j. archer avary 🌵🌵🌵

I wish five or ten people would preorder my book this week- low key shitting myself that nobody will buy it 😅

It’s completely enthralling thus far - will keep your suggestion in mind (need to take a bite of my TBR pile before I add much more)’

Not the Beatle for anyone wondering 🤨

From top to bottom: Mamele - Gemma Reeves Evenings and Weekends - Oisin McKenna Season - George Harrison Armadillos and Old Lace - Kinky Friedman The Road - Cormac McCarthy Long Island Compromise - Taffy Brodesder-Anker Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen The Vegetarian - Han Kang A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be - Marieke Bigg Phyll Lynott *the Rocker* biography Rejection - Tony Tulathimutte The Dream Hotel - Laila Lalami

My #TBR pile #BookSky

Which should I read next when I’m finished with Mamele?

Book cover of Mamele by Gemma Reeves that features a painting of a woman’s face over a brat-green background

Mamele - Gemma Reeves

Wellness was great - I especially related to the early 90’s Chicago flashbacks and name-drops of indie musicians… haven’t read the Nix but Nathan Hill is on my radar

📖 Thirst trap - grainne O’Hare

📖 what I’d rather not think about - jente posthuma

Beabadoobee bass player straight up murdering me with that tone #Glastonbury2025

Japanese Breakfast’s singer is absolutely beating the hell out of that gong #Glastonbury2025

Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear?

Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear?

I’m literally right here!

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

Was just made to complete at least 10 different captchas to submit an ordinary-ass google form

Pete Hegseth could learn a thing or two 😅

Cabbage has been one of the bright spots in my life these last few months 🥬

If he lives that long… Moscow Mitch has been on his last legs since tne days of George W Bush

Also: gone deep into fifty shades of Sabra hummus

If you wanna know how my life is going, I just ate a Big Mac, a QP w/ cheese, 2 cheeseburgers, 2 large fries, and 2 medium fries in a single sitting

Me showing a little leg sitting on a chesterfield at my favourite pub (the Marine in South Shields)

Legz for daze

You’re not a regular until you’ve defecated at the pub 21 times.

Congrats. You’re the guy the bartenders know as the guy that drinks Stella and leaves a shit

Glass of Bass Ale photographed at at dramatic angle, with a streetscape beyond the windowpanes

Today is the day when cask ale called my name…

And I answered it

I am eating a cronut and watching Oingo Boingo live videos on YouTube from 1983 life has never been better

Lola Young’s Messy is as perfect as pop music gets

🌈 happy pride to all the straights and gays and inbetweeners 🌈

Stephen Malkmus’s New, Er, Supergroup The Pavement front man passed through town with his latest project, the Hard Quartet, and showed off his one-handed backhand.

Malkmus is a feeling

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Cate Le Bon Announces New Album and Tour, Shares Video for New Song “Heaven Is No Feeling” Michelangelo Dying is out in September, via Mexican Summer, and features a collaboration with John Cale

FUCK YEAH NEW CATE LEBON THIS YEAR PLUS A FUCKING TOUR!!!

best news I’ve heard in awhile 😀

pitchfork.com/news/cate-le...

Hey everybody is BlueSky really dead? Where are all my literary shitposters at??

I knew you were good 😜

Holy shit 🏆

There are cathedrals everywhere you look

I used to edit a mag and would resurrect that bitch to give you acceptance feels

Stellar cover art