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July 4 book haul + Hennessy

Nyt connections adding a hint function is a craven capitulation to the mob, whose true nature is now finally revealed to be anti-puzzle, wholly.

Close enough, welcome back David Foster Wallace

I have the worst weekend plans, have to drive a truck full of nitroglycerin through the South American jungle

The fugitive on AMC rn… ain’t nothin like it

"A startling declaration of artistic purpose . . . and a revolt against established genre." ted reviews David Leo Rice's novel, THE BERLIN WALL (Whiskey Tit Books): full-stop.net/2024/08/30/rev….

I wrote about “The Berlin Wall” by David Leo Rice for Full Stop, an inimitable novel of Europe and its nightmares. Whiskey Tit Books

Huge thanks to ted for this incredibly thoughtful, eloquent, and incisive BERLIN WALL review -- the kind every writer dreams of! ＷＡＫＥ ＩＳＬＡＮＤ Matthew Specktor 11:11 Press Coffee House Press SwR New School Creative Writing blake butler Jeff Jackson full-stop.net/2024/08/30/rev…

"The [novel's] transgressive content is not deployed merely to shock [but] to make concrete the horror implicit in fascism that is abstracted in political rhetoric." ted reviews THE BERLIN WALL by David Leo Rice (Whiskey Tit Books): full-stop.net/2024/08/30/rev….

TREBEK: Our next player has met me before, is that correct? MYSTERY MAN: At your house. Don’t you remember? As a matter of fact…I’m there right now. Call me. Dial your number. TREBEK: Sadly on this program we can’t, “phone a friend.” [audience laughs] now to our champion,

it’s Thursday—why not read some Propagule? Check out “Achaemenica” by ted from our second issue: propagule.co/fiction/achaem…

Think I should have to wear some kind of placard around my neck indicating all the seminal canonical important books I haven’t read. Might get me somewhere

I love browsing on x dot com

Vanity plate “P3RL JAM” got an audible chuckle out of me