Ben O'Connell

I'm happy to see Hume Cronyn so high on the list.

His commitment to the bit is enviable.

Their song “Churchyard“ is one of my favorite tracks of recent years.

I have resorted to bulk deleting with impunity. Whenever I'm stepping away for a meeting, I start a batch delete that will be over before I'm back.

I'm down from 330,000 to 5800.

Play For Today? An Attritional Interview With Richard Ayoade Good at writing books, bad at talking about them

This, in turn, led me to Clifton-Wright's Ayoade "interview" in the UK Esquire.
"Whereas Ayoade seems little more than an inconsequential collection of borrowed tics and insincere self-effacement, the playwright to whom he refers was all gravitas, depth and mystery." www.esquire.com/uk/culture/b...

‘Posterity Is Vulgar’ | Chloë Clifton-Wright Encounters with a forgotten genius.

Many thanks to @joelcalahan.com for pointing out Ayoade's @nybooks.com piece (under the name of his alter ego Chloë Clifton-Wright) about Hughes, "Posterity Is Vulgar." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Play For Today? An Attritional Interview With Richard Ayoade Good at writing books, bad at talking about them

Thanks for mentioning this. I hadn't seen it. Nor had I seen his interview of himself (under the guise of Chloe Clifton-Wright) in Esquire. www.esquire.com/uk/culture/b...

Ayoade wrote three books as Harauld Hughes—PLAYS, PROSE, PIECES, POETRY; FOUR FILMS; and THE MODELS TRILOGY—that came out alongside THE UNFINISHED…. His commitment to the bit alone had me curious about them. Now, having finished the book, I’m even more so.

Richard Ayoade’s THE UNFINISHED HARAULD HUGHES, an account of an unfinished documentary about the final, unfinished film by the acclaimed (and fictional) writer for screen and stage Harauld Hughes, is as perceptive and straightfacedly silly as one might expect of Richard Ayoade. Highly recommended.

I loved it, too. One of my favorite books I read last year.

While this adds to my ever-growing bedside pile of books I'm reading, I know what I'm listening to on the way home tonight.

Come My Fanatics: A Journey into the World of Electric Wizard By DAN FRANKLIN

Book mail! I hadn’t realized that a Quietus journalist had written an Electric Wizard biography until last week.

Horror Movie Instant New York Times bestseller! A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End ...

If you are ebook inclined, HORROR MOVIE is $1.99 at all the pixel peddlers.

www.harpercollins.com/products/hor...

A moment of calm in the maelstrom

Holding up Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall with a Chesapeake Bay cove in the background

I’m only 60 pages in, but you folks may have been on to something.

Dawn loved it too

Good morning to this beautiful black-crowned night heron. And you, as well.

The Woman in the Dunes! Also, The Shop on Main Street, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, and Mikey & Nicky may not be challenging or dense but they are amazing. (I think all are on Criterion.)

Oh, no! That doesn’t sound great, SKW.

I own both in hardcover, so I’m not being as generous as it seems!

It is such a great exhibit!

I missed this earlier. I am so glad you made it to the exhibit!

The Known World and Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones

I left a couple DC classics on the office book giveaway shelves.

Intriguing. I enjoyed Shank's previous novel, Mountain Fast, which I'm pretty sure I picked up based on your recommendation.

Having finished Bishop’s Landing, the “almost” in my first post is too strong. Horror readers will appreciate how Forsythe plays with genre conventions, and the book is plenty creepy. But it’s also a baggy slog.

Pretty good.

I have everything you mention except Doctor Mirablis even though I haven’t yet read a word by him. He’s one of those writers that I just sense I’ll enjoy.

BlIsh’s Cities in Flight is high on my TBR.

The poster for Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu

Elder Kid and I are finally getting around to it.