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Barney Rosset never did this.

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Wonderful opening to a new series by the only banana worth reading. So many young girls nowadays aspire to be witches, but they're doing it wrong! ("Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak. Hula, hula, said the witches." - Norman Mailer) https://t.co/fklyyIu1A9

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Brutal. The irony is that this is a lapidary example of the kind of "scathing" criticism that bad readers lazily imagine to have been Oyler's métier. https://t.co/ZWSZ0vmcOL

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@St_Rev Agree - and as someone who was disposed to like him, sort of. Working as a law librarian taught me that actuarial data (often privately held, and guarded!) was so often the relevant shit that couldn't be gotten elsewhere. Dispassionate risk analysis is a trove.

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Chip Smith of @NineBandedBooks reviews 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒅: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒏 𝑹𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑯𝒂𝒓𝒑 by Th. Metzger.

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My apologies to anyone who's been trying to reach me. I've been dealing with a cluster of home maintenance issues. The good news is that the power's back on, and most orders are either in transit or scheduled for shipment. Your patience is appreciated.

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New Arrival❗

In this darkly comic memoir, Meg McCarville grapples with her “daddy issues” while celebrating the life and legend of the man who taught her everything worth knowing.
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https://t.co/sJ8cNQiChZ

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@_motherslug The joke's on the Western fetishists, because Blood Meridian is a horror story--specifically, a slasher. More to your point, a fun pop-cult example is Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the book and the film): anti-commie OR anti-blacklist.

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All will be revealed, tomorrow. #HollowSquare

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Meg McCarville's DADDY STORIES will be released by 9BB on June 16 and I'm pretty sure some of you are going to love it. For a taste, check out this free chapter-story on the @AmpSulphate Substack: https://t.co/ktUhVN922C

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Want to know more about Meg McCarville? Read today's blog.

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@AmpSulphate Thanks! This is a good one.

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Meg McCarville's madly entertaining memoir DADDY STORIES will be formally released on Father's Day and is now available for pre-order through 9BB. Some of you are going to love this one. I do.
https://t.co/nOhkzZ4fJG

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@jessesingal "The Joy of Painting" with Bob Ross; visiting the only bar in a small town (& getting drunk there); Mormon-themed pornography; peanuts; that commercial for 1-800-Contacts where the guy says "You're not my real brother!"; nine-banded armadillos; Richard Brautigan's prose; Columbo.

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Time to look up "nepenthe"...

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"I had to—in the extreme resolution of my tragic despair—accept this eternal struggle of the reprobate against everyone and become intoxicated with the nepenthe that drips from its bosom." ~Enzo Martucci

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@St_Rev Agree with your tactical observation. But re the dumb-dumb expert's go-to exemplar, please note that at least 2 books by Ernst Jünger have been published under the esteemed NYRoB Classics imprint! That's where I, being a member of the "general public," first encountered his work.

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If you have difficulty sleeping (as I have throughout my life), a trick I recommend is to vividly imagine a series of people (friends, celebrities, family, etc.) calmly and sequentially expressing variants of "you need some rest." Similar to counting sheep, but more effective.

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@ARX_Han You're welcome! I have many thoughts (and some pet theories) about your sly novel. But for DOT COM purposes, I prefer to emphasize that it's an important work of self-published literature -- and one that's perhaps calibrated to break the gates. We'll see.

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This novel, INCEL, I think it's good. In some ways, it's very much what I was expecting; then, at turns, it twists against expectation, and I'm usually impressed. There's humor and tristesse and stark interiority and tightrope daring, and it's worth reading. If you like reading.

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@Nativemoon84 Gravity plus mass plus I should have been wearing steel-toed shoes. It was very nearly much worse.

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Now that I'm mostly on the mend, I thought I'd share this lovely image of my recent foot injury. Once it's fully healed, I am resolved to get a proper pedicure.

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@faintghostglow Thanks!