Carolyn Kellogg
@paperhaus.bsky.social
Books books books. Editor, writer, reader, clumsy DIYer. Latest: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/07/jordan-harper-violent-masterpiece-la-noir-novel-book-review/687840/
Every time I see a headline like this, I think of the Lazarus Heist podcast. www.bbc.com/audio/series...
BBC Audio | Cyber Hack | The Lazarus Heist S1
Listen to the latest episodes of Cyber Hack | The Lazarus Heist S1 on BBC Audio
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Christopher Farnsworth@chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 15h agoGift link: major hedge funds targeted by cyberattacks www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What’s that you say, one of the Dimes Square folks has a book?
Girl's Yawn and Eye Roll
Alt: Girl's Yawn and Eye Roll
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Me: Why don’t I type some things on this computer this morning? Buster Kitten: If you don’t play with me I’ll … [jumps].. jump onto the stove!
If you’re tempted by a pretty and old-timey word and haven’t read Shakespeare, I’m available for brand consulting. wallsneedlove.com/products/oph...
Ophelia | Wallpaper
Soft neutral floral wallpaper featuring delicate watercolor botanicals in beige, taupe, and gray. Available in peel and stick and traditional wallpaper.
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I finished reading a book and then came outside with heavy gloves and have been weeding but may be violating the first rule of my to-do list: no heatstroke.
At an estate sale with many photos of Richard Nixon, I'm not above buying a juice glass. And a box of file folders, and a wooden t-square. And $1 DVDs (inclding Erin Brokovich, which seemed out of place).
Seems impossible that this isn't a true crime documentary yet. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘I felt sick that he was near my mum’: a top amputation surgeon had his own legs removed due to a fetish. Were his patients safe?
Neil Hopper was celebrated for continuing to do his job despite the loss of his lower limbs. But what the people he was treating didn’t know was that his injuries were self-inflicted. Now they and the...
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The problem with doing even the smallest bit of musical theater way back in elementary school is that you can hear someone mention the soundtrack to Oliver and the next morning wake up singing, “I’d do anything…" www.youtube.com/watch?v=pogd...
Oliver! I'd Do Anything (Musical 1968)
YouTube video by LionHeart
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Now slightly obsessed with Leave Her to Heaven, I’m eager to read all about it. I totally recommend Megan Abbott’s essay at Criterion (after you’ve seen the film). www.criterion.com/current/post...
Leave Her to Heaven: The Eyes of Ellen Berent
In this Technicolor film noir masterpiece, Gene Tierney stars as one of cinema’s most dangerous and sympathetic femmes fatales, a woman who finds it impossible to conform to postwar gender roles.
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It's very hot and I ate lunch late so sat down to watch a little Criterion Channel. Holy cow, Leave Her to Heaven is so good! Noir in glorious technicolor.
Writers with a manuscript! Today is the last day of @sarabandebooks.bsky.social 's Open Submission Period. Poetry, short fiction, hybrid, and nonfiction manuscripts; translation proposals, get them in before midnight! sarabandebooks.submittable.com/submit
Sarabande Books Submission Manager
Sarabande Books is an award-winning independent literary press headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. Established in 1994 to champion poetry, fiction, and essay, we are committed to creating lasting e...
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PS The 40-something guy next to me on a flight who spent 2 hours swiping right & messaging women 15 years younger than him, particularly those with bikini photos, one after the next after the next.
Carolyn Kellogg@paperhaus.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is nothing new but airports are great for people-watching while being awful for music listening.
This time, this time I will get peppers and tomatoes (and tarragon).
I saw The Invite and I think there was an entire old folks' home there to see The Odyssey.
Carolyn Kellogg@paperhaus.bsky.social · last wk.Next step in swamp cooler repair: early matinee to get out of the hot house.
Next step in swamp cooler repair: early matinee to get out of the hot house.
Good morning and welcome to adventures in amateur swamp cooler repair.
This is a great book: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Desert refuseniks, chaotic motherhood and a fight to save the Mojave: Inside Claire Vaye Watkins’ wild new novel
Claire Vaye Watkins, a UC Irvine writing professor, opens up about the inspiration behind her sharp and funny new novel "Yellow Pine."
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Aw man. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-a-brac, has died
Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-a-brac — Sambo dolls, ceramic mammies, and crude renderings of pickaninnies — into potent works of assemblage that mined th...
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Long long travel day. Finally home *and* finished opening the packages of books.
Young man at airport reading Charles Bukowski, new paperback edition.
Once this flight delay hit 2 hours, it became beer o'clock.
Field Notes from a July visit to SpaceX’s South Texas Starbase, where the launch gantries tower over one of our wildest coastal wildernesses, and the alligators bellow back when the rockets fire: fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com/p/rocket-sum...
Rocket Summer
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