Morris Collins

Proud crow, crest raised, strides confidently into the world.

Confidence goals
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Protestor in an inflatable lobster costume, with claws outstretched, standing on a grassy lawn. Signs & people scattered behind.

Northampton, MA #NoKings

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

The 1970s (widely defined: '66-81) were the single greatest decade for the American Novel.

Also, most short novels should be a lot longer.

Getting in on the Rothko discourse since 2021. (The Tavern at the End of History from Dzanc in February 2026). Also, always nice to be read by a great writer...

"...caught like a message on an electric wire, between who was seeing whom and how..."

—The Tavern at the End of History, the next @morriscollins.bsky.social novel, forthcoming in 2026 from Dzanc

I've always been fond of my own signed copy of All Souls, with post-reading message. In that it turned up secondhand, maybe Javier's prophecy was correct!

I didn't realize they reissued this? I've been looking for a copy...(I've long wanted to teach a class on the British avant garde of the 60s=70s)

wow, that's really a stunning object

in the company of many many bsky.app/profile/anna...

Olga Ravn : The Wax Child - Tin House Set during the 17th century witch trials in Denmark, and relayed to us through the voice of a magically animated wax child of one of the accused, Olga Ravn’s new book, which creates something uncannil...

Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more
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Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others:

we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

They shelved my novel next to some book I never heard of.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is to normalise retreating to your library to produce a volume of digressive, idiosyncratic essays that remain an essential repository of humanist thought and skeptical inquiry 400+ years after your death.

Please sir, may I have some more?

My Rosh Hashanah cocktail: bonded apple brandy, bourbon, bitters, honey syrup, a twist.

Meanwhile, for 5786, more peace, friends. More light, more love. Never again must mean no more.

Yeah and he was very Sad(e) about it.

AUTUMN The days are gradually getting shorter, the rains are about to start. My door waited wide open for you. Why were you so late? Bread, salt, a green pepper on my table. Waiting for you I drank on my own half the wine I kept for you in my jug. Why were you so late? But look, the honeyed fruit, ripe on the branch, remains alive. If you had been any later it would have dropped unplucked to the ground.

the honeyed fruit

Nâzim Hikmet, ‘Autumn’, tr Richard McKane

12July 1970 Yesterday I got drunk. And shaved off my moustache. I only realized this morning. And on all my document photographs I've got a moustache. I'll have to grow it again. ANDREY TARKOVSKY, “Time Within Time: THE DIARIES i970-1986” (Translated KITTY HUNTER-BLAIR), 1994

Tarkovsky gets drunk, shaves off moustache

I bought my copy from @gavingrant.bsky.social at the Boston Books fest in...2014 maybe? Such a stunning object by one of our great pomo fabulists (and weird heir to Calvino)...I remember feeling shocked that such a book could remain invisible.

Schattenfroh aside, there remain so many experimental works by small presses that fly under the radar. E.G: Old Men in Love by the great Alasdair Gray. Pub'd by Small Beer & prob. the most beautiful contemporary book object I own. & it totally disappeared. Other Examples?

87-year-old Cecil Williams walked down the runway to "Neva Scared" during Actively Black and Spill's #NYFW show this weekend

www.whatimreading.net/p/civil-righ...

...and the day you get galleys is the day you are finally ready to edit. (Or, this is where I am right now, proofing galleys confronted by all the things I cannot change. If only someone had written a book about the revision process...)

Seems too late for self improvement.

Teaching Hawthorne in my Love and Death in the American Novel class tomorrow and my prime takeaway from this is, their radical ability (so they think) to recognize semiotic coherence notwithstanding, what a bunch of little fuckers these Puritan kids are:

So true! All I need in my university office: 4 decanters of Napoleonic brandy, a sword cane, the complete works of Walter Benjamin (unread), seven cats, a candelabra, a crucible, quicksilver, azoth, saltpeter, three invisible owls, whiteout. (Also, how hard is it to put chalk in all the classrooms?)

Sometimes when I see myself now I think, oh, you are older now. (My birthday is in two days, so I've been having feelings.)

On September nights heavy with pollen and absence, the body, dulled by antihistamines, drifts with the mind through Bachelard’s Water and Dreams, as unnamed aches and temporal echoes stir at the threshold of now and memory, murmuring just beneath the skin.