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Glows in the dark | Notes on Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Ch. 1-7

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Glows in the dark | Notes on Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket, Ch. 1-7

Let’s start with the epigraph: “Supernatural, perhaps. Baloney…perhaps not.” —Bela Lugosi, in The Black Cat (1934) Dr. Vitus Werdegast, Bela Lugosi’s character in The Black Cat, gives t…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 7h

pics or gtfo (need to see that dead dracula)

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 9h

calling bullshit

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 13h

I'm really excited to be in conversation with Caren Beilin about her latest fiercely wild-ride of a book SEA, POISON at the downtown Powell's on November 2nd. I hope you'll mark your calendars and join us!
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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 18h

Oh man. They gave it to Krasznahorkai?

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 2d

Self-Portrait Fixing Foot -- Julie Heffernan biblioklept.org/2025/10/07/s...

Self-Portrait Fixing Foot — Julie Heffernan

Self-Portrait Fixing Foot, 2024 by Julie Heffernan (b. 1956)

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d

super good book, as are all the other volodine books under all the various aliases. radiant terminus, post-exoticism in ten lessons, writers, bardo or not bardo, minor angels, eleven sooty dreams, all of them.

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It still believes in night | A review of Antoine Volodine's post-exotic novel Mevlido's Dreams biblioklept.org/2025/10/05/i...

It still believes in night | A review of Antoine Volodine’s post-exotic novel Mevlido’s Dreams

Antoine Volodine’s 2007 novel Mevlido’s Dreams is a bleak, dystopian noir novel set several centuries in the future in the ruined city-state of Oulang-Oulane. Here, weary revolutionary Mevlido live…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 3d

If you dig Vladimir Sorokin, Ursula Le Guin, Tarkovsky, Aleksei German’s adaptation of HARD TO BE A GOD

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It still believes in night | A review of Antoine Volodine's post-exotic novel Mevlido's Dreams biblioklept.org/2025/10/05/i...

It still believes in night | A review of Antoine Volodine’s post-exotic novel Mevlido’s Dreams

Antoine Volodine’s 2007 novel Mevlido’s Dreams is a bleak, dystopian noir novel set several centuries in the future in the ruined city-state of Oulang-Oulane. Here, weary revolutionary Mevlido live…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 3d

lol

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I’m getting decrepit, while Pynchon is even older | William T. Vollmann reviews Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket biblioklept.org/2025/10/06/i...

I’m getting decrepit, while Pynchon is even older | William T. Vollmann reviews Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket

I’ve avoided reviews of Thomas Pynchon’s newest novel Shadow Ticket, but I couldn’t help but read William T. Vollmann’s piece on the novel at UnHerd. From Vollmann’s r…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 4d

It still believes in night | A review of Antoine Volodine's post-exotic novel Mevlido's Dreams biblioklept.org/2025/10/05/i...

It still believes in night | A review of Antoine Volodine’s post-exotic novel Mevlido’s Dreams

Antoine Volodine’s 2007 novel Mevlido’s Dreams is a bleak, dystopian noir novel set several centuries in the future in the ruined city-state of Oulang-Oulane. Here, weary revolutionary Mevlido live…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 4d

It still believes in night | A review of Antoine Volodine's post-exotic novel Mevlido's Dreams biblioklept.org/2025/10/05/i...

It still believes in night | A review of Antoine Volodine’s post-exotic novel Mevlido’s Dreams

Antoine Volodine’s 2007 novel Mevlido’s Dreams is a bleak, dystopian noir novel set several centuries in the future in the ruined city-state of Oulang-Oulane. Here, weary revolutionary Mevlido live…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 4d

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Sunday Comix

From “Nightmare World” by Basil Wolverton. Published in Weird Tales #3, Sept. 1952, Stanely Morse Publications.

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 5d

Man Reading -- Erwin Fabian biblioklept.org/2025/10/04/m...

Man Reading — Erwin Fabian

Man Reading, 1941 by Erwin Fabian (1915-2020)

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 5d

wait what

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Mattia Filice's Driver (Book acquired, 26 Sept. 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/10/02/m...

Mattia Filice’s Driver (Book acquired, 26 Sept. 2025)

Mattia Filice’s Driver is new in English translation by Jacques Houis. Here’s NYRB’s blurb: Driver is a book about a young man from the provinces who moves to Paris and studies to…

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 7d

Thinking about them

Bob and Sergio from One Battle After Another

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 8d

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Studies for Departure — Paula Rego

Two studies for Departure, 1988 by Paula Rego (1935–2022)

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Mike.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @dumbmike.bsky.social · Sep 28

FIRST WITCH
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!

SECOND WITCH
All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!

THIRD WITCH
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!

FOURTH WITCH WHO HAS IBS
(guts loudly grumbling, doubled over and holding stomach)
Hi, Macbeth.

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 8d

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reserved for those who have been mutilated in the war

“October” by Tom Clark The rain falls like dirty string on the tomb of the human race The girl with the red scarf and the sassy face throws her flowers on the wet leaves Her name is Mar…

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 8d

smdh when the cook fails to hold the whale-steak in one hand, and show a live coal to it with the other

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 8d

this whale-steak of yours was so very bad, that I have put it out of sight as soon as possible

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 9d

Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket (Book acquired, 30 Sept. 2025) biblioklept.org/2025/09/30/t...

Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket (Book acquired, 30 Sept. 2025)

Here are the first four paragraphs of Thomas Pynchon’s ninth novel Shadow Ticket: When trouble comes to town, it usually rakes the North Shore Line. What with tough times down the Lake in Chi…

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 9d

It's the end of The Best American Poetry.

I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.

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Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector

When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

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M.A.Orthofer @maorthofer.bsky.social · 10d

"On the other hand, much of the translated fiction that sells big and spreads by word of mouth is identikit pap that “perms” any three from the following: Japan, cats, coffee shops, locked rooms, bookstores and detectives." @john-self.bsky.social on re/translations thecritic.co.uk/accost-in-tr...

Accost in translation | John Self | The Critic Magazine

Each new rendering in English of a classic written in another language must make the case for its superiority to previous versions. Cue barbs and accusations.

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 10d

Mass-market Monday | Philip K. Dick's Dr. Bloodmoney biblioklept.org/2025/09/29/m...

Mass-market Monday | Philip K. Dick’s Dr. Bloodmoney

Dr. Bloodmoney, or, How We Got Along After the Bomb, Philip K. Dick, 1965. Dell Books (1980). Cover art by Richard Courtney (not credited; cover signed R. Courtney); no designer credited. 304 pages…

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