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J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com · 07/10/2026

This is a top ten all timer record for me, one of the most delightful things ever committed to tape. Go buy it!!

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

was here too (standing next to isaac)

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[my contribution to EL discourse]

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

6-song Fey Fili EP is gonna be my most-listened to album of the year isn't it

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

50 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

Grateful Dead
In Concert
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Rochester War Memorial, Rochester
Tickets $6 available at: All Bay Ticket Outlets,
Shopper's Record and Tape Mart (Yonge & Bloor)
Or phone and charge: The Bay 964-5781

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this place was also excellent, i believe @cacasey.bsky.social recommended it tipoedinburgh.co.uk/welcome/

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Tipo – tipo

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

also if you go to the archives they have Muriel's flask from her South Africa days. engraved w her first husband's initials sure but it was HERS

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

www.1915lanzhounoodles.com . i took the bus out there from central Edinburgh to see the Portobello Bookshop, which was great. Found this place by accident. But I swear to god if not for physics I would have ordered a second bowl as soon as I finished the first one. Came w a bib for good reason

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

we were there for two weeks in August - week of traveling around, then a week in Edinburgh. Amanda did Bookfest stuff. I fucked around in Muriel Spark archives at Nat'l Library and ate the best beef pulled noodle soup I've ever had out on the Portobello Road. Can send coordinates if yr still there

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we were just in Islay, did tastings at Ardbeg, Laphroig, and Lagavulin. Ardbeg has the widest selection and the wildest stuff, but Lagavulin ended up being my favorite overall. there's also a great smoke-monster scotch called Octomore made by Bruchladdich, the guys who make Botanist gin

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’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...

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Mrs. 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." —...

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

leaving the quotes out of the album title is letting the terrorists win

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There’s a really great Mexican place called El Sombrero in Vernal. it’ in an old gas station convenience store - you’ll see the yellow dinosaur (wearing a sombrero) right out front

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

my 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

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My 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 rediscovery

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A Tunnel Lined with Time: Rudy Wilson's Red Truck

America's oldest continuously published literary magazine.

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Boise’s great. Goldstein’s Bagels is really good and half their menu is Phish puns. No New Vintage, The Record Exchange, and Bar Gernika all worth checking out if you’re downtown. Ton of cool music venues depending how much time you have/who’s playing, but i like Neurolux and the Shrine a lot

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

thank you! and congrats on yours, it’s excellent

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

listening 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

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Love’s is just as good on bathrooms and jerky, the gas is cheaper and it’s not a hassle to park. and their app rules

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Subscribe to a few a year, keep supporting what you like, swap out what you dont. dont overthink prestige/odds: send to places you want to be, however big/small. don’t carpetbomb: no mss. should be at more than 3-4 places at any time. give yourself the chance to learn something from your near-misses

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

but that was more about honoring the poets we looked up to. it wouldn’t necessarily have to be that formal, or framed that way. just like…make some space for resurrection work, like Harper’s Readings but on a longer historical timeline. or Lapham’s on a shorter one, I guess.

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

it’s a good question. can always post them yourself i suppose. but it would also be easy/cool to dedicate say one slot per issue to this sort of project. 1million years ago when i worked on The Agriculture Reader we did it regularly w poets, pick someone we liked and solicit a mini-selected.

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I wish magazines made more room for republication as part of their project. esp since so many disappear and collections are getting harder to publish. why NOT give new life to something that was in XYZ Revue let’s say 7-15 years ago and is now totally unavailable? It’s functionally unpublished

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Tree of Smoke is *at least* as good as Blood Meridian

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

also: it’s creative writing. yes plenty of research can go into writing fiction, but i know that across my career (& i’d bet yours too) this constant aggressive assertion of the *need* for research basically didn’t exist until the mass advent of the cheating-and-brain-death machine ~3 years ago

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

last 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

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

they want fiction to do this too

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 04/08/2026

Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Things 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

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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“Leisure Suit Larry, Pokemon Trainer,”new from Sierra games this fall!

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Zappa, which I’ve also done, takes the prize for widest gap between best and worst stuff. It’s dizzying. He’ll be like “I wrote a symphony & 12 perfect rock songs but also here’s some horrible noise, 1/3 of a space opera, a rant about Reagan, 5 racist comedy songs & 9 more about how i do sex good"

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

just 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 trilogy

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Woes Make the Man

Donald Antrim’s surreal existential triptych – Justin Taylor

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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

who else learned the word "lacustrine" from John Ashbery

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

and re-learn every time I return to R&M and don’t remember from last time what the hell it means

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

i wrote a giant piece about seeing the end of spring tour & his work overall in the 2020s, currently waiting on edits, hoping it will exist by…early fall?

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

been seeing him since 03 and this year has been the best by far

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Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

even w the qualifier in the footnote this is a truly insane detail

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