David Connerley Nahm

Russell Hoban's masterpiece *Riddley Walker* is 45 years old today!
“In fear and tremmering only not running a way. In emtyness and ready to be fult. Not to lern no body nothing I cant even lern my oan self all I can do is try not to get in front of whats coming.”
@russellhoban.bsky.social

William H Gass looking town

Me listening to Bruce Springsteen: I wish I was listening to tom petty.

Me listening to tom petty: I wish I was listening to two tom petty songs at the same time.

There is no real reason for me to compare Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty—they don’t have much in common musically—but Tom Petty is better.

I don’t give a hoot about a Springsteen biopic, but I would certainly watch a movie about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers investigating a series of occult murders at an abandoned amusement park in North Florida.

It is such a great record. I wish it would get a nice box set reissue.

That would be quite a show.

I love this album. It was the record that got me into the band.

I like 90s music

Yeah I love it. I loved Beaster. That was on heavy heavy rotation in high school.

Heater by Crain. One of the best to ever do it.

shell gas station (restoration), winston-salem, north carolina, 2001

shell gas station (restoration), winston-salem, north carolina, 2001

my sister is in Pompeii texting me pictures of stray cats

Get that cat a gong.

A sign that says SWTHZ

I don’t know what this is, but as someone with a lisp, I object to it.

AITA for Eloping with the Real Ghost of the Real Bleeding Nun

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Plot detail from Matthew Lewis’s novel The Monk: Raymond and Agnes made plans to elope before Agnes left her aunt's castle for the convent. Agnes planned to dress as the Bleeding Nun, a ghost who haunted the castle and exited its gates at midnight. Raymond accidentally eloped with the real ghost of the real Bleeding Nun.

Whomst among us hadn’t made this exact mistake

If released today, in an era where communities deeply invested in imagined romantic pairings emerge immediately, the familial revelations of the original trilogy would be extremely unfortunate.

Golden Reviser, by Erie Choir 9 track album

Let me recommend good music (if you enjoy things that are good).

On Translating Proust and the Art of Not Reading Ahead Le devoir et la tâche d’un écrivain sont ceux d’un traducteur. –Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé * The duty and the task of a writer are those of a translator. –The Past Recaptured, tra…

“Charlotte Mandell had written the English words I was reading, whose power and beauty left me gasping and stunned.”

Bryan Alistair Charles discusses Proust in translation with translator and ALTA member Charlotte Mandell at Lit Hub: @literaryhub.bsky.social

It’s a tough one!

It is enjoyable!

Have you seen Dead and Buried?

Psycho II (1983) Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill ag...

Wait: if it is true you haven’t seen this: dawg it’s great.

No doubt if the next Faulkner is anywhere, they are parking rental cars outside a small regional airport

"The past is never dead; it isn't even past."

"Sir, nevertheless, you returned the car after five, so we do have to charge you for a second day. Company policy."

Totally, and I loved the black mass market versions, too.

One of my life's little tragedies is a about 10 years ago I left my high school copy of Absalom, Absalom! in a rental car at a small regional airport.

A shelf of Faulkner novels organized by edition.

Also big fan of the little mass market ones they used to have.