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Adrian McKinty

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Edgar & Theakston Award winning Irish writer. Wrote the NY Times best sellers The Chain, The Island et al...

La chair est triste et j’ai lu tous les livres.

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4 alt neo noirs from the last couple of years that, for whatever reason, seemed to fly a bit under the radar, but which are v good & you will enjoy this holiday season:

The Kid Detective
American Animals
I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore
Under the Silver Lake

4 alt neo noirs from the last couple of years that, for whatever reason, seemed to fly a bit under the radar, but which are v good & you will enjoy this holiday season: The Kid Detective American Animals I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore Under the Silver Lake
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well, I have to break my twitter exile for this news...

THE 12 BEST THRILLERS OF 2023
washingtonpost.com/books/2023/11/…

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I've not quit twitter but I wont be here much anymore as trolls, ads & glitches have made this site hard to take

when I do tweet it'll be my usual nerdy stuff: poetry & philosophy

otherwise I'll take Wittgenstein's advice

'whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent'

I've not quit twitter but I wont be here much anymore as trolls, ads & glitches have made this site hard to take when I do tweet it'll be my usual nerdy stuff: poetry & philosophy otherwise I'll take Wittgenstein's advice 'whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent'
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Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller Upton Sinclair not afraid of losing his dignity selling the Fig Leaf paperback edition of Oil! in Boston

Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller Upton Sinclair not afraid of losing his dignity selling the Fig Leaf paperback edition of Oil! in Boston
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Animal Farm rejected by TS Eliot not because of the quality of the writing which he says is up there w Jonathan Swift but because:

1 It's the wrong time to talk shit about the Russians (July 1944)

2 Eliot doesn't quite buy the logic of the universe

Animal Farm rejected by TS Eliot not because of the quality of the writing which he says is up there w Jonathan Swift but because: 1 It's the wrong time to talk shit about the Russians (July 1944) 2 Eliot doesn't quite buy the logic of the universe
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2 more Robert Graves books for you that I love

Goodbye To All That is simply the finest memoir of WW1 from the allied POV

The White Goddess is Graves's crackpot but wildly entertaining distillation of The Golden Bough & a lifetime of reading British, Irish & European folklore

2 more Robert Graves books for you that I love Goodbye To All That is simply the finest memoir of WW1 from the allied POV The White Goddess is Graves's crackpot but wildly entertaining distillation of The Golden Bough & a lifetime of reading British, Irish & European folklore
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drinking w a mate last night who likes Hopkins

who, like Emily Dickinson, went largely unpublished in his lifetime

for those days/weeks/months when its all gone to shit

this is good dark depressing stuff...

drinking w a mate last night who likes Hopkins who, like Emily Dickinson, went largely unpublished in his lifetime for those days/weeks/months when its all gone to shit this is good dark depressing stuff...
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my new fav local brewery Threes Brewing has opened up a store at Penn Station

they must have a disillusioned writer on staff because amongst their beers are these India Pale Ales:

UNRELIABLE NARRATOR
CONSTANT DISAPPOINTMENT
I HATE MYSELF
FOOL'S ERRAND
CRYING ON THE INSIDE

my new fav local brewery Threes Brewing has opened up a store at Penn Station they must have a disillusioned writer on staff because amongst their beers are these India Pale Ales: UNRELIABLE NARRATOR CONSTANT DISAPPOINTMENT I HATE MYSELF FOOL'S ERRAND CRYING ON THE INSIDE
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from Ray Bradbury's 1951 story The Foghorn printed in the Saturday Evening Post

this story became the basis of the film The Beast From 20,000 fathoms and also was said to be the inspiration for the Godzilla franchise (&, Leonard Nimoy said, was the inspiration for Star Trek IV)

from Ray Bradbury's 1951 story The Foghorn printed in the Saturday Evening Post this story became the basis of the film The Beast From 20,000 fathoms and also was said to be the inspiration for the Godzilla franchise (&, Leonard Nimoy said, was the inspiration for Star Trek IV)
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lotta people complaining about the rain this morning in the coffee shop, but not me...

this is perfect noir writing weather

lotta people complaining about the rain this morning in the coffee shop, but not me... this is perfect noir writing weather
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Philip Larkin,

Aubade

this was his last great melancholy masterpiece of a poem published in 1977, on Christmas Eve (😂) in the TLS

Philip Larkin, Aubade this was his last great melancholy masterpiece of a poem published in 1977, on Christmas Eve (😂) in the TLS
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'Read, read, read! Read everything—trash, classics, good & bad & see how they do it. Like a carpenter who apprentices & studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.'

happy birthday William Faulkner

'Read, read, read! Read everything—trash, classics, good & bad & see how they do it. Like a carpenter who apprentices & studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.' happy birthday William Faulkner
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this is nice

my new Sean Duffy novel reviewed on the front page of today's The Washington Post:

$ quote '...mordant wit, erudition & stylistic panache...Another superb outing for Duffy, made all the more so by Gerard Doyle, who narrates w sardonic humor...'
washingtonpost.com/books/2023/09/…

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hey if you're interested in Irish crime fiction and how it went from nowhere to, well, somewhere, you should read this interview between 2 of the best read, biggest brains in the biz

Molly Odintz & Dr Anjili Babbar:

crimereads.com/anjili-babbar-…

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