Andrew Nette
@pulpcurry.bsky.social
“It’s worse than death in the mines. you want them to sing opera as well?” Award winning author of fiction & non-fiction, pulp scholar, bibliophile, noir aficionado. Currently living in Berlin.
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My latest Substack post is live - a little ode to the now mostly gone phenomenon of the Asia hand and Peter Bogdanovich’s SAINT JACK (1979).
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“What is the robbing of a bank compared with the founding of a bank?”
Happy Birthday, Bertolt Brecht!
Happy Birthday, Bertolt Brecht!
February 10, 2026 at 8:57 AM
“What is the robbing of a bank compared with the founding of a bank?”
Happy Birthday, Bertolt Brecht!
Happy Birthday, Bertolt Brecht!
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Taking "Mitchell" seriously, sort of
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"Mitchell," straight
When bad movies happen to good actors
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February 9, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Last night’s viewing, THE RIP (2025). No points for originality but solid enough bad cop action film & always happy to see Afflick/Damon chew the scenery. One quibble & it’s a regular one, why do so many US films ruin things by including an unnecessary extra one or two scenes to wrap everything up?
February 8, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Last night’s viewing, THE RIP (2025). No points for originality but solid enough bad cop action film & always happy to see Afflick/Damon chew the scenery. One quibble & it’s a regular one, why do so many US films ruin things by including an unnecessary extra one or two scenes to wrap everything up?
Last night’s viewing, THE RIP (2025). No points for originality but solid enough bad cop action film & always happy to see Afflick/Damon chew the scenery. One quibble & it’s a regular one, why do so many US films ruin things by including an unnecessary extra one or two scenes to wrap everything up?
February 8, 2026 at 7:21 PM
Last night’s viewing, THE RIP (2025). No points for originality but solid enough bad cop action film & always happy to see Afflick/Damon chew the scenery. One quibble & it’s a regular one, why do so many US films ruin things by including an unnecessary extra one or two scenes to wrap everything up?
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Today’s book purchase. Lost Czech crime fiction from 1985, republished by @sohopress.bsky.social Fits in well with research l am doing for my next non-fiction project.
February 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Today’s book purchase. Lost Czech crime fiction from 1985, republished by @sohopress.bsky.social Fits in well with research l am doing for my next non-fiction project.
Utterly hopeless. Don’t deserve to win elections, really.
After demanding ICE and other federal agents be banned from wearing face coverings, Schumer and Jeffries added caveats: "no masks, except in extraordinary and unusual circumstances.” trib.al/tP1jIiF
February 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Utterly hopeless. Don’t deserve to win elections, really.
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THE LOOKING GLASS WAR is my favourite Le Carre book and film adaptation. I wrote about why on my Substack a while ago
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Fifty-six years ago today at the Paramount Lower Regent Street, audiences could see The Looking Glass War… #TheLookingGlassWar #1970s #film #films #FrankPierson #JohnLeCarre #ChristopherJones #RalphRichardson #AnthonyHopkins #PaulRogers #PiaDegermark #thriller #thrillers
February 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM
THE LOOKING GLASS WAR is my favourite Le Carre book and film adaptation. I wrote about why on my Substack a while ago
andrewnette.substack.com/p/violent-ro...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/violent-ro...
THE LOOKING GLASS WAR is my favourite Le Carre book and film adaptation. I wrote about why on my Substack a while ago
andrewnette.substack.com/p/violent-ro...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/violent-ro...
Fifty-six years ago today at the Paramount Lower Regent Street, audiences could see The Looking Glass War… #TheLookingGlassWar #1970s #film #films #FrankPierson #JohnLeCarre #ChristopherJones #RalphRichardson #AnthonyHopkins #PaulRogers #PiaDegermark #thriller #thrillers
February 8, 2026 at 1:23 PM
THE LOOKING GLASS WAR is my favourite Le Carre book and film adaptation. I wrote about why on my Substack a while ago
andrewnette.substack.com/p/violent-ro...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/violent-ro...
Today’s book purchase. Lost Czech crime fiction from 1985, republished by @sohopress.bsky.social Fits in well with research l am doing for my next non-fiction project.
February 8, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Today’s book purchase. Lost Czech crime fiction from 1985, republished by @sohopress.bsky.social Fits in well with research l am doing for my next non-fiction project.
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For those who might not have seen it, my latest Substack newsletter is live
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Dead to shame: the ballad of the Asia hand
In the early nineties I lived for several years in Vientiane, the sun bleached, run down, quasi-communist capital of what was then one of the more remote countries in Asia – actually, it probably stil...
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February 7, 2026 at 10:36 PM
For those who might not have seen it, my latest Substack newsletter is live
andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-sh...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-sh...
For those who might not have seen it, my latest Substack newsletter is live
andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-sh...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-sh...
Dead to shame: the ballad of the Asia hand
In the early nineties I lived for several years in Vientiane, the sun bleached, run down, quasi-communist capital of what was then one of the more remote countries in Asia – actually, it probably stil...
andrewnette.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:36 PM
For those who might not have seen it, my latest Substack newsletter is live
andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-sh...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-sh...
This is very good.
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
The most disturbing revelation so far
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February 7, 2026 at 1:39 PM
This is very good.
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David Lynch exhibition at the Dox Gallery, Prague. I miss his being in the world.
February 6, 2026 at 11:02 AM
David Lynch exhibition at the Dox Gallery, Prague. I miss his being in the world.
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My latest Substack post is live - a little ode to the now mostly gone phenomenon of the Asia hand and Peter Bogdanovich’s SAINT JACK (1979).
andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-sh...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-sh...
February 5, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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David Lynch exhibition at the Dox Gallery, Prague. I miss his being in the world.
February 6, 2026 at 11:02 AM
David Lynch exhibition at the Dox Gallery, Prague. I miss his being in the world.
👇🔥
My latest Substack post is live - a little ode to the now mostly gone phenomenon of the Asia hand and Peter Bogdanovich’s SAINT JACK (1979).
andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-sh...
andrewnette.substack.com/p/dead-to-sh...
February 5, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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@myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social The Lee Marvin avatar gets you an instant follow
February 5, 2026 at 9:29 AM
@myimaginarybrklyn.bsky.social The Lee Marvin avatar gets you an instant follow
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Berlin at the moment.
IMHO Simenon’s best book, which is saying something, given how many he wrote.
IMHO Simenon’s best book, which is saying something, given how many he wrote.
February 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Berlin at the moment.
IMHO Simenon’s best book, which is saying something, given how many he wrote.
IMHO Simenon’s best book, which is saying something, given how many he wrote.
Berlin at the moment.
IMHO Simenon’s best book, which is saying something, given how many he wrote.
IMHO Simenon’s best book, which is saying something, given how many he wrote.
February 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Berlin at the moment.
IMHO Simenon’s best book, which is saying something, given how many he wrote.
IMHO Simenon’s best book, which is saying something, given how many he wrote.
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Two 1970s Australian horror comic covers by Phil Belbin.
February 4, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Two 1970s Australian horror comic covers by Phil Belbin.
Two 1970s Australian horror comic covers by Phil Belbin.
February 4, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Two 1970s Australian horror comic covers by Phil Belbin.
Am l the only one getting fed up with Anthony Bourdain, from the grave, telling me how to live my life, be cool, and to eat/drink, etc?
February 4, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Am l the only one getting fed up with Anthony Bourdain, from the grave, telling me how to live my life, be cool, and to eat/drink, etc?
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Nice one, I didn't know this film, and Ben Gazarra is always ace.
Happy to see the film is on YouTube: youtu.be/A9R-AgxeQMg?...
Happy to see the film is on YouTube: youtu.be/A9R-AgxeQMg?...
Saint Jack (1979) | directed by Peter Bogdanovich
YouTube video by TNAPT
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February 4, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Nice one, I didn't know this film, and Ben Gazarra is always ace.
Happy to see the film is on YouTube: youtu.be/A9R-AgxeQMg?...
Happy to see the film is on YouTube: youtu.be/A9R-AgxeQMg?...
This novella is definitely on my TBR list.
Our first Recovered Book from @bhousepress.bsky.social to be mentioned in Kirkus Reviews gets a starred review! Vengeance is Mine by Friedrich Torberg was written in exile in 1943. One of the earliest examples of Holocaust fiction, it's never before been translated.
VENGEANCE IS MINE | Kirkus Reviews
This 1943 novella by the Austrian Jewish writer Torberg—published before the horrors of the Nazi death camps were widely known—describes a brutal showdown between a Jewish prisoner and the German SS officer who calmly tells him he is about to die.
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February 3, 2026 at 8:32 PM
This novella is definitely on my TBR list.