Keaton

Just FYI, there's a new Orchestra Baobab record coming in October. One song out now. strut.bandcamp.com/album/made-i...

Made In Senegal, by Orchestra Baobab

12 track album

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Hi there! Sorry for the delayed email but I've been really busy with not wanting to reply to you.

The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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Evergreen. The future is past.

Quick ping for this if anyone missed it a couple of weeks ago. Extended piece on some texts that inform how I do my work and some w/specific reference to Keshed. Feat. Naomi Booth, @regretteruane.bsky.social @vvwelby.bsky.social, #BookSky 📚 1/ stuhennigan.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

How To Get Keshed and Influence People (again)

Or, what the fuck is a rhizome, dude?

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How I spent my birthday week.

I haven't seen that one movie but I'm hoping it boosts enrollments at every university classics department worldwide.

If you've read the Guardian's list of 40 best Kinks songs and are looking for a little more insight into Ray's songwriting and other things, might I humbly (well, not so humbly) recommend this little book by me: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-kinks

The Kinks | Reaktion Books

Of all the great British bands to emerge from the 1960s, none had a stronger sense of place than the Kinks. Often described as the archetypal English band, they were above all a quintessentially worki...

reaktionbooks.co.uk

If you've read the Guardian's list of 40 best Kinks songs and are looking for a little more insight into Ray's songwriting and other things, might I humbly (well, not so humbly) recommend this little book by me: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-kinks

The Kinks | Reaktion Books

Of all the great British bands to emerge from the 1960s, none had a stronger sense of place than the Kinks. Often described as the archetypal English band, they were above all a quintessentially worki...

reaktionbooks.co.uk

I see Werner Herzog has announced that his new film is called, appallingly, Bucking Fastard. I have great admiration for the man and his work, but holy hell does he have a blind spot when it comes to titles.

Pleased to say that both books I'm writing at present, one nonfiction and one most certainly fiction, are achieving the state of unhingedness that I always feel but am too well brought up to unleash in polite (academic) company. YOLO, etc.

So would you say the new Christopher Nolan movie is something I really (ahem) oughta see?

Sometimes you come up with a really good title, and the rest of the book writes itself.

I performed parts of this in high school, which led me to more Beckett, which led me to Joyce, which led me to study in Dublin, which led me to get a PhD in Irish history, which... etc And the thing about starting out with Godot is that I've never shaken the feeling that all of the above is futile.

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm revising a manuscript and boy is it wrenching to delete all my clever asides and profanities, but at least it makes me feel like I'm making progress, goddamn it.

I hit you. And I'm jolly glad I hit you, too.

I just learned that the term "space opera" does not, in fact, refer to a sci fi story where everybody sings their lines.

Confession: Writing is very difficult, and I can see why some--many? most?--humans might want a robot to do it for them.

Spotted in a Nashville recording studio.

Still one of only three - three! - books about John Cale (excluding all the VU books, obvs).

farsouthproject@farsouthproject.bsky.social · 3w ago

What's Welsh For Zen. Only dipped into it from time to time. Now reading it cover to cover after listening to a lot of La Monte Young, Angus MacLise and Terry Conrad. I get a deeper perspective on Cale's psychology and Warhol's Factory. Beautiful book. Early photos and drawings. With Victor Bockris.

Eh. He wasn't even the most interesting Graham to have died in the last 175 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvest...

Sylvester Graham - Wikipedia

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I am about to finish the second draft of a book I've kinda/sorta been writing for 6ish years. Hoping to draw this last bit out as long as possible.

Found a Nancy Mitford book and a Roger Deakin book in the local little free libraries today. Clearly my corner of Nashville is being settled by Radio 4-listening Hay-attending wild-swimming Brits of a certain age (I snagged both, of course).

Fellow authors: without any (or very much) context, what's the first line of your current WIP?

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4w ago

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP?

The teen is baking chocolate-chip brownies and listening to Elliott Smith songs turned ALL THE WAY UP, which of course is the only way we cook in this house.

Ah, the simple joy of finally getting your query letter into fighting form after sending out an earlier terrible version to every literary agent on the planet.

I'm reading Lonesome Dove and suddenly I have an itch to go out and repair a fence or two, maybe cook up some beans.