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Scrounge @scrounge.bsky.social · 4h

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 5h

Its that plus ageism

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 6h

This is lovely, I hope it happens. Art Garfunkel being bummed before a ticketed audience of 135,000 politely applauding boomers

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 5h

The thought of knobbing 80s Bob Dylan otoh is tremendously distressing, the man looked like a gaudy croissant

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 6h

Lena Horne
Carole King
Carly Simon
Ed Sheeran
Bob Dylan in the mid-‘80s
And, most poignantly, Art Garfunkel

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 6h

It isn't too late for them to make this happen, perhaps to the accompaniment of a chamber orchestra playing "Old Friends" and "Cecilia". In Central Park

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 6h

Truly horrifying AI Facebook boomer bait

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SpaceBehemoth @spacebehemoth.bsky.social · 6h

Which reminds me of a rather Pynchonian moment. In early 1970s Suva, Fiji, someone graffitied the street wall of a religious seminary with "Hendrix Is God!" The admin didn't paint over this blasphemy but instead carefully added another 'o' to 'God'.

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Archie Valparaiso @archiev.bsky.social · 6h

I'm a third of the way in and I'm rapturously thrilled with it so far. I don't even care if, as I've seen some reviewers claiming, the plot crumbles as it progresses. I'm here for the turns of phrase, the character names, the under-ice rogue Austro-Hungarian U-boats and the stupid acronyms.

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Michael Brooke @marbleicehook.bsky.social · 6h

I felt something similar after Jerzy Skolimowski returned to filmmaking after a 17-year break, during which I assumed that that would be that; he was already seventy when he made his comeback. And it was as if he'd never been away.

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 7h

Shadow Ticket might not be Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon (we already have those, so that's fine) but it's full of pleasures and really at this point gratitude is the only appropriate response

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 7h

Something slightly uncanny about reading a new Pynchon in 2025, akin to (but uh rather better than) listening to a new Stones album. He belongs to a more heroic age and yet here's that voice again, as familiar and miraculous as a lover's face

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 8h

Osman invariably stands with his legs about two metres apart and is constantly having to disguise himself as a pageboy or washerwoman to escape the wrath of yet another cucked viscount

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 21h

This is how all the characters talk about the writer

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 8h

In real life "Brian Bilston" habitually brandishes a sword and has a collection of ripped undergarments from the noblest houses in Christendom

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 1d

Killing Children in British Fiction has now been out in the world for one whole year! Very grateful to everyone who has bought it, read it, reviewed it, or shared their responses to it.

Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · Jan 21

My book, Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit, is now out from @sunypress.bsky.social.

'An authoritative, acute, and insightful book...makes a powerful case for child killing as an index of our times' - @bobeaglestone.bsky.social.

sunypress.edu/Books/K/Kill...

Book cover with title 'Killing Children in British Fiction: Thatcherism to Brexit' by Dominic Dean. Cover image shows a seafront promenade with beach huts during dusk, with a sunset.

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 19h

"I hate James Bond"

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 21h

Everyone is twelve now

Everyone is 12 now
ICE agent point gun at unarmed protester

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 21h

If only there were a French expression to denote an uncanny feeling of having experienced something before

Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 21h

France’s new prime minister is…the very one who resigned on Monday, Sébastien Lecornu. It rounds off the most chaotic and absurdist week in French politics in modern times

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 21h

It’s in the SoA terms & conditions

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 21h

Speak for yourself

Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 21h

This is what my school careers advisor said

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 21h

We all have to pretend to be amiable teddy bears, what me, fighting duels and seducing wives, no i like ranking biscuits and visiting provincial railway stations, but behind closed doors we're all strutting around in monocles, humiliating our enemies

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 21h

No one wants to admit that this is what being a writer is like

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🎃Candy of Cthulhu🎃 @auntiecandy.bsky.social · 21h

Presumably a corrective to Death In Venice "with Dirk's magnificent portrayal of the elderly poof what expires in Venice."

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