Without AI. Without the internet. Without computers. Without lasers. Without gas-powered engines. Without electricity.. They built this.

Saul Leiter #photography Smokestack, 1970s

I like Pynchon but here's what Pynchon liked that "Pynchon fans" are forgetting about.

good morning ill. Paco Yao

I want to find a small Scottish village that will have me for eight months so I can write undisturbed and at some remove from the current anger and hatred that disturb the land where I currently worry. If not Scottish, then Norwegian.

Victor Brauner. Retracts from the Butcher, 1951.

Alcoholic, suicidal and outrageously self-destructive, Osamu Dazai’s life was a monument to chaos and confusion. But what a writer. With Dostoyevsky, Kafka and Camus he is one of the prose poets of social alienation — restless, impulsive, self-deprecating and often darkly funny.

Indiana Fever lose in overtime. Absolutely gutted. Heroic effort by that group. They left everything they could on the court. Now I’m done. I don’t care who wins the final. It’s time for me to get back to living normally.

I wrote a brief essay about my recent collection 'Against Perfectionism & Other Poems'. It appears here: periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/jon-co…

Can someone tell me why NOONE is talking about this writer? A poet’s book & in a sense a kin to Sebald but with more transformative prose, exquisite reimagined language Alina Stefanescu MarcNash 𝑀𝑎𝑡𝑡 𝐾. 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑒𝑟 Damian Kelleher Anthony Alvin Lu @beyndzeropod And Other Stories

Au Bon Coin. Rue Arthur-Rozier, Belleville c.1970. Paris 20e

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David Shterenberg (1881–1948) - Still Life with a Lamp and Herring,

Candle.

Me after reading my newest manuscript for submission asap.