Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/20266-song Fey Fili EP is gonna be my most-listened to album of the year isn't it 010
Reposted by Justin Taylorjesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 28/09/202650 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in rochester, featuring a wild 2nd set jam suite with one of the last fully opened-up versions of “slipknot!” nice soundboard tape, notes, etc.: heads.social/deck/@bourgw... #deadfreaksunite 1302
Reposted by Justin TaylorThe Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There’s a beautiful new edition of Evan S. Connell’s Mrs. Bridge, which is on my personal great American novel shortlist. if you’ve never read it, now’s your chance! i have yet to meet a single reader who didn’t have their world changed by reading it: mcnallyjackson.com/book/9781582...mcnallyjackson.comMrs. Bridge: A Novel"Again and again. . . I find myself being a Mrs. Bridge evangelist, telling them that it’s a perfect novel, and then pressing copies on them. . . What writing! Economical, piquant, beautiful, true." —... 1497
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026my copy of Viva Terlingua now skips in two different places but I don't see any scratch on the vinyl anyway it’s really bumming me out 000
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My introduction to the Cash4Gold reissue of Rudy Wilson’s The Red Truck is now available at the Sewanee Review. I hope it will inspire you take a chance on this singularly wild novel, which is somehow always on the verge of both disappearance and rediscoverythesewaneereview.comA Tunnel Lined with Time: Rudy Wilson's Red TruckAmerica's oldest continuously published literary magazine. 000
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026listening to Veneta a day late so instead of pretending I was there i’m pretending the internet existed in 1972 and the show was posted this morning 010
Reposted by Justin TaylorSimon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 25/08/2026& this onem.youtube.comHarris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)YouTube video by Don Giller 0339
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Tree of Smoke is *at least* as good as Blood Meridian 050
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026getting on a plane to Scotland in 3 hours but first I got this donemy19thcentury.substack.comConway Twitty Tribute PistolLetter from a Kansas Post Rock Scenic Byway in My Mind 010
Reposted by Justin Taylorjesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026last year, i made an index of independent fan-owned/maintained setlist sites, what the goddamn WWW was built for! please put more in the comments! jessejarnow.com/2025/12/a-pe...jessejarnow.com a personal index of setlists & chronologies : Jesse Jarnow 77621
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026putting next newsletter out soon, maybe tomorrow. two playlists, lot of road time, some sculptures and a good picture of pancakes. free if you wanna sign up and get itmy19thcentury.substack.comThe Abridged Abyss | Justin Taylor | SubstackWhat I'm writing & where to find it. Highly occasional, always free. Click to read The Abridged Abyss, by Justin Taylor, a Substack publication. 020
Reposted by Justin TaylorNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 04/08/2026Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats 41603183
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Things We Lost in the Fire, Trust, Great Destroyer Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding (also World Gone Wrong, Time Out of Mind, “Love and Theft”) American Water, Bright Flight, Tanglewood Numbers Dick’s Picks 2-4, 13-15, & 28-30 140
Reposted by Justin TaylorThe Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026“Leisure Suit Larry, Pokemon Trainer,”new from Sierra games this fall! 171
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026just heard there’s a new Donald Antrim novel coming in January, his first in 25 years. super excited about it & gives occasion to recall that 14 years ago for @bookforum.bsky.social I wrote what I believe was the first and still the only assessment of his first trilogy *as* a trilogybookforum.comWoes Make the ManDonald Antrim’s surreal existential triptych – Justin Taylor 160
Reposted by Justin Taylormichael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026who else learned the word "lacustrine" from John Ashbery 352
Reposted by Justin TaylorJustin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026even w the qualifier in the footnote this is a truly insane detail 121
Reposted by Justin Taylorjesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026thoughtful & sweet essay by @courtcarney.bsky.social on bob dylan's friendships with jerry garcia & johnny cash & "the vulnerability of brotherhood" thedylanreview.org/2025/03/02/q...thedylanreview.orgQuestions on Masculinity – Wanted Men: Bob Dylan and the Vulnerability of Brotherhood“Wanted Men: Bob Dylan and the Vulnerability of Brotherhood” By Court Carney, Stephen F. Austin State University In June 2023, in a concert in Barcelona, Spain, Bob Dylan deviated from his establis… 2407
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026this is what missouri thinks is a gas station 040
Reposted by Justin TaylorJohn Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This is terrific and worth your time. (One of the many things I admire about it is that it makes the persuasive arguments without pretending that we’ll be able to discern the AI from the human-generated.) 083
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026second hour wouldn’t have hurt either but oh well 030
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 15/07/2026sometimes you just need an hour alone in your office listening to Spiritualized real real loud 140
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Anyone have a theory as to why Joy Williams’ story “Congress” is called that? 010
Reposted by Justin TaylorMike Schuster @mcs212.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Shot-for-shot remake of The Odyssey 51086
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 12/07/2026my Conway Twitty Tribute Pistol is raising a lot of questions that, frankly, I don’t have to answer so long as I’ve got my Conway Twitty Tribute Pistol 081
Reposted by Justin TaylorJeff (Mixed Metaphors) @mixedmetaphors.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I read Attention-Seeking Behavior by Aea Varfis-van Warmelo because of the review by @justintaylor.bsky.social and, as usual, he did not steer me wrong! I'm not going top that with my own. Just read the linked review! And, also, read the book! It's great! But I do have some thoughts... 🖋️📚💙 [1/8] 121
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Taught this essay to a grad nonfiction class the year it was in BAE ( @alexanderchee.bsky.social, ed.) & we had a blast discussing it, listening to the song in class to hear what So heard, & then doing an exercise where they each picked a song of their own to listen to a billion times & write about 1185
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 05/07/2026when they tell you that the past (1994) is a foreign country this is what they mean 3345
Reposted by Justin TaylorSandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Writing tip: Give your protagonist a pet cat. In the final pages, shift to the cat's point of view. Follow the cat outside, through moonlit woods, to a pasture where cows kneel in worship around a glowing spacecraft. As the cat trots up its gangway, we glimpse in the windows an all-cat crew. 30805133
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026this patreon exit survey belongs in Poetry magazine 010
Reposted by Justin TaylorThe Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Happy A Live One anniversary to all who celebrate. 021
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026🐑 I recommended Mark Doten’s 2025 collection Whites 🐑 030
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026ok yes the piece is a month overdue but it’s also 5000 words over what we agreed to and still isn’t finished so—checkmate? 040
Reposted by Justin Taylormake america cunt again @zzbenz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026it’s not summer until you see a Grateful Dead cover band play outside 4613
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 22/06/2026played some Splatterhouse at the arcade in Winchester, TN not pictured but also played: Altered Beast, NES Tetris, Bubble Bobble 060
Reposted by Justin Taylormark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026hey man is everything ok? I noticed you were crashing weddings and physically grabbing guests to tell them about the time you mindlessly shot an innocent bird out of the sky while aboard a ship, leading to phantasmagoric consequences that completely altered your perspective 2101
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I DON’T KNOW WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS BUT on 2/7/88 Bob Dylan’s apparently spontaneous cover of Peggy-O w full band featuring GE Smith incorporates the main riff from Roy Rogers & Norton Buffalo’s Ain’t No Bread In the Breadbox, which later became (not bc of this) a staple of the 90s Jerry Garcia Band 050
Reposted by Justin TaylorTom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I believe that I could easily assemble a crew to pull off a string of major bank robberies, a crew that would include no loose cannons, no turncoats, no mysterious strangers with secret agendas. Just professionals, no mistakes ever. I simply choose not to do it 071
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026it’s Tyler TX, actually, but I get where Ray is coming from 000
Reposted by Justin TaylorBarrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 31/05/2026On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy 434481872
