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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 5h

John Clute is up to something new and it is ‘miraculously contortuplicated’

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I Have A Cunning Plan

An exploration of two books and their dust jackets by John Clute

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 1d

New York area folk, please note :
Thursday 16 October
the Tom La Farge Award 2025
(please re-post)

Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 8d

the Tom La Farge Award 2025
Please join us at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th St., New York City) at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 16 October to honor Zack Darsee, this year's recipient of the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing.

www.thetomlafargeaward.com

The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing

www.thetomlafargeaward.com

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 1d

Face-to-Face with the Chupacabra

by Chris Brown aka @christopherbrown.bsky.social

/ I was there

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Coming Face-to-Face With the Chupacabra

On a trip to see the Marfa Lights, another out-of-this-world encounter steals the show

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 2d

on the extreme commute, every day is Infrastructure Day

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 4d

autumn, a step away from the trail

in the woods, autumn, Essex county, New Jersey

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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 4d

Hampstead Heath, 07:23

A pair of rose briars bearing bright red hips arch against a misty sky.

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 5d

get your copy of The Critical Mess while supplies last

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The Critical Mess by Michael Zinman https://temporary-culture.com/product/michael-zinman-the-critical-mess/

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 5d

institutionalized !

The Critical Mess by Michael Zinman

The Critical Mess by Michael Zinman. OCLC catalogue record

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 5d

and the story of the odd brief life of Leonard Cline here at the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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SFE: Cline, Leonard

Welcome to the fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 5d

Douglas A. Anderson marks the centenary of Leonard Cline’s first novel, God Head

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The Centenary of 'God Head' by Leonard Cline

Leonard Cline's first novel, God Head , appeared on 10 October 1925, on the first list of books published by the newly founded Viking Press ...

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m john harrison @mjohnharrison.bsky.social · 5d

faint sounds from the pub, as of revolution or football support

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 6d

meet the Barmaid _from_ Elfland and a Detective _in_ Elfland
/ buy yourself a book :

The Elfland Prepositions (2025)

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The Elfland Prepositions by Henry Wessells. Photograph of a border between the fields we know and elsewhere

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 7d

New York area folk, please note : the Tom La Farge Award 2025
(please re-post)

Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 8d

the Tom La Farge Award 2025
Please join us at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th St., New York City) at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 16 October to honor Zack Darsee, this year's recipient of the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing.

www.thetomlafargeaward.com

The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing

www.thetomlafargeaward.com

Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 8d

the Tom La Farge Award 2025
Please join us at the Grolier Club (47 East 60th St., New York City) at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday 16 October to honor Zack Darsee, this year's recipient of the Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing.

www.thetomlafargeaward.com

The Tom La Farge Award for Innovative Writing, Teaching and Publishing

www.thetomlafargeaward.com

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 10d

who will be the first U.S. soldier to refuse the illegal order ? will it be a general ? or a reservist ?

Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 12d

when will the first U.S. soldier refuse the illegal order ? will it be a general ? or a reservist ?

Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 10d

obscure intimations of subliminal uneasiness

— Michael Innes. The Bloody Wood [1966]. Penguin Books, [1968].

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 11d

Today is Brian O’Nolan’s (aka Flann O’Brien, Myles na gCopaleen et al) birthday.

With John Ryan, Anthony Cronin, Patrick Kavanagh & Tom Joyce (Bloomsday, Sandymount, 1954)

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 12d

when will the first U.S. soldier refuse the illegal order ? will it be a general ? or a reservist ?

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Christopher Brown @christopherbrown.bsky.social · 13d

Austin folks: please join us Tuesday night at Alienated Majesty Books for the paperback release of A Natural History of Empty Lots (and a month-long celebration of this amazing bookstore's second birthday): alienatedmajestybooks.com/events/34023...

Paperback Release & Eco-Panel: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS by Christopher Brown | Alienated Majesty Books

Home of the leastsellers in Austin, Texas. Small presses, poetry, comics, translated works, and titles you can't find elsewhere.

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 12d

when will the first U.S. soldier refuse the illegal order ? will it be a general ? or a reservist ?

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 13d

thoughtful review by Samantha Ellis for the TLS
“It feels extraordinary to be reviewing now, in 2025, a new book of ten poems by Charlotte — astounding not only that they have not been published before, but also that they have never been transcribed or photographed”
www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 13d

the Trump régime in Washington continues to act against the interests of the people

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14d

Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate.

Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.

Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 13d

thoughtful review by Samantha Ellis for the TLS
“It feels extraordinary to be reviewing now, in 2025, a new book of ten poems by Charlotte — astounding not only that they have not been published before, but also that they have never been transcribed or photographed”
www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

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Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 13d

* an Avram Davidson word, which he traces to bonanza and the Sydney Ducks, a California Gold Rush era gang in a neighborhood of San Francisco ; my Australian friends tell me bonza is regular usage, meaning : excellent
/ the OED doesn't trace it back as far as 1849

Endless Bookshelf @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social · 13d

2025 has been a bonzer* year for me in books

endlessbookshelf.net/2025/09/29/3...

30 years of the Avram Davidson website, and other news – The Endless Bookshelf

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