Lee Foust
@leefoust.bsky.social
Out of work professional anarchist living in Naples, Italy, under the volcano, will write novels and poems for food, sometimes corrects people's grammar, not so bad now that you know me.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
Another great anti-novel from Lispector.
Lee Foust's review of The Besieged City
5/5: So there's this recent LP from an Italian indi rock group called I Cani (the Dogs) and it has this banger song I love called "Nella parte del mondo in cui sono nato," or "In the part of the world...
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November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Another great anti-novel from Lispector.
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Like those mystic rocks, too, the mystic-marked whale remains undecipherable.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Like those mystic rocks, too, the mystic-marked whale remains undecipherable.
If you need anything to read over the holidays, or a nifty gift for someone, all of my books are 25% off with the code BF2025 at checkout. It's kind of a present to me too if you buy one. (All but one of my books available ONLY here--because fuck Amazon!)
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November 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
If you need anything to read over the holidays, or a nifty gift for someone, all of my books are 25% off with the code BF2025 at checkout. It's kind of a present to me too if you buy one. (All but one of my books available ONLY here--because fuck Amazon!)
I remember when the business model was to get the customers to provide the content between which they could sell advertising space. Now they've prepackaged our content for us in handy AI generated bursts. Were we not good enough for ourselves? Is AI better at being us than we were?
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I remember when the business model was to get the customers to provide the content between which they could sell advertising space. Now they've prepackaged our content for us in handy AI generated bursts. Were we not good enough for ourselves? Is AI better at being us than we were?
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Home invasions.
Child sex crimes.
Homicide.
Just a couple things that some of the 1500+ January 6 defendants have been convicted of since Trump released them back onto our streets.
The GOP isn't the party of law and order.
They're the party of lawlessness and violence.
Child sex crimes.
Homicide.
Just a couple things that some of the 1500+ January 6 defendants have been convicted of since Trump released them back onto our streets.
The GOP isn't the party of law and order.
They're the party of lawlessness and violence.
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Home invasions.
Child sex crimes.
Homicide.
Just a couple things that some of the 1500+ January 6 defendants have been convicted of since Trump released them back onto our streets.
The GOP isn't the party of law and order.
They're the party of lawlessness and violence.
Child sex crimes.
Homicide.
Just a couple things that some of the 1500+ January 6 defendants have been convicted of since Trump released them back onto our streets.
The GOP isn't the party of law and order.
They're the party of lawlessness and violence.
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
When it's finally weird enough. From Amos Tutuola's _The Palm-Wine Drinkard_.
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
When it's finally weird enough. From Amos Tutuola's _The Palm-Wine Drinkard_.
I feel it's fair from now on, whenever any right-winger begins to speak, to silence them with a gentle but firm, "Quiet piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I feel it's fair from now on, whenever any right-winger begins to speak, to silence them with a gentle but firm, "Quiet piggy."
A medieval historical novel from a friend--racy stuff with a philosophical/moral edge.
Lee Foust's review of Jerusalem
Full disclosure: Not only is the author of this novel, Mathias Wildt, a friend, but we were in a writer's group together for several years in Florence, Italy, while he was working on this expansive vo...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
A medieval historical novel from a friend--racy stuff with a philosophical/moral edge.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
I dunno, pretty good writing about how awful you were before you got sober/found God. maybe if you need the illusion of God to be good you're just not meant to be good.
Lee Foust's review of Jesus’ Son
I'm quite torn here so just might mark it as read with no stars to muddy the waters. On the plus side, yes, there are some flashes of brilliance in the writing, veering away from chronology or standar...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I dunno, pretty good writing about how awful you were before you got sober/found God. maybe if you need the illusion of God to be good you're just not meant to be good.
Not quite the "lost classic" it's touted to be, but interesting.
Lee Foust's review of Medusa
3/5: Only three stars means, to me anyway, a good novel--four for excellent and I try to reserve 5 for objective masterpieces and a few personal favorites. Thus this is a solid read, if a bit of the p...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Not quite the "lost classic" it's touted to be, but interesting.
One small consolation for the horror of the new Ballroom/bunker being added to the White House: probably Trump will one day shoot himself in it. Whichever, he's free to chose.
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
One small consolation for the horror of the new Ballroom/bunker being added to the White House: probably Trump will one day shoot himself in it. Whichever, he's free to chose.
A novel as unsettling as reality itself.
Lee Foust's review of Edith's Diary
4/5: Well, this, despite Highsmith's reputation as a writer of mostly crime thrillers and this particular novel as perhaps the closest thing to a serious character study she produced, that is to say a...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A novel as unsettling as reality itself.
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New Halloween cartoons in today’s Noth Things substack.com/@paulnoth/no...
October 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
New Halloween cartoons in today’s Noth Things substack.com/@paulnoth/no...
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Fun postmodern ghost stories! I loved them!
Lee Foust's review of Night Side of the River
5/5: I can't say I'm giving this collection five stars because of any sort of objective professorial opinion that it's one of the great works of occidental literature, but rather because I just really...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Fun postmodern ghost stories! I loved them!
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Una O'Connor in "The Invisible Man" - BOTD
October 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Una O'Connor in "The Invisible Man" - BOTD
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Ach so. Das ist der Plan...
Never forget Epstein.
Never forget Epstein.
October 23, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Ach so. Das ist der Plan...
Never forget Epstein.
Never forget Epstein.
Are they ALL pedophiles?
October 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Are they ALL pedophiles?
From the obscure annals of the first wave of Gothic, 1790-1810.
Lee Foust's review of The Castle of Montabino
3/5: As a scholar of the literary Gothic I'm always on the lookout for more voices from the shadows. I found the name Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson on a list of early Gothic authors with a link to this bri...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
From the obscure annals of the first wave of Gothic, 1790-1810.
Always a pastor, never a drag queen.
The pattern of "religious" men abusing children is real and documented. It's infuriating that LGBTQ+ people bear the brunt of moral panic rhetoric while the actual harm to children is coming from the very people doing the loudest screaming about "protecting" them. #NotADragQueen
Pastor who raged about kids seeing Pride flags arrested for child abuse - LGBTQ Nation
Silas H. Shelton has been accused of abusing his religious authority to groom a teenage girl.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Always a pastor, never a drag queen.