Kulchur Kat

Reader of books. Typesetting and designer of books.

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@mymartinamis @leorobsonwriter @jackaldane That was a damn fine episode.

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Celebrating the new ad-free home for https://t.co/bAayj9OzrC by ranking M John Harrison’s 12 novels. #mjohnharrison

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@j_amesmarriott @mymartinamis Looking forward to this episode. Some obituaries said Amis would be remembered more for his criticism than his novels. Humbug!

[UofG News @UofGNews]

Prof Larissa Naylor (@biogeomorph) of @UofGGES helped the @WorldBank @InspectionPanel shape a decision on support for a community facing the effects of coastal erosion.

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@ChrisKelso5 Isabelle Adjani’s performance in Possession is stunning. She really pushes the unhinged envelope!

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#bookmail I’ve been really looking forward to this. My favourite writer has written a memoir, or “anti-memoir” as he calls it. A lucky find as it’s not out for another month or so.

#mjohnharrison #wishiwashere

@serpentstail

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#tseliot #thewasteland

#thewastelandcentenary

#poetry

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Stunning essay on The Waste Land and the repercussions and fate of literary modernism

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@chris_power I’ve seen that book display too. But the bloomin’ shop is never open!

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

I wonder how someone could become so radicalised by xenophobia as to throw petrol bombs at a migrant detention centre?

Anyway onto something completely unrelated, here’s today’s Telegraph front page.
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Spending the past year or so kicking around in English and European lit, I had forgotten how exceptional the American voice is at moving about in the epic register without breaking sweat…

#denisjohnson #traindreams

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@BacklistedPod @JenniferLAllan @MissAdaDoom Great episode. Totally agree with @JenniferLAllan - those yellow-spined SF Masterworks covers are garish - designed it seems to keep SF in its ghetto. P.S. Nova Swing by MJohn Harrison is another zone for Jennifer’s fan theory.

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Could there possibly be more weird pageants and strange processions, twisted fertility rites and surreal rituals in one story?
#mjohnharrison #ianmiller #victorgollancz #graphicnovel #viriconium

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Heady epigraphs. Way to start a book!
#lawrencedurrell #tseliot #mjohnharrison

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Sad news. RIP #briancatling #bcatling

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A sharply observed reality beautifully rendered; in Harrison’s lines, editing and elisions he captures the warp and weave of reality. All groundwork for a genuine sense of the unsettling and the uncanny that lingers long after the book is put down. #mjohnharrison @commapress

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As with Hurricane Season, Melchor is interested in the factors that motivate violence. Unlike that novel which linked the roots of violence with class, Paradais posits misogyny, toxic masculinity, the lack of morality as engulfing both rich and poor.@FitzcarraldoEds

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@BacklistedPod @Patreon I saw Stalker first and was blown away. The book was a bit of a disappointment compared to Tarkovsky’s vision. (Mind you, M John Harrison’s rewriting of it as Nova Swing was amazing.)

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The Proton Circuit, Viriconium - “all the cities that have ever been.” Imaginary book cover. Image generated by Midjourney from all the algorithms that have ever been. @mjohnharrison #AIart

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@mikefranchina_ Definitely Viriconium-esque