Josh Rothes

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Pre-orders are available for the second installation of the Trilogy of the Body, written by Brazil's freakiest living writer and brought to you by @sublunary.bsky.social.

So very cool. Congratulations!

Cochlear Implant Leppard

Yellow pamphlet, Hydra, Certain Biological and Psychoanalytical Considerations of by Joshua Rothes

Not Immune from Politics What other motto can a collection of heads astride a single body have but one of solidarity? How else would they, this multitudinous maw, treat their collective labor? Should one go hungry because another's jaws snapped shut first? No! Because they, more than we, understand that there may be many gullets, but only one belly! And so I would posit the hydra as communist agitator.

Fully excellent post courtesy of @joshuarothes.bsky.social / NOT IMMUNE FROM POLITICS

It was hot today so I made some chapbooks. Will send you one. Inquire within.

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Remind me your address and one is yours.

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It was hot today so I made some chapbooks. Will send you one. Inquire within.

“Art is utilitarian.

Indeed it is doubtful whether anything like work, war, and money-making is useful to the life of a man.”

—Carnevali, notebooks

Hello a literary prize paid for by submission fees is a raffle thanks.

Now would be a good time to ask yourself if you’re working for the clampdown.

Hard agree

Found this FDR stamp (c. 1968) in my copy of Osvaldo Lamborghini’s stories, published in Argentina around 2003. Open to interpretations.

Projects I’ll never have time to finish, part whatever. Please enjoy these prototypes for trading cards based on Fernando Pessoa’s many heteronyms and alter egos.

Remember: Sometimes the other guy dies on the hill. Then you still have a hill.

I emailed some contacts at the local paper. I’m just up the road if I can do anything beyond calling/emailing folks.

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

Which ones? Do tell!

Ending 2024 with an ill-advised text conversation with my brother that ended with “Really little bro? I can deal with the atheism, but socialism?”

“Go to your earth, you who have not died.”

Jean Paul, ‘The Parson in Jubilee’ (1797), tr. Matthew Spencer @unpaginated.bsky.social [forthcoming 2025]

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Fact

Elegize me in DIN

You’re darn right I made it snow asterisks.

Somehow I read “Iowa” instead of “love” even after multiple re-reads. The mind is a funny thing.

Image of part of a dog’s head with his ear sticking up against the arm of a couch. The ear has a long tuft of hair standing straight up.

Update: Merle is now part lynx.

Looking forward to seeing you in your “that’s what I do: I sell books and I know things” sweatshirt

I keep busy…