YouTube video by ROSALÍA - Topic Reliquia

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YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic Driver 8 (2010 Remaster)

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Helm all over

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Laurent Mauvignier, please

Two Saturdays in a row I’ve got points in quizzes for knowing a cimbalom is a type of dulcimer. This is the life.

"Comedian Amelia Dimoldenberg depicted herself as the divorce of Lily Allen and David Harbour"

YouTube video by Florence + the Machine - Topic The Old Religion

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Happy Halloween.

You need The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne in your life, if it isn't already there.

Can't have Angela Carter back from the dead, but I can have this

The Cure's Robert Smith Joins The Twilight Sad On Their New Single "Waiting For The Phone Call": Listen Almost exactly 19 years ago, heavy-hearted Scottish indie rockers the Twilight Sad became a Stereogum Band To Watch. All these years later, the Twilight Sad are still going. These days, they’re probab...

Hear the Twilight Sad's new single "Waiting For The Phone Call," their first in six years, featuring @thecure.com's Robert Smith on guitar

RIP to David Bellos, a great translator, teacher, scholar and popularizer. Here's a charming little essay about what he learned from his landmark translation of Georges Perec's 'Life: A User's Manual'. online.wsj.com/article/SB10...

RIP to a dear friend and eminent scholar, David Bellos.

one thousand, two hundred, and sixty FOUR pages. 17/09/26. yes please.

George Saunders and The O.C!

We are people of many parts.

YouTube video by The Russian Futurists - Topic Our Pen's Out Of Ink

Classic 2005: www.youtube.com/watch?v=655E...

Visited the wikipedia page for The Russian Futurists today and was shocked to be confronted with "are" rather than "were".

The Unconsoled is a stone-cold masterpiece

Phoned the Apple support line, and spent the half hour being chuckled at by Umar as he was surprised by finding out thing after thing that I do that places me in a technological dark age

I tell you, I could happily listen to Cloudbusting for ten years straight

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

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I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

That was exciting. I'm in the mood for a seven hour walk in the rain and mud now.

Here's hoping they do. When they do, it definitely won't be her.

I bet not

a better, fairer future Satantango, by László Krasznahorkai and translated by George Szirtes Normally I hate writing reviews weeks after finishing a book. It tends to make the task much harder, as details start to blur an…

13 years ago, this review by @maxcairnduff.bsky.social prompted me to read Krasznahorkai’s SATANTANGO (tr. George Szirtes). An extraordinary novel that seems to capture a community balanced on a knife edge between hope/salvation & despair/damnation. 💙📚

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Just spent 45 minutes on the phone to a friend explaining who might win the Nobel Prize and who won't win the Nobel Prize, and why. I am lucky to be tolerated.