America, at times, seems to be the only country to have gone directly from adolescence to senility, without intervention. Noted Paul Metcalf, some time ago.

Today we remember those who served in the pumpkin wars

I figure it’s as good a day as any to start this book:

October music month:

My publisher is having a sale! Yes, you should buy WE THE PARASITES, but here are four other titles I've loved from Sublunary, which consistently pushes the boundaries of literature in ways I admire:

a fuller translation would be "Spirit" or even "Mind" of Christmas Past

Aristotle (tr. Reeve) and Hegel (tr. Inwood) on voice and speech, pain and grief I love the little poetic moments in philosophy... the gregariousness of the bee and the "cramped lodging" of the heart

Forced to choose between defending Trump and betraying the legacy of Modernism and its roots in both vernacular storytelling and the tradition of learned wit... cruel predicament

Charisma (1999, dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

you can just garden without being trad or weird about it i harvested 10 lbs of tomatoes this morning and i work in a big building in manhattan

Ludwig Becker. "Meteor seen by me on Oct. 11t. at 10h 35m," 1860.

my vizier warns me not to get political on instagram

Cranes Fleuris wikiart.org/en/james-ensor…

Can we PLEASE stop starting off reviews of books in translation like this? Really thought we were past this kind of rhetoric

'The clearest spring a little touched is creased with a thousand circles; as those momentary circles for all the world, such are our dreams.' —Thomas Nashe, 'The Terrors of the Night'

John Covert, Resurrection (1916)

"We are a pitiable people. Some nations boast great kings. We have survived because we are not worth the trouble of invasion." Today on ergot.: 'The Conqueror' the debut publication of Phoebe Danaher (phoebeed2.wixsite.com/my-site/home) ergot.press/authors/Phoebe…

For the Almanac, I put in my work at the vinegar factory of post-election punditry: paradise-almanac.net/p/understandin…

ルドルフ・ハウズナー （Rudolf Hausner、1914-1995） 『回転軌道のラオコーン』 （Laokoon in der Umlaufbahn）