Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I am steadfastly pro union and also find it both crappy and hilarious that the national organization of the union to which I have the honor of belonging apparently sold my address to a credit card company 000
Reposted by Felix Kentbuy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026In my Netflix remake of Salem's Lot the basement full of vampires is actually a nice living room full of adorable puppies. 2182
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I wrote about my J.D. Salinger phase and also a little about my John Buchan phase and also very briefly about how all the Puffin books of my childhood were confident that what a child needed after some nice E. Nesbit was H. Rider Haggard’s She 0377
Reposted by Felix KentVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 06/10/2026I wrote this small and bony essay about it once, which contained my favorite (if unhelpful) formulation of the difference: “'literary' and 'genre' are not in the same genre, and to say so is a literary concern.” vajra.me/2023/04/12/m...vajra.meMake Your BonesNaming only books with a bone in the title, some entirely non-bellicose thoughts on (groan) YA/adult/genre/literary fiction. 03811
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You could have a Mary Sue self insert or you could have someone with your actual name who behaves in ways that are a kind of plangent caricature of your worst qualities 000
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026In the middle of the night came up with the hottest of hot takes namely that autofiction is actually the final evolution of rpf 100
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Cellblock tango but staged with all babies standing up against the bars of their cribs explaining their various woes 000
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I would be excited about this book even if the cover sucked. But the cover is really really good. 051
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tried to tell someone I had packed a particular medication and autocorrect made it so I typed Carlton is in the car and this means that the Leafs are going all the way this year 001
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I loved this so much I immediately wanted to reread everything Lucy Bloom wrote 062
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Some years ago a friend who is a philosopher told me about a talk she went to about not anthropomorphizing humans and at first it sounded like the craziest thing I had ever heard but honestly one of the most useful things for my mental health is not to anthropomorphize myself too much 000
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I am posting this as a reminder to myself more than anything as someone who back in the 80s found Dogue Magazine genuinely gave me an appetite for antique style dog beds despite not owning a dog 000
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In the same way every war movie is a pro war movie every skit making fun of rich influencers is a pro rich influencer skit 110
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I suppose you could also take it as pro ai in the sense that nobody believes my Cuisinart is going to bring an end to human life but I personally am fully subscribed to the belief that the dire predictions are actually stealth marketing so that bends it around to anti ai again 000
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I was going to make a joke about how my Cuisinart was actually a form of AI because of how it cuts things on its own but then I realized that as a joke it could actually be taken as pro ai, in that no oceans are drained for my Cuisinart’s ability to cut things very small 100
Reposted by Felix KentVajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 20/09/2026tarzan of the apes (extremely naked and fully erect Philip José Farmer version) will sex-wrestle the rogue AI into submission while shouting "kreegah bundolo," which, as john connor has ensured through a time travel subplot, is the secret shutdown phrase backdoored into the mainframe 1291
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My preferred form of social media is buttonholing casual acquaintances on the street and demanding they look at pictures where I think I look good 001
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’m a little sad I didn’t see this before I wrote my right-on-red blog: www.reddit.com/r/nextdoor/s...reddit.comFrom the nextdoor community on Reddit: Don't stop at a red light just because I want to turn right!Explore this post and more from the nextdoor community 000
Reposted by Felix KentJaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 09/09/2026Saw an ad for a bank that emphasized the sterility of an AI-automated world and showed how you get human interaction at the bank, and once again thinking about cooption of anti-AI aesthetics to sell bank 1813
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When I was younger I had a pair of pants taken from an ex-boyfriend and at the time I thought I liked them because of lingering affection for him but I came across a basically identical pair of pants in the wild and it turns out they just look really good on me 000
Reposted by Felix KentFelix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I want to know if anyone showed Rachel Cusk the Tavi Gevinson Taylor Swift zine and if so what she thought 111
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This is one of those posts where the fact that I strung all those words together says more about my psyche than I should feel comfortable exposing in public but there we are 000
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I want to know if anyone showed Rachel Cusk the Tavi Gevinson Taylor Swift zine and if so what she thought 111
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026You should click the Roz Chast link but in case you didn’t I will tell you that the part of the Poky Little Parkway that I have thought about the most over the years is the “mistake aisle” between lanes 010
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I am reposting the link to mg Defector piece because I am proud of it but in order to add value I am also including a link to the Roz Chast Poky Little Parkway comic which I have always seen as a beautiful Utopian dream condenaststore.com/featured/its... defector.com/every-right-...defector.comEvery Right On Red Frays The Social Contract A Little Further | DefectorA couple of blocks from my office is a steep hill. Sometimes at lunch I go out into the sun and walk up the hill. The hill is very California: asphalt so newly laid that it looks AI-generated; a handf... 140
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026That means so much — also your parenting column this morning gave me absolutely chilling flashbacks to my own teen years where I had a meltdown in the airport about undone homework and some stranger lectured my mother about how that showed my weak character 110
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I would assume if you are coming across this post you have already read Kathryn Xu’s brilliant defector.com/all-the-trai... but if not fix your lifedefector.comAll The Trains I Rode In Los Angeles | DefectorThis is not really a blog about trains. A blog about trains in Los Angeles, and my experience with them across 10 days, would ultimately be very short: Despite its notorious gaps in coverage, LA Metro... 0251
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026In some ways this feels like a hotter take than my real belief that we shouldn’t be allowed to drive 4913
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Defector gave me the chance to write about something deeply personal and meaningful to me, namely my belief that right on red is destroying our morals: defector.com/every-right-...defector.comEvery Right On Red Frays The Social Contract A Little Further | DefectorA couple of blocks from my office is a steep hill. Sometimes at lunch I go out into the sun and walk up the hill. The hill is very California: asphalt so newly laid that it looks AI generated; a handf... 1331471
Reposted by Felix KentCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 25/08/2026some words on Soraya Roberts, the best writer i ever knewjustatad.xyzSorayaI sat on the aisle at a movie the other day. 0546142
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Not that we need more examples of the enshittification of the internet but I was trying to look up the word eleemosynary the other day only I believed it was spelled eelomosynary and I could not find it at all and in 2007 it would have come up in 3 seconds 4256
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I am moving offices within my workspace and I have been dragging my heels on it and I finally just set up my computer and phone in the new office so basically I understand burning your boats on the beach more than anyone else 030
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 06/07/2026A poem that makes extended reference to Orpheus and Eurydice to describe the experience of driving with a baby who has gone quiet in the car seat 000
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 03/07/2026A little surprised that there hasn’t been a Tide Pods situation with chewing Advil, which according to the internet can also cause intestinal bleeding 000
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The most important thing I learned this week is that if you accidentally chew an Advil (or, I guess, if you purposefully chew an Advil) your entire mouth will start burning 100
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Okay somebody needs to do a mashup of the business card scene in American Psycho with the calling card section of the Little House on the Prairie books 000
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I understand that joking commentary about spam is the lowest of the low hanging fruit, but you have to admire how vividly this email invokes the image of a coming civil war 010
Reposted by Felix KentSabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 18/06/2026really great @maitreyiaa.bsky.social interview with @justinellis.bsky.social about his brilliant new book THE CRUELTY OF NICE FOLKS (which is out now, buy buy buy!) defector.com/justin-ellis... 0358
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I quit a few years ago because things had been fine for so long and it was like right, the reason things were fine is because I was on meds 010
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 05/05/2026If I meet you in person and anything remotely related to antidepressants comes up I will mention my prescription because it did have a stigma for me when I was in my twenties and I hate that 000
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 05/05/2026My only antidepressant regret (and I’ve been on them for 15 years now) is that I didn’t start a decade earlier and the reason I didn’t start a decade earlier is a weird internalized version of this RFK Jr bullshit 240
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Well at least the Leafs have no first round picks to forfeit 000
Felix Kent @felixkent.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Cut my hair so short my phone doesn’t recognize me any more 010
