Reposted by Bibiano O’Ryanlottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 27/07/2026a poem called 'butterfly torture champ' 0224
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Any good poetry books I should pick up? I think I'm gonna take a prose break for awhile. 000
Reposted by Bibiano O’Ryanmasterbather.bsky.social @masterbather.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The baththub is back, baby! youtu.be/UbPWpGs6WN0youtu.beBathtub 2.0YouTube video by Scott Bradfield 142
Reposted by Bibiano O’RyanFREE.99 @free99.net · 13/07/2026have spent 2 years cloistered working on new material. in that time, we lost our home and food stamps, but have persevered. we are nearly finished but have just run out of savings. need to go food shopping but are both overdrafted. if you can, please help - paypal.me/xfree99x or venmo greasysweet11paypal.mePay free.99 using PayPal.MeGo to paypal.me/xfree99x and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries. 56960
Reposted by Bibiano O’RyanRudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I wrote a great Sta Hii story called "Rapture in Space." Based on something that Dennis was actually trying to do at one point. The story should be famous. But it's my perennial fate to be too cool for the room. www.rudyrucker.com/completestor...rudyrucker.comcompletestories 0165
Reposted by Bibiano O’RyanRoy, MBA, MFA @roydotexe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026TAke a look, y'all: IMG_4346.jpegroydotexe.leaflet.pubQ2 Reads 2026What I've been reading 242
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026alert, we got some zombie cat action going on here 010
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I know I’ll probably be disappointed but they gotta bring out the clouscard already 010
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026This is not natural! What have they done to my boy? 011
Reposted by Bibiano O’Ryanmasterbather.bsky.social @masterbather.bsky.social · 25/06/2026So we pack up what's left of my Simenon collection–what's left? A lot! Funny story: after packing up two full boxes of Simenon, and taping these two useless segments, I found about 1/3 of an entirely extra box! Which books were they? I can't recall, but lots of paperbacks. youtu.be/XCAQT6W4Z9syoutu.beAdventures in Bookshelf Management–Packing My Simenon: RGBIB 567YouTube video by Scott Bradfield 132
Reposted by Bibiano O’Ryanmasterbather.bsky.social @masterbather.bsky.social · 23/06/2026We try to find enough of my publications on a sixty box set of shelves to fill three boxes.Who said high culture was dead! And if you find them, can you ask if they'll help me load a sixteen foot box truck up with books? youtu.be/gKzG7hrmPY0youtu.beAdventures in Bookshelf Management–My Six Foot Shelf: RGBIB 566YouTube video by Scott Bradfield 021
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 19/06/2026One of my favourite games is when my Brazilian friend will use the portuguese name for countries, because she hasn’t got the hang of English names yet, and I gotta guess wtf she’s talking about from context clues 010
Reposted by Bibiano O’Ryanmasterbather.bsky.social @masterbather.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Sometimes it's pointless, sometimes it's meaningless, sometimes it's both pointless AND meaningless, but it's always pointless, meaningless or both! And that's the intro I can't even remember anymore. youtu.be/MrOKsabe95Eyoutu.bePointless Adventures in Literature–My Most Expensive Comic Book: RGBIB 565YouTube video by Scott Bradfield 031
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026What are we doing? I don’t get why people can’t just like the fascist writer. Like, Mishima has a different reading for queer people, I get that but trying to absolve him of fascism just isn’t it 110
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Melville discourse again. Idk I think you could make a case for Hawthorn or Twain. Twain is my preferred guy but I don’t have any bad blood with Melville. I just think he has legit competition for America’s homer 010
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I’m hesitant to accept this peace deal as final. Never underestimate Israel’s ability to snatch war from the jaws of peace 010
Reposted by Bibiano O’RyanRoy, MBA, MFA @roydotexe.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Pbs tv movie edition of the lathe of heaven 011
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026America is irredeemable. The Knicks are balling but all they care about is who is in the stands watching 010
Reposted by Bibiano O’RyanUdo Dirkstrider (autooccidentalist) @baroquespiral.bsky.social · 11/06/2026if Adorno was alive he would be talking about how cute girls doing cute things SoL preserves the utopian content of Enlightenment even within its fascist literalization while seasonal isekai and shonen slop subordinates the promise of linear history to the militaristic rhythm of reaction 0227
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026use promo-code: spectacle for all your Amazon purchases 001
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026literature died when proust read bergso, since then it’s just become about theory on time and not about writing sentences 010
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026guy who cant name anyone in the 20th c sociological canon 110
Reposted by Bibiano O’Ryanmasterbather.bsky.social @masterbather.bsky.social · 01/06/2026She's my baby. youtu.be/qhcReEEgW9Uyoutu.beNew-Bop-A-Lula–New Books for June 2026: RGBIB 563YouTube video by Scott Bradfield 022
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 31/05/2026it is kinda funny that the edgelords ended up just re/creating what I did in 2016 010
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026they stole my bit! glad someone else is picking up to torch. kill your heroes, shoot the cop in your head, and abolish rejections 011
Reposted by Bibiano O’Ryanmasterbather.bsky.social @masterbather.bsky.social · 29/05/2026This roundabout includes: John O'Hara's THE HORSE KNOWS THE WAY (1964) THE STORIES OF JOHN CHEEVER (1980) Robert Sheckley's NOTIONS: UNLIMITED (1960) GB Trudeau's THE WAR YEARS (2003) youtu.be/KmM5kWYMs-Eyoutu.beShort Story Roundabout–Cheever, Sheckley, O'Hara & Trudeau: RGBIB 562YouTube video by Scott Bradfield 032
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I don’t have opinions about kojima but I like a good hater. criticism is good for you 010
Reposted by Bibiano O’Ryanmasterbather.bsky.social @masterbather.bsky.social · 27/05/2026So I seem to have missed this—my longish piece on Simenon at TNR. newrepublic.com/article/2098...newrepublic.comThe Crimes Georges Simenon Declined to InvestigateNew editions of his “hard” novels show an obsession with furtive desires and misdeeds—and an uncanny obliviousness to the horrors under his nose. 132
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026really enjoying the anti-2666 twitter trend. I pray that it leads the most annoying people to stop reading bolano and we can talk about the obvious anti-fascist project in peace 111
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026None of this is new though, mfw people defend Celine 100
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026If shitty PODs is the only way you can run your business then maybe you shouldn’t be in publishing 011
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Feeling validated that indie lit people are complaining about how the scene has changed Yeah, you let the wolves in and now it’s too late. Only yourself to blame really 121
Bibiano O’Ryan @mbundo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Millennials failed to kill capitalism, despite the boomer press, godspeed Gen Z 010
![In the title poem of Solmaz Sharif’s collection Look, she writes:
Whereas
Well, if I were from your culture, living in this country,
said the man outside the 2004 Republican National
Convention, I would put up with that for this country;
Whereas I felt the need to clarify: You would put up with
TORTURE, you mean and he proclaimed: Yes;
In a lecture [YouTube link], Sharif describes the erasure and reduction the poem demanded of this moment, which we might also understand to be the demands of Craft. What the poem simplified into that brief section existed in real life as a prolonged encounter of violent rhetoric, and what the demands of the poem erased was the violence of a liberal protestor who stood by, ignored this encounter, and said to the Republican that while he didn’t agree with what he said, he knew he was a good person. Sharif calls this “the most violent betrayal and politically destructive decision this poem made me make, making me question whether a good poem is forever in fact irreconcilable with the nuanced reckoning our lives actually depend on.” All the qualities of Craft, the qualities which make a “good” poem, pressured this violence—the violence of the liberal American unwilling to put their body and their peace of mind on the line, a violence which might exist fundamentally outside the boundaries the lyric can address—into disappearing. Craft success is contingent upon ethical and political failure.
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