Caustic Cover Critic
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Uncharismatic megafauna.
Too fat to ride a horse, too poor to own a carriage.
Buy my book, keep me off the streets: http://bit.ly/JMgibbons
Too fat to ride a horse, too poor to own a carriage.
Buy my book, keep me off the streets: http://bit.ly/JMgibbons
Pinned
A new addition ('The Woman in Cabin 10') to the surprisingly extensive Keira Knightley library, for people who only want to read books with Keira Knightley on them.
What do we want?!! BOOKS!
When do we want them?!!! WELL, ACTUALLY, WE ALREADY BOUGHT THESE, SO IT'S NOT REALLY RELEVANT!
When do we want them?!!! WELL, ACTUALLY, WE ALREADY BOUGHT THESE, SO IT'S NOT REALLY RELEVANT!
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
What do we want?!! BOOKS!
When do we want them?!!! WELL, ACTUALLY, WE ALREADY BOUGHT THESE, SO IT'S NOT REALLY RELEVANT!
When do we want them?!!! WELL, ACTUALLY, WE ALREADY BOUGHT THESE, SO IT'S NOT REALLY RELEVANT!
It's nice when someone else writes the article you kind of wanted to write but didn't have the knowledge or research-energy to tackle: on paintings containing a bunch of other paintings
publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...
Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. From its origins in picturing private cur...
publicdomainreview.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It's nice when someone else writes the article you kind of wanted to write but didn't have the knowledge or research-energy to tackle: on paintings containing a bunch of other paintings
publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/cabine...
The conflicted feeling when an obscure (and very good) book you had to struggle to find for yourself just gets reprinted (and looks much nicer, too) when it's too late to help you.
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The conflicted feeling when an obscure (and very good) book you had to struggle to find for yourself just gets reprinted (and looks much nicer, too) when it's too late to help you.
Fucking Chomsky with his stenographied "books" and his paedo mate.
November 23, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Fucking Chomsky with his stenographied "books" and his paedo mate.
I'm not saying that every time your brother-in-law annoys you, you should sign his email up for a different Mormon mailing list, but it definitely helps.
November 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I'm not saying that every time your brother-in-law annoys you, you should sign his email up for a different Mormon mailing list, but it definitely helps.
HERE WE FUCKEN GO!
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
HERE WE FUCKEN GO!
A certain colleague always insists on attaching this shit to every petty, pissy, utterly unimportant email she sends. Absolutely maddening.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
A certain colleague always insists on attaching this shit to every petty, pissy, utterly unimportant email she sends. Absolutely maddening.
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
Unexpected little bit of drive-by bitchery in John Bowen's THE GIRLS:
November 17, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Unexpected little bit of drive-by bitchery in John Bowen's THE GIRLS:
- Oh shit I murdered someone, what to do with the body?
- sweaty desperation filmed by expressionist exile
- Sci-fi, but not written and/or directed by a moron
- people doing something complicated, possibly criminal, meticulously & professionally & yet with a fatal flaw
- everything falls apart
- sweaty desperation filmed by expressionist exile
- Sci-fi, but not written and/or directed by a moron
- people doing something complicated, possibly criminal, meticulously & professionally & yet with a fatal flaw
- everything falls apart
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- A meticulously planned heist goes horribly wrong;
- 1950s Mexican melodrama;
- Doomed romance, preferably 1940s/‘50s;
- Anything featuring Cary Grant;
- French noir, preferably with JP Belmondo, Lino Ventura or Alain Delon
#FilmSky
- A meticulously planned heist goes horribly wrong;
- 1950s Mexican melodrama;
- Doomed romance, preferably 1940s/‘50s;
- Anything featuring Cary Grant;
- French noir, preferably with JP Belmondo, Lino Ventura or Alain Delon
#FilmSky
- Films from 1932 in which three chorus girl gold diggers who share a flat try to survive the Depression
- Craggy former gunslinger bleakly confronts his life’s work
- Miscarriage of justice documentary
- Half-arsed ‘80s buddy comedy
- Holly Hunter whispering
- Craggy former gunslinger bleakly confronts his life’s work
- Miscarriage of justice documentary
- Half-arsed ‘80s buddy comedy
- Holly Hunter whispering
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
- Oh shit I murdered someone, what to do with the body?
- sweaty desperation filmed by expressionist exile
- Sci-fi, but not written and/or directed by a moron
- people doing something complicated, possibly criminal, meticulously & professionally & yet with a fatal flaw
- everything falls apart
- sweaty desperation filmed by expressionist exile
- Sci-fi, but not written and/or directed by a moron
- people doing something complicated, possibly criminal, meticulously & professionally & yet with a fatal flaw
- everything falls apart
Not sure how "sophisticated" this supposedly sophisticated publishing scam is when their fake photos haven't even been cropped to hide the watermarks showing that they're fake.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
November 16, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Not sure how "sophisticated" this supposedly sophisticated publishing scam is when their fake photos haven't even been cropped to hide the watermarks showing that they're fake.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Impressive plagiarism story I missed at the time due to being a teenager and also not having the internet until 2 years later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrani...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrani...
Indrani Aikath Gyaltsen - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Impressive plagiarism story I missed at the time due to being a teenager and also not having the internet until 2 years later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrani...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrani...
Julian Maclaren-Ross taking the piss out of Nancy Mitford:
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Julian Maclaren-Ross taking the piss out of Nancy Mitford:
Genuinely laughed out loud at this poster. This is meant to be Maigret? Yeah, OK, whatever dude.
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Genuinely laughed out loud at this poster. This is meant to be Maigret? Yeah, OK, whatever dude.
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so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
November 11, 2025 at 12:30 AM
so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
If this series ever contains any other authors (or, knowing Penguin, even any other books), I will eat my Stetson.
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
If this series ever contains any other authors (or, knowing Penguin, even any other books), I will eat my Stetson.
I like a trilogy that gets thinner with each volume. Gives you a real sense of hitting a downhill run after volume 1.
(Rereading this in preparation for a talk with @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social about Hungarian litarature)
(Rereading this in preparation for a talk with @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social about Hungarian litarature)
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I like a trilogy that gets thinner with each volume. Gives you a real sense of hitting a downhill run after volume 1.
(Rereading this in preparation for a talk with @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social about Hungarian litarature)
(Rereading this in preparation for a talk with @shawnthebookmaniac.bsky.social about Hungarian litarature)
In case anyone was worrying that I hadn't bought any books this week, I'd like to put your minds at rest.
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM
In case anyone was worrying that I hadn't bought any books this week, I'd like to put your minds at rest.
Kangaroo paws
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Kangaroo paws
Yet again one of the dogs has made a mare’s nest of the clean laundry. Do I ever learn? I do not.
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Yet again one of the dogs has made a mare’s nest of the clean laundry. Do I ever learn? I do not.
Argh fuck no don't
www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-a...
www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-a...
Amazon introduces Kindle Translate, an AI-powered translation service for authors to reach global readers
The service translates between English and Spanish, and from German to English, expanding opportunities for Kindle Direct Publishing authors.
www.aboutamazon.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Argh fuck no don't
www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-a...
www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-a...
The US cover for ELECTRIC SPARK (left) uses a much more interesting photo than the UK one (right), but unfortunately it inserts 'Dame' into the title, even though the book, by its own description, "explores not the celebrated Dame Muriel but the apprentice mage discovering her powers".
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The US cover for ELECTRIC SPARK (left) uses a much more interesting photo than the UK one (right), but unfortunately it inserts 'Dame' into the title, even though the book, by its own description, "explores not the celebrated Dame Muriel but the apprentice mage discovering her powers".
Just how I always pictured it
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Just how I always pictured it
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