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@pangur-and-grim Finally got my copy! Mandy and baby Gizmo were too busy fooding to really care but the cat toll must be paid

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Illustration I made for the Triangle Agency TTRPG book...!!

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Frederic Pokosch's Voices (Book acquired, late Feb. 2026)

Frederic Prokosch’s 1982 memoir Voices is getting a reprint from NYRB. Their blurb: Frederic Prokosch was a fantasist. His first novel, The Asiatics, was a stylish account of a man hitchhiking across an Asia that was more dream than reality. Praised by T. S. Eliot, Thomas Mann, and W. B. Yeats, it was a tremendous success, never to be replicated in Prokosch’s long career. In the 1940s, he moved…

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Thomas Kendall's How I Killed the Universal Man (Book acquired, 23 Jan. 2026)

I started Thomas Kendall’s second novel, How I Killed the Universal Man last night. Good stuff so far. Blurb from publisher Whisk(e)y Tit: John Lakerman, alternative current affairs journalist for donkeyWolf media, is sent to participate and report on a clinical trial for a newly developed, biopharmaceutical, antidepressant. While researching the article, and the disappearance of its lead…

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Leonora Carrington's The Stone Door (Book acquired, 22 June 2025)

Superpsyched about this one. NYRB’s jacket copy: The Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman’s discovery of an initiatory code that…

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Richard Hell's Godlike (Book acquired, 23 Jan. 2026)

Richard Hell’s 2005 novel Godlike is getting a new printing from NYRB. Godlike reimagines the volatile Verlaine–Rimbaud dyad as a 1970s No Wave New York collision of art, desire, and language language language. Symbolist rebellion transmutes into downtown punk nihilism, drugs, and poetry. This corrosive Künstlerroman was originally issued by Dennis Cooper’s Little House on the Bowery (an imprint…

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And another Moby-Dick

Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is probably my favorite book. *** Years ago at an awful dinner party a man I didn’t know asked me What do you do?, by which he meant how I made money to live, or, maybe charitably, if I had a specific profession. When I told him it had something to do with literature and college students he followed up with a question no stranger should aim at another…

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Dante's Paradiso (Book acquired, some time in July 2025)

D.M. Black’s new translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy concludes in this volume. Publisher NYRB’s blurb: Paradiso brings The Divine Comedy to a virtuosic and visionary end. This final leg of Dante’s journey from Hell into the presence of God is for many the most memorable stretch of the poem, a musical and mystical interveaving of mind and heart and transported sense that is unlike anything…

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