Doubting Thomas

earlier. guessing 95

Sleepless Nights
Elizabeth Hardwick

A reread after many years. As good as remembered. Trying to describe it to friends and failing. Plot not welcome here.

Not yet pal, you’ll see

Shocked

New Yorkers Are Literally Breathing Easier After Congestion Pricing And other links to start your hump day.

Morning Spew for Night Owls—Congestion pricing is working so well it has helped clear the air in all parts of NYC, according to a new study.

And other links to start your day!

First one that came to mind!

Stoner
Bartleby the Scrivener
The Story of Lucy Gault

Loved and Missed
Susie Boyt

Still catching up with the best of 2021. Brilliant and sad. How can you love someone who wont let themselves be loved? A emotional portrait of addiction. Boyt can write.

AI

I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.

I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.

Would

Colombo walking back into a men's sauna where six other guys had been waiting for him to leave so they can stroke their shit again saying "im sorry - just one more thing..."

If this isn’t selling in its first week it’s as good as dead. Books like this have frontloaded sales

www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/u...

Nazis

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...

I liked the Bradley so much I bought the UK and US printing. Was waiting for Katz in paperback but it keeps getting pushed back (which means it probably isn’t ever happening).

A nice stack. Missing my favorite, Lloyd Bradley’s Bass Culture (aka This is Reggae Music in the USA). Am very curious about Katz’s People Funny Boy

This comment on an NYT soup recipe is a banger

Coworkers were Teamsing me clips all day and sorry but I have work to do

I am so sad about losing Paul. I spoke to him only a few days before he died. He was a huge presence on the NYC youth soccer world. He truly believed the game was for everyone no matter your level. He had an enormous personality. He screamed at me the first time I met him. I miss him. RIP

The Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost
Donald Niedekker

Wonderful and original!

Painful 2nd half!

Now 45 min that will feel like 45 hours

Sessegnon’s revenge

For those not deep in insane right wing bullshit, 11 is a popular number because the confederacy was founded by 11 states who seceded.

They're making fun of lincoln.

second this, so good

don't know it, but noted, thank you. the only thing i've read that's mining similar absurdist/humanist terrain is kevin barry so good to get another tip.

favorite book this year was ferdia lennon's glorious expolits and i only buy from indies

The Travelling Onion by Naomi Shihab Nye

One of my favorite Thanksgiving(ish) poems