Pishy

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30 octobre 2026 19:41

I have not read any Cusk as of yet, I have just started The Life of M

Alex Scott Fairley

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30 octobre 2026 09:27

I've really enjoyed the bits I've read so far, though I have a penchant for the ones riffing on biology over astronomy, I admit! I detest flying, so I usually go for short story collections for flights, as I can concentrate in bursts between waves of alarm!

Michaële Cutaya

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30 octobre 2026 08:35

"When people talk about how relaxing it is to talk to a chatbot, it’s because the real slips away. To act in the world, you need to deal with its friction" Sherry Turkle. A refreshing take on what's wrong with chatbots by James Gleick. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Owl in the Attic Books

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30 octobre 2026 08:34

"The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores & knotty veins & tumors & age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life." - Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives (trans. N. Wimmer) #books #booksky #writing

Boris Dralyuk

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30 octobre 2026 08:34

I take full credit for identifying this new type of distich by Anne Carson (headless iambic pentameter / spondee) and for naming it the Carsonic! Here’s my Hollanderesque definition: The Carsonic It’s a way to register surprise. Big news.