Conor McCarthy @hibernowombat

Bus stop with graffiti

Strong rebuke of spy agency on our local bus stop …

09.09.2025 07:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Routledge’s US office is in NY, I believe …

28.08.2025 11:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

From V to Vineland and Inherent Vice: Thomas Pynchon’s books – ranked! With fans eagerly awaiting the reclusive author’s first book in more than a decade, the noir caper Shadow Ticket, we assess his best fiction of the past 60 years

Pynchon novels ranked in the Guardian. I’m going to dissent on the placing for Against the Day … I loved it! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

19.08.2025 10:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Presumably translated as “Sure, this is a Wendy’s, boy …”

18.08.2025 08:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ominous owl …

02.08.2025 09:16 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a group of helicopters flying over a body of water at sunset Alt: Helicopters from Apocalypse Now

Spotify now just playing Wagner …

02.08.2025 06:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New books coming from Thomas Pynchon, Olga Ravn, and George Saunders in the next 6 months … pretty excited for all of these!

26.07.2025 10:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What Kept You? by Raaza Jamshed review – an extraordinary debut full of ritual and poetry A young woman grapples with the stories that shape her in this tightly crafted and complex portrayal of grief and growing up

‘An extraordinary debut full of ritual and poetry’ ⭐

What Kept You? by Raaza Jamshed receives a full-page and full-hearted review in the Guardian today!

Read the full piece by Bec Kavanagh: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

24.07.2025 23:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

😲 George Saunders is releasing "Vigil" on 1/27/26

Like "Lincoln in the Bardo", it will be set in a liminal zone between life and death.
It follows the deathbed journey & moral accounting of an oil company CEO.

Are you adding this one to your TBR? 📚

#books #booksky #litfic #booklover #tbr

24.07.2025 20:22 — 👍 62 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 2

There’s a magnificent version of Arlo Guthrie’s “ODed in Denver” on that album …

25.07.2025 10:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Italian parenting for the win …

08.07.2025 11:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No defects at all …

08.07.2025 09:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pope Pad See Ew V …

09.05.2025 23:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vegetable patty on bread

Call this a democracy sausage? (Actually quite tasty tbf).

03.05.2025 04:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wonderful playing tonight by the great Ed Kuepper

17.04.2025 12:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing!

12.04.2025 04:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Can’t believe my innie was at work when the final episode of season 2 dropped …

22.03.2025 05:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

RIP Dag Solstad …

15.03.2025 23:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hey man is everything OK? I noticed your falcon doesn't seem to be able to hear you

21.02.2025 05:00 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Projections on Mount Stromlo last night …

09.03.2025 03:37 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is just wonderful - thank you for sharing it.

03.03.2025 11:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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‘The reason of the strongest is always the best; / As we shall shortly show.’ Derrida’s meditations on La Fontaine’s The Wolf and the Lamb seem terribly relevant to the grim direction of current events …

02.03.2025 03:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0