Kenji Hayakawa

1,000 Episodes with Miranda Melcher An interview with NBN's most prolific host

Read this week's newsletter! We celebrate Miranda's incredible achievement of recording 1,000 NBN interviews!

newbooksnetwork.substack.com/p/1000-episo...

Bottom corner of a 17th century book showing drawings

Title page of 'Epigrammes' by Ben Jonson, showing doodles at the bottom of the page

Delightful doodles of some pipe smoking Georgians found by Maddock Fellow Danielle Magnusson on the works of Ben Jonson, printed in 1616 #Readers #Epigrams

bright patches of coloured light on old stone and through stained glass

💫 how the light gets in 💫

It's so sad to see a surprising number of people online using ChatGPT to generate book reviews and then posting them on their blogs and profiles. They're clearly doing this for reasons other than wanting to share their thoughts, but whatever their motive it just ends up adding to online junk...

YouTube video by KilikaBeats Final Fantasy 7 LoFi Mix - [1Hour]

The FF7-LoFi set is pretty on-point for some late-night solitary task sessions! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDOO...

World War II Didn’t End in 1945 A new history of the war lengthens the conflict’s timeline and argues that its “ragged ends” complicate the neat morality tale we still tell today.

hey look who it is! @dexterfergie.bsky.social in Bloomberg Weekend

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

low tide - spun sand and seaweed

🔅 stage set - sand magic 🔅

＜MIRKO BUFFINI FIRENZE/ミルコ ブッフィーニ フィレンツェ＞｜メンズ館先行販売も行う 「HCEシリーズ」の新作が登場！ | NEWS | 伊勢丹新宿店メンズ館 公式メディア - ISETAN MEN'S net ルネッサンスの荘厳な雰囲気が色濃く残る華の都、フィレンツェで生まれたパフュームメゾン＜ミルコ ブッフィーニ フィレンツェ＞。7月25日（水）よりメンズ館1階＝メンズアクセサリーでは、2018年9月に全国発売を開始する「H

...Apparently, there's now a series of colons inspired by HCE. They're literally called "The HCE Series". Hm. www.imn.jp/post/1080571...

@moderation.bsky.app has suppressed my Sweets of Sin post!

To read the blog post that's too hot for Bluesky, please visit bloomsandbarnacles.com

It's what James Joyce would want you to do

#booksky

Thank you, O merciful YouTube, for adding the option to disable the Leaderboard for livestream chats.

I don't know how long it takes for others but for me it takes about 15 hours per page on average to translate chapter I.2 of the Wake into Japanese.

Was looking for this quote for ages: '[Joyce] remarked on his use of so many river names, and said he liked to think how some day, way off in Tibet or Somaliland, some boy or girl in reading that little book would be pleased to come upon the name of his or her home river' (Ellmann, 1982, p.598, fn).

After the Rain

Bye summer. Hello winter.

a tall single reed stands above the tangled grasses and sculptured Queen Anne’s lace as a gentle September sky kisses the expanse of marsh below, part still green, part new gold and secret shimmering tides always

between times

夜な夜なニュースです。

「フィネガンズ・ノート」第I巻第3章をリリースしました！
finneganswake.net/notes/i-3/

わずか27ページ分の原文に対して1132本の日本語の註をつけた渾身のウェブサイトになっております。スマホにもやさしいデザインです。お気軽にサーフィンしてみてください。

unusual colours in a stone wall with flickering sunshine

otherworld

dream wall

Mary Joyce, mother of James Joyce, died on this day in 1903. She was in her house in Cabra with her family at the time of her passing. RIP.

Would you like to contribute to the public consultation about the Basic Income for the Arts? 💡

Fill out this survey from Minister O’Donovan at the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

Shadow of a person in the light falling through an arched gateway.

Feet on the ground, head in orbit.

🤣

Next time you travel to Tokyo but accidentally end up in Ibaraki, this map got you covered.

We have a major discovery here, methinks.

[Inspired by: @bloomsandbarnacles.bsky.social]

Today I learned that the quintessential Japanese probiotic drink Yakult's name turns out to be derived from "jahurto" which is the Esperanto word for "yoghurt". Whoa.

I just find these endlessly funny...

Is it just me or do the intro lines of Stephen Colbert's segment "Meanwhile" pretty much always have a Wakean vibe?